Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1921 — Page 3

BEWARE OF THE 'PRODUCTS SOLD BY BOOTLEGGER * , insanity, Blindness, Death Lurk in Poisons Found by Analysis. U. S. CHEMISTS WARN WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Possibilities of Insanity, blindness sad death lurk In every bottle of distilled liquor bought from bootleggers today, according to an official statement of Government chemists who have been engaged in analyzing seized samples. Wood alcohol, ether, cologne, hair tonics and spirits of nitre are among the many poisons which the Government has found In its analyses of illicit concoctions. This dos not mean that all or even the major part of the bootleg liquor now flooding the country is mixed from these death-dealing materials. A great part of it is real whisky, brandy and gin. Much more of it Is colored and flavored grain slcohol. which is not a poison essentially, although it works havoc with internal srgant. Hut the really dangerous liquor is in wide circulation, too, and, any given bottle of supposedly snfe liquor obtained through unlawful channels msy contain deadly poison. REVENUE STAWrS COUNTERFEITED. Revenue stumps and Impressively lithographed labels of we’l known brands are no protection. The bootleggers have counterfeited these marks. The Government has seized thousands of them. Records at headquarters here show that In New Tork alone nine men are under Indictment and awsit trial for having manufactured and sold these counterfeited labels and stamps. The Government has no complete record of the number of deaths caused by Illicit wbi.-ky, but the total is known to run to thousands. One bootlegger a’one. Carmine I.izenvlata. who now is serving an eighteen-year sentence in Sing Sing, sold wood alcohol In tfce Connecticut River valley, which, according to reports, caused the death of more than 100 persons and brought blindness to many more. The man escaped the *-le< trie chair onlv because it couldn't be proved he knew the true nature of what be was telling. Every city In the United State* has its own death list— large or small. Reputable physicians say that more insanity and debility have been caused by drinelng Illicit 'whisky than were caused b.T shell shock In the W orld \\ ar. NOT SKILLED |N REDISTILLING. Few men are wicked enough or foolbarly enougbt deliberately to sell deadly poisons as a beverage. How then Is this murderous stuff circulated? It 1s explained simply by Governmental experts Certain kinds of ethyl alchol (wood alcohol and similar poisons) and certain commercial spirits, like apirits of nitre, can be redistilled, with proper knowledge and scientific apparatus, to yield a low grade of non-poisonous alcohol. Bootleggers obtain the commercial Ilqnid In its poisonoua state and proceed with their own crude efforts to eliminate the poisons by distillation. But they haven't the paraphernalia, they haven't the knowledge, to do it effectively. A concoction results that is "on the border line.” One drink, two drinks, may not do great harm. But a half bottle of the same stuff may be deadly. Aside from the poisons at the one extreme and the real imported or bonded liquors at the other extreme, the great bulk of the bootlegging liquor now being foisted upon the American public at robbers' prices is composed, by Government analysis generally, as follows : Rye “Whisky"—-One part ethyl (grain) aleohoi, one part to two parts water, caramel coloring, burnt sugar, fusel oil, rye flavoring.

“Gin"—One part ethyl alcohol, one to two parts water, a minute quantity of Juniper oil. “BEAD" IMPARTED BA' FUSEL OIU * To make fake bourbons, mm* anil corn whisky the game formula* are followed, except that different flavoring extract* are used. The fusel oil is added deliberately to impart the oily “body" and the “bead" which real liquors acquire from aging In wood. The harmful element in these concoction* (which are not poisons) Is the crude alcohql. It usually is comparatively new and raw. It is poisonous, etrietly speaking, only when consumed In large quantities, but If drunk regularly, even in smaller quantities, it works bavoc with the stomach and digestive apparatus. Erosion, inflammation of the mucous membranes, paralysis of the flow of gastric Juices with resulting gastritis. are a few of the specific things it does. Another trick of the bootleggers which the Government has disclosed is the adulteration of wines. They acquire quanti itrength and “body” to It. They then stbly for medicinal manufacture, and add to It 12 to 15 per cent of the cheapest grade of commercial alcohol, to give strength and 'body” to It. They then filter It and sell it to the public at high prices as high-grade old wine. The - Federal prohibition bureau also has had experience in the analysis of "hofte brews" and the domestically made beverages which go by the slang name of “hootch.” In roost of these mixtures the ingredients themselves are pure. Their pathological harmfulnoss comes from the development of bacteria due to lack of laboratory cleanliness and to Improper sterilization. To make fermented drinks a sterilization process impossible to carry out except with the proper surroundings and equipment is essential. Consequently “home brew" usually Is swarming with indigestion producing bacteria and occasionally with dangerous ptomaines. It Is .principally by such mixtures as those outlined in this article that the bootleggers are robbing the pockefbooks and ruining the stomachs of large classes of the American public.

CUPID AGENT ASKS REWARD Attorney Who Arranged Marriage Wants Pay. PITTSBURGH, Aug. 11—After having acted as Cupid's agent, Waldo F. Breeden, attorney, declares that Alma Christina Austin Weyman, a former graduate nurse, who recently became the wife of Benjamin Franklin Weyman of this city, former tobacco manufacturer, refuses to pay him for bis services. He Is seeking to recover $2,975 In a suit filed today in Common Pleas Court. In his suit Mr. Breeden declares that In May and June. 1917, the former nurse consulted him in his office here for the particular purpose, among other things, of “consummating her intended marriage with Benjamin Franklin Weyman. a veteran of the Civil War, 75 years old. a roan of extensive property possessions, both real and personal, who had been in poor health and for months a patient of the defendant.” He alleges that the defendant represented to him tha' she had arranged a marriage with Weyman. and that he had agreed to marry her and that tbp date had been set. but that relatives bad interfered and bad barred her from his rooms. Mr Breeden says lie succeeded in effecting a meeting and tfcat they were married at Elkton, Md.. Aug. 7. 1817. Mr. Breeeden declares that the only payment he hss received was $25, Dec. 15, 1917. and (35 Oct. 17, 1913.

QUEER BIRDS of AUSTRALIA

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Two views of the emti, the giant national bird of An strnJia. The young are beautifully striped in white until they are grown. The largest emu stands about (i feet In height. It roam* the open plains and flsbts only in self-defense, when it kicks with great force.

MET. BOURNE. Victoria, Australia— This great continent, for ages isolated from other regions of the globe, has a wild life all Us own. Among the birds of Australia, numbering over 1.200 species, are many which are seen nowhere else, and a number which because of peculiar habits or talents have a world-wide Interest. It was a singular fact that two distinct birds at two opposite edges of Australia. aud separated by more than a thousand miles of land, should have hit upon the chicken raiser's way of hatching eggs so many ages before the chicken breeder thought of it. These two birds pointed the way to the modern Incubator long before the poultry man began to take notice. The lowan, or malleo ben. shares with the scrub turkey of northern Australia the distinction of being the only bird* which hatch their eggs In an artificial incubator or egg oven, very carefully prepared for its purpose. The mailee hen is found right a> ross the southern part of the continent. In country known as the maliee. naturally covered with a dense growth of drawfed eucalyptus. The same incubator mound is us<d by a pair of birds for mar.y years. They scratch the light sandy soli into conical heaps, using their feet, wings and breast for the work, until they have a eircular mound about twelve feet in diameter, and from two to four feet high in the center. In the beginning of the nesting season the center of the mound is hollowed out like the crater of a volcano until the natural level of the mound is reached. Here they pack in wet leaves and other vegetable litter, the slow, fermentation of which in the increasing heat of summer maintains the warmth of the mound and helps Incubation. The eggs are laid in layers of four, forming an exact square at equal distances apart., and always set in position with the poll*' ed end downward. When the layer of

The topknot pigeon, one of the thirty specie* of wild pigeon* In Australia. These Include gorgeonuly colored bird* living In the treetop* of palm Jungle* and feeding on wild fruits, black and wldte passenger pigeon* coming In counties* thousand* every year from the tropic* to the mainland, ground pigeons resembling part-idge*. and the wenga-wonga of southern Australia, which was threatened with extinction until game laws protected it for the whole yeur.

four is complete it 1* covered withs few Inches of sand and another four laid—an egg every third day. IAVEHS OF EGGS NEPER OVERLAP. The eggs in each layer never overlap hose beneath, but All the Interspaces. In this wav four separate tiers of eggs, or sixteen in all, are laid. Then the mound Is covered up and rounded off, but about 10 o'clock every morning dur ing Incubation the birds flatten out the crest of the mound and build it up again at night. The whole thing is remarkable for its method. As soon as they leave the shell the young birds, with a constant downward movement of the feet, push their way out of the sand, and another thing qulti unusual In bird life Is that thpy can fly as soon as they leave the shell. The cbh ks forage for themselves, getting little if any attention from the parent birds, whose whole concern centers In the cart of their incubator nest. The malice hen, a mottled brown In color, Is about the size of a hen turkey, Its eggs an ever, pinkish brown, being slightly smaller than a goose egg, with a very thin shell. The giant bird of Australia, sharing with the kangaroo a place In its coat-of-atms is the emu, the largest of which stund about 6 feet in height. It Is a rover of the open plains, practically wingless. Us coat of fine gray brown feathers which when It nine, rustle like hay In the wind —suggesting coarse hair. It was rather mercilessly killed off years ago by hunters, both for its skin and Its eggs. The eggs, a beautiful myrtiegreen In color, and measuring about 6 inches In length, were largely used by Jewelers for the bowl* of presentation cups and trophies. Australian sentiment has frowned

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Above Funniest of ail birds Is the kookaburra, or laughing Jackass, as the Australian kingfisher is called. Tlio kookaburra \ hi th* eftie* a * well s the hush and is fit home everywhere. ll© has * hi*, strong Mil mid h i appetite is wide us Ids laugh, his diet coimUtirig of insect*, lizards and occasionally small knit hew. birds and fl>h. * fleinw The Autmilan casftowar> ts nearly as heavy an (be emu. It has a kind of helmet, produced by an enlargement of the bone of the skull, and revered wl!h horny substance. The cassowary Is a quarrelsome' bird and when Its anger Is aroused It makes dargrrous use of Its wings, each of which it furnished with flic pointed spines, the middle one a foot long. Tlir nirnvnn lives If '*”■ iooelc feeding on fruits and plant, and sometimes on small anlm.it.

down the destruction of these noble birds because the chase was too one-sided and the emu couldn't hit back. It can kick back, though, delivering the goods swift and true, and of about one horse power. For a mile or two It can keep ahead of a fast horse, tyit it soon tires and collapse*. Now It is protected and admired, though away back among the sheep runs of the interior of Australia the fox, as tm-

Ibe brush turkey I* an Incubator builder like the lowan, or malice hen. sl'lioiigb it is found on the opposite side of Australia. The brush turkeys use rotted Ivavti and wood mold toe their egg monads. Frequently (core than one pair oi birds use th same mound. The male bird occasionally test* the temperature of the incubator which remains fairly steady at about 0C degrees, by scratching a hole ami pressing his He* by breast into It. T'.e chicks do not chip tl-.s shall as poultry do, but with a sudden, strong wriggle shatter and cast them awuy in maaiy pieces.

happy an Importation for Australia as the rall.it, i§ taking a heavy toll of the young birds. The emu lays from eight to sixteen eggs in a nest, each of them weighing about twenty ounces, and equal In bulk to a dozen hen eggs. Although so large, the flavor of the egg when cooked is singularly delicate. The emu always lays its eggs by night and In winter t'me — the male bird sitting on the nest and protecting it by day. Until they are well grown the young are beautifully striped In white—the characteristic marking of all young Australian ground birds. CASSOWARY ANOTHER CURIOUS BIRD. Though more stockity built than the emu. tha cassowary of Australia Is quite ns heavy a bird and stands about five feet high when erect. In color It Is Jet black, covered with feathers so fine that they look like coarse hulr. The head and neck are bare, with turkey wattles of blue and red, and neck bells similar to those of onr turkey gobbler. This great bird is found only in a narrow coastal belt of Northern Queensland, extending about throe hundred mile* along Cape York Peninsula. The vegetu tlon there is a dense jungle of palms, creepers and all manner of fruiting shrubs, amongst which the cassowary finds Its favorite food in the lemon like fruit of the paw-paw—so largely eaten by all Asiatics east of India. The bird, living In deep, dense cover and perpetual shade, has curious eyes, which seem to change from a steely blue to a luminous green, and when kept In the strong lights of a zoo they sooner or later go blind. The alarm note is a loud booming, pumped out with much exertion ami contortion of the body. The bird's scientific interest lies In the fact that it Is doubtless one of the survivors of a race of giant birds that were contemporary with the extinct inoa of New Zealand the largest bird of which we have any geological trace. The cassowary lays about six eggs of a pale pea-green color and slightly larger than those of the emu. When It corn to mimicry there >s but one mocking bird in all the world really worthy the name, and that is the lyre bird of Australia, found only among the coastal mountains of the Eaßt and

The blarU swan of'Anstralla takes kindly io captivity, and therefore, many of these bird* are now ornamenting ponds and lakes far from their native waters. The black swan, with red berjt. ruby eyes and white wings, is found In sea inlet* a* well a* Inland swamp* and lakes of Australia, flying In flocks often numbering thousands. It is not considered a ztuse bird.

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I Southeast. It Is never seen in a zoo, i ff> f every attempt to keep it in captivity i has failed It lives In the deep shady I fern gullies amongst thick scrub, and is I nover seen far front such a sanctuary ! nny summer's day you may take a ! pleasant run by car or train to the I Damleuong Ranges, under forty mile I from the city cf Melbourne, and iiotii.ee ■ and hear flie lyre bird, but to appreciate it. mimicry one needs to Ue familiar with all the bush songs and sounds which 1. so marvelously imitate, y'be ring of an ax, th- grating of a pit saw, the rustle of the long strips of hark In the wind when the big trees are shedding their berk instead of their leaves, the note of evory beautiful bird s itigsier of these hills, the gray thrush, the goldenbreasted whistler, the shrieking of parrot. and cocatoo., ttie crack of the whip bird, soil the laugh of the kookaburra, are all reproduced In one long ever changing song. The wonderful thing about it is that the notes of the finest singers, altho greatly increased In volume, lose nothing of their sweetness. The male bird alone sings while circling around about its playing mound ' with tall erect-—song and dance going on ! together. The fact that the two central ! decorative feather, of its long tnil take i the shape of a lyre or harp, first suggested the name The birds, which are ; about the six -of a peafowl or !>• n tur ! koy, seldom use their wings, but run so j lightly and ho fast that It may bn said | they “come like shadows, so depart." j They batld a large hooded nest on the trunk of a fern tree, and lay one dusky 1 green egg. Not ho long ago they were ! being shot in thousands for the sake of ' the decorative tails, but it is now liUgnl to wear or have them in your possession. THE KOOKOBiRRA FEATII F.ltEl* COMUMAX. Among h! many strange and curiously gifted birds there is none, perhaps, vt nieh the Australian holds In such high regard

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There a r f many kin fix of petrels in tli# Aouthrru ioa*. The one ihe vn here i* mutton bird, or *Kty petrel, which in nearly the n!*e of du k. 'j'lie t*KK f* iik*> that of th* duck In *'£* and flavor. The Leah and eg;:;: <f the mutton bird* coirtiinte the thief food of th hnlf-cantt* native* of the Ihlunus between anj file continent of Australia.

as the kookaburra or laughing jackass, or “Jack," as lie Is affectionately termed. Whether "Jack’’ deserve* It all is another matter, because, while he admittedly kills a good many snakes, though not nearly so many, the bird men say, as are credited to him, he Is a cunning and wholesale destroyer of small birds both in and out of the r.ests. Yet knowing a good deal about ills character, the Australian con fesse* that he can't help loving him He looks a comedian and he laughs like a comedian, a whole sou led, ringing, rollick ing laugh, changing from shrill to guttural, until one bird picking it up after unotiier the bush rings with their laugh Ing chorus. It is the most unusual, most typlea! bird note iu the world. So the Australian credits him with a sense of humor, believes that lie really has Been something funny to laugh at, and at least smiles with him. In sentiment he has the best kind of protection n bird ever enjoyed. He is in tbo cities as well as the bush and at home everywhere. If In Ignorance you were to shoot a laughing Jackass you would run some risk of being lynched by a crowd of indignant Australians who agree to shut their eyes to all his faults for tie sake of his Jovial company. Though he sel dom fishes, he Is the giant kingfisher, with an appetite ns wide as his laugh, and whenever the Australian sees a laughing Jackass In some zoo abroad, he la poor company as long as the homesickness lasts. Avery striking and strange bird is this second of Australia's incubator builders, found only at the northern edge of the continent. Its general resemblance to our American bronze turkey, in shape as In the red fleshy watMng of the head and neck, will be noticed, though the shield of the breast is a bright yellow. The brush turkeys use rotted leaves and wood mold for the building of their egg mounds, whit h are otherwise much like those of the lowan, or mallee hen, though in this hotter climate they only scratch a separate hole for each eg g, which again is always placed small end downward. From twelve to eighteen eggs Is the full nest, but frequently

more than one pair of birds will use the I same mound, so that for about fifty yards ; around it every scrap of leaf and litter has been gathered up for nesting maj terial. The outside of the mound Is usually loose dry leaves, so that it requires less attention than that of the mailee hen, though the male bird frequently tests the temperature, which remains fairly steady at about 98 degrees, by scratching a hole and pressing his fleshy breast Into it. The chicks remain In the mound for about twenty-four hours after they are hatched, and during that 'ltne free themselves of a quill i or fllm-like sheath which covers and protects the wings when they leave the shell. The little fellows, like the lowan chicks, have to look out for themselves, fly about | at once, go to n convenient perch as if they had known it for months, and take no notice of the old birds. Nor does the chick chip the shell as poultry do. but with a sudden, strong wriggle shatters and casts It away in many pieces. BIRDS NAMED CARELESSLY. The Australian pioneers seemed to have named their birds somewhat carelessly. Some six varieties of water heron are Invariably called cranes, while their one true crane is named the native companion. Standing nearly four feet in height, its slate gray eyes touched off ' with a few patches of red about the bare 1 head, it is a prominent, somewhat stately bird figure, as you watch it stalking | over the plains. Its lapses from sobriety are ns sudden ns they are comical. In one instant a flock of them are all Quakers in gray—in (he next an eccentric bird ballet, hopping, flapping, twirling in a curious, frolicking dance, which ends rs suddenly ns it begins Though it raids a wheat Held occasionally. the native companion does good work for the settlers all the year in keeping down plague locusts, bush mice and Other pests. Among ttie great varieties of p*trels which frequent southern seas, the mutton bird, nearly ns large ns a duck, is interesting because of its hab>ts and the use made of it. On the islands between Tasmania and Australia ! a half caste native population which lives almost wholly on or by button birds. The birds ne*t In small underground burrows returning year after vear in myriads to particular localities known as “rookeries.'' In early November, and punctual almost to a day. flic great flocks which have ranged the Pacific Ocean utmost to the equator, go south to their breeding grounds, where they suddenly ! appear in millions just after mndotfn i As each b nl cut rt its burrow there is a i weird squawking, croaking and squealing. which multiplied a m’lllonfold in | the and irk seems like the sounds described i In Dante's “In'erno." The mutton birds lay one egg. so nearly : corresponding in size and flavor to a du< k egg that more than one amateur ■ poultry breeder who stocked his incuba I tor with what tie believes to be Avles I bury eggs has. to his amazement, hatched ii tit sooty petrels. “Egg l * g" excursions to camp out near the rookeries and col ; ],vc| egg* .re arranged every sp r !n, but the autumn crop of young birds taken in the month of March (which is autumn in this part of the world) is for the halfbreeds of the islands. The young birds, then extrnvagautly fat, are hooked out of the burrows, killed, skinned aud pick-

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Tbs Australian bower bird* build * playhouse tv* well a* a nrat. After the net he* been established In a tree t've rnsJo bird goes to the ground ami begin* building the bower, uwlng grae, fern*, twig*, etc., and dcoorai.i i*- the entrance with all the bright object* that lie can And and carry. The bower bird* so to a s r *i deal of work in putting op the bower*, but frequently pull them to piece* and erect them elsewhere. led In barrel* the half castes of Cap* Harr n Island alone collecting about two million birds every year Yet their num hors show no de rease. Sotn white men cat muttou birds and profess to like them, but the general attitude of the Australian toward this gift of Neptune is that of mir Westerner who said ho could eat crow meat, but didn't hanker after It. The finest game bird of Australia is or was, the wild turkov, which is not a turkey at ail. but a bustard. It. too, Is a bird of the interior—now of the very far h i k Interior, because it was shot and hunted out of existence within touch of settlement, and almost two late the game authorities rs the Australian states set about protecting If. USUALLY' SHOT FROM SADDLE. The regular method of shooting was from the saddle, the horseman ringing about the bird in gradually narrowing circles until ho got within range. Its chief enemy "out back" Is now the raiding fox, and as the bird lays but one egg. or at the most two. Its natural In crease is slow. The biggest of them run up to eighteen or twenty pounds In weight, and though the flesh is rather dark a* compared with a Thanksgiving gobbler. It Is a very fine table bird. The markings are true bustard—a brownish shield on the back, the neck and breast, light freckled gray, with yellow legs and beak. The so-called "wood duck" of Australia is really a gooso- a very handsome lit tie goose, too, in its plumage of coffee brown and guinea-fowl gray. But to Australians It is a wood duck, and will remain so, sharing with the somewhat larger black duck the distinction of being two of the finest of their water fowl. Now that a bag limit is imposed upon sportsmen, and the birds are well protected out of season, wild duck of all kinds are multiplying again and this year the shooting was particularly good. Only a little while ago It was limited to a wild and whirling slaughter on the opening days of the season with n hundred birds to the gun quite a common bag for the day. Any private landholder In Australia

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This game bird of Australia is railed the wild turkey, but in reality is a bustard, which has (he characteristics of both the cranes and' the plover*. It is found only In the interior of Anstralla, having been shot and hunted out of existence elsewhere. The largest of these bird* weigh eighteen ox twenty pounds.

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who wishes to preserve his waterfowl may have any suitable lake or swamp proclaimed a sanctuary where not even the owner Is permitted at any time to fire a shot. The fact that the state of Victoria especially is “spotted" with such sanctuaries has done more than anything else to maintain the game. The birds come to them In thousands soon after the opening of the shooting season, to filter out again in smaller flocks and so provide sport In discretion. Other wild duck which come to the sportsman's bag are teal, pink-eared (widgeon), shoveler (blue wing), white eyed (hardheads) and freckled or monkey duck. Building largely in the high hollow spouts of fluted eucalyptus in order to protect their nests from the raiding dingo or wild native dog, the black duck, wood duck, and teal, especially, find that it serves them very well now against that other killer the fox, which has taken the place of the dingo. THE BLACK SWAN IS TYPICAL WATER BIRD. The black swan, emblem of the wide AV'est Australian state, is Australia's typical water bird, frequenting sea Iniets aa well as inland swamps and lakes, in flocks often numbering thousands Too rank for table use, If. is not counted a game bird, and is now seldom shot except by the freak fowler, who will try to kill anything that flics The swan, like a good many other birds, has benefited by that splendid revolution in sentiment which has swept over Australia in the last few years, a sentiment stimulated first through the schools by the Gould League of Bird Lovers, which cor responds to our Audubon Society. Swans always change ground at night to escape the attention of the wedgetailed eagle, which Australians claim to be the greatest eagle on earth, a claim fully justified in actual span of wing measurements, running up in many specimens to eight feet. A sound often heard in the night is the signal trumpetiik note of the swan flock, passing overhead. their white wings flashing in the moonlight. Banjo Patterson, one of Australia's best known writers of galloping rhymes, says: 1 hear tho clang of the leader crying To a laggard mate in the rearward flying. As they fade away in the darkness dying Where the stars are mustering one by one. Tbe b'ack swan, with Its red beak, ruby eyes and white wings, the bright color touche* In It. somber slate-gray plumage, does no harm and is a picturesque life note of the water side, where amongst reeds and rushes it builds Its nest of boughs and reeds high above water ievei, and lays a nest of from four to eight egg.. The swap takes very kindly to captivity and never allows it to interfere with home affairs, so it is pretty well known over the world now, the first pair of emigraiet swans having been taken to Batavia by the early Dutch voyagers- those big men of the little ships—about two hundred years ago. Y'ear in and year out the quail, the smallest of Australia's game birds, gives beat sport for the gun, and among some ten species the stubbie quail is ns widely aud as well kaonr r.g our Hot White is known at home. The brown quail, less abundant, and resembling a small partridge, frequents the edges of scrub and tangles, while the stubble quail pre f'-rs to range the open, grassy plains. A day's quail shooting over setters t. the compliment which every h"Sidtah)e landowner likes to offer a visitor who ian handle a gun. The Australian quails are not strictly migratory, but their movements are regulated by season and supply, and in a good year they are a!I over the paddocks (fields) of A'lctorla and Rivertna, fattening on seeding grasses. As the stubble quail lays about twelve eggs to the nest, snd has more than one brood in the year, they increase very fast, even in thickly settled areas. WIDE VARIETY OF WILD PIGEONS.

The wild plgeous of Australia -some thirty species in all, run to three types In the hot, *ubt-opi.-3l north, corresponding to our Everglades, are the gorgeously colored fruit pigeons, most of which live exclusively in the treetop* of deuse palm Jungles, feeding on wild fruits. Some of them, ilk* tile rose-crowned, a wellknown game bird of north Australia, rival the parrot* in their ! rilliaut harlequin robes of rose and orange, purple and green. Tbs best of the northern game birds 1* tho biack-and white nutmeg—a passenger pigeon coming dowa out of the tropics to the mainland and tho wooded Islets off the const. In white clouds of counties* thousands every year. In tho Interior of tho continent is another series of ground pigeons, several of them so like a partridge that It Is difficult to distinguish between them Their rusty red plumage harmonizes with the red loams of the plains. Such are the Cock pigeon, the squatter and tho partrld ge. Among the big timber and scrub of guknY Lift Off with Fingers

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'southern Australia are two other fine pigeons—the wonga-wonga in slate gray and white, and the bronze-wing in bronze and shining green. Both were shot so widely aud so wildly long before the Introduction of a bag limit for wild fowl that they were threatened, like our passenger pigeon, with extinction, and are now protected for the whole year. The wonga was often so fat and fine that In falling to the gun it burst Us own skin. Although they have a dozen species of wild geese, Australians rarely consider them of much account among their game birds—and tiey are seldom shot. The pied or magpie goose of the bushman, which the pedantic naturalist lores to call the “semi-palinoted goose,” and the Cape Barren goose—which for part of the year lives an Island life—■ are both large birds, rather curious than valuable. A few years ago the magpie goose was in great flocks by the lagoons and swamps bordering on the Murray River, one favorite nesting ground being

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to Order Your Fuel For Next Winter , July prices are continuing in August, but there can be little doubt that all fuel prices will advance in September. FOR Cleanliness, Economy, Convenience ORDER For use in furnace, baseburner, stove, range or water heater. For Sale by the Following Dealers: Indianapolis Coal Dealers.

Aldag. U. YV. A Cos., City Yard, E. Wash, ami Ilelt. Irvington Y'ard, Itonna and Good. Atlas Cool Cos., 1025 N. Senate. Barrett foal A Fuel Cos., 349 W. South. Kisehof A Fisse. 2051 N. Rural. Brookslrie Lumbar Cos.. 1402 Commerce. Bugbee Coal Cos., 360 Holton Place. Capitol City Coal Cos, 520 S. State. Cassadv Coal Cos., Tenth and Sherman. Central Coal Cos.. 310 YV. Michigan, city Ire & Coal Cos.. 720 E. YVai,h. Commercial Fuel & Feed Cos., 316 W . Ohio Cross foal Cos.. 1541 Blaine, Danish Fuel A Feed Cos.. 002 Torbett. Davis Coal and Block Cos., C. I. 4 YY. and KHter. Dell. Frank 51., Cruse and S. East. Ehrlich Coal, Cos., 61)1 Kentucky Ave. Frederick, J. YV. 801 Beecher. Fultz, J. K-, 843 Miley Are. Gunsherg, YYm. F., 1906-8 Shelby. Gates, E. K. Coal t 0,, 377-88 Vinton. Gem Coat Cos., 1161 Roosevelt. Gocpper, Fred. 443 N. Iloimes. Grover foal t 0., 535 YV. YVyoming. IlMgeiskamp Bros. <£ Haverkamp, Churchman and Belt. Undo Coal Cos., 2355 Sherman Drive. Undo foal Cos., S. Sherman. Holier, E. E. & Cos., Fletcher Ave. and Big Four. Hobart * Matthews, 1087 S. Keystone. Hogue, J. L. Fuel A Supply Cos., TwentyNinth anil Canal. Home Coitl Cos.. Big Four and F. North. Indianapolis Coal Cos., Bankers Trust. Ynrd No. I, Ulna and Bates Sts. Yard No. 4. Twenty-Third and Cornell. Yard No. 5, YY'aali. land Noble St. Yard No. 6, 320 S. West St. Yard No. 7, 325 YV. Sixteenth St. Yard No. 8, 2130 W. Michigan st. Yard No. 9, YSonon and 51st St. Yard No. 10, 936 E. Michigan. j Indianapolis Ylortar A Fuel Cos., Slain office, 407-10 Odd Fellow Bldg. South Yard. Sladison Ave. and Ray St., Pennsylvania K. U. Ea*t Yard, 1010 F.. Thirteenth St., Motion R. R. North Yard, Thirtieth and Canal, Big Four R. R. West Yard, Thirteenth and Slissocri st-.. lsig Four R. R. Bright-wood Yard. Rural and Roosevelt, Big Four R. R. Mill Y ard, YV. YY ash. and Belt R. R. horthcroft Yard, Forty-Ninth and Monon. Irvington Coal and Lime, 5343 Bonus, Keeport, A. B. & Cos., 620 N. Senate. Lambert Coal and Coke Cos., 115 S. State

named Babel from the constant clang and clamor of the geese. With the spread of settlement they have retired to that wide interior which Is a haven of refuge for so many of the larger game birds. The Capa Barren goose—rather a fine bird, with its uniform coat of buff gTay, pole yellow,bill, pink legs and jet-black feet—brawls on the many islands of Bass Straits, between Victoria, the state of Australia, and the Island of Tasmania, but moves over to the mainland for about half the year to feed on the grassy plans. In the north are two pigmy geese, gorgeous little fellows often seen in an equally gorgeous setting of tall blue water lilies and pink lotus. A beast that lays eggs lilts a turtle and suckles its young, ha. a bill like a dnek. hae claws on Its webbed feet and is covered with fur—sound, like a riddle, doesn’t it? This is one of the oddities of Australia described in Mr. Boyce’s article In next- week’s Times on the world's strangest animals.

I-ambert Coal A Coke to., 2409 Cornell bitten, b. C.. Coal Cos.. 1005 E. Pratt. Local Coal Company, 801 Bates st. Local Coal Company. 921 JO. 23d St. Marshal Bros., 3107 Roosevelt. Meyer, A. B. & Cos., main office, 225 N. Pennsylvania. YVest Yard, 830 N. Senate. East Y ard, l<if>7 K. Michigan. East Yard, Annex, 1010 K. Vermont. South Yard, 1240 Yladison Ave. North Yard, 25th and Cornell. North Yard Annex, 24th and Cornell. Kentucky Ace. Yard. 1120 Kentucky Ave. Northwestern Ave. Yard, 21st St. and Northwestern Ave. Ylinter foal and Coke Cos., 134 S. California. Monn, E. F„ Coal Cos., Tibbs and Walnut. Monn, E. F„ Coal Cos., 201 S. Harris. Motion Fuel Cos., 340 E. St. ( lair. Ylonon Fnel Cos., 2820 YV. Michigan. Muesing-Merrick Coal Cos., 114 E. 22d. Mneslng-Merrlck Coal Cos., 1745 English Ave. My ere Fuel Cos, Ohio and Davidson. Nackcnhorst Coal Cos., 1721 Naomi. I’enn ( oal Cos.. 777 E. Washington. Peoples Coal & Cement Cos., main office, 818 Traction Bldg. North Yard, 42d and Ylonon. East Yard, 15th and b. E. & YY'. South Yard, Shelby and Bates. Phelps C'oul £ Cement Cos., 2712 E. YVa ington. Pittman Coal Cos., 102 S. LaSalle. 1 Taj foot, A. E., 3539 Roosevelt. Polnr Ice A Fuel Cos., 20th and N. YVebster. Totter Coal Cos., 3505 E. YY'ashlngton. K. & S. ( oal Cos., 2520 YV. Michigan. Robertson, Nick, Coal Cos., 430 S. llarding. Roberts, Sherman, Coal Cos., 1502 YV. YVashington. Schuster, Frank J., Coal Cos., Troy and Allen. Silrox, S. C., 1516 Yladison, Silver. 31. A„ 1634 Aivord. Splckelmier Fuel £ Supply Cos., 30Ut and b. E. & YV. Snyder, Eno* R.. Binff Ave. South Side lee & Coal Cos., 1902 S. East. Stork, Robert G., C., I. & YY'. at Trowbridge. Stutkmeyer & Cos., Big Fonr and Lexington. Tuxedo Coal Cos., 4301 E. New Tork. YVe*t Side lee Cos, Lynn and Big Four. Union le* £ Coal Cos.. 1910 Bluff. Withlngor, Elmer, 1125 Roach.

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