762

Date 1912-02-22

From 762

MEDICINE HAT DAILY NEWS Thursday, February 22nd, 1912 BY WALLACE CHADMAN 1g Ash, the O18 sek dog gave out a hearty laugh. Stes site Why, said he, those loud colors, as you call them, are not natural, We had to tag the flyers in some way in order to classify them acconting to thelr flying abilities. At the suggestion of my *, one Easter Sunday, when she was handing out The a Light tion a fe Beeat eral of the flyers in aniline dyes, but the stuff wouldn't fect Dri Seite Soetettodte some Faster eggs to the children, I tried to dye sev aylvania 1 ei eve : 5 , r stjck. My wife's tirother, who is a chemist, came to In Cons . ing n v : iN our assistance and told ns what chemicals-to add to able Dr In Dr Drill Bi In Se These Th lit Brunt are absc the Bea the dra sow a ( out will We w the dye to make it, cling he purple colored are the long distance flyers, Ps rte ceatestestestect under the 5 the red ones come next, followed by the light blues, greens and pinks, in the order named. The yellow inte, ones we call amateurs, and those you see here swim s tained a mas ming around In this dam are In thelr natural colors oe . ole age of twenty and have not been trained to fy any as yet. Here, he continned, as he reached up and took . purple flyer from a branch of a tree, here you will rigged RS tof s Shanghai aronnd Cape Horn with a fof - Yankee memhandtee. notice two protruding growths near the centre of the belly. They are caused by resting that part of the RY e These were the good old dass when he grew reminiscent Then RN Seates body on hard substances, something their ancestors had not been accustomed to; and I firmly belfeve that on each succeeding generation these protuberances Re . merchant marine ruled the sea, our ships w to lt;g te oe Im every port. our fing crested every wave and t ocean's dangers were bur spors to the nds from Sef Me oe will grow larger and longer until, in the course of evolution. the best trained and most highly developed flyers will have legs like those of otters and seals, ow, I want to reward you for your trouble to nd of the free and the home of the brave But today we are a natlon of horse jwarines land Inbbers. Why. crossing a creek bridge in at RD tog ley car makes the present generation seasick. and an ots coming up here to see me, and the Interest you hay shown jn my aquarium, Just observe. By clapping his hands together three or four times the captain caused all the flyers in the orchard to prepare for a flight They leaped into the alr Uke a flock of birds arising from a tree, and swarmed, together toward the dam, flashing, glittering and shining In thelr variegated colors in the sun. extended trip of a mile or two prostrates the average A eS testest citizen with mal de mer. The lore for the life on RS . ocean bine x to-day considered un-American. and t ts fog RS . deeply to be rexretted deeply. of te veg 5 Ob, yes he exclaimed, Interrupting himself. 1 os you came to see the ampbiblans. Want to know fee how 1 became interested In the propagation and training of fying fish, en? Tl tell soa On my last trip from Yokohama to New York A Messenger Boy App ared with Several Telegrams. Like Homing Pigeons. some thirty-five years ago. 1 made up my mind a rere They circled cround the d come home, get married and settle down on the oft ing about in the tank. They grew rapidly and tes the bors grew 9 they also became Interested TREY clmied i dam several times at a sani 10 ly short distances In the amphiblan flyers, and when the six they car. NEP speed. lower and lower at ench successive round, until, when quite near the surface of the . homestead. As we were erssing the equator on that unt Many of ried co Pittsburg one Summer returned In less thay p. sailing along about Sfteen knots an hour, I was tl the surface of the wate trip, sail f about fifteen 1 : : vince that the thme wom Water thes dived and disappeared from view. It sitting one morning on the lee side of the eatin read. bem died, hur enough 3 rua Rane eaR een mS Rae ee was Indeed the strangest and most unusual sight come when the succerding xeveration of our flying fish would be able to cover much longer distances ing some letters from my Intended wife for that mortal man was ever permitted to behold. It plough along fast enongh. Suddenly something struck chemicals nto the river water follow: the rer close)to the surface; mo/that when, 13 joan) to whistle inca peculiar manner, keeping After the-third Y they become dry and need reat they:simply drop Below: 55 for fully five minutes: Suddenly, from the seventh time. I was feeling very happy in the con yur jen) Sea water became rest her sonl and of course the ship did not seem te r thar s, we put a smaller me with terrific force just below the left ere. I was stunned for the f and when I flually year we quit process altogether and the smooth sarface of the water aros , almultaneously, got my senses together 1 lonked around and there T grew and thrived in pare fresh water. i a . Ped tiga nnd ance he entire xwarm of Ayers. They. circled the ex- saw a large fising fish sprawling on the deck You lt;1 shen decjrted to transfer the flyers to a dam in oem ee tance of 790 miles and ter panse of water a number of tim s, rising higher and ee Gsh/are very numiexoun ered that distance In returning in Sb, 6m. Se see. in tropical waters flying fish F ver during the summer time and to build an a Basel ; : es i aE higher, and then flew to the orchard anc alighted on ts rriving here in excellent wondition, and that time. fr Hear+the hank for their winter .quarters, B Lahex setae loa their accustomed roosts, demand Oy along the surface for long dist the water cond be kept at a temperature high gt; of course, includes the stops they must have taKeo 4, expressions of surprise and. wonderment were e and size in orter to rseape for rest and food according to their age and in ord re. heir freezing during the cold sea: os being exchanged between the captain anit hls guest, dolphins and other large fish a TWO FERTS IRD Heoree ty tin eldest hey teak i, nine of them to Memphis, and seven of them re upon them. wars made it my oueness to get The captatn, evincing signs of intense emotion, tore I picked up the fyer and stuck t Inte m pall turned in 10h. 18m. 7s Pretty good, eh, for a dls. Hak et ailittiereiabraaeh them open, glanced over them, and passed them to the p guest, hastily asking to be excused while te ran over to the bons Two of the telegrams were night messages, the and you can see them every day spring out messenger boy appeared with several telegrams quainted with each one of my flyers. and before ea water and then went below to nuree my we PR Gse WenielGia Tae deka exe and face. Despite my prompt and: vlzorous i A ; Well, to-day our final trial comes off, and we wilt arrying around the love then be In a position to antionnce to the world the tentions f was soon vat of tt black exe you ever saw, For days 1 feared result of many years lt;pent in training fying fish ax was from Memphis anu ve : ewan much diteulty In the fixers for Send 2 Poe eee eG oc from Memphis anu sead: Potsoning would set in, hat in the conrr of See Bey BEE TOG, IGS ic ra SGM aceon a Uncen eters received from Leonard, New Orleans, to fens itr Bari nly (Mea oe pea ty are married last Wednesday, and on Thursday Jeft on bis weeks the bruise healed aml left only a sear a scar wateb for Ayers going north. Swarm of ten or twelve Fe OE GeUrie nie Wahetven at eke honesmoon for New Orleans, taking witt-him (Welve vgsed here at 1:07 A.M. (Slgred) G. . SPURL, ee will xe ore ty URINE. IN pts of our best flyers. Last evening I got a telegram from year the young ones would ontfly the morher sb. ces they would fy were certainty sory discour 1 shall carry to my grave n aN Now. be continued. rising Memphis Pantarraph. the grove and tnke a look at the Ayers him saying that he and his wife had reached the phe second reac: Phe amphibla: Zeca nad after fourteen xammers at untiring effort xome The a rea he amphibians passed here t aoe bie bat and coat and we lett fat after fourteen) saainiers of untiring mor ome J Carried the Flyer in a Large Glass Jar. Crescent ty safels, and that he had torned te 41g jightning speed at 6:11 A. M. (Signed) MORRIS itis: for the-river bank, where, Ina grove of oie anering In the sunshine, and then go fring ap the TWITE Ayers loose at the New Orleans levee at Gre ht 6ELen.juiles without even xkimming the surface go M3 Be : : areal skirting the shore. 1 beheld the strangest sight I had Fiver ata great speed minutes past eight P.M. Miguring on past petorm sia tiled Cae GaN Ss HON ABLINIS Da raed ve ee ele an hey should arrive bere at any time a eleve the ide: vet -neen or read about, e We noon discovered that the Ayers had-as good Whey qhould arrive tere atlany tme after eleven The way-ye) wank Jor was. we wimld pincr them Fi Gegin. New lOdleana: ta Tonests: we ene Trees Full of Fish. a ss f sense of directioy as carrier pigeons, and when those Front New, (Orleans to: Tones (Signed) FRANKUIN CLARION. ail, and one of us wonld drive down the figure the distance to be 2.250 miles, and tp covering pe captain at this moment came running back RENTON, Cincinnat Bugle. of 70 and 30 read: Flyers passed bridge here at 11:16 o'clock. We sent down to Ol Clty and Franklin a distance ati: readied togettier like sparrows ot. cold day seen ctain totecente ty neaniy every mnstanee, (CIETY mlles trturunt ATES Tons a quarter df an 8 hour felt satistied and amply repaid f They were in a sitting posture. resting on thelr they would borer oFer the ent, hits yeate of tater oe. Agkidl 2 firthe, variety af colors possessed. by the experies Hes, and became somewhat restless ax the roof of tle aquarium near the dam, straining thetr sale proached. I feared they would rike nnd muke for www : maveweewe' - eres 30 HNIC LEACH Coal eees 12 tue atvee, : Canadia Nias ee Gok che allie hs (owen c uecwlioe While thus engaged the entire party excitedly dis: oie: tune whch moo etme tem. and we were nin 8 Cabinet ana Congress of the Lost Cause. 28 08 8 soins ne ie pass wider the trees, There were fully three bun red. Some were red, others blue. purple. sellow OW hit the country Is at the seinicentennini J aial Goh) (hie oftioe nutil the panse-wits lost, ir Congress they produced some interesting politleal and very happy at se evident success of his amphibi- and green in fact, they represented every cour of of the civil war many. interesting ix Seretarion of Wat, in the order situations. Wigfail, of Texas, who was a Representt- ans Tliongh far advanced-in years, the captain was * for Audet 1 thenjamin. tiv in the provisional Congress, wax a Senator in the ; tected with the greatest uf al the first to cate ) - glimpse of the flashing reflects Seg ete Major General W. Sinith, first rexular erexs. In the lower Hodse of the reg. . ae Before 1 go into any further explanation. lt;b tre recalled. Fuh C0 Hreckenridger Ve 7 Congres outer OG, Vest was a mensher rom f the ewarnt of Ayers as they rounded the distant Skipper Scappers. I must finish my story haw 1 There was no Congressional directory of the Con i the. teker with Jom Sfiesourl, meState th t ney ceded. Tater he war lend, and a the remainder of the party locate the the Ayers up here on dry Iand. tetera wx The Wat apecion of that MLE before the marr who was appol Senior from the wme State, and after the war he swiftly moving and gilttering band all burst. tond After Thad pinced the fish im the pai of 105 tien x was Taited States Senator from Missouri after re cheering and wild gestienlaton, . water, as I told you, I became quite interested tn it ieee sceres A. constrivtlon dass aud was still a Senator at the time The flyers had now reached the dam, Slowly they and gave up the iden of having it prepared for my tire ree H woof his death Roger. Drvor wax also a member of circled for a moment, then dropped quickl; into thelr supper. So the next day I placed it ina fare har pes Crienshn tinier mshi: a the lower Hose of the rrsuiur Congress. After the home waters Glad as they tppeared to be at reach- of-vea water and began to feed It Ry the time wet ecutive anit Ci antudenstie e war he rev to New York iid was elected to the ing the end of thelr Jong journey, thelr pleasur gt; could Sot to New York it had become 0 tame that when pire afederate Stustes 5 ody ng i . Supreme Court bench, of the ety and serted-antit hie tw nothing when compar d to shat of the old captata, Put my band coutaining food into the Imre tie fisheye she first was nf Montgomery, Ala, Taner retirement in whoxe eyes tenrx were seen and whose furrowed would rise and eat. Indeed. I seeined 10 like eine ' 7 ; Fy 1861 kexdjourned March 16 (o meet Ia In the lower House were Representatives from Ari face wax wrinkled deeper in smiles of Joy at the handled and stroked. and even te be nent oui ot ine 88 every Amerivan student knows ere Xo mipidly did evente ocomr, however, that the zona, thf Xhoctaw, and the Cherokee vations, Thir- thongbt of the -emarksble ucblevement is tratti 4 water for a short time. one President and one Vier President of the Cou: arom was walled fo meet April 20, when. It-ad: n States were nied in the Confederate Sen flyers. I reached New York. resigned. and kot ready to federacy The Recretary of the Navy of the South to meet May 21. The next session after that ate, and the saine States hind Kepresentatives In the Captain Scuppers leaped from the .op of the Jeave the ship. I carried the Myer with ine on the eax the only member of the Cabinet not chunged wax held in Richmond, Va, in July, That inated ntl, lower House ax followa;-Alabama, 12; Arkansas, 5; aquarium and ran down to the dam, carrying with train in a large glass Jar. and 1 had previously filed Angust 31, There wax a one day seasion September Florida, 5; Georgia, 12; Kentucky, 10; Louisiana, 6; him n quantity of the vbolcest bait and fish food. He five barrels with sen water ond forwarded it by TIDE (he war 3 of the Kaine your. The fifth newsion met November Mixsiksippi, 9; Missourl, 6; North Carolina, 10; South began to whistle bis strange tune and presently fast freight, as 1 had resoived 10 propagate ving There were four Secretaries of State, Kobert 4g ang continued untli February 17 of the following Carolina, 9; Tennessee, 7, and Texas, 7. dozen purple colored flyers were seen swimming tow- fish at home if ft was at all possitiie , Toombs held the portfollo five months, MT. year. That was the Inst session of the provistonal Missouri, as Kentucky and Maryland, was divided ard him to the edge of the water. The captain fed The only thing 1 feared was that the fish would Hunter held the place seven months, W. M. Browne Congress tn sentiment at the commencement of the civil war. them, stroked -ach of them and praised them as le when I transferred it to freeh water, aml I knew wan an mt-inferim aid-Zudah P. Benjamin was the The frat regular Congress met soon after the last The Legislature of Misour at that time became fug . effusively as if he were tniking to human Marathon that my: five barrels would give cnt lt;mouier or inter laxt Secretary. holding to the end. . of the provisional mad was in session two months, tive and met in another town than ite capital and runaers Rut after my marriage, my wit) became interesied: President Davis had five Attorneys General. Judah The second session imei in August and that Insted tWo elected Representatives to the Confederate Congress, And now, said. he, in concluding ble talk. now fp the fiyer and unknown to we sent sone of (le sen 1 Itetijainin, Thomas Brage, Thomas H. Watts, months. The third seston lasted from January 3. tut the act of secesaion passed by the same Legis. take n long rest: 5 well earned it, for this Isa water to a chemist and had it analyzed sue) in thay Wane Keyes, ad interim, and George Davis, 1963, until May 1. The tast sension of the first Con- tature never became offective ax did the act In other mous victory, way we discovered how to make our yw sis water Charles G Meiminger was Secretary of the Treas gress adjourned February 17, 1864. The first session Statex represented. The other Senator from Missourl Yer, dad, anid one of the young women, famous right bere. 5 Urs URI ISG when he was sacceeded by George of the Second Congress inet May 2. INH, and con- to the Confederate Cotigress was Ladiow Peyton, At Ix the right word for It, und ft applies to yon, too. As the spring advanced 1 put the dyer tutos larse ib lra, sho coitineed (a the chive dinved Ont) dune. The send Ate tie tlme of hile election he was one of the moat Tomorrow the whole cid vill beu, of It ani you pen tron tank which we bid in the bot tonse at tw gerlive a place In the Cabinet wa Congress November, It, aud ft lawyers of the State, but hle carter was will wake up to Qnd yourself the .urld Famous Cap- Joining our house, and one morning whew L went oar Niel. whw was offered the place of Pont Mfareh 1S, 1s hy the war and he died almost nnknown in tala tack Seuprers, tral id Breeder of he New Mo feed the fish I discovered hundreds of 1:1) ster Ge dob Teagan gate then welected, He eH there were Wa tw meeatote of the Southern States, phibsians, The branches of the trees were laden with fying for z With Hhree of his sons and several young women who o were visiting at the house, All took up positions on the rest Mas held only a few Weeks betate Les Minotie the reeante of that war camplted

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