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| CONSULT BLACK & COMPAN Certified Public Accountants 905 GARRETT BLDG. BALTIMORE. MD. Corporation and Individual Income Tax Reports Compile* CAVE MAN ART UNEARTHED IN PRANCE—FIND MADE BY SWIM UNDER WATER. 'VtttTtttttt PLUMBING HAVEN & BAYNE 17 W. Pennsylvania Avenue ¦ TOWSON, MD. Phone, Towaon 3BT S Oat Our Price on Sewerage Connections >»»»»•>????»?????????? »+»n»>>??????»»???»?? Buy From the Maker Prices From $2.35 When atyle is combined with quality and service, as it is in our hats, there can be no question as to the hat yo« should buy. Our prices are moderate and all hats are made on the premises. WARD & SHEELER HAT MAKERS & RENOVATORS 511 W. Baltimore St. Baltimore, Md. We've only one store—tt's near Paca HARRY H. De BAER Practical Jeweler-^>- Formerly with Caatleberg's for 26 year a, Now located at 17 W. Lexington Street ¦•Oimd Floor—Blevator Service BALTIMORE, Ma Remounting of Jewelry A Specialty. Old Gold, Silver, Platinum and Diamonds Bought For Cash and Exchanged !???»»?»????»?»?????»? (Continued from Page 3) pressiorfs, and traces of cavities from which clay had been extracted. "The entrance to the cavern is a natural shaft or well, descending into the stream, which actually emerges a little lower down. The cavern near the entrance is thus described by -Mr. Coles: 'The water is low, but when there has been rain it comes to the top of the arch, and the first time M. Casteret went in he had to dive and swim under the water. Works carried out by M. Casteret since his discovery have reduced the water-level, making access much easier." ALASKA MOOSE PERISHING FROM BUTCHERY AND RABBITS. Ruthless and law-breaking hunters and hordes of rabbits bid fair to exterminate the great moose herds of the Kenai peninsula of Alaska—the largest -animals of their kind in the world. They are being killed off by "moose butchers" and starved out by rabbits, which live on the same food as the larger and clumsier animal, and can get at it quicker. A contributor to American Forestry (Washington) signing himself "An Alaskan," tells us that a real emergency exists. The crime of exterminating our buffalo when the West was young was committed openly, he says, without defiance of law; for there was no law. The crime of murdering our moose in Alaska is today being committed in defiance of laws enacted through our Congress and made sport of by the moose butchers of Kenai. We read: "The moose of the Kenai Peninsula are world-famous as the largest in existence. The spread of their antlers is enormous, the record pair measuring a little more than seventy-eight inches. Although found throughout other wooded sections of Alaska, these moose range in greatest number and reach their highest development in the Kenai Peninsula. I do not pretend to speak for1 what is happening to moose in other parts of Alaska, but here in the Kenai country the area occupied by these noble animals of the wild has decreased very materially in the last few years, due to overkilling and to starvation. "I will speak of overkilling first. Our game laws are supposed to be enforced by the territorial government. They permit each hunter to kill two moose a season. The hunting season opens August 20, but the moose butchers kill when and as many as they please. Up until last spring there had not been a game warden in the moose country since the warden at Kenai was removed and not replaced, eighteen months before.- Our restaurants are serving moose and other wild-game meat, both in and out of season. One can find moose meat at almost all times of the year at the road-houses, tie camps, and restaurants in and around Anchorage, Seward and Seldovia. It is the hindquarters of moose which have been brought in by the market hunters, by natives and whites, and sold for whatever they will bring. In most instances the forequarters of the animals have been left in the woods. "Kenia has a population of some three hundred people, whites and natives, and that many more dogs. They all live on moose meat. The government teacher at Kenai told me that the people there kUl about 450 moose every year, of which 90 per cent, are cows. I myself have seen whole quarters of moose meat lying around the village, where the dogs had eaten their fill. "The arch-enemy of the Kenai moose is the market hunter—the moose butcher. He works on a large scale, in summer and fall, throughout the Cook Inlet section. The sale of his meat taken from wild animals, in or out of season, is so common that no one, excepting a few individuals honestly seeking to promote game preservation, pays any attention to it. On March 10 last, a meeting of "natives and whites was held in Kenai for the purpose of stimulating interest in wild-life preservation. At this meeting a man who had lived among us for sixteen years arose and said: " 'The game laws of Alaska are being violated every day. The moose are decreasing rapidly in the Kenai Peninsula and in all the Cook Inlet country. Hundreds of moose are being killed here each year without more than half of them being taken out of the woods. Moose meat is right here today being fed to dogs and foxes. In the winter the dogs around here are fed almost nothing else but moose meat. If the Government doesn't soon take a hand, the moose will be a thing of the past, as the caribou around here now are.' i;. ¦< "Under present laws the natives may kill moose at any time of year, provided their need of food justifies it. The natives are too lazy to cure salmon for home consumption and for dog food, although our streams abound with salmon. It is so much easier to get moose meat. Therefore the natives kill, paying little, if any, attention to whether it is closed or open season. "Eight years ago, when the government railroad was being built from Seward to Anchorage, moose were plentiful in the upper Kenai Lake country. The route of the railroad was through the heart of the moose pastures. Today one has to go twenty-five miles back from the railroad to see moose.' It has been estimated by a man in close touch wi»th" the wild life in the Kenai country that the moose here have decreased at least 80 per cent, in the last ten years." The other enemy of the Kenai moose is, strange as it may sound, the rabbit. These animals multiply in great numbers by cycles of seven years or so, when an epidemic of disease all but exterminates them. They are just now at the peak of their productivity, and because they feed on the same food as the moose—willows, beech twigs „nd leaves, alder bush, aquatic plants, etc. —they are bringing famine to the moose. To quote further: "In winter the moose feed in^ the old burns and open places, digging into the snow for food, if necessary. Last winter the rabbits had so reduced their winter feed that I found many calves dead of starvation. From my own observation and reports made to me by others, I estimate that at least 50 per cent, of last year's moose calves perished in the snow from starvation. "This winter the situation will be even more critical, for the exterminating epidemic of the rabbits has not yet begun. Another enormous death toll, therefore, faces the Alaskan moose, especially the young ones. One thing only can save them, and that is man. "This may sound like a gigantic or impractical task. In fact, it is a very simple and inexpensive one. Eight or ten men, properly placed throughout the winter range of the Kenai moose, could supply VVVVtVVV*»m»*V',,*»m,**»m,m»**»*VV*»*V ERECTED IN LOUDON PARK —BY— F. J SCHAEFFER, Inc. Established 1879 Marble, Granite and Statuary •|* 3520 Frederick Avenue & Opp. Loudon Park Cemetery ': 'k BALTIMORE, MD. X !? Phonea 2626-1982-J. ?!? most of the herds with food , by cutting down birch trees, which have no commercial value. Under extreme hunger, moose soon abandon their fear of man and congregate in large numbers about sources of food supply. A sum of three thousand o"r thirty-five hundred dollars would employ the men needed, since feeding will be necessary only during February and March, and possibly some of April. It would not have to be repeated until seven years hence, and then only if the rabbits become as numerous as at present. What an insignificant . expenditure and an insignificant effort to save thousands of America's finest of wild animals from the silent and unseen agonies of winter starvation! "Congress appropriated just $20,000 for game administration and protection in all of Alaska during 19 23—a sum insignificant even for warden service. There is, therefore, no hope from that source for the coming winter. The money must be raised quickly by individuals and organizations interested in wild-life conservation. "But this winter's feeding is only incidental to preserving these animals. What the situation demands, and what all real sportsmen of the United States should demand, is a fearless and efficient enforcement of the game laws by the territorial government and an appropriation by the Congress at Washington sufficient to make that enforcement possible. We sportsmen and lovers of wild life want game laws for game protection and not for political jugglery. MOTHER EARTH'S HARD HEART. The earth is built somewhat on the same principles as an old-fashioned metal-cored golf ball around which are wrapped several layers of lighter material, ending in a thin surface crust. The metal core is pure iron or an alloy of that metal with nickel, says a report of Drs. H. D. Williamson and L. H. Adams, scientists of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, to the Washington Acadamy of Sciences. We quote as follows from Science Service's Daily Science News Bulletin, Washington: "Dr. Adams said it was possible that the inmost core of the earth might be gold, orj platinum, or other metals heavier than iron, but that it. was practically certain that the centre of the earth was an irregular sphere of iron about 4,200 miles in diameter. From the outer edge of this core, which is not sharply defined, to the surface, is about 1,800 miles, and this distance is divided into three layers. Next to the central iron core, Drs. Williamson and Adams relate, is a sort of mixed layer of iron, and of rock, which extends with a gradually diminishing proportion of iron to within about 900 miles of the surface. Above this is a layer of rock resembling £hat found at the surface, b„ut containing more magnesia and less silicates. Finally, there is the surface crust, about 35 miles thick, consisting essentially of the granitic rocks. All this insight into the earth's anatomy is afforded, the scientists say, through a study of the velocity of earthquake waves through the earth, mathematical considerations having to do with the mass of the earth as a whole, and a study of meteorites, whose average composition is believed to closely resemble that of the earth as a whole. For example, it is known that the density of the whole earth is about 5.52 times that of water, while the average density of the surface rocks is only 2.7. There must,' therefore, be something heavier inside." CLEANING HER FINGERNAILS. 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