Museum Collectors Find ,e Excitement in the Swamps of Honduras. ?"Have you ever played ^l(a^ seek wlth a croc?dile *t 0* ;nd ks Kur! 0. Schmidt, who, olfllt? L \\ ait ere. Just returned filh ^ Field m useuru after four tD f' in Honduras collecting reptile?. ,?me is exciting, especially if ?*' wiini* forest. And if the tW r, tags >011 you'll certainly *hL' ^uTe It ? Hut in thif case," , e M* l1^' t,,e skin 0f * vId0US WWIW. "1 *?'? hlra !trst lL< s;,e,i..irn 1 ,-0t in British Hon We had ? several smaller wanted a big fellow. They lr grow to about rtve feet there? * later got sonic eleven-footers in the Public <>f Honduras. But on thlq X,t Walters and I went out with the fflStomarv headlights on our forehead, 2 ready to kill. The headlight daz the eyes of the animal and gives hunter the Advantage. Pretty soon j MW thLg brawny chap slavvering gronn 6 In t puddle about a foot deep. Blind** Creatur# Good Wreetler. -j , hot twice for his ear but missed. m,e second bullet scraped hit head and gtout half-stunned hira so that he be m to navigate wiklly in circles. I tkeuflit I'd lose hi m then, but all at ip0e I found hlni right near me. I didn't take a chance on shooting, but just poked my flngeri into his eyes tod pulled him out like that. The eye lockets are rather deep and five you a lood hold on the chap. Well, then I pabbed his nx-uth. but he kept squirm mg around in my hands so I could hirdfy hold hlra. Walters came up just in time to keep the beast from getting away. y "We tied him. but even after that his musses were so strong that he could "roll himself around on the fpouud like an animated cylinder. He coold have got away into the swamp in no time if we hadn't tied him to a tree. Well, here he is. poor fellow. And there if the plaster mold Walters made of him. I have a sort of affection for him now. He Rave me a good time of It. all ricbt. But I didn't try to get my bigger ones by hand. No, not after that." The collection brought home by Schmidt and Walters also includes ipeclmens of a tree-climbing salaman der, an animal about four Inches k>ng that lives in the tubular leaves of the ilr plant. Tliese leaves always con ttlEwsrer In their bottoms. It Is here 1 that the salamander exists. Among the - .ipedmens of this kind taken by the ex plorers are several new species. H iller En Route WKh Specimens. John T. Ziramer has returned from a rear of explorations In Peru. He told of meeting Edmund Heller, another of | the Field museum's collectors, In Peru j Id April. 1922. For mure than a fear Heller and ; his wife have been scouring South American hills and forests in search of specimens of mammals to stuff and bring hark to the Field museum. They JLr* siso brining a few live rarities for the Lincoln, park zoo. t The two are now on their way here from New York. J Amone the collection to be mounted for the museum are the leaf-nosed bat; I the oil bird, or owl that Is not an owl, , i ?penec of which thousands of sped- j mens were found In the L#echuza cave I and from who*e fat young the natives j nake & fins salad oil ; a "vampire" anl- j nial like a hear with a tooth like the Wade of fi knife, and others equally odd. How Bull Wm Taught . . Fear of Automobile Toledo. 0 A fight with an enraged bull resulted In a narrow escape from Injury for Dr. Charles J. Henzler, Lu pts county coroner, and the damaging of his automobile recently In a farm '?ot near Temperance, Mich. Coroner Henzler parked his machine ?n the cow pasture while he went to a stream 200 yards away to pick muah roornp. a herd of cows grouped around Mm to watch the proceedings. A bull landing on a hill nearby became en ^Ked at the coroner and started tor him. Doctor Henzler broke ftll speed rec ords in covering; the distance to his automobile. ^8 he started to drive aw*y the hull rammed the rear of the machine. A rack on the automobile ^ntaiTiing a tire was caught on the bull'* horns hut did not deter his fight ability. He continued to ram the machine while the coroner stepped on the accelerator. When Doctor Henzler thought the had damaged his automobile *nouL'h he turned around, switched on ^ lights and started for the animal. The latter dodged, the tire rack be ?*me unfastened and he galloped After the bull had put quite a^ stance between himself and the gate ?ctor Henzler turned his machine trour't5 sr?ed back, picked up the tire and made a quick getaway. Chemist Bares Hafnium Secrets. "open 1 . * k en .?Prof. Nils Bohr, the Bcover.-r of the new element, haf Urn' Ju,s now determined its atomic **ht 'phe element, which was ?med (n honor of the city of Copen i* still not completely isolated, J^tthe professor's efTorts in this di rt T nr,Jirlng completion. Five e '"inety-two element# 'jiktaw io be ilnrnrsrM. OK SVS11M tO SUPPLY 1 III U.S: ELECTRICITY Plan Would Require Investment of $5,000,000,000. New York. ? Details of the plan to develop a huge, unified, privately owned electrical system, capable of supplying the power needs of the entire country, are being-worked out with the support of the Westlnghouse Electric and Manufacturing company. Its fulfillment, requiring years, would mean an Investment of $5,000,000,000, and an increase of probably $1,000, 000,000 a year in money spent for electricity. It would bring electric light to millions of farms. It would offer a practical method of electrify ing almost all of the steam railroads of the country. The need for such a system was out lined bffore the convention of the Na tional Electric Light association by Guy E. Tripp, chairman of the Westlng hous^ board of directors. The plan contemplates carefully di rected extensions, by the efforts of ex isting private companies, of present central stations and transmission lines. Within a few years almost all important generating stations and transmission lines- would be pooled in half a dozen "supersystems." Later the "supersystems" would be linked up Into one unlt^ The unified system, sell ing in one cjty power It has obtained from a station 1,000 miles away, wodld be to electricity w"hat the federal re serve banks are to finance. MEXICAN WAR VETERAN % ? Photograph of James Ourran, a vet eran of the Mexican and Civil wars/ now residing at Riverside, 111., who is said #to be one of the seven survivors of -the Mexican war. Mr. Curran was born in Constableville, N. Y., Aug. 10, 1832. The city of Riverside will honor him with a bfg celebration July 4. He Is enjoying the best of -health and Is anxious to get In touch with the other six survivors of the Mexican war. Papyrus Shows Realty Deal 2,230 Years Ago Philadelphia. ? & notary's agree ment for the sale of a city house 2,230 years ago has just been discovered at the University of Pennsylvania mu seum on a strip of papyrus brought re cently from Thebes, Egypt, and trans lated by Dr. Nathaniel Reich. In the agreement Petesche, the no tary, took great pains to locate the building in question, so that there would be no possibility of litigation. "It stands in the northern quarter of Thebes," he wrote, "at the western place of the wall. Its neighbors are on the north, the houses of Petcharpe, the King's street lying between them ; east, a house which is 2% cubits of land (250 square cubits) which I sold to Khenseu, son of Uzeher." 4 The agreement was between a sol dier named Paret and a locksmiUfrl named Panl. The parchment on which It is contained measures 90x15 Inches. It is signed by sixteen witnesses. Holds Doctors Liable for Wrong Diagnosis Berlin. ? That physicians are respon sible for their diagnoses of diseases and are liable to the patient for dam ages if the diagnosis is wrong, is, in effect, the decision of the German Su preme court. A vineyard owner named Braun fell from a street car. His injuries oausejl him to be taken to a hospital, where the doctor diagnosed his injury as a fracture of the hip joint. He was treated accordingly, but It later devel oped he had merely suffered a disloca tion of the hip. Through the treatment the hip be came stiff and the patient sued the doctor. TTie court. In its decision, declared that in intrusting his body to the doctor the patient had intrusted his future I happiness in the hand of the physician I and, therefore, had the right to expect that the physician would avail himself of the most modern means of removing all doubt as to his condition. Dentist Breaks Man's v Leg Pulling Tooth Pottstown, Pa. ? As Maurice Bryan, forty-two years old, arose from a dentist's chair after hav ing a molar tooth extracted he cried: "My leg is broken." Then he collapsed on the floor. Both bones of the right leg had snapped between the ankle and tne knee./' STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! ?. - A. .... Lake Lynch is fine, but you will need a t . f ? BATHING CAP ' ' . ' - , Stop at MISSILDINE'S PHARMACY 4 and be prepared. Don't forget /V; The Etexall Store Tryon, N. C. 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