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The Seaforth News, 1961-01-05, Page 7Dug — Coyote— Or What ? Out for a'few hours sport one stay recently, David, Baker shot it Wild, mangy animal in the woods near Leyden, Mass, It "' -was definitely some sort of a canine. But Whet kind of a canine? It was too heavy for• a, smote, its colouring was not ,, ;like any dog's, The animal quickly became the favourite topic of local conversation. ' Down from Winchester, I' ll., name Lumen Nelson, an 83 -year- old ,. taxidermist familiar with', New England fauna, "It is a young wolf," Nelson decided. Baker agreed. John W, Ran-' 4tblph, outdoor columnist of The New York Times, took a look at ,.the animal and asked; Could it be a coyote, or even a coyd'og, Which is a. cross between a dog and a coyote? The idea got, around. Nelson, writing for a local paper, insisted that a coy- ote and a dog would never, breed under natural condition,,. At this point Cornell Univer- Bity zoologist William Hamilton Jr., who had been sent a pic- ture of the corpse, joined the debate, "There are no wolves in the Northeast today," Hamilton :Insisted, "They have been ex- tinct in that area for the last ally,.• 80 or'70 years." Could it be a coyote, or even a ` coy -dog? It could well he, replied Hamilton, adding that there are coyotes in the North- east, that coyotes do indeed mate with dogs, and that the New York State Conservation Department has some in capti- vity, Moreover, the New York woods are full of them. The corpse is now at Harvard University, where Mrs. Barbara Lawrence Schevill of the Muse- ' run of Comparative Zoology is /studying it. Mrs. Sahevill, how- ever, made_ it clear that she did. not wish to engage in the con- troversy. Just What Is Your Horse -Power? While an East Anglian clergy - Inman was winding _his church lock a short time ago, he sud- enly wonderedhow much orse-power was needed to do 'the job. The though so intrigued him that he asked his son, an engi- sleer, to help him find the an - Owen They worked out the cal- culation between them and dis- covered that keeping the church ���� 'decky,toljhd up tgltes just' out leventh of one hotse4150Wer e- ery nine days. And what is one horse -power? Well, in British units it's defined as the power required to raise 33,000 lbs. one foot in one minute. The term horse -power often puzzles people. A. horse -power does . not mean the full power a horse can exert when putting out all its strength. To -day the actual working power of a good horse is about four -fifths -of a horse -power and that of an average man is about ane -eighth horse -power. About 20 to 30 per cent of first heart attacks are fatal, accord- ing to Chicago health authori- ties. If the first attack can be 'survived, modern treatment. --- frequently frequently consisting of anti- coagulant therapy—gives more hope than ever before, FROZEN ASSET — Pretty Dana Brooksm'it'h executes a ballet spin on full-sized ice rink in Manhattan Savings Bank lounge, New York. It's all part of the bank's annual "Christmas in Manhattan" show. Won His Wife In A Poker Game By eleven o'clock on that hot Julie night the sixty or so min- ers in Warren, 'Idaho, had left their card tables, and gathered around a good-looking young. man of twenty-one, Johnny Bemis, whofaced a middle-aged Chinese, Hang ,Chang, in,a, win- ner -take -all poker game. Johnny Bemis had come from the East that year, 1871, to seek his fortune in the rough and. ready mining camps of the West and the Chinese was one of the many immigrants from the Far East who had drifted to America and found his way to the same West where fortunes were being made by day, and lost at card tables by night. Originally there, had been four men at the table: Johnny Bemis, the Chinese and two other min- ers. But the two fell out as Johnny won steadily with a streak of luck that seemed end- less. In front of Hang Chang lay his last ounce of gold, but his eyes were quite expression- less as he shuffled and dealt the next hand. Johnny picked up his cards, glanced at them and covered Hang Chang's bet; the Chinese pushed his - last gold ' forward and called. As Johnny spread out the four aces in front of him, the crowd let out an incre- d u l o u. s gasp. Johnny's luck should long ago have runout but it seemed that every hand was stacked in his favour. The Chinese laid his card; face down and said, "I am fin- ished. I have nothing snore." Johnny swept the gold and money' up before him. It amount- ed between $10,000 and $15,000. "I amsorry you have nothing more," Johnny said. "I enjoyed playing with you." Hang Chang nodded, and the tall, very slim and pretty Chi- nese girl who had, been stand- ing all night in a statuesque pose behind him, moved towards him as if to comfort him. In the mining camp they cali- ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN?' HILLARY DOUBTS IT — Sir Edmund Hillary carries •a valise' containing a 240 -year-old scalp alleged to be front an abominable snowman. Nepalese Khumjo Chum - bis 'eft, accompanied Hillary to Chicago where the scalp will be examined, It has been keret within the tanfines of the Sherpa village of Khum Jung since 'yes found, Hillary, first man to 'conquer Mount Everest, considers the 'abominable snowman a myth. ed the very attractive girl China Polly. She was about twenty years old, Hang Chang's slave girl, sent to him from China to behis wife, a girl with long 'raven locks falling over her' shoulders, wearing a yellow dress slit •up the side. The Chinese had seen' Johnny glance at the girl more than once. He said suddenly: "I have only 'China Polly left. You would gamble for China Polly?" Johnny smiled. He took it as a joke. "Sure," ' he said, "I will stake everything I have won against the girl." Hang Chang said: "What you have onthe table is not enough. She is worth more 'than your money and gold." Johnny called the saloon keep- er and ordered him to bring out the rest of , the gold which he had placed in the saloon safe. On the table the gold formed a small mountain; its total value was nearly $30,000. The miners shrugged: Johnny was crazy to stake everything 'he had on the turn of one card, as the Chinese had suggested. The girl wasn't worth such a risk. Hang Chang picked up the cards and handed 'them to John- ny to shuffle, but Johnny indi- cated that the Chinese could have the privilege of shuffling. The Chinese' turned over a card. It was the nine of clubs. Johnny took a deep breath and flipped aver the top card on the left side of the deck. The ten of diamonds lay exposed. The Chinese, his face. expres- sionless, rose and said something to the girl, then walked quickly from the saloon. The miners began to drift from Johnny's table now that the excitement was over, writes John Sinclair in "Tit -Bits." Johnny B e m i s had regarded the thing as a joke, Now chat he had, won he did not know what to do with the girl. But when he walked 'out of the 'saloon she trotted obediently along behind him and when he entered his cabin she made her- self a bed in a corner and curled' up there. The history of China Polly and Johnny Bemis, as re- corded in Idaho, shows that she began looking after him, wash- ing and cooking for him, anti in time won his lave, When Johnny was shot during an argument in a saloon, China Pollycarried him to hisshack and nursed him back to health when everyone was certain he would die. It was then, when he recovered, virtually from`. the brink of the grave, that he took China Polly along to the local justice of the peace and legally married her. From the day when Johnny and China Polly married he .never 'entered another gam- bling saloon, but worked his stake in the Cripple Creek while China Polly kept house for him. For forty-nine years - from the night in 1871 when he won her until 1020, when he died — Johnny and China Polly lived happily together. He taught her to read and write. She cultivat- ed a large vegetable garden out of which she not only fed her- self and Johnny, but sold vege- tables to the miners, and her home in Warren, Idaho, was the showpiece of the first quarter of the 1900's. They received many famous guests, among others the teen vice-president of the United States and the Governor of Ida- ho and visitors .from overseas. China Polly was the• perfect wife and hostess, In 1920 John- ny became ill and, in --spite of Polly's efforts, died, She Went' on living quietly in their home, which was then in Grangeville, Idaho, visiting Johnny's grave every day without fail. Neighbours called on her daily, They suggested that she should go and live with friends so, that she wouldnot he xo alone, but she would not leave her !tome, One day in October, 1933, visiting neighbours found her ill and she was taken to hospital,' A few weeks later, she died, faithful to the man who had Won her "in a poker game. They buried her next to John- ny as she had asked them to do because, as she said shortly be- fore she died, she believed that, having served Johnny in life. as her master, she would also serve him in the hereafter. On her grave they placed a stone bearing the inscription: "China' Polly, wife of Johnny Bemis." It marked the end of a unique and wonderful love story. Planning To Fly By Their Own Power A group of students of aero- nautics at Queen's University, Belfast, plan to scoop the $15,000 prize which has been offered for the first successful flight of a man -powered aircraft. Inspired and helped by Terence Nonweil- ea, the university's senior lectur- er in aeronautical engineering, they have designed a prototype flying tandem and called it a "Flycycle." It has passed some severe wind -tunnel tests. The machine is designed to carry two cyclists mounted tan- dem -wise in an enclosed fuse- lage. Of light -weight wing con- struction, it will be 20 ft. long, 10 ft. high with a propeller fix- ed high in its tail unit, the whole weighing about 500 lb.. . No catapult -launching action is envisaged, but a running or cycling take -off on level ground. The cyclists, seated with their back.s to the tail, will work, up speed and then release a clutch, putting the propeller into gear, The inventors are satisfied thatthey can build a real flying machine which a couple of nor- mally fit cyclists could keep air- borne for two minutes. In' that time, the Flycycle should be able to coast over a circular mile, flying about 20 ft. high and mov- ing at 35. to 40 m.p.h..But, if the occupants 'are given oxygen, flights of up to two . hours may be feasible. MERRY .MENAGERIE "NEXT:" Fried Worms For Breakfast! Giant chameleons two feet long and with eyes that swivel independently will be studied and filmed by television person- ality David Attenborough in - Madagascar. He may take some back to London Zoo. With him will be cameraman Geoffrey Mulliganwho went with him some time ago to the South Sea Islands. There they encountered a strange native cult in the southern part of the group, where !nen throw all their money into the sea! On one remote island, Atten- borough and Mulligan breakfast- ed one day on a dish of fried green marine worms called ba- lolo which, on two days of the year, leave their holes in the coral reefs and rise in great numbers to the sufrace of the sea, "They tasted very good," said David afterwards, "but next day Geoffrey fell ill with a high fever. His body was covered in a painful scarlet rash and his face was so swollen that he couldn't shut his eyes or open his mouth. "I was sure it was an allergy, but our Fijian hosts felt equally certain it was a retribution for having dared to film a cave in the mountains that was full of mysterious human skeletons."• It was a fortnight before Geof- frey recovered sufficiently and Was able to continue filming. 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Despite revolts in the past and reports of continued un- rest among the peoples of these notions, the institute warns that the satellite armies, totaling about 850,000 men with 300,000 in reserve, would probably be a valuable and re- liable addition 'la Russia's own strength ill case of were J