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Newspaper
Goshen Daily Democrat
Location
Goshen, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1908
Page
6
The excerpt recalls a carefree country walk with Phylis Lenore Cecile and author Ernest McGaffey, detailing a simple farm routine. They rise late, eat two meals, and spend days wandering hills and fields in relaxed, nomadic style with casual attire and little obligation beyond happiness.
The narrator recalls a vast array of birds observed on daily country walks including crows, bluebirds, warblers, hawks, and waterfowl. He describes in lyrical detail scenes along river bluffs, pastures, and timbered ravines, noting nests, feeding, and courtship while recounting sunlit vistas, hilltops, and evening returns to a warm farm porch.
A detailed early guide explains building a shadow theater stage using doors or screens, a transparent cloth to display silhouettes, and a drop curtain. It covers support frames, rope suspensions, and lighting, plus methods to animate figures with jointed limbs, wires, and simple props like a Dutch scene and a Mill diorama.
A derailed box car released a tiger during circus loading near Knoxville. The tiger leapt to ground and fled, prompting a coordinated capture using a lasso and a dry goods box. The animal resisted but was trapped, while a cowboy sustained a hand injury.
G Frederick Wright surveys mammoth distribution from Europe to North America, noting tusk sizes from 13 feet 10 inches to 160 pounds, three-layer fur, and survival past the glacial era. He traces fossil finds in Siberia Alaska New Siberian Islands Pribilofs and Yukon shores, and discusses extinction timing and possible human interaction.
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