Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1926, Page 39

BUTZARD CARRIED CONELL YEARS Subject of Many Old Legends, Finally Killed, Was Widely Known. By Consolidated Press. COMER, Ga., March 1.—The belied buzzard is dead. This weird bird, believed by negroes of the South to bring vengeance upon evildoers, particularly murdcrers, was killed the other day ar this little town by W. C. hmore, a farmer who was out hunting for geese and brought down the buzzard by mistake. He took the bell from the buzzard's neck and the chipped and scarred piece of brass is now on display in a Jeweler’s window at Athens. Scratched on the bell is the date indicating that the buzzard has lived 44 vears with this brass cowbell slung around its neck. The bell is two inches across the bot- tom. A piece is bitten out of the edge as though with clippers, and the sur- face' 1s marred by use. The wire by which it was suspended from the buzzard's neck is almost worn in two. No one ever sees a bell now: the one this old * wore, and the w not like the modern g Everything points to the fact th date " 1582 scratched on the bell is right, and that the buzzard wore this heavy plece of brass uround its neck for nearly half a century. The carv- ing on the bell was done with a blunt knife, and in addition to the date the name “Joel Mine, Lanville,” is easily discernible. Bird Long Remembered. Since the oldest inhabitant can re- member, a belled buzzard has been appearing periodically in the South, alarming the countryside with its weird tolling. It has been heard in s0 many places, has seemed to cover such incredible distances, and has evaded firearms and traps so cleverly that many have come to consider the story as a myth, while the supersti- tious have attached to it a super- natural significance. But there has been no myth about this belled buzzard. Farmer Birch- more not only killed the creature but brought the old veteran of the skies back with him so that others In the community could see. Then he placed the beil on exhibition. Stories from Maine to Mexico have been told of the belled buzzard and it ts not unlikely that this one was the subject of them all, for during his 44 vears of life he has flown thousands of miles and has spanned a vast stretch of territory. He has struck fear into the souls of the superstitious and has glven rise to many legends with a touch of the voodoo about themn. Believed Murder Avenger. A popular belief among negroes liv- ing on the fringe of the great Oke. fenokee Swamp in south Georgla is that if a murderer leaves the body of his victlm exposed buzzards will gather for hundreds of miles and hold an inquest. The murderer is tried be- fore highest tribunal of the air, and if he is found guilty the bailiff of the buzzards—that grim, flapping bell toller of the skies—is summoned and ordered to dog the steps of the killer until the murder is avenged. Usually the murderer, so the legend runs, is driven crazy by the dreadful tolling of the bell and takes his own life. Irvin S. Cobb used this legend as the basis for one of his most fa- mous_ stories. A fact interesting as these leg- ends, however, is the whim that could have caused ‘‘Joel Mine of Lanulille” to attach a bell to the buzzard's ueck in 1882, and even stranger is the vitality of the buzzard which enabled it to carry the bell 44 years. MONTREAL HITS CHICAGO FOR DIVERSION OF WATER Further Draft on Lake Michigan Protested in Communication Sent to Washington. By the Assoclated Press. MONTREAL, April 1.—Mayor Du- quette, on behalf of the city of Mon- treal, telegraphed energetic protests to Washington and Ottawa against the proposed diversion of additional water from Lake Michigan by the City of Chicago for nine-foot channel in the Illinois River. To Charles Stewart, minister of the interior at Ottawa, the may: graphed that the proposed dive n would have “a very detrimental effect on the port of Montreal.” “We pro- test vehemently,” he added. fayor Duquette, in & message to S. ace Dempsey, chalrman of the rivers and harbors committee of the House of Representatives at Wash- ington, asserted that the diversion would necessitate large expenditures by Montreal for remedial work and said that the city protested its being allowed, ROCKVILLE. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 1 (Special). ~—At the monthly meeting last eve- ning of the Rockville Parent-Teacher soclation, held in the high school euditorium, a Maryland pageant was presented by pupils of the history d civies department of the High School under direction of Miss Genevieve Bordeaux and L. F. Schott of the school faculty. A business session was afterward hi MUTT AND JEFF —The Count of Hoboken Broadcasts a Strong Statement. JEFF, THe CounT OF HOBoOIKGAS'S AND He WANTS 1CE WATER! 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