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10- Orono Weekiy Times, Wednesday, October 2.5, 1995 by Arthur Black Walt Whitman, the American poet, said one of the wisest things about ani- mals I ever read. I think I could tumn and live with animaLs. They are so placci and self contained. 1 often think of Whitman's words when l'm lmned up like a sheep at a cash register getting ready to pay for something 1 don't reaily need, or when 1 find myseif enmeshed like a maze rat in the twice-a-day March of Chrome that constitutes what we so laughably cal "rush-hour" traffic. It doesn't rush and ifs seldom over in an hour. Animais don't have to worry about'earthly stupidi- ties like that. Deer browse. Robins look for nice fat earthworms. Rabbits nibble and crickets chirp. They did it when we pink and hair- less interlopers hunched naked and shivering in Ircm NEWCA$TLE by *~*~†...*. Everyone is invited to the turkey supper that is to be held at the Newcastle United, Church on Saturday, Novemiber 4th. There is to be three sittings, 4:30, 5:45 and 7:00 p.m,. The cost f'or aduits is $10.00, chidren 12 years and under $5.00. To obtain your- tickets please caîl 987-4628 or 987-4269. For a devilish good time plan attending the Halloween Dance that the Newcastle Figure Skating Club will be holding on Saturday, October 28th at the Newcastle Community Hall.' The fun begins at 8 p.m. and will end at 1 a.m. Be sure to wear your spookiest costume and win a prize. A buffet wiIl be served later in the evening. To obtain your tickets please caîl Bruce. He can be reached at 987-9933. caves and they do it today when :we sit draped in polyester and hunched over computer terminais and steering wheeis. Animais just mind their, own business. Except when we humans horn in. Take the case of the Beast of Bodwin Moor. ' Fer decades now, Bnitons living in the southwest cor- ner of England have mut- tered about the strange goings on in the Moor, a des- olate area hot far from Cornwall. People had "seen thing" Strange things. Things not normally seen in the docile and bucolîc environs of gen- tde England. Farmers spoke of unearthly screeches in the night. IDisappearing pets. Huge shadows flashing through the underbrush. Shadows that looked like, well . . . cats., But massive cats. Cats as big as mounitaîns lions or panthers. Finally, last spring -- con- clusive proof. A pair of hîk- ers stumbled across a large feline skull with two promi- nent fangs in the mud of a river bank on the edge of Bodwin Moor. At last something for the scientists to work with. Experts knew that DNA test- îng on the skull would iden- tify the origins of The Beast of Bodwin Moor and pin- point where the animal orig- inated. The skull was shipped off to the National History Museum in London, where a team of entomolo- gists and zoologists cranked up their microscopes and conducted a battery of tests. In the end it wasn't DNA New Store Opens in Newcas t/e The grand opening of the new, store in Newcastle calied Country Expressions was held on.Saturday. September 30. Thestore maniager Sylvia Carriere stated that she chose te open hier shop in our lair- village due to the rtact offthe friendlîness.of the other shop owners and aIse the warm . welcome the residents of our fair village extended to her. She started fier business out of ber home 'l'ive years ago and wouild like to takeý this ilime to Say thank you to both family and fniends for ail of their love and support and for helping to make ber iifelong dream o- owning her own business become a reality. Pîctured Robert James Swain (father) and Sylvia Caroçere, owner- testing or any other newfan- gled forensic detective work that pinnied down the Beast of Bodwin Moor. It was a cockroach. They identified t he skull', ail right. It belonged to a black leopard. But it was the presence of a cockroach egg case'inside the skull, that revealed thie Beast of Bodwin Moor to be a hoax. The egg case came from a tropical cockroach that does not and cannot exidst in England. The micro- scopes also revealed fine c ut marks on the skull made by a knife. "The conclusion is that this particular leopard skull came to Cornwall only by human agency," said the official report. If the sensational British tabloids were shaken by mhe revelation, it didn't show. But then, they had other things to worry about. The croaking raven of London Tower, for instance. That's croaking as in dead, defunct, bereft of life. Just like the Monty Python, parrot. The rave. named Charlie, was k-o'ed by a hungry police sniffer dog. That's when the tabloids got hold of the story -- and reminded their readers what Charlie's death meant. Charlie, you see, was a member of the elite raven platoon that's been guard- ing London Tower7 for the past 335 years --by appointment of His Majesty King Charles IL. Legend has it that the monarchy will crimble if mhe ravens ever, leave, the tower. And now there are only five left. And the Queen is reduced to charging admission to tourists and Diana's run- ning around with rock stars and Charles is caught in 8 bioglossies skinny dipping in Portugal... And'who knows what Princess Margaret is doing these days? So is the monarchy safe? Well, there's only one other world famous raven. The one invented by Edgar Allan Poe. And you know what he was.fond of saying. Kendal continued from page 7 book is really, interesting and the plate something to add beauty to any plate col- lection. Next week is Newtonville's 128th Anniversary, plan to attend. Service will be held as usual at Kendal so mhat the children do not miss Sunday School. "In every real man a child is hidden who wants to play." 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