Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 135, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1911 — COL. BROWN WRITES BOOK ON BIRDS AND BEES. [ARTICLE]

COL. BROWN WRITES BOOK ON BIRDS AND BEES.

Lorer es Hktu* DeßeßiN Book to Mbs Helm Genii, When! He Calls “Tie Umn«m4 Gun.* Carroll County Citizen. Colonel Isaac W. Brown, of Rochester, a farmer resident of this county, where he has many friends and relatives and widely known as the "Bird and Bee Man," is having a book published on the sutject, “Birds That Work for Us." Colonel Brown has talked on “Birds and Bees" before Chatauqua associations, farmer’s institutes and schools during a'quarter of a century, and the subject matter of his new book will be compiled from bis lectures, which were taken by a stenographer. He says he talks best before an inspiring audience, and says that only a few changes will be made in the lectures before they are ready to be issued in book form. He says birds are one of man’s greatest aids in the conservation of natural resources. One purpose of his book is to instruct the young in the protection and care of birds, and it is his hope that the work may have the effect of changing the sentiment of both young and old toward the care and protection of birds, as “Blhck Beauty" has done regarding the treatment of horses. In dedicating the book. Colonel Brown says: “Eight years ago I had bestowed on me an honor far greater, in my philosophy, than was bestowed on my life long friend, John W. Kern, when he was made Uniied States - senator. I was invited to visit Miss Helen Gould in her summer home at Roxbury, N. Y. I approached the home In fear and trembling, for I .was a Hooaier farmer, with Hoosier ways I could not change, if I would, and would not if I could. I knew how to work fifteen hours a day and eat with an iron fork fifteen minutes, but I did not know how to rest twenty-one hours a day and eat with a silver fork three hours a day. It look but a very few minutes to discover that instead of being in the home of an aristocrat, I was the guest of an ardent, devout Christian lady; a tireless, enthusiastic student of i:a ure, with a heart throbbing for others’ woes. “For two days Miss Gould listened to stories I -told of school children on playground and in school, and then she gave me the golden opportunity of my life to go to the school children in the far away sunny south and talk to them of the forces*of nature. For four long happy years, I was her salaried servant, treated by her and her representatives just like I was her sure enough uncle. During those four years I talked to hundreds of thousands of school children in twenty different states and was enabled by her benefaction to tell the stories of God and His Glory as represented in the birds to more teachers, preachers and pupils than any man has ever addressed since the stars sang together. “In sweet memory to those happy years and in honor of Miss Gould, who, to me, is'America’s uncrowned queen, is this book dedicated.”