Greenfield Evening Star, Greenfield, Hancock County, 30 August 1905 — Page 4

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,o\v lark, while fjene' ally to be a grain eater, ially ittle £rain even ttie iults .most entirely on insects. recalls an argument with ,vhile we were plowing-in in January. The winter had *ery severe and one would exbirds at such a time to be hungry for grain. The larks wery very bus}' working over .the ground just plowed, and my plowboy companion expressed his rage at the birds, declaring that they would ruin our 'stand.' After having made a wager with him that the birds were not eating the grain, the writer killed one with his whip. Upon examination my companion was astonished to see not a grain of wheat had the lark eaten. Its craw was packed full of grub worms and hibernating weevil, with a few weed seeds. The lark does occasionally pull up a little newly-sprouted grain, but not

enough to do any serious damage. The common bluebird, nearly always the first bird to nest in this latitude, is very little understood and scarcely at all appreciated. The food of the nestling consists of beetles, catarpillars, grasshoppers, spiders, and slugs. The writer, while pruning an orchard in the latter part of April, a few years since, made notes of the trips made by the mother bluebird while feeding her brood of live young. Between 6:30 clock in the morning and noon she landed at the knothole forming her abode in a fencepost no less than seventy times,

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NORTH MICHIGAN EXCURSION

Fares Reduced September 2d Over Penn

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Special low fares will be in effect September 2d for excursion to North Michigan resorts via Pennsylvania Lines. Round trip tickets to Traverse City, Omena,Northport,Petoskey and Mackinaw City will be §10 from Greenfield, Indiana, on the date named $11 to Mackinac Island and return.

Excursionists may remain a month in the famous healthful lake region where hay fever and asthma are unknown. No great expense need be incurred by a Michigan sojourn. There are pleasant homes and cottages and ideal camping sites where living expenses may be made less than at home. The hotels have all conveniences. The fishing is unequal ed. Boating bathing golfing, motoring and all fashionable pastimes are offered. Sleeping car berths may be book ed in advance by application to E. Weaver Ticket Agent, Pennsylvania Lines. $10.00 Round Trip to Famous Michigan

Resorts For Health and Pleasnre"Excursion September 2nd via Pennsylvania Lines from Greenfield to Mackinac, Traverse City, Nortliport and other lake havens in the land of no hay fever and no asthma. Particulars freely given by E. Weaver, Ticket Agent, Pennsylvania

Lines.

Every farmer should put up a lot of small box houses around his orchard and garden for the accommodation of the bluebird, make the opening small and place boxes on fence posts or any place, not too high.

Ttie food of adult woodpeckers consists of insects supplemented by berries the young are fed almost entirely on insects. The small gray woodpecker is one of the most industrious of the family. He may be noticed working carefully over the trunk of a tree. Placing bis head close to the bark, he will presently select a place and begin drilling. In a few minutes he will reach the borer at work on the inside and drive the barbed tongue into the wood to draw the worm out. Winter and summer he is busy, too hardy to migrate to the South. He and the sociable and also useful bluejay and the comely flicker spend the winters with us and are especially valuable to us during the early spring. Many farmers thoughtlessly shoot the gray woodpecker for working in their fruit trees: they should stop to think that the bird does not work where there

Now For Wallace Shows-

Within recent years there has beeu a noticeable revolution in the methods employed in the management of circuses. In former years the promises of a circus man were considered worthless, and the statement of circus advertisements were invariably discredited.

This is changed now. The modern circus is, as a rule, in the hands of worthy and honorable men, they are reliable and agreeable in business relatiods. The "greatest and most satisfactory change is the line of advertising. For instance, the Great Wallace Shows are advertised to appear in Greenfield on Friday, Sept. 8.

They advertise that they will present certain new aud marvelous acts. They name the performers, picture and describe the act, and people can go to the sliowT expecting to see everything as advertised.

It is not a question o! whether or not Wallace will show all he adbertises, as people have long ago learned that his show is an amusement bargain counter, that the Wallace Circus invari[ably exhibits a great deal more than it advertises.

Change of Time Takes Effect Tomorrow Beginning tomorrow, August 29tli, interurban cars west bound will leave the I. & E. waiting room at State and Main Sts., Greenfield, at fort3'-five minutes after each, hour during the day, instead of fifty minutes after the hour as heretofore.

This change is made with the intention of giving a little quicker service between Greenfield and Indianapolis. East bound cars wTill not be affected leaving the station at ten minutes after the hour as they have been doing.

No Hay Fever No Asthma North Mich igan Excursion via Pennsvlvania Lines.

September 2nd to famous health resorts—M a in a Petoskey, Traverse* City, Omena, Nortliport. Only §10.00 round trip from Greenfield. See E. Weaver, Ticket Agent, Pennsylvania Lines.

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forty-five of them a caterpillar, which was fed to the dadoiing jrood. Now. let us figure approximately what this u.rnpunts to: She fed ninety caterpillars a day twelve days, or 1,080 of the pests to each brood. We have caterpillars with us all summer, and as the bluebird seldom rears less than four broods in a season, one has only to think of the 4,000 or more of these leaf-eating, pest-breeding worms accounted for by each pair of adult bluebirds nesting around an orchard to realize, in a measure, the great benefit to be derived from cultivating the friendship of these industrious birds.

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Low Fares to G-. A. R. Encampment at Denver via Pennsylvania LinesAugust 20th to September 3d, inclusive, excursion tickets to Denver, Colorado, account National Encampment Grand Army of the Republic, will be sold from all ticket stations on Pennsylvania Lines. For full information regarding fares, time of trains, etc., apply to Local Ticket Agent of those lines.

$22-35 to Colorado and Return From

Greenfield Over Pennsylvania Lines-

G. A. R. excursion tickets will be sold at the above fare. Their sale will begin August 29th and continue daily until September 3d. Tickets may be obtained to Denver, where the National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will be held September 4tli to 7th, and to Colorado Springs or Pueblo.

The fare is an unusually low one, and the occasion presents an exceptional opportunity for a sight-seeing trip to Colorado and the West. Excursionists may go over one route and return over another, making the trip via Chicago, returning through St. Louis, or vice versa. Full particulars may be ascertained by consulting F. A. Meek, Ticket Agent, Greenfield.

Labor Day Fares on Pennsvlvania LinesSeptember 4th excursron tickets will be sold from all ticket stations on the Pennsylvania Lines to any station on those lines fifty miles or less from', selling ^.point. Return coupons good until September 5. Inquire of Pennsylvania Lines Ticket Agent for futher information.

Excursion Fares to Indiana State Fair at

Indianapolis Via Pennsylvania Lines-

September 11th to 15th, inclusive, ev nrsion tickets to In dianapolis, account Indiana State Fair, will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines at (50 cents round trip from Greenfield, good returning until September 18th, inclusive. Call on Ticket Agent for full information.^5 V'

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are no worms. If the? worms were not at work inside Of the tree the woodpecker would not be at work on the outside of it.

Some birds, especially bluejays, catbirds and robins, eat a great many berries. We can well afford t-o supply them. Many fruit growers in the East plant numbers of the old ox-heart cherry and other trees around the outskirts of the orchard to feed these birds, for at the time when the insect world is astir and multiplying most rapidly an ail-wise nature has provided that these same birds are feeding the young broods.

The common house wren has been known to feed her brood of four 245 insects in one day. The quail and the lark, besides eating vast numbers of weed seeds, destroy many chinch bugs. Mockingbirds feed their young many of our troublesome boll-worm moths. Our scissor-tailed fly-catch-er destroys countless numbers of moths. The swallow frequently lines its nest with the wing from the cucumber beetle fed to its young. The warbler, of which Oklahoma has many, frequently feeds its young twTenty-five times an hour with insects. The young broods of nearly all birds are fed grasshoppers, caterpillars, cutwTormsaud weevils.

A little thought along this line snould convince the farmers of Oklahoma that they caunot afford as a business proposition, if not a sentimental one, to have their game laws disregarded nor their birds molested. The encouragement of birds to nest on the farm, the discouragement and prompt punishment of nest robbing, the suppression of an idler with a '22 short," who all summer tries his

at every bird he sees, and the rompt arrest and punishment of the

Wisconsin and Michigan Summer Resorts. A beautiful illustrated booklet describing more than a hundred summer resorts along the Chicago & North-Western Railway, where the greatest hunting- and fishing grounds in the world are found. More than 1,600 lakes and hundreds of trout streams are contained in the area covered by five excellent detail maps, showing every trail and wagon road in this famous region. Complete list of hotels and boarding houses also included. Sent on receipt of ten cents to cover postage. W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., 22, 5th Ave., Chicago.

LOW FARES WEST AND SOUTHWEST

Special

Home-Seekers Excursions via Pennsylvania Lines.

Anyone contemplating a trip West may take advantage of the reduced fares for the special Home-Seekers' excursions via Pennsylvania Lines to points in Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Oregon, Washington, Texas and other sections in the West and in all the States of the South.

Stop over privileges permit travelers to investigate busi. ness openings. These tickets will be on sale certain dates during the summer. Detailed information as to fares, through time, etc., will be freely furnished upon application to Local Ticket Agents of Pennsylvania Lines.

The Pacific Northwest.

A complete and interesting presentation of the beauty and the rich natural resources and rapid growth of the Pacific Northwest are set forth in a beautiful illustrated booklet recently issued by the Chicago & North-Western R'y, which will be sent to any address on receipt of 4 cents in stamps.

The Lewis and Clark Exposition with the very low excursion rates and personally conducted tours in connection therewith over the North-West-ern line from Chicago and the east have created an interest in this subject never before equaled. For full particulars address W. B. Kniskern, P. T. M., 215 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.

man who persists in shooting gameout of season, are more than mere* matters of sentiment. They return an actual cash equivalent and have a direct bearing on the success or failure of crops.—Kansas City Star.

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'TWAS MY MOTHER'S

"A company of poor children, who had been gathered out of the alleys and garrets of the city were preparing for their departure to new and distant homes in the West. Just before the time for the starting of the cars one of the boys was noticed, aside from the others, and apparently very busy with a cast-off garment.

The superintendent stepped up to him and found he was cutting a small piece out of the lining. It proved to be his old jacket, which, having been replaced bjr a new one, had been .,, thrown away. There was no time to be lost. "Come, John, come! what are you doing with that old piece of calico?'' "Please, sir, I am cutting it to take with me. My dear mother put the lining into this old jacket for me. This was a piece of her dress, and it is all that I have to remember her 4 by." And as the poor boy thought of that dear mother's love, and of the sad death-bed scene in the old &• garret where she died, he covered his face with his hands and sobbed as if his heart would break. But the train was about leaving, and John thrust the little piece of calico into his bosom, "to remember his mother by," and hurried into a car.

Many an eye has moistened as the story of this orphan boy has been told.''

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