Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 173, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1902 — Page 16

TIIK TXDTAXAPOLIS .TOURXAL, SUNDAY, .7UXE 22, 1902. PART TWO.

KILLING BIRDS IN ITALY

o.c MiiKi:n ixstasci: or a that is wmim-wim:. Fate of Snncatern Hint Miulit II? I'nr- . nllle! In Amrrlrn, TIioukIi Not AltOKther from the Same Cnu. SprinsfieM Republican's Translation from the (iernan of Hans von I5 rlT'?ch. A journey taken to Italy last autumn had primarily for its object the personal investigation of thf propres-s of th" destruction of birds in that country. I mu-t admit that It r till flourish?, as it lid twenty years uro, and. In conrqu.rice of improved methods, at leat as regards the pursuit on a .mall scale, it is carried on even more briskly than before. The implements for Fn-irins have Increased in number, and are much j improved, and on the other hand, the number of the hunted birds has decreased, the surest eiirn of the disappearance of our bird3 in general. Everywhere I heard the same complaint from birdcatchers and dealers, that during the last decade the number of birds had yearly decreased and that the business hardly paid any more. On the one hand, the once flourishing export of small birds has noticeably decreased, even in some respects ceased entirely; on the other hand, the. price of the birds offered in the Italian markets has decidedly ri3en. "While for example, in the eighties, one dozen r!ccoli uccelli" (little blrds)-that 13 to eay, every conceivable kind, even robins and finches, cost on an average from 30 to 60 centesiml, and on warm days, -when the catch was very good and the export not practicable, as little as 5 centeslmi the price to-day for one dozen of the same birds has risen as high as from SO centeslmi to one lire. Only the bitter-tasting sparrows have remained comparatively cheap; almost exclusively field sparrows, for 1 have seldom peen a house sparrow In market, and these displayed daily in large numbers, are to be had for from CO to 60 centesimi, or even less. When one sees the quantity of birds offered daily for sale it seems hardly credible that they can all be consumed in one day. and in one place. It can only be explained by the fact that these small birds are a food or a delicacy for the poor laborer as well as the rich man. and, above all. for the countless foreigners in Italy Just at this season. Yes. 1 consider the yearly Increasing International hotels as the chief consumers of Innumerable birds. The man of the people in most cases has his birds cooked in the public kitchens, many of which I also visited in my quest for Information. Here the birds, according to the taste of the consumer, are usually run on to spits by the dozen, alternately a bird, then a piece of bread and a sageleaf, and roasted over a charcoal fire. A ouarter of an hour suffices to cook the small creatures in their own fat, and then, with the bread roasted at the same time, they are eaten on the spot. I saw the largest number of birds, and certainly not fewer now than formerly, in Milan and Florence, but on the other hand there were not nearly as many in Como and other small towns. The reason for this lies in the general disappearance of th.! birds. While there were formerly fo ma.ny caught that all the markets could be libeially supplied and still enough left over for exportation, to-day the entire product of all Italy barely suffices for its own large cities. For that reason it would be- a greet mistake to estimate the entire number of birds destroyed, from the large quantity one sees in the above-mentioned markets. These are gathered from all parts and in some cases come fra very remote districts. Birdcatchers c nd dealers at first hand w'ithhoM lIr prey from their own countrymen, because in the large cities, on account of the constant demand, t.he'wjlure surer of a higher and steadier profit than in the small places. KOBIXS IN MARKET. In Milan and Florence I saw large quantities of birds, probably from 20.000 to 30,C00 daily. The kinds vary naturally according to the seasons and the corresponding migration?. During my observations of last year early in October the largest number of birds consisted of larks and robins; of the latter on some mornings I saw as many as three or four thousand in market. In many of the robins I noticed that the thigh bone was split, and I learned that these had been caught in archetli (spring traps), in which case the broken bone was unavoidable. It seems most remarkable that so many birds can be caught in this way, when o.ily one can be taken at a time, and each trap requires so much time and trouble to prepare and watch. For, even though the proportion of birds caught in this way is small compared to those taken in nets. I could on many mornings count hundreds with broken legs. Next in number to robins and larks come the various thrushes unfortunately, not only missel thrushes and redwings, but also our beautiful song thrushes. Moreover, with us also in Germany, according to reliable statistics, about 60 per cent, of the ocailed field fares caught yearly are really aong thrushes, and about 40 per cent, are other useful Insect destroyers. Contrary to my former observations, quail also are now offered for sale In northern Italy. These, however, are not caught here, but come from the south, mostly from the Campagna and the Island of Capri. Moreover, qua'I are destroyed in Egypt even more than In Italy. According to the Ornithological Monthly, the number of live quail exported from Egypt during 1S98 amounted to l."75.4:0, of which 1.0SS.400 went to France. 92.000 directly to England. 70.000 to Italy and 25.000 to Malta. The quail, as I have often seei In Italian markets, are packed by fifties, living, in flat boxes, closed on one side with wire and on top with canvas, and of these often a dozen or more are standing one on top of the other. As they are needed the inmates are taken out and knocked on the head on a table, while at the same moment the breast Is pressed in, and then the little creatures, as yet but half dead and with quivering wings, are ruthlessly plucked. All this, even the plucking, is accomplished with such Incredible rapidity, that hardly a minute elapses before one quail is ready for cooking and another is begun on. But, aa I said before, I visited not only tho town markets, but also the contrivances for snaring in the hills above the lakes, known to me during my former visit. There, too, I four.d everything as before. Th smaller establishments still consist usually of a roccolo, and near this in the larger ones a pressanella, several passata these three expressions denote the most common methods of snaring by nets), and often, a little to one side, a decoy. Near by destruction awaits the birds at every turn In the shap of traps, limo. rages, nets, etc. ar.d these instruments of death hive been added to an.l improved since my last visit. I have nothing new to report concerning, the decoy birds and their use. That a large number of birdj are stiM entrapped in thi way was betrayed, in spite of unfriendly autumn weather, by the loud slns-ln-r in the neighborhood. Here also I met with the same complaints, there are no more birds, every year there are fewer twice as much as formerly, the buMne-s docs net pay. BIRDS ARE DISAPPEARING. Now, I believe. I have collected enough facts to prove once more that the Kuropean bird world is steadily disappearing. Our migrating birds sith some few exceptions oT blackbirds, finches and starlingswander to-day exactly as they did in former years, and thtir routes remain the same; what else, thn, can be the reason for their Meady decrease in Italy except that their nur.Ur is growing smaller? Hov.--.-y r, I am very far from attributing thK dl.irP-'rr.Tiet of ovir birds solely to their destruction in the south. Hy no mtar.s. Th-ir il.ij pe.tranf e is in a greater irgree the ton- qu-'nee of constantly i:npro'ng methods in farming and forestry, by whlLh the bird are rubbed of the necessary conditions f their xistence, and in furtieular of their .portunitles for mstng and breeding. Hut thi destruction in Italy may le rontderd as a very important second a tor, for through it the alrtady rapidly disapp .-ring migratory birds ore now Lelm ntirely exterrnina t-d. for that reason the Italian bird trad-.1 Is more destructive now than formerly, hectus the birds, undisturbt-d in their nesting and breedinjsr. w-re thn able to resist the one tttack from the fide of man. Now. however, when an enemy appears in the gui-,? of science itself they are attacked i y a flouble war of extermination, to whieh they must soon uccumb, unless jomr; power intervenes to save them. The conclusion we reacf Is this that for

tho preservation and propagation of our birds we must contend with both enemies; therefore it us not only provide the birds with the necessary conditions of their existence, above all for nesting and breeding (the hanging up of nesting cages, construction of thickets for their protection, food for winter, destruction of bird enemies), but also take care that Italy, too.

adopts the strict bird laws already accept- j ed, and. let us hope, enforced by most of j the Kuropean countries. I have endeavored to ascertain throughout Italy what the people themselves think of the bird tride. and how Its prohibition would be taken, and I can only say that for the greater part I have rrr-t only with very reasonable opinions. The people see the harm they are doini? both to themselves and others ny destroying the birds, and many complained of the grest increase of insect plagues. I ex-en found some realization of the ethical side of the question. But everywhere I met with the same excuse, and, I must admit, a justifiable one, that the same thing was being done in other countries and particularly with us, In eternally preaching mortl Germany, where the thrush trade (field fares) is still allowed. I unfortunately could not conceal my identity as the herald of this sad truth, for my article on "Universal Bird Protection, Its Origin and Furtherance," is also translated into Italian, and has had quite a large circulation there. The passage io which I allude runs as follows: "But have we any right to forbid the bird trade? Can we even reproach the Italian with the fact that he hunts our birds, as much as we ourselves in the same way destroy those birds that come down from the porch seeking our hospitality? Most certainly not. Before we can dictate to the south, we must look nearer home." I have not written this article exactly for th Italians, but it is nevertheless true, and the truth should be known by all. Therefore, first of all, let us do away with this abomination In our own land. This I consider to be the first condition for success in the undertaking, and then only can we hope that Italy, too, will join in the universal movement to protect the European bird world. Therefore, let me once more exhort to energetic action before it is too late, for these observations made in Italy speak only too plainly and unmistakably against any further delay in the matter. AIlOl'T CORONATION. King rdunrd'i Clmlr mid the Stone of Destiny. New York World. King Edward's chair, on which the sovereigns of England sit when they are crowned, is often called St. Edward's chair out of respect to the Confessor, near whose shrine in "Westminster Abbey it usually stands. It was made by order of Edward I to hold the coronation stone, or stone of dextlny, on which the Scottish kings used to sit when they were crowned, and which stone Edward I captured and sent to West- ' minster in the year 1206. The chair is made of solid oak. the parts being pinned together, and is still lirm and sound, though much disfigured by wanton mutilations as well as by the hand of time. The whoie chair was originally gilded and covered with ornamental work, much of which may yet be distinguished upon a close inspection. At each coronation it is covered with cloth of gold or tissue, and Is disfigured with the nails, tacks and brass pins that have been used to fasten the coverings. The chair's dimensions are as follows: Entire height, six feet nine Inches; breadth at the bottom, three feet two inches; width at the bottom, two feet; breadth of the seat, two feet Ave Inches; depth of the seat, one foot six inches. At the coronation ceremony the chair ia brought out of St. Edward's Chapel and placed before the altar in the eastern limb of the Abbey Church. Except Mary I (who was crowned in a chair that was sent to England by the Pope), all the sovereigns of England, beginning with Edward II, have sat in this chair at their coronations. On the occasion of the installation of Oliver Cromwell the chair was brought into Westminster Hall, and this was the only time It ever left the Abbey since it was made by Master Walter, in or about the year 1297. The chair owes Its importance to the stone, called the Stone of Destiny, which it was made to preserve, and which re-sts under Its seat on a kind of middle frame supported by four crouching lions on a bottom or plinth. This stone was placed in the Abbey of Scone, in the County of Perth, in the year 850, by King Kenneth, who is said to have caused to be inscribed on it in Gaelic an ancient prophecy to this effect: "If Fate speak sooth, where'er this stone is found. The Scots shall monarehs of that realm be crown'd." A prophecy to this effect was undoubtedly extant long before the time of King Kenneth, and the belief in it is said to have reconciled many Scottish people to the union of Scotland and England. The Kings of Scotland were unquestionably crowned for some centuries while sitting on this stone In the Abbey of Scone. But whence did It come originally? According to one account it Is the identical stone upon which the Patriarch Jacob laid his head on the plains of Euz when he had the vision of the angels ascending and descending the ladder that reached to heaven. Some say that it found its way from the land of Luz to Egypt, that from Egypt it was taken to Spain by Gethalus, the son of Cecrops, a wild young man, who, having been banished to Egypt from Athens by his father, married Sc-ota (hence the words Scotland and Scottish), the daughter of Pharaoh, and tied from the plagues with her from Spain, they taking the stone with them. From Spain it was taken to Ireland, and thence to Scotland by their descendants. Others say that from the plains of Iuz it was taken to the Temple of Jerusalem; thence to the shores of Asia Minor, and thence direct by sea to Ireland. The earliest documentary allusion to the stone as having been that used ;is a pillow by Jacob occurs in a work called "Processus Baldredi Contra Figmenta Regis Anglie," which was compiled in 1301. Another legend says that it was taken to Ireland from Denmark by the Tuatha de Dannaans (an ancient Irish peopie.) The Irish historians deny that the Lia Fail (Stone of Destiny), on which the lrih Kings were crowned, has ever left Ireland, and maintain that it still stands proudly at the head of the rebel's grave on Tara Hill. The geologists rudely say that the stone is certainly of Scottish origin and that it was probably quarried ther a good many hundred years ago. Our I tinier. Immortal love, forever full. Forever flowing free. Forever shared, forever whole, A never-ebbing pea! No fable old, nor mythic lore. Nor dream of bards and seer. No dead fact stranded on the chore Of the oblivious years. But warm, sweet, tender, even yet A rresent helD IIe: And faith has still its Olivet, And love its Galilee. Th healing of His seamlei dress Is bv our beds of rain; We thouch Him In llfe'.i thron and rrss. And we arc whole again. Our Priend. our brother, and our Lord, What may Thy service be? Nor name, nor form, nor ritual .vord, Kut slmj'ly following Thee. Thy litanies, sweet ofTio s Of love and sratiti'de; Thy sHcr.imer.tal lltur? ies. The Jay of doing cuoJ. John O. Whit tier. -Vit--i Ic tec qJ J

prtrJTTY WEAK. b'hl Farmer (tasting it) How much cider did you make this year? Second V rmr-Fifteen barrels. First Farmer Well, if you'd a had another apple, you mibt a mad .mother barrel.

PROTESTANTS IN MEXICO

SIMPLICITY OF TIIKIR FORMS OF WORSHIP S I (i (i Ii ST I V K. Stranger Are Reminded of Nevr Testament Tlm ProKm-K of Protestant Movement. Correspondence of the New York Mail and Express. In the frontier town of Nogales, onequarter Arizonian and three-quarters Mexican, I passed, one day, a pretty little adobe chapel, plastered in white as to its facade only and ornamented with a squatty corner tower of characteristic SpanishAmerican form. Above the door of the chapel, in largo, ornate, glided letters, was the inscription, "Templo del Mesias." The absence of a cross, as well as the general appearance of the house, had already suggested to me, before I reael these words, that It was the place of worship of one of the Protestant congregations which American missionary effort has bestowed in considerable numbers on the Mexicans. I had an impulse, as it was Sunday morning, to attend a service in the chapel and see what Mexican Protestanism was like. I rejected the impulse. "A false growth," I said to myself. "If I go in I shall find some nice American ladles patronizing a few Mexicans, with a young lady in a tall hat playing to them on a cabinet organ and a Yankee missionary, with a chin beard, preaching to them in bad Spanish." Nevertheless, when evening came and I heard the high-pitched little bell in the tower of the chapel ringing alluringly for the evening service, and I sat in my room at the hotel close by, with nothing to elo, I took my hat and went into the chapel. I confess that my heart began to thump a little when I had entered and found that apparently I had walked straight into the New Testament. There was not another American in the house. Although all the congregation had not yet assembled, the little house was full. The people were seated on benches with backs, the men on one side of the house and the women on the other. There were a few more men than women, and 1 presently found that, in my confusion, seeing a back bench partly unoccupied. I had strayed into the women's side of the house. However, a courteous young Mexican man, perhaps to keep me in countenance, came over and sat with me. SIMPLICITY OF SERVICES. The people were at this moment only waiting, but there was already something serious and devotional in their attitudes. Some of the men were old and gray and sat with bent heads. Some were young, and there were several boys. All but one of the women and girls were dressed in the Mexican costume a simple dark dress with a light shawl, generally black, over it, the head either bare or draped in the shawl. At least half of the women had small children with them, including some babies, who at times fretted and cried. There were also In the chapel six or eight dogs, of several breeds. Including two naked, sharpnosed little creatures of the hairless Mexican variety. The dogs wandered about more or less and had to be summoned from time to time to their master's or mistress's side with stage whispers of "Pedro! Chiquito! veng aca!" and sometimes, during the sermon, they were called In actual vocal utterance. It was apparent that entire famillles came to the service, locking up the domicile; and. of course, as the Mexican includes his dog in his family, It was necessary for the dog to come too. I have said it was like the New Testament, and so it must have been, not only in the assembly of zealous, simple people, full of the thrill of a newly found revelation, but in the physical type and, at any rate, as far as the women were concerned, in the dark, shy faces and simple, clinging, forehead-draped costumes. The impression of suddenly being carried back centuries of time, was startling. I was recalled to more familiar things by the singing of the doxology to the good old tune. There was no musical instrument, and the preacher, a swarthy, thickset Mexican, with thin side whiskers (not the regular pastor, as I subsequently found out, but a visitor), started this and the other hymns. The young Mexican at my side presented a hymn book, and I looked over with him and did my best at the Spanish words. When the minister's invocation came all the worshipers, men and women, went down on their knees, somo facing forward and many turning about and resting heads and arms on the benches in an abandonment of devotion. With the conclusion of every sentence there was a fervent "A-ahmen," and this response, as the prayer went on, rose almost to a steady murmur, as if thus the people participated in the utterance of the invocation. After this a Spanish version of "Sweet Hour of Prayer" was sung, and. though the minister pitched it much too high, causing the girls in front of me to glance at one another and smile, it was sung very well, indeed. The Mexicans are a thoroughly musical people. BASED OX THE BIBLE. The sermon was distinctly, and indeed very peculiarly, a Bible homily. The preacher was constantly engaged in turning the leaves of his Bible and reading texts to sustain his points. He stood at a little lectern or pulpit, which was supported on one leg or post, and which bore on its front a sort of banner with the word "Deos es Amor." His sermon, delivered so rapidly that I should have had difficulty in following it even if 1 had known more Spanish than I do, was plainly a kind of running commentary on the Scripture, with exhortation to heed at the present moment, and not "manana." the call of grace. When the minister told the story of the man who could not go with the Savior because he had so much business on hand, he acted the scene out with admirable pantomime, so that one saw the troop of waiting and passing customers; it was "muchos negocios" indeed. The words "la palabra." the word, were constantly heard, and with every reference to the Scripture the preacher announced the name of the chapter and verse generally repeating these, as much as to say, "Now. that Is something for you to remember." 1 caught no allusions to doctrinal matters, nor any iiroct reference to the prtat church from which hix adult hearers must all have withdrawn, though once he s;n!ce impressively of the priceless privilege whuh his people now enjoyed of studying the lahie and of worshiping together in thi way. It was " perfectly evident that, in their

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thought and action, the movement in which these people were engaged did not represent any advance or development of thought, but rather a return to something of which they believed they had been deprived. They bad become more primitive than their kinsmen in the larger church of Home across the line. I had looked into the Catholic Church earlier in the day. and had found practically none but women and girls in attendar.ee. There was, of course, nothing distinctive about the worship. While my Mexican Protestant minister was delivering his homily, which lasted about half an hour, the juvenile part of the congregation became somewhat restless. One little child cried out quite vociferously.whereupon the young man seated next me rose, went to the mother, took the child, and passed out of doors with it, swaying and soothing it. The mother continued her close attention to the discourse. By and py the young man came in, with the child quite still. Early in the delivery of the sermon a little dog came to me, put his forepaws on my knees, and solicited my attention. As he was not one of the hairless variety I could not have stood that I yielded to an impulse to stroke his head, whereupon he jumped into my lap. I stroked him some more, and when, at last. I ceased to caress him. he drew himself off a little In the way that degs of all nationalities employ when they are about to demand a contlnuanc0 of attention, and I was paralyzed with fear lest be should bark at the top of his voice. However, I succeeded in inducing him to nestle down and go to sleep without "speaking." After the sermon one of the deacons offered prayer very earnestly, literally from the floor of the house, and the congregation sang, as a closing piece, a strange and very beautiftil chant, to a minor melody, evidently either Mexican or Spanish, which was to me something quite new and exotic. Even the small children joined In singing it with great gusto. Its rather wild and plaintive strain, full of the color of the country, seemed a wise concession to the esthetic sense of these people, which must experience a certain deprivation in the cutting off from the Church of Rome, no matter what they may feel that they gain In other wijs. I was greatly impressed by this thoroughly genuine and unformalized scene of worship, and by it quite convinced of the genuineness of the Protestant movement now going on, not only in Mexico, but in other Spanish-American countries. The response of this purely Indian people to a demand for an emotional service in which they feel a sense of participation, and in a system which they may suppose to rest upon their own interpretation of a miraculous Word open at all times to their spontaneous study, seemed to me to throw some light on the evangelical movement in the Philippine islands that we lead of In the dispatches. I learned that the church I had attended belongs to the Methodist denomination, and was built up in Nogales by the Itev. Mr. Reynolds, who is now the presiding elder of the Sonora (Mexico) conference, which includes this bit of Arizona. He is f till the pastor of the little church, to which he often preaches in Spanish. But itds evi

dent that it has gone quite beyond the need of anything like American patronage. A movement that possesses so much spontaneity, as was evidenced in the proceedings I witnessed, will expand of its own force. A FORESTRY EXPERIMENT. Shows n Troflt of Five Tor Cent. Per Yenr on Investment. Philadelphia Record. A report of an interesting forestry experiment is given in a recent bulletin issued by the geological survey of the State of New Jersey, the report having been compiled by Prof. F. Ii. Meier. The document gives the actual result of eight years' practical forestry work upon a tract of 3,(MX acres of land near Darlington, Bergen county, situated Just off the Ramapo river, and belonging to H. O. Havemeyer, jr. This woodland is covered with oak and chestnut and a little maple and hickory, forty to fifty years old. and grown mostly from sprouts. The inroads of lumbermen had caused such a degeneration that trees rotted at the heart when less than forty years old. Professor Meier, after studying the situation, proceeded to apply a treatment based on the theory that a healthful and vigorous growth of timber required the raising of trees from the seed, and the abandonment of he sprouting from the old stumps, as rapidly as the coming forward of the new seedlings could be brought about, without seriously impairing the commercial productiveness of the forest. In order to preserve the conditions the cuttings of each year were restricted to a portion of the area, so that it would take several years to cover the whole tract. The forest was divideel into ten parts of 300 acres each, and every year one of the subdivisions was taken in hand for treatment, so that ten years would be consumed in going over the whole reservation. Once in ten years, therefore, the cutting will return to the same section. The cutting consisted of a systematic course of thinning, the purpose being to Improve the future growth, for there were cut trees that had reached maturity, inferior tre-es that were crowding out superior ones, stunted and unpromising specimens and heavy sprout trees with no prospect of thriving. During the last eight years 2,400 acres have been subjected to this process of nurture, and, in addition, during the same period have been cultivated throughout the preserve numerous groups of young and vigorous seedling trees. Figuratively speaking, these new groups provide the new blood, so greatly needed, and will supply the recuperative energy of the fresh forest. "The result of this treatment," writes Professor Meier, "both from the sylvicultural and financial standpoint, Is a marked one. The trees which were overshadowed by Inferior kinds have been set more free by the trimming, and have already doubled their rate of growth in diameter. Young seedlings which were set free are thrift) and appear in Increased numbers, both in groups and singly; the forest is healthier, and the sale value of the tract has not been Impaired by the cutting, but, on the contrary, it has been enhanced. "The financial statement of the eight years' receipts and expenses shows a net revenue of 511,254.66, or a net revenue of 47 cents per acre per year. This was a trifle over 5 per cent, on the investment, not including the enhanced value of the forest." There are 3,234 square miles of forest area in New Jersey that could be subjected to this treatment, and the forthcoming report points out that there are only two ways In which it might be brought about. One is for men of wealth, like Mr. Havemeyer, who can afford it, to buy large tracts of land and place them in charge of capable foresters and wait for the sure results. The other is for the State to acquire extensive holdings of forest lands where they can be profitably devoted to no other purpose, and cultivate them in accordance with the system proposed and successfully tested by Professor Meier. "IIFMAX FLY" TO SUE CHICAGO. Rope Fnrnlshed Tower-Climber Was Too Wenk nnd Let Him Fnll. Chicago Chronicle. The "human fly" intends bringing suit against the city of erhicapo for personal injuries sustained in work on the Chicagoavenue waterworks tower. The "human fly" is a person who makes his living by scaling the dizzy heights of church steeples, flagstaff?, towers and lofty buildings for the purpose of making repairs, tlyins flags or painting the statues, towers, steeples and stacks which he climbs. His has been a long and adventurous career, but without serious mishap until he ascended the Chicago waterworks tower last year. He detlarts ho was obliged to use ropes furnished by the city; that the ropes were unequal to the strain of bearing his weight; that he slipped and rolled, saving himself by grasping a projecting lelge from beins dashed to death on the pavement many hundreds of feet below, and that h has seriously wrenched hi3 spine and injured his spinal cord. All these charges the human fly" makes in a bill prepared by his attorney. D. II. Parker, who insists that his client may be s-o badly injured through the weakness of the ropes furnished by "the city of Chicago as to be incapacitated from further pursuing his vocation as a "steeple-jack." and that if such is the case he is clearly enuii iu u.n.i4ci ii'iin nie tliy oi v iii(.dt;ii. Of course, the law department of the city of Chicago will have something to say about that before the damages are paid, and probably the testimony of fceveral steeple-Jack'' experts will be required to ettle the matter. Whatever the merits of the lawsuit may be. certain it is that F. S. Sutherland, who calls himself the "human fly," has an odd and dangerous calling, which has taken him into many queer places in all parts of the world. He has been on some of the highest towers nd steeples in existence. Including the Kirfel tower of Paris, the Cathedral at Cologne, the Philadelphia City Hall and many others. He claims to hold the record for the forty-eight highest climbs ever made without the aid of ladders or scaffolding. Sutherland has a method of his own. which he says Is original and used by no other. "steeple-Jack" in the business. He graduated into his present line of work from the navy, having been for some years on the United States ateamshlD Ver-

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Dr. Joseph Enk's Genuine Dynamized Homeopathic

The Enk Preparations have been on the market for over Ave years, and in that time have made a marvelou reeord of cure. They are not accidental discoveries, but are the result of the most careful scientific experiment, conducted along the :ine of n theory which ha since been proven correct by the experiments of Loeb, Matthews and other physiological chemists. The Enk Preparation were on'y accepted after exhaustive experiments had shown an Invariable result, and are, therefore, based on LAW, as irrevocable nd unchanjeable as the law of gravitation. These preparations are the only scientific medicines, are twentieth-century remedies, many years in advance of the nausecu, crude unscientific drugs of antique origin. They are high-class remedies brought to a price where ail can use them. The mode of manufacture and composition of these preparation are entirely new. While based on the homeopathic law, requiring trituration or succussion, the substances used are subjected to a peculiar motor treatment by which the dynamU alone is retained. Many of the substances used are unknown to the druggist and pharmacist, and are contained, in a medicinal forin in thee prepartlon. We can demonstrate that these preparations cure a greater proportion of cases than the most eminent phylclnns canibowin their practice. In the Enk philosophy there are no Incurable cases of disease, except where surgeons have removed parts of the bo4y. Thre are no unnecessary parts, and the body, to do perfect work, must be complete. Where it is complete we guarantee results. We cure "incurable" cases very often. To the sick people who may see this we say: "Try them." Get one of our booklets and read it. It is plain, practical and not Intended to frighten one into the idea that there is something terrible the matter with them. Select the remedy suited to your case and take it according to directions. It will surprise you to know how quietly, smoothly and perfectly It dex-s the work. Diseases of years' standing disappear like magic and they do not return. There are no alter effects, no doping, no drugging, no stimulants, no Irritants. Those who use the Enk Preparations for their ailments will bring peace, happiness and contentment into their lives, for they build np the mind and make perfect nerves, and add many years to the time which they would ordinarily live. There are seventy remedies for seventy different diseases, and by combinations we can cover many more. All the ordinary remedies are 25 cents each. Our booklets, 4,Short Road to Health" and "Treatise on Private Diseases," can be had free of druggists or will be mailed to acy address upon request to ENK MEDICINE CO., Union City, Ind. A full line of these preparations Is kept in stock in Indianapolis by

mont. It was there that he learned to climb and became accustomed to mounting to lofty heights without losing his nerve. He developed a liking for lofty climbing. He practiced tricks in high places and discovered the methods of his own for getting to the cross-trees and the fighting tops and the maintruck and all the other airy parts of the warships in a hurry. When his term was out Sutherland discovered that there was a living to be made in climbing, and that there was very little competition. It is not only a dangerous business, but a difficult one, and Sutherland set himself to devise some new method for clambering up church steeples and flagpoles which would not be as cumbersome as the use of ropes alone. In casting about for some way of improving the methods of ascending stacks and steeples, Sutherlanel's attention was attracted one day by a fly crawling up the wall of his room. Like Robert Bruce, who was inspired to renewed exertions bj' the persistence of a spider which he saw falling down two or three times, Sutherland was seized with the idea of duplicating the methods of the fly. He found out that the fly was enabled to crawl up a vertical surface or even an Inverted plane surface as smooth as a glass pane by the use of little suction rads or cups in its feet, and he set himself to the task of duplicating these. After many experiments and trials he succeeded in perfecting an arrangement for his feet which, while it cannot be trusted as implicitly to sustain his weight as the fly trusts its nimble feet, aids materially in climbing up a steeple at an angle of 60 degrees or less. With these suction pads, which are his own invention and are used by ro other "steeple Jack" in the business, Sutherland has been enabled to do some very tall climbing to almost inaccessible places. He uses a system of ropes In addition to the suction pads, and has a peculiar knot with which he ties his rope at the top of a steeple when he is about to come down and which opens when he merely shakes the rope on reaching terra rirma, allowing the rope to come tumbling down after him. At the Milwaukee carnival last fall he made a great hit by ascending to the top of the City Hall three times a day, sliding down a rope extending from the top of the building at an angle of forty-five degrees to a point well out in the street and then pulling down the rope. Resides raising the American flag on the Eiffel tower in Paris these are some of the more notable climbs Sutherland has made: National liberty pole, highlands of Navesink. New Jersey; State Normal. German Catholic and Congregational towers, Terre Haute. Ind.; Cathedral. Cologne; Trinitv Church. St. Patrick's Cathedral. New York; City Hall. Philadelphia; county courthouse towers. San Bernardino and Los Angeles, Cal.; Santa Fe. X. M.; First Methodist Episcopal Church. Ogden; chemical stack. Glasgow; Antlers. Colorado Springs; electric light stack. Pueblo: Mills building. Pacific Mutual, Chronicle, San Francisco; water tower. Grand Pacific Hotel. SiegelCooper's poles and stacks, Chicago; O. N T. thread mills, Newark. N. J.; Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. Brown Palace Hotel, Denver: water tower, Lexington, Neb.; Calvary Church, Louisville; St. Paul's, London; Trinity, Lima. O.; Press. Cincinnati; government towers and poles from coast to coast. Mckel-in-the-Slot Cnfr. Philadelphia Inquirer. Horn & Hardart have solved the rapid transit luncheon problem by opening a restaurant called the Automat at S1S-82) Chestnut street. It is a mammoth nlckel-in-the-slot scheme and the only one of its kind in the United States. Heretofore, the man with one minute and thirty-seven 3econds for lunch has fumed while a waiter has been getting his order. In the Automat all this is changed.- If a patron's lunch is not forthcoming speedily it will only be because he is unable to decide, off hand, whether he wants one of a large assortment of sandwiches, pies, coffee, soup, ice cream and the unusual variety of quick lunch fare. The moment he knows, or thinks he knows, what he wants, all he has to do is to walk up to one of the machines, which have a glass door through which are seen the various viands, drop his nickel in the slot, and the sandwich, or pastry, drops down on a plate with three times the dispatch the best-regulated of waiters could boast of. If it is coffee he wirhes. a cup is at hand, lie places it under a spigot. He drops his nickel in the slot. Out pours the coffee and just as the cup is filled the flow ceases. As for soup and the like, it drops down on shelves done up in immaculate bowls. Ice cream alone calls for the veriest trifle of complication. The patron does the nickel trick and gets a check. Then he waits a moment and up shoots the plate desired. Then in goes the coin and out comes the ice cream. There was a great rush at the Automat yesterdaj, and its success will doubtless continue as ths service is as neat as it is rapid. The Crnnberry Flower. Country Life of America. One of the daintiest of wild flowers of June is the blossom of that time-honored concomitant of roast trrkey. the cranberry. While, however, everybody knows the berry, few are acquainted with the flower, for the peat bnprs where it blows in tho choice fellowship of tho Ftately pitcher plant ami the golden club, and ot r.iany a rare orchid. are quite remote from the beaten paths of travel. The cranberry plant h a small, slender, somewhat trailir.a;' shrub, with the neatest of evergreen leaves, from amid which a lew thread-like str.ks lift their nodding Mowers. When fully expanded the pink lobes of each corolla arc curle.l back like a lily's, and from the heart of them the compressed stamens protrude in the ihape of a spear-point or a beak. The imaginative may see in this long-beaked little blossom, a resemblance to a tiny crane's head, whence some hard-press-ed etymologist has thought to derive the word cranberry that is, craneberry. Those who . like to make a place on the home table for oddities and rarities of the plant world may well include in their list for June a few sprays of the cranberry vine in bloom the unfamiliar, alert blossoms. looking brightly out from their green bower, being sure to delight all flower-loving visitors. A Clenn Ilnkcry. New York Commeicial Advertiser. Surgical cleanliness is extending from hospitals to various business enterprises in which food is handled. Dairies where cows are groomed before being milked, and where the personal cleanliness of the milkers is insisted upon, are common; up-to-date meat and grocery stores have the stock protected, and by the plentiful use of white paper the actual handling of meats, vegetables and fruits is reduced to a minimum. The lesson has now reached bakeshops. In many of which it was greatly needed. One larpe bakery of the city provides spray baths in its establishment, and requires every baker to take a bath before going to work, and put on a complete change of fresh clothing, which is furnished and laundered by the firm. On quitting work the suits are taken off and left at the bakery. In warm weather a fresh ult is provided every day. One of the prod ucts of thin bakery Is something of a novelty; thi 1 steam-baked, crustiest ndwlch bread, and is largely used by hovel.

WHAT THEY ARE.) iraer 9 East Ummer We find $10 for $16 for $20 for 4 off on 14 off on 14 off on Suits up to Suits up to Suits up to $24.00 $30.00 all Silk Petticoats all Dress Skirts all Spring Wraps

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Before leaving for the seashore or other summer resorts should not fail to visit our remarkable Clearance Sale of High-grade Spring and Summer Wearables. This is a remarkable sale because of the extraordinary and unprecedented values offered and because of the temptingly low prices quoted on nothing but this season's newest and best productions. Unfavorable weather is responsible for this early sacrifice.

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order to CLEAN UP EVERYTHING, as is our custom each season, we

find it necessary to begin our Clearance Sales much earlier than

usual. $15.00 $25 for Suits up io $37.50

$30 for Suits up to $45.00 $45 for Choice of Any Suit in Ilouse 54 off on all Silk Waists 54 off on Children's Garments Y2 PRICE for ALL COSTUMES STORES LOUISVILLE PERFECT FITTING, STYLE AND DURABILITY MADE THE Famois You'll be in close touch with Fashion if you wear this brand. They cost no more than inferior makes. From $ 1 to $3.50 Paul H. Krauss 44 East Washington St. SHIRTMAKEK. Memter Merchant AsK-iatim. 00000 X We are the People you want to aee lor j Wall Papers, Etc. 5 W. II. KOI.IN SONS aoj Halt Washington Street. Furniture, Carpets Stoves w. ii. ivijcssfiiijrvcjrvii SOt Cnl WmhlngtoB St.

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