Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 July 1908 — Page 2

Che Zigonier Banucr LiGONIER. . - INDIANA

Record of the Most Important Events ' Condensed for the Perusal of the Busy Man.

) 'PERSONAL. John W. Kern, Democratic nominee for vice-president, was welcomed home after his trip to the-Denver convention by his Indianapolis neighbors. The man who delivered the leading address was Charles W. Fairbanks, the Republican holder of the office to which Mr. Kern aspires. . Calling down maledictions upon the Roman priesthood and _shouting in Italian “Long live Italy! Long live the Protestants!” Giuseppe Alia, the murderer of Father Leo Heinrichs, was executed in Canon City, Col. . " Mrs. Selina Carter has given $50,000 to Omaha, Neb., for the purchase of Jand for a park. i Roy Messena, deputy county treasurer, was locked up at Warsaw, Ind, accused of embezzling $1,500 of public funds. s . Thomas McCarthy, aged 40 years, for whose capture the warden of Indiana state prison has had a reward standing for three years, returned to prison voluntarily and gave himself up, with the prospect of serving 12 more years, unless the gévernor or parole board should release him sooner. : ‘2 Rush -L.. Holland of Colorado was elected grand exalted ruler of the Order of Elks. : Bishop Potter of New York was so much better thatjhe was able to sit up for a brief time. ; John L. Sullivan, pugilist, actor, philosopher, lecturer and temperance talker, has begun -an action- for divorce against his wife Annie, whom he married 25 vears ago in Boston, and from whom he separated a few years later. . . ) Walter R. Ceperly of Chicago was chosen president of the Illinois Christian Endeavor union at the business meeting in Urbana. . Charles E. Brown, 35 years of age, an attorney of Danville, 111, prominent socially and professionally, was arrested by secret service agents on the charge of counterfeiting. An elaborate outfit was found in the cellar of his residence. - — James S. Sherman, Republican vicepresidential candidate, announced that be would retire from the Republican congressional committee, of which he is chairman.

GENERAL NEWS. The Democratic national convention at Denver concluded its labor by the nomination of John Worth Kern of Indiana for vice-president. The nomination was made _by acclamation. Charles A. Towne, Archibald McNeill and Clark Howell, whose names had been presented, withdrew- before a ‘ballot was reached. _‘ ’ Seven mine workers were killed and ten others injured by a terrific explosion of gas in the Willilamstown (Pa.) colliery of the Summit Branch Mining company. The mine was wrecked and set on fire. _ Republican - Chairman Hitchcock ‘ezlled a conference of party leaders at Colorado Springs, Col., for the opening of the campaign in the west. . " By the burning of a one-story frame building in St. Paul, Minn., the structure in whicghe first voluntéer for the union armigs enlisted in 1861 was destroyed. . The shriners at St. Pautl elected E. L. Alderman of Marion, 1a.,, imperial potentate and decided to held next year’s conclave in Louisville. One man was Kkilled and 25 or 30 others were injured, - some perhaps fatally, when a trolley car on the Johnstown (Pa.) Passenger Railway ccmpany, after striking a traction engine at a crossing a mile from here, siarted backwards and went over a’ steep embankment. _ | Assistant .Secretary of the Interier J. E. Wilson, W. de C. Ravenel of the National museum and W. M. Geddes of treasury department were appointed by the president as a United States government board of managers of the "Alaskan-Yukon exposition at Seattle, Wash. Five workmen were killed by the cave-in of a 2 new sewer in Youngstown, O. . Mr. Taft and Chairman Hitchecock and Treasurer Sheldon of the Republican national committee declared that publicity of campaign funds would be observed strictly by the Republicans. Fire in the business district of Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., destroyed $lOO,OOO of property. ' = ° . F. L. Mackay, manager of the Western Commission company of. Kansas City, Mo., was stabbed and killed by James H. Chandler, an abstractor, after a quarrel. : . Rebels of Honduras evacuated the town of Choluteca which they had cap tured. Proceedings in Harry K. Thaw's application were adjourned until- the September term of the supreme court of Westchester county, New York. A dozen persons were injured in a panic in the Catholic church at Biwabik, Minn., when the films of a moving picture show caught fire,” . While eatching in a baseball game Frank Howard of Harvard, 111., was hit - Six persons, five of them well known B sl ,’%*M accident at

American athletes captured two gold medals on the second day of the Olympic games in London. John J. Flanagan won the hammer throw, breaking the Olympic record, and M. W. Sheppard won the 1,500-meter run. The third day of the Olympic games Great Britain won two -gold medals and France and Sweden one each. America won second place in a team race. - . Sheriff - Riley of Nowata, Okla., ‘burned a roadhouse and saloon, in ac‘cordance with the Oklahoma liquor law. James Phillips, a farmer, committed suicide in Oskaloosa, la., by drinking carbglic acid in olive oil. James Guyot and his son were killed by lightning near Clay City, IIL Fire in the town of Orcutt, Cal, in the Santa Maria oii fields, destroyed property valued at $200,000. Frank H. Montgomery, 'a . leading physician of Chicago, and his stenographer, Mrs: Head, were drowned while sailing in White lake, Michigan. Mrs. Catherine Bruna, aged 75, and her grandson, aged 14, were probably fatally burned in a mysterious explosion in La Crosse, Wis. , Lightning struck and .destroyed the beautiful simmer home of George W. Elkins at Ogontz, a suburb of Philadelphia. , A plot against the czar of Russia was discovered at Sosnowice, Russian Poland, and many arrests were made. H. L. Palmer, president of the Northwestern Life Insurance company, retired after 50 years’ service with the company. : The Democratic national committee adopted a resolution, dictated by Bryan, declaring for publication of campaign contributions, limiting them to slo,ooo° and declaring none would be accepted from corporations. ) The National Deposit bdnk of Philadelphia was closed by.diréection of the comptroller of the currency because it had not kept its reserve u?p to. requirements. ) : 7 Alfonso Costa, Republican leader in the Portuguese house of peers, wounded Count Penha-Garcia in the arm in a duel. - : A new Japanese cabinet was announced with Count Katsura as premier and minister of finance. . Hugh Jones, colored, was lynched near Middleton, Ky., for an attempted assault on a white girl. ) . The Atlanta box factory at Atlanta, Ga., was burned, and W. M. Morris, watchman, lost his life. o Four Italians found guilty at New Brunswick, N. J., of tryizg to blackmail a fellow countryman, were given 12 years in the penitentiary at hard labor. 5

Ohio Prohibitionists put up a. state ticket headed by Aaron S. Watkins of Ada for governor. i = Standing. within a few feet of the spot where, a little more than two vears ago, he shot and killed his fa-ther-in-law, Dr. James Weddell Simpson, a dentist of New York, was shot and. perhaps mortally wounded at Northport, N. Y., by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Bartley T. Horner, the woman he made a widow. ‘ John Bruhn, a/-%'mer living near Donnybrook, N. D., went insane, killed his sister, Miss Rose Bruhn, and then committed suicide. - The annual conclave of the Mystic Shrine opened in St. Paul, Minn., and the annual convention of the Elks in Dallas, Tex. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor (and inferentially the head of 3,000,000 voters of organized labor affiliated with the federation) promised to support William J. Bryan in the presidential campaign. 5 : Martz Martini, 28 years old, shet his wife to death in their home in St. Louis and then ended his own life with the revolver.-

Homer L. Castle of Pittsburg, Pa., a former Prohibition candidate for governor of Pennsylvania; Charles Hunter, Philadelphia; D. C. Massington, Collingswood, N. J.; Arthur F. Williams, Chicago, and H. F. Aspinwall, Freeport, 111., were indicted at Philadelphia on a charge of conspiracy in connection with a title and trust company they promoted. : Cora Hosford, 14 years old, of Washougal, Wagh.,, rescued her father and uncle from ‘drowning. .. Religious warfare among Austrian miners near Brigham, Utah, resulted in several murders. 5

Four persons were drocwned through an explosion on board a 45-foot launch off Marion, Mass. They were Roland Worthington of Boston, John T. Trull of Woburn, Joseph S. Beal of Milton, and George Savory .of Marblehead. A. P. Tarbell of Marblehead and Edward Pecker of Boston were rescued after being in the water 12 hours. Managers of the principal hotels of the country are arranging to install wireless message service embracing the entire United States and far out to sea on each coast. Herbert J. Hapgood, president of Hapgoods incorporated, and his secretary, Ralph L. Kilby, were discharged in New York for lack of evidence in the case in which they were arrested charged with obtaining stock -subscriptions to the Hapgoods Sales company through misrepresentation. The presidential elections throughout the Isthmus of Panama passed off without disturbance. Senor Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia, formerly minister to the United States and acting president during the absence of Dr. Amador, was elected president. Honduras revolutionists were driven from the town of Gracias which they had captured. ; Herman Ridder telegraphed Bryan that the New York Staats ‘Zeitung would support him. ¢ A. J. Magill, a photographer of East St. Louis, 111., was murdered by an unknown man in his studio.

: OBITUARY. ‘J. M. Greene, leading citizen of Chamberlain, 8. D,. and formerly Republican national committeeman, was found dead in bed. : Thomas D. Jordan, formerly comptroller of the Egquitable Life Assurance society, dropped dead of heart disease in the Wall street station of the New York subway. : William F. Niedringhaus, aged 73 years, founder of Granite City, 111., and director of the National Enameling & Stamping company, died in St. Louis from pernicious anaemia. o

Orient Would Resist American Intrusion

" (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) It is but recently that the or;ental has begun to awaken to an appreciation of himself. ~Hitherto he has not only allowed, himself to be treated by the occidental as chance ordained, but has measured his ability with the criterions set up by westerners. It is but yesterday ‘that the Asian assumed an aggressive attitude and vowed that he would resist the intrusion of the European and American, employing the occidental weapons to accomplish that endy The -change in the attitude of the east towards the west during the last two decades has been phenomenal. It has led the Asiatic to resent the weatern insinuation that the oriental is the inferior of the occidental in mental and moral caliber. - It has also wooed the Asiatic out of his _.inaction and lethargy of ages, inspired him with the de-sire-to break the shell of his limitations and set his face towards modernization and evolution. Eli

Time was, end not long ago, when therank and file of even the cultured orientals were obsequious in their attitude towards even the mediocre westerner. To the Asiatic, “white” skin was synonymous with superior talent and character. The white man represented to him great strength of mind and body and skill of arms, offensive and defensive. | ¢ The Asian no longer mentally or physically prostrates himself before the Caucasian. To him, no more the Anglo-Saxon boast of surviving as the fittest has any -weight. A brown or yellow hide has come to be, to him, as good an index of character and caliber as the white. This attitude has found expression in many and diverse ways. The RussoJapan war was one indication and fulfillment of it. It was also the means of further advancing these sentiments. The greatest and most trustworthy signs of this metamorphosis, however, are to be found in the boycott movements started or threatened against occidental products and men in several Asiatic countries. The boycott of American goods in Chind, the boycott of English goods in India and the once-threatened boycott of American goods in Japan, though probably failures in their economic aspect, are yvet vitally significant of the way the occidental ‘views things western.

"“What the new occident wants today is reciprocity. It demands for itself perfectly even privileges in return for those which it extends to westerners within its gates. - This attitude is likely to assume more aggressive and intensive form as the awakening proceeds apace and as the oriental succeeds in learning the arts and crafts of subjugating the forces of nature and utilizing them. Considered in this light, it is easy to understand the oriental view of Asiatic immigration to North America end the British colonies. The first thing to be noted in this connection is that the oriental is no longer prgpared to brook the aspersion that he is the inferior of the Americans or British colonials. Another and more important, feature is that the hostile treatment of the oriental immigrants cannot but lead to untold and vexattous trade complications. ¢ The peddier who sold his wares from door to door had no status in the minds of his buyers and he could well afford to cheat as he = never wished nor expected to duplicate a sale. The modern metropolitan department stores find that-it is essential for them rather to lose 'a sale than dupe a customer. In business circles more and more the retentipn of good will and the satisfaction of the -purchaser is becoming the sine qua non of success. It is not the new-fangled salesman, who induces a state of hypnosis and dupes the buyer into taking some article that he does not need or that is not its money’s worth, who is the cornerstone of a successful store; nor is the impatient and unobliging man behind the counter or at the desk the keystone of a business enterprise. In the long run, both prove failures and répresent the crystallization of penny-wise-pound-foolish philosophy.

As it is with internal trade, so is it with international commerce. The econornic is an essential feature of inter-continental trade relations; but it has been the experience of business people swhose operations extend worldwide, that, other things being equal, the business man who is the most gentlemanly and obliging wins out in the race. : To verify this statement, one has but to see how much business the Knglishman loses in India through hia snobbery and boorishness in his dealings with the native East-Indian trader. .If further testimony is needod, it requires but a single glance at the way the Japanese salesman has of recent years captured the East-In-dian business, .which, but for his superior airs, the Englishman could have had. Continuing the thought a little further, it may be stated that for this fdentical reason India to-day offers 'aq invaluable opportunity for well-man-nered and courteous American salesmen to get hold of a golden market for their wares. The new consciousness in India is unmistakably showing itself. In business, at least, the ¥nglish superciliousness will not be tolerated by the native East-Indian.

In the past it has been ‘the case that on account of the weakness and inalertness of the oriental, the westerner in the east has had his own way. It was very much similar to what he did in North America. The . North

American Indlans, unable tb wope with the aggressors and incapable of civilizing themselves according to the western canons, found themselves driven to reservations and extinction. In several of the oriental countries the Anglo-Saxon has atfempted the same thing, but without the same success. In India, for instance, 70,000, 000 people have been ground to such dire and painful poverty that they cannot manage to secure a single satisfying meal a day. In China the attempt has been made to parcel the “country and divide it amongst the European powers. The near-east has similarly been the subject of such machinations. Persia and Afghanistan and the adjoining territory have been threatened with a similar fate. But for many reasons the oriental countries have been saved from the doom of the red Indian. +Their present-day awakening to a realization of their situation and possibilities promises that they will not only avert an ignominious fate, but that in the near future a better and more equitable adjustment of the relations between the orient and the occident will take place.

So far there have been two.standards of equity. . With the one the westerner has measured himself—with the other, he has adjudged the easterner. The: occidental has gone to Asian countries, through intrigue and base devices obtained possession of the land, fettered the people and exploited the resources for his selfish interests. But he has invariably- resented it when the Asiatic turned around and showed a disposition to pay him the same sort of compliment.

The fiasco which has resulted from Asiatic immigration in Australia, Canada, the United States, South Africa, etc.,, is mainly to be attributed to this unreasonable and ‘inequitable dealing of the occidental in regard to the Asiatic; but there is hope of a satisfactory solution, as the sbirit of the times has,sounded the death knell for the maintaining of this dual standard of ethics. Gradually the emancipated woman is obliging man to judge her by the ,same standards with which he judges himself. With the march of civilization and with thae gradual evolution of the orient, the occident will find that, like the “new” woman, the “new” oriental wiil not submit to humiliating treatment. Thig new rapprochement appears even at this moment just about to mount the horizon. In size it is no bigger than a man’s hand; but from all indications it is certain’'to increass in dimensions. The resistance that the East-Indian immigrants are of fering in “the Transvaal, refusing to submit to degrading immigraticn laws and preferring to lose all their vested property and rights and even to rot in jails; the recent memorial of the native East-Indian soldiers to the com-mander-in-chief of the British empire that they be taken out and shot dead rather than be allowed to be humiliated by unjust and tyrannical British colonists; the preparations that India is making to boycott the incomingof British colonials and their goods; the stout resistance that the Japanese immigrants have offered on this continent; all portend the aggressive attitude that the orient is displaying—that the day is near dawning when the occidental shall have to do by the oriental as he wishes to be done by. : ;

In considering the matters pertaining to oriental immigration, 1t must’ be remembered that the orient is not planning a fell swoop on the occident. The aggressiveness of the oriental is not flowing into the channel of an attempt to despoil the North American continent as did the Huns the Roman empire. The pres-ent-day oriental find§ too much constructive work to do at home, to think of such an invasion; and deems the very. mention of yellow and brown peril a ludicrous monstrosity. - His aggressiveness is finding an outlet merely in the attitude which he is assuming toward the occident—which, it must -be distinctly understood, is not of hostility but rather of reciprocity. X ‘The Asian is not scheming to thrust himself by sheer force upon the occident. He only pleads for equitable treatment. X

Asia is the oldest continent of the world. Many of its countries are thickly populated. However, the resources of fhe orient are practically inexhaustible and have scarcely been touched. The occidental exploiters have but secured the crude surface wealth, and beneath this somewhat exhausted crust lie treasures untold. The new orient, unless it is usurped as a breeding place for the European exploiter, will previde an ample living to the oriental himself. With a_system of intensive and scientific. agriculture, with the harnessing of rivers, creeks and waterfalls, with the employment of steam and electricity in manufactures, with the extension of the transportation facilities and with the development of educational policy and administration, the orient, thickly populated and old as it is, will supply better opportunity for a comfortable life; and the masses of orientals who are being pinched by poverty and famine into America and the British colonies will live contentedly in their native lands. If the $100,000,000 that India pays annually to England as its tribute to its liege lord remained in the country; and i* the lucrative government appointments that to-day are monopolized by aliens were held by the natives of the land, the home-loving Hindoos would not find it necessary to go to Canada or British Africa. As it is, the settlement of the Hindoo immigra. tion problem hinges to a large extent upon whether the occident will or will not continue to “milk” Hindostan. If the west will but keep its hands off Asia —will cease looking at the resources of the orient with covetous eyes and fighting for their possession, the ork ental will be enabled to stay peace fully at home in his own land, and the problem of the “yellow and brown peril” will solve itself. Even the “little men” of Japan will more and more confine their immigration and exploitation to their own continent and cease thrusting themselves upon the hostile occident. e ; ;

SONG OF THE WOOD THRUSH

f F all the sounds of sum- . mer there are few which in pure sweetness excel the song of the wood thrush. The singer seeks the seclusion of the thickets, and you must go to him to hear his exquisite-solo. It is a tinkling song, seemingly best at sunset—a silver vesper bell sounding in the quiet woodland -as the shadows lengthen. ~ Only one other bird—though some persons with ears attuned to nature say two others—surpasses in the pure musie of its notes the song of the wood thrush. The hermit thrush, 3 brother bird, breaks the silence of the northern wilderness with a song that is unapproached and perhaps unapproachable. o

It is a long journey to the home of the hermit, while the wood thrush may be heard within sight of the city. if he there have found a bit of woodland with a thicket retreat that suits his ideas of a summer home. Frank M. Chapman says thdat the song of the wood thrush is an invitation; that the bird sings again and again “Come to me,” “Come to me.” The comparison is apt, and he who accepts the invitation. may listen to a song that is full payment for the trouble of the journeying. o : The wood thrush has discovered that in the cemeteries, even though they "be within. the city walls, there is comparative seclusion and _ safety. A few pairs build every year in those burial places where the landscape gardeners have held that the best effects are produced by giving nature a fairly free hand and have le;t much of nature’s handiwork. . There is excuse enough for dwelling upon the song of the wood thrush. So much is put down in prose and poetry

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of the music of the mocking bird that the wonder grows if the writers ever heard the evening hymn of our sober-clad wood thrush. The mocker’'s song is ambitious and of wonderful tone quality, but there is something holy about the hymn of the wood thrush that falls upon and moves the heart. It is. a call to prayer, : The wood thrush -places its nest R S R R L. %é 0§ gy o e L e o T fie | B R X P s 5.«._ T T S Gl 1& ": el e B Y ‘ S SRR N e B 8 7 90D, W Gl T R s 5 R R EEE ’:‘JW ‘\l& M - w"’%gk ‘w‘% B s < Pk 5 3 WAL e, s e Dl & A % ~,,& "é‘kg 55 i L ; Yoz g ¢ ¥ K 3 2 ¢ B PP AR e PO i K K X 2 G B § S ft Loggerhead Shrike. Nest and Young. ordinarily in a sapling about 15 feet from the ground, but there are many exceptions to the general rule. More than half the nests—at least so runs my experience—have a bit of cloth in them. The bird seemingly has a fondness for streamers, and the longer and narrower the piece of cloth that it picks up the -better it is pleased. Lacking the wisdom of some of its fellow birds, the thrush often fastens oniy one end of the cloth ribbon to the nest and leaves nearly the full length of the mjaterial as a plaything

PLEASURES OF THE TABLE

Abuse in Eating and Drinking Is Old as the Human Race, Enthusiastic professors expound to us that we consume food in enormous excess of our reasonable needs, and perhaps we do, but we find eating a pleasant, exercise and stick to it, according to our various capacities, ‘as long as we can get food that suits .us and our digesttons hold out, writes E. S. Martin in Harper's. As for drink, the habit of using beverages that are more or less stimulating in their qualtiies is at least as old as history, and doubtless very much older. Coeval with it have been perception of its hazards and warnings against its continuance. Hardly any major proclivity nas such a bad name, or is battered by such a fusillade of arguments and awful examples. That rum does anyone any good must seem doubtful even to its best friend., When you have said that, though it is immensely destructive to some savages and to crowds of civilized individuals, a considerable

A VESPER HYMN OF EXQUISITE SWEETNESS—NESTS IN CITY CEMETERIES. : DEVILTRY IN THE SHRIKE Fond of Bird Brains and Kills Without Mercy—Grosbeak Eats ‘Potato Bugs—Habits of Other.Feath- _ ered Folk of Prey. BY EDWARD B. CLARK. - (Associate Member American Ornithologists’ Union.) (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.)

for 3\'ery passfgg breeze. The result is that the little. house constantly flles a flag, as if to denote that the owner is at home. This pennant attracts the collector—for collectors, sadly enough, are everywhere—and the home is often harried. The man who can listen to the song ot a wood thrush and then rob the nest is the fellow whom Shakespeare had in mind when he wrote about the man who has no music in his soul, though possibly this particular species of nest robber has no soul in which to stow music. There is some reason for expressing feeling in this matter, for recently some one carried away the nest and eggs of a .wood thrush from a tree in a city cemetery. I had watched the building of the little home, and had hoped to see four voung wood thrushes taught how to fly, but the hand .of the spoiler was stayed not even in “God’'s acre.” 5 In changing the subject from the wood: thrush to the loggerhead shrike one has to turn his pen 180 degrees. The birds are antipodal in character. One is all sweetness and light and the

other is pretty nearly all sin and darkness. The loggerhead shrike (lanius ludovicanus) comes to the northern states in early spring and stays 4dll summer. He replaces his byother; the great northern shrike, which has spent the winter with us and has retreated beyond the Canadian border with the first touch of warm weather. The loggerhead is a slate gray, black and white creature, with a small hawklike bill. He is a curiously interesting bird, and the deviltry in him rather adds to his interest. He loves bird brains, and he uses his own brains to good advantage in obtaining them. He sits in a tree top, apparently innocently surveying the landscape. until some small bird, a chickadee, a goldfinch or some other feathered tid-bit flies by, and then the loggerhead gets after it in full chase. Unless the quarry can reach the cover of a thicket the shrike seizes lit, strikes its beak through the skull and then bears the victim to. a tree, where the murderer feasts on brains. After appeasing its appetite 'the shirke hangs the body of its victim in the crotch of two small branches or impales it upon a thorn. What thé bird does this for is hard to tell, for it rarely returns to the quarry. The loggerhead lisn't bad through and through however. It eats thousands of the larger insects during its nesting season, and Kkills all the small snakes in sight, though this latter act perhaps cannot be put down as a service, for small snakes have their place in the écenomoy of nature and aid man in many ways. The loggerhead usually builds in a thorn tree, the smaller locusts, the thorn apple and the osage orange being favorite home-steading sites. It makes a butcher shor of the tree, hanging up its bird, snake and big insect victims likc so many carcasses in a meat market. I once found a log-

proportion of the most valuable people on the earth seem to be able to play with it without serious damage to themselves, you have said almost all that it is safe to aver. So great a cloud of compunctions swarm over that proclivity that you marvel there is any life left in it. They do keep down some of its vigor, so that it is less destructive than it used to be, and probably they hope in time to kill it altogether. Onme could wish that they might succeed and that it might stay dead for a generation or two, till we could find out whether the world was better or worse without it. But it is not being killed. The army of compunctions it maintains is evidence of its enormous vitality. To all seeming, so long as the earth continues to spin there are likely to be cakes on it, and also ale, but with great improvement probably by the Hhuman race in the wise use of both. G ‘ Irrigation is enlarging the oases of the Sahara desert. : .

gerhead’s nest containipg young in an osage orange tree. 3 small . green. snake had been impaled upon a thora and its body nearly touched the nest. As the weather was hot the effect could not have Been pleasant to sensitive organs’ of smell, but ‘I sometimes doubt if some birds know: what odor is. If they do they can stand much in the way of things offensive. The Maryland yellow throat, a gem of a bird, frequently bullds its nest within the leaves of skunk cabbage. There is a much better opportunity to watch the predatory habits of the

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great northern shrike than there is to observe those of the loggerhead. l The northern bird is with us in winter, and hunger drives him into the | cities, where he carries on the.lauda- ; ble work %of killing English sparrows. | One of thése birds daily visited a tree ‘ in front of my window overlooking a busy city street. Almost invariably he caught a sparrow. Once after he had .struck. a. victim it escapéd from him and fell fluttering to a snow bank. I picked up the 'spar-,i row and killed it to put it out of its | misery. It.had a clean, round hole in its skull. How the shrike "madei such‘a perfect circle with its hooked beak has been a puzzling question t 6 this day. - | = On ‘another occasion I witnessed a bit of shrike strategy. The bird knew apparently that the crevices -in’ the cegrnice of a big city = building afforded retreats for the sparrows. Tt flew along the °cornice fluttering its wings and literally “beating the coverts.” - A frightened sparrow flew ouc and the shrike gave chase. The sparrow zigzagged. in its flight, bothering its pursuer not a little. The shrike “overran” the sparrow ‘ time after time, but finally seized it just as it reached the edge of a thick bush, in. the heart of which it would have beensafe. The )victim was killed and its brains were eaten with an appetite sharpened “by the chase.. The shrike is a smaller bird than the robin. - It sings well and it is hard to account for its predatory habits. Something was said recently about a goldfinch which sheltered its young from the heat of the sun by spread-. ing its wings and forming a feathered canopy over the negt. “Dr. f)earb,orn,_ assistant curator of birds at the Field Colimbian ‘museum, secured a photograph of a goldfinch doing this act of kindness for its little ones.

Something has been said of the apparent disregard of birds for odors that are offensive to man. Possibly we should not regard such indifference to bad smells as being a particle more peculiar than are the tastes of birds in the matter of diet. The robin loves angle worms, while. man regards them with loathing. The black-billed and the yellow-billed cuckoos think hairy caterpillars the most epicurean of repasts. . Nearly every -other species of birds turn away from the caterpillars, which, were it not for the cuckoos, would soon denude our trees of the beauty of their foliage. The buzzard dines off dog and considers that he has feasted. What is a little thing like a smell to an organism that can thrive upon the repulsive things of earth? A ‘

I have geen birds of many kinds drink of the waters of a spring that smelled to heaven, while - not . ten yards away was a sweet flowing fountain. To be sure, the spring where the songsters drank was medicinal, and man - partook . freely while he held his nose. Possibly long before man came the birds had found the virtue that was in the waters. The' rose-breasted grosbheak, one of our common summer residents has in recent years developed a food fondness for which the farmer rises up and -calls him blessed. The grosbeak has found potato bugs to his liking and he destroys the pests by the hundreds. A pair of grosbeaks in a potato field will do all the service of a barrel of paris green and will leave no poison traces behind to mar the results of their/ work. = The rosebreast- is the very Beau Brummel of birds. His appearance would denote a taste for ambrosia, but potato bugs are to- his liking, and who will quarrel with a preference directed along the lines of such usefulness to mankind? ! : v EDWARD B. CLARK.

Dangerous. . “See my knife?’ said a New York attorney, holding up a pocket knife with theé blade literally burned away te a mere black wire. “And see my finger?”’ His finger had a red, angry scar, and -he proceeded to explain. “About three weeks ago 1 took a sleeper for Chicago. One of the little electric lights at the side of my berth did not: work -to suit me, and 1 took my knife to pry it open or regulate it. Gee! there was a flame shot oul, my knife blade melted right down, and I had to have a surgeon attend my finger. The electric current was a powerful thing, perhaps it might have killed me, for being so ‘cute.” “Yes, electro-cute,” suggested his friend. . St ‘ ' The Overfed Husband. Prof. Carl von Noorden, addressing a number of prominent scientists at Vienna on the subject of “Food and Nourishment,” declared that the reason so many men begin to get fat immediately after they have married is because their wives give them their favorite dishes on every possible occasion. ‘ 2 ;

HADN'T WALKED. ALL THE “WAY, Prisoner at Least Had Change Whiie : ~ Crossing River. . . “Down in Alabama” said John D. Fearhake, “there’s a deputy marshal who doesn’t let any such trifies as extradition laws stop him. Term of court was about to begin at one time, and a gentleman who was out on bail was reported to be enjoy;tig himself over in Georgia. Deputy Jim went after him. Next day he telegraphed the judge: .. ‘I have persuaded him to come.’ A few days later he rode into town on a mule, leading his prisoner, tied up snugly with a clothes line. The prisoner looked as if he'had seen hard service. s “Why, for heaven's sake, Jim. said the judge, ‘vyou didn’'t make him walk all the way from Georgia, did: you? “ ‘No, sir, said Jim. “ ‘T hoped not; said the judge. “‘No,” said Jim, ‘part of the way I drug him, and when we come -to the Tallapoosa river, he swum.''—Woman’'s Home Journal. L '

: TW?,!CURES OF ECZEMA Baby Had Severe Attack—Grandfather Suffered Torments with It—- "~ Owe Recovery to Cuticura. “In 1884 my grandson, a babe, had an attack of eczema, and after trying the doctors to the extent of heavy bills and an increase of the disease and suffering, I recommended Cuticura and in a few weeks the child was well. He is to-day a strong man and absolutely free from the disease. A few years ago I contracted eczema, and hecame an intense: sufferer. A whole winter” passed without once having on shoes, nearly from the knees to the toes being covered with virulent sores. I tried many doctors to no purpose. Then I procured the Cuticura Remedies and found immediate improvement and finalcure. M. W.Laßue, 845 Seventh St Louisville, Ky., Apr. 23 and May 14, 'o7.*

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: Couldn’t Fool Him: " A custom house clerk, who, prior to his entry into Uncle Sam’s Service, was a schoolteacher “a good many years yet,” as he proudly informs his associates, was standing on the corner of Fifth and Chestnut streets one cold day last winter, deeply engrossed im studying a legend which appeared on a dairy man’s wagon, as follows: “Pasteurized milk,” etc. His face worg/a’.hzzled expression, but finally betraying evidence of dawning intelligence he remarked to'a bystander: ; . : ““Ain’t these here Philadelphia milkmen a-gettin’ to be just-as deceitful as anything! Pasturized milk, eh? But they can't fool me, Jcause I lived in the country, and know you can't pasture cows in winter.”

The Useful Reason. Rev. Sydney Goodman—his Men's ehurch at Atlantic City, with its smoking congregations and its moving pictures, has already brought out many imitators—is noted for the brilliancy and originality of his sermons. “Even in a begging sermon,” said a member of the Men's church, “Mr. Goodman can amuse. He began a recent begging sermon in this manner: ‘“‘A- deacon said to the minister's wife: ““Why is your husband always asking for money, money, money? < “The minister’s wife sighed: S “ ‘] suppose it is because you nevep give him any,’ said she.” '~ : DIFFERENT NOW Athlete Finds BetteraTraining Foed. - It was formerly the belief that te become strong, athletes must eat plenty of meat. : This is all out of date now, and many trainers feed athletes on the well-known food, Grape-Nuts, made of wheat and barley, and cut the meat down to a small portion once a day. “Three years ago,” writes a Mich. man, “having become interested in atilletics, I found I would have to stop eafing pastry and some other kinds of food. ' § “I got' some Grape-Nuts, and was soon eating the food at every meal, for I found that when I went on the track, I felt more lively and active. “Later, I began also to drink Postum in place of coffee, and the way I gained muscle and strength on this diet was certainly great. 'On the day of a field meet .in June I weighed 12¢ lbs.. On the opening of the football sedson in Sept., I weighed 140. I att{ix(te- niy fine condition and good w to the discontinuation of improper food and coffee, and the using of Grape-Nuts and Postum, my principal diet during training season~being Grape-Nuts. ; e - “Before I used Grape-Nuts I never felt right in the morning—always kind of ‘out of sorts’ with my stomach. But now when I.rise I feel good, and after a breakfast largely of Grape-Nuts with cream, and a cup of Postum, I feel like a new man.” “There's a Reason.” . v Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich, Read “The Road to Wellyille,” in pkgs. - Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, trus, and full of humam