Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 6 August 1908 — Page 2

The Ligonier Banne: LIGONIER, INDIANA.

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

PERSONAL. | Archie Herron, who shot and killed Rev. S. V. B. Prickett, a Methodist minister, July 15 at New Brunswick, N. J., was convicted of murder and sentenced to be electrocuted. The prince of Wales visited the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre, where he saw hundreds of crippled pilgrims seeking relief. : President Roosevelt accepted the honorary presidency of the-Peace and Arbitratio:y%'agnue, whieh has as its object adequate armament amd effective arbitration. Gcv. Hughes of New York announced -that he would accept a renomination if the Republicans wished to run him. Harry K. Thaw suffered a serious attack of stomach trouble. - Edward Bcckemohle, president of the defunct Bank of Ellinwood, Kan, was found guilty of receiving deposits fllegally. .

GENERAL NEWS. . One man was killed and a score wounded in an attémpt of a mob to storm the jail at Pensacola, Fla., and take out Leander A. Shaw, a negro who assaulted Mrs. Lillian Davis. The mob finally secured the negro- and hanged him. : ‘ An unidentified woman. was murdered in Brooklyn and her body wrapped in- an oil-soaked mattress and burned. . G. Winthrop Sands, a stepson of W. K. Vanderbilt, was killed just outside the grounds of Mr. Vanderbilt's country seat, the Chateau St. Louis de Poissy, 20 miles from Paris, by the wrecking of his automobile. He was pinned under the car, which exploded, and was shockingly maimed and

burned. | After an all-day conference of thef leading government prosecuting officers and Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota, it was announced by Attorney General Bonaparte at Lenox, Mass., that every effort would be mahe to secure a revision of the recent decision and opinion of the United States circuit court of appeals in the case of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. Two prominent Brooklynites, Col. Edward E. Britton, formerly presidentx’ of the Eagle Savings and Loan company of that borough, and Frederick H. Schroeder, formerly second vice-president of the same institution, were arrested after being indicted on a charge of grand larceny., _ Sayyid Muhammed, the Persian Nationalist leader and the foremost orator of the recent parliament, called the “Persian Mirabeau,” was assagsinated at Hamadan, presumably by agents of the shah. Frank T. Wells, aged 21, of Kenosha. Wis., was arrested in Cambridge, Mass. as a fugitive from justice. He is wanted at Kenosha on the charge of larceny of $6,000 from the First National bank of that place, on October 12, 1907. : Infuriated because she had filed suit for the annulment of. her marriage, Grover Willoughby, 21 years old, shot and killed his 17-year-old bride of less than a week at Lebanon, Mo., and killed himself. - “Tony” Martin, said to come from a prominent family of Quincy, 111., was arrested charged with robbing the residence of J. E. Murphy of Peoria. Mexican troops and revolutionists had an engagement in Mexico opposite Comstock, Tex., and two American residents of Mexico were killed. John Schulte, paying teller of the

TFirst National bank of Racine, Wis.,, ~«disappeared and his accounts were found to be $15,000 short. : Following up his crusade against the appearance of unclothed women in the Paris theaters, Prefect of Police Lepine has given orders that the sale of obscene pictures on the boulevards be suppressed. ; The Manitoban government anmnounced that 30,000 men are needed 40 harvest the wheat crop in western ‘ Canada. | Thirty-six prominent bookmakers of | * New York were indicted for violating the anti-gambling laws. | Returning to his wife’'s home after’ an absence of 16 years, Louis Armor, aged 50, murdered the woman in Toledo, fired a bullet at his daughter and tried to commit suicide. Thomas L. Redton, formerly city attorney of Lead; S. D, committed sui- - -cide because of ill health. A fight in the gallery of a Philadelphia theater caused a mad fire pani¢ in which_ many persons were injured. By the final official count of the balJots cast in-the Seventh lowa congressional district in the primaries, Capt. Hull secures the renomination over Judge S. F. Prouty by 40 votes. The school census of Chicago shows the city’'s population to be 1,922,336, the increase in four years being 208, 192. : £z : Safe-blowers robbed the jewelrymaking establishment of the Thomas J. Dunn company in New York of $lO,OOO worth of property. . The funeral of Bishop C. Potter of -the diocese of New York was held in e ok g&’»‘mwauv S Foae o M

Joseph Chamberlain Teturned® to England from the continent in a very grave condition. His eyesight is seriously affected.

The Independence party in its first national convention at Chicago nominated Thomas L. Hisgen of Massachusetts for president and John Temple Graves of -Georgia for vice-presi-dent. Friends of Mr. Bryan made an effort to bring his name before the convention and the man who attempted it produced a riot and narrowly escaped physical violence at the hands of the indignant delegates. “ Dr. Andrew Bergen Cropsey, the vet.erinary surgeon who shot-and killed 'his wife in her home at Bath Beach, died suddenly in the Raymond street jail, Brooklyn. i ' e President Castro has issued a decree prohibiting the dispatch of vessels with cargo for Grenada or other islands in the Antilles, thereby closing the Venezuelan gulf ports entirely to export and import trade with the West Indies. Great indignation is felt in the British colonies, and it is expected that the aid of the British government will be sought to secure protection against the methods of President Castro. ey

James S. Sherman, Republican vicepresidential candidate, announced that he would be succeeded as chairman of the congressional campaign committee by Representative William B. MecKinley of Illinois. : In the presence of the Sheik Ul Islam, the head of the hierarchy in Turkey, the sultan of Turkey took the oath of allegiance to the constitution on the Koran. Peter Sendak of-Cleveland, 0., shot and killed his wife and himself. Andrew Haag, prominent resident of Cullom, 111., was shot and killed by his 21-year-old son, Albert Haag, following a family quarrel. ’ ‘ A band of men attacked the office of the cashier at the railroad station in Tiraspol, Russia, and got away with $40,000. . : - Mrs. Vere St. Leger Gould, who, with her -husband was serving a life sentence for the murder of Emma Levin, whom they killed for her jewels at their villa in Monte Carlo, is reported to have died of typhoid fever at the French penal colony in French (uiana. '

“Tad"” Smith, a negro boy accused of assaulting a white girl, was burned to death by a mob at Greenville, Tex. Because they intervened in behalf of the non-combatants, the consular representatives of various governments at Ceiba incurred the displeasure of President Davila of Hondurag and he cancelled their exequaturs. . A gasoline launch was sunk at Pitts. burg, Pa.; by waves from a toal boat and three steel workers were drowned.

The packet steamer Neva, owned by the Green Packet company of Cincinnati, burned to the water’s edge at Buffalo, -W. Va. . The crew swam ashore. -

The Dutch cruiser Gelderland - was ordered from Curacao to Venezuela to protect Dutch interests there. The Venezuelan consul at Willemstad, who was mobbed, left the island. William H. Taft was formally notified at Cincinnati of his nomination for the presidency by the Republicans. In response he spoke at length on the issues of the day and the duties of the next administration. The city - was finely decorated and the day was observed as a holiday. : Many Chinese were Kkilled, bujldings were unroofed and vessels driven ashore by a typhoon that swept over Hong-Kong.

A train struck an - automobile at] Glen Head, L. I, killing Miss Leigh Townsend, a New York society gir},' and Charles Smith, the chauffeur. ' The first national convention of the Independence party opened in.« Chicago, with W. R. Hearst as temporary chairman. : The several suits pending against the Waters-Pierce Oil company in Little Rock, Ark., charging violation of the anti-trust laws of the state, were terminated when the attorneys for the defendant company agreed to a compromise penalty of $lO,OOO. The interstate commerce commission decided that shippers might combine small quantities of freight of various ownership either by arrangement among themselves or through the medium of the forwarding agency, and ship the combined lot at the relatively lower rates applicable to large shipments. : An Italian girl perished in quicksands 'in the back yard of her home in New York. ; The Olympic games at London closed with the presentation of medals and trophies by the queen. In the field and track events, in which the points were counted five for first, three for second and one for third, the standing was: America, 114%; TUnited Kingdom, 66 1-3; Sweden, 121,; Canada, 11; South Africa and Greece, 8 each; Norway, 5; Germany, 4; Italy, 3; Hungary, 2 1-3; France, 2 1-3; Australia and Finland, 1 each. | The Marathon race, chief event of the Olympic games, was won by John F. Hayes of the‘lrish-American Athletic club. Dorando of Italy was first -to reach the stadium bnt collapsed, fell several times and, being helped -across the line, was disqualified. - Angry residents of Curacao threatened the Venezuelan consul, who took refuge in the German consulate; and also forced a Venezuelan to make public apology for articles he had written attacking the Dutch government. Officers of the Democratic national committee were chosen, as follows: Chairman, Norman E. Mack, Buffalo, |N. Y.; vicechairman, E. L. Hall, Nebraska; ' secretary, Urey Woodson, Kentucky; .treasurer, Charles N. Haskell, Oklahoma; sergeant-at-arms, John ‘I. Martin, Missouri. It wag decided that central headquarters should be in Chicago. 3 OBITUARY. Mrs. -‘H. W. Burkett, mother of United States Sénator Elmer J. Bur kett of Nebraska, died at Springfield 111, after a long illness. 5 Dr. Franklin T. Howe, one of the oldest newspaper men of Washington, died fr heart failure. ‘ R frey. He was 88 years old.

How England Has Held Down India

"~ (Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) While the educated people of India appear to-be content with carrying on wordy warfare over political questions and arraigning the British administrators of Hindostan for inaugurating a reign ‘of terrorism in the country, impending famine is hanging over .the heads of the country’s 300,000,000 inhabitants. Crops have failed in many sections, and already half-famished Hindoos are face to face with the pecter of starvation. : During the latter portion of the BritIsh administration of India, famine has followed famine . with direful fregquency. Within the last 25 years 19,000,000 Hindoos have died of sheer gtarvation. Grinding poverty is so omnipresent in the country that many millions of East-Indians are perpetually in a half-starved condition. The scarcity of food becomes more pinching and accentuated when times are harder. Then the poor Hindoos, instead of starving inch by inch, are quickly blotted out. :

The impoverishment of the masses defies portrayal. It is much uglier, much more poignant and painful than that which is to be found in ' the Ghettos and poor quarters of American cities. It is estimated that an average East-Indian requires at least a dollar to a dollar and a half a month merely to exist; but since his income is computed by recognized British authorities to be only 50 cents a month, it will be seen that he lives considerably below the poverty line. During the last two years the government has expended out of the revenues collected from. the East-Indian tax payers over $130,000,000 in trying to keep the impoverished millions of Hindostan alive. One out of every 16 of the 300,000,000 inhabitants + has been in receipt of actual charity relief. This was the case in practically normal years. Now that the scarcity is assuming vaster dimensions and appears to, be developing into a .colossal famine, a greater proportion of the people will have to be saved at the expense of the public. The abnormal poverty has augmented the death rate. Figures collected from official records show that mortality has increased from 25 per 1,000 to 35 per 1,000 within the past ten vears. Chronic starvation has led to the propagation of cholera and plague to such a fearful extent that during the last decade 5,000,000 EastIndians have perished from the latter. :

}n such_desperate straits the masses of India find themselves to-day. The very existence of the farmer, the artisan, the workingman, the laborer by day or month, the petty business man and the clerk, is in serious jeopardy through famine and plague.

That India should be sunk in the mire of fearful and agonizing poverty is no cause for wonder. For two centuries or more India has been in the position of a pig, whose throat has been slil, and the animal - hung up by the heels to permit the blogd to drain from its body.. Hindostan has been bled—bled profusely, unmercifully; continuously by a conscienceless and mercenary alien government. The knife thrusts have been directed toward the most vital parts of the body politic. The arteries of industry, manufacture and agriculture have been slashed and:the life-blood of the country drained away to enrich the occidental island which controls affairs in India.

The aim of the'Englisp iandia has been to. crush the native East-Indians, grind their. sudbstance into- powder, and then employ it as a fertilizer to enrich the British soil. England has built her empire in the orient at the expense of the East-Indlan tax payer, and East Indian men and money have helped even to extend Britain’s dominion in Africa, Malta, Crete, etc.

1t was a company of British commercialists who founded the British rule in .India. To students of history it is patent how the British monopolists, under the aegis of British East-India Company, used notorious and ‘unscrupulous methods to plunder Hindostan. = When the British crown took the reins of India in her hands in 1858, the puily of governing India remained unchanged. As in ‘the days of the East-India Company, it continued to be the exploitation of Hindostan for the benefit of the English. It still continues to be the same. -

As a direct result of this policy, every means, fair and foul, overt and covert, has been utilized to hold down India and to tighten the British bonds on the unfortunate and famishing people. The lucrative government appointments have been reserved for Englishmen. Each year the British government in addition to paying princely salaries to its own men and women {in India, transships $lOO,000,000 to England. Seventy-ﬂv‘“e. thonsand British soldiers: are year after yvear nurtured and equipped at the expense of the East-Indian tax ‘payer, nominally to protect India from Rusgsian aggression, but virtually to extend and preserve the solidarity of the British empire in the orient, Africa and elsewhere., As an essential feature of this polfcy of repression, England has ceasejessly endeavored, and with great success, to keep fanning the flames of religious and racial animosities among the people. Divide and rule has been the motto of the British official in india, and he bas done everything in

his power to keep the congeries of East-Indian populacé from fusing into one mass of people with a community of interest and with patriotic, nationalist ideals and ‘ambitions. By means of playing the Hindoo against the Mohammedan, the Sikh against the Hindoo: by petting the military races of India and leaguing them against the nonmilitary East-Indians, 150,000 Britishers have despoiled 300,000,000 natives. The same policy is responsible for emasculating the people in general and the martial races of India in par ticular. An arms act has been enforced which has made it impossible for the natives of the land to carry weapons or learn to defend themgelves with gkill and success. The manhood of India has been cauterized to such a fearful extent that the British recruiting officer is finding that it is almost impossible to fill the ranks of the native soldiers who drop out of the army through death, resignation and desertion.

A spurious system of education retailed from schools and universities built .and engineered by British officials, with East-Indian money, has also been used to weaken the people. The young men on graduation from college have found that their physique® have ‘been ruined. Physical culta~ has been conspicuous in the educational system by its woeful absence. The instruction has been of a nature that has invested the young men and women with a contempt for agricultural and trade work; and has engendered within their hearts a hatred for men and women of sects and castes other than their own. Nothing has been taught in the schools and colleges that would tend toward uniting the people and evolving an KEast-In-dian nation. ' The history of India has not been given so that it would stimulate the pride of ‘the people and invest them with the desire to emulate those who have gone before them and to keep abreast of the march of civilization. In the school text books em:phasis has been laid on the achievements of foreigners; on what aliens did for India; and muc¢h has becn made of the degradation in general, and especially of the defeat at arms of native East Indians when .combating the aggression of the greedy Britishers. i

The universities were establighed in India with a purely economic motive. “The nation of shopkeepers” started thé educational system with a view to prepare East-Indian young men to fiil the lower ranks in government service. The native agency being as efficient and much cheaper than the British, was given preference. Moreover, the occidentals, unacquainted with the language, customs, - religions and modes of life of the natives, and with a very poor capacity for adjusting themselves to the climate and other conditions prevailing in India, and for learning languages, could not carry on the plunder of the country without the assistance of the natives. That altruistic motives were not re: sponsible for the establishment of schools and colleges in India q‘y the British government is evident for many reasons. The first and foremost is the saq insufficiency of = schoolhouses and teachers in India. Four fifths of the East-Indian villiages are without a school, After a century and a half of British administration, more than 99 per cent. of East-Indian women and 90 per cent. of Hindoo men are utterly illiterate. To show the contrast, it may be mentioned that in less than one-fourth of the time the littla kingdom of the mikado has been able to educate its masses almost to the extent of those living in wide-awake occidental countries. Another and a very powerful proof of the sordid mo-. tives with which the ‘educational policy was framed and engineered in India is thaf the British authorities have doné practically nothing to train the natives in the use of up-to-date farm and manufacturing machinery and methods. The East-Indian agriculturist and artisan have been. allowed to play with their industries in their old-fashioned ways. : While the education has been of a pature which has utterly failed to modernize the people and render them capable of empldying the new methods of tilling land and making articles of merchandise, the law has been: so made and administered that the people have been reduced to the state of hewers of wood and drawers of water, and their industries have withered and died. The policy of England has been to force India to remain a pro‘ducer of raw materials, for the benefit of British laborers and manufacturers. The Indian mart has been utilized for the industrial advancement of England. |

England’s repression of India is unrivaled in the history of the world. As a direct result of the mal-administra-tion of Hindostan the people are sunk in poverty, superstition and ignorance, festered with plagues and famines, weak in mind and body. From the. standpoint of unity, the teeming millivns of India are the worst situated in the world. But the most heart-rending feature of British exploitation is that the people have been kept under a state of hypnosis for such a-long time that only a small percentage of them are alive to the seriousness of the.situation. But,the educated community is increasingly - awakening to a full realization of the white man’s pur pose and work in India, and this awakening is developing into a revolutionary attitude towurd the Britisher. Famines and plagues are wielding their combined influence in breaking the crust of fatalism native to the East-Indian. The wolf of hunger and the fell epidemics are slowly :"“t steadily making the ignorant millfons pause and consider that something is positively wrong in the- “system.” They have not yet come into a realization that their country has been woefully bled and that the resources of the land have been 'misappropriated by foreigners. Their awakening Is yet in its infant stage. It is hazy and undefined and as yet a mere speck on the horizon. But it is fast developing, and as the educated East-Indians have commenced an aggressive campaign for the uplift of the masses, it s destined to @ssume greater proportions g g BNIBReRY: 0 acieea Sene s L T o

TRICKY ACTS OF THE BLUEJAY

- s L % “NOISIEST CREATURE KNOWN TO ORNITHOLQGY" — ALBINO BIRDS OSTRACISED. : COINGS OF THE ROZIN FAMILY Nestlings Launched, Father Helping Two Strongest, Mother Three W.eaklings in Their Effort to A Make Flight a Success. BY EDWARD B. CLARK. (Acpociate Member American Ornithologists’ Union.) : (Copyright, Joseph B. Bowles.) When it comes to a question of intelligence, the Corvidae family, to which belong the crow and the bluejay, must be accorded the first rank. These birds have practically an exhaustless vocabulary and their characters are as many sided as that cf Reynard, the fox, which is saying much.

. The bird lover who would get anything like an adequate knowledge of the bluejay should live in tke middle <rest. For somec reason or other, known to his jayship aloue, the eastern bird is of rather a re.tiring disposition, keeping away from man and his haunts, or, if approaching them doing it stealthily and with much the air of a thief. The jay is a thief and his manner in the east fits, his calling. All through tLe middle western country the bluejay is a bird of 'the doorstep. He is saucy and bold and apparently is unaware of the fact that his brilliant plumage makes him an easy mark for boys’ target rifles and slingshots. It is the very commonness of the bluejay in the cities and villages of the Mississippi valley which is his greatest protection. Familiarity with ! the bird breeds contempt in the small boy, and, with the English sparrow, it is left severely alone. The bluejay nests in the trpes in' the dooryard, steals things from the household and carries on war with the family cat. It is hard to determine just how much damage the bluejay does by pilfering the eggs and murdering the young of the song birds. The difficulty in determining the damage arises from the fact that the jay is “bad in streaks.” You may watch him for a month,and never.detect him in a single depredation, but turn your back and there is no certainty but that the next moment he may be dining from the new laid eggs of the robin or tossing the young of the chipping sparrow from their hair-lined nest to their deaths on the ground below. From the standpoint of amusement there is more fun in watching a bluejay than in the observation of a score of his sweeter-voiced comrades of the field. A German living in a 2 suburb of Chicago made some soap for home consumption. He patted it nicel&into cakes and placed them on a board in the yard to harden. The suburb—it is called Highland Park—is about as full of bluejaws as it can be and still leeve room for other bird families. When the German put his soap eut all the bluejays of the neighborhood descended upon it. They atc soap for an hour. : et The wonder is they did not die, but the diet did not seem to interfere with their digestion in the least. . ‘When the owner -of the soap found the thieving jays at their work he repatted what was left of the cakes,

s R f . Ay - o R SRI e;% O i L vl 4 iVR R B e, e K O GS N e R e . B s Bluejay. . added some more material and again put the soap out to harden. This time he placed the board which held the cakes upon two barrels and mounted guard at some little distance to keep the jays away. They returned to their feagt in a few minutes, and the angered soap maker, who was only a few yards distant, threw a cobble stone at them. The jays fled, but the heavy stone, striking one end of the board, turned it over and pitched all the soap cakes into a box of soft cement. The foreigner doesn’t take kindly to the ways of the American bluejay.

FAD FOR WHITE POULTRY

Wealthy !ﬂew Yorkér Will Have No " Others on Farm. To have all the poultry on his country place—turkeys, chickens, ducks, geesé, guineas, etc.—entirely white in color is the fad of Pembroke Jones, a New Yorker who owns a beautiful country place near Wilmington, N. C,, which is known as Airlie. In the south Mr. Jones is known principally as the husband of Mrs. Pembroke Jones, who in turn is known princpally as the only North Carolina womar who has attained an exalted position in the inner circle of New York’s Four Hundred. The Pembroke Joneses have spent a large part of their wealth on their country ‘home and estate, situated on a little estuary running into Wrightsville sound, North Carolina. It was formerly a typical old Southern plantation, but the Jones money has trans. formed it into an estate of rare beauty. Lawns and flower gardens Save bee e R

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As has been said, bluejays are thick in the suburbs of Highland Park. An Englishman living in the place had some gooseberry bushes which bore berries of extraordinary size and sweetness. The owner of the fruit declared that the bluejays ate his treasures, and securing his shotgun he destroyed several of the birds. The law in Illinois protects the bluejay, but there js a section of the statute which gives the right to kill birds which are preying on the crops. Friends of the bluejays said that the birds wouldn’t eat gooseberries, and thgre was a prosecution started against\the < lishman for killing them. 'TH® case was decided finally in his favory and while scientists and bird lovers may hold otherwise the bluejay now appears in a “precedent case” as being a gooseberry gourmand. ' The bluejay is perhaps the noisiest creature known to ornithology, though | if danger is threatened he can maintain a graveyard silence.’ I was watching a pair of bluejays who were building a nest in a stunted pine tree. The two birds left the home site and disappeared behind a close board fence. In a moment I heard.a racket. Every note known to the jay's jargon came rapidly from behind the fence. The noise continued for several minutes, and then, going to a point to the left of its source, 1 peeped over the fence. The two birds were on an ash ‘pile in'the alley, and between them lay an extremely dirty paper collar. There was little question in my mind but that they were disputing over the ‘advisability ‘of using the collar for ‘nesting material. They scolded back and forth for some time, but Mme. Jay finally ended the matter by seiz‘ing the collar and taking it to the 'nest, where, after much difficulty, one end of it was woven into the structure, while the other end was left to flap with each passing breeze, making the home in the pine tree a conspicuous obiect to every passer. The jay has a pertinacity. that in some cases might be commendable. _After the pine tree nest was completed aud. the eggs were laid the mother bird began sitting. ~ There should have been young in the nest at the end of two weeks, but no young came. The bird sat steadily, with the exception of the time spent in seeking food, for 30 days before she gave up hope of offspring. After they had deserted the nest I examined the eggs. Each had a little dried-up kernel inside that rolled about like a pea. Albino birds are not of great rarity. Perhaps it were better to say that birds partly albino are not rare. A pure white crow was recently in the possession of Animal Keeper De Vry of the Lineoln Park zoo, Chicago. Ruthven Deane, a fellow of the American Ornithologists union, has a mounted crow specimen that is as white as the petal of a syringa blossom. There came under my personal obgervation a crow which had a large white patch in the center of its otherwise black back. I saw this bird on different occasions during two years. Save once it was always alone, and at the time marking the exception its company was a flock of its fellows, who were chasing it to drive it away from the neighborhood of their retreat. It is impossible to determine absolutely what the reason for the crow’s persecution was, but of course everything points to the circumstance of its white back as the real cause. The bobolink (dolichonyx oryzivorus) has been painted part white by nature, but I once found a bobolink that was pure white, barring two black streaks on his breast. It has been supposed that “freak” birds have some difficulty in procuring mates, but this white bobolink had a wife and an interesting family of young. It may have been nothing but accident, but the mated pair built their nest in a meadow where there were no other bobolinks, although the fields directly across the road were filled with their brothers and sisters. It certainly looked like bobolink ostra-

crushed oyster shells and bordered by rows of semi-tropical trees. Artificial lakes and grottoes are scattered about the wide stretches of the estate. Mr. Jones spends a great deal of his time at Airlie and is particularly proud of his poultry farm. It is a sight worth going a long way to see. The ground within the inclosure is covered with thousands and thousands of different birds, all of the purest white, with the exception of a drove of mallard ducks ‘which were hatched from eggs brought from Long Island sound and which Mr. Jones hopes to domesticate. The incubator section alone contains an average of 5,000 ducklings of -the Pekin variety. The whole flock numbers close to 10,000 ducks. Every bird on the place must be of unspotted white. Any that reveal colored markings are promptly killed for the table or sold off. This duck farm is one of the biggest in'the country, and if Mr. Jones should suddenly lose all- his wealth he eoulnm: a good living

cism due to the peculiarity of the albino’s feathers. it - It happens not infrequently that some nestling is smaller and weaker than its brothers and sisters. This is probably due to. constitutional causes, for it is believed by most scientists and observers generally that the parent birds feed the little ones in rotation and show no partiality. It may be of course that through accident the more nourishing bits of food may fall repeatedly to the .lot of two or three of the offspring, while the others get the food which has less strength-giv-ing qualities. ;

The weakling of the brood is almost always the last to leave the nest. The parents lead forth the. lustier younsg, but do not forget the needs of the little one left behind. They divide their duty between the occupant of the nest and its brothers, and sisters, who are trying their wings for the first time. 1 watched the departures of five young robins from their home on the top of a porch pillar recently. Two of the young robins were much larger and apparently stronger than their nest mates. The little home was ﬁlf'ed',to overflowing, and the two sturdier birds were perching on the edge of the nest for a day before they ventured forth.

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Then the father robin coaxed them out. They followed him to a lawn directly across the street, and thére he fed them and gave®them lessons in flying. = ) The difference between the male and female adult robin is marked enough to make confusion of the sex in the observer’s eye impossible. The father and mother of that brood divided their duties. Mr. Robin stayed with the two young which left the nest first, while Mrs. Robin attended to the nestlings left behind. These three stayed in the nest for two days after the departure of their stronger brothers. - During that time the father did not visit the nest, nor did the mother/make any attempt to feed the young which were in the father’s care. When the three little ones finally gained strength enough to leave the home they flew to the same lawn to which the others had gone. I watched the family closely for a week, and the division of duty was maintained by the parent birds.. The father fed the two lusty youngsters, while the mother iooked after the three weaklings. The fathet had much the easier task, but the mother made no complaint. Was there -not something manlike in the way in which that male robin portioned out the work, and something womanlike in the patience with which the female robin accepted the dictum of her lord and master. - | - = A New Rheumatism Cure, Here's another sure curée for rheumatism: “See these,” a man =aid, drawing three round sticks of some biack substance from a pocket. “That’s electric light carbon. Carried ’em six months now and never had a touch of rheumatism. Used to have it all the time before I carried the carbon. It beats a buckeye ail holler.” |

and easy to raise, and as fattened at Airlie bring fancy prices. Mr. Jones ships most of his superfluous birds to New York, where they have already gained a reputation among dealers. Plant Lures Cattle to Death. In the battle which has been waged against the water hyacinth which chokes up many of the rivers in the southern part of the United States, the matter has been complicated to a serious degree by the fondness which cattle exhibit for this plant. It is almost without food valuye, buf there is something about it which attracts theanimals, and they have been known to be lured to death in the efforts to secure the hyacinth. Z E Knee Breeches. There is still, we believe, hope for velvet and silk knee breeches, and for a host of other and minor improvements. The standard of least ridiculousness—which the Court Journal admits we set ourselves in matters of attire—will lead, not to greater ‘somberness, but to a W’W‘“ | of art in relation to the clothing of the

BORAX! NATURE'S DISINFECTANT, CLEANSER AND PURIFIER Zverybody realizes the necessity of some méthod of purification of sinks drains and utensils in which may lurk the germ of a dreaded disease. Health is a question of cleanliness and prevention. Most people are familiar with the Aise of disinfectants in their ordimary sense—all of which are unpleasantly associated with disagreeable odors, en which are depended to kiil the contagion (which disinfectants must ° of necessity be of a more or less danger ous character) and must be used for this purpose and for no other, and in consequence kept from children and careless handling. o There is, however, within the reach of all our readers a simple, safe ané economical article that will not only answer for every disinfecting purpose —but can also be used for a multitede of domestic cleansing and purifying purposes—Borax. Borax is a pure, white harmiess powder coming direct from Nature's laboratory; in fact Borax has often been called “Nature’s Cleanser and Disinfectant.” | . Two tablespoonfuls of Borax in = pailful of hot water poured down thé grease-choked pipes of a sink or flushed through a diseaseladen draim. cleanses and purifies it, leaving it elean and sweet. - . Bed clothing and clothes used in & sick room can be made hygienically clean and snowy-white, if washed in a hot solution of Borax water. Kitchen and eating uteasils, used during illness will be kept from aul possibility of contagion if Borax s used when washing them. Pare &= snow and harmless as salt and because it can be used for almost every domestic and medical purpose, Borax must be considered the ome grest household necessity. \

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Y o | =Y | SR o - Y v/ SR =774 7 ) - RTAL s J If there is any one thing that a woman dreads more than anotherit is a surgical operation. Wé can state without fear of a contradiction that there are hundreds, ygi thousands, of operations performed upon women in our hespitals which are entirely unnecessary and many have been avoided by LYDIA E.PINKHAM’S VEGETABLE COMPOUND For lB)roof of this statement read theM fo Bv;mbg letters. gt rs. Barbara Base, of Kingman, Kangas, writes to Mrs. Pinkham: “ For eight years I suffered from the most severe form of female sroublesand - was told that mo;enﬁonm my only hope of recovery. I wrote Mrs. Pinkham {or advice, and took Lydia E. Pinkham'» Vegetable Compound, and it has saved my life and made me a well woman.™ Mrs. Arthur R. House, of Church B “] fee is m to know what LydinyE. %Hnn‘s Vegetable Compound has done for me. I suffered from female troubles, and last . ‘March my physician decided that am operation was necessary. My husband objected, and urged me to try Lydia E.” Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and to-day lam well and strong.™ or thirty Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeh%,mb from roots and herhﬁl;t 3 been the standard remedy female S andhaaponhwhmdﬂn”h - { i:;- 'lk;' o 0 g