Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 August 1908 — Page 2

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

5 ; PERSONAL. .~ Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, former wife ~of Brod. 'L. Duke, the tobacco magnate, was convieted in Chicago of obtaining money under false pretenses by passing forged checks. Harry K. Thaw was formally ad‘judged a bankrupt in Pittsburg by Referee in Bankruptcy W. R. Blair., William J. Bryan was formally noti‘fied of his nomination for the presidency by the Democratic party, the event being the occasion of a great celebration in ?incoln, Neb. - John W. Boehne, mayor of Evansville, Ind., was nominated for congress by the Demoecrats. Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkish minister to the United States, admitted that he had received advices from his government recalling him from his post. After two false -starts Wilbur Wright, the Dayton aeroplanist, made a successful ascension at Lemans, France. The machine flew about two kilometers (1.24 miles) in 1:43. Eugene W. Chafin, Prohibition candidate for president, narrowly escaped drowning while swimming in the Y. M. C. A. pool at Lincoln, Neb. President - Roosevelt believes there is great need of improvement in the sanitary, economic and social conditions ¢n farms in America, and wishes to send a meSsage on the subject to congress next vear. To obtain facts and recommendations he has asked five experts on country life to conduct an iquuir,v into -the matter and report to him. ) ) . Harry K. Thaw, through counsel, .filed a voluntary petition in Pittsburg, his assets being put at $128,012 and liabilities at $453,140. The action was taken because Thaw disputes the claims of a number of lawyers and doctors. ‘ ) Candidate Taft drove 40 miles over the mountains, lent himself as the " chief feature of Greenbriar county’s first horse show at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va,, and in the evening led the german -at the Greenbriar hotel. ) President Roosevelt made a statement assuming all responsibility for th€ discharge of negro soldiers for the Brownsville affair and saying Mr. Taft had nothing to do with it. - The shah of Persia - pawned his crown jewels with the”’Russian bank for. $250,000.

GENERAL NEWS. The Methodist Episcopal church has begun an active crusade for the election of a speaker “who will allow congress to vote on the ‘interstate lquor shipmént bill."” . Six persons were killed and 18 injured in a gun explosion aboard the French gunnery school ship Couronne off Les Salins d'Hyeres. e ) Charles E. Higbee, aged 52 years, of Denver, one of the world's most noted tunnel builders, was almost instantly killed by an accident at Shoshone, 12 miles east of Glenwood Springs, Col. - : The American Federation of Catholic societies finished its seventh annual convention in Boston by reelecting Edward Feeney of Brooklyn president and selecting Pittsburg for next year's meeting.

. -Six men were severely injured when a Grand Trunk passenger train struck a street car in Detroit in a blinding rain storm. The Colorado Federation of Labor, in convention at Denver, by a viva voce vote indorsed the Democratic party in the national campaign. With her feet tightly bound together and a stocking stuffed down her throat,- Mrs. Adeline M. Miller of St. Louis was found dead by her husband, a mail clerk. One thotisand . Chinese soldiers stationed at Konghau, near Wuchow, mutinied, murdered their commander, his clerk and secretary-and then attacked a camp of soldiers at Onyung. Wilbur Wright made a splendid flight with -his aeroplane at Le Mans, France, circling the field five times and remaining in the air 6 minutes 56 2-5 seconds. The explosion of a steam automobile mear_ Painesville, 0., resulted in the death of Mrs. Mary Rowden and Mrs. Rose Beckwith. Robert Kenney, 19 years old, confessed that he murdered his father, Coleman B. Kenney, near Lupus, Mo., July 20. : : Operatives at the Lane-Maggins cotton mills of New Orleans went on strike because their wages were re- ~ Charlie Lokie, a negro about 18 vears of age, was lynched at Tifton, Ga., for making insulting remarks to a young white woman. ' Striking miners at Blocton, Ala., fired on a Birmingham Mineral road ~passenger train, killing thzee men and wounding 11 others. Of the Ilatter three are likely to die. Nine persons were killed and many injured in a collision of railway trains near Eckernfoerde, Germany. “Two police officers of Methuen, Mass., were found beaten to death, :‘A,,Aféfii’;,iis;us‘;fﬁ e )'.m ‘Y:;

. E. J. Lewis, treasurer of the Savings Life Insurance company of Peoria, committed suicide by taking poison. He was a thirty-second degree Mason. The decree of divorce granted in February to the Countess of Yarmouth, sister of- Harry Thaw, was made absolute by the British court. At Trinidad, Col., -Abe W. Cohn was shot and killed by Charles W. Moore when about!/to leave the city in company with Mrs. Moore on a Colorado & Southern train.’. J. Montgomery Sears, a young millionaire of Boston, was killed when his automobile plunged over an embankment. He was a candidate for the Massachusetts senate. Republicans of Texas nominated a ticket, headed by Col. J. L. Simpson of Dallas for governor. Wilbur Wright of Dayton, 0., made the longest and most successful flight of the series of aeroplane trials which he is conducting at Lemans, France, remaining in the air three minutes and forty-four seconds. The machine circled the field three times at the rate of 36 miles an hour. . Fifteen workmen were held up and robbed in relays of their month’s pay near Stirling City, Cal. ‘A messenger's pouch containing United States government pay checks for nearly $2,000 was stolen from in front of the building occupied by the department of commerce and labor in Washington. : As a result of an explosion of firedamp in the Dudweiler mine, five miles from Saarbruekin, Germany, 15 persons were killed and six badly hurt. ! Bandits robbed railway stations at Crown Point and Griffith, Ind., of nearly s#ooo in money and tickets. Miss. May Williams of Kansas City, Mo., who won .a prize last spring as the most beautiful 'girl in Missouri, committed suicide because her projected marriage was about to be prevented by her removal to an industrial school. Chief Wilkie of the secret service announced that many $5 bills raised to $2O were being circulated in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi. Fire in a residence and millinery store at Wheeling, W. Va., caused the death of Clara, Mamie and \Margaret Gavin. i Pittsburg police unearthed an alleged conspiracy of department store employes that had resulted in the theft of $50,000 worth of goods. At Dallasburg, 0., Levi Fannan, a farmer, 73 years of age, shot and fatally wounded his wife and seriously injured his daughter Effie, aged 15 vears, and then took his own Ifie.

King Edward and Emperor William met at Cronberg and had a long conference on European affairs, after which Edward left for Ischl, Austria. The village of Kootenai, Idaho, with 300 inhabitants, was destroyed t/yga forest fire. . Thomas Robinson of Winnipeg, one of the best known barristers in Canada, jumped from a train while delirious and was killed. Fire destroyed the mining camp of Ripetown, Nev., the loss being $lOO,000. _ The railroad commission of Texas filed a formal complaint with the interstate commerce commission against 67 railroads and other common carriers, alleging a conspiracy on the part of the defendants through the Southwestern Traffic asociation for the suppression of competition and restraint of trade in the recent action increasing freight rates to common points in Texas. - Eight men were Kkilled, nearly a seore of others more or less seriously injured and thousands of dollars’ worth of property damaged by the explosion of a boiler in the York (Pa.) rolling mill. , Three persons were killed and many injured in a collision between two limited traction cars on the Western Ohio- Traction line, nine miles north of Piqua. X The convention of the Republicans of Tennessee designated as “The Homerulers” nominated a ticket headed by T. Asbury Wright of Rockwood for governor. . By order of its directors, the Bank of Arton, Okla., was closed pending an investigation of its affairs by the state bank commissioner. W. H. Reynolds, cashier, is missing. Mrs. Daniel Leroy Dresser was granted an absolute divorce at Sioux Falls, S. D., from Daniel Dresser, president of the Ship Building Trust and of the Trust Company of the Republic of New York city, on the ground of desertion. ;

Dispatches from Constantinople establish beyond doubt the fact that Mehmed Ali Bey, the Turkish minister at Washington, -has been recalled. The flag of the American consulate at Tabriz, Persia, was shot down by loyalists. At the International Historical congress in Berlin American Ambassador Hill announced that Adolphus Busch of St. Louis was ready to give $50,000 towards the Germanic museum building at Harvard. Capt. Baldwin made a successful flight of five miles in his dirigible balloon designed for the army, and declared himself ready for the official tests. o Mrs. Bertha Hood, 32 years old, was shot and instantly killed at her home in Brooklyn by Ernest Seitz, 24 years old, who also shot her baby and himself. The Gloucester fish schooner Maggie and May was run down by the German school ship Freya 60 miles off Halifax harbor and nine of her crew, ineluding Capt. Erick McCarthoran, perished. : Four children lost their lives and five persons were seriously injured in a fire which practically destroyed a five-story tenement building in New York. During a riot at a camp of Austrians near the smelter town of. Garfield, Utah, Constable Ben Culley and Sam Nekis were shot and a bdhy was Killed. Sl The Western Passenger association refused to grant reduced rates for the Bryan notification meeting at Lincoln, Neb. : - Boston was struck. by a severe storm that deluged the city, doing much damage. = : ~ Ten municipal officials of Mile End parish, London, charged with grafting, ~were convicted ofter a trial lasting a

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Dear Bunch: Still in the ring at the Spoonsbury Commercial house, and here’'s some of the dope the nearactors of the “Bandit’s Bride Company” handed out last night. “I tell you, Mike,” the Juvenile said, “I'm too delicate for this onenight stand gag. I'm going to New York and build a theater.” ' “What with?” sneered Low Comedy. “With a reporter I know on one of the papers,” the Juvenile chuckled. “Say, what was the name of that town we played night before last?” “Murphy’s Landing, wasn't {it?” Mike answered. “I guess that’s right, because Murphy landed on me good and hard,” the Juvenile said. ‘“Remember those nice white deor-knobs we ate for breakfast next morning? The waitress

{l“j : ,/ - > 2y [ PR W ) -3 N & 1/ W/Z%z‘// vat i ‘ @ L Y/, ‘\: .:’.']'(7%;.\' [ 54 ) / \ ‘w-, ;:%25."'%’&\:\\\*.: 3 PN X V;)‘ls Y =y A 4 o 1. 3 5] N\ § “Not a Cookie in the Lunch Basket.” said they were hot biscuits, but I had to eat mine with a nut-cracker. I've got it in my pantry yet, and every ‘ime I walk around the knob turns, and I can hear a door open somewhere.” ' - Mike’s double chin showed signs of agitation. : _ “Stranded, here in this jay town!” The Juvenile grabbéd the black bottle and upset it again. “Say, Mike, what we need is a guardian. “And while we’'re, at it let’s pick out ‘one with mioney so we can wire him for a little price to h®p us out on occasions like this. The next manager that wins me away from the stockyards will have to wear a gold-plated overcoat and stand in the wings every night where he can throw ten-dollar bills at when I make my exit. No more 'slob impresarios for mine, with nothing in their inside pockets but a datebook and a hearty appetite.” “Same here!” Low Comedy nodded. “The next manager that picks me out will have to drag me down to his bank and let me pick his coupons off the shelf before I'll sign.” “Bumped, good and hard, here in the tall grass,” ' the Juvenile complained again, ‘““and not a cookie in the lunch-basket. Say! It has me winging, all right, and that’s no idle hoot! This is the third troupe that blew out its mainspring for us this season, and I'm beginning to believe we ought to get vaccinated. How am I going to do Hamlet in New York this winter, I'd like to know? Eight weeks since we left Chicago, three shows to the bad, and still a thousand miles from the Great White Way. Say, Mike, at this rate it’ll take about 629 shows to get us to Jersey City; are you hip?” Mike laughed. “It's the old story,

,/ ‘”1,;,”.,f s 4 '/ ' "' X //’ /,"f" 1 ey N 0 {4 A Lals 74 : s M 8 o 8 B T ) W~ RN e S “5 (i ’(” (|l K i BT b/ i ‘ ' ! ‘ 01l '.!.1“-; f 3 , 1 -‘W ‘~. ; Y " R\ Wrse .‘.““ R | “Jabe Guffawed Loudly.” my boy; we’re a sad bunch of plowboys on this old farm of a world when we haven’t a little mazuma in the vest pocket. I've got a new bit of a recitation spiel I cooked up lgst night when I couldn’t sleep. It's called ‘Knock, and the World Knocks with You,” and I'll put you jerry to it right now before it gets cold!” § “Well, I'm from Texas, so you'll have to steer me,” said the Juvenile. “Pipe the everlasting truth ¢ontained herein,” said Mike, whereupon he proceeded as follows: ’ Knock, a.ne' the world knocks with you, Boost, and you boost alone! | When yvou roast good and loud | ~ You will find that the crowd | y Has a hammer as big as your own! Buy, and the gang is with you; - Renig, and the game’s all off, For the lad with the thirst | Will see you first ‘ If you don’t proceed to cough! Be rich and the push will praise you, Be poor, and they’ll pass the ice, You're a warm young guy | When you start to buy— ; You're a slob when you lose “t_ho price! BBe flush, and your friends arje ’msny. Go broke, and they’ll szy Ta ta! ; While your bank account burns You will get returns, When it's out you will get tli, Ha! Be gay and fho mob will cheer‘ii you, They'll shout while your wealth endures; : Bhow a tearful lamp i And you'll see them tramp— And it's back to the woods for yours! There’s always a bunch to bo‘tt you ‘While at your money they glance; But {:u'll find them all gone On that cold, yray dawn ; When the fringe arrives on )Tour pants! “You've got the game of life sized to a show-down,” was the Juvenile's cormmment. “aih i ‘At this point Jabe, the b bartender, pointed a freckled finger at Mike and butted in with: “Say, you

be the fat cuss that cut up with that thar troupe at the op’ry honse last night, been't ye?” : “No, I'm the skeleton man with a circus,” Mike answered, and the bartender roared with delight. “You don’t look as how you took much exercise,” snickered Jabe. ~“But I do take exercise. Oh, me for that exercise thing, good ' and strong!” protested Mike. “What kind of éxercise do you take?” Jabe inquired. ' - “Well,” Mike answered, “every morning I swing clubs for 15 minutes, then the dumb-bells for ten minutes, then I run about three miles—and then I get up and eat my breakfast” Jabe guffawed loudly over this bit of facetiousness. “l was at the op'ry house last night,” Jabe informed them, “and I 'most laughed myself sick to -the stomach at this yer fat cuss takin’ off that Dutch policeman—ha, ha, ha, ha!” Jabe looked at the Juvenile. “You was putty good, too,” he admitted, “takin’ off that newspaper reporter and rescuin’ the girl from the burnin’ structyure, but you didn’t do no funny fall and bust your gallusses like this yer fat cuss—ha, ha, ha, ha!” “Get him_to unhook the laugh; he’s a good steady listener,” whispered the Juvenile, and Mike started in. “Fine town, this,” Mike began. “All the modern improvements, eh? Cows wear nickel-plated bells, streets paved

/ /ﬂ',./“ \ ;ﬂ‘: : ,_‘-\“'_ ’ \ ! 4 § s & " ‘-4;;\0 R <SS Ymd - o ) / ’/ £ i — W ﬁ > n].’/ Y \.' 7y it wﬁ" \ S J i R AR 37 _— Nt VAT * :t: ~. 5 '* : \:1“ f,, A ’*‘A*/, : NN A W (e~ i | " 1 y “The Proprietor of That Hotel.” with grass and the river has running water:” : . ‘““Ha, ha, ha, ha!” Jabe roared. “Reminds me of a place we struck out in Missouri last winter,” Mike went on. “Same style of public archi‘tecture, especially the town pump. But the hotel there was the hit with us. It was called the Declaration of Independence, because the proprietor had married an English woman, and wanted to be revenged. At supper time I ordered a steak, and they brought me a leather hinge covered with gravy, so I got up to add an amendment to the Declaration of Independence. The head waiter was an ex-pugilist, so he put the boots to me and covered my amendment with bruises. Then he made me eat the leather hinge, and for two weeks 1 felt like a garden gate and I used to slam every time the wind blew.” Jabe’s laugh shook the building. “The proprietor of that hotel was so patriotic,” Mike continued, “that he wouldn’t number the irooms like any ordinary hotel. Eyvery room was named in honor of a president of the United States. That evening there happened to be a rush while I was standing near the desk, and I heard the clerk say: ‘Front, show these gentlemen up to John Quincy Adams, and tell the porter to take that trunk out of the alcove in Thomas Jefferson. Front, go and put down that window in Rutherford B. Hayes, and, here, take this whisky up to Abrakam Lincoln. Front, what's all that racket in James *Buchanan? Here, take these cigars to U. S. Grant, and turn off the gas in Grover Cleveland.” But I nearly fainted when he said: ‘Front, run a sofa into James A. Garfield, and take these two ladies up to George ‘Washington.’” “Mortal Caesar! Ha, ha, ha, ha!” roared Jabe. . “Doggone, if that ain’t funny, you fat cuss!”’ : : . When I quit them Mike had worn finger-marks on the side of the blackbottle, and Jabe had signed a verbal contract to go on the stage as the Juvenile’s dresser. ; I'm for the Reub hotel, strong. : Yours as always, ; i J. H. (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Co.)

Tale of the Far North. “Tell me your story, poor man,” said the kind housewife, as sh%handed out the saucer of stewed pruhes. . ‘“Well, lady,” began the weary was derer with a reminiscent sigh, “it was dis way. I was lost in de arctic regions. One morning as I was scouting around looking for me pals in de exploring ship I was chased by a polar bear. I shall never forget dat day. Hastily climbing a tree—" “But there are no trees in the arctic regions,” interrupted the dubious housewife, , “I meant iceberg, lady. Hastily climbing an iceberg, I discovered, to me horror, dat me ammunition was all gone. As I gazed at dat big bear me thoughts went back to de loved ones at home and de tears rolled out of me eyes as big as walnuts. As fast as dey fell dey froze hard as steei. Happy thought! I poured a pint of dem into me gun, blazed away and killed de bear., For ten long days I existed—" But the busy housewife had vanished. o ' ¢ The True Man. : Who is a true man? He who dows the truth, and never holds a principle on which he is not prepared in any hour to act, and in any hour to risk the consequences of holding It—= act of hanging out some glothes * Thoma« Carlyle. ]

BIRD SURPRISES ARE NUMEROUS

REDWINGED BLACKBIRDS IN CITY —WAR AMONG MATES THE RULE IN COURTSHIP. A BATTLE TO THE DEATH Chipping Sparrow a Doorstep Friend— Catbird’s Song—Eggs of Rarest Green—Other Facts and Anecdotes of Feathered Kingdom. : BY EDWARD B. CLARK. (Associate Member American Ornithologists’ Union.) (Copyright, Joseph B. Bowles.) * . There. aredaily surprises in store for every lover of birds. Surprise is the spice of field work. Things are set down in the books as rules, governing life in feathers, and, 10, a walk abroad in the morning will set the books at naught. ; It is impossible to put down one thing as an inviolable rule, for the birds will break it before it is dry on the paper. : . “Where can I find the red-winged blackbirds nesting?” a Chicago friend asked me recently. “You can’'t find them nearer than the stretches of the ‘Skokie swamp north of the city,” I answered, “the redwing never comes to town.” An hour later I found a pair of redwinged blackbirds building a nest within four blocks of my city home. The birds had preempted a bit of damp ground in what is known as the ‘“debatable land,” a tract claimed by Capt. Streeter on the one hand and by a score of millionaires on the other.

The redwings were constructing their nest in the rushes under the shadow of a Marconi wireless telegraph station. City streets hemmed in the site, hundreds of people were passing constantly, and yet Capt. Blackbird, with his orange and gold epaulets shiding on his shoulders and rmaking him a fair mark for the stones ' of every idle boy, hovered over the heads of intruders and called his “conk-er-ee” as blithely as though he were above the isolated swamp of the countryside. There is an interesting family today in the nest hidden in the rushes of that wet town lot. Some boy did find the father blackbird a shining mark, and the devoted creature is now helping his mate fill the mouths of the hungry family, while one of his legs, ‘broken by a stone from a slungshot, hangs dangling. Bird life is tull of tragedy. In the old nursery rhyme children are taught to believe that the “little birds in their nests agree,” and agree out of the nest as well.. The familiar ditty was written for its moral effect, and ’ it is true enough to stand solely for ' the good it may do, but it must be recorded, reluctantly enough by the way, that birds sometimes show what Englishmen call a “nasty” temper." : - Love and war always come together with the birds, and as the old saying makes all things fair in these two contingencies possibly we cannot blame the songsters for ‘“rowing” through the whole courtship season. The male birds do the fighting, while the charmer over whom they have waxed pugnacious looks on with apparent unconcern as to the outcome, and weds the victor linstanter. R. W. Hegner, while tramping afield recently -on bird photography intent,

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+aw a battle royél in midair. The adJjective is used advisedly, for the fighting birds were kingfishers. This bird is built something on the order of a battering ram. He is far from graceful, but the glory of his plumage goes a long way in the making up for lack of the lines of beauty in contour. The two kingfishers meeting in battle in Mr. Hegner's view fought viciously until finally one fell to the earth with a wing broken by a powerful blow from his antagonist’s beak. A broken wing for a kingfisher means death. His means of livelihood are gone with his means of flight. :

Smoking and the Smoker. It is passing strange that, with all the experience at command, the physiologists are never in agreement as to the effects of the smoking habit. Even where lay opinion has been fairly well established by the apparently well digested views of the scientists with respect to certain phases of the whole problem, they are wholly liable to upsetting by the latest opinion. For example, two considerations have long been thought to be determined—that moderate indulgence in tobacco need not be denied, and that the lad not out of his ’teens would better abjure tobacco altogether. It may be asserted that man is not a smoker by nature; and certain effects of tobacco .seem to indicate, without especial argument, that the longer the acquirement of the habit is postponed the better for the human system. At the same time the remote antiquity of the tobacco plant suggests that it is one of nature’'s unassisted growths; and, it it were no! designed for man to enjoy in security, neither is it at all clear that it is to be classed with natuye’s malign proeductions.—Providence Journal : S

Stricken as was the kingfisher, his anger survived the stroke of his adversary, and in a picture taken of him after the battle he still showed in raised crest and bristling feathers the passion in his heart. : It is feared that the royal race of kingfishers is doomed to extinction. Man in the utter selfishness of his nature begrudges the bird the few fish which it catches for the appeasing of its appetite, and man frequently shoots it on sight. If the same rule were. to be applied to every fish-lov-ing man, woman and child it would take but a few Fridays to depopulate the earth. It may be set down fairly that the men most anxious for the death of the fish-loving birds are the men who drag seines and dynamite streams

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when the fish warden's back is turned. : There is a .little chestnut-crowned resident of both city and country who will become just as familiar as his neighbor, man, will permit. The chip-

T e G B Tt TN T Bkl A L AR T L T #‘s} f:’ L LESREE . O Ve R L i g e i R B o R SRR S R R R U LSRN s 4 e GE Ll R B R v R T I e RO P N P L P g “ P s CF P VGRS e G ST S R S ol N O SO A s S S S S s S R Sl R S O S TR R s Y g s e % g’a%&‘ SRR e R S S N ) L e @»‘j A S ’b - TR L T s R Catbird, Nest and Eggs. ping sparrow (Spizella socialis) is a doorstep friend, and if you will but train a vine over the piazza he will there take up his home and eat of

the crumbs that fall from your table. Pick up the crumbs and offer them in your hand and “chippy,” after your intentions are known to be honorable, will make a perch of your finger and eat from your palm. The chippy is a good summer acquaintance. No house-bred canary is morc fearless of man’s presence. The bird will leave its seed hunting in the lawn grass and come at your call. The chippy is a gleaner of the ground, where its dun-colored coat makes it inccnspicuous. Weed seeds are its diet, but it loves bread for dessert. There is a charm about the bird’s

GIANTS’ CAUSEWAY

Great Natural Wonder of Ireland Being Quarried Away. . “The famous ‘Giants’ Causeway’ in the north of Ireland is suffering the fate of the New Jersey Palisades overlooking the Hudson, for it is in the hands of stone-merchants,” says the American Antiquarian. “A consignment of 200 tons of the basaltic columns comprising the causeway has recently been shipped to Philadelphia. It will be asked whether there is no power in Ireland to protect the causeway. Although at one time it was supposed to be the work of the giants who abounded in Ireland, and to whom a piece of construction about a furlong in length would be child’s play, it is not in a legal sense an ancient monument. The Irish courts decided that the stones belonged to a company, and since that time the causeway or pler cannot be seen without payment. It may therefore be assumed that the disposal of the basalt is a legal transaction. America i 3 fast becoming a

domestic relation. It divides its food with its mate if it happéns‘to run across some particularly’ delectable tid-bit which it thinks may not have come in the way of its season's partner. ’ : The chipping sparrow lines its nest with horse. hair, the hair from tail or mane. This habit gives the sparrow in some sections of the country the name of hair bird. There = have come under 2ur own observation scores of chipping sparrows’ nests, and I have yet to see one which was not lined in with the material named, but if it should be declared that the bitd never varies in its choice of home finishing material some patient observer would be sure to stumble across an exception to weaken the rule, -Once upon a time there were no horses in

America, and what spizela socialis. used then for its house can only be a matter of copjecture. ° The power of heredity is shown strongly -in the selection of building material by the birds. Possibly the most remarkable case in point is that of the great-crested fly-catcher (Myiarchus crinitys)...- TRis bird is a noisy summer resident of the northern, tier of states. 1t builds its nest in " a hollow tree, often occupying the hole excavated by a woodpecker. Almost invariably the nest is lined with the. cast-off skin of a snake. The young flycatchers are hatched in.the dark. They probably can't see what it is which forms their warm bed. They are led into the light of day, and fed for awhile. e A

Then they are turned loose to shift for themselves. The next spring when the -yearling flycatchers mate the first thing they do is to search the country for a snake skin, and they are “not happy till they get it.” What is it that puts the snake skin idea into their heads? The search for the answer is likely to be longer than the search of the birds for nest lining in a snakeless country. . The catbird is held in contempt by some of the thoughtless ones. Possibly its name is against the bird. It is our garden friend, however, a patient and tireless warrior in the army battling against the insect pests. The catbird is soberly dressed in the main, and as if in shame of its one bright touch of plumage it hides the offending red feathers beneath its tail. What a singer is our catbird! His rolling succession of notes would be well-nigh matchless did he not mar the performance with an occasional querulous catlike tone. “In the midst of its music it sometimes cries meouw,” as a versifier puts it. If our friend would consent to cut out a bar or two of his music he would be the rival as -a solist of his cousin the mocking bird. b ;

r Cultivate the catbird. I know one man who has eight pairs of the birds ' nesting this summer on his few acres. of ground. He wishes the number were ;» trebled. The bird nests usually in the very heart of a thick growing bush, though it occasionally selects a tree. . We hear much of robin-egg blue, and art has succeeded in reproducing the color fairly well, but there is a fortune for the man who will put a green upon the market that has the true hue of the egg of the catbird. It is of all the greens of nature a thing apart. Its beauty is beyond that of sea, the grass and the emerald. To ‘call the egg gemlike is to belittle its beauty. And how the bird guards its treasure. Approach it ever so carefully and the alert father and mother challenge you and your intentions. | Were it for nothing else than for its devotion to its home and its young the catbird should be beloved. I once saw a mother catbird, whose young were in a bush, fly against the muzzle of a pistol held in the hand of a boy whose murderous intention I had divined too late to-save the bird that in truth 'was-faithful unto death. : % ' EDWARD, B. CLARK. ‘

great museum, and it will be incomplete unless several of the natural as well as the artistic ° ‘curiosities’ of Europe are to be found here.” A Scotch Eagle. ° The other afternoon a full-grown golden eagle was captured in Rosshire under peculiar circumstances. Three surfacemen were employed at a section of .a new portion of the Highland line when they were attracted by the appearance of an eagle in a field three miles from Ardgay. On being approached the bird offered a fierce resistance with beak and talons. The men threw their jackets over it, one holding its head enveloped in the jacket while the others tied its legs. The bird was secured alive without much injury. It is seven feet one inch from tip to tip of wi.ngs.] | Eagles, it is said, cannot rise from ‘the grouhd owing to their immense spread of wings and comparatively ‘short legs. They require pinnacles, bowlders or steep precipices ere they ‘can soar.—Westminster Gazettte,”

- FIVE MCONTHS IN HOSPITAL. Discharged Because Doctors Could Not Cure. Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave, Anoka, Minn., says: “Afterlying for . five months in a ;-:\, hospital I was adisP s 1 charged as incglrB e \\‘ able, and given only . BUge= @ six months to live. &, 7 3] My heart was affectY /‘,“f“ / ed, I had smother- : '?4/'/. ing spells and some- \ \ times = fell uncon- " e N Scious. I got so I RN \4' \" couldn’t "’Ussoe my R\ \‘ M \\ arms, my eyesight s was impaired and the kidney secretions were badly disordered. I was completely worn out and discouraged when I began using Doan’s Kidney Pills, but they went right to the cause of the trouble and did their work well. I have been feeling well ever since.” " Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.

‘ HARD TIMES, INDEED. S\ A ot LN ' T"L ~ ‘ . S KW e |' | v A : : ! ] % 4 : & ‘\; ; 4 “Poor man! 5o you are a victim of the late financial panic?” - “Yes, lady. You see, folks along de route is too poor now ‘ter hand out free grub!” ~~ SHE COULD NOT WALK For Months—Burning Humor on Aniklea —Opiates: Alone Brought Sleep . =—Eczema Yielded to Cuticura. “I had eczema for over two years. I had two physicians, but they only gave me relief for a short time and I cannot enumerate the ointments and lotions-I used to no purpose. My ankles were one mass of sores. The itching and burning were so intense that I could not sleep. I could not walk for nearly four months. One day my husband said I had better try the Cuticura Remedies. After using them three times 'I had the best night’s rest in months unless I took an opiate. [ used one set of Cuticura Soap, Ointment, and Pills, and my ankles healed in a short time. It is now a year/since I used Cuticura, and there has been no retarn of the eczema. Mrs. David Brown, Locke, Ark.,, May-18 and July 13,.1907.” ;

, Mother’s Accomplishment. In the Bohemian set of New York two of the popular members are a well known writer and his wife, who also has written several books. They have a daughter about four years old. Recently: the little girl was visiting at the home of a friend and her small playmgie asked her: “Can your mamma sew?”’ The daughter of the literary pair evidently was a bit chagrined. She could not remember that she had ever seen her mamma sew. She is a truthful child and would not claim any advantages she was not sure of, yet she felt that mamma’s honor was at stake. “I don’t know if mamma can sew,” she replied, dubiously, “but she can smoke a cigarette.”

Strictly Fresh Eggs. There are summer resorts, remote from any agricultural: communities, where fresh farm products are even harder to obtain than in the city. It was at -such .a place that the new boarder, who had eaten four or five breakfasts there, began to wonder why the eggs were invariably served fried. : “See here?” he inquired one morning of the genial colored man who waited upon him, “why do you always fry eggs here? Don’t .you ever boil them?” ’ “Oh-oh, yes, sah!” responded the waiter, pleasantly. “Of co’se, yo’ kin have ’em boiled, if yo’ wants ’em. - But you know, sah, yo’ takes de risk!”

. ALMOST A SHADOW. . Gained 20 Ibs.' on Grape-Nuts. - There’s a wonderful difference between a food which merely tastes good and one which builds up strength and good healthy flesh. z It makes no difference how much we eat unless we can digest it. It is mot really food to the system until it is absorbed. A Yorkstate woman says: 3 ' ! “I had been a sufferer for ten years with stomach and liver trouble, and had got so bad that the least bit of food such as I then knew, would give me untold misery for hours after eating. : : “I lost flesh until I was almost a shadow of my original self and my friends were quite alarmed about me. “First -1 dropped coffee and used Postum, then began to use Grape-Nuts although I had little faith it would do me any good. . : “But I continued to use the food and have gained twenty pounds in weight and feel like another person in every way. I feel as if life had truly begun anew for me. “l can eat anything I like now in moderation, suffer no ill effects, be on my feet from morning until night. Whereas a year ago they had to send me away from home for rest while others cleaned house for me, this spring I have been able to do"it myself all alone. . h . “My breakfast is simply Grape-Nuts-with cream and a cup of Postum, with sometimes an egg and a piece of toast, but generally only Grape-Nuts and Postum. And I can work until noon and not feel as tired as one hour's work would have made me a year ago.”. “There’s a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle "Juraek. Mich. Read, “The Road to Welk ville,” in pkys. e < : “Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of humam Fe S egoAR SN R eRe R ST AN B RTRE T b TR