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Newspaper Page TextTHE OREGON DAILY JOURWAU PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENINO, OCTOBER 0, 1008. 0 VJl J.1 J PREMIER OF - PESTS IS . ' . . (. ; . , ...... THE ENGLISH SPARROW Introduced at (Jroat Expense in the Jldpo Thut. Ife Would Eat ling:, He Has Shown - Himself a PI ; ; r rate and a (train Field Glutton. ' . By FREDERIC J. HASKIX. Cnpy1ht. 108 by Fredarlo J. Haalcln.) Woahlncton, Oct 10. It miiii In cradlbl that on small broau blrfl And Ma numerous family should be routing th United States mllllona of dollars yar. but that la what the KnglUh aparrow Ja doing. It Is- tha most ex- Ienslv peat the nation haa yet liaJ and tb harden to get rid of. There In vnrr little to ) said in Ha favor, Whar the vaat majority of the other bird In th country have proved to be of Invaluable aid to tha farmer, the Vnrllsh anarrow haa Droved an enemy. Oilier birds destroy noxious Inaecta, wMl Inaecta form a very email per rpntava of tha BDarrow'a bill of rarn. fitlmr hlrria eat weed aeeda In auch quantities that they nave millions of dollars lor the rarrner, wnue me en--llsh anarrow doea not cara for weeds 1 Trferrlnr arood araln and Brass aeeda. and only eata weed aeeda when others ar not available. - And not only doea It faU tha farmer and gardener In this Aspect.' but It drlvea away tha VHnful birda and haa made itself mil ter 01 me neia in many locauuea. alway clo". to the noma oi man,, tha aparrow la itaeir protectea Keeping man. tha anarrow la Itself t' from tha usual enemies that beset the . jiathwaye of birds. .' . JTo Jtc Sattid Xar. The English sparrow, has proved the most prolific breeder among tb menv bers pf.th. bird .world. Tha annual product of a ratr - averages about 24 nestlings. , Statisticians figuring on thla basis, and assuming that half of these . are male and half female, shows that If . all these and their offspring ahould live, in 19 years, the progeny of a alnela nalr -would be over 275.i00.009.000 iitrds.' , Happily for the nation there family peoti re disasters In tha anarrow that decrease this alarming ' proan .-' but nevertheless tha nurhber J large enough. In the recent bird 'survey of Illinois it was found that tha aummer population. -of English . sparrows ap proximated .600,000, and that thla pest Jormed 19 per cent or. tne Dira popu lation of that state. As it la now found in all the states, in more or less - varying : numbers. It Is safe to take . Illinois' population as an average and from that It will be seen that with a rontilble general bird population of ,414.000,000 in tha United States, ther-i are approximately ?p4, 000, 000 sparrows row . industriously destroying grain, fruit and shrubbery and driving away the birds that might protect these things. ' Importation a Hags Blunder. ! The Importation of this pert, brazen i - fellow was one of . the biggest mis takes ever made in this country. Soma misguided people of the northeastern elates raised money In 1850 to bring over some sparrows from Europe in the hone that they might eat the gipsy " moth and other, insect pests that were - destroying; valuable trees. - Tha example . of Europe lay befora-thesa- people, then as it does today,- and they might have ?iic)iBh narmw mrODerlv named the houaa aparrow. Is a city dweller, that will never lea va. the city for the coun try until li .nas Dean crowaea out oy - its kind. - Then it moves to some smal ler town :r..ity. U;;' ?: - .!' -Sparrowa, are not? jtbdva traveling by . train, and they, reached St. John, New Brunswick, in 1883 coming by train from the west. It is supposed that thev often roost In empty grain cars, and are sent out into other states or localities in the night. A number of towns in the United States hava re- ivif .uninvited colonies In this war. The new arrivals aeem to axperlenee jio homesickness when arriving In this ' v novel fashion, bu settle down to their noisy lives, apparently crawm wuu rew surroundings. The first that were Drought into New York, Maine. Rhode Island. Maesacnusetts, Connecticut, Tva Ohio Ppnnsvlvanla. Utah. Wis cousin and Iowa, came direct from Kurope. having been bought at a good ' rrlc and sometimes -having had spe cial messengers sent for them, -f rom points in these state they were first . aold into other states, sometimes for a dollar apiece, and when prices went u.p (t was Tniind cheaner to send to i-.uropn for them. Though they are prevalent all over Europe, tney were orougiu linra hleflv from England, hence the name--English sparrow. Instead or tlie proper name, house sparrow. ; j ' ' .A Ware of Destruction. " . 'Th directors of the Brooklyn instl tnte are said to be responsible for the first sparrowa nroygni over. in iowu they brought over eight "pairs, and in view of tne present sparrow popula tion ItMs interesting to note tnat mey were aealously oared for in specially designed cage. In the spring of. 1851 ' tli ey were liberated, but they didn't thriva. This is possibly the only rec- nt the kind in the history of tills "'pasaer domesticus" branch of the " " M-iarrow family. So In 1852 It was de ' tided to aend for more birds. Hon ' orabl Nlcholaa Pike, consul-general ;o Portugal, waa asked to attend to the jQuCter as ho went through England, and " $200-waa raised for the purchase and ' traveling expenses of the fancied blea fiings that were to be brought over. Tbeso were liberated the following and the old records state. "They til a mrll anrl multlrilied." and this may le said to be, in brief, the history of marrows ever since. utner eastern - iatp. fired bv New York's example. ' lirought in - houaa sparrows and since then they have awept acroea the -whole t -ountry, in arovea. y isbo iney wtru rstabllsbed in 36 states and five ter ritories, occupying an area of 885.000 aquara mues. nfiwwn ioi nu hj they spread at tha rate of 69,000 square miles a year. It has sermed easier to ! check a Chelsea fire or an Ohio valley Philadelphia, unwilling to do things on a niggardly basis even in those days, i- brought over the biggest Importation vr made a thousand at one time, it la possible that the regret la the big inth Uiianer tjiiy ever riwriemra At any rate, there was some attempt to get even, for In 1KSS sparrows were reed Diria in tne remaurani mn The next year New York Indirectly got - fck a little of the-several hundred dol- lara aoerit In brioglng them In, for In - Albany thev were selllna In the mar ' kete for 11 a hundred or 26 centa per . , Way Sparrows) Stay ,1a Towaa. This aparrow peat. Ilka a prairie fire, fa bard to slop whan enre atarted. Tr"r ! M'tnplila, for mtampl. In the fall of 1IT1 Colonel C J. Belden brought la tbrca palra and aa no other Impor- . tatloa waa made, and It waa too far for I ham to migrate direct rrom other cttiee at ma early a date, the present numer vrtflea the aaertion lliat they are thrifty, hardy and prolific multipliers. Ftratb?, Caaada, bought 12 In 1174 I U apleca. and 15 year latrr the mar who Imported them modeetly ad ranted that if tboaa tben in Ms rlty 1 rr all ' dwaeeaded from hla original ft,r. a ad wars alx worth 1 1 each, he ut. st be aulta a mllllnnalr. ilundrola of year f etperlence have taught TliM aparrvwa that the elr iry rlay ta tnjin and Ma habitations t h safer they are. Tbey hao latxel t t out -ta th fwata. tha flalda and mwa them are larking aftrikaa, ni l.aaka that trill fry ao taem. -4iy knot 11 Jv al l t ther ,!- and Itretek IWIr ImnM fa ttoe t .t'ri , ite tarn ritiward n4 a rae v1T rt rf H 1 r- , ty -a TSea aara ee iaM tai;(it tha I twareaft t n tf,t mJ rf Ir tn l. t imhi la aot warti cm ''.a. destroying a grain field, another saw a chattarlnaT colony of them destroy thousand of bud a In an orchard In a few days, another noted that tliay were scratching up grasa seed and garden aeed. another saw them mutilating a flowering ahrub.. another noted the dam age done the vines and traea where they had been roosting, another found tha at tic of his bouse half filled with straw and feathers a mass of inflammable material plied there fur nests by the In dofatlgahle sparrows. Then public otdnl'in ana awakened to the fact that a a pes Is tha sparrow war among the worst. r In order to give them a chance, n member of the biological survey of the department or agriculture collected a great mass of information soma years ago, rrom an parte or tue country where the aparrow had than spread, and of sparrowa had hoped of them might MORE I FOB J. I ROUBLE FORI Itouker-l'olitician Is Again JtapjM'd Hard by Chicago business Man. weighed all evidence carefully to see if th great good the early importers not still be true. After carefully com piling all the facta obtained, the orni thologist said: "As a great lover of birds, I am nat urally Inclined to be mild when cen suring their misdeeds but tha experi ence of this soring haa demonstrated mora clearly tbjn aver before that leni ency towardCi houaa aparrow would Since Then evidence has been accumu lating against sparrows from upper Florida to Puget sound, from Manitoba to Texaa, from Georgia to California, reports prove them to be of great hin drance and little help. Their insectiv orous habita are said to be ouite cred itable, ao far aa they go, but aa Inaecta make up only two per cent of their rood, that doesn't do much good. Aa fron 74 to 80 per cent of the retaining food Is good gtaln. it leaves but a small percentage of weed seeds tor them to eat. and so. as an aid to the farmer they are worse than useless the per. centaga of grain being against them. . . Method of Destruction. Various 'methods have been resorted to Jh order to "destroy the English apar rows. They have been trapped, killed and poisoned, but as a species, they. Ilka Banquo's ghost "will not down.' In an old report It Is urgently- advised that sparrows be eaten - as food, the statement being that many people .eat them daily as rice birds, anyway' when rice birds-- are not even in shipping dis tance, and further recommend . that in the cities they be caught and coop-fed for awhile on meal' and -oatmeal, as one doea with chickens. In some states anarrona" ara nrn. fee ted by law; in others bounties have been offered for their , removal. The wariness of these clever creatures, their hardihood and the. radditv with whlr h they Increase, make, their decimation a laborious process. ' Purine' 18 the American Society of Bird. Restorers In augurated a crusade against them on Boston Common, where 20 had been carefully released and nurtured in 1868 and another 20 In 1869. A ruthless war was waged on them for nearly 30 days. Six men devoted their entire time to the task, and in that time plugged up 6,006 . nesting holes, destroyed 4.000 nests, and broke-1,000 eggs. They de stroyed no birds, but where 600 pairs had before been noted, they eaw only 200 or 800 palra after their crusade. Since thla rproved so effective, it haa befcn recommended- a the best fashion In which to rid the nation of Its great est feathered pest. ' -. . .. - . i lly John E. LathMT Chlcaao. 111. Oct. 0. Another angry rieiuialtiir wrote a letter litre 10 jani" 6. Forgan. pronldent of th" Klrat Na tional bank, protesting agonal Mr. Koraana interview in the JtecorJ-Her- ald to the effect that Bryan's election would cauaa apprehension among bual- lieaa man. Tha letter ray Ij4ir lr: At the club t.irtav. I waa shown a carbon copy of a letter written by one of your depositor-, protesting against your campaign --r rrignienms bunlneK m-n and depositors by assert ing that llrvana election Would mean Scarry a depoalt balance of 17.600 In your bank. My paper never went to ...A,..i vi ,v,nn( never haa been overdrawn. My redlt la flrat clasa e m ln k,i4 I have the right to address you. Tou and I -have a common bond, that or banker and depositor, that of the onu who entruata to ona who accepts the trust. ' Asjrered by Znteiriaw. I.waa aninred by your interview in the Record-Herald, aa waa ray" friend who lunched with me today. I wis busy- and did not think of answering It- But his action prompts me to say a few things to you In a tone equally erAnir that emnlovad bv mv friend and fellow depositor. Mke him, and according to hla advice, I refrain rrom overdrawn. My n - with you. Your caahler aeema '";y' to b glad to accept notea bearing tht algoature of my firm, uf which I an: Impeadlnr dlsaatarT To talk auch rot aa you did la your liilervlxwr fraaome November I to have paaaad. and Hryan alaeiad. . W hat a III you aay tUonf Will you aay that you were r.xilingT will you tell tha paotla that ming is ail rigniT will you ad everything la all right T viae ioii your baiikT llow will you be able t offset tha errert or your itacord-lierald (al ruentT 1, for on of your depositors, go I you lb oaornlug of Nuvvuibar i, aa ask: 'Mr. rorgan. I bav roony la your bank. You aay bualneaa ia bound lo drop off badly, now that Jti-yan haa aen elartad. What would, you advlao me to dol Mr bualneaa ia In auch con dition that J rannot afford to take risks of bavins mv 'money tied uu. Can you aaaura mr ard Jolt. What would von aav? Would vou not be compelled lo aay that you feared that ntatteia were unpromising? Could you reaaaura me If I ware thua frlsht- ned. without giving the lie to your former statement! what are you. anyway? A politician or bankerT la a political banker the sort In theae troublous tlmea to In spire highest confidence in his depos itors! Haven t we had enough or mix lug politic and banking? I .el ma warn vou to aenarate vnur bank from politick. It' dangerous not to do ao. Vou are entitled to your1 irivata political vlewa. Just aa I am. lut you hava no right to use the pow- PERSIANS TIRE OF SELF RULE Exerciso of Suffrage Poos Not Particularly Appeal to Fatalists. : BERKELEY NURSE, i , If ANQS HERSELF - (Called rrM teaiwd Wlr. , BarkIr. CaL. Oct 10. las Eihal B. Buttimer, lormarly aura At tha RooMVlt hospital, hanged haraelf with t trunk rope to a beam in tb bath-room at ; bar rldD0 : Sunday afternoon. Th new waa auppraaaed by tha deputy ooronar until laat night. Tha coroner's offlo ha been aakad by th nolle department to explain why deato waa kept a eeoret .ana it i probable that aaveral deputle may loa their lieada aa th result of th In quiry. , TU girl' body waa found awlntlag lo a beam In I lie bath-room Ut rluuday afternoon- Hha iiadj previously told s . era frlanda In ii tiooaavait huaintal that aha wished aha were dead. Mar. I leltera from a young man named "Will." at Nap, whl.-l, rinatn4 uun wered, are auopoavd to have aum. thing to do with the aulrlde. , Two let tar algned 'Will", Intimating that tha writer dl 4 not car ao much for bar aa fortaarly, war found, lo lb girl r. (ota. i , .... - . , Tha capacity f tha Atlantic eablea Is loo.OOO.ouO worda annually. Only !, 000,000 are aent. . . . I don't know, but ear that you might make It unhealthy appending ray name. re for me In a business way were I do so. Thla is my statement: Tou know the utter aosurauy oi our statement a well as I do. Tou now that you ara fooling . with fir: that you are likely to accomplish more than vou inienaea 10 sore some, pert . . man,, V. 1 1 fVi mM Intn f rvnl I H nunla and lnflama the cubllo mind ao aa to imperil Dusiness n urjsn is eioci- ed. as isn't improoaoie. Whl is the beat way to insdre 4 return of business activity? To pub-r jish blatant . proclamations of alleged TEA There's plenty of hum bug: in tea; not one ounce in a ton Schilling's Best. Year grecar rerara rear If rea stool lUU!-wy him. ' (Calr.4 rraa Uaaag Wlra.) Teheran. Persia, Oct. 10. Tha peopla of Persia ara ahowlng little lntert In tha preliminary elections authorised by th shah or In tb prypact of a i-srsian pariiamani. wnicn will con vene within a month. The populace show general disappointment with , tha result of their elruggla for auffrag. Th ahah'a nroclamatloa nrohlblt as- tlvlty by th aujoumen and prescribe that the constitution shall conform with th laws of Islam. In the ahah'a reacrlnt nolltlcal au tonomy la refused to th Inhabitants or Tabrls until order In that city i reatorao. er engendered by tb aggregate pf all or our deposit in such a partlaan move ment a that now planned to prepare to create conditions which may' get away rrom you ana endanger our money. Mr. For ran, pleaaa remember the iblnga. Tha damage may already be ona by your talk to that nawapaper reporter; but in tb future don't for- Est I apeak to you a one at present ound to you aa hereinbefore Indi cated. . Tours, ato. CURES ECZEMA, , - - f o.ACHE,TEITER ETC Tha km u tn Index to the quality or the tlood. Ectema, Acne, Tetter, pimplee, raahes, emptions, etc., ahow that tome unhealthy humor or ad J Impurity is diseajinjj and corTuptlDg the circulation, ao that Instead of anrplrinsr nourishment and strenjrthto the fine, delicate tissues of the skin. it is continually pouring- out its acrid and unhealthy accumulations. External applications of salves, washes, lotions, etc, may relieve some of the itchinsr and other discomfort caused by skin troubles, and for this reason should be used, but such treatment cannot reach the humor-laden blood,. . . , . a a. i . . I . . i i l . , . , ana inerejorsj caunoi cure. a. inorouga cicanBinjf or me Diooa isineonjy cure for ski a diseases. 8. S. S., a purely vegetable preparation, is the best and quickest remedy. " It goes down into the circulation and neutralizes and removes the acids impurities and humors, thoroughly purifies the circulation and permanently xures t akin diseases of every kind. Wnerj S. S. S. has driven the humors and 'imparities from the blood, and cooled and cleansed the acid-heated circulation,' every symptom passes away, the akin is again nourished with rich, healthful blood and the trouble cured, as the cause has been removed. Book on akin diseases and any medical advice treetxiaU who write. . TH SWIFT. SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, 0JL INSTANT RELIEF FROM ITCH Tb Itch Gone, tb Skla Soothed a&4 Bef r sbad Immadiataly . - " ' - ' Instant Relief from that Itch. -A few drops of & soothing liquid And -the itch is gone aa If by maglo, Can you imagine how it .will feel- that itching-agony - swept a-war in a moment? Just a drop or two- on the" skin and no mora of that torturing, endt less, nerve-racking itch. i ou can know the relief If you lust try the simple remedy simplest of ex ternal liquid remedies on or winter green as compounded in 'D. D. D. Pre. scrlption. i We positively know that it alleviates the Itch immediately we vouch for thla and guarantee it-i-for we have seen it used in too many cases; ana tne cures that follow, aa far aa we know, are per manent. SkMmore Drug Co., 161 Third St, Woodward, Clarke & Co. These special agents endorse D. D. D. Prescription; St.1. 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