THE OREGON DAILY JOURWAU PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENINO, OCTOBER 0, 1008.
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PREMIER OF - PESTS IS
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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,
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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
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Tb Itch Gone, tb Skla Soothed a&4
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And -the itch is gone aa If by maglo,
Can you imagine how it .will feel-
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i ou can know the relief If you lust
try the simple remedy simplest of ex
ternal liquid remedies on or winter
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We positively know that it alleviates
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and guarantee it-i-for we have seen it
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Woodward, Clarke & Co.
These special agents endorse D. D. D.
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Johns; J.C Wyatt, Vancouver; Howell
& Jones, Oregon City.
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