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Mocking Bird and Robin
To the South the mocking bird Is
what the robin Is to the North. He Is
known as fa r north as British Colum
bia, but Is seldom found nesting there,
while those found In the southern
United States live there the year
round, writes a contributor to "Bird
Lore.”
The female builds her nest the la tte r
part of March, lays her greenish-blue
eggs, speckled with brown, early In
A pril, and by May the eggs are
hatched.
A second brood Is often
reared by the same pair of birds. The
mocking bird’s hack la nshen gray, his
wings a brownish tinge with a large
white patch, and his throat Hnd outer
ta il feathers are white, with the under
parts brownish white.
I t Is when the mocking bird works
himself up Into a passion of song that
one realizes the wonder of his voice.
H e Imitates the sounds of the woods
and the other birds, but he Improves
on them.
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then the goat (fo r Its domestic value), •
and after that the donkey as n fine
olfslder. The camel performs won
ders In endurance and reliability amid
big distances. The Importance of the
goat Is great In the scheme of things.
There is no fam ily without a goat
herd. Like the camel, It Is marvelous
what they live on. Amusing Incidents
often occur connected with the ex
traordinary appetite of the goat, which,
so far as food is concerned, has no
fastidious habits.
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Quite a Bright Idea
A well-known author on leaving hl«
house one morning forgot a letter he
had Intended to mull. During the a f
ternoon something reculled It to Ills
mind, and ns ll was of considerable
Importance lie hurried home.
The letter was nowhere to be
found.
H e summoned the servant. “Have
you seen anything of a letter of min«
lying about?”
"Yes, sir."
"W here Is It?"
"Mailed, sir."
“M ailed! Why, there wss no name
or addreis on the envelope."
" I know there wasn't, sir, hut 1
thought it m.1st be In answer to one
of them anonymous letters you’ve beet
get.aig lately."
Old American Roadway
The old Hpanlsli road, built across
Mexico In the Sixteenth century, la be
lieved to be the oldest road on the
North American continent. I t was
built In the form of a letter “T ," with
the lower point of the steam atartlng
at Vera Cruz on the gulf. The north
ern prong touches the Pacific at San
Bins and the southern tip at Acapulco.
Because of this road the weal-hound
convoys from the Philippines were
spared
the
dangeroua
navigation
around Cape Horn. There la still evi
dence that this old trull was used by
the Indians before the Spaniards
broadened It from a pack-mule path to
a highway.
Don’t Be Too Hasty
Courtesy Among Kaffirs
Africa when one hears n nntive
say to Ills departing guests:
inha garble" (On In |>enee) nnd
respnnae of the guest. ‘ Lula
le" (Ke«t In i<eace) It Is lisrd to
line on« self siuoag untamed sav-
— If one keeps ones eyes closed,
courtesy jM-cullar to the native
ran Is hla manner of receiving
Ihe most trilling gift. No mat-
how small the object, he receives
i both hands cupped together like
wl. T l i B. Jt Is mtf’ I cxpresilve.
The prem ium list for the 1114
D a iry and Hog Show la out and dis
trib u tio n w ill s ta rt soon.
Certain plants, like certain people,
require strong foods.
Not satisfied |
with the nourishment derived from th e ,
soil, they require flesh and blood. Such
plants exist by the consumption of In
sects and small animals, and are to be
found In bogs and marshes In tropical
countries. All carnivorous plants are
endowed with a sense of taste, and a
tasty morsel of meat Is speedily d e-,
voured ! The side-saddle plant, found '
In parts of America, sets w ater traps
for its victims. This plant holds up I
to the sunlight vase-llke leaves, around '
the mouths of which are glands thnt
secrete honey. Tempted by the scent,
the Insects make their way across the
leaves to the mouth of the p la n t; far
ther and farther they wander down the
tube, looking for the honey. Detentlve
hairs prevent tlie lr exit nnd, tired and
weary, they eventually fall into the
pool secreted at the bottom of the leaf.
The common sundew captures dragon
flies and ants. Attracted by the gum
my appearance of the rosy leaves, the
feet o f the visitors become securely
fixed to the gum, and the red tentacles
close In on the unwary Insects.
N orthern Lights
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Mine Ifrought Wealth
Return to Simplicity
to Fortunate Mexican
Pacliucn, capital of the state of H i
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! dalgo, Mexico, la one of the world's
greatest nnd most famous mining ren
ters, according lo a bulletin of the
National Geographic society. One of
Pnrhuca's silver lutnes, the Heal del
Monte, contained the counterpart of
Nevada’s famous Comstock lode.
> An Inconspicuous muleteer bemme
the owner of the Paehucs’s mine In
17.30, when Its value was unknown.
Ills pick opened np a bonanza vein
' snch as seldom has been uncovered.
’ Bonn he wss n m ultim illionaire. In a
| day when even millionaires were rare.
He presented several fully equipped
war«hl|>s to the king of Spain and
for his happy thought was made a
count—Conde de Manta M arla de
Regia.
The famous mine came to a tragic
end so«>n a fter the count's rise to for-
tnne. by Ihe bursting Into It o f a sub-
terra nisi n river,
its drowned rlrhea
remained untouched until near the
middle of ihe Nineteenth century,
when efforts to reopen It by British
engineers led to frenzied speculation
and n crash among London Investors
rivaling Ihooe nt Ihe .Mississippi huh
hie. Ix x a t Pachncnn» bought up the
bankrupt company nnd promptly found
a second bonanza vein even richer
than the first.
M A IS T O O WATTS SHOWS—
1 — TKT THE HEKALD WART ADS—
People who complain about the In
crenslng burdens o f life do not always
use plain, common sense to ease them
selves of these burdens. W e do not
have to have many of the things thnt
we now enjoy nnd pay for. It might
not seem easy or pleasant to sacri
fice some of these encumbrances, but
we could do It.
More frugal fare at the table, with
t smaller variety of viands, la one
way. Another Is the wearing of clothes
a little longer than the arbiters decree
Then there are the places of amuse
men! that claim our too-frequent at
tendance.
And how many other form« o f In
dulgence there are that have no real
purp«»ae to serve, the lack of which
our fathers never seemed to find a dep
rivation.
Sim plify your life. Quit paying the
tax on exeesa baggage that adds no
single benefit. Ik i It openly and above
hoard an a frank confession that you
cannot afford to do otherwise, and not
with the half-nshsmed s ir of one who
Is apologising for being alive.— Roches
ter T lm es-l’nlon.
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Ws live In the sun and on the sur
face— a thin, plausible, superficial ex
istence— and ta lk o f music and prophet,
of art and creation. But out of our
shallow and frivolous way o f life, how
can greatness ever grow? Come now,
let us go and be dumb. Let us sit with
our hands on our mouths, a long, aus
tere, Pythagorean lustrum. L et us live
In comers, and do chores, and suffer,
and weep, nnd drudge, w ith eyes nnd
hearts that love the Lord. Silence, se
clusion, austerity, may pierce deep Into
grandeur and secret of our being, and
so «living, bring up out o f secular dark
ness the sublimities of the moral con
stitution. How menn to go blazing, a
gaudy butterfly, In fnshlonnble or po I
litical salons, the fool of society, the
fool o f notoriety, a topic for newspn
pern, a piece of the street, and for
feiting the real prerogative of the rus I
set coat, the privacy, and the true nnd
warm heart of the citizen ¡— Emerson.
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STANDARD
SEPT. 19-20-21"
Prof. I-nrs Vegard, attached to
Christiania university, by assuming
that frozen nitrogen is responsible foi
the beautiful greenish hue that pre
ceded any outbreak of the northern
lights, has dissipated the mystery ol
the green hue that has always been
unexplained by scientific men. The
scientific world has not entirely ac
cepted his assumption, but regards It
ns more satisfactory as an explana
tion than the old theory that certain
luminous gases caused thia exception
ally beautiful effect just before the
fantastic flashes.
Superficial Existence
Silly Idea, Don’t You Know I
The trouble with the mentality tests
Is that they g:n.l.« intelled according
to menial agility and cunning. Outside
of geniuses, the highest grade of brain
Is slow thinking.
I f you have ever
consulted a white-bearded philosopher,
you know that the oracle hears your
cnee, ponders It with deliberation,
Tlews It from ell nnglee. then in a
terse sentence utters the decision of
wisdom. The fust thinker arrives at
wrong conclusions o fb uer than the
alow thinker.— Topeka Capital.
Plants Set Traps
for Unwary Insects
Friday :: Saturday :: Sunday
Pepsin Has Rival
Oregon. Eumene. O r efan
8ome curious facta with respect to
the capacity for fasting as exhibited
by various animals are cited by Sleg-
mund Crabin In the Umchau (F ran k
fu r t), according to the Detroit News.
He begins by observing:
“The power of the camel to do with
out taking food Is regarded In most
works on zoology as representing sci
entific peculiarities of animals. But If
there were a general knowledge of the
ability of many animals to fast for
very long periods of time these In
stances would not be so overem
phasized.
It Is, Indeed, generally
known that even mammals are able to
fast for months during their w inter hi
bernation, but It seems to be almost
unknown that the same power exists
among the lower animals. The power
of fasting Is much more widespread In
them than was formerly supposed."
M r. Crabin then refers to an experi
ence of his youth when he put certain
snails which hnd already withdrawn
Into their shells and closed the opening
thereof, as Is their custom. Into a box,
whereuixin he forgot them for a period
of more than a year and a half. He
supposed they were Inevitably dead,
but when he put them Into a vessel
filled with water, much to his surprise,
they came out of their shells and
crawled gaily about on the table.
PL A Y H O U SE
Pepsin, the digestive substance de
rived from the pig and largely used by
medical men In treating cases of di
gestion. finds a rival In pharmacy in
“papain.” a digestive ferment isoliited
from the Juice of the half-ripe fru it of
the papaw tree. This substance ts
said to digest fibrin and albumen more
readily than pepsin docs. The fru it Is
sometimes made Into Jam, though the
necessary boiling would probably kill
the digestive ferments. Anglo-Indians
say that a tough steak becomes tender
when placed for a few minutes be
tween two slices of papaw fru it, or
even placed near a papaw tree.
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Abraham.
It Is a roadless country a
traversed only by camel caravan and a
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has been the camel which has held a
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The man in the dock was a regular
customer at the local police court and
he hnd spent quite ns much time In-
aide Jail ns out. His particular line
was breaking Into shops of the small-
er tradespeople In the early hours of
the morning. On this ocrnslon he was
charged with breaking into a Jewel-
er'a shop, and ns he stood In the
dock with a constable on either aide
the maglslmte asked:
“Any witnesses?"
“ •Course not!" replied the accused
with a sneer. “ Why, you silly old
fool, do yon think tbet when I goes
out lo crack a crib I takes witnesses
with me?" bond m T l! Bits.
The t-rofraaiors1 schools of A rc h i
tecture and A llie d A rts — Business
Administration—Education—G rad
u ate S tudy— Jo urnalism — L a w -
M edicine— M u sic— Physical Edu
cation— Sociology— Extension
AH the clocks at the royal estate at
Bandrlagbain for more than half a
century have been kept half an hour fn
advance of standard time. The idea
was Introduced by the late King Ed
ward V I I when he was prince of Wales,
and was borrowed from a neighbor, the
late earl of Leicester, to whom at
Holkham. In the early days of their
married life, the then prince an 1
princess of Wales were frequent vis
itors. I t was the earl’s custom to keep
all the clocks at Holkham hall h alf an
hour fast to secure punctuality. So
punctuul was King Eihvard in keeping
his appointments that he gained the
reputation of “never being late.”— Lon
don MalL
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More hunting
for farmer and sportsman!
D o n ’t fa il to sen d fo r th is free b o o k , “H u n tin g P osted
P rop erty”. I t sh o w s y o u h o w farm er an d sportsm an can
g et togeth er to th e ir m u tu a l advantage.
Sp ortsm en sp en d m ore tim e h u n tin g fo r sh ootin g grannA»
th a n t h e y d o h u n t in g
gam e. M ore p m n errv 1«
b ein g possert e i:
T h is b o o k w ill h elp yo u
fin d m o r e a n d b e tt e r
sh ootin g. W rite for y ou r
cop y to d a y — i t ’s f r e e .
E L DU PONT
D E N E M O U R S « C O „ In c .
S p o r tin g P o e rrie r D ie it io n
W iL a iu g to u , D e l.
you.
Birds of the Night
Nighthawks nnd whippoorwills work
chiefly at night, when most other bird«
are off duty, and at daybreak theli
work Is tsken np by the swifts nn«1
swallows. These birds are provide«!
with big scoopnet mouths, and as they
swing through the a ir over wide area?
of country they aeoop up almost un
believable number« o f Insects.
Homing pigeons probably are closet
lo the human fam ily than any other
form of winged life. The birds have re
markable Intelligence. They mate It
pairs and the female of each union hat
exercised her right o f suffrage to th<
extent that the male helps her In
hatching out the eggs and In caring foi
and feeding the young.
Traced Tropical Scourge
The first Intim ation we had that yet
low fever was not a contagious dis
esse and that Ihe Infection wns dot
to some external cause, appeared dur
Ing Ihe occupation of Cuba.
It was In 1900 that surgeons ant
! soldiers of the United States army
at the risk of th eir lives, proved tha:
yellow fever, the supreme terror oi
the tropica, was not a contagious or I
flltli disease, but waa transmitted iron
one humaa being to another stdeiy bj
a niosquito of a particular type, Un
stegvmfta.
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