and at the same time determined to the winter birds are fond of both nuts
Investigate the diabolical agencies at and suet. No one need ever waste old
work to destroy the happiness of my or rancid nuts. The birds will be
home and family.
glad to get them.
I told the driver to follow my wife's Another Illinois correspondent says:
cab, and at the end of Its destinaUon “Last fall I hung a birdfood shelf at
to stop about a square behind. He our south window and early each morn
If you like it, pay for it after trying it three months. If you
followed these instructions and after ing put cracked nuts, suet and bird
a long, noisy ride over the rough seed on it. Several tufted titmice
don't like it, stop it at our expense and no questions asked.
cobbles, halted abruptly and opened visited it the first morning. In a day
the cab door for me
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alight.
I or two snow-birds and chickadees came
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paid him and dismissed the cab, and as
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a doorway down about the middle of crowned sparrow and a red bellied
class of people who are interested in social, industrial, commercial
the next square, made for that di- woodpecker were constant visitors all
It was during a Dam roach engage woman that was leading me on. She recti on.
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winter, often coming several times a
ment in Chicago that I happened to go had thrown aside her opera cloak and
It is inspiring, hopeful, encouraging, presenting the splendid op
My
heart
gave
a
bound
as
I
hur
day.
A
mocking
bird
came
until
the
to the theatre one evening. I was reclined on a divan, her golden hair rled up the steps to ____
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the
door
I
had
portunities
awaiting energy and ambition in the undeveloped agri
middle
of
December,
making
in
all
alone, as my wife had not been going gleaming against the crimson drapery, seen her enter. By some lucky chance
nine kinds of birds. These birds all
cultural regions of the West, the industrial and com riRrcial sections
out since the death of a relative. The her dark eyes holding two points of it
was
unlatched,
and
I
walked
Into
of the East, in the Northwest, the Southwest, on the Coast and
audience was a music-loving one, and fire in their expanded pupils, like some the house. Great Heavens! The same enjoyed the fresh fat pork I nailed to
during the third act as I strolled into Eastern enchantress under whose spell rich hangings, the divan with its crim a nearby tree.”
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somewhere
in
the
house
and
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the heavy, closed doors were more ture to bo worshipped, who could in paused
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and encouraging articles. Special departments of in
turn to my seat, however, when I no powerful. I thought of the historical in breathless expectation a while long
terest to all *Ae family.
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She paused doubtfully a half sec The effects of the drugging had passed I drew aside the curtain and through
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Her father had left her at the for what damnable purpose I could wide enough for the purpose, passed the youngest daughter of Sir Henry
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Street or route
was extremely alarmed on his ac events of this most remarkable even and then—at first indistinctly, then seriously injured, during the earthquake
count, and was also embarrassed at ing I had ever experienced—leaving clearer and clearer out of the dark while saving the life of his little son.
finding herself alone in a strange city me In a most nervous state. If It had ness—a face appeared; finally stand
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a few seconds, and under the charm a handsome diamond that I wore on pressed lips and sunken cheeks, ’ rec young, despite her years, first appeared
in 1869, at the New York Academy or
of a woman who was of no ordinary my small finger was not missing, and ognized my own phylognomy!
Music. She was brought forward under
"Sylvia!”
type. She gave the directions to the also quite a large amount of money
It was my wife’s name I had ut the direction of her kinsman and mas
driver. 1 had ordered a carriage and that I happened to have had in my
_____ what I ter, Maurice Strakosch, in the title role
after about an hour’s drive we stopped pocket was still there made it more tered before I was conscious
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Strakosch, embarked on a concert tour
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Address,
“You have been in the hands of a which ended at New Orleans, whence
she
sailed
for
London
where
she
may
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art,
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long
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g' tells you everything about mil-
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years
ago
rustled
as
she
moved,
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easy that you will be surprised.
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They were arrested las» night.”
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and carrion a »calibre long or
The lady of the period in her silk dress
Short cartridge. If you want a fine
is.
Indeed,
a
sort
of
"woman
In
armor.
”
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Epsom salts. Instead of being used
free and you will surely say It's the
best offer you ever saw or beard of.
or medicinal purposes, as formerly, are
Made Friends by Hanging Fat Meat now employed. It would a;pear, for
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Out for Them in Winter,
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before the 6,000 rifles are all gone,
as the boys are taking them fast.
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often
of
cotton
merely
faced
with
linen.
this time of year birds, like domestic
In a word, nearly every kind of fabric
fowls, appreciate fat food. Soup bones,
THE GLASS FELL FROM MY TREMBLING FINGERS]
after they have served their purpose sold, is adulterated in some form or
and the public, in blissful ignor
was a fashionable if somewhat remote laid plot of which I was the victim, in the kettle, may be hung in a tree other,
though for what purpose I could at or elsewhere so that cats may not get ance of the truth, finding how poorly
neighborhood.
at the feathered visitors. Here the the things wear, lays the blame upon
My companion had been too much tribute not the slightest motive.
laundryman, the dyer or the
agitated to engage in conversation dur For days I could think of nothing birds will pick away every bit of meat the
cleaner, instead of upon the real cul
ing the drive, except to wonder over else. I said nothing to my wife about and gristle. Suet may be put in the prit, the manufacturer.
her father’s unaccountable delay. it While I could justify my actions trees this way or the carcass of a
It is believed that there is some dan
When the carriage stopped she hast in the affair to my own mind, I was fowl, and blue jays, nuthatches, wood ger of the skin being attacked by
peckers
and
chlcadees,
not
to
mention
not
quite
sure
I
could
do
so
to
hers.
ened to the steps of a stately resi
English sparrows, will visit this disease as a result of the really poison
dence in the middle of the square. A In fact my wife had been in an ex the
ous substances which are set free by
tremely nervous condition for a long luncheon with delight.
man in livery opened the door.
A correspondent writing from Jack the action of perspiration upon the me
“Is my father In?’* she asked in a time, and of late I noticed she had be sonville,
Ill., says: “Ever since I be tallic compounds contained in appar
tone in which I noticed some of the come more depressed than ever.
I do not know what raised the sus gan bird study, six years ago, I have ently Innocent wearing apparel.
^gltation had subsided.
winter bird table; and it bas
"Ah! HortenBe my dear, forgive me! picion In my mind, but I took a sud kept a a never-failing
source of pleasure
I fell asleep and completely forgot den fancy that my wife’s late depres been
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sion was In some way connected with and instruction to me as well as a
you? How did you get home?”
help to my bird guests during the bad
George
Adams, the .manager of the
my
mysterious
adventure.
A
ques
This voice came from witnln and
weather. We have an acre of ground
Theatre of Denver, is operating
was followed by an elderly man of tion she asked me completely con around our home, and fine trees, but Crystal
his play-house upon unique lines. For
foreign appearance who came forward firmed this suspicion and filled me there are streets on all but the north some
time he has given away souvenirs
•nd extended his hand affectionately to with added alarm.
side, so I chose that side for the bird to all his patrons, some of them of
his daughter as she answered by ex It was a question relating to an ex table, as It is the most sheltered and considerable
He has now stocked
plaining my presence. I turned to go, perience of my past life, of which I at the same time affords us the best a large store value.
with about everything
an you errance these six different troupe of
hut with lavish expressions of grati had never spoken except in the pres chance to watch the birds from the that is needed in
•rs teu» tbs namaa of six «tâtes of the iTnttad
housekeeping,
and is
tes 7 It so, we haro a surprise for you. W» are
tude usual to a foreigner, he fairly ence of the father and daughter the house. I be-an by tying lumps of suet Issuing a trading stamp or coupon with
ng te tire away ÎOOO prise« as llsted below
night of my strange visit and through
dragged me into the house.
many extra prise« te those who tend in
up In small trees near the windows every ticket to the theater. The value
neafeat solutions.
The outside appearance would hard which source I felt Bure she could only and very soon my guests began to of each coupon is ten cents and these
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ly have suggested the magnificent gain a possible knowledge of the same. arrive. Later I devised a plan for trading coupons can be exchanged al
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apartments in which I found myself. I determined at all hazards to investi bringing the suet eaters within closer the store for articles ranging from ten
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Rich hangings, rare works of art and gate at least what connection my wife range. I fastened a rough stick, two cents to twenty-five dollars.
h a wnuine Diamond; Slxth. Beeutifui Ladies
IT general luxuriousness implied the could have in the chain of mystery or three in-’-es In diameter, to the
îa
fira
J»-
Mr. Adams has just Imported a car
was surrounding me.
™est cultivated taste. While the that
An opportunity offered Itself the window shutters, across the window a load of dishes from Germany, and he
(daughter swept into an adjoining
little below the middle sash and upon state« that be has, during the winter,
(room and brought refreshments with very next day. I happened to be in this stick I tied my lump of suet
already given away, to Crystal Theater
her own hand, the father engaged me Marshall Field’s great store doing
"From that time we have had the goers, more than three car loads of
purchasing for myself, when I
in conversation on the topics of the some
pleasure
all
winter
long
of
watching
articles.
day. upon which ho showed more than spied my wife coming out of one of our bird neta’-’-—’ at their luncheon
the doors leading upon the main street
ordinary intelligence.
while
sitting
at
our
own
dining
table
I refused anything but a glass of as I was about to pass out of another. I also fastened a wooden tray to the
wine which she poured from a decanter I started to attract her attention when »DI Into which we put cracked nuts
of rare workmanship—a rich cordial I noticed her signal for a cab. This and chopped suet The most constant
aroused my
rather—filling cue «¿- j for her father circumstance
unusual thing for my wife visitor, were the
and another for herself. The? were to do. I immediately balled another peckers: then bluejays, titmice, sbow-
delightful conversationalists.
T be
blrd. and •--♦»•-tehee, with on-e In a
followed her. I could not help while
came unusually talkative myself The and
a mrAlnal. Of the»» the chfk-
feeling
guilty
tn
this
new
role
of
all
conversation drifted hi to personal ex our married life, as spy upon my wife s adeen and downy woodne-kers are the
periences. I related one I had never actions. Not that I suspected her of tamest. When the spring migrants
repeated to mortal ears before.
return we find black-birds and cat
I do not know whether it was the anvthlng wrong at the time. I was birds patronizing the suet Almost all
wine or the adorable smile ot the following her more as a protector,
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