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About Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1898-1899 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1899)
IEEiOCFIEEBZ!?JDS: Facts About Curious Types of English I Young V omen. The Barmaids Always Young and Al ways Good Looking: Where They Come From Their Tacjt wiUi Their Customers and Admirers What Be 71 comes of Them. Among the thousands of! tourists wh at this sea- are rushing into England son It Is probable that by far the largest proportion are go! tog there for the first lime and are full cf eager cu- riosity, to see whether or not the country . anything like w hat they to$be. Men have always Imagined It! and women usually go to Europe with very 1 different anticipations. , The women go to tee picture galleries aad churches and to price articles of per sonal adornment. The men1 go to see life, and jo leain the foreign methods ofA painting; town rL The wrmen have visions of WfUminster Abbey and Parisian bonnets, while the men dream of the Moulin Rouge and Monte Carlo, r i - - : J ... .The observant man who visits Kng land for the first time cannot fail to be lmpref sed byj tw? great English in stitutions which are absolutely un known inj this 'country. The first of these, and the one that wU force it self upon jhts attention almost as soon as he land, is um English chimney pot, a. short slender affair of terracot ta. whlh turmomts every chimney throughout the whole length and breadth o 1 1 he land. If you ask any builder why them pots are placed on the chimneys, ho well tel! ycu that without them the flue would not draw. ; Tell blm jhat you have r.o such things in Atneiicia, and yet the chlmn-yi ilraiv enough, nnl ask hiin if ho ever triedj a chimney without a pot i n it, or eviij knew any one else to try It, and he will reply: "Of courts not. If I built a "ofe without pots on the chim neys, no $ne wculcl rent it" The. next great insjtilut'on, .and the one that particularly impresses an Amu lean, is the EiKlioh burmali. Like the chimney rots, they n-em to be prefer red to the? Ameiicair style, j because they are upposetl lo iliuw better, al though the allegeel reason for empty ing thaMi jis that they -are more hon-st Any oiii.- who has had anything to do with the British 'woi kman. snow that he makes! a' lifelong fctiidy of j cheating his employer, ei'.her by "sojning" 'in tine at the bench or by abstracting small sums from the mr.tn-y Jrawer. Keppsrs of public houses think th'it barmalos are jmoht honest, land they kno'v thi-t a irvity gill di'aws a ter taln amount of cuttom and tend to kep t lie custcin i f that the has.- i These bat maid are to ba found in evry gra"lo eff sa!oeu, from th- ..vest "pubs" in ijhileihtipf-1. when ?n American would supioe that a n ii. cd prieflghjUT and profesi'I-n a lK.uiK.M-r- wuld be mvre ..i propt i;tte. to the most i xclasive private hotels' In the West ftad. It Is the same all over England; and a pietty. barmaid huj CJterr a A$cd deal to do. with at tracting the patrons of what are known as commercial hotels that is. hotels frenueiitod ty di ummers. It I an old raying that the hand that pulls the liter engine goes with the face tnat hilngs the trade. As a class, barmaid have two character.r-tks: they are alwt.ys good looking and always young. If you. find a woman over thirty-five in j attendance at an Kng lish bar, you may rest asturtd that she is the housekeeper end that It l. the barmaid's evening1 out. The typical English- bnrmaid7ias a round facej strong jeyebrows, a .nrmiy cut mouin; and very good tf-eh signs of s-x.d sene. clf- otifol. ;:i Igment of human natun; and a cheerful disposition. She is always plainly but neatly dressed, speaks In a low, well-bred voice, and hr.sthc happy ftev)ty of being all thing- to all men. Where do ell thWe young and prettv girls come fiotr and h'.w do they hap pen to t elect such a lrsines an tenl ing bar? All tanks of life have their outlets for the. nwt'er piiits. In all classes there are to be found a cer tain peicentage of girls who are fond of life and amusement nnd for whom home tomfjiU have no attraction. Th?y ate. bcred to dath with thr mon otony of sewing and dihwashinar. .Just as some boys have a craving to go to I sea irtead of to bufinesr,. so some 'girls long fcr freer and widvr life than nursing theit little btothers and sisters. Girls f the middle classes who have had the advanlage of a good 'education usually go upen the stage if they ate goo'd looking enough: otherwise they g ir.to business as rleiks r typewtiteTS, or ewn as ralesvlc.rif.n in the big stores. 3!rls 1 of thje liwer claseft. who have little or ncj cducion and have no capital but their gjod loiks and Jolly opposi tion, haturally turn to the bar. Some times! they fare recommended by a friend already la ihe btnamss; eme llwcs they know some man who keeps a "pb" or a betel, and Is willing t- give k hem a chance Failing any of thesej opportunities, they advertise, the usual form being something after this fashion: . ' Yung girl would like position In hctelj to learh the bt'sine; willing to g.i for a time for nothing." ' There Is no necessity to say that it is In the bar that shi wants employ- .; ment. SAny; person reading the adver tipement knws 'hat. If she is good - lookln and bright, ste w.ll have no dtfnculty in; gett!ng a chance to try . her hand :t Ithe ber engines, but ther. may tye a good deal of luck In the kind ojf lAnck in which she gets a start. Aftr si. talk with fhe proprietor, who tells Her what her duties will be and what he Is 4llling to pay Jir If h turns bat wjell. she is probably told to be on jhand jat a eertaln time and take her; fli t lessen, and after quite a Jit tie Bxjng up and many careful finish Ing torches to her toilet she finds her self for the! first time behind the bar of a-piubbic hou9e. .i ' ' - A' student of human nature could find a large supply cf material In ana lyzing fiirl's eniotioui' during facr nrst dar behind bar. H Isadm-ay ' ence for any one. Theot di wee better If she cat. make her first at- fable thine in" ths hu.im-M t. foi- a trf tempts away from home, so that the customers will tirange to heri Even thn she f;ls that every r,e 14 look Inff at hr. and she cacnt help know ing that t he men are making remarks to one another about her, some of which she hearr enough cf toj mk her 1 eady to sink through th oor with shame. If she beg'ns in her own town, she is soirrtimts ehockeii (to se men whom she bas .known and res pected reveal the lowest sde of their natures durtng ilelr itiu t thi public house, and she can hardly be lieve the stories he other girls tell her about men who he tlu-ugltt WMre nicdel husbands. Duricg the firH day t r twi he n.ali no attempt to wait on customers: but sirplyi watclK-s the other r iris and their manners towaid patrons of the- ttveo r.nd learns to manage the beer engines. ,Tli'ae b-Mr engines sue a set of ver handles, the pull bing jccnrnvted with the barrel in the 3-llitr. The new iii i careful ly instructed as to the JiTerer.t P'il!s. which is .'or -titier.i whU h for por t , Sec. ' There is qt U . a knack In knowing how long and bw hard to pull and also In Judging how n.uch forth a customer will stand. Having learned the engines. the next thing is to fcarn how much t) draw according to what Is &skcd for. and the various mixture ana tttir proper proportion. . If a customer asks for a "glars," that tneans two penn'orth of bitter ale. If he aks for beer, he does net mean le ger, but por ter. If he asks for 'air end 'alf, he wants half bitter; and half stout. If wines arc atked for, they are poured out by the barmaid lc a glass which holds the exact quantity when - filled to the brim. Silver mearuics ate use! for such , drinksl as whi.ky, ?h'.; amount asked !for, usually thref renn'orth. being poured ?from th measuie into a null tumbler instead of putting the botlle on the bsi'r and allowing the customer to help himself, as in America. Thre is no such th'n as giving two 15 brnt drinks for a quarter, as here, jtnd drinks aie. thc same size in all bjars ' It takex a Kit! about a w-ek to let.rn the prices of the j various drinks and the nianm r of working the btr en gines, and it la always part cf her du ties to kep the bar clean and to see tliat the stock of lniurs is full. The mcment she finds the hurply falling in one of the engine- she calls to tin; cellar man, , ".'!etige, bitter's olf," an.i ho immediately puts ci a new barrel After a girl has n about a week behind the bar he is usually n-ady to wait on customers after a fashion, but it takes a smart girl . at least six nKnths tu learn the bu-inrrfs that is, the tricicy of the trade. Wljlc a girl Is learning, ; and l-fo;e sh gets to waiting on customers, th will proljia'oly se enough o convini.-e her that jthe mere selling' of the drinks is not everylh'r.g. and that the bar maid's attitude toward the men wh patrrzc the place is a matter re gutting careful study. Tht other giils will probably inftrm her as to whit the may expect in the way of conver sation from the men, end tl'cy w-:ll ad vise her to look pk-a-sant land turn it off if anything - unpleas-a.t ia said. Girls w ho have not been proptrly : warned of the diff-n-nc; between a man at home and in front of a bar have been known to biirg their ca reer as barmaids to a sude'en end by flapping f iime customer's! face and then rushing off to the proprietor in tears. Barmaids must, be made of sterrer stuff than that. The great se cret of success is to judge her ctist.wn ers, and the principal tMr.g is to study the regularores and Ut learn tholr fun ny little ways. Almost all the regulars have some particular dt ink. such as gin and bitters, and the barmaid must know just how much they like and how to mix it. Ilaing been unce told, she should never require a econd lea son from the same customer. Some nv;n are ofl-ndd if they are asked what it will be tcday, whie t ihers like to be waited on as If thy had never been there belore. Some have cei tain glasses they faricy, fcnd s-me like the bat maid to make a pretense of help ing then; and their friends out of a certain private N-ttle. t It is quite tn srt to snow how much to talk to the various men that come in and what to say. gome mn the harma'd must not f 1 eak to unless they speak to her, no matter how long lh-y have- known her or how- familiar they were on their last visit. h me must be treated very di'iert-ntl under different conditions. A man will come in by himtelf and t very Jolly and familiar if he tindE the barmaid altn in a hotel bar, and will perhaps even try to chuck her under the chin. The same afternoon he will come in with a frend and wt!I act as if h had never' seen her before and never spoke to such a creature in his life. Some men expect a girl to talk to then: as if they were her brothers, ethers as if they were swetbeai ts, while a few, fortunately a veiy few. i-ak to Iwr maiJs as if tbt-Y were no better than they should be. r An experienccl girl can t el ; from man's appearance about what he will exiiect or what he will stand in the way of familiarity.. She takes no no tice of his dreas. because that is no gu!d3 In England, w hera the small salaried cleiks In the city dress ts well as the biggest "toffs." Most of the men are Judged entirely from the'r conversation. When a man con.es in for a drink, especiiny if he is alone, he feels himself obliged to make some remark to the barmaid, unless she has 'other customers on (hand. The conver sation usually stfcrts by referring to some object pjope o the cccaslon. If it is la race day, for Instance, he will ask her If be backed the winner, or something of tht kind. Fron. thia the conversation a;roost Invarlbly and rapidly (drifts Into Catteringr remarns perfonally to Ik; barmaid fctrje!f. When a man begins to carry this kind of think too far or gets too pesonl. . tnt the girl must nate . " tim wlthtut cffendinsT m ... ... . nerhaps by ceiung - " - . . 1 1. j - 1 a n v nicely he roust have told it to many girls before. ; ,- j1;. "ir It U a great point with a good bar maid never to, h her talk, with one customer keep her from giving imra- Hit. aitention t- a. newcomer and muoo w , - betray the slightest: prefer - never t to be compelled to stand and talk to a man rhe positively Ciallkec. whose manner or conversatfon t repulsive or who has Insulted her. A smart girl will, stand almost anything sooner than offend a customer, but it soiuetimes requires great celt control to do it Married arid elderly men r re, as a rule, well behaved and are the barmaid's test friends. They know how to tieat a woman, and even if their remarks are somt times a little , bread, and they occasjonally whisper things wh'cn they would not care ( to have their wives bear, it is always done pleas antly and ihe girl can turn it oft as a Joke. - 0; .;; . The tern r cf the barmaid it 1 the dude, the young fellow who . thinks every girl is in love with liim. lie bas no respect for her, and seys the mist insulting things without the sliKhtest encouragement. He will icnte In later with a friend, to whom he has prbba bl; b-en boasting ' in the meantime, and he a ill lean over the bar ant say thirds that make the barmaid turn scarlet. It Is to thete fellows -.hat barmaids as a class owe the unsavory reputation that they have among lh.sj who do not know them. If a barmaid meets a customer oat side she usually speaks to htm or at least bows, if he is alone, but the mui: uee her own judgment in such matters. A man who would be very much of fended if a 'barmaid did not rccpgnlx: him on the street w lit n he was a Ion might be ten 1 times more offended if she bowed to tlm when he was with a friend. No barinaVI would recognize her best friend If he was with another woman, and the man who has : been eut under such circumstances usually takes an early 01 portunlty to drop in j to the bar and tell the girl that he saw' her and how .nice she was looking, or something of that sett, Jut to show that he appreciated her ta-t. Lake choi tiK girls, ballet dangers and others who have left their homes to make their iving in ihe glare -f pub lic life, barmaula lave a ery bad reputation, but cnit f.il ol'serveif axiei tliat it is largely undeserved. The girl behind the footlights has no one t account to for hei time, and is free to spend her mornings and afternoons pretty much as. she pleases an-i to stay out fci late tuprers after the play. The barmaid must be on dut before 9 every morn'ng, and must stay behind the bar until midnight. She is usually so tired after being on her feet ail day that she does rot need any hourkeeiet's m'es to send h;r directly to led. The enly leisure -she has is one evening a week and one day a month. The evening Is a very ph.irt affpir, fcr sho cannot go out un til'8 and luitrit Iw lack In the house before 1.1. Thu day she has to herself is usually lif-unday, and it doe n't begin until 1 o cliK.k and sh- must be bark at 1). Sh-i lias m chance to go to any of the exhibitions that take place In the afternoon end seldom b es the sun except through the windows of the bar. In spite of all this the barmaid ' haj unusual ! opportunities far making ac quaintances an-i friends. These 'are usually Of twe very different classes " those who belong tc her own set, suclf as the tradesmen that bring stuff to tho hjtel where t.he Is employed, arid those whom she L itis acrcts the bar. Nothing Is taote natural for a man who has to hang rdimi his hotel' a good deal than to strike up an 'ac quaintance witr the barmaid, especi ally If she is good-loosing If he rinds her agreeable re may perhaps venture to ask her to spend her next evening cut at the Earl's Coutt Exld biticn, or her com'ng Ssundjy afler nn In a trip up the Thames, with a supper at rti hmond. The girl has to use her own , Judgment in accepting such invitations, but if she goes and the man has sens; enough to behave himself and to .en.emler that - the only difference bot'fen the girl he is with and those that he may be accus tomed to is that this one has to woi k for a living and tlm'. she is availing h srtelf of One of tihe few opr rtuni- lies sue nas ror eif.joyment. ne may pass some of the pl-isnti-st hours of his life with her.: There is nothing abcut her of which be need be asham ed. She is always net-tly dressed, qui et and well behaved, liarrnaids have no earmarks by which they can re ricked out in a crowd like a':ireses. and their knewirdge of the world anJ its ways makes them the most agreo able companions, alwuyn jolly but nev er loud or conspicuous. What beeomes of ill the pretty bar maids? Ihey get about 13 a week and their board ar.d Iodg!.g in tha hous, about twice as much as houee ser vants, rh-y cannot save a compe tence of this, and in' I of them l.-av the buslneai before rniddile age. A sur- ptising number become insti.l'.ed In some of thte m deal lit lit cottages at Shepherd's Bush or I'lackheath. what Englishmen; cal. "sef'ond establish menu," usually the outcome of some of the pleasant, excursions already re ferred to. It is a natter of public knowledge that one cf the best known men in England had i.uch an estab liftmen t preside over for thiity years by a barmaid that he lr.et in Wales, and whose companionship he said hi enjoyed more than that of all the great people h had ever met. Quite a number many small trades men, or men who keep bstjs of their own either In small public nous. or hotels. On account of their business training and their tsct in managing and keeping customers thejH make tx cellent wives for small tradesmen who need help In the shop. Thy usually gft along and "save a tit," n ! before long you will Oral them driving a dog cart on uday afiernoons and rcung te the theater occasionally. After ' at while you ; will hear that jthey are living In a mat little cottage in the fubuibs. Instead of ever tbf thop, and if you happen to ps that way son e afternoon you will see that tne n.nos , w k.w ufa hv t.niiinr on the beer -e-" " --- ... nini under tire glare of tne iignts . .- rn a. nublie house have found at ast in their true ccctipsiion in pushing a baby carriage under she thade of the chestnuts on Hsmpstead Heath. " im bona- on be walls - of No picture Louvre In Parts untU " the. artist the! . j &r.a. ic rears , lw4 dR AW BECOME no mui: Domestic Animals Revert to Their Primitive Habits. The Scourge of Rabbits Where Cats, Dogs, Pigs and Sheep Have Become a .Menacing Nuisance. The notion that, ordinary domestic anirals. stH-h as horses, cat a dogs, etc, may multiply so numerously as to become set lous pests nay; that In certain parts of the world they have already done so is sufficiently strik irg to lend exceptional interest to a bulletin on the subjeet which will be included In he forthcoming Year Book cf the department of agriculture. It appears that in some western states wild horses have become a pos itive : nuisance, and In Iff 7 Nevada passed a law permitting them to ba sh t. Retent repoits front Washing ton are to the effect that "cayuaes" in that region are ccr.s lot red of so httla value that they are killed and used as bait for poisoning wolves and coyotes. In this connection It is worth mention ing that in some portions of Australia' wild horses have multiplied to such an extent as to consume the rrasa needed for sheep and other rnlmaJs, and hunt ers have tecti etoployfd to shoot them. Houso cats quite ' comn-only run wild in the r.elghbcrhccd of cities vnd towns, and under such circumstance j become pests, picpagating numerous ly and accomplishlrg a gc-od deal of deatructfon, says the Chicago Tribune. IepenrtinK upon foiage for a living, they do not rer-trlct themselves to rat aud mice, but rob ihe tanners hen r osts and attack the wild birds. Of the latter. Indeed, they kill so rranj that the decrease Of native feather 1 species in some districts seems to b largely attributable to tLem. AVhere eats hae inn wild on is.lat cd islands their woi k can be more ac curately apprecltteu. Fcr example, on Sable Island, oft the enact of Nova Scotia, they were introduced about 1880 ar.d rapidly exterminated the rab bits, which had been in iossesion for at least half a century. In one of the harbors of Kerguclm Land, a barren and desolate bit ot antarctic terra fir ma to the. southeast of the cape of Good ttpe, cats escaped from ship", have n.ade themr elves at home on a little islet known as Cat Island, which has been long used as a wiuteiing place for water. Here they live in holes ir the ground, preying upon sea birds and their young, and are said to have developed such extraordinary ferocity that it is almost impossible to tame them, even when captured young. On Aldabra, ?00 miles north west ef Madagascar, cats have com pletely exterminated an ir.tercstlnsj species of rail peculiar to that island, which, being unable to fly, had no chance of escape. Pigs have run wild in some of th? southern states r.nd also on certain Islands, where, as . on the Oalaragns, they were originally Introduced to fur nish food for crews of vessels in need of fresh meat. They were, impot ted Into New Zealand by Captain Cook about 1770, and soon tecorr.ing will increased! to a remarkable degree. A century later wild pigs were so abun dant in the flax tl-ickets cf the pro vince of Tarankt. on the North Island, that a hunter could rhoot fifty in a fc'ngle day. In one case 25,000 wild pigs are said to have bene kill d there by three hunters in lets then two years. ' j Sheep and goats when numerous are liable to cause widespread injur', par ticularly in forested regions. An In structive example of the damage don., by goats is afforded by St. Hel ni, which is a mountainous island scarce ly SO square miles in extent, I In high est summits reaching an elevation of r.00 feet. At .the tlm of tts discov ery, about the beginrlr.g of the six teenth eintury, it is said to have been cover d by dense forest; today it is deecribed as a rocky desert. This change has been largely biougrht about by goats first introduced by the I'crt-ugues-i in 1.M3, and wh'ch multiplied so fust ahat in 75 years they existed by thousands, j , Browsing cn I ihe young trees nnd shrubs, they rapidly . brought about the dee true Ion of the vegetation Which protected the steep' slope. 'With th- disapfeatance of the undergrowth be gan the washing of the soil by tropic al rains and the destruction of the for est. Ir 1709 the governor repoi tej that the limber was rapidly disappear ing and that the goats should be des troyed if the forest were to be pre served. This advice; wsa not heeded, ard only a cent 11 ry later, in 1M0. an otb'r pcvi-i nor rerrtetl the total des truction t f the font by the goats, and in consequence ir exianre cf tit. 600 in rn- y.,ar fot th.- importation of fuel for government use. The Fanta IJ-irbra islands, off the cca-t of sotithetc Caiifcrnia, and the island of Guadalupe, off the Lower t-aiiforria coast, are utilired as ranges for goats. AM these Islands are dry and more or less covered with brush, but arborescent vegetation is compar atively scarce. The goats practu al ly run mil, snd arady esJst in con siderable numbers On Stnta. Cata Una, cne of the Santa Barbara group, wild goat hunting km one of the diver sions aft rded tcuijists, and Is consid ered one of the principal attractions of this popular summer icetrt. As yet the goats have n-t been on the is land I a.g enough to cause ary aeilouj effects cn Ihe vegetation, and the may never bring about tbe ruin which has been wtemght on M. Helena. ut it s scarcely poem.ble for tbe Islands to be grazed by goats for an Indeftalfa length f time without serious dam The common rabbits 01 Europe were originally Introduced Into Australia for purposes f spc rt. I They eprcad over tbe country like a scourge.. So rat idly did the wu-ilriy . tha in 187S legislative action for their e est ruction was begun In South Australia, tnj th- example was loon fcllowed by. New 6wth Wales), New. Zealand.. Quxns- land and Tasmania. At s the present time their range ia Austialia u prob- s1 sife - -,-. - i f j-. f - A ably equal in area t that of our! three j largest states Tvxas, CcJifortda and Montana. . Millions of dollars hue been spent for bounties, for poisons, and various other inethdts of d-st ruc tion; thousands of miles of rabbi -proof fences have been built, and hun dreds if schemes tir destroying the pests have been suggested, but noth ing haa yet been found that' will effect ually exterminate the pest. Natural enemies, such as cats and other ear nivcreus aniu-als, have b-en .ntro duced, and in certain parts r New Zealand at least l.avo become almas; as much a pest as the rabbits lh.;y were intended to MIL In 1S7 no lrsi thtn rabbits were destroyed in New Siutli Vales alor.t, but. despite the efforts of the government and private Mndowneis, the rabbits seem to be till Increasing In the metntlme a gieat industiy has grown up in ihe exj-rt f rabbit skins. For the past: five years Ntw Zealand has been thrppmr rn average of about 15.GO0.0Ce per ar.num, and el nee IS 73 has exported more than 2MC.oiKI.0iVr. lte cently canning rabbit meat for exrort to Hurcpeaa maikts la aisttmlng larger pronortlens. and gives promise of devel-ping into an important Indus try. - '.. j : - In the attempt to cheek the rabbit pest n New Zetland, recourse his been had to he tmpo-tation f natural enemies, such as ferrets, stoata, 1 an J weasels. ln the Walrarapa district some 60c ferrets. jW0 ft 00.1 a anl wea sels, and SOO cats had been turnej out previous tc 18s7, and June, 1SSS, Icon tracts wi-i-s made by the government for nearly 22.000 1 ferrets, and sevei'aJ thousand had previously been liber ated on crown and private lands. Large', numbers of stoats and weasels have also been liberated during the last fifteen years, j This rost of predatory animals speedily brought abuot a decrease in the number of rabbits, but their work was not confined to rabbits, and soon game birds and bther species werj found to be diminishing. The st.at tni the weasel are) much mote blood thirsty than the ferret, and the wide spread destruet.'nri is atttlbutrd to them rather than tj the latter animal. New that some of he native birds are threatened with exierniir.ati.jn. it has been suggested tc st aa.de an i:ar J along the; New Ztalani cca't where the more intereitSng indirerous spe cies can be kept safe from their ene mies and saved from complete ex tinction. Rats and nice are not classed ordi narily ts domestic animal, and yet tfcey ar-i such in fact. They share man's dwelling, subt-lit upon Us f-HHi, and acc rapt ny hlmwhithersoeer he gees. Unquestletfiably, they ara among the gieabtt pets with which l,e has to contend, an! the tnnoyane and damage wrhh they occasion are beyond computation. Tfcey are ubi quitous, abundant elike in the largest cities anl on th most distant Islands of the sea. They have noa-t e n in tentionally iiitrodu.-ed anywheie, but have found their way by means of vessels to all perte of the earth. Small island 3, populated with i.tts front wrecks or otherwise, ' are occasionally overrun cy these snlmais. on tne Island of Aldab;-a. already mention-td, rats fairly swarm, and are destruc tive to the Rigax-tk- native, land tor toise, eating tbe young t.in.n as they are hatched, . Sable Island, off the coast cf Nova Scotia, has suffered from several plauues of rats, and it is said that the first tur eilnt ndcr.t of the light station and h-s men were at one time threatened with starvath-n owing tc the inre ads made, on th. ir stores ty rats. The - common bt own rat, otherwise known as the wharf rat rr Norwey rat, is of Asiatic origin, and until 200 years ago was vr.known in Eut ope or America. In tbe autumn of 1727 lnig numbers of , this species entered Europe by swimming across th Volga and gaining a foothold in the pr-vv-jinca of Astrakhan In e.-stern iturtia, spread westward ovct central Europe. Five ycajs later they reached England by veasel from western India. They ar rived n theeastetn thores of th-i Ur.lt ed istates about 1775. and by lSf5 were abundant at reveral -e '.nts en the ra rinc coat The black rat was th-cc-tnincit house rat e.f Europe In the middle ages, and was Introduced nt- the new world about 1544, cr more than 200 years eat Her than the hou?e rat. In luerto Rico and some other islands the blat-k rat has taken to living in the trowi, cf cocoanut tree, to which latter it does great Carnage br biting off the unrip r nuts, upon which rt fMdS Similarly, tbe rats In Jamaica are said to have been driven to thf trees by the mongoose, which was Intro-du-."i-d in 1??? for the purpose of e'.e. troylrg these p-sts of the ugarcan. Nine Individuals were Imported, four malm and five females, and they in cn-ased with such rapidity that they socn spread to all parts of the island, even t) the .tops cf the highest moun tains. As tat-kiilers they surpas- J expectations, but, as the rodents di minished, they te-ok to ktlling other animals. Including ye-ung pigs, kids, lambs, . kittens, puppies, poultry, ground-nesting rame birds. llr.ards. snakes, frogs and land crabs. A'o they ate bananas, pice-apptes, younf corn, sweet potatecs, and coeoanuts. Tims bror long the mongoose pi oved itself a nuisance far worre than tb-j enemy It was ir.te-nded to combat. The destruction by It of land and fresh water tortoises, and of the errs of the green turtle ia lamentibl- though less so than tbe extermination of Insectivorous birds and reptiles, which has brought a plague of ticks and other objectionable bugs. In the Hawaiian Islands, likewise, the im ported mongoose bas wiped out the native birds to a great extent partic ularly a species of goose that Is i found only in that group, above an altitude of 4000 feet, and the peculiar Hawaiian duck. - ' . ' I - Up to date the gaint bats familiarly known as "flying foxes" have not been Imported into the new world, but, if Introduced, they would And con genial habitat in tropical and semi tropical America, iaad they anient be come a serious plague in the southern part of the United States. The genus to -which they belong'. Includes about r& . ' m . , . W:(WDtca, ..wjucji an louna tu uie ' warm latitudes, of the old world, from 1 Madagascar east to Australia and the !'"; 000000000000c Tbe Salen) i Land Office Is the Land Office For Salero And For All the Surrounding Country. 5..-. . Here is where the perils come to inquire about ferrus for sale or rent ; about houses ! for sale or rent; about mora f to loan on real property; about fire and life and acci dent insurance. Here pcupi-s who ha ve real property of aiiy kind for sale or rent come t list it. This is the land ex change for this vicinity. I is "open house" here all t! time. "Our "office is in lfs Statesman buildinp, first Jooe to the right, up stairs. SALEM LUIS 01 I lift. (Succctsors to CI. I. Ftahl & Oo- OOOOOOOOO GOOD Bamoan Islands, and north to Iaa, the Malay archipelago, and aoathnm Japan. The largest Australian isiira measures more than five feet frwsa wingj tip to -wing tip. In that eeustrjr these creatures live In Immense cteas- munltles, or "camps," in swamps ass other ' Inaccessible places. Here tWy may be seen by thousands. freqseaUjr crowded so thickly on the trees taat large branches are broken by their weight. They fly considerable ells tances in search of food, sallying fortJa in flocks about sunset and returalas to their camps before dawn. JIn NeW South Wales, and more es pecially In Queensland, flying fesew are one of the worst pests of the frsJE. grower. They are particularly Injsrt ous to figs, bananas, fteacJies, sal other soft fruit, and it is estlmatea. that the damage done to orchards la the coast district of New South VTsIhs amounts to many thousands of poua&o annually. Various .expedients hav been suggested to protect orchard from their depredations, but-the taWtt practical method is to destroy the UaUt in their camps.' A few years ago the minister for mlnea and agriculture for New Koutn Wales supplied ammunition for this purpose, and, after considerabls ex penditure of powder and shot. lOS.C.ff foxes were destroyed, at a cost -eC about '30 cents apiece. Wholesale de struction with dynamite was suggr ed, and experiments with high espls slves were made by Ue departmeal C agriculture. Changes of rrtburlte gun cotton connected with wires aw that they could be fired by an electrte corrent were placed In the branches eff trees where the bets were securtowie to roost. The bats carefully avoid- the trees in which explosives were hung, and when the charges were firrfi hone were killed, even among thowe roosting In neighboring trees. In vsrious parts of the world dow tie dogs that run. wild have bereewi serious pests, devouring sheep and m other wsya maklns; themselvea a mi sance. On the Oalapagos islands tfwry have helped largely to exterminate Umb gigantic tortoises native to that grewary, making a habit of waiting for the ext to hateh and then devouring the bi.r turtle. TilC CAKE-WALK. Miss Angelina In de race, Te sweat des streamlrt rum face. f'he gwlni tet win dat walkln She gwine ter win dat race, sab? Her sleeves des hangln' wld ele la. Er. a Wg blue sash is roun' her rI S ghe gwine ter win dat walkln' race Fhe gwine ter win dat race, tul Miss Angelina, heah my haft' Too da sweetes gal In all de Ian. Ed heab'a a rose rum a nice yt ; mar, ..","'"'--, Dfct time yoo win de race, ma - Atlanta Constitute.
