SENATOR HOAR’'S FAMOUS
BIRD PETITION.
who wish to observe |
“Bird Day” in accordance with the'
plans of theLiberty Bell Bird Club,
and the recommendations of H. A.
Surface, State Zoologist, Harrisburg,
should arrange a place on the pro-
gram for the reading of Senator
Hoar‘s Bird petition. This was pre-
sented in the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture by Senator George F. Hoar and
aroused such enthusiasm that it re-
sulted at once in the passage of cer-
tain bird protective legislation which
Teachers
was desired bv the Audobon society.
It was said by Prof. Surface, in his
Quarterly Zoological. Bulletin, of
Feb. 1804, “It will never grow old and
should be read by every
least once every ten years. It is as fol-
lows: ]
“To the great and general court of
theCommonwealth of Massachusetts:
We, the song birds of Massachusetts:
and their play fellows, make this our
humble petition:
We know more about you than, you
think we do . We know how good you
are. We have hopped about the roofs |
and looked in at the windows of the
houses you have built for poor and
sick and hungry people and little
lame and deaf and blind children. We
have built our nests in the trees and
sung many a song as we flew about
the gardens and parks you have
made so beautiful for your own chil-
dren, especially for your poor chil-
dren, to play in. :
Every year we fly a great way over |
the countrykeeping all the time
where the sun is bright and warm;
and we know that whenever you do
anything other people over the gregt
land between the seas and the great
lakes find it out and pretty soon will
try to do the same thing. We know;
we know. We are Americans just as
you are,
came from across the great sea, but
most of the birds like us have lived
here a long while; and birds like us
welcomed your ‘fathers when they
came here many years ago. Our fath-
ers and mothers have always done
their best to please your fathers and
mothers.
Now, we have a sad story to tell
you. Thoughtless or bad people are
trying to destroy. us.
because our feathers are beautiful,
Even pretty ‘and sweet girls, who we
should think would be our best
friends, kill .our brothers and child-
ren so that they may wear their |
plumage. on their hats. Sometimes
people kill us from mere wantoness.
Cruel boys destroy our nests and
steal our eggs and our young ones.
People with guns and snares lie in
wait to kill us, as if the place for the
bird were not in the sky, alive, but in
a shop window or under a glass case.
If this goes on much longer, all your
song birds wil be gone. Already, we
are told, in some countries that used
to be full .of birds, they are almost
one. Even the nightingales are be-
‘ing killed in Italy.
Now, we humbly pray that you will
stop all this and will save us from
this sad fate. You have already made
a law that no one shall kill a harm-
less song bird or destroy our nests or
our eggs. Will you please to make an-
other that no one shall wear our
feathers, so that no one will. kill us
to get them? We want them all our-
selves. Your pretty girls are pretty
enougn without them. We are told
that it is as easy for you to do it as
for Blackbird to whistle.
If you will, we know how to pay |
you a hundred times over. We will |
teach your children to keep them-
selves clean and neat. We will show
them how to live together .in peace
and love and to agree as we do in our!
nests. We will build pretty houses
which you will like to see. We will
piay about your garden.and flower
beds—ourselves like flowers on
wings—without any .cost to you. We
will give you our best songs and
make the sprng more beautiful and
the summer sweeter to you. ‘Every
June morning when you go out into
the field Oriole amd Blackbird and
Bobolink will fly after you and make
the day more delightful to you; and
when you go home tired at sundown,
Vespar Sparrow will tell you how
grateful we are. Whe you sit on your
porch after dark, Fife bird and Her-
mit Thrush and Wood Thrush will
sing to you and even Whip-poor-will
will cheer you up a little. We know
where we are safe. In a little while
all the birds will 'come to live in Mas-
sachusetts again, and everybody who
loves music will like to make a sum-
mer home with you.
AFTER MANY YEARS.
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FARM AGENT URGES
FRUIT TREES CARE |
Bulletin No. 343 from the New
York Cornell experiment station
makes a report on a number of in-
' vestigations made in selecting seed
! pats. They have found that a number
of factors bring higher yields.
Varieties having a long kernel in
seem to have a smaller
' nels having greater breadth in pro-|
! portion to their length gave a higher |
weight per bushel. They also found
that particularly large kernels tended
to have a thick hill and therefore a!
| CONCRETE AND SEA WATER
—— . }
Interesting Experiments Made to De. |
termine the Action of Liquid and
Frost on Material. t
One of the largest construction com:
panies in this courtry ie making ex-!
periments to determir
action of sea water and frost upon;
concreie. According to Science Con-
spectus, the company made 24 col
umns, each 16 feet long and 16 inches
| square, reinforced with iron bars near
their corners and in January, 1909
immersed them in the water at the
low percentage of meat. The conclu- ‘Boston navy yard. At high tide the
sion arrived at for New York condl-
tions was that oats of the small or
water almost entirely covers them, but
! at low tide they are completely ex-
| posed. Thus in cold weather the col-
meditm seeded strains was the more
desirable.
A recent report from a 2,000 hen
farm is rather interesting Tae to-
tal investment is $10,000. The aver-
age annual egg production claimed ia
#44 eggs with a cost per hen of $1.59
for feed and $1.06 for other expenses.
This makes a cost of 21 3-2 cents per
dozen of eggs. The average price re-
ceived was 36 cents making a profit
of $1.72.
An agricultural society in Scotland |
has estimated that the average loss
of lime from an acre per year is not
iess than 500 pounds of calcium car-
bonate. This loss is through drain-
age. They add that the loss is probab-
ly much higher on soils well ma-
nured. This does not take into ac-
count the amount removed by crops
| or in any other way.
| This is the time of year when the
large and small fruits about the farm
| should be gotten into good condition
for the coming season. It is neither
pleasant work or good for the tree
to do pruning on extremely cold days.
Any nice day, however, from now on
until spring could well be spent in
the obchard or berry patch.
All dead wood should be cut out
add burned. Cross branched and the
. tops of high trees should be taken
out. Do not take off all the little
crooked branches out along the limbs.
These are the ones that bear the
fruit and their removal means less
fruit the coming summer. When a
limb of any size is cut off the wound
‘should be painted.
' Grapes should be pruned before
buds start in spring. The old canes
in the berry patches should: be re-
"moved. Spraying of fruit trees may
be done any nice day. *
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CASES FOR MAY
TERM OF COURT.
The number of cases on the calen-
| dar for the May term of criminal
court are accumulating, and already
there is a sufficient number to keep
officials busy Among the cases not
previously reported are:
Clyde Baer; Elsie May Fisher, pros-
ecutrix.
Catherine Shutarf, ad; Peter Shu-
tarf, prosecutor.
John Stepono, assault and battery;
Peter Shutarf, prosecutor.
Peter Maumeeck, furnishing liquor
to minors; Ed. Arisman, prosecutor.
Alfred Jeannette, larceny; J. L.
Tressler, prosecutor,
Peter Sanko and John Wasek vio-
lating the mining laws; F. W. Cun-
ningham, prosecutor.
Joh Rabb, misrepresenting his age
in order to procure beer; M. P. Shaf-
fer, prosecutor.
John V. Shaffer,
Shaulis, prosecutor.
| Peter Peterson, larceny; C. C. Shaf-
| fer, prosecutor.
| Slater W. Thomas;
prosecutrix.
| Paul -Duriski, assault and battery;
John Stoyka, prosecutor.
Michael Tahey, violating the min-
larceny; Daniel
Ada Thomas,
ing laws; Nicholas Evans, prosecutor.
John D. Sketchall; Minnie Evans,
prosecutrix.
| Lester Devore, pointing firearme;
| Tony Leager. prosecutor.
John Risko and Steve Risok, re-
ceiving stolen goods; E. F. Ludwig,
John Bohle, aggravated assault and
battery; Shandor Nestor, prosecutor.
Joe Govich, robbery; E. F. Ludwig,
prosecutor. :
R. S. Shaver, selling and furnishing
liquor to minors; Constable Grifith
prosecutor.
SEVENTY-SEVEN YEARS OLD.
Geo. W. Clopgh, Prentiss, Miss.
who had suffered greatly with kidney
trouble, writes: “Foley Kidney Pills
are the only remedy that ‘ever did me
any good at all.” Think of the relief
and comfort that means to him. Fo-
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for sleep disturbing bladder troubles,
pain in sides or back, rheumatism,
| and kidney and bladder ailments. Sold
! by all dealers everywhere.
Probably the largest herd of cattle
handled in Somerset county in recent
years, was a few days ago when D. B.
Zifimerman had his agents buy and
sell about three hundred cattle. One
hundred were bought on the Augustine
d driv-
farms in Addison township a
n to Somerset by Enoc¢h
assistants. Some of
have been distributed
s farms. and others have
stown Or
amns are alternately thawed and
frozen, as the tide rises and falls. The
solumns are made with various quali-
ties of concrete—mixed dry, plastic, |
and very wet—and also with different
qualities of cement. Experts are study-
ing the efcets of the addition of wa-
terprooiing materials; clay and other
substances are added from time to
time, and the effect is observed. Many
years must elapse before it will be
possible to tell with certainty which
kind of concrete is most permanent.
When last examined many of the col
umns were virtually unaffected; but
others were badly eroded. The col-
umns that contain the largest propor-
tion of cement mixed wet have so far
shown the least wear. Of two eolumns
made with one part of cement to one
of sand and two of stone, the one
mixed dry was badly eroded over its
entire length, whereas the other, which
was mixed very wet, was only slightly
pitted. The experiments, it is expected,
will throw much, light upon a prob-
lem that has long perplexed construc-
tior. engineers.—Youth’s Companion.
BROUGHT TO SINGLE SHEET
War's Effect on European Newspa-
pers Is Manifest in the Size of
the Issues.
No one can have fafléd to .observe
how greatly the size of his daily paper
has dwindled, how, in fact, everything
whichs entails the consumption of pa-
per exhibits a strict ecoonmy. This is
owing to the shortage of paper due to
the war, and it is quite possible that
if the war lasts for any considerable
time practically all English daily pa-
pers will consist of a single sheet. Al
ready this step has been necessitated
in France. \
Some 15,000 tons of news and white
»aper in reel made from wood pulp
are consumed each week in this coun-
try. Already the conSumptioh has
risen 25 per cent owing to the ab-
normal demand for war news—it ould
certainly have been greater were it
not for the curtailment in
of the paper used in ;
11,500 tons—is rhein in this
country, but about 2,600 tons ‘comes
each week from the continent and
900 tons from Newfoundland.
The former source has already com-
pletely dried up, the immediate re-
sult being to send up the price of
paper which before the outbreak of
the war was about one penny a pound
to 1% pence. And it will probably
rise much higher.—English Exchange.
Helpfulness Sometimes Resented.
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson’s
“Passing of the Third Floor Back”
made a deep and lasting impression
on Kansas City. It stimulates a fine
desire to be more charitable and kind-
ly. “We remember,” writes Franklin
P. Adams of New York, “the morning
after seeing ‘The Passing of the Third
Floor Back,” we felt more than usually
unworthy, and spiritual reform was
working into our calloused heart. A
young woman, carrying an achingly
heavy suitcase was walking up the
subway stairs. ‘Let me help you,’ we
said. ‘Don’t touch that!’ she cried, as
one about to bite. ‘If you don’t stop
annoying me, I'll have you arrested.’
So, fearing the headline, ‘Bard Gets
fail Term for Mashing,” we ran away,
ike the coward we were,”—Kansas
City Star.
Birds Fly From Battle.
One of the war correspondents has
noted the complete absence of birds
from the battlefields of northern
France and the consequent profusion
of spiders and other cognate crawling
things. Birds always desert scenes of
heavy gunfire; and, what is more, they
often do not return for many years.
All birds left the theater of war in
South Africa, and it is only now—14
years later—that they are returning.
Meanwhile South Africa has suffered
from a vexatious plague of ground in-
sects—*tecks,” as they call them over
there. It is not supposed that the
African birds left the country. but
that they merely rctired to some re
mote and peaceful part of the veldt.
Distances Mear Suez.
Once again the makers of maps are
busy. Most Englishmen had a vague
idea that the Egiriuan frontier ends
with the Suez canal That is not the
case. Frcm the map you will perceive
that the British cccupatigs extends.
across the very arid Sind. ‘peninsula;
the desert that cost the Children of Is-
ne what is the’
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