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Kingbird
(Tyrannus tyrannus)
length, about eight and one-half
Inches. The white lower surface and
white-tipped tail distinguish this fly
catcher.
Hange: Breeds throughout the Unit
ed States (except the soulhwestem
part) and southern Canada; winters
from Mexico to South America.
Habits and economic status: The
kingbird is a pronounced enemy of
hawks and crows, which it vigorously
attacks at every opportunity, there
by affording efficient protection to
nearby poultry yards and young chick
ens at large. It loves the open coun
try and is especially fond of orchards
and trees about farm buildings. No
less than 85 per cent of its food con
sists of insects, mostly of a harmful
nature. It eats the common rose chafer
or rose bug, and more remarkable
still it devours blister beetles freely.
The bird has been accused of eating
honeybees to an injurious extent, but
there is little ground for the accusa
tion, as appears from the fact that
examination of 634 stomachs showed
only Cl bees in 22 stomachs. Of these
61 were useless drones. On the other
hand, it devours robber flies, which
catch and destroy honeybees. Grass
hoppers and crickets, with a few bugs
and some cutworms, and a few other
Insects, make up the rest of the ani
mal food. The vegetable food con
sists of fruit and a few seeds. The
kingbird deserves full protection.
Nighthawk
(Chordeiles virginianus)
Length, ten inches. Not to be con
fused with the whippoorwill. The lat
ter lives in woodland and is chiefly
nocturnal The nighthawk often flies
by day, when the white bar across
the wing and its nasal cry are dis
tinguishing.
Range: Breeds throughout most of
the United States and Canada; win
ters in South America.
Habits and economic status: The
skillful evolutions of a company of
nighthawks as the birds gracefully
cleave the air in intersecting circles
is a sight to be remembered. So ex
pert are they on the that no in
sect is safe from them, even the swift
dragonfly being captured with ease.
LTnfortunately their erratic flight
tempts men to use them for targets,
and this inexcusable practice is seri
ously diminishing their numbers.
which is deplorable, since no birds
are rftore useful. This species makes
no nest, but lays its two-spotted eggs
on the bare ground, sometimes on the
gravel roof of the city house The
nighthawk is a voracious feeder and
is almost exclusively insectivorous
Some stomachs contained from 30 to
60 different kinds of insects, and more
than 000 kiDds have been identified
from the stomachs thus far examined.
From 50 to l.t'oo ants are often found
In a stomach. Several species of inos-
V.:toet -ac -ding Anopheles, the
tran.sm.tte: of malaria, are eaten. Oth
er »>; , -,y*r. pests destroyed by the
nighthawk are the Colorado potato
beetle, coc-mbw beetles, chestnut,
rice, clover leaf and cotton-boll w-ee
vila, bill bugs, bark beetles, squash
bugs, and moths of the cotton worm.
Myrtle Warbler
(Dend rota coronarta ,
Length, five and one half inches
The similarly colored Aoduboa’s *ar
bier has a yellow throat instead of a
white one.
Range: Breeds throughout most of
the forested area of Canaaa and south
to Minnesota, Michigan, New York,
and Massachusetts; winters in the
southern two-thirds of the United
States and south to Panama.
Habits and economic status: This
• member of our beautiful wood warbler
family, a family peculiar to America,
has the characteristic voice, colora
tion, and habits of its kind. Trim of
form and graceful of motion, when
seeking food it combines the methods
of the wrens, creepers, and flycatch
ers. it breeds only in the northern
parts of the eastern United States,
but in migration it occurs in every
patch of woodland and is so numerous
that it is familiar to every observer.^
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Its place is taken in the West by
Audubon's warbler. More than three
fourths of the food of the myrtle war
bler consists of insects, practically all
of them harmful. It is made up of
small beetles, including some weevils,
with many ants and wasps. This bird
is so small and nimble that it success
fully attacks insects too minute to be
prey for larger birds. Scales and
plant lice form a very considerable
part of its diet. Flies are the largest
item of food; in fact, only a few fly
catchers and "swallows eat as many
flies as this bird. The vegetable food
(22 per cent) is made up of fruit and
the seeds of poison oak or ivy, also
the seeds of pine and of the bayberry.
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
(Coccyzus americanus)
Length, about twelve inches. The
yellow lower part of the bill distin
guishes this bird from its near rela
tive, the black-billed cuckoo.
Range: Breeds generally in the
Upited States and southern Canada;
winters in South America.
Habits and economic status: This
bird lives on the edges of woodland,
in groves, orchards, parks, and even
in shaded village streets. It is some
i/:
times known as rain crow, because its
very chara teristic notes are supposed
to foretell rain The cuckoo has sly,
furtive ways as it moves amoug the
bushes or flits from tree to tree, and
is much more often heard than seen.
Unlike Its European relative, it does
not lay its eggs in other birds’ nests,
but builds a nest of its own. This is.
however, a rather crude and shabby
affair —hardly more than a platform
of twigs sufficient to hold the green
ish eggs. The cuckoo is extremely
useful because of its insectivorous hab
its. especially as it shows a marked
preference for the hairy caterpillars,
which few birds eat. One stomach
that was examined contained 250
American tent caterpillars; another,
217 fall web worms. In places where
tent caterpillars are abundant they
seem to constitute a large portion of
the food of this and the black-billed
cuckoo.
No Commendation.
“You seem to think a great deal of
that candidate."
“How do you arrive at that conclu
sion?’’ asked Senator Sorghum.
“Why, you have always supported
him.”
“Yes; but a public man's attitude
toward a candidate may be that of the
family toward the head of the house.
You don't necessarily think any more
of a man because you’ve got to sup
port him."
TWV !*WHI«JL<I EMTEBPIUfIW nftlTCl.Afl C.A MAY MTW. IM4.
Druggist Knows the
Best Kidney Remedy
For more than twenty years I have been
successfully selling I>r. Kilmer’s Swamp-
Root to my customers who were in need
of such a medicine and they all speak in th?
highest terms of the good results obtained
from its use. I know it is a good medi
cine for kidney, liver and bladder troubles
and I never hesitate in recommending it to
anyone who is in need of it.
Very truly yours,
W. H. MASON, Druggist,
Jan. sth, 1916. Humboldt, Term.
Letter to
Dr. Kilmer fy Co.
Blnflhamtc n, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co.,
Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample -ize bot
tle. It will convince anyone. You will
also receive a booklet of valuable infor
mation, telling about the kidneys and blad
der. When writing, be sure and mention
this paper. Regular firty-cent* and one
dollar size bottles for sale at ail drug
■tores.— Adv.
Political Asset.
“That candidate is two-faced.”
“Fine! he can kiss twice as many
babies.”
FITS, EPILFPSY, FALLING SICKNESS
Stopped tPiicMv. Fifty years of nnintermptsd
success of Or. Kune's Epilepsy Medicine insures
lasting results. LaiiobThiai. Bottle Hike. I)|{.
KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank, N. J.-Ady.
The Vocal Belligerent.
“My voice is for war.”
“But are you willing to oiler the rest
of yourself?”
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
is her hair. r f yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change It in
the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Might Save His Chip.
Once Gladstone was cutting a tree
on his estate. Two yokels each took
up a chip to treasure. “When 1 die,
lads,” said Sandy, “this chip’ll go in
my coffin!”
“Sandy,” Said an old wife standing
near, "if thou'd worship thy God as
thou worship Gladstone, thou’d stand
a better chance of going where the
chip wouldna burn!”
Luxury of Woe.
Mandy had “dished up” my onesome
lunch, but still she lingered near.
“Well, Mandy,- what is it?” I asked,
recognizing the symptoms.
She giggled consciously. “Please,
Miss Ethel, couldn’ yo’ lend me a p’ar
red stockin’s?”
“Red stockings, Maudy? Are you
going to a party?”
She became impressively solemn at
once. “Oh, no, miss. Ah’s gwine to
a fun’al.”
“But, Mandy, red stockings at a fu
neral! Everybody always wears black
at funerals.”
“Yes’m. Ah knows, miss—” she hes
itated —“but yo’ see, Ah expects to
prostrate mahself on de grave.”—New
York Evening Post.
Cheering Him Up.
A professional boxer was badly beat
en in a sparring match and carried to
his bed in an exhausted and melan
choly condition.
“I wish you’d say something to
cheer him up, doctor,” pleaded the de
feated warrior’s wife. “He’s gettin’
low in his mind, and when he’s like
that you’ve no idea how hard it is to
wait on him. He’s worse than a bear
with a toothache.”
“What can I say that will please
him most?” asked the doctor.
“You might just tell him in an off
hand way that the man as licked him
is mighty bad in the horspital, and
that they may have to hold a post
mostem on him any minute now,” was
the solemn suggestion.
MEAL-TIME CONSCIENCE.
What Do the Children Drink?
There are* times when mother or
father feeds the youngsters something
that they know children should not
have. Perhaps it is some rich dessert
but more often it is tea or coffee.
It is better to have some delicious,
hot food drink that you can take your
self and feed to your children, con
scious that it will help and strength
en, but never hurt them.
A Yorkstate lady says: “I used
coffee many years in spite of the con
viction that it Injured my nervous sys
tem and produced my nervous head
aches. While visiting a friend I was
served with Postum and I determined
to get a package and try it myself.
The result was all that could be de
sired —a delicious, finely flavored, rich
ly colored beverage. Since I quit cof
fee, Postum has worked wonders for
me.
“My husband, who had suffered from
kidney trouble when drinking coffee,
quit the coffee and took up Postum
with me and since drinking Postum he
has felt stronger and better, with no
indication of kidney trouble.
“You may be sure I find it a great
comfort to have a warm drink at
meals that I can give my children,
with a clear conscience that it will
help and not hurt them as coffee or
tea would.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
Postum comes in two forms:
Postum Cereal —the original form —
must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pkgs.
Instant Postum —a soluble powder—
dissolves quickly in a cup of hot wa
ter, and, with cream and sugar, makes
a delicious beverage Instantly. 30c
and 50c tins.
Both forms are equally delicious
• and cost about the same per cup.
“There’s a Reason” for Postum.
—sold by Grocer*.
True Blue!
By SAIDEE BALCOM
(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)
Robert Laidlaw faced life, serious
and practical, at the age of eighteen
and took up its burdens like the sen
sible young man that he was. A sud
den call from home had torn him away
from pleasant student life, to find his
father dying.
“It’s the break-up, Robert,” his fath
er had the strength only to say, “life,
fortune, future for me. I have lost
about all I had. The doctor says I
have only a few hours to live. I saw
what was coming and I wrote to my
two brothers, James and Henry. Here
are their replies. Choose for yourself,
Robert, between the two.”
"As to what, father?” inquired Rob
ert.
“As to which you will live with.
Both want you. Both are bachelors.
Both will leave a fortune. It is a vast
relief to me to know that yon will
not be without prospects.”
It was a week later and after the
burial of his father and the settlement
“I've Found Employment, Uncle
Henry.”
of his poor business affairs, that Rob
ert sat down to read over the two let
ters his father had given him.
One was from James Laidlaw and it
read: "I shall be willing to practically
”.dopt you, but I want to state the situa
tion clearly at the start so there are no
afterclaps. I have acquired a fortune
and my high position in life by fol
lowing a system. If you come to me,
I shall expect you to accept and live up
to its conditions. You are old enough
to have done with the follies of youth,
and my disposition is such that at the
evidence of any delinquency or short
comings on your part I would dismiss
you promptly.”
“Rich, but selfish, as father has often
told me,” mused Robert over this cold
formal epistle, and then his face bright
ened as he perused the second letter.
"I am a lonely old bachelor,” wrote
Uncle Henry, “but not so old or per
verted that I do not realize that If you
are a live, up-to-date young man we
shall have a famous time together. It
will do me good to have a general
shake-up through such companionship
as lam sure yours will be. I under
stand that Brother James is also bid
ding for you. Well, he has the rocks,
and if you come with me you will have
to work, but I’ll be your good friend
if you stick to me.”
In one moment Robert Laidlaw made
his decision. He wrote a note to Un
cle James thanking him for his kind
ness, but declining to make his home
with him. He indited a second to Un
cle Henry, also thanking him and an
nouncing his intention of accepting
his kind offer.
All that Robert fancied this latter
relative to be he found him —a jolly,
careless old man living in an antiquat
ed mansion, reputed wealthy, but per
sonally insisting that his means were
as a dime to a double eagle compared
with the massive riches of Brother
James. FYom the start Robert felt
that his life had fallen in pleasant
places. He started out on his own
initiative to find work the third day
after his arrival.
“I've found employment, Uncle Hen
ry.” he announced that evening.
“Have, hey?” remarked his relative
with a quizzical gleam in his kindly
old eyes—“what line, now?”
“Down at the steel plant.”
“You don't mean common labor
ing?”
“About that. See here, uncle, my
bent at college was along mechanical
engineering lines and I’ve made up my
mind to learn all there is about metals
and construction from the ground up.”
It was not all work and no play with
Robert. Uncle Henry never talked of
his riches, but Robert learned that he
was regarded as a substantial man in
a capital way. Besides his possible
wealth, however, his long honorable
standing In the community had made
him respected, and the old man was
in fact listed with the aristocracy of
the town.
He introducea Robert among good
people. There was a calcuiailng ex
pression in the wise eyes of Mr. Laid
law after he had spent an evening
with the Carringtons.
“Sficial leaders, my boy!” he ob
served. “And that queenly Helena!
How did she strike you?”
“Cold as ice,” replied Robert with
a slight laugh, “none of the genial
warmth of soul of some modest yet
gentle-hearted girl like —”
“Eh!” started Uncle Henry, as Rob
ert paused and flushed.
“Oh! like those natural friendly
girls in the office of the plant,” con
cluded Robert, generalizing.
“Your lofty Miss Carrington cut me
dead today, uncle,” reported Robert,
later in the same week.
“Oh, you must be mistaken,” remon
strated Mr. Laidlaw.
“Not at all, it was palpable and
meant. You see, I had my working
clothes on and the grime »f honest
labor shocked her sensitive spirit.”
“H’m!” muttered the old man
thoughtfully, and then he went to his
lawyer. “See here, Hunter," he began
to the attorney, “I’m doing that boy a
wrong.”
“In what way?” was the pertinent
query.
Mr. Laidlaw narrated his story Of the
disadvantages of menial employment
in the eyes of "the higher social set.”
He further deplored the arduous labor
which was hardening the hands of hia
protege, the slow promise of final ad
vancement. The lawyer chuckled.
“Tired of the program, eh, already
that I laid out to make a real man of
your nephew?” he challenged. “What
you want to do —rear him in the lap
of luxury and spoil him?”
“Well —er —you see —”
“No, you see! Laidlaw,” interrupted
the lawyer briskly, “I’ve been studying
young Robert and I’m glad to observe
his sense, courage and fidelity to an
ideal. He’ll work out right and make
you proud of him if you leave him
alone.”
“Yes, but he may make friends
among the —well, the lowly —that may
be a detriment to him.”
.“What!” rallied the lawyer, “after
your proud-tempered Miss Carring
ton?”
“But suppose he should fall in love
with some poor girl?”
“Suppose he did? Do you want to
spoil his happiness? No, you go right
ahead on the course we have marked
out. Robert is no fortune hunter or
he wouldn’t have chosen you instead
of your brother, he would never have
risked catching an heiress by under
taking menial employment. He’s gen
uine,” concluded the attorney. “True
blue all through and all of the time.
He’ll land right. Mark my words.”
There came a test. An unexpected
event transpired. James Laidlaw died
and in a will he had planned to change
when his nephew refused to live with
him, but which he had neglected to do,
his sole heir was Robert.
“Now he’ll go off on his own hook,
I suppose,” grumbled Mr. Laidlaw
to his lawyer; “no further use for me.”
“Wait and see,” advised the law
yer.
It was a week later when Robert
came Into the library and addressed
his relative. ,
“Uncle Henry,” he said bluntly, “I
want you to accept half of the fortune
Uncle James left me. You were closer
to him than I am, and should by right
inherit it. You are not rich —”
“Who told you that?” exploded the
old man. “If I’ve hidden my wealth
from you, it was for a purpose. All
the same,” he said in a lower tone,
“I'm glad to see that you have a loyal,
grateful heart.”
“It’s a division, no matter what you
say,” declared Robert, “you see, if we
could all live together—”
“We —aren’t we? What you up to
now?” demanded the old man suspi
ciously.
“Why—you see, there’s a Nellie.”
“And who is she?”
“Let me bring her around and see,”
suggested Robert, which he did.
She was not of the born princess
type—only a mode3t, retiring girl—but
inside of five minutes she had wound
herself about the old man’s ingenuous
heart just as she had done with Robert
Laidlaw.
Carrying the Law.
Very few of our lawyers carry the
green bags which were once a badge
of that profession.
“I think the sight of such a bag
once kept Joseph H. Choate from
coming to Philadelphia to make a
speech,” Mr. Conlen said.
Mr. Conlen and another lawyer had
gone to New York to invite the ex
ambassador to England to deliver an
address in Philadelphia. Mr. Conlen’s
companion carried a green bag, which
he laid upon Mr. Choate’s table, evi
dently to the great lawyer’s annoy
ance.
“What do you carry in that thing?”
he asked.
“I have some law books.” the young
Philadelphia attorney replied.
“When I was a young lawyer,” Mr.
Choate said rather coldly, “I was
taught to carry my law in my head.”
And the invitation was declined.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
No Need to Search.
O, thou that pinest in the imprison
ment of the eternal and criest bitterly
to the gods for a kingdom wherein to
rule and create, know this of a truth:
The king thou seekest is already with
thee. —Carlyle.
First of the Breed.
The philosopher who said that it
is much easier to die for the woman
you love than to live with her was
the original slacker. —Louisville Cour
ier- Journal.
COULD NOT
STRAIGHTEN UP
Had to Go All Humped Over and
Suffered Great Pain in
Sides and Back.
Sulphur Springs, Va. —Mrs. J. M.
Sprinkle, of this place, writes: “About
two years ago this coming spring, I
got into awfully bad health. Had been
married only a short time, and my
health Vas not so good after my mar
riage as it had been before, and kept
getting worse all the time. I was go
ing down hill in health, could only
drag around. My friends recommended
that I try Cardul. I tried various reme
dies which did me no good. I simply
moped all the time and felt sick all
over... So I began using Cardui and
in a short time I was greatly im
proved ; after the uso of one bottle was
able to do my work.
“Before starting It, I couldn’t
straighten up to save me; had to go
when I went all humped over, suffered
great pains in the abdomen, sides aij,d
back worse than anywhere... After
the use of one bottle, I had no more
pain at a 11... It Is also a fine tonic.
The cure has been permanent, and I
have had no trouble since, neither had
to have a doctor or take any medicine
since. It built me up in health and
strength.”
If you suffer from any of the ail
ments so common to women try
Cardui, the woman’s tonic. For sale
by all druggists. Adv.
Horse Disliked Cigarettes.
A sensitive horse who has a dislike
for cigarette smoke attacked Edgar
Akers, aged twenty-five, and bit him
on the right hand. Akers was smok
ing a cigarette at Sixth and Spring
streets near the horse, which was
standing at the curb. With an angry
squeal, the horse seized Akers by the
right hand. Akers managed to free his
hand, but not until the horse’s teeth
had torn the flesh from the fingers.—
Los Angeles Times.
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
Rabbits Stall Stagecoach.
George Crowell, stage driver on the
route from Austin to Potts, is author
ity for the statement that his team
was stalled on the home trip at Hot
iftftrings, east of Spencers, by an army
of jack rabbits. He said they resem
bled a drove of sheep, and leaped into
the tall sage when finally scared away.
—Austin (Nev.) Dispatch to New York
Sun.
TRY DARKENING YOUR GRAY
HAIR WITHOUT DYES
Shampoo your hair and scalp each
morning for about a week with Q-Ban
Hair Color Restorer. If your hair is
gray, streaked with gray, prematurely
gray or faded, brittle, thin or falling,
all your hair will then be beautifully
darkened and to such a natural, even
dark shade no one would suspect that
you had applied Q-Ban. Q-Ban is no
dye, perfectly harmless, but makes all
your hair soft, fluffy, thick, with that
lustrous dark shimmer which makes
your hair so fascinating. Big bottle
sent prepaid or sold by druggists for
50c. Address Q-Ban Laboratories, Mem
phis, Tenn. —Adv.
Second Sight.
“I love the heiress, and I’m going
in to win.”
“You always want everything in
sight.”
“I want more than that, my dear
boy. The heiress is out of sight.”
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole” Hair Dressing—
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Logical Result.
“Nobody likes the umpire.”
"It’s the logical result of trying to
be strictly neutral.”
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
A Neutral.
“Pa, what is a neutral?”
“One who has friends in both
trenches.’’
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few—a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store it to its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Sometimes the man who says just
what he thinks has an impediment in
his thoughts.
Dr. Pierce’s Pellete are best for liver,
Oowels and stomach. One little Pellet for
a laxative —three for a cathartic.—Adv
The females of the species do a lot
of figuring about their figures.