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Robin
(Planestlcus migratorius)
Length, ten inches.
Range: Breeds in the United States
(except the gulf states), Canada,
Alaska and Mexico; winters in most
of the United States and south to
Guatemala.
Habits and economic status: In the
North and some parts of the West the
robin is among the most cherished of
our native birds. Should it ever be
come rare where now common, its
joyous summer song and familiar
presence will be sadly missed in many
a homestead. The robin is an omnivor
ous feeder, and its food includes many
orders of insects, with no very pro
nounced preference for any. It is very
fond of earthworms, but its real eco
nomic status is determined by the
vegetable food, which amounts to
about 58 per cent of all. The prin
cipal item is fruit, which forms more
than 51 per cent of the total food.
'The fact that in the examination of
over 1,200 stomachs the percentage
of wild fruit was found to be five
times that of the cultivated varieties
suggests that berry-bearing shrubs, if
planted near the oreliard, will serve
to protect more valuable fruits. In
California in certain years it has been
possible to save the olive crop from
hungry robins only by the most strenu
ous exertions and considerable ex
pense. The bird's general usefulness
J« such, however, that all reasonable
means of protecting orchard fruit
Bhould be tried before killing the
birds.
Crow Blackbird
(Quiscaius quiscula)
Length, twelve inches. Shorter by
at least three inches than the other
grackles with trough-shaped tails.
Black, with purplish, bluish, and
bronze reflections.
Range: Breeds throughout the
United States west to Texas, Colorado,
and Montana, and in southern Can
ada; winters in the southern half of
the breeding range.
Habits and economic status: This
blackbird is a beautiful species, and is
well known from its habit of congre
gating in city parks and nesting there
year after year. Like other species
which habitually assemble In great
flocks, it is capable of inflicting much
damage on any crop it attacks, and
where it is harmful a judicious re
duction of numbers is probably sound
policy.
It shares with the crow and blue jay
the evil habit of pillaging the nests of
Bmall birds of eggs and young. Nev
ertheless it docs much good by de-
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etroying insect pests, especially white
grubs, weevils, grasshoppers, and cat
erpillars. Among the caterpillars are
army worms and other cutworms.
When blackbirds gather in large
flocks, as in the Mississippi valley,
they may greatly damage grain, either
when first sown or when in the milk.
In winter they subsist mostly on weed
seed and waste grain.
Brown Thrasher
(Toxostoma rufum)
Length, about eleven inches. Brown
ish red above, heavily streaked with
black below.
Range: Breeds from the gulf states
to southern Canada and west to Col
orado. Wyoming and Montana; win
l ters in the southern half of the east
\em United States.
\ Habits and economic status; The
\rown thrasher is more retiring than
\ther the mocking bird or catbird,
Y like them is a splendid singer.
Not infrequently, indeed, its song is
taken for that of its more famed cou
sin, the mocking bird. It is partial
to thickets and gets much of its food
from the ground. Its search for this
is usually accompanied by much
scratching scattering of leaves;
whence its common name. Its call
note is a sharp sound like the smack
ing of lips, which is useful in identify
ing this long-tailed, thicket-haunting
bird, which does not much relish close
scrutiny. The brown thrasher is not
so fond of fruit as the catbird and
mocker, but devours a much larger
percentage of animal food. Beetles
form one-half of the animal food,
grasshoppers and crickets one-fifth,
caterpillars, including cutworms, some
what less than one-fifth, and bugs,
spiders, and millipeds comprise most
of the remainder. The brown thrash
er feeds on such coleopterous pests
as wireworms, May beetles, rice
weevils, rose beetles, and flgeaters. By
its destruction of these and other in
sects, which constitute more than 60
per cent of its food, the thrasher much
more than compensates for that por
tion (about one-tenth) of its diet de
rived from cultivated crops.
Bobwhite
(Colinus virginianus)
Length, ten inches. Known every
where by the clear whistle that sug
gests its name.
Range: Resident in the United
States east of the plains; Introduced
in many places in the West.
Habits and economic status: The
bobwhite is loved by every dweller in
the country and is better known to
more hunters in the United States
than any other game bird. It is no
less appreciated on the table than in
the field, and in many states has un
questionably been hunted too closely.
Fortunately it seems to be practicable
to propagate the bird in captivity,
and much is to be hoped for in this
direction. Half the food of this quail
consists of weed seeds, almost a fourth
of grain, and about a tenth of wild
fruits. Although thus eating grain,
the bird gets most of it from stub
ble. Fifteen per cent of the bobwliite‘B
food is composed of insects, includ
ing several of the most serious pests
of agriculture. It feeds freely upon
Colorado potato beetles and chinch
bugs; it devours also cucumber bee
tles, wireworms, billbugs. clover-leaf
weevils, cotton-boll weevils, army
worms, bollworms, cutworms, and
Rocky mountain locusts. Take it all
in all, bobwhite is very useful to the
farmer, and while it may not he neces
sary to remove it from the list of
game birds every farmer should see
that his own farm is not depleted by
eager sportsmen.
Slightly Repaired.
As the tourist walked along a quiet
Highland road he saw a cottager chop
ping wood with a very ancient looking
ax. "That’s sijrely an old hatchet you
have there,” he began. "Ay, it is," re
plied the cottager, pausing in his la
bors. “Aince it belauged to the great
Sir William Wallace himsel.” “In
deed!" exclaimed the tourist in sur
prise. "I should not have thought it
was as old as that.” “Aweel,” came the
cautious reply, “ye ken it's had twa
new heids and fower nsw haun’les sin
then.” —Answers, London.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
Love’s
Ordeal
By ALVAH GARTH
(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)
“Don't do it, Althea.”
“I shall.”
The first speaker shrugged her
shoulders daintily.
“As you will, my love,” she said,
"but I am older than you and more ex
perienced. It is nonsense to say that
Roscoe Blinn is not in love with you,
devotedly, desperately.”
“He doesn’t show it, then!” flamed
out Althea Kendall. “Only four weeks
ago we arranged for four engagements
during the next two weeks. I waited
hours and hours Tuesday, ready
dressed for the Merrivale reception.
When it was half over I received a
phone message, brief and indifferent, it
seemed to me, bearing his apologies.
‘An unavoidable circumstance’ had de
tained him, he telephoned!”
“Well, then —”
“The next day, not himself, but a
friend of his called me up. He said
that Mr. Blinn had requested him to
tell me that he must postpone the
Thursday engagement. That settles
it!”
“And you are going to write him—”
“Canceling all the other engage
ments, and advising him that tomorrow
I am going on the western two months’
trip with the Demings. I had given
that up on his account. Now, see the
result of my sacrifice!”
“Still, I wouldn’t send the letter, ’■
advised Althea’s friend.
“There, That Will Do,” She Decided.
“I shall send it. I am mad all
through! I shall never speak to Mr.
Blinn again.”
“You mean Roscoe, dear.”
“I don’t. Oh, if he dares to ever ap
proach me again!” and there Althea
broke down, the tears came, and she
ran into the house precipitately, leav
ing her friend without warning, and
had a good cry.
“Oh, it was shameful!” she told her
self, when vexation and the womanly
caprice of feeling abused succeeded
to the first outburst. True, they were
not engaged—true, further, he had
spoken no word of love, but for nearly
a month she and Roscoe Blinn had mu
tually realized that they loved one an
other. Even to observing outsiders
this had become unmistakable.
Althea sat down with great delibera
tion. She felt herself as hard as steel
and immovable as marble. Half a dozen
times she wrote and tore up a note,
formal in its tone, then cutting, then
fairly cruel.
“There, that will do,” she decided,
with flashing eyes, but dewy, and her
pretty lips set firmly, but quivering.
“Oh, it’s all over —the beautiful, beau
tiful dream!” she w r ailed, and threw
herself face down on the couch —and
wept again as though her tender but
rebellious heart would break.
Then came gloom, it might be called
desperation. She felt herself to be a
somber executioner of love. She did
not read the note of dismissal, disdain
and severity again. She sealed it, ad
dressed it, affixed a stamp, put on her
wraps and left the house like some
heroine going to her doom.
It was at a busy corner that Althea
came across the first mail box. How
her Ik art fluttered as she opened the
slot of the iron receptacle and held
the fatal missive poised. Even there
she debated.
“I —I believe I’ll wait till morning.
Then I will be gone, before he knows
of my plans.” she cheated herself into
saying.
“Beg pardon, miss.”
But Althea only uttered a little cry
of concern and dismay, as a man hur
rying for a car jostled against her. He
had vanished by the time she had fair
ly realized that the letter had slipped
from her fingers into the box.
“I—l wish I hadn't!” she gasped.
“Oh, dear!”
She stood there, her troubled pose
attracting the attention of passers-by.
She became conscious of this, and, em
barrassed, crossed the pavement to
the shelter of a* embrasur# in the wall
of the nearest buMiimg.
on, that she had the tetter back!
She knew not why, but all of a sudden
her heart had melted. To think tkal
she had severed all Interest with the
man she loved overwhelmed her. Two
met) waiting for a car took up a po
sition not half a dozen feet distant
from her. Althea recognized one of
them. She did not know him person
ally, but she recalled that once on that
street Roscoe had pointed him out as
a young and rising physician who was
a very close and cherished friend.
“You have no apprehension concern
ing Blinn?” his companion asked, and
Althea’s heart fluttered with keen
interest
“ Not at all,” replied tie young doc
tor decisively. “He sent for me in
time. His only worry has been his iso
lation, and, I fancy, his absence from
a young lady he particularly adores.
But he is free today, and —”
Then they hurried to the car, leaving
Althea shaken, in doubt, tormented
with a thousand nameless fears. Sho
ran out to the letter box. She felt
like tearing it from its staple holdings.
She strove to read the hours of mail
collections, but time and grime had
effaced the surface of the information
card.
“I must wait,” she breathed, “no
matter how long, until the postman
comes to collect the mail.”
Althea w r as so engrossed that she
stood rooted to the spot. Within her
stirred a mighty conviction that she
had misjudged Mr. Blinn.
“I must get that letter back—oh, 1
must!” she panted fervently.
1 “HI, there, lady!”
“Out of the way—see what’s com
ing!”
Althea heard the shouts. She turned
at a roaring, crashing sound. She al
most fainted as she saw dashing to
wards her a great loaded truck. The
horses were rushing forward with tre
mendous speed. Paralyzed with sud
den terror, Althea could not move. Sho
felt faint. Her eyes closed. Sho
swayed.
Someone clasped her. She was lifted
back with swiftness. There was a
frightful contact. The wheels of the
truck had struck the supporting stand
ard holding the mail box. This was
shattered into a thousand pieces.
She paid no attention to the voice
of the deliverer. She never looked at
him, she never recognized him. Sho
saw only the contents of the shat
tered box flying wide —three or four
letters, her own among them.
She identified her own. It was cov
ered with the mud of the street, but
she secured it and thrust it into her
dress with a half-audible cry of hys
trical relief.
“Miss Kendall—Althea!” spoka a
voice that thrilled her. Turning, she
recognized the man who had saved her
—Roscoe Blinn!
Althea was mute. The reaction of
the excitement again overpowered her.
“Don’t be alarmed,” spoke the dear,
near voice. “All the danger is over.
How lucky that I chanced by in time
to see your peril!”
“You saved me! It was you!” fal
tered Althea, helpless in the strong
arms cf the hero, whom the crowd be
gan to cheer.
Then she found herself in an auto
mobile, summoned by this thoughtful
chevalier, and he solicitously seeking
to calm her frantic excitement.
“I just got ‘out,’ I suppose I must
call it,” he volunteered. “I very in
judiciously entered a contagion-af
fected house in the slums in taking
help to some poor sufferers, and the
doctor quarantined me until my danger
was past. You need not shrink from
me!” he laughed jokingly—“the conta
gion period is positively past.”
“Shrink from you!” fluttered happy
Althea, and he read that in her eyes
that overcame all his prudence.
He clasped her in his arms.
And held her there.
BOBOLINK BEING WIPED OUT
“Sportsmen” Accused of Practically
Exterminating This Sweet-Singing
Friend of the Farmer.
Years ago the bobolink was a not
uncommon summer resident and nest
ing bird in suitable sections of north
ern New Jersey. Today there is lit
tle evidence that its status in the state
embraces more than semi-yearly visits
during spring and fall migration
periods.
The reason is not far to seek. Un
der the name of “reed bird” it has
been classed as a game bird and its
shooting permitted under the law's of
the state during the months of Sep
tember, October, November and De
cember. The present regulations un
der the federal migratory bird law
shorten this open season to the months
of September and October, but they
are subject to change at any time at
the behest of the gunners.
The wonderful song of the bobolink,
that prince of songsters, therefore, is
rarely heard now hereabouts. The
demand of a few marsh gunners for
the legal right to shoot this bird of
valuable insectivorous habits out
weighs the agricultural interests and
the esthetic pleas in its behalf. That
incomparable rollicking melody is
hushed over all the New Jersey mead
ows, because this bird, without a
single attribute of a game bird, is
claimed by a few pseudo sportsmen
as exclusively their own. —Exchange.
Trifle Hazy.
“What we need in this country is
more big guns,” said the pompous ad
vocate of preparedness.
“How big?” asked the inquisitive
man.
“Why—er—larger than any other na
tion has, of course.”
“I thought so. You don’t know any
more about the situation than I do.”
FOR LUNCHEON OR TEA
THREE APPETIZING AND HEALTH
FUL CONFECTIONS.
Apple Cake Made According to Direc
tions Will Be Found Delicious—
Zwieback an Old Favorite —
For German Coffee Cake.
Apple Cake. —One and one-half
cakes yeast, one cupful milk, scalded
and cooled, one tabiespoonful sugar,
three and one-half cupfuls sifted flour,
one-fourth cupful butter, one-half cup
ful sugar, two eggs, one-fourth tea
spoonful salt and five apples.
Dissolve yeast and one tablespoon
ful sugar in lukewarm milk, add one
and one-half cupfuls flour to make
a sponge, and beat until smooth. Cover
and set aside in a warm place until
light—about three-quarters of an hour.
Have sugar and butter well creamed,
add to sponge. Then add eggs well
beaten, rest of flour, or enough to
make a soft dough, and salt. Knead
lightly. Place in well greased bowl.
Cover and set aside to rise—about two
hours.
Roll half an inch thick. Place in
two well greased, shallow pans. Brush
with butter, sprinkle with sugar. Cut
apples in eighths and press into
dough, sharp edge downward. Sprin
kle with cinnamon. Cover and let
rise about one-half hour.
Bake twenty minutes. Keep cov
ered with pan first ten minutes, in or
der that the apples may be thoroughly
cooked.
Zwieback.—One cake yeast, one-half
cupful milk, scalded and cooled, two
tablespoonful 3 sugar, one-fourth cupful
lard or butter, melted, two eggs, two
and three-fourths cupfuls sifted flour
and one-half teaspoonful salt.
Dissolve yeast and sugar in luke
warm milk. Add three-fourths cupful
of flour and beat thoroughly. Cover
and set aside, in a moderately warm
place, to rise for fifty minutes.
Add lard or butter, eggs well beaten,
enough flour to make a dough—about
two cupfuls, and salt. Knead, shape
into two rolls one and one-half inches
thick, and fifteen inches lcng. Pro
tect from draft and let rise until light,
which should be in about one and one
half hours.
Bake twelve minutes in a hot oven.
When cool cut diagonally into one
half-inch slices. Place on baking sheet
and brown in a moderate oven.
German Coffee Cake. —One and one
half cakes yeast, one cupful milk,
scalded and cooled, one tablespoonful
sugar, three cupfuls sifted flour, one
hfclf cupful butter, one cupful sugar,
one-eighth teaspoonful mace, one and
one-half cupfuls mixed fruit —citron,
raisins, currants in equal parts—one
fourth teaspoonful salt and three eggs.
Dissolve yeast and one tablespoon
fui sugar in the lukewarm milk, add
one and one-half cupfuls cf flour. Beat
well. Cover and set aside, in a warm
place, to rise an hour, or until light.
Add to this the butter and sugar
creamed, the mace, the fruit which
has been floured, the balance of the
flour, or enough to make a good cake
batter, the salt, and eggs well beaten.
Beat for ten minutes.
Pour into well buttered molds, fill
ing them about half full, cover and let
rise until molds are nearly fu.l, then
bake in a moderate oven. If made
into two cakes, they should bake forty
five minutes; one large cake should
bake one hour.
Lemon Jelly Cake.
Two cupfuls sugar, one-half cupful
butter, creamed. Add one cupful
sweet milk, three cupfuls flour, one
teaspconful cream tartar, one-half tea
spoonful soda and three eggs well
beaten. Bake in five thin layers.
Jelly for cake —Grate rinds of two
lemons, add juice of lemons, one cup
ful sugar, one beaten egg, one-half cup
ful water, one teaspoonful butter, one
tabiespoonful flour mixed with a little
water. Boil till it thickens.
Worth Trying.
Keep folded newspapers handy upon
which to place soiled pots and pans,
and save cleaning smutty marks from
the table.
If the stepladder slips, paste a piece
of old rubber over each support; this
will not only prevent a fall, but It will
protect the floors.
When a box of sardines is opened, it
should be drained of its oil at once
and the fish turned out.
Banana Salad.
One tart apple cut in cubes, four
bananas sliced, one-half package dates
cut small. Mix together.
Dressing —One pint cream, whipped,
little salt, cayenne, yolk of one egg
well beaten. Lemon juice to taste and
two tablespoonfuls sugar.
Cocoanut Biscuits.
Beat two eggs with one-half pound
of confectioners’ sugar, then stir in
one-half pound of ground cocoanut.
Mix together well and drop from tea
spoon on buttered pan. Bake ten min
utes in a moderate oven.
English Turkey Force Meat.
Two ounces of lean ham or bacon,
one-fcurth pound suet, rind of one
half lemon, one teaspoonful each of
parsley and herbs, six ounces bread
crumbs, two beaten eggs, salt, pepper,
spice to taste.
Fried Scallops.
Scallops are most appetizing when
fried. Rinse them in salt water, dry
in a napkin and dredge in flour;
fry in hot pork fat Eggs and crumbs
are not needed.
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about her prospective harp and crown.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
is her hair. If 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.
Too Much for Him.
She —Can you manage a typewriter?
He—Not the one I married. —Boston
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The New Idea.
“Isn’t joy riding against the law?”
“Yes, except for model prison con
victs.” '
Ready-Witted George.
“Poor, dear woman, she has proba
bly been working hard all day. I must
not disturb her,” murmured Jones, as
he crept upstairs at 3 a. m„ on all
fours. He was just going into the bed
room when one of those infernal
boards gave a squeak. Mrs. Jones
turned over.
“George!” she whispered.
Immediately George dived under the
bed.
“George!” repeated Mrs. Jones. No
reply.
“George!” continued Mrs. Jones, in
sterner tones, “you may as well come
out, for I know you are there.”
There was now no help for it.
George crept out. rubbing his eyes.
“Bless my heart, Maria,” he said, “I
was dreaming I w r as out motoring!”
Not Exactly Comforting Scripture.
At the anniversary meeting of the
Bible Reading association Rev. W. Y.
Fullerton of the Baptist Missionary so
ciety told a story of illustrate the fact
that some people needed guidance in
the selection of their Bible reading.
According to the Westminster Gazette
the story was a reminiscence of Mr.
Fullerton’s mission days, when a man
came to one of his meetings and told
of his efforts to comfort his wife as
she lay upon the sickbed.
“I read to her every night,” he said.
“What did you read to her?” asked
the missionary.
“Well,” said the man, “I began at
the first chapter of the Book of Prov
erbs, and when I had finished the book
she died!”
"He who has health
has hope,
And he who has hope
has everything.”
(Arabian Proverb)
Sound health is largely
a matter of proper food—•
which must include certain
mineral elements best de
rived from the field grains,
but lacking in many foods.
Grape-Nuts
made of whole wheat and
malted barley, supplies all
the rich nourishment of
the grains, including their
vital mineral salts—phos
phate of potash, etc., most
necessary for building and
energizing (he mental and
physical forces.
“There’s a Reason”
Sold by Grocers everywhere.