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Interestinginfor- Common-] American^ TTV • "1 Jsg tA V >4 United States 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- I 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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The average woman worries more about her complexion than she does 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 Transcript. DON’T LOSE YOUR HAIR Prevent It by Using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. If your scalp is irritated, itching and burning and your hair dry and falling out in handfuls try the following treat ment; touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment and follow with hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. Absolutely nothing better. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. 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.