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Sparrow Hawk
(Falco sparverius)
Length, about ten inches. This is
one of the best known and handsom
est, as well, as the smallest, of North
American hawks.
Range: Breeds throughout the
United States, Canada, and northern
Mexico; winters in the United States
and south to Guatemala.
Habits and economic status: The
sparrow hawk, which is a true falcon
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lives in the more open country and
builds its nest in hollow trees. It is
abundant in many parts of the West,
where telegraph poles afford it con
venient perching and feeding places.
Its food consists of insects, small
mammals, birds, spiders, and reptiles.
Grasshoppers, crickets, and terrestrial
beetles and caterpillars make up con
siderably more than half its subsist
ence, while field mice, house mice,
and shrews cover fully 25 per cent
of its annual supply. The balance of
the food includes birds, reptiles, and
spiders. Contrary to the usual habits
of the species, some individuals during
the breeding season capture nestling
birds for food for their young and
create considerable havoc among the
songsters of the neighborhood. In ag
ricultural districts when new ground
is broken by the plow, they sometimes
become very tame, even alighting for
an instant under the horses in their
endeavor to seize a worm or insect.
Out of 410 stomachs examined, 314
were found to contain insects; 129,
small mammals; and 70, small birds.
This little falcon renders good service
in destroying noxious insects and
rodents and should be encouraged and
protected.
Black Tern
(Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis)
Length, ten inches. In autumn oc
curs as a migrant on the east coast
of the United States, and then is in
white and gray plumage. During the
breeding season it is confined to the
interior, is chiefly black, and is the
only dark tern occurring inland.
Range: Breeds from California,
Colorado, Missouri, and Ohio, north
to central Canada; winters from Mex
ico to South America; migrant in the
eastern United States.
Habits and economic status: This
tern, unlike most of its relatives,
passes much of its life on fresh water
lakes and marshes of the interior. Its
nests are placed among the tules and
weeds, on floating vegetation, or on
muskrat houses. It lays from two to
four eggs. Its food is more varied
than that of any other tern. So far as
known it preys upon no food fishes,
but feeds extensively upon such ene
mies of fish as dragonfly nymphs,
fish-eating beetles, and crawfishes.
Unlike most of its family, it devours
a great variety of insects, many of
which it catches as it flies. Dragon
flies, May flies, grasshoppers, predace
ous diving beetles, scarabaeid beetles,
leaf beetles, gnats, and other flies are
the principal kinds preyed upon.
Fishes of little economic value, chiefly
minnows and mummichogs, were found
to compose only a little more than
per cent of the contents of 145 stom
achs. The great consumption of in
sects by the black tern places it among
the beneficial species worthy of pro
tection.
Mourning Dove
(Zenaidura macroura)
Length, twelve inchest The dark
spot on the side of the neck distin
guishes this bird from all other native
doves and pigeons except the white
winged dove. The latter has the up
per third of wing white.
Range: Breeds throughout the Unit
ed States and in Mexico, Guatemala,
and southern Canada; winters from
the central United States to Panama.
Habits and economic status: The
food of the mourning dove is prac
tically all vegetable matter (over 99
per cent), principally seeds of plants,
including grain. Wheat, oats, rye,
corn, barley, and buckwheat were
found in 150 out of 237 stomachs, and
constituted 32 per cent of the food.
Three-fourths of this was waste grain
picked up after harvest. The prin
cipal and almost constant diet is weed
seeds, which are eaten throughout
the year and constitute 64 per cent of
the entire food. In one stomach were
found 7,500 seeds of yellow wood sor
rel, in another 6,400 seedr of barn
grass or foxtail, and in a third 2,600
V'7 v
I seeds of slender paspalum, 4,820 of
orange hawk-weed, 950 of hoary ver
vain, 120 of Carolina cranesbill, 50 of
yellow wood sorrel, 620 of panic grass,
and 40 of various other weeds. None
of these is useful, and most of them
are troublesome weeds. The dove
does not eat insects or other animal
food. It should be protected in every
possible way.
Horned Lark
(Otocoris alpestris)
Length, about seven and three
fourths inches. The black mark across
the breast and the small, pointed tufts
of dark feathers above and behind
the eyes distinguish the bird.
Range: Breeds throughout the
United States (except the South At
lantic and Gulf states) and Canada;
winters in all the United States ex
cept Florida.
Habits and economic status:
Horned larks frequent the open coun
try, especially the plains and deserts.
They associate in large flocks, are
hardy, apparently delighting in ex
posed situations in winter, and often
nest before snow disappears. The
flight is irregular and hesitating, but
in the breeding season the males
ascend high in air, singing. as they go,
and pitch to the ground in one thril
ling dive. The preference of horned
larks is for vegetable food, and about
one-sixth of this is grain, chiefly waste.
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Some sprouting grain is pulled, but
drilled grain is safe from injury. Cali
fornia horned larks take much more
grain than the eastern birds, specializ
ing on oats, but this is accounted for
by the fact that oats grow wild over
much of the state. Weed seeds are
the largest single element of food. The
insect food, about 20 per cent of the
whole, includes such pests as May
beetles and their larvae (white grubs),
leaf beetles, clover-leaf and clover
root weevils, the potato-stalk borer,
nut weevils, billbugs, and the chinch
bug. Grasshoppers are a favorite food,
and cutworms are freely eaten. The
horned larks, on the whole, may be
considered useful birds.
Steam and the Home.
Steam shelled industry out of the
home as one shells peas; put it in the
factory; the family, father, mother
and the children tagged after, and
home survived merely as a place to
eat and sleep. Applied to transporta
tion, though, steam did even more. It
dissolved the population which had
caked and clotted in one parish for a
thousand years, and made it fluid to
run uphill about the earth, uphill from
low Income to a higher. Nobody lives
now where he was born if he can get
away. We’re here only till something
better somewhere else turns up. The
attics under the ancestral shingles, full
of horsehide trunks that hold the bro
caded satins in which our great-great
grandmothers danced with Lafayette—
you just read about them in the story
books; they don’t exist. —Eugen*
Wood, in Century.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
Commission
Government
By
Ethel May Robertson
(Copyright, 1916, by W. G. Chapman.)
"It’s ruin to the town!” vociferated
Hiram Martin. ’’Sweeping away all
the old landmarks, running the county
into debt. Commission government
—bah! Scientific municipal manage
ment —rot!”
"Is it, indeed, so terrible as that,
papa, dear?” ventured his pretty
daughter, Alicia.
“Wait and see!” retorted her father
wrathfully. "Here I’ve been select
man of this village for two terms. Did
things go smoothly and economical
ly?”
"Yes, papa,” again essayed Alicia
meekly, “but they say we are getting
way behind the times, while all the
other towns around us are paving
their streets, and having electric
lights, and —”
"Paving the streets, hey!” flared
forth her father. "What for? To
have those pesky automobiles wear
them out? Electric lights—humph!
Many of these fine-fancied fellows
were lucky to have a tallow dip twen
ty years ago.”
So, unmollified, the irate selectman
strode on his way. Alicia knew little
in her pretty innocent way about the
merits or demerits of commission gov
ernment. She had read about it in
the local newspaper. She had seen in
its columns a portrait of the new man
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She Watched and Listened.
ager, Roland Stuart, who was to turn
old-fashioned Blairsville into a great
metropolis.
“He is very good looking, and he
must be nice,” confessed Alicia to
herself, almost with a blush.
But day after day and week after
week, at each new progressive move
of “that interloper,” her father fussed
and stormed, and objected. Then one
day he burst all bounds of reason.
Alicia, busy reading, heard him utter
a growl of choler and rush out on the
street. From the open window she
watched and listened.
Steel standards had been put up at
all the street corners and it was gen
erally known that the various thor
oughfares of the town were to be re
named. A roan with an open chart
in his hand camo along, followed by
a wagon bearing innumerable sheet
iron signs with names painted on
them.
“Stuart Street,” sniffed Mr. Martin.
“Huh! in honor of this new meddle
some-Matty who is turning things up
side down in this respectable burg
and calling them ‘improvements,’ I
suppose!”
“Yes, sir,” assented the man with
the signs in charge. “You see, the
town decided to have all east and
west thoroughfare streets, and north
and south, avenues. The streets are
to be named after representative citi
zens, you see. The committee insist
ed on naming one of them after Mr.
Stuart. The avenues are to be given
pretty names, like Eulalie, Victoria,
and that, sir.”
“Might have shown me a little hon
or, being a rather old resident,” ob
served Martin gruffly.
“Why, didn’t you know, sir, they've
changed the principal street of the
town, 'Railroad Avenue,’ to ‘Martin
Boulevard?’ Oh, they couldn’t leave
a builder of the town like you out
in the cold.”
This quieted the old man down. He
still criticized the progressive move
ments of the new town manager, how
ever. When the latter suggested that
a park should be a feature of the vil
lage, Mr. Martin objected vigorously.
“Use up land to encourage idle
boys and girls to waste their time on
tennis and picnics and baseball!” he
criticized. “Where will that fellow
stop?”
“Mr. Stuart is Just captivating ev
ery girl in town,” the special chum of
Alicia, Madge Lyon, remarked to her
one afternoon as she was leaving the
Martin home after an informal call.
“Come down to the band concert this
evening and I'll introduce him,
Alicia."
“I am afraid papa would not favor
that,” replied Alicia, and as she start
ed to accompany her friend down the
steps she noticed that the men were
now putting up the avenue signs. She
wondered what they would label the
street on which the house fronted,
when Madge suddenly exclaimed;
"Oh, there is Mr. Stuart coming this
way now! Look your prettiest, Alicia,
for he’s a great catch. If I wasn't en
gaged I would set my cap for him my
self.”
"Oh, no, no—l’m not dressed up a
bit!” declared Alicia and started to
run up the steps and into the house,
but Madge with a gay laugh held her
tight. Alicia, shyly, but admiringly,
glanced at the young man from under
drooping lashes. The newspaper por
trait had not flattered him.
He spoke of the town and its pros
pects in an enthusiastic way that
charmed her. She saw that his whole
heart and soul was in his work, and
liked him for it.
“Oh, say, look! look!.” cried the vol
atile, irrepressible Madge.
The man had finished his labor on
the standard. The signs of both
streets were now resplendently vis
ible, glittering in blue and gold.
"Alicia Avenue, Stuart Street,”
cried Madge. "Why, that reads Alicia
Stuart!”
And then, aghast, impetuous and
audacious as was her natural temper,
at the “bad break” she had made she
drew back, embarrassed quite.
Alicia flushed crimson, Mr. Stuart’s
eye brightened.
"I am a fortunate man to have my
plain 'Stuart' garnished and beauti
fied with what I have always consid
ered to be the sweetest name in the
world,” he said. “Ah, there is Mr.
Martin. I have come particularly to
consult him on some business,” and
he relieved the tension of the occa
sion by lifting his hat courteously and
passing into the yard, -where Alicia's
father was giving the gardener some
orders.
"How dare you!” flared forth Alicia
hotly to her mirth-convulsed friend.
"I never thought,” declared
Madge— "and I'm glad I didn’t!” she
added audaciously. "Why, you two
make the finest couple in Blairsville!”
"My father will never think so,”
murmured Alicia, and the intonation
was positively regretful.
"Alicia Stuart,” whispered Madge,
as if to herself. “Oh, something is
fated to come out of this!”
Alicia was athrill with strange sen
sations as she went into the house.
She could just catch the echoes of
voices in the garden. The conference
there was lengthy. At last Mr. Mar
tin came into the house. He was rub
bing his hands together in a gleeful,
satisfied way. His eyes were bright.
For a rarity he was smiling—in fact,
quite jovial.
“Well, daughter,” he said briskly, “1
must say that young Stuart is a smart,
practical fellow. You know about the
park?”
"Yes, papa,” replied Alicia.
“And you know that forty acres on
the edge of town I've always held on
to at a loss.”
Alicia nodded interestedly.
‘"Well, Mr. Stuart has induced the
town to buy it from me for park pur
poses at a splendid figure, and they
are going to call it —what do you
think? 'Martin Park!’ and the old
man chuckled and puffed out and
strutted and, as he told his' friends
later, was "pleased all over.”
There was no objection to “the in
terloper now, and one moonlit eve
ning two months later, as he and
Alicia came home from a stroll, Stuart
glanced up at the sign.
"Happy omen—Alicia Stuart’ ” he
read.
She clung closer to his loving arm
and gave a little gasp of delight, for
they were engaged, and it was to com 6
true.
She Was Just Practicing.
A British diplomat was praising the
cheerful and devoted spirit wherewith
the women of Britain are doing their
share of war work.
“There is a story that illustrates
this fine spirit," said he.
“A man asked his next door neigh
bor in an English town:
“ ‘Anybody ill in your house? 1
heard a lot of frantic running up and
down stairs last night. It seemed to
go on pretty much all evening.’
“Here, •by the way, I’d better ex
plain that an English bus has a double
deck like the New York bus of Broad
way and of Fifth avenue.
“The other man said to his friend:
“ ‘Oh, no, we’ve got nobody sick. It
was just my wife you heard. You see,
she’s taken a job as bus conductor and
last night she thought she'd have a bit
of practice running up the steps.' ”
Armless Man Is Fine Penman.
Born without hands, Luther Cran
ford, president of West Fairview bor
ough (Pa.) Council, is able to write a
fine style of penmanship and short
hand, run a typewriter, shoot pool,
or do anything that a man with the
full complement of fingers can do. He
is forty-two years old. The only as
sistance which he has in holding a
pen is a small piece of flesh which
could scarcely be termed a finger.
He has been a bookkeeper for ten
years, can write 25 words a minute on
a typewriter and 100 words a minute
in shorthand. He is a noted gunner,
canoeist and boatman and is one of
the best pool shots in the county.
The Natural Inference.
“Do you mean to tell me that you
got the better of Crabsleigh In an ar
gument?”
•’That’s just what I did.”
“Umph! What did you hit bits
with?”
H CALOMEL IKES YOU SICK!
CLEAN LIVER JLBIELS MY WAY
Just Once! Try “Dodson’s Liver Tone” When Bilious, Consti
pated Headachy—Don’t Lose a Day’s -Work.
Liven up your sluggish liver! Feel
fine and cheerful; make your work a
pleasure; be vigorous and full of am
bition. But take no nasty, danger
ous calomel, because It makes you
sick and you may lose a day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel crashes into sour bile like
dynamite, breaking it up. That’s
when you feel that awful nausea and
cramping.
Listen to me! If you want to enjoy
the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel
cleansing you ever experienced just
take a spoonful o. harmless Dodson’s
Liver Tone. ' Your druggist or dealer
sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone under my personal money
lifiHTERSMITHV
Also a Fine General
iff I SAllir Strengthening Tonic.
G* ItfilLL 60c and SI.OO St an
r Drua Stores.
Their Uses.
"Is it true battles are being
wm in Europe with cigarettes?” asked
the reformer.
“Oh, no,” answered the contributor
to a tohaccr fund. ‘‘Cigarettes are
merely used in the trenches to make
a policy of ‘watchful waiting’ mere
endurable.”
BEST REMEDY FOR SORES,
A VIRGINIAN WRITES
Mrs. C. A. Butler, Salem, Va„ writes:
“I can safely say that Hancock Sul
phur Compound is the 1 best remedy I
have ever used in my family for sores.
One of my little boys, 8 years old,
had a solid sore all over tace. We
tried different kinds of medicine, but
none seemed tc do any good. Our
son, 19 years old, had a sore on his
leg for 3 months and nothing did him
any good. We used Hancock Sulphur
Compound on both and it did its work
quickly and in not over a week both
were well.”
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Compound
and Ointment are sold by all dealers.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Balti
more, Md. Write for Booklet. —Adv.
But Not Unpardonable.
“Don’t you bring that man here
again. He's unspeakable!”
“Why, did he insult you?”
“No, but he’s dumb and wants to
talk with his fingers.”
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.
Natural Progression.
"How did they get that disabled
vessel to port?”
"First, they buoyed her and then
they manned her.”
Asthmatic Sufferers Read This:
Mrs. Fannie Mayberry, Columbia, Tenn.,
writes: “1 have suffered for years with
asthma and was told by three doctors in
Columbia that there was nc cure for me.
I would have died t hie past winter if I had
not gotten Lung-Vita when I did. I cannot
say too much for Lung-Vita for it has
cured me of asthma and throat trouble.”
We receive hundreds of letters like this
telhng what Lung-Vita has done in cares
of consumption and asthma. Bend $1.75
for a thirty-day treatment or ask us for
further particulars. Nashville Medicine
Co., Dept. K, Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
Might Help.
"I find it almost impossible to
the wdf fr m the ’oor!”
“Do you ever try eating an onion?”
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
Is her hair. If your 3 is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
The Cause.
Mr. Fisb —What was the cause of
your husband’s decline?
pish - TV hookworm!
MOTHER, ATTENTION!
Geld Ring for Baby Free.
Get a 25c Bottle of Baby Ease from
any drug store, mail coupon as di
rected and gold ring (guaranteed),
proper size, mailed you. Baby Ease
cures Bowel Complaints and Teething
Troubles of Babies. —Adv.
Force of Habit.
Judge- —Discharged!
Bridget Widout a rifereneeV —
Judge.
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with “La Creole” Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. SI.OO. —Adv.
Never attempt $.:• bully a judge, or a
jury unless you have p*-vi vusiy bribed
them.
For galls use Hanford's Balsam.
Adv.
A man with one idea i? sometimes
worse thau a man with no idea at all.
back guarantee that each spoonful
will clean your sluggish llyer better
than a d< se of nasty calomel and that
it won’t make you sick.
Dodson’s Lifer Tone is real liver
medicine. You’ll know It next morn
ing, because you will wake up feel
ing fine, your liver will be working,
your headache and dizziness gone,
your stomach will be sweet and your
bowels regular.
Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely
vegetable, therefore harmless and
cannot salivate. Give it to your chil
dren. Millions of people are using
Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dan
gerous calomel now. Your druggist
will tell you that the sale of calomel
is almost stopped entirely here. —Adv.
Changing Maps.
Church—Maps of Greenland have
shown it to be about 150,000 square
miles larger that* formerly believed.
Gotham —Great guns! Has Green
land been carrying on a successful
war? —New York Mall.
Keep It in Your Stable.
For external use on horses nothing
that we know of equals Hanford's Bal
sam. Many trainers use it as a leg
wash because it keeps the skin in fine
condition and should cure lameness.
Adv.
He Knew.
Tommy—Father, what are "silent
heroes?”
Father —Married men, my boy!
Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh is itself
an antiseptic and the use of any other
remedy before applying it is unneces
sary. Adv.
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century more than 200 offenses were
punishable with death in England.
THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by
using “La Creole" Hair Dressing. —Adv.
Of the 3,000 or more islands com
prising the Philippines only about 400
are inhabited.
For fresh cuts apply Hanford’s Bal
sam. Adv.
“Believe in the best, thoughts and
whisperings that visit thy heart.”
BREATH
AFfr. Bsk fj A Bure sign
i M " of an inactive A
ir# 0 :ver ’ “ !OUS ' E2J
"ness, const!- Bl
pation, and BB
similar disorders. Remove the
cause in its early stages, do
not allow the organs to get in
chronic state. A few doses of 2||
DR. THACKER’S 5
LIVER AND BLOOD 11
SYRUP |
will restore the affected organs M
to a healthy condition.
It is a gentle laxative, oure«
ly vegetable, tonic in effect. k|
Search far and near and you Bl
will not find a preparation to Bl
ecjualthis tried and true old Era
home tonic. B
h|j Get a bottle today—put up s |
gS fn convenient sizes, 50c and sl. Bl
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XVT I J n 1 C Women as well as
yy J .ZKJ lo men are made miser
rT'* A able by kidney and
4 bladder trouble. Thou-
T) T A\f 1? sands recommend Or.
UJjn.iUij Kilmer's Swamtv
Root the great kidney remedy. At drug
gists in fifty-cent and dollar sizes. You
may receive a sample size bottle by Par
cel Post, also pamphlet telling about it.
Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton,
N. Y„ and enclose ten cents, also mention
this paper.
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