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Interesting infor fLXAXxJL 1 I la I I mation about - a- AJL JL A them suppHed Americam __ Vf JL Survey of the grlculture 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 m r . ;i/ 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. |||, 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 # ' I I 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 jumasr 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. -i ' ’ -l STANDARD of £XCELLENCE iJpTV Sd U TH kR I)l , ‘ lV Y;C H ATT AN OOGA BAKERY c M A T TA Bt T E rffif Situations for While or Colored Men and boy 3 in our mill and department. Good waj;es, steady work; unsurpassed wo! Wine annd»ticns. NO STRIKE ON. G. Elias & Pro. Inc., Buffalo, N» Y. km AH Flies! "aSST* Piece 1 aryry Sere. Dairy Fly Killer attract* and Ida!* all Neat, clean, ornament*!, and aheap, Sold bv dealers, er € sent eggff 7,?rT. .—:—— fry «iyre»«, yrataud. t-I.CC. HAROLD SOMERS, 150 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 26-1916T*