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C(pmon« i AmericaH >jgs Red-Tailed Hawk (Buteo borealis) Length, about two feet. One of our largest hawks; adults with tall rea dlsb brown. Range: Breeds in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada and Alaska; winters generally in the Unit ed States and south to Guatemala. Habits and economic status: The red-tailed hawk, or “hen-hawk,” as it is commonly called, is one of the best known of all our birds of prey, and is a widely distributed species of great economic importance. Its habit of sit ting on some prominent limb or pole in the open, or flying with measured wing beat over prairies and sparsely wooded areas on the lookout for its favorite prey, causes it to be noticed by the most indifferent observer. Al though not as omnivorous as the red shouldered hawk, it feeds on a variety of food, as small mammals, snakes, frogs, insects, birds, crawfish, centi pedes, and even carrion. In regions where rattlesnakes abound it destroys considerable numbers of the reptiles. Although it feeds to a certain extent on poultry and birds, it is nevertheless entitled to general protection on ac count of the insistent warfare it wages against field mice and other small ro dents and insects that are so destruc tive to young orchards, nursery stock, and farm produce Out of 530 stom achs examined, 457, or 85 per cent, contained the remains of mammals, pests such as field mice, pine mice, rabbits, several species of ground squirrels, pocket gophers, and cotton rats, and only 62 contained the re mains of poultry or game birds. Barn Owl (Aluco pratincola) Length, about seventeen inches. Facial disk not circular as In our oth er owls; plumage above, pale yellow, beneath, varying from silky white to pale bright tawny. Range: Resident in Mexico, in the southern United States, and north to New York, Ohio, Nebraska, and Cali fornia. Habits and economic status: The barn owl, often called monkey-faced owl, is one of the most beneficial of the birds of prey, since it feeds almost exclusively on small mammals that injure farm produce, nursery, and or chard stock. It hunts principally in the open and consequently secures such mammals as pocket gophers, field mice, common rats, house mice, harvest mice, kangaroo rats, and cot ton rats. It occasionally captures a few birds and insects. At least a half bushel of the remains of pocket go phers have been found in the nesting cavity of a pair of these birds. Re membering that a gopher has been known in a short time to girdle seven apricot trees worth SIOO it is hard to overestimate the value of the service of a pair of barn owls. One thousand two hundred and forty-seven pellets of the barn owl collected from the Smithsonian towers contained 3,100 skulls, of which 3,004, or 97 per cent, were mammals; 92, or 3 per cent, of birds; and 4 were of frogs. The bulk consisted of 1,987 field mice, 656 house mice, and 210 common rats. The birds eaten were mainly sparrows and blaok birds. This valuable owl should be rigidly protected throughout the en tire range. Brown Creeper (Certhia familiaris americana) Length, five and one-half inches. Range: Breeds from Nebraska, In diana, North Carolina (mountains), and Massachusetts north to southern Canada, also in the mountains of the western United States, north to Alaska, south to Nicaragua; winters over most of its range. Habits and economic status: Rare Interesting inf or mation about them supplied by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States of ly indeed is the creeper seen at rest. It appears to spend its life in an in cessant scramble over the trunks and branches of trees, from which it gets all its food. It is protectively colored so as to be practically invisible to its enemies and, though delicately built, possesses amazingly strong claws and feet. Its tiny eyes are sharp enough to detect insects so small that most other species pass them by, and alto gether the creeper fills a unique place in the rankß of our insect destroyers. The food consists of minute insects and insects’ eggs, also cocoons of tineid moths, small wasps, ants, and bugs, especially scales and plant lice, with some small caterpillars. As the creeper remains in the United States throughout the year, it naturally se cures hibernating insects and insects’ eggs, as well as spiders and spiders’ eggs missed by the summer birds. On its bill of fare we find no product ol husbandry nor any useful insects. Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) Length, seventeen inches. The broad black band near tip of tail distin guishes this from other grouse. Range: Resident in the northern two-thirds of the United States and in the forested parts of Canada. Habits and economic status: The ruffed grouse, the famed drummer and finest game bird of the northern woods, is usually wild and wary and under reasonable protection well with stands the attacks of hunters. More over, when reduced in numbers, it responds to protection in a gratifying manner and has proved to be well adapted to propagation under artificial conditions. Wild fruits, mast, and browse make up the bulk of the vege table food of this species. It is very fond of hazelnuts, beechnuts, chest nuts, and acorns, and it eats practical ly all kinds of wild berries and other fruits. Nearly 60 kinds of fruits have been identified from the stomach con tents examined. Various weed seeds also are consumed. Slightly more than 10 per cent of the food consists of insects, about half beetles. The most important pests devoured are the potato beetle, clover-root weevil, the pale-striped flea beetle, grapevine leaf-beetle, May beetles, grasshoppers, cotton worms, army worms, cutworms, the red-humped apple worm, and saw fly larvae. While the economic record of the ruffed grouse is fairly com l mendable, it does not call for more stringent protection than is necessary to maintain the species in reasonable numbers. Water With Meals. Most people are better off for talc ing some water with their meals. Wa ter is an aid to the chemical activities of digestion, and Is furnished by the body itself in large amount. The gas tric juice, of which the stomach makes about a pint and a half per meal, is made up of nine hundred and ninety-five parts of water per thou sand. By drinking water with our meals we help to furnish a part of the digestive juices. Whether the amount, should be a part of a glass or several glasses can be determined only by the experience of its effects by the individual. Such water should not be taken Ice-cold not very hoL A healthy appetite, the appetite of hunger, like o healthy mental appetite, needs no sensational drinks. ImmaioNM. SCNMTSOM Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of the Sunday School Course in the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (Copyright by Western Newspaper Union.) LESSON FOR JULY 9 THE THESSALONIAN CHRISTIANS. LESSON TEXT-1 Thess. 2:17-20; 4:13-18; 6:14-24. GOLDEN TEXT—If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.—l Thess. 4:14 R. V. This epistle Is probably one of the earliest of Paul’s letters (A. D. 50-53?). It links itself closely with the seven teenth chapter of the Book of Acts. Driven from Berea, Paul goes to Ath ens and later to Corinth, while Tim othy returns to Thessalontca and car ries a report to Paul at Corinth. Whereupon, perhaps within six months, Paul writes his epistle. A study of the two letters addressed to this church teaches us how Paul ad vised and instructed his Gentile con verts. Th e first is a particularly cheer ful, positive and helpful exhortation. I. Thanksgiving and Testimony (1: 1-90; 2:17-20). (1) Salutation (1:1) The phrase, “the church of the Thes salonians which is In God” is nowhere else used. Some think It to be unique because Paul had so little to condemn or to criticize. The deity of Jesus Christ and that grace and peace pro ceed from God is clearly set forth. (2) Thanksgiving (vv. 2 and 3) (a) For works of faith; (b) for their “labor of love,” and (c) their “pa tience” (endurance). That these works were “in the sight of God” is evidence of their genuineness, and such spiritual fruitage awakened (3) Knowledge in Paul’s mind (v. 4). They were “elected” to salvation, holi ness and likeness to Jesus (vv. 5-9; I Pet 1:2; Eph. 1:4, 5; Rom. 8:29). (4) Testimony (vv. 6-10). Paul could appeal to the known copduct of him self and his friends to substantiate, to prove, the standing of those candi dates for holiness who had been “elect ed.” His words had not come to them in mere exhortation and eloquence but “also in power,” which governed their conduct. This was not to win ap plause, but in his own case he labored for their sakes (v. 5) and In their case they had received the word “with joy” In the midst cf affliction to the end that they became examples (pat terns or types; literally, like tho far echoing notes of a trumpet) (v. 7) to all that dwelt In the regions there about. Their cbedience, consistency and missionary spirit (vv. 8-10) sound ed forth everywhere and all that needed to be done was to say, “Behold the church of Thessalonica!" (5) Paul's glory and joy (2:17-20). Paul sets forth his character as a Christian worker (2:1-16). (a) His physical btldness (vv. 1,2); (b) his faithful, im partial teaching (vv. 3-6), affectionate ly kind (7,8), unselfish, working for his own support (v. 9), holy and con sistent (13-16). No one "had anything on him,” and such a life dares to bo bold, though it is net free from per secution (v. 16). (6) Paul’s desire (2:17-20). He hero sets forth why this letter was written. Separated from them by persecution, he desires to return and supply the things they were yet lacking and to seo face to face these whom he loved. Satan pre vented (v. 18) doubtless using the bit ter persecution stirred up against him. He had therefore sent Timothy from Berea to comfort them (3:15), who had made such a good report (3:1-10) that it urged Paul to greater prayer (vv. 11-13) on their behalf. 11. Ignorance Illumined (4:13-18). Paul rebukes certain sins (4:1-12), ex horting them to godliness and to love one another. He then touches upon a doctrino which was one cf his strongest reasons for writing to these Thessaloniar.s. The imminent return of Christ had been strongly empha sized, but in the months of Paul’s ab sence some of their number had died, died without seeing Christ’s promised glory. Would those who remained have any advantage over the dead saints when Christ should come? It is to set their thinking aright that Paul writes. This he does ty outlining the great and blessed hope of the church in its "rapture” at Christ’s coming. This is more clearly set forth here than anywhere else in the New Testa ment. Those w r ho mourned over de parted loved ones are not to “sorrow as those who had no hope.” . Jesus the risen, everlasting Savior and king, 13 certainly coming again in his king dom cf glory, “with a shout, with the voice cf the archangel.” Their sor row is not that of the world, for those departed are but “sleeping’ and will come back with Jesus when he comes. Together they who sleep and we who are alive shall be caught up “to meet the Lord In the air,” ell to dwell to gather forevermore with the Lord. Paul’s description cf the events cf this second coming, this rapture of the church, has not yet been fulfilled, but he and the disciples were not mis taken as to its nearness, its immi nence. 111. The Hope of Church and State (5:14-24). The letter closes with moral exhortations with reference to spiritual leaders, care ot one another, the spirit of prayer; and he exhorts them not to “quench the Spirit” by de spising prophesying, that preaching and testifying which can be exercised by the weakest, feeblest member ol tho church if he be Spirit-endued. CALOMEL SICKENS! ITS MERCURY! DANGER ‘‘Dodson’s Liver Tone” Straightens You Up Better Than Salivating, Dangerous Calomel and Doesn't Make You Sick —Don’t Lose a Day’s Work- — Wonderful Discovery Destroying Sale of Calomel Here. You’re bilious! Your liver is sluggish! You feel lazy, dizzy and all knocked out. Your head is dull, your tongue is coated; breath bad; stomach sour and bowels constipated. But don’t take sali vating calomel. It makes you sick, 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. If you want to enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced just take a spoonful of harmless Dodson’s Liver Tone to night. Your druggist or dealer sells you a 50 cent bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone under my personal money-back guarantee that each spoon Plenty. “Did you go in for oratory when you were at college?” “Not much, but I've been let in for a lot of it since I got married.” 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. Surprisingly Ungracious. “Germany’s reception of President Wilson's last note was ungracious.” The speaker was Joseph H. Choate, diplomat and lawyer. “Germany, in this instance,” he con tinued, “reminds me of the chap whose office a beggar entered. “‘I ain’t had nothing to eat for two days, boss,’ said the beggar. ‘Can’t you help me out?’ “ ‘l’d like to, my man,’ was the re ply, ‘but I sprained my foot on a bill collector yesterday.’ ” Germany and Her Waterways. Although Germany has three times as many miles of railway In propor tion to area as the United States, she has spent hundreds of millions of marks in the enlargement and improve ment of her waterways. What the statesmen of Germany think of the importance of the waterways is shown by the fact that in the midst of the greatest war in all history, when the empire is fighting for its very life, they are not only maintaining and operating the waterways they already have, but are actually building more. HEAL YOUR SKIN TROUBLES With Cuticura, the Quick, Sure and Easy Way. Trial Free Bathe with Cuticura Soap, dry and apply the Ointment. They stop itch ing instantly, clear away pimples, blackheads, redness and roughness, re move dandruff and scalp irritation, heal red, rough and sore hands as well as most baby skin troubles. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. — r Little Nonsense Now and Then. “I think It’s very unkind the way some of those politicians make fun of the ‘favorite sons,’” remarked Mrs. Twobble. “Oh, I don’t know about that,” an swered Mr. Twobble. “Tho average political convention is a nerve-wrack ing affair and I presume the delegates feel that they are entitled to a certain amount of relaxation.” To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chili TONIC. know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out mararia, tbe Iron builds up the system. 50 cents. Somewhat Evasive. “Did Miss Grabcoin offer you any encc urugement ?” “Oh, yes,” answered the professional summer man. “Congratulations.” “Yes. When I asked her what sort of husband she thought I would make she said I was a rattling good tennis player,” Taking Her Seriously. “I've begun to think that fellow is really seriously in love with me.” “What makes you thiuk so?” “He's taken me to the theater three times now and not once has he ever tried to kiss me good night.” 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 The people are called upon to con dense the milk of human kindness. American Fur Heads Preferred. , A furrier at Kingston, Ont., states that the heads used for trimming furs are now imported from the United Stutes, according to Consul Felix S. Johnson, who writes: “An effort was made to manufacture this class of goods in Canada, but the result was not a success. In the article received from the United States, the skin which is moistened beforehand, is drawn over the head and dried and retains its form; that made in this country retains its moisture and the tongue and teeth in time dropped out. There was nlso a great difference in the price, heads from the United States selling at $1.50 per gross and the Canadian at $2.50. With the duty and other charges the American article is no higher in price than the domestic.” A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY For thousands of years consumption has been considered as incurable. Yet, in the past few years there has been discovered a treatment, which if we are to believe the statements of patients, is proving ef fective. Here is what one lady, Mrs. J. A. Rippy. 703 North 18th Ave., Nashville, says: “For four years I have had a ter rible cough and suffered with tubercnlosis. In less than two years I had a number of hemorrhages, and had tried all kinds of remedies with very poor results. Since taking the first dose of Lung-Vita I have not had a single hemorrhage. I am able to do my own work, eat and sleep well, better than I have in many years.” Lung- Vita is proving equally as effective in cases of asthma. Try Lung-Vita now. Send $1.75 for thirty-day treatment. Nashville Medicine Co., No. 10 Steger Bldg., Nash ville, Tenn. Adv. American Silo in Holland. The first American ensilage tower in Holland, which was erected last yenr on the .Tohannahoeve farm at Ooster beek by the Institute for Agricultural Improvement, hus given such good re sults that two other towers are now to be built on the same farm, which will provide sufficient ensilage maize to keep the entire farm stock during next winter. The head of the .Tohannahoeve pro ject asserts that the American method is preferable lo that hitherto in use there. An excellent fodder for all kinds of animals is thus produced, he says, while the losses by fermentation are considerably less. He comes to the conclusion that as many as 44 cows can be maintained on 37 acres by the new method, and that with ex clusive stable feeding they might even be maintained on about 22)4 acres, only an albuminous fodder needing to be added in the winter. 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 io the natural way. Price SI.OO. —Adv. The orange tree is the only one which bears fruit and blossoms at the same time. It's a Picnic Getting Ready for a Picnic If you choose Spanish Olives Pickles Sweet Relish Ham Loaf Veal Loaf Chicken Loaf Fruit Preserves Jellies Apple Butter Luncheon Meats j Pork and Beans /1 9 / Ready to Serve CfinV f Food Products M Insist on Ltbby't at Libby, McNeill & Libby k ful will clean your sluggish liver better than s dose of nasty calomel and that it won’t make you sick. Dodson’s Liver Tone is real liver medicine. You'll know it next morning because you will wake up feeling fine, your liver will be working, your headache and dizziness gone, your stomach will be sweet and your bowels regular. You will feel like working; you’ll be cheerful; full of vigor and ambition. Dodson’s Liver Tone is entirely vegetable, therefore harmless, and can not salivate. Give it to your children. Millions of people are using Dodson’s Liver Tone instead of dangerous calomel now. Your druggist will tell you that the sale of calomel is almost stopped entirely here. —Adv. WAS MYSTERY NO LONGER Bridegroom’s Admission Satisfied Small Boy as to the Disappear ance of the Jelly. It was a happy day for A ley when, after a courtship of many years, he sat at the wedding breakfast beside his wife. Unfortunately, he was of a very shy temperament, hut on this momentous occasion his was painful to behold. The long table was lined with the usual large number of ad miring and criticizing friends, one of whom proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom. But the climax came when the bridegroom rose to respond. “On this —er —this—er —most sus picious— auspicious occasion,” he Jerked out, "I feel” —a long and em barrassing pause—“l feel too full for words.” Having concluded this bril liant bit of oratory he sat down again. “Great Caesar! I told you so,” piped Algy’s newly-acquired brother to his school chum, in a voice audible to all. “That’s where all the jelly went to!” Browning’s Peculiar Eyes. Browning’s eyes were peculiar, one having a long focus, the other very short. He had the unusual accom plishment (try It and prove) of clos ing either eye without squinting and without any apparent effort, though sometimes on the street in strong sun shine his face would be a hit distort ed. He did all his reading and writ ing with one eye, closing the long one as he sat down at his desk. He could see an immense distance. He never suffered with any pain in his eyes ex cept once when as a boy he was try ing to be n vegetarian in Imitation of his youthful idol, Shelley.—Boston Transcript. 1 Sorry for Husband. A husband who says his wife.chased him out of the house when he was clad in his night shirt and pursued him in the direction of an electric arc light admits that he spanked her with a fence picket. Considering the lack of distinction which marks the night shirt and the pitiless publicity which the arc light might have given the cos tume, it is easy to sympathize with the husband if his whole statement Is true. —Louisville Courier-Journal. The Proof. “Some people believe the world is growing honest.” “They must be hearing something about the conscience fund paying off the national debt.” There is a limit to everyone’s capa bility, but few have reached their limit.