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Arkansas Kingbird
Tyrannus verticalis
Length, nine inches. The white
edge of the feather on each side of the
tail distinguishes this from all other
flycatchers except the gray and sal
mon-colored scissortail of Texas.
Range: Breeds from Minnesota,
Kansas, and Texas to the Pacific
ocean and from northern Mexico to
southern Canada; winters from Mex
ico to Guatemala.
Habits and economic status: The
Arkansas kingbird is not so domestic
as its eastern relative and seems to
prefer the hill country with scattered
oaks rather than the orchard or the
vicinity of ranch buildings, but it
sometimes places its rude and con
spicuous nest in trees on village
streets. The bird’s yearly food is com :
posed of 87 per cent animal matter
and 13 per cent vegetable. The ani
. mal food is composed almost entirely
of insects. Like the eastern species,
it has been accused of destroying
honeybees to a harmful extent, and re
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mains of honeybees were found to
constitute five per cent of the food of
the individuals examined, but nearly
all those eaten were drones. Bees
and wasps, in general, are the biggest
item of food (38 per cent), grasshop
pers and crickets stand next (20 per
cent), and beetles, mostly, of noxious
species, constitute 14 per cent of the
food. The vegetable food consists
mostly of fruit, such as .the elder and
other berries, with a few seeds. This
bird should be strictly preserved.
Blue Jay
Cyanocitta cristata
Length, eleven and one-half inches.
The brilliant blue of the wings and
tail combined with the black crescent
of the upper breast and the crested
head distinguish this species.
Range: Resident in the eastern
United States and southern Canada,
west to the Dakotas, Colorado, and
Texas.
Habits and economic status: The
blue jay is of a dual nature. Cautious
and silent in the vicinity of its nest,
away from it it is bold and noisy.
Sly in the commission of mischief,
it is ever ready to scream “thief”
at the slightest disturbance. As usual
in such cases, its remarks are ap
plicable to none more than itself, a
fact neighboring nest holders know to
their sorrow, for during the breeding
season the jay lays heavy toll upon
the eggs and young of other birds,
and in doing so deprives us of the
services of species more beneficial
than itself. Approximately three
fourths of the annual food of the blue
Jay is vegetable matter, the greater
part of which is composed of mast,
i. e., acorns, chestnuts, beechnuts, and
the like. Corn is the principal culti
vated crop upon which this bird feeds,
but stomach analysis indicates that
most of the corn taken is waste grain.
Such noxious insects as wood-boring
beetles, grasshoppers, eggs of various
caterpillars, and scale insects consti
tute about one-fifth of its food.
Chickadee
Penethrestes articapillus
Length, about five and one-fourth
(nches.
Range: Resident in the United
States (except the southern half east
of the plains), Canada, and Alaska.
Habits and economic status: Be
cause of its delightful notes, its con
fiding ways, and its fearlessness, the
chickadee is one of our best known
-birds. It responds to encouragement,
and by hanging within its reach a
constant supply of suet the chickadee
can be made a regular visitor to the
garden and orchard. Though insig
nificant in size, titmice are far from
being so from the economic stand
point, owing to their numbers and ac
tivity. While one locality is being
scrutinized for food by a larger bird,
ten are being searched by the smaller
species. The chickadee’s food is made
up of insects and vegetable matter
in the proportion of seven of 'the
former to three of the latter. Moths
and caterpillars are favorites and
form about one-third of the whole.
Beetles, ants, wasps, bugs, flies, grass
hoppers, and spiders make up the rest.
The vegetable food is composed of
seeds, largely those of pines, with a
few of the poison ivy and some weeds.
There are few more useful birds than
the chickadees.
Song Sparrow
Melospiza melodia
Length, about six and one-fourth
inches. The heavily spotted breast
wth heavy central blotch is character
istic.
Range: Breeds in the United States
(except the South Atlantic and gulf
states), southern Canada, southern
Alaska, and Mexico; winters in Alaska
and most of the United States south
ward.
Habits and economic status: Like
the familiar little “chippy,” the song
sparrow is one of our most domestic
species, and builds its nest in hedges
s
or in garden shrubbery close to
houses, whenever it is reasonably safe
from the house cat, which, however,
takes heavy toll of the nestings. It is
a true harbinger of spring, and its de
lightful little song is trilled forth from
the top of some green shrub in early
March and April, before most of our
other songsters have thought of leav
ing the sunny South. Song sparrows
vary much in habits, as well as in size
and coB -ation. Some forms live along
streams bordered by deserts, others in
timbered regions, others on rocky bar
ren hillsides, and still others in rich,
fertile valleys. With such a variety
of habitat, the food of the species
naturally varies considerably. About
three-fourths of its diet consists of
the seeds of noxious weeds and one
fourth of insects. Of these, beetles,
especially weevils, constitute the ma
jor portion. Ants, wasps, bugs (in
cluding the black olive scale), and
caterpillars are also eaten. Grasshop
pers are taken by the eastern birds,
but not by the western ones.
Famous Mosque of St. Sophia.
Mohammedans reverence Constanti
nople next to Mecca, and St. Sophia,
or the "Church of the Divine Wis
dom,” holds first rank in the affections
of the faithful. Commenced in the
year 532 A. D. on the site of several
successive Christian churches of the
same name, no fewer than 10,000
workmen are said to have been em
ployed upon its construction, under
the direction of 100 master builders.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
THE
HOLDUP
By HAROLD CARTER
(Copyright, 3916, by W. G. Chapman.)
Budd’s Crossing was growing into
a sizable place. The population had
increased twelve thousand, there was
an apartment house, and Miller’s build
ings. containing the new telephone
central, with the Bank of North Kan
sas opposite, was the picture that
familiarized the outside world with
Budd’s Crossing when seen on post
cards.
There was a picture of Newton park,
with a couple seated upon a bench,
the young man’s arm around the girl’s
waist. The young man was unmis
takably Harry Fisher, for the angle
of photographic impact showed his
pointed, aggressive chin distinctly. The
girl, whose back alone was visible,
certainly looked like Netta Clare of
the telephone exchange. The picture,
which was snapped by flashlight,
caused a good deal of scandal; and
from the fact that the principal fig
ures in it both laughed it might have
been inferred that they were engaged
to be married.
They were. Harry was in the bank,
and he could look up and see Netta
opposite the switchboard across the
street. Netta never looked at him, how
ever, being attentive to calls.
How the quarrel started nobody
knew. But the first thing known was
that Netta and Harry were not on
speaking terms, and presently Harry
was running after half the girls in
town, and holding himself defiantly
Men and Women Rushed for the Hill
side.
toward the world, except when he
slunk down a side street to avoid meet
ing Netta.
Budd’s Crossing is on the main rail
road line, and lies five miles beneath
Lake Lomond, which irrigates the
thirsty section by means of a huge
dam, back in the mountains. If ever
the dam burst engineers, and people
with plain ordinary sense as well, de
clared that Budd’s Crossing would
just about have time to know it —no
more. All agreed that only those on
the outskirts would bo able to make
the rim of the horseshoe round the
town in time.
Budd's Crossing was not worrying
about the concrete dam, guaranteed to
last three centuries. It was worrying
about the bank robberies in neighbor
ing towns. Tlio Colton gang had held
up the banks of Newboro and Gasthaus
in broad daylight, taken out the con
tents of the disrupted safes, and rid
den off unscathed. Budd’s Crossing
had prepared for them —at least, the
bank had —in the shape of two armed
guards who patroled the front of the
building and were prepared to shoot
upon provocation. Some nervous peo
ple described bank robbers in every
stranger.
Somehow it leaked out that the Col
tons had sent a bombastic letter to the
president. They promised to have the
public’s deposits by a certain day. As
Colton aped the so-called romantic
deeds of the outlaws, the bank’s nerves
were on the jump when that day
dawned.
Nothing happened that morning. It
was not till two in the afternoon that
Rudd’s Crossing got the thrill of its
career. It was Netta Clare who sent
the news forth broadcast:
“The dam is breaking. Run for your
lives. It will not hold out twenty min
utes.’’
Out of the business offices, out of
five hundred homes, warned by the uni
versal panic, men and women rushed
for the hillside. Some carried babies,
some bundles which they discarded.
There was but one thought—flight—
in Budd’s Crossing that afternoon. In
four minutes from the moment of the
first alarm the town was deserted and
the hillsides were black with people,
trying desperately to reach an eleva
tion safe above the menace of the
flood before it burst upon them.
It would sweep Budd’s Crossing
away like matchwood, and rush on, a
hundred feet high, a sullen, furious
torrent, confined by the mountain
walls, to wreak havoc, ipon the vil
lages lower down.
The telephone exchange was desert
ed by the terrified girls. Only one
remained. White-faced, but calm. Net
ta snt at her post, watching the men
ace on the hills above her. She tele
phoned Incessantly.
“Red Mills! The dam has burst.
Run for your lives. Donchester! The
dam has burst. The flood will be on
you in fifteen minutes. Paintsbury!
Durham! Exeter! Labury! The dam
has burst.”
She called the last seulement in the
valley, and then ran from the ex
change, casting apprehensive glances
upward. The dam had still held. The
town was empty.
Onlv in front of the bank tw r o horses
tethered. As she ran past Netta cast
an apprehensive glance in through the
open door. What she saw nerved
her to a realization of what had hap
pened.
Through the open door, and through
the plate glass of the cashier’s cage,
she saw Harry, bound and trussed,
seated helplessly, while an armed man
stood over him and another worked
busby amid the debris of what had
been the bank's safe. Upon the coun
ter of the cashier’s cage lay Harry's
revolver, which ha had drawn too late.
Immediately Netta sized up the situa
tion. The report was a fake, launched
by the robbers in the bold design of
emptying the town. It had succeeded
admirably, and, with nobody on hand
but Harry, they were safe to work
tueir will.
The backs of the three were toward
her and they did not see Netta creep
like a mouse inside the bank. Cau
tiously she stole onward, no sound of
her footsteps echoing on the boards.
“Say, Bill, we chose the day all
right,” said the man at the safe to his
companion, without looking around.
“There’s tons of the stuff in here.”
“Hurry up, Ned,” answered the oth
er. “We've got to get home before
it gets dark.”
Netta stole onward. Now, crouching
under the wall of the cage, she was in
visible if any of the bandits should
look round. She saw Harry, bound,
watching the men out of his half-closed
eyes. The lcok in them told her that
ho had been surprised; there was no
trace of fear there, and Netta. was
glad.
Softly her hand crept up and touched
the revolver. Her fingers closed upon
it.
“Hands up!”
With an oath the man at the safe
sprang to his feet, to look into Netta’s
eyes and thiow up his hands obedient
ly. At the same time the man guard
ing Harry swung round, with his re
volver raised.
“Drop it!”
He dropped it, and saved eternity by
a single second.
‘Unfasten him!”
“Say, now —” protested one of the
men.
“I count two. One —”
Hurriedly Harry was unbound.
Stooping, he seized the revolver of his
former guard.
“March them to jail, Harry. I’ll—
I’ll stay here. I think —I think —”
said Netta, and fell weakly across the
counter.
That is the story of the holdup of
Budd’s Crossing. When the townspeo
ple crept back, by twos and threes and
driblets, two hours later, they found
Harry Fisher guarding two prisoners
in the sergeant’s office, and Netta at
his side. And from the lcok on their
faces it was clear that the old mis
understanding had been forgotten.
In witness thereof, the massive chest
of silver donated by the bank, and the
five hundred dollars from the tele
phone company.
Between Man and Man.
Confucianism, the prevailing die
trine of China, is neither a religion
nor a system of transcendental or cos
mic philosophy.
It is an agnostic system of ethics and
a system of practical and purely tem
poral common-sense philosophy which
sees no farther than this earth.
It takes practically no notice what
ever of the question of an after life,
of eternity, of future rewards and pun
ishments, of God.
It teaches merely that one ought to
do good because it is man’s duty to
do good. Confucianism is entirely con
cerned with the relation between man
and man.
Study of Facts.
The study of facts is an important
element in education. Not of unre
lated facts, or even of related facts
which make up a trivial whole.
It is essential that some serious sub
ject of fairly wide range should be pre
sented more or less constantly for a
period of at least several years to a
man’s mind, so that it becomes in a
sense his own, before he can rightly
be said to have received an “educa
tion.”
The greater and the more humane
the subject pro tanto the education,
hut any really serious subject will
serve.
Why Salt Causes Thirst.
Salt has been described as a natural
element of tne blood in about the same
proportion as in the water of the
ocean. Under general conditions we
do not feel the existence of salt in our
bodies because its effect is counteract
ed by a due proportion of water.
When we eat an excessive amount
of salt thirst is created by the demand
of nature that we also take a propor
tionate amount of water and dilute
the salt to its proper relative amount.
Any food that tends to absorb the
moisture of the body will cause thirst
for the same reason —that our physical
welfare requires a balanced quantity
of water.
CALOMEL WHEN BILIOUS? NO! STOP!
ACTS UNEJNIITE ON LIVER
I Guarantee “Dodson’s Liver Tone” Will Give You the Best Liver
and Bowel Cleansing You Ever Had—Doesn’t Make You Sickl
Stop using calomel! It makes you
sick. Don’t lose a day’s work. If you
feel lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti
pated, listen to me!
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when it comes Into contact
with sour bile, crashes into It, breaking
it up. This is when you feel that aw
ful nausea and cramping. If you feel
“all knocked out,” if your liver is tor
pid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated
tongue, if breath is bad or stomach
sour just try a spoonful of harmless
Dodson’s Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee—Go to any
drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone. Take a
ft* ft Eil e* Sold for 47 years. For
iUfi i K*-jfuL II If Malaria, Chills & Fever,
[j j L ” Also a Fine General
(PllTonic s r«Jr-
Dm* Stores.
A Tough Lot.
“We lead a hard life,” said the doc
tor.
“So?” asked the layman.
“Yes,” replied the M. D. “Even
when a patient dies of an incurable
disease the family blames the doctor.”
MITATION iS SINCEREST FLkTTERV
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on “La Creole” Hair Dressing—
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Surely Needed Aid.
One of the benevolent societies of
Providence received this letter among
several others in the morning mail re
cently :
“This unfortunate young man is the
only son of a widow, who died child
less, and his earnings maintained his
aged father and two young sisters,
whose sole support he is.”
The secretary of the society wrote
on the margin of the note:
“The circumstances of the case are
evidently exaggerated.”
ASTHMA
“I have been a s-ufferer from asthma for
thirty-two years,” writes Mis. J. I*. Bish
op, 744 Fatherland St., Nashville, Tenn.
“I got to the place where 1 could not lie
down for months at a time. I tried all
kinds of medicine, but got no relief. Lung-
Vita was recommended. 1 bought a bottle
and can truthfully say that I have not
been bothered with asthma since I took
the first bottle.”
Many other testimonials on file showing
what Lung-Vita has done in cases of con
sumption, asthma, grippe, colds, croup,
and whooping cough. At your dealers or
direct. Price 81.75. Free booklet upon
request. Nashville Medicine Co., Room 7,
Steger Bldg., Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
Boots.
“When I was a little boy I wanted a
pair of boots with tops that reached to
my knees.”
“Times have changed.”
“Yes. Now iny daughter wants
them.”
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take Grove’s
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen
eral Tonic because it contains the well
known tonic properties of QUININE and
IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out
Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds
up the Whole System. 50 cents.
Bag and Baggage.
“I notice one tiling übout hunting
trips.”
“What is that?”
“The baggage usually amounts to a
good deal more than the bag.”—Louis
ville Courier-Journal.
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few —a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or Is harsh and stilT, you can re
store It to Its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv
A form of rubber stamp lias been
invented for marking initials of own
ers on golf balls.
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
fj 9 Ready to Serve
fijy / Food Products
m / Insist on Libby’s at
Libby, McNeill & Libby k
Spoonful and if It doesn’t straighten
you right up and make you feel fine
and vigorous I want you to go back to
the store and get your money. Dod
son’s Liver Tone is destroying tho
sale of calomel because it is real liver
medicine; entirely vegetable, therefore
it cannot salivate or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti
pated waste which is clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson’s
Liver Tone will' keep your entire fam
ily feeling fine for months. Give it to
your children. It is harmless; doesn't
gripe and they like its pleasant taste.
—Adv.
ECZEMA
‘Hunt'sX'nre’ is unarantepd to A ~ \
stop and Dcrmaneutly cure that I
terrible itching. It is com- l
pounded for that purpose and f
your money will be promptly
rutunded without question / j
if Hunt’s Cure fails to cure L / /
Itcii. Kczoma. Tetter, King Worm l / a
or any other skin disease. 6(Jc \/ /p /
tbe box l /
For sale t>y Ah draff stores
or by mail from the
A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman,let.
FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE
Dissolved in water for douches stops
pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflam
mation. Recommended by Lydia E.
Pinkham Med. Co. for ten years.
A healing wonder for nasal catarrh,
sore throat and sore eyes. Economical.
Hc» extraordinary deanring and germicidal power.
Sample Free. 50c. ail druggists, or postpaid by
The Toilet Company. Bo.ton, Mass. A
K '“PARKER’S
HAIR BALSAM
si let preparation of merit,
dps to eradicate dandruff.
ar Restoring Color and
ity to Gray or Faded Hair.
jc^n^UO^^Jrug-srist^^
W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 29-1916.
Not to Be Caught.
Doctor —Now, suppose a man is sud
denly brought to you suffering from
trench feet, how would you treat him?
British Medical Corps Recruit who
knows the rigor of the new liquor li
censing laws —No, sir, you don’t catch
me that way, sir, I shouldn’t treat him
at all. —The Passing Show.
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. sl.oo.—Adv.
Change of Scene.
“Your condition is very serious,”
said the doctor; “very serious indeed.
What you need is an entire change of
scene.”
The patient seemed puzzled. "But,
doctor —” he began.
“There’s no but about It,” insisted
the physician. “A complete change of
scene is the only thing that will cure
you. By the way, what is your occu
pation ?”
“I’m a scene shifter.” —New York
Globe.
Important to Mothers
Examine carefully every bottle of
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
s
In Use for Over 30 Years.
Children Cry for Fletcher’s Castoria
A man never complains of poor eye
sight because lie Is unable to see his
own faults.