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Interesting infor 1 lUI ra mation about America!! 4-v . C< v xxA Survey of the \ mH nited state 9 £3IX >MM)epartment of 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 :/ ' V ■' /i , v 'W 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. 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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.