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Crow Farmer’s
Friend and Foe
"-Twice as Good as He Is Bad,”
Writer Says of Persecuted
Bird.
S BACKE D BY UN CLE SAM
Kills Young Chickens and Destroys
Eggs of Other Birds, But on
Other Hand He Kills Field
Mice and Insects.
Washington. —The United States bi¬
ological survey sends out a bulletin
about the crow. It says that the big,
black fellow is the farmer’s friend and
should not be exterminated, and it
goes on to assert that many crows re¬
cently examined were found to eat 38
per cent grain and 62 per cent May
beetles, tussock moths, grasshoppers,
gypsy moths, army worms, chlnchbugs
mid brown moths. So he is about twice
as good as he is bad.
But the crow also kills young chick¬
ens and destroys the eggs of other
birds, George F. Burba writes in the
Columbus Dispatch. Charge that up
against him along with the 38 per cent
grain which he eats. Then on the
other hand, set down a large number
of field mice and cutworms which he
also gets away with and there is still
a balance in his favor. Besides, much
of the grain the crow eats would be
wasted anyway, since he picks up the
scattered kernels in the field and eats
a lot of very poor corn and wheat that
wouldn't be any account to anybody
else.
Hunted Become Intelligent.
The government bulletin isn’t going
to have much effect, one way or an¬
other, however. Everybody takes a
shot at a crow whenever he gets a
chance, but the crows persist. They
have been warred upon so much that
They have become very intelligent.
Take note of that—anything that is
warred upon or hunted teeomes intel¬
ligent. The hunted birds and animals
acquire knowledge and cunning, or
whatever you want to call it. Other¬
wise they would disappear.
If crows were stupid and sat around
on fences when they see a man in the
field with a gun; if they built their
nests where the nests could be easily
broken up; if they did not help each
other by giving warning of approach¬
ing danger, there would be no crows.
But everyone seems to be an enemy of
the glossy fellow, and he knows that
he must keep at a safe distance.
He learns that he must build his
nest high up in a tree, away from hu¬
man habitation, and watch out every
moment for somebody or something
that would kill him. All of this has
made him what we call one of the
most intelligent of birds.
The Crow as a Pet.
And still the crow is a sociable bird.
He likes human beings, when they
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None Dies in This Town,
itself tfewn asserts
the state 7 ! ea,thiest conununity in
fact that' its cIalni upon the
tad a !ocal cemetery has not
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of the ' UC since 1SG3 - the date
tha f f Gral in Cranraore
t tim - ® - Since
wtntB everal residents of the
Uni Jt'-J , v dled in other
of the sections
fact nl* v bUt lt ls
that a remarkable
rurred in 8 single death has oc-
19 community since 1863.
treat him right. lie makes a splendid
pet, although a naughty one, in that
he is always getting into trouble. If
you W *N take a crow when it is young
and raise it it becomes as gentle as a
chicken.
He likes to be around the bouse,
where there are a lot of hoys, but at
every opportunity he will fly upon the
table and snatch the food, or carry
scissors or thimbles or spools of
thread or jewelry away and hide them.
He is a mischief maker with the hens
and chickens and fusses and quarrels
and wrangles with the dog that sleeps
upon the porch.
But lie will not desert the family;
he will remain with the boy that feeds
him and attends to him, although he
may take a trip occasionally to the
fields and talk to the other crows, com¬
ing back at night to his regular roost.
Girls Beat Boys Spelling.
Tiffin O.—Girls in the Seneca county
schools are better spellers than the
hoys. Honors at the county school
spelling and speaking contest held here
went chiefly to the girls. Miss Ger¬
trude Bertsch of Thompson won the
seventh and eighth grade spelling con¬
test. Harry Sperow of Hopewell the
fifth and sixth and Irene Hatton of
Attica the third and fourth. Rosamond
Showalter of Attica and Thomas Wat¬
son of Old Fort won in the two divis¬
ions of the speaking contest.
Tell Ships of
Ocean Noises
Secret Ears to Be Placed on Mer¬
chant Ships by the Gov¬
ernment.
TEST PROVES IT A SUCCESS
Hydrophone, Government Controlled
Invention, Can Explain Many Sea
Mysteries—Tried Out on
Destroyer.
New York.—In olden times when
Chinese shipbuilders designed and con¬
structed their lateen-rigged craft for
war or commercial purposes, promi¬
nent and ofttimes ferocious “eyes”
were located on either side of the
bow.
Today modem America, now the
leading nation in shift construction, is
proposing to equip her merchant ves¬
sels with “ears,” the location of which,
like the eyes on the Chinese junk, are
NEW REVOLT LOOMS
Outbreak of Junker Army in Pom¬
erania Feared.
Kapp Supporters Scattered Among Big
Estates Obviously as Farm
Laborers.
Stettin.—Everyone in this
of Pomerania will tell you
is going to happen, but they do not
know what.
Former Minister of War Reinhardt,
who is trying to find the answer and
to devise a lid for threatening out¬
breaks, feels the same way, but ap¬
parently he is satisfied there is no im¬
mediate danger. Under his direction
the headquarters of two junker outfits
have been raided and closed, and the
militarized police force has been
strengthened. There are no outward
signs, except that general unrest indi¬
cates a tensity in the situation.
Everybody is sleeping on his arms,
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
j Audience Applauded as 1
t Snake Crushed Trainer \
l Applause from a large audi- |
t once resounded in the little the* t
j nter at Serbruck, Switzerland, f »
| I while crushed a its gigantic trainer python to death. slowly
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| named The trainer, Ciro, realized a Hungarian her peril girl ?
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l and shrieked for help as the J
f coils of the serpent closed about
1 her, but the audience believed f
t her cries were part of the en- ;
I tertainment and cheered loud- i
i rush- I
i Fraulein Giro’s manager *
f ed on the stage and shot the |
f snake, but not until the young f
; woman was beyond help. It was ;
f not until after the performance *
! was over that the people were |
f apprised of the fact they had t
; witnessed a grewsome tragedy. I
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Now Crows Over the Doctors.
Huntington, W. Va.—Marguerite, the
twenty-month-old daughter of E. W
Stoller anld wife, was slowly wasting
away. Physicians saw no hope of hei
recovery. She was seized with a fit
of coughing and a watermelon seed
she had swallowed last September was
disgorged. Now slie will get well.
Met Death on Duty.
Lawreneeburg, Ind.—Capt. Wesley
L. Moore, aged seventy-eight, river pi¬
lot, often said he hoped he might die
on the Ohio river. Death came to him
as he wished. He was found lifeless
in his cabin on the Ivory Wood, a ves¬
sel he operated between Cincinnati
and New Orleans.
on the ship’s hows, but under instead
of over the water. While supersti¬
tion induced the Chinaman to equip his
ship so it could “see” its enemies and
work its way into a safe port through
shoal water, hidden rocks and through
crowded waterways, science has de¬
signed the “ears” for the same pur¬
pose.
Test Is Made.
With the destroyer Breckenridge
equipped as a demonstration ship, 40
or more representatives of leading
steamship lines have just had an op¬
portunity to see and test the efficacy
of the listening device. It is now a
government-controlled invention, used
on fighting ships during the war as a
protection against submarines and offi¬
cially designated by the navy as “the
M. V. type, hydrophone.” Its object
is to disclose in surrounding waters
the presence of other craft, to foretell
the approach to shoal waters, apprise
the navigator of the vicinity of light¬
ships equipped with submarine bell
signaling devices. It is expected also
to disclose with a remarkable degree
of accuracy the depth of water where¬
in the ship so equipped Is floating.
Tells Depth of Water.
The apparatus Includes 48 hydro¬
phone receivers located in a tank of
water in the bow of the vessel so that
an equal number is on either side. In
the test the sound of the propellers of
a steamer five miles distant was heard.
The depth of the water is ascertained
by listening to the noise made by the
propellers of the vessel carrying the
hydrophone as it is echoed hack from
the bottom of 1 the sea. In depths be¬
yond 100 fathoms, however, the hydro¬
phone refuses to record, it was ex¬
plained, but as a majority of collisions
occur near a coast line and at. con¬
gested harbor entrances, the inventors
and officers of the navy predict that
its adoption will remove many of the
fiazards of navigation now caused by
fog.
Dr. II. C. Hayes, formerly of Swarth
more college, said the device had been
installed on one transport, Von Steu¬
ben, and on one occasion probably
saved the ship from running aground
on the Long Island shore during a
heavy fog. Doctor Hayes also claims
(hat the invention will enable a mar¬
iner to locate icebergs, through the
reflecting back to the operator from
the submerged portion of a dangerous
berg the sound of the operating ship’s
own propellers.
one eye open. No confidence is felt
in the Reiehswehr, which still retains
most of the officers who supported the
Kapp forces, and these still have their
arms and are scattered among the
big estates, obviously as farm labor¬
ers, but in reality more like small
bands of mercenaries as bodyguards
for the junker barons.
The opposing forces are the actual
workmen. On the elates there nomi¬
nally are two organizations, hut it
needs only the first pint of a monar¬
chist coup when they will be under one
leadership ready for battle.
Let the Defense Hang itself.
Noblesville. Ind.—Mrs. Rn.-a Davis,
administratrix, suing the Central In¬
diana Railroad company for the death
of her husband, Charles E. Davis
didn't have any wR^sses. but on the
evidence of the railroad’s witnesses
she was awarded a verdict of $3,000,
All testimony f or Mrs Davis wa»
brought out on cross-examination.
CLAD FOR OUTDOOR
AND INDOOR WEAR
fXt HE heart of the flapper rejoices
A in many smocks, blouses and top
jackets for outdoor wear, that range
(ill the way from plain white, with a
little inconspicuous decoration, to
vivid colors that form backgrounds
for even more vivid cut-out figures
posed against them. Among the lat¬
ter there are slip-over smocks, with
short kimono sleeves, in heavy cotton
weaves that are shown in orange,
green, rose, blue. With figures cut
from contrasting colors and black or
colored yarns, their mukers use them
as an artist might a canvas, posing
brilliant parrots or gaudy flowers on
them. When these figures turn out
unexpectedly to be pockets to every
one’s surprise, the joy of youthful
wearers is complete, for it is a fine
thing to have one’s high spirits visual¬
ized in clothes.
A belted smock in blue cotton shown
In the picture above is the successor
of the middy blouse and plays the same
role in the wardrobe, but it is a bit
Airy Midsummer Hats in
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Q OME of tiie hats of midsummer
might- be inspired by thistle-down
or tiie exquisite airy globe that fol¬
lows the flower of tiie dandelion—they
are so light and so cool-looking Only
the sheerest and most lace-like ma¬
terials go into their, making, mere
mists of fabrics in pure white. Their
trimmings are often all-white also;
the cold but lovely ghosts of gay flow¬
ers and fruits and grains that adorn
their colorful rivals. Occasionally a
little pale color appears in ribbon or
other trimming on these fragiie-Iook
ing white shapes but designers like,,
best to make them all in white.
Hair braid, malines and the filmiest
laces over the flnesS wire frames,
make the majority of the white dress
hats for midsummer, and white rib¬
bon in the narrower widths appears
to lend them just enough of substance
and luster to make them pass as head
coverings. Tiie group of four hats
shown here reveals the success with
which millinery artists deal in these
niaterials; they indicate something of
FIGURED GOODS FOR BLOUSES
Materials Lend Themselves Very Satis¬
factorily to the Simplest of
Style Designs.
Figured foulard blouses are being
shown for spring and summer and
very attractive they are. Figured ma¬
terials lend themselves best to the
simplest style designs. The woman
who wants to make her own blouses,
hut is not sufficiently skilled to work
out elaborate fasion ideas, may do
very well with a lace blouse—which
ceauires only care in matching the Dat-
more graceful in lines. Its *dd colia
and flaring cuffs lend it Interest, am
they are supplemented by slashes ove
the hips and the management of tli
belt which slips through slides. Les
we overlook this cleverness, the ch
signer has put small sprays of en
broidered flowers at each side.
A pretty and demure dress of ging
ham, for the home, is shown in tht
second picture, and hardly needs de
seription. These small, plain checks
are very fashionable this season, foi
both grown people and all the younger
generation. Organdie lends them dainti¬
ness. It appears here in a fichu and
in little, narrow frills on the cuffs.
Often a sash is made of but in the
dress pictured there is a wide girdle
made of a bias strip of gingham.
These garments are of the kind that
women make at home, and the mate¬
rials for making them are to be found
everywhere; yet they appear in all the
best displays in centers of fashion
where their qualities are appreciated
the great diversity they create in
styles. There are two dressy models,
one with round crown and sweeping,
upturned brim in which the frame is
covered with malines. Narrow ribbon
tied in loops midway of the brim
makes a beautiful facing and fine
white lace drapes th^top. Tiie other
wide brimmed hat has a crown of hair
braid and a brim of malines with two
scant ruffles of Val lace as a finish.
Pieot-edged ribbon about the crown,
wanders over the brim edge and ends
in a fiat bow in the undei brim. A half
wreath of grasses and flowers com¬
pletes it.
Hair braid crown with very narrow
ribbon in rows, and a brim of ribbon
loops make the small hat trimmed with
tiny roses, while snowdrops and ma¬
lines cover the rolling brim of the hat
having a round crown of hair braid.
4/ldc* is /W
tern—added to good workmanship—
and with figured silks, which will re¬
ward her with satisfactory results
when tiie same points are considered
and observed.
in determining tiie question of color
when the season’s supply of blouses
is under consideration, don’t overlook
the vogue for jade green. It is very
popular this year and, when becoming,
very lovely.
Skirt and Trousers to Match.
For the real sportswoman there is
a new divided skirt with trousers to
match.
T0V NEVER CAN
TAME A WILD-CAT
Mr. Dodson Warns Against Use
of Treacherous. Dangerous
Calomel.
Calomel salivates! It’s mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug¬
gish liver. When calomel comes into
contact with sour bile it crashes into
it, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilions, headachy, consti¬
pated and ail knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a bottle of Do*
son’s Liver Tone for a few cents which
is a harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. Take a spoonful
nnd if it doesn’t start your liver and
straighten you up better nnd quicker
than nasty calomel and without mak¬
ing you sick, you just go back and
get your ^pney.
If you take calomel today you’ll be
sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides,
it may salivate you, while if you take
Dodson’s Liver Tone you will wake up
feeling great, full of ambition and
ready for wdrk or play. It’s harmless,
pleasant and safe to give to childre t ;
they like it.—Adv.
What Did She Mean?
Little Jimmy Pester—You promised
to take me to the zoo to see the ani
nais fed.
His Mother—T know I did, dear, hut
ve won t have time. Your father will
)e home to dinner in a few minutes
uid you may sit up and go to the ta
)le with him.
CUSTOMS FIFTY YEARS AGO.
Who among us would say to-day, “I
lever use a Dentifrice; I never have to?”
Yet Fifty years ago, odd as it may
seem, not one person in 1,000 used a
Dentifrice—or even a footh brush.
So to-day, after more than 30 years of
persistent publicity of Allen’s Foot=Ease,
the Antiseptic Powder for the Feet, not
many well-turned-out people care to con¬
fess, “Y T ou know I never have to use a
Powder for the Feet!”
More than One Million five hundred
thousand pounds of Powder for the Feet
were used by our Army and Navy during
the war.
The reason is this: Confining the feet
in Leather, or Canvas Shoes is bound to
create friction more or less. Allen’s Foot=
Ease removes the friction from the shoes.
It is this friction which causes callouses,
corns and bunions. You know what fric¬
tion does to your motor-car axle. Why
not remove it from your footwear by
Shaking into your Shoes to-day. Allen’s
Foot-Ease, the cleanly, wholesome, heal¬
ing, Antiseptic powder? Get the habit,
as millions now have it, who inhabit our,
as yet, imperfect world.—Adv.
Quite Different.
“What do you think Ellen told her
jealous husband when he asked her
if the paper she was bending over
was the cloak for her design?”
“What did she say?”
“That on the contrary, .it was a
design for her cloak.”
If your eyes smart or feel scalded, Roman
Bye Balsam applied upon going to bed la
Just the thing to relieve them.—Adv.
Shining Up the Back Yard.
Mr. Peavish says that another rea¬
son why lie thinks Mrs. Peavish car¬
ries housekeeping to an extreme is
because he lias to go out and wipe
the dew off the grass every morning
to keep tiie back yard from tarnish¬
ing.—Dallas News.
if You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best
Have you ever stopped to reason why
It is that so many products that are ex¬
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain—the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.,
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says “Take for
example Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every ease it shows excellent re¬
sults, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has so large a
sale.”
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony ot thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Ro'ot is due to the fact,
so many people claim, that it fulfills al¬
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri¬
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. this Y.,
and enclose ten cents; also mention
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.—Adv.
Child's Logic.
“Oli, mamma,” said Elsie, suddenly,
“my foot feels prickly.”
“It’s only asleep, dear.”
“Then it must be having an awful
bad dream,” returned the child.—Bos¬
ton Transcript.
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment in five minutes
with Cuticura Soap and hot water. It
is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor complexions, dandruff
itching and red rough hands.—Adv.
Early Example.
Midas had just seen another ham
sandwich turn to gold as his tingvrs
touched it.
“This profiteering,” he remarked
sadly, “is something that can be car¬
ried entirely too far.”
