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BLACKSHEAR, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20. 1879.
CLAY ON CROWS.
Cassius M. Clay liaises III* Voice In Behalf
of the Birds—What Keep* From la the
Plagues of Ecypt.
Cassius M. Clay writes to the Rich¬
mond Register as follows : I was pain¬
ed to see in your journal lately an ac
oount of the slaughtering of the crows,
without protest.
Nature 6eems to have provided for
the greatest sum of animal life. First
vegetables, then insects, and then high¬
er animals, man i anding at *he apex.
All insectivorous li Jrds are tk , allies of
man; without birds the human race
would have a hard struggle for exist¬
ence, and would perhaps be exterminat¬
ed. Over all the world the groat
breeders of famine—the locusts and
grasshoppers—are birds ruinous only where
cannot exist.
The swarms of locusts, which the
Bible tells infested Egypt, exist yet,
and will exist until trees shall* be
planted or caused to grow in all places
where grass grows ; then the
birds will have come and destroyed
the locusts. So the same law pre¬
vails in interior Africa and in
the United States. All along the
Platte river for hundreds of miles,
wherever I saw a few trees and shrubs
there were hawks hovering over to
pounce down upon and destroy the
birds. The prairie chickens are de¬
allies stroyed the by man, and between those two
birds are lost and the locusts
spread ruin; every green thing is eaten,
and men fly for life to other lands or
perish The phylloxera 1 in
sect, has inflicted, France, a small in¬
vine, loss than by the ruin of the
more the German war!
In early years our State was full of
woodpeckers and kindred birds. They
ate some apples and other fruit; our
fathers destroyed them. Then our veg
etables were fine and perfect; after the
birds have been killed we are overrun
with insects; perfect fruit and vegeta¬
bles are now almost unknown.
I believe that the quails or par
tridges, though gramnivorous, also de¬
stroy many insects. Whilst all our
other birds feed mostly upon insects,
every bird has his special habitat.
The swallows, several species in Ken¬
tucky, feed on the wing; the owls upon
the tips of trees and leaves—pinching
off insects, often unseen by the natural
eye. The wren and sparrow are very
active feeders near and upon the ground.
When the peas are sown I have observ¬
ed the sparrows following the lines and
picking up the pea bugs as they emerge
from the ground. There are many birds
which peck the rose bush and grape¬
vines. All the woodpecker and sap
sucker tribe eat bugs and not sap.
For many years X have kept a box
nailed to a tree near my library window;
I feed about a quart of crumbs and
fourteen hominy a day. Last winter I counted
varieties eating them, among
others, the beautiful red-birds, which,
though almost naturally shy, have become
as tame as the sparrows. I had
rather a sportsman would shoot down
and carry off a pig than one of these
beautiful songsters!
And new with this preface I come to
the crows. For long years I have
ceased my early war upon the crows.
They are eminently insectivorous. The
crow, when the weather is very cold,
will eat the eyes of weak, prostrate
lambs, other birds’ eggs and young;
take corn from the ground when it is
first sprouted, and follow and eat the
soft, half-digested com from fed cattle
in the fields. But for all this they
should never be killed. In many lands
the buzzard, as a scavenger, is protected
by law. The crow is also a most aetive
scavenger, but, as I said, is mostly in¬
sectivorous. I dissected young crows
in the nest, and never found a seed or
grain of com. I fonnd bugs, beetles
and, above all, caterpillars. This morn¬
ing, all over my bluegrass pasture, the
mercury standing at twenty-eight de¬
grees Fahrenheit, and a thin crust of
rozen eart A and a fine snow existing,
there were honsands of crows feeding.
They were eating grasR and the eggs of
grasshoppers. In France
the government pays a
price for the gathering of these eggs.
Here the crows do the work much more
life effectively for nothing. I have in hit
seen whole meadows stripped of
blade and seed by grasshoppers. Who
can say that the crows do not keep us
from famine ? The announcement bv
your paper of the destruction of the
crows struck me with the same sensibil¬
ity as if one had boasted that he had
dried up all the wells and all the .< pring*
of the county! Should I arouse the
State to pass efficient laws for the pro¬
tection of crows and other birds, I
will have done more for my country
than all the politicians and warriors so
justly made illustrious.
The Necessity of Plenty of Sleep.
A writer in Scribner , considering
“ The Relations of Insanity to Modern
Civilization,” speaks of the loss of sleep
as a prominent cause of insauity, and
says: 1
During every moment of conscious¬
ness the brain is in activity. The
peculiar process of cerebration, what¬
ever that may consist of, is taking place;
thought after thought comes forth—nor
oan we help it. It is only when the
peculiar connection or chain of connec¬
tion of one brain cell with another is
broken and consciousness fadeB away
into the dreamless land of perfect sleep,
that the brain is at rest. In this state
it recuperates its exhausted energy and
power, and stores them up for future
need. The period of wakefulness is one
of constant wear. Every thought is
generated at the expense of brain cells,
which can be fully replaced only by
periods of properly regulated repose.
If, therefore, these are not secured by
sleep—if the brain, through over-stimu¬
lation, is not left to recuperate, its ener¬
gy becomes exhausted; debility, disease,
and finally disintegration supervene.
Hence the story is almost always the
same; for weeks and months before the
indications of active insanity appear
the patient has been anxious, worried
and wakeful, cot sleeping more than
four or five hours out of the twenty-four.
The poor brain, unable to do its con
staut work, begins to waver, to show
signs of weakness or aberration; hallu¬
cinations or delusions hover around
like floating shadows in the air, until
finally disease comes and
“ Plants bis siege
Against the mind, the which he pricks and
wounds
With many legions of strange fantasies,
Which in their throng and press to that las
hold
onfoond themselves.”
How to Utilize Old Fruit Cans.
Perhaps of one of the most appropriate
uses an old fruit can that can be de¬
vised is to make it contribute to the
growth of new fruit to fill new cans.
This is done in the following manner:
The can is pierced with one or more pin
holes, and then sunk in the earth near
the roots of the strawberry or tomato or
other plants. The pin holes are to be of
such size that when the can is filled with
water the flaid can only escape into the
ground very slowly. Thus a quart can,
tion properly arranged, will extend its irrigr
to the plant for a period of several
days ; the can is then refilled. Practical
trials of this method of irrigation leave
no doubt of its success. Plants thus
watered flourish and yield the most
bounteous returns throughout the long¬
est drouths. In all warm localities,
where water is scarce, the planting of
old fruit cans, as here indicated, will be
found profitable as a regular gardening
operation .—Scientific American,
A sailor on board a vessel in the har¬
bor of Zante having been struck by
lightning, there was found on his
breast the number 44, being an exact
copy of the same figures on a part of
the ship’s rigging.
NO. 50.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
The national game—Turkev.
Nebraska has pop-corn sociables.
The Turks prefer sour over sweet
milk.
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A hard thing to sharpen—The water's
edge. ,
A locomotive drinks forty-five gallons
a mile.
Nearsightedness is uukuown among
savages.
There were 7,4*22 deaths ia Chicago
last year.
The ice harvest is harvested doubtless
with an icicle.
The man who has a fellow-feeling—
The blind man.
A tbiug sometimes brought to pass—
A counterfeit bill.
Some men are like brooks, they ure
always murmuring.
The world’s production of gold is one
third less than in 1850.
A tunnel uuder the Mississippi river,
at tit. Louis, is projected.
Anti-beer driuking societies are
spriugiug up iu Germany.
If “ home is where the heart is,”* what
a vagraut is the coquette !
“ The world recedes, it disappears J
Hid from sight by asses’ ears.
Orgaus were first introduced into
churches by Pope Yilalianus, m 1780.
that Nothing can constitute good breeding
has not good nature for its founda¬
tion.
cold Wife—“But, my dear, I shall catch
Husband—“ coming down so late to love;‘i’ll let vou in.”
Oh, no, my rap
you up well before you come down."
There isn’t much difference in spell
ing “hero" and “ zero,” but you see
how wide tho difference is when you
discover that ready’ __
drop your ears are to
off on the slightest provocation.
Across the face of tho Prussian bank¬
notes is priuted some fifty times, in very
small type, the penalty for counterfeit¬
imprisonment. ing, which is from five to fifteen years’
Convicted counterfeiters
cannot plead ignorance of the law.
A village home, a village borne,
With a village stream and tree,
Where the hearts are clean and tie grave* are
Oh, green,
a village home for me!
The Norristown Herald indicates it
belief iu the Oriental origin of man by
stating the well-known fact that both
the poppy and the mammy come from
the East.
Comer loafers the New Orleans
rieayune proposes to utilize by la¬
beling them with the names of the
streets they infest, for the convenience
of strangers.
A society composed of none but the
wicked could not exist; it contains with¬
in itself the seeds of its own destruction,
and, without a flood, would be swept
away from the earth by the deluge of
ts owu iniquity.
Chief Joseph, of the Nez Perces, is
described as having a square, honest
looking face, with coal-black hair
“ banged ” on his forehead and braided
behind. He wears garments displaying
all the colors of the rainbow.
boundabo ct.
Sweet, my sweet,
My being upraises
Its voice in light lilt
To warble thy praises;
Sweet, my sweet.
Thou delicate treasure,
Empty would be
Without thee—life's measure
Sweet, my sweet,
Happy Daintily tender,
am I
When thou dost surrender
Unto _ my lips,
In melting caresses,
7 hvaelf, as oool dew
The parched meadow bleu**
Sweet, my sweet, • f >
Sweet, Faithfully fickle—
my sweet!
(Which the same i* sweat picket.)
