Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
Birds In THE NIGHT.
How Every Species are Attrasted oy rhe
Lght-House Lamp.
Philadelphia Times.

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The keeper of the Atlantic City light
house was watching the hydraulic float
ing lamp in the top of the tall tower last
night, and had just brushed speck from
one of the plate-glass sashes through
which the intense rays from the great
fixed light that warns of all floating
ocean life from destruction were stream
ing, when, turning his bead in answer to
a strange Tapping and whirring noise,
he uttered the exclamation.
"What shall l dor asked the plucky
little woman, who is in the habit of
keeping him company during the early
part of his virgils.
"Go for the net! Drive them off
Take my overcoat with you and save all
you CAMP
In the almost whitehead glow of the
|lamp, outside of whose radius everything
was impenetrable blackness, a spectacle
was presented unequalled in any of
Dore's grotesque imaginings. Through
the light, like notes in sunbeam and
thicker than mosquitoes, hundreds of
dazed and frenzied birds,4of various. siz-
es, were circling and gyrating, perform
ing mad aerial dance around and round
the lantern.
| Mrs. Wolfcame in directly. 81 can do
nothing with them" she said there are
thousands and thousands Of them
From out the bulging pockets ofthe over
coat birds began to fly, now dashing al
the windows as if to get out again. and
the three or four palpitating feathered
mites she held in each hand began strug
Cling and fluttering to get free. They
were of many hues these southern trav
elers thus arrested and carried out o
their northward migratory course, al
, though in the fierce splendor of the il
Illuminated arc outside they had all ap
peared luminous ard white. They wer'
robbins, fiickers, mud-hens, and a fev
rail birds, and one poor little pee-wil
/ perching itself sociably ON its rescuer'
, shoulder, uttered it's peculiar note.
"Did YOU notice that scarlet tanage
i'm the house as you came up?' aske,
/ Abraham Wolf, the keeper, of his guest
the scribe. "Well, that gorgeous fclloN
!, got here from the West Indies somehow
picked him up in the net one nigh
during heavy thunderstorm. The ne
4 YOU see, is on the land side, where a
t the birds come, and keeps them fror
4 splattering their blood on the glass. Br
the wild ducks, they tear the net mt
a shreds. We have had few spring blrJ
e the last week or two, but this Is the mn
Q large flock. Our house during the sun
3 mer is nearly always full of them. W
}; have them loose and let them go whel
!, they want to. Or night my wife and
/ took over 800 birds alive and let the
G 90 next morning. Rail birds. cat bird
Y wood thrush, missel thrush, thistle bird
d and all the soft-billed fy-catchers a
y the most numerous, but We get almo
:, eyery sort. keep record of their vi
e it's for the American Ornithologlcal S
d cietv to help throw light on migratio
It like to throw light on anything, "
Is know-it's in my line of business"
5, Tram Your Daughters to Housekeepin
's This advice is intended for all mothe
J. without exception or distinction, and
Is other guardians of young girls. A G
h should be trained to thorough theor'
y. ical and practical knowledge of hou'
NJ keeping, however great herexpectatior
m however high her position in life. !
= though she may be the daughter of
millionaire or one high in station s
is liable, sometimes, to become the he
of a home, and the head of a hol
IS, without knowledge of housekeeping
mt certainly proper object for commits
es alton. She may be abundantly able
ed hire all the servants to do her VIC
by without lifting hands, yet, if she kno
p nothing experimentally she is liable
% be. in a measure, at the mercy OF
,et servants. A servant generally lear
ed very soon, whether her mistress md
&C. stands the mysteries of her vocatl6
nd whether she is capable of directing
household affairs, or not, and II
he makes ND her mind that she is ignor'
ed in that respect, she will, nine times
is of ter. take advantage of it and beco
or a petty tyrant, or fail to earn her wag
vn. Every girl should be taught practl
nd and scientific cookery. heshould LEI
ole the changes that take place in meats I
om vegetables by cooking, and just W
me kind of cooking will render them m
DIN agreeable, digestible and nourishing.
the Young woman who pronounces the n
md rage VOWS, who takes upon herself
md position of head of the home dep
ment of family, assumes fearful
sponsibilitv, and if she does so with
qualifying herself for the position
' does very wrong, and the evils that
flow from the act are incalculable.
em- ignorant, incapable housekeeper
-. very likelv ALLEVIATE the affectionsof
'o husband, ruin his and her health
ong nlsnt the seeds of disease in the col
Vii tutions of their offspring. 1t is his
nth important that wife and mother sh'
the exercise a refining, intellectual, IN
talk and spiritual influence upon her fan
yed but that is hardly possible unless
an understands the lower department.
be- housekeeping, the preparation OF t
hey food. the care of the rooms, the car
R. ]. their clothing, the care of their
ing the art of making home neat, attrac
two comfortable, beautiful.
heir Then begin early, mothers, to =
your children to do something wei
sew and mend their clothes; to 81
. and dust their rooms; to set and
Q. off the table : to wash the dishes,
Tho quite early, to cook the simpler Oh
anS . Most girls will learn to do these II
'n' much more cheerfully when young
when in their teens, and it should n