Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-09-27

you know. is in the Department OF State. 1t
goes without saying that the foreign office, as
young gentlemen employed there are fond Of
calling it. is decidedly tho proper branch Of
the civil service to work in.
MY landlord" said Peyton Peyton. sis like
many other husbands OF boarding house keep
ers that haxe ever known in one respect-he
lives on his wife. That type OF man is invari-
ably fond OF amusement in one shape or
another. One such specimen / once knew who
was addicted to dissipation of a religious de-
serlptlon. lie joined shouting sect OF so-calicd
Perfectionists. who had got SO far in sanctity
that they could not sin, though he toiled not
for himself from one years end to the other
My landlord is addicted to sport Now and
then in the season he goes off to the races, and
the result is apt to be poorer fare Off and-on
when he struck the wrong horse.
Last night, after l had enjoyed the reed
birds eXtrcmcly-partly because We had bee
half starved for the week previous-he came
to me, rubbing his hands. and inquired if
had not found the game delicious.
- sublime l replied with enthusiasm--for
had really enjoyed them exceedingly.
"'Wnl you permit me to exhibit to you my
reed bird farm he inquired.
Il couldn't imagine what he meant, but of
course / acquiesced politely. lie led me up to
the loft of the house, which was spacious and
well lighted. was astonshed to find there n
regular ayiary OF sparrows. Tho situation
dawned upon me at once. had often heard
OF sparrows being used as substitutes for reed
birds by restaurants-evidently INV landlord
had discovered their availability in this way.
This Is but a preliminary experiment. he
| explained. After a li.tle while my wife g
boarders may have reed birds every day if
they so desire. People generally have no no.
| ton OF the difference that food makes in n bird
An English sparrow shot on the street is one
| thing; fed for a season upon u choice and fut-
tenlnS diet OF grain Il is quite another. No one
| would readily recognize tho tuneful bobolink
| o: the north in the succulent reed bird of the
| Delaware and Chesapeake or in the rice
| bird of the south. Yet all three are onc
| When the bobolink strikes the reeds il ceases
| to sing and becomes tat; migrating further
south II grows fatter still upon the rice fields
and Is priced Ge!icacy for the table,
DIET THE ONLY NECESSITY.
$50 you apply the same notion to sparrows?'
said.
Precisely he admitted. NY theory was
| that diet was The only thing necessary to make
the English 81 arrow as palata3le AZ the reed
! bird or the rice bird. At dinner today you and
| the other Soys, without knowing il, decided
that my cxper ment was u success. / have
been catching in this loft .lozen or so spar
rows every day, and, once caught, have fed
| them upon rice. which find most fattening
Three weeks OF that dict will mako sparrows as
| fat as butter and m luscious rs any reed bird
This l call my reed bird farm 1t might be
4 run PfonNhDif siuipI! 10 supply the Doarucrs,
| inasmuch as the birds cost nothing beyond tho
small trouble of trapping them and tho food they
| eat; but my ambition is something far beyond
propose to supply dealers Ia game throughout
the United States with rnliraiIed quantities of
4 reed birds, as soon ] can get hold of a
man with money to put capital into the
scheme My notion 10 to establish sparrow
trapping and breeding factories upon a largo
scale. which viii supply the entire demand for
reed birds at price much less than the Della
Il ma anil vhas. - ~s.kxx
IL can supply a bird that Is to all culinary in
tents aud purposes rs good as the real bird at
| % per cent less / can make money. Mean
while until this great commercial enterprise II
| started there 10 no reason why the boarders
should not have reed birds for breakfast, dim
ner and supper II they DESIRE"
compromise has been elected between the
| Illinois Central railroad aud the trainmen who
made demand few weeks ago for an Increase
OF wsgo& Both sides conceded points.