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The Jennings daily record., 1902-08-29
GREED OF MAN
THREATENS TO CAUSE
MOCkIN0 BIRDS EXTINCTION

The influence OF the New Orleans
bird fanciers has prevented the LOU
isiana legislature from passing law
for the protection of birds. One re-
suit of this is to increase the danger
Of the determination of the mocking
bird in Louisiana, Audubon's state.
The mocking birds were once the
most abundant of all birds in Louisi-
ana. The legislature even proposed
to substitute them as the state bird
for the pelican. But in the past 80
years the bird has been slaughtered
as though the aim and purpose of the
people were to get rid OF it.
The slaughter began in 1865, when
the negroes first owned shotguns. The
mocking birds, because of years of
safety, were the tamest and most i'm
pudent of birds, and therefore the
most easily killed. Thousands were
slaughtered to make potpies for the
negroes of the quarters.
The negro hunters have been fol-
lowed by the bird fanciers, who will
probably succeed in extinguishing all
song birds or birds of bright plumage
in the state. They want live mocking
birds to sell. 1t is said that 20, 900
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There have been many attempts to
harness old Sol, to MAKE him work
at mans bidding so that his rays,
trapped and put to new uses, shall
take the place of coal or wood as
producer of motive power. Clever
minds in all ages have been at work
to devise the necessary trap. Several
more or less practical machines have
resulted, but none SO perfect, SO full
of promise as the great sun motor now
engaged in storing up the suns heat
at the well-known Pasadena ostrich
farm in California.
BY the suns heat water is boiled,
the steam working powerful engine,
capable of pumping some 1,4OO gal
Ions of water in a minute.
From distance the California sun
motor looks like huge open UNI
brella inverted and with piece sawn
off it's top. 1t is balanced SO on a
high steel framework and is set at
such an angle that it will catch the
sunbeams on it's 1888 mirrors. Each
of these mirrors measures two feet
in length and three inches across and
reflects the sunshine on to a long
cylinder corresponding to the handle
of the umbrella, which holds about
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mocking birds and other song birds
are shipped from New Orleans each
year, most of them going to Europe,
and to Germany in particular.
The loss in birds is much heavier
than this. 1t is probable that four
or five are caught for every one ex-
ported.
The mocking birds do not take to
captivity, and prove very delicate
cage birds, although strong and Wig
orous when at large. Like the cen
trail American quetzal the old birds
pine in captivity and soon die.
The mortality is heavy among the
young birds. 1t is still a popular be-
lief in Louisiana that the parents of
young birds, :preferring to see their
offspring dead rather than in cap
tivity, poison them when they find
them Gagged, and it is a fact that
the older birds do gather around the
cage of the young captive and offer
it food.
So rare has the mocking bird be-
come through these prosecutions that
one can travel year after year through
the woods and never hear it sing save
in captivity.
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One Sure Siun.

A story illustrating the hard-head
edness and sheer common sense of
the late DR.. McCosh. the noted dean
of the faculty of Princeton Univer.
sity, was told recently. He made
the acquaintance of couple of
Scotsmen who worked as farm hands
on an estate near Princeton, and,
church, hauled them over the Goals
for backsliding and induced them to
attend Sunday services regularly.
They We're simple-minded men, with
immense respect for the venerable in.
structor, and they invariably ran to
him to settle disputes or to advise
them in matters of business. One
morning they appeared before him as
he was going to chapel. and told him
they had had a quarrel as to the sign
of hearing the first cuckoo of the
season. Jamie had said that it was q
sign that the one who heard it would
speedily marry; Sandy declared it was
a sign that the hearer would get
speedily rich.
Its sure sign of somethin', doc.
tor. What may it be? Can We tell
u.s."
Yes" said the doctor. "To hear
the first cuckoo Of the season is q
sure sign you're not deaf
And he solemnly turned on his
heel and left them staring after him
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10000 60GG 10000 G6G9
POWER OF The SUN q
y Mighty nay and rlads ~
d to
64GA AA60GG90006

100 gallons of water. The boiler
is made of steel, covered with heat
absorbing material.
The hot, persistent California sun
that shines almost every day OF the
year when reflected from the mirrors
on the boiler, causes such heat that It
is possible to obtain 100 pounds OF
steam pressure in one hour from cold
water. When the machine is ma
ready for work-a task for q n
who has merely to turn crank ufi
an Indicator shows that the sun
truly focused on the mirrors-it WI
move around SO that its face is kept
turned to the sun all day without fur
ther manipulation under the force OF,
an automatic engine. The boiler is
automatically supplied with water, =
safety valve releasing the steam Il
the pressure should become too great
All day, every day, from an hour
after sunrise to half hour before.
sundown, this tireless heat concentS
tor keeps it's shining face turned ton
the sun, storing up an energy which
may be put to almost any use. 1t
works under the powerful California
sun as well in winter as in summer
Pearson's Magazine.
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five gra1ns of morphine and was as
dead As-er quite dead in no time.
was with him that afternoon. He was
down-hearted and l just thought of
some such thing at the time. I'm
pretty good reader of human nature,
you know-pretty good. -
"You and he were associated daily.
and were very close friends for sew.
eral years, were you not?" Her voice
was beginning to sound as If it came
from a remote corner of the long
room and she shivered as he spoke
again.
For fifteen years-ever since be-
came manager in my own right. He
was as fond of me as lawfully fond
of me, but l didn't discourage tit
pleased him. When I'd come down IL
the morning after a-well, after hav.
ing been detained late the night be.
fore, I'd feel his eyes on my face.
Then he would slip up behind my
chair and lay his hand on my shoul-
der, for all the world like the gov
ernor used to do. And he'd say:
Take care of yourself, old man;
you're working too hard. I couldn't
bear to see another name at the head
of our stationery. 1t would break me
all up, old man That's the way he
would talk. The way that man loved
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WOES OF GERMAN OFFICERS.
Matrimonial snass in the Path Of kai.
ser's Soldiers.

Ser'6 soldiers.
AS censor of military marriages,
German Emperor William has defined
what manner of wedlock is permis-
sible to Prussian officers and what
marriages are ''strengthily under
said" His new order states that an
officer with 81 ,125 year must have a
private income of 1915 in order TO
marry. A district officer of gendarmes
must add private means of $525 year
to salary of 5000 to win the privil-
ege. Officers who haven't $3.50 pay
mustn't marry at all.
The kaiser's is the busiest matri-
monial bureau in the world. Each
officer who desires to double his
duties and halve his rights must
state his prospective father-in-laws
business and tell whether the lady is
maid, widow or divorcee, and in the
latter case why. Proofs must be in
closed of her income, education and
repute. If there is no obstacle, social
or military, the wedding bells may
then peal out their merry note.
Interest rates upon such German
investments as the "kingly and kaiser
ly'' bureau will accept are low. A.
young fellow practically must have
$4,000 to $4,000 in his own name
before he can think of matrimony II
the lovelorn one has not the cash
WELL in that case he can give up mis-
commission and come to country
where he may marry on nothing q
year if he likes.
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TIA man wlA welt take the time
70 work on any conversation upon
his wife until after they are In bed,
and who then begins to tell her the
days stock Of funny stories after she
10 too sleepy 70 stay awake, 80 that
she always goes to sleep on his hands
while he u talking to her. had an
sawfu2ly funny one to narrate unto
her after he had doused the glim and
crawled into bed = few nights ago.
.Ha! ha! hal" he gurgled, as he
settled back ON his pillow-his wife
had been In bed for about Is minutes
then. Heard Jim Dandy of q story
about Billy Fantoids this afternoon.
It seems that Billy took 1t into his
head to 60 fishing up the river one
afternoon last week, and, bling, he
hired . leaky skin over in George
town without knowing that the
blamed thing was leaky. Well, when
he had rowed out to the middle of
the river, why, he"
At this stage of it the narrator
heard an exceedingly gentle feminine
snore alongside of him.
'F'jee, if she hasn't gone to sleep
on me again." he said to himself,
aggrievedly. Mary" he said, aloud,
''are you awaken"
There was no reply.
Huh! wonder she couldn't just
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Ten years ego when was the man
ager of sugar mill In Cuba" saad .
merry traveller, who ia stopping ct one
of the city hotels. Il found that every
teamster on the plantation was IN the
habit of swearing at his mules with .
nberality to make . Yankees hair stand
on end. III place OF . whip the men
used oaths, and II team got stuck
they were jumped ON with . string
of oaths a rod ling. didn't like It,
and one MONDAY morning gave or
ders that there was to be no more
swearing. We were cutting and haul
ing cane, and things dragged along in
way to vex me. held ON to my
temper until after mid-afternoon, and
then discovered that our four teams
were stuck down in the field and there
was. no cane for the grinder. Jumping
on my pony, I rode down to the first
teamster. who was smoking and taxi
ing things easy, and yelled out to
know why he didn't come along.
Senor. the mules are stuck he
calmly replied.
Then put on the whip and make
'em pull out said
81 have put on the whip, Senor,
and it was no use.'
II took the whip and lines from his
hands and encouraged the team, but
they wouldn't pull ten pounds. l took
them by the bits, but they only sagged
back. l called all the drivers to give
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TREED BY A BUCK
WouEd.Be Good Samaritan Serious Danger from the
Savage Animal


Olen Bowles of Costello, Pa, will
never stop again to be Good Samari-
tan to a deer in trouble.
Passing along an old woods road
he saw fawn lying in clump of
bushes. AS the fawn did not move he
walked up to it and found thas 1t was
bleeding from an injury in its shoul-
der.
With the intention of taking the
wounded fawn home with him and
doctoring it, Bowles was STOPPING to
lift it up in his arms when the fright
ened little animal began bleating pit
eously. 1t had scarcely uttered it's
first cry when Bowles heard a COM
motion in the brush, and looking up
saw two deer. big buck and doe,
bounding toward him.
The buck, had on a fierce front, the
bristle on his neck standing erect and
his eyes blazing with fury. BoWles
hastily climbed a tree. He got out
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of range of the buck just in time to
escape savage lunge from his horns.
The doe took the fawn away into
the wood. The buck, however. stayed
right at the foot of the tree and
pranced and snorted around it at ev-
cry move Bowles made, keeping him
there until long after dark.
When he thought the buck had gone
away Bowles slipped down out of the
tree and started to put behind him
the three miles that lay between that
spot and home as quickly as his legs
would let him. He hadn't gone fifty
yards, though, before the buck was
after him. Dodging from tree to tree,
Bowles made his way along until a
man answered his cries for help. Then
the buck abandoned the chase.
The settler who went to Bowles'
rescue said the buck was a terror to
that neighborhood and known to the
hunters as Old Golden.
The Jennings daily record., 1902-08-29
Story or ALuslcts9 TON.
Aseount o. ths: S1ay Eiixl
beth J0rdan Was outwltted.

AsDusiWn Aseount 81 the S1ay EiixSs
beth J0rdan Was outGltted.
The following story 10 told abous
Miss Elizabeth G. Jordan. whose new
book. "Tales Of Destiny, has Just
been published by the Harpers. When
Miss Jordan was working on the sta1
Of one of the chief newspapers IN
New York she had an assistant whon
we will call Miss q. One day Miss
@ ordered a modest luncheon brought
to her desk, when Miss Jordan observer
it temptingly displayed during Miss O.
absence from the room Miss Q fail.
ing to return. Miss Jordan raised q
cover Of one Of the dishes. which prov
ed very attractive to hungry woman
whose absorption in work had caused
her to forget her own luncheon. The
tasting of one dish led to the eating
of it.. Still Miss @ did not arrive.
Miss Jordan seated herself and throw.
ing care to the winds, ate the entire
luncheon, carefully replaced the Gov.
ers. and returned to her desk. Pres.
emily Miss @ arrived and sat down
with an air Of pleasant satisfaction.
Removing the covers one by one she
discovered her loss, and without re-
mark left the room. 1t was not long
before a waiter appeared at Miss Qs
desk bearing tray loaded down with
all the delicacies of the season, in
cluding quail on toast. To this sump-
tuous repast Miss @ now sat down.
Meanwhile the waiter had approached
Miss Jordan and presented her bill.
She looked at the amount. 1t was
$3.50.
This was ito be charged to you,
MN said the waiter.
Certainly" said Miss Jordan, con-
tinuing her work without the slightest
change of countenance.
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ridors awhile and then left with the
awful delirium of perityphlitis still
upon him.-Denver Times.
Gave His Panama Away.

81 feel like hiring some one to
kick me- said Jim Foraker the other
day, when l look in the windows Of
the hat stores and see the prices of
Panama hats, and think what | did
with mine. You see. couple of years
ago, just after the Spanish-American
war, friend of the senator sent up q
pair of beautiful Panamas. and the
senator gave me one. Well. At was
rather big and broad, and the only
time wore it was to go fishing. Then
got tired of the thing lying around
the house and gave it Std the jan3tor
of the building live in, on Walnut
Hills. Now that gentleman is walk
ing around in about the best Panama
in the city. and if want one will
have to put up for it. The next time
any one sends me curious looking
hat I'll keep it until it comes into
style. ."-Cincinnati Enquirer:
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.6e ctvfl enough to keep awake while
: fellows telling her q good story.
anyhow he growled to himself. and
then he had Q sudden idea.
.Wen,'' he proceeded, In precisely
the same tone that he had employed
In starting out TO tell his funny story,
''as / was saying. this swell queen
that gave me the goo-goo eye this
afternoon weighed about 15S pounds,
and she was built from the ground up.
too, I'm a-telling you. and she had
the swaggerest bunch of golden hemp
and the niftiest violet eyes you ever
saw, at that; and SO when pranced
up to her and asked her if l hadn't
met her somewhere and then took her
around the corner to have q bite of
lobster and a little something to
drink and a quiet little chat, why,
we
John Forwhich, how dare you have
the hardihood to lie there and con-
fess such outrageous things to mel"
his wide-awake spouse broke in just
at this psychological moment, and
then he had to spend a good part OF
the remainder of the night explain
ing to her that he was only fooling
in order to see if she would wake up.
and it is not altogether cinch that
she isn't suspicious of him yet, at
that.
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Wanted Too Much.

The late E. M. Reed was vice-presi,
dent of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad in the palmy
days when that road was paying 1C
per cent dividends. Reed was a close
buyer and used all the arts and sub.
tleties necessary to hammer prices
down to their lowest figure. One day
he was negotiating for an improve
ment in the way of locomotive ap.
pliance. and after wrangling for somo
time over the price said to the sales
agent:
r How mucn will your concern make
on this transaction?" To which thu
reply came. Ten per cent"
Great Scott" said Reed, you want
to get 10 per cent profit on this one
sale, do you? Why, bless your soul, il
takes our road whole year to make
10 per cent
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me was wonderful. Funny, isn't it?"
Very" she replied, still more
quietly.
But ! started out to tell you about
the suicide. Saddest thing l ever
knew. That afternoon l had told him
in plain words that I'd promised an
other man his place-fellow met on
the other side last summer. Her
brother you know. You'll not feel
er-jealous when you get the cards?
l gave you two opportunities want
you to-well you know people and L"
And the man." she reminded.
'Oh, he. He took it all right.
Business is business, you know. He
never said a word. Just got a little
whiter-it was little sunderland
walked straight out of the building.
What l didn't just like was the way
he went-not even waiting until four
O'Clock, but I'm naturally a soft
hearted chap. and l didn't say much.
'He must have gone straight home
then. They. say he stepped into the
house and asked for his wife She
had left word that she had gone out
and would not be home for dinner.
AS he went out again, they told me,
he met his little girl playing in the
yard with some children. He asked
her to go with him for walk, but
naturally enough, she said she would
ra ather stay and play with the children.
She never was much for her father.
anyway. He was quiet, you know.
Nobody ever knew him-except my
self--I knew him like a book, /"
And he died alone without any
body?"
We'll, that was the last anyone
ever saw of him, alive. The next
morning they found him in his bed.
And his face"
She got up suddenly "Please!"
was all she said.
Whats the matter?" he asked.
Your eyes look so peculiar"
The details. 1t is the details that
| cannot" ...s.s
relaxed in broad smile. He raised
his hand in grand gesture and
stroked his small black mustache. {
Il just told you the story" he be.
gan. I'VE were speaking earlier in
the evening of literary ability. Well,
l wrote friend of his complete ac-
count of the suicide, and-do you
know, it was the most graphic thing
l ever did? The way it impressed me
and all makes me believe that l have
real literary ability. Funny, isn't it,"
Very Her voice sounded strange
to both of them. Her arms were
held close % her sides and her hands
were clenched.
wv What's the gatter7" he asked
Her faee was very pale. He won
de.ed stundly.
And now" she said in a repressed,
/! uonotonous tone. Il will tell you
/ something funnier, even than yourself
l71ve got to tell!" .
Her voice had risen, but she care
fully modulated it again.
For fifteen yearsjyou knew him in
timately For fifteen years. I knew
him. toe. ! loxet.s himsTalways
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HADN'T FAR TO GO.
lrishman's Remarks to Smallpox Pa
tent Not Encouraging.

William l.. Hearne, son of Frank j..
Hearne, president of the National
Tube company, spent several months
this year in Black Diamond, one of
the new mining camps of Arizona. AS
it was his first experience in the west
he accumulated multitude of impress
sions and stories.
when l first went to Black Dia-
mond," he said the other day, there
had been but one death in the camp.
They buried the unfortunate in lone
ly grave midway between the mine
and camp. Immediately they began
to call the spot graveyard A few
days after my arrival miner named
Cobb was taken with smallpox. The
manager was away and they tele-
phoned to him for instructions.
"'Build a shack for him down near
the graveyard, was the answer the
wires brought.
"The orders were carried out to the
letter, and the shack was built right
up against the grave. The patient was
permitted to move himself and left to
fight the disease alone. The next day
an Irish miner hailed the shack FROM
the trail.
"I say, Cobb, he cried, how are
you comm on to-day?'
BADLY, rather badly, was the weak
reply fcrom the sick man.
"'Don't you worry, Cobb answered
the Irishman in a tone that was meant
to be encouraging. Don't you worry.
x,v1i oip,t cot for tn on ANYWAY if bad
comes to worse an that. Jist remem-
her: you're living in the cemetery al
ready"
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.serator Hoar's New House.

Senator Hoar has bought a house on
Copnecticut. avenue, Washington, a
thfee-stpry hrick structure of dozen
rooms. He borrowed the $4,000 which
it cost. but hopes to make profit by
selling before long. He and Mrs. Hoar
have Boarded for thirty-three years ia
Washington hotels. Much disappoint-
ment is felt in the capital because
Senator Clark does.not intend to build
a residence on +the sitea.of ithetesplds
Stewart. castle. which lie purchased
some lime ago. Finishing touches are
being put to his splendid home in New
York, and it is said the senator will
not build again outside Montana. = !:
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SCHEME WAS A FAILURE.
Man With PerityphIitis De>.ied Needed
Relief,


els this the Office of the county
physician" asked man attired, ap-
parently in the garb q hobo, who
stumbled into the Office of the county
clerk at the court house yesterday
morning. Everybody SHE'D from the
stranger, for it was not settled
whether his ailment was smallpox or
yellow fever.
Ive got perityphlitis," continued
the applicant for medical aid, "and it
is a bad case. 1t came on me few
days ago and now l can hardly walk
What? You don't mean to class
yourself with H. R. H. Edward VII"
exclaimed a bystander to whom the
remarks had been addressed. What
you need is to see DR.. w. F. Hynes
and get a prescription from him to
admit you for thirty days to Prof. NC
Gowan's sanitarium on the West Side,
where many patients are accommo-
dated"
The man afflicted with perityphlitis
smiled with a gratified air, but said
he must see DR.. Brown and get some
thing for his ailment.
'It gives you pains in the head,
he said "but after these pass of you
have a feeling of nausea. Then
burning sensation comes in the stom-
ach, and this is the most aggravated
and terrible symptom of the disease.
"The suffering l have undergone
while in this stage of the disease is
too severe to relate. You could never
imagine the terrible pangs that
wrench and tear my frame. They
say that the only thing that will lin
any way allay the awful anguish of
man afflicted with perityphlitis is
small glass of wine or possibly a
glass of beer. Unfortunately l have
not the price with me to-day, and If
you could"
But the listener and others who
had stopped to hear the story, broke
away and the patient had nobody to
help him. He 1ptteeed around the coz
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Broome county bar, that he was en-
gagged to defend an Irishman who was
indicted on the charge of murder.
That was before the young lawyer
ever dreamed of sitting in the Albany
'House of Commons or had aspira-
tions for the speakership of the assem-
bly,. He accordingly took the Irish
mans case on payment of a retainer
of 500 and the understanding that
5000 more was to be paid if the fell
low was acquitted.
The young attorney secured an ac-
quittal on the ground of temporary in
sanity at the time the crime was COM
mitted. 1t was several months before
he saw his client again. Meeting the
Irishman on the street one day he
stopped him, when the following con-
versation followed:
We'll, Pat, isn't it about time you
paid me that other $2O0?"
Faith, an what two hoonderd is
thot?"
why, the 5000 that you promised
to pay me for saving your worthless
neck"
Sure, an did Oi promise thot; OF
don't ramimber?"
why, Pat, you know you promised
it,
Pat scratched his head in perplexity
for minute, then looked UP with
beaming smile as he outlawed the
claim with the explanation:
''Oh. well but We know Oi was crazy
thin New York Times