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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21
PROTECTION FOR BIRDS.
Agricultural Interests Outvalue Mil
linery Industry.

From the New York Tribune.
Feeding the birds in the snow-covered
parks has become popular amusement
among the little people, and in the vicinity
of Central Park clubs have been formed,
the dues of which. in the form of crumbs,
are distributed daily among the birds, which
seem to wait for the visitors. The little tots
and their nurses are valuable aids to the
bird protecting organizations, and the peo-
pie who encourage the little folks will prob
ably be interested also in record Of the
organized societies which have bird protec-
ton as their main object
Save the BIRDS is the burden Of a
pamphlet just issued by the national COM
mittee of the Audubon societies 1t is the
report of the American Ornithologists'
Union committee, Of which William Dutch
er is the chairman, and, besides the appeal
to the public to protect the feathered tribe
and for funds to carry on the good work,
1t contains many interesting facts. About
twenty years ago George B. Tennett first
called the attention of ornthologsts to the
rapid disappearance of birds, owing to
their use millinery ornaments, and as a
result of his warning an organization was
formed, and out of this grew other societies
and committees, having the same object in
view, until now there are thirty-two state
Audubon societies. Through the agency Of
these societies and the workers connected
with them the slaughter of native birds has
been diminished to a great extent. They
have worked with the various state legisla-
lures, until now more than 40 per cent Of
the states have uniform law, which gives
protection to the birds which do not come
under the head of game as far as law
can protect them.
Mr.. butcher, in speaking of the people
who at personal sacrifice ''of time strength
and labor have stood between the birds
and the people who tried to externinate
them. says:
'"They have by hard work begun to crea te
a sentiment for bird protection which shows
a healthy growth. They have employed
wardens at various places along the Allan
tic and gulf coasts to actually watch over
and protect the sea birds during the time
that they are engaged In nesting. 1t is at
this period, when the birds in the south are
and when the paternal instinct renders
them fearless and regardless of danger.
that the plume hunter does his deadiest
work.
AS to the value of the birds to the farmer
1t is of interest to note the following sta
tistics According to the census of 1900
there were in the United States 5.T39 657
farms, with a total acreage of S41 POI $40
The value of these lands was placed at
$40, 514, 001 S3S. The product for the farmer
and 1ruit grower was $7,739, 11S,752 1t is
said by persons who have made the matter
a study that insects and rodents DESTROY
products annually to the value of about
$500, 900, 600, even with the birds as protect
ors, and this amount would be vastly larger
II the birds were destroyed
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21
Our Burden Bearer.

The little, sharp vexations,
And the briars that catch and fret,
Why not take them all to the Helper
Who has never failed us yet?
Tell him about the heartache,
And tell him the longings, too;
Tell him the baffled purpose
When we scarce know what to do.
Then leaving all our weakness
With the One divinely strong,
Forget that we bore the burden
And carry away the song.
PHILLIPS BROOKS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21

oulgfng bins. filled with these little en-
Velopes. Each bin contains one and only
one variety of seed. But instead OF issuing
tnese little packages singly Uncle Sam
places five OF many different varieties I'M
one larger envelope, which contains in the
lower corner list of the flowers or vege-
inside. The big envelopes go through the
mails directly. Each bears the address of
the citizen who is to receive 1t at his home
post office. Every congressman supplies his
quota of franks--little white slips of paper
bearing a fac simile of his signature I'm the
corner. These franks when attached to
mail matter enable II to go free. and there
Is room on each for the address of the hon.
ored constituent. Senators and represent
atives furnish their franks already address,
ed by their own clerks. If they desire they
may address all of their packages to one
constituent instead of dividing them among
the 120O0 provided for Some even have
their quotas sent. wholly or In part, to
themselves, and state that they prefer to
personally attend to the distribution through
the mails. Some have been known to sell
their seeds. In fact Mr.. Morton, Secre-
tary of Agriculture under Mr.. Cleveland,
discovered that several members of Con-
gress were selfishly making money out OF
their quotas.
Frank-Counting Machine.
AS the bundles of addressed franks come
in they are put through an interesting ma
chine which counts them at the rate Of
$4,000 per hour. recording the number upon
an indicator similar to those which keep
tab on our street car conductors. After the
counting operation the franks are pigeon
holed according to the section of the coun-
try to which they are to be sent. The vari-
cites of seed allowed each congressman de-
pend upon the geographical location Of his
district
At big table five girls receive bundles OF
the addressed franks selected for forthcom-
ing orders and paste them upon the large
yellow envelopes which are to carry the
smaller ones through the mail. Ten other
girls at an adjacent table look over the
newly franked envelopes separate them, IL
stuck together, and place them in drying
racks. A large stock of envelopes to con-
tain the same combination of seeds Is
placed in basket for filing.
Work of Deft Fingers.
Beneath the rows of bullying bins, con-
stantly filled by the machines on the floor
above, endless belts of broad strapping con-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21

Dumley-"You wouldn't think he ever
wrote poetry would your
chunnley-''What? Nonsensel It isn't
possible"
Dumley-"Fact. I was looking over an
old autograph album Of my sisters the
other day. and there was his name signed
to a right pretty little poem about a red
rose and a blue violet and sugar is sweet
and % are YOU "-Philadelphia Press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21
Lost Advertising,

From the Chicago Post.
why does she weep
.She notified the papers that she wished
no mention made of her divorce suit"
And they ignored her requestg'
mo: they ignored the suit, and now tho
manager says 1t would be a waste of time
to try to put her forward as a star"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21
Professional Pride.

From Puck.
Friend.-You've decided not to charge
fraud?
Politician.-Yes. You see, we'd be ashamed
to admit that the other side could beat US
at that game.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-21

Green-"What are you doing now?"
Brown-"Running grocery
Green-"Making a success of it?"
Brown-'.Weil. yes-in a small weigh"
CHICAGO News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Pepys ON Copyright.

Samuel Pepys in his famous diary
takes occasion in one entry to unbur-
den himself thus:
Moreover, / am Overbourne with
Grief, seeing that l, who must fain
withstand chickering's at home and ban
ter abroad in my walks from Seething
Lane to the Navy Office, receive no
gain from the publication Of this my
Diary. My pouch is in no wise en-
riched thereby; yet many, methinks,
do ride in fine coaches and keep open
house by reason of my unconsidered
Book, all so simple and innocent. 1t
gals me to be told by my attorney "a
shrewd knave and fairly honest as at
torneys go) how this law Of Copyright
holds me powerless to gain ducat for
mine own enrichment, which makes me
mad. The parliament men might well
consider to emend so harsh a law Of
Copyright"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
A New Kind of Tax.

The taxing Of fat is fiscal expedi-
ent which is new. A town in Sweden,
it is announced, has introduced a mu-
nicipal tax on stoutness, which appears
to be graduated according to the most
approved modern principles of public
finance. Any one weighing less than
135 pounds goes free, an exemption
which wculd scarcely apply to any able
bodied man. The great bulk of active
taxpayers would be included in the sec
ond division, which consists of persons
scaling between 1876 and 200 pounds;
they pay $3.12 yearly. AS for the 200
Founders, their bulk is rated at So up
to 27O pounds. Above that point every
additional twenty pounds costs the pro-
prietor Of flesh another Sc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

The words of the friendly counselor
to the ambitious youth, Beware the
awful avalanche" might have been
amplified to include warning against
the snow and ice through which he
bore his excelsior banner. If he was a
typical American youth he would be
quite sure to use it to cool his drinking
water and any articles Of food which
are more palatable cold than hot This
is the national habit, and it is said to
be spreading over Europe as well.
Probably no meteorological fact is bet
ter established than that much of the
ice of commerce is dangerously impure.
The assumption that water purifies it.
self in freezing was long ago shown to
have but limited basis in truth. The
individual crystals are likely to be
purer than the mother liquid from
which they are formed, but ice is a
mass of crystals in which may be en-
tangled all kinds Of impurities.-New
York Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
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SCIENCE OF BUILDING.

Exactitude Which Characterfzes the
Construction of Skyscrapers.
Many of the great steel structures
planned and nodded in some distant
city-like the material for Solomon's
temple of old-hundreds of miles away.
1t is in some rolling mill town of Penn
sylvania that most Of the gigantic
frameworks for the modern skyscraper
are built All that remains to be done
is to put them together, and the build
ing rises up like house of blocks.
Every piece is fitted together and
numbered before it is taken away
from the steel mill. So exact are the
measurements that not even the drill
ing of hole is necessary for fitting the
rivets which fasten the plates and
Orders together. The watchlike pre-
cision with which these parts are made
was shown in the construction Of one
of these buildings which is now being
erected in Chicago.
One of the large cross Orders was
missing in the framework of the Sec
ond floor, and, though it did not inter-
fere with the placing Of the frame
work on all sides and above it. the
contractor was worried to know what
had become of it. When the frame
work had grown as high as the sixth
or seventh story and the missing piece
had not yet been found around the rail
road yards or heard of from any other
source he wrote to the steel mill, de-
scribing it as closely as possible, order
ing that it be duplicated.
BY the return mail he received the
following reply:
AS ground space is more valuable in
Chicago than here in the country, we are
storing missing girder for you. We knew
that you would need a steel derrick on
that floor and kept the girder out SO
you would have room. Will ship it after
the remaining stories have been COM
pleted.
The mill men had figured correctly on
the building hundreds of miles away,
and the girder could not have been
placed in position even if it had been
on the grounds on account of the der
rick.-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

which he was charged. To have told
him of my sacrifice would have been to
nullify it. l gloried in my silly girls
heart to think l was enduring martyr
dom for his sake.
81 tried to be a good wife to NAL
colin, but he made it very hard. He
had thought l was to be my aunt's
heiress, she being childless. When at
her death all the property reverted to
her husbands side of the house he
threw off his last semblance of love or
respect Perhaps l was not entitled to
either.
1--WE were miserably poor, and had
been reared in ignorance of every use
full requirement He settled down to a
gamblers profession and to the lot of
neglected wife. He is dead now, and l
thank God there are no children to in
herit his vices or my weakness. Do
thank God? My life is utterly desolate.
utterly without ties. At one time /
thought of taking up the old home ties.
But father is dead, and the old place
has been cut up and sold for the bene-
fit of the children who were minors
when I was married. / would not dis
turb them in their occupancy. They
do not even remember me. l should
only be a dark blot on any ones
hearthstOne.
81 have told my story. shall coin
it for bread-bread which l shall sea-
son with the bitterest tears l have
shed for many a weary year."
Yes, she had told her story "suc-
cinctly, clearly and effectively" She
took it down to the Office of the Peo-
pies Pride herself. She gave it into the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
ON THE BEACH.

Wadin' in the water where
The waves come rollin' i'll,
SplaShin' in a fellerS face
An breakin' on his chin
The thing at wuz thinkin' Of
Delightful, goodness knows!-
Wuz mud an said ats oozin' up
Between a feller's toes.
Makes Teller young ag' in
Sometimes I wisht I wuz-
Thinkin' it wuz big to smoke
An bigger still to cuss;
Wadin' in the water where
The tide jest GIBBS an flows
An mud an sand keeps slippin' up
Between a feller's toes.
Most delightful feelin' at
A Teller ever had;
Makes him kinder feel at life
An Twin amt so bad,
An ever thing is blossomin'
JeS' like summer rose
When sand an mud is slippin' up
Between a feller's toes.
Wadin' in the water where
The sea waves gurgle in;
WiSht at l could wade acrost
To where the waves begin.
Mebbe on the other side
A youthful fountain flows
An sand an mud keeps oozin' up
Between a feller's toes.
Mebbe men don't shrivel up
An age an die SO soon
An fellers jes' keep wadin' through
An everlastin' June,
Where ever'thing is blossomin'
Jes' like q summer rose
An mud an sand keeps slippin' up
Between a feller's toes!
New Orleans TimeS-Democrat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

not recollect when l had not been en-
gagged to him, but it had never occurred
to us to name day.
Perhaps this idyllic state of affairs
was what had aroused my dreaming
father to a sense of parental obligation.
At any rate l was sent on to my New
York aunt.
81 was engaged to Horace White
when l left home; l was engaged to
Malcolm Ross when l went back. 1t
was without any sense Of triviality or
wickedness that l transferred my al
legiance, not even recognizing the in
convenience of being on with the new
love before being off with the old.
81 think it all came Of my being so
suddenly transplanted from the dull
monotonyo Of my life with father on the
Old plantation to the bewildering gay
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Curious Wells.

A we'll recently drilled in Canada
produces sand instead of water. The
sand comes up in fine stream like o
fountain. The force by which it is
driven to the surface from depth of a
hundred feet has not yet been discov-
cred A magnetic well was discovered
recently in New Guinea at depth Of
600 feet. Anything made of iron or
steel and dipped into the water at once
became magnetic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Now Arsenic Is Found IN Eggs.

A chemist who has a theory that ar
senic is one Of the essential elements of
every living organism and who is never
happy unless he is making tests has
just made a series of exhaustive exper-
iments with hens eggs and as a result
claims he found that all parts Of an
egg contain arsenic in appreciate guam
titles. He says Of the whole quantity
found in any one egg two-thirds belong
to the yolk and one-third to the white.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

hands of the business manager, who
told her, with an imperSOnal glance at
her pale face, that it would be taken
up in due course of business and their
readers would pass upon it without
any unnecessary delay.
Their reaG 80 were to pass upon
her broken lie. All, well, that was
what she had put it into black and
white for. If only they would pass IA
vorably! That was her one concern
now.
1t seemed an eternity before an en-
velope stamped with the office address
of the Peoples Pride came to her
hands. She tore open the envelope in
futtering haste. No check dropped out.
Instead typewriter note, curt and
businesSlike:
Madam-Your story, entitled my Story
has sufficient dramatic interest to make
it acceptable with a few emendations.
Will you kindly call on the editor in chief
of the Peoples Pride to receive some sug-
gestions along that line?
Of course she would call. A CLEAN Of
hope warmed her chilled heart.
She was promptly passed from hand
to hand until she stood in the awesome
presence of the chief. The great man
was sitting at a big cylinder desk i'm
posingly Uttered with papers. She rec
Ognized her own story even as she
reached his chair and before he had
risen slowly to accost her gravely.
1t was a crucial moment to her; her
first experience of the majesty of the
sanctum. Her eyes rested on the litter
of papers; his rested on her. With no
change of attitude he took up her man
uscript and held it toward her with an
unsteady hand.
Helen, is this the way it all happen
edY'
Time had wrought some subtle
changes in his appearance. His voice
was as unforgotten music to her ears.
With low cry of wonder and of long
ing, she made step forward, then
reeled dizzily.
Her first coherent words were 81
thought you were thousands of miles
away on ranch
For little while, yes. l stayed out
there long enough to conclude that q
man who allows a woman's fickleness
to slay all purposes in his life does not
deserve to be called man. But it was
not fickleness if this is true"
She stretched pleading hands toward
him. mo, oh, no! I was so young so
frightened, so silly! l did not know
what to do, what to believe"
"You should never have believed that
of me. Unfortunately the name l bear
has been duplicated many times even
within my own knowledge l read
about that case of forgery with some
interest because a Horace White had
done it, but 1 never credited that story
with the wreck of all my hopes"
"And now?'
She stood up before him, trembling.
He put out his hand to detain her.
"You are free" he said, land l love
YOU He smiled on her with solemn
tenderness. You will have to add q
sequel to your story, dearest, and call
it Our Story"
'No,'' she said. And into her smile
crept the old time archness. my liter
airy life is at an end. 1t is not fame that
feeds a woman's hungry heart, my
own; it is love. Oh, Horace, l hunger
and l thirst for yours!'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11


And do you need money? Then
write your story succinctly,
clearly and effectively. Send it to the
Peoples Pride and receive liberal COM
pensation for it. We want stories Of
real life"
Perhaps thousands scanned that adj
vertisement with idle curiosity, hum
dreds with a passing wish that they
might dare, units with the determine
ton to dare.
One woman fingered over it, read it g.
second time, third, folded the paper
containing it into neat square and
laid it on the table by which she was
working.
Had she a story? Yes. Did she need
money? A bitter substitute for laugh
escaped her lips. She folded her deli
cate ringless hands over the coarse gar
ment she was sewing on and sent her
sad eyes on a deliberate survey of the
room, which gave evidence of having
gradually been denuded of every super
fluffy.
The woman and the room had moth
ing in common between them. One was
pathetic in her suggestions of elegant
requirements; the other was bare to
the point of ugliness. Suddenly she
leaned across the table and drew writ
ipc roo%arioJ uyifhin rnoah
What If the story she was half mind
ed to write-her story, hers and his
should fall under his eyes? What a
triumph for him! What added abase-
nent for her! Could she voluntarily
add this final drop of bitterness to her
already full cup?
The last she had heard of him he was
operating a big cattle ranch in Colora-
do. 1t was not likely that ranchman
would find much time for fiction read
ing. To every eye but his 1t would be
pure fiction and nothing else. A look
of resolute determination hardened her
worn face. She would do it! Not a
pleasant task, but if the bitter mem
cries that strange advertisement had
stirred into venomous activity were
marketable she was going to market
them. After the first plunge the story
seemed to write itself.
Her pen moved rapidly.
"Of course it must be in the first
person. she said boldly, writing the
caption envy Story" Then:
ST was only seventeen, not yet come
into that panoply of caution and sus-
picion which is necessary to woman
kind when entering the arena of fash
ionable life, as necessary as was the
old time warriors coat of mail. AS
have said, l was only seventeen when
my aunt, rich society woman of New
York, offered to take me off my IA
theirs hands and introduce me into So
ciety. My father was a planter, q
bookworm and widower-not the best
guide for a restless girl of seventeen
He had, l suppose, written to this es
tranged sister about his growing per-
pIexities, and | was handed over at her
$ demand.
''I cannot say that / was anxious tC
60 l was happy enough as l was
The birds of the air were no freer than
I. had all the comforts / cared for;
had my flowers and my ponies and my
numerous pets, in addition to all OF
which 1 had my lover l was engaged
to be married to Horace White. / could
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

"You say that mans relations won't
speak to him?" said the surveyor who
had stopped at the log cabin.
Eyes. An it serves him right. Jes'
as soon as he come into little property
he bought hisself a glass eye an a set
o. false teeth an his kin reckoned it
was mighty ill hammered to come
around putin on style an wearin' all
that jewelry Washington Star.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
His Natural Preference.

Stationer-Yes, sir. Here is an ele-
CANT deck of cards for 20 cents.
Stranger-I should prefer paying a
nickel more Being a naval officer,
naturally prefer a quarter deck.-Bal-
timOre American.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
two VaIm1finns

"Somebody asked D'Auber to name a
figure for that painting Of his. He
placed it pretty high, | believe"
Eyes, and so did the art committee"
"What had they to do with the
price?"
'Not the price, but the painting it
self They skivI t."-BrOoklyn Eagle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Beginning to Realize 1t.

"I never heard Dinsmore acknowledge
that he was growing old before today
"How did he acknowledge it?'
"He announced that he felt just as
young as he ever detroit Free
praSS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11

1.-THE sense O. dumb creeturs is won
derfulr' said the old man.
"Why, what's happened now?"
"John got home from college yester-
day, an the old mule knowed him time
he went to swearin'. Atlanta Consti-
tuition.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Judging nv His Remarks.

Blobbs-Newlywed's wife is cook
ing school girl, and she has been feed
ing him on angel food.
Slobbs-What effect has it had on
him?
Blobbs-Well, l think he has rather
given up the idea of ever becoming an
angel.-Philadelphi Record.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
Favorable Indication.

miss Charmington says she is very
fond of animals remarked Bliggen's
sister.
perhaps there's hopes for me then,"
said Bliggens. "She called me a brute
the other day."-Syracuse Standard.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-11
A wonderfuI Performances.

Erred made a remarkable record
with his automobile last Sunday
"How many miles did he goY'
81 don't know anything about the dis
lance, but he ran the thing nearly all
day without hurting anybody or break
ing down Chicago Record Her
aid.