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possible, and note whether it is long or short of the same color as the back, or different, notched, square or rounded at the end, and whether it has spots or patches on 1t, either when it is at rest, or when the bird spreads it as he moves about. In short, the plurnage should be noted in detail. It is also very inn- portant to note the actions of the bird whether he hops or walks, whether he darts about catching insects, or whether he fits from twig to twig, cleaning his food from the leaves. It is also of some consequence whether he is spending his time in the meadows, in the deep woods, or along the margin of a lake or river; often when a student is in doubt as to which one of two or three species his bird belongs, the locality in which it was observed will settle the question. The calls and songs should be noted as well, but it is not safe, as a rule, to identify birds by sound alone, as one bird frequently initiates the voice of another.
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heard a phoebe in January; if she had consulted a reliable book, she would have found that this fycather could not
 be in her locality until the latter part of March. Then, perhaps, her curiosity
 would have prompted her to investigate and she would soon have found that
 her phoebe" was mischievous chick addee. uttering what is known as his
 phoebe note.
 Having found out what birds he may
 expect to find, the next thing for the
 student to do is to go out and ind them.
 Very little can be done without a held
 glass of some kind; almost any kind is better than none Birds as a rule are
 few of them which will allow one to approach close enough to accurately note their markings with the unlaid eye. There are many kinds of glasses, and in a general way those of high power are best on the water or in open coun- try. while those of comparatively low
 power are most suitable for use in the | woods. A note is another essential, if the student desires that his obserVa- tions shall be of any benefit to science. l For work in the field, almost any kind of clothing will do, so long as it is in- conspicuous and comfortable. If any
 thing special is necessary, should sug- gest stout shoes, leggings and a soft, broad brimmed hat.
 The best time to start on a bird walk | is at dawn. Then the birds are singing,
 just before leaving their roosts, and the student may feast his ears, before feasting his eyes. But presently the l songsters begin to move about, and as l they are hungry after an all night fast, they are not only more active, but also less likely to take alarm. By and by l their hunger will be satisfied, and many
 of them will retire to get little sleep,
 for perhaps they are to continue their 1 northward journey tonight, Toward
 evening they will begin to feed again,
 so that the evening is the next best time 1 to observe them. When the sun is ! shining, the student should keep it be- hind him as much as possible, for two
 reasons-first, because it will not shine
 directly on the birds he is studying He should cultivate the habit of moving quietly, always putting his feet down where they are likely to make ths least
 noise, and avoiding decayed sticks and
 cracking leaves as much as possible
 If he is approaching a shy bird, he l should not walk straight at it, as
 though he meant to study it: as a rule, birds won't stand this aggressive atti-
 tude. Let him saunter quietely by, avoiding as much as possible the ap-
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pearance of watching his subject. and the latter, thinking itself unobserved, will usually act accordingly.
 When the student sees a bird which is stranger to him, or of which he does not know the name, he should ap- proach as near as he can with safety, and strive to make as many accurate notes as possible before his subject flies away. He should not take valuable time to put these notes in his book at first; let him hold them in his memory until the bird flies away, or until he has enough fact to insure Identification. Let him note the approximate size of his subject, comparing it with some bird with which he is quite farniliar-a robin or bluebird, for instance. If it has any very striking peculiarity, such as a prominent crest, or g. very long tail, which causes it to differ in appear rance from most other birds, let him note that first. He should try to get a look at the bill, and see if it is short and stout, like sparrow's: slender and sharp pointed, like & warbler's or slightly hooked at the tip, like a fiy- catcher's. He should observe the tail, if
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GOOD YORK BY GOOD MEN

It is not surprising, but it is pleasing, to read that the United States has had a powerful finger in the great Nile dam and reservoirs at Assouan. According to an article by Colonel Chaille- Long in the March number of the Era, in 1870, long before the British occupation of Egypt, Ismail Pasha, the first Khedive, sent Colonel Beverley Kennon to Assouan to make a survey of the Nile with the view of improving irrigation and reclaiming desert lands. Colonel Kennon was one of number of Amer ican officers in the Egyptian military service. During the civil war in the United States he served in the Confed- crate navy and commanded gunboat. His minute hydrographic survey of the Nile, says Colonel Chaille-Long, and his report thereon, furnished precious in- formation to the British engineers who have recently undertaken the construc- tion Of reservoirs in that region. Our British friends, it seems, were also in dehted to another American engineer, Mir. Frederic Cope Whitehouse, for val uable information on the subject. Fur thermore, it was an American officer, according to Colonel Chaille-Long, who discovered the Nile sources and execut- ed a treaty with the King of Uganda,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-28
A Useless Example.

Doctors say that the cooking of savages is far superior to that of civilized races, and strongly recommend English cooks to take a few hints from them.) You cook" I observed to the African
 chief,
 with d truly remarkable skill; With your soups and your entrees you neer
 come to grief,
 You seldom go wrong when you grill. Your roast leg of pork or of mutton is It's privilege simply to view it; And feel I could batten for weeks on the
 smell. How on earth do you manage to do it?' With q gratifed simper the chieftain ex-
 plained,
 An well, for that matter the fact is, Whatever ability 1 may have gained Is simply the outcome of practice. In the days of my youth, e'er quilted my
 land, I made it d habit to practise my hand On my numerous friends and relations. 'I stroye with will toward my ultimate surmounting each obstacle gayly. I speedily ran through my circle Of friends, Diminished my relatives daily. My brothers gave out, and my uncles as
 well;
 My cousins went faster and faster; Until--in a word long story to tell found could cook like master" In silence stood till The came to the end For his tale had delighted and thrilled
 me: Then, thoughtfully thanking my canniba
 friend,
 owned that with envy he filed me. For manys tine man whom I'd thankfully
 boil,
 And countless relations beset me, Whom I'd eagerly stew (without grudginG
 the toiD, If only the law would abet me.
 London Chronicle.
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HOW TO STUDY THE MlGRA.
 TORY BIRDS.

Let us assume, for the purpose of
 this article, that the bird student who
 reads it has been in the fields and
 woods during the winter; that he is
 already familiar with the permanent
 resident birds and the winter visitors,
 and that now he is anxious to take up
 the study of the migrants which are
 coming north in greater numbers every
 day. He will save himself much
 trouble if, in the very beginning, he
 will purcahse some reliable book con-
 taining field keys and descriptions of
 the birds to be found in his part of
 the country. If this book contains, also,
 @ list of the dates at which the diff ferent migrants may be expected to appear in his locality, so much the
 better; but he can probably get such a list from any advanced bird student living in his neighborhood. There are
 many excellent bird books now, and among the foremost Is "A Key to the
 Birds of North America,'' by the late Dr. Elliott, a new edition of which is shortly to be published. But this is a
 large and expensive work, and unless the student is going into the subject very deeply, a smaller, less com prehensive and less costly book will probably answer very well. For a
 general study of the birds east of the
 Mississippi, there is perhaps nothing better than Frank M. Chapman's Handbook of Birds of Eastern North
 America" published by D, Appleton
 and Co.,, New York, while a somewhat similar work, covering the western
 birds, is Florence Merriam Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the Western
 United States" Houghton, Mlffiin & Co.,. Boston. By consulting some book
 of this kind, the student will see at a glance what migrants it will be possi- ble for him to meet with in his latitude 1 on given date, and thus save himself the trouble of hunting for birds which will not be with him for a month per- haps. For example, if the student were to go bird-gazing in Boston to-day, he would find by consulting his book, that I Of the spring migrants he might expect to see grackles, rusty blackbirds, red winged blackbirds, robins, bluebirds, ! woodcock, phoebes, meadowlarks, cow birds, fox sparrows, song sparrows and | two or three others; and he would also 1 find that it would be useless for him to | hunt for Woodthrushes or catbirds, as 1 it will be at least three weeks before they reach New York even, and a | month before they arrive in Boston. A
 lady recently informed me that she had
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IHCTD ENTA F.

'Is Ethel great charity worker?''
 Dear me, yesi At that last charity ball she danced every dance and ate three suppers." Judge.
 Reddy-W'y don't ye never wash yer face?
 Petey-sh I want me goiI ter t'ink I'm "chauffeur!'--P Hero-villain! I shall force you to eat your own words!
 Villain-Thank heaven! thought he was going to make me eat breakfast food!-Brooklyn Life.
 " A Floodtime Incident Teacher Can you tell where the Mississippi river rises, Johnnie? Johnnie--Along it's entire length, ma arn.- Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 My uncle died yesterday, sir and want you to officiate. Can you say something nice about him 2"
 But didn't know him Good! You're just the man. Life.
 'iBut you say her marriage to young | Highro1ler turned out better than was expected?" @~4 Much better. He hadn't spent more
 than half her money when they separ- ated. ."-Brooklyn Life. Casey, the conthractor, is gittin' on very peaceable wid his wife these days" remarked MT. Rafferty. 3# 'Peaceable," answered MT. Dolan; I should say so. They're So peaceable 1 they ain't even sociable. Washington Star. # She-The milliner told me that she
 had been down to the dentists to have 8 nerve killed. He-Well, from the prices she asks for hats, I should say the dentist must | have killed the wrong one.-- Yonkers Statesman. Mrs. Brown--Mrs. Smith is just too silly for anything! Mrs. Robinson--What has she done now? Mrs. Brown--She stayed home from the mothers meeting to take care of
 her sick baby.-Puck.
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zHE WEEKLY JOURNAL. issusd Thursdays, One Dollar . Year.
ADVERTISING RATES.

Situations, Wants, Rents, and other small advertisements. One Cent Word eaen in' sertlon. Five Gents Word for full week tseyen times).
 Display advertisements. per inch, one in- sertion, $1.20; each subsequent insertion, 9o cepts; one eek. $3.20; one month, $1o; one year. $40.
 Obituary Notices. in prose or verse, 1o cents per line. Notices of Births. MarfI- ages, Deaths. and Funeral, 50 cents each' Local Notices, 15 cents per line.
 Yearly advertisers are limited to thelL own immediate business (a.l matter to pc unobJetcionable), and their contracts do not include Vents. To Let. For Sale. etc.
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4 SIGN OF NEw LIFE IN CHINA.

I4 SLsSN UT R F. " JAFF F IN ChINAs
 The interest which China is taking in the St. Louis fair is interesting and significant. She has done what she has never done before. in appropriating 500,O00 taels, or about $350,0OO, by inn perial decree. Hitherto, the practice has been for the Imperial government to call upon the viceroys to take such a matter in hand, and the viceroys have coerced the richer merchants, and by this means the Chinese department at worlds fairs has been made to work out it's own salvation. This time, how ever. the process was reversed at the outset, and the Imperial government has taken direcs hand in the affair in response to a memorial from the five viceroys of greatest power and in- fiuence. Some of the leading Chinese financiers, also, are selecting group of representative young Chinese business men to send to St. Louis to see the ex- position, learn how it is managed, ob- serve what there is in this and other exhibiting countries which would in- terest and profit the business world of China, and so forth.
 The Chinese can learn much at St. Louis, and possibly we shall be able to learn a little from them and their ex- hibit.
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all sides, to select from all the danger ous paths the one which she ought to have known was the least so. Nothing more was required of her than ordinary care, nor was she bound to remain in her house because the city. by it's neg ligence, had made it dangerous for her 10 go out"
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NOT 4 coMpEET E SOL UT1oy.

Some people in this country are in
 favor of compulsory arbitration as so-
 lution os 'the labor problem They
 have compulsory arbitration in New
 Zealand. and that 1t does not work
 perfectly there is indicated by what has happened in a dispute between master cabinet makers and their workmen. The trouble was over wages. and the arbi- tration court sitting at Wellington has
 decided that the men must be paid at
 the rate of thirty cents an hour. The
 masters must either pay or close their shops. They have chosen to do the lat ter, and have locked out the men, de-
 claring that it is cheaper to import fur
 niture than to pay the wages ordered, As the matter stands now, the men cannot work for lower figure than that fixed by the court, even if they desire | to, unless the decision is reversed and revised. The labor unions do not want | this, however, and they propose tc have the duties on furniture raised tc | such point as to make it unprofitable
 to import it. Then, they believe, the l masters will be compelled to pay them 1 thirty cents an hour.
 l Perhaps it would be found that com. pulsory arbitration wouldn't work any better in this country than it does ir 1 New Zealand. but we suppose it might | be argued that compulsory arbitration
 even if it were defective, would be bet. I ter than a big coal strike
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John Redmond, in a signed state ment, declares that the fate of the Irish land bill depends on the action Of the coming convention of the na- Al tionalist party, to be held in Dublin on April A. He says that the bill is 'an enormous advance" on any previ- ous measure proposed in the House of Commons.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-28

, M. Leygues, the Minister of Fine Arts in Paris, is at last about to sign a de- cree admitting women students in the School of Fine Arts to compete for the Grand Prix de Rome. There are now seven women studying painting, one architecture and eight sculpture.
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Mrs. Evans of Philadelphia was walking along Philadelphia sidewalk. At an alley crossing she stumbled over small ridge of ice, falling and suffer- ing painful injuries. Her husband sued the city. The judge dismissed the suit. If Mrs. Evans eyes had been where they should have been she would have seen the obstruction, he said, and her failure to see it was contributory negli- gence. The Pennsylvania Supreme court has remanded the case for jury trial The opinion is by MT, Justice Brown. "To relieve herself from the
 mputation of contrihutory negligence the plaintiffs wife was not required"
 ae says, with danger around her on
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Dr. Frances Dickinson, backed by ten thousand clubwomen, is going to begin the publication of daily after noon newspaper in Chicago devoted to political and moral reform. All the de- partments of the paper will be conduct ed by women and all the reporters will be women. Dr. Dickinson wants fund of $5O,0OO to start with, and half that sum has been subscribed. She will need it all.
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Care must be taken to avoid baking pow. ders made from alum. Such powders are sold cheap, because they cost but a few which taken in food means injury to health.
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DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY
 1bCEKTs WEEK, 50 CENTS A MONTH.
 6 FOR SIX MONTHS, $6 4 YEAR. THE SAME TERMS BY MAn.
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The Storage of Furs
and garments forsrnen
 and women.

No need to subject your garments to the disagreeable odor of camphor, moth balls and kindred cherni= calls. Our new stor- age methodis Is ever so much more satisfac= tory.
 A constant circulation of air about every individual garment makes it impossible for larvae or insects to develop or exist. Each garment is' hung individu- ~ ally to preserve it's shape and incased in a slip cover to pre- vent contact. Upon request, either in person or by mail. we will have our man call for the things you wish stored.
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Secretary Root has turned over to the Philippine commission the three million dollars appropriated by con- gress for the relief of the Filipinos It is expected that expenditure from this fund will be along similar lines to those followed in Porto Rico after X the hurricane that devastated the island. Nothing will be done to en- courage beggary. Extensive road work will be begun, thus enabling the un- employed to earn living; steps will be taken to check the spread of rinder- pest among the cattle: agricultural implements will be sold at cost, and every possible attempt will be made to render the natives self-supporting.
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CLEVELAND BAKING POWDER CO,
 NEW YORK.
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To mark the resting place of the late Bret Harte, in Frimley churchyard, Surrey, there has just been erected a massive and costly monument. The author of the Heather Chinee" and s.Luck of Roaring Camp" had resided at Frimley for some time prior to his death, which took place early in May of last year. Around the grave have been planted a number of young fir trees The monument consists of massive slab of white granite, weighing two and a half tons, on which is placed block of Aberdeen granite; sloping upward into the form of cross.
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THE HARRINGTON PUBLIsHING co
 OFFICE 400 STATE STREET.
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Herr Pohl, president of the German society for the protection of cats, has just published the results of his inves- tigation in regard to the age which it is possible for these animals to attain. Cats, he says, are like human beings in one respect. The more peaceful and better regulated their life is, the longer they are likely to live. As a proof he points out that a favorite cat in the royal castle of Nymphenburg has lived to be forty-two years old, and conse- quently may fairly claim to be consid- cred the dean of cats in Germany.
 The Prussian government is about to become wine grower on a very large scale. In 1866, when Prussia annexed Hesse- Nassau, it came into possession of several famous vineyards and now it is engaged in converting to the pur- poses of viticulture large tracts of rather barren ground in the valleys of the Saar the Moselle and the Nahe. The special feature of this public work Is that it is to be done by convict labor, which will cost the state practically nothing. The wines thus produced will be stamped with the royal arms of Prussia.
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THE OLDEST DAILY PAPER PUB
 LIsHED IN CONNECTICUT.
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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-09
Science and Industry.

Sea water is by weight one-third
salt.
The expectation of cattle from Cuba
is prohibited.
Third class railway fare in India is
less than half a cent a mile.
The dam in the Nile at Assouan will
throw back water 140 miles.
In Japan 500 out of about 1900 loco
motives in use are American.
Tennessee, with $16,20O,0O0, has a
larger debt than any other state.
But one person in eighty of the
workers of London goes to church.
The subjugatior of the Indian has
cost $S45, 100000 and his education
$24o,OO0,000.
Nearly 100000 acres of coffee or
chards in Central America are owned
by Germans.
Thirty-nine thousand six hundred
and three varieties of fungus are
known to botanists.
The Oldest statute in the world is
that of the Sheik of Egypt, which dates
back more than 5000 years.
A Montreal firm shipped last year to
England 10000 cattle, with a loss of
less than one to the thousand.
A Frenchman has invented a pho
netic typewriter which can be operated
at the rate of 200 words minute.
More than thirty great manufactur-
ing companies of the United States
are establishing factories in Canada.
The forest reserves of the United
States now aggregate an area almost
twice that of the state of Pennsylva-
MIA.
Sunburn and snow blindness are due
to the violet and ultra violet rays of
the sun. When the skin is once tanned
it is protected against their effect.
Prof Wood, of Johns Hopkins. has
made a screen which does not admit
heat rays and bars all light rays ex-
cept the ultraviolet. For thirty years
scientists have sought such a screen.
About 100000 of London's inhabi-
tantS get no medical treatment save
that of charity dispensaries or hospi-
tails, and it is said one In four of them
go to bed hungry every night of their
lives.
Electrically operated shears, guided
by hand, clip the fleece from an aver
age sheep in three minutes. The fast
est operators with hand-power shears
require eight minutes to the sheep The
electrical clipper has the form of the
BARRIERS clipper.
The United States has 100000 miles
of railways, upon which there are 54S
employees for each 100 miles. The
cost of operating these roads with
steam power is $500, 900, 900 year: but
to carry on the same amount of work
with men and horses would cost the
country $11,90S, 100000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-09
disappointment an empty bottle is BE-
fore breakfast.
Pointed Paragraphs.

A lawyer never mistakes the will for
the deed.
A pretty Sunday-school teacher is a
whole church fair.
The strenuous minister dispenses re-
ligion by the pound.
Lots of poor men are the architects
of other mems fortunes. ,aeSG9iGQ bG
technicality is something o1that
helps the wrong to defeaththed righto3 a
Walters as q class. eg.orderlys men,
yet they are frequently called to order.
Many man, neglects his own
chances while figuring out What he
would 10 if he had some other mans
chances.
Wise is the bald-headed individual
who fully realizes that hair will never
again grow on his Uranium.
There is one redeeming feature about
the man who laughs at his own jokes.
You at least know that.-Ckicago
News.