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Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
{ VOICE CULTURE FOR SPARROWS (


A series of interesting experiments
in which English sparrows have been
taught to sing sweetly is recorded in
the American Journal of Psychology.
Ehe aim Of DR.. Conradi. the expert
menter, has been to determine what
are the conditions under which birds
learn and cling to their traditional
notes. For this purpose he has taken
very young birds of non-musical spe-
cies and kept them entirely with song
sters to determine whether they would
thus acquire the musical notes.
In July, 1893, he put four fiedgling
English sparrows into the nest of a
pair Of singing canarles. Three of
them died, but the fourth survived
This one had already acquired a spar
row chirp, but hearing thenceforth
only the notes Of the canary. he went
no further with the language which
was his birthright Instead he came
gradually, when among the canaries,
to give notes different from sparrow
talk. Even when he was silent. if the
moving his throat as if he were try
ing to form the sounds, much as per
son inaudibly follows a song which an
other is singing At last these sounds
began to be audible, and increasingly
SO. He began to give notes in rapid
succession. three or four tones up the
scale, and then repeating the top note
five or six times.
Growing holder with practice and
the sound Of his own voice, he soon
INDUCED three Or four runs in success
sion, with eight to twelve notes in
each; and in the last days of Septem-
Der, when three months old he went
up and down and up the scale all in
one run.
All this while his voice had been
changing. At first it was harsh, as IS
natural with English sparrows; but
gradually, with the effort or with the
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The tintype man had found a re-
munerative field in Ashton. When the
summer boarder arrived that year at
Willow Farm, she noticed that the
parlor mantel was adorned with star
ing, large-sized tintypes of all the Jen-
kins family.
He charged us orerprice. and
they're fearful plain, aren't they y"
said Mrs. Jenkins to her guest. But
they've done us sight of good"
Yes said the young woman.
vaguely, II suppose they might
"Lawzee, dear child there's no rea.
son you should know what l mean"
interrupted Mrs. Jenkins. But Won
take a family of folks living on
farm, and growing old together, same
as Alb and Jane and Henry and I are.
and we don't notice little WAYS we've
got into. But the night after We had
those taken we stood 'em up in a row
and looked at 'em.
DO | chew my mouth down to the
left that way" said Alb.
Is my forehead any such bed O.
wrinkles as that said Jane.
" Do 1 commonly squint my eyes
up like that asked Henry.
'And every time the rest Of us. nut
to it truthful. had to say yes. So
we've set EN- up there on the mantel.
piece to kind of remind us. I think
some time maybe. We'll have regular
photographs taken in Nashuy that
would show our failings still better
Mrs. Jenkins removed her own like
ness from the mantel. held it at dis
lance. then brought it close to her
eyes: then she held it appealingly to-
ward the summer boarder
The rest of 'em are faithful, but
mine l haven't got any such a cant
TO my eyebrows as that. one up and
one down, now have II" she asked,
with much anxiety.-Youth's Com
panion.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
NOISES III Her HEAD
f1rs. Reagan was a Nervous Wrecks
But Or. Williams Pink Pills
Sroucht Sound Health.

"Before I began to take DR.. Williams
Pink Pills." said Mrs. Mary Reagan,
of No. Sc Kilburn street, Fall River.
Mass, recently, Z" I was in and out OF
bed all the time, but now / stay up all
day and do all my own work.
II was badly run down from over
work. One day noises began IN my head
and almost made me crazy. My head
felt as if q tight band had been put
around it. and the pressure and the
sounds made me so uneasy that often
had TO walk the floor all night.
"My stomach was in bad shape, and
had e1nothering sensations. At such
times nv body seemed bloOdless, my
hands were like chalk and my face
turned yellow. The doctor said / had
dyspepsia in the worst form. Then my
nerves gave way and | was completely
Frustrated. I frequently suffered from
smothering sensations.
.The first box of DIR. Williams Pink
Pills that I used quoted my nerves
SO that 1 could get q good nights
sleep which was a new experience for
me. Before began to use them / was
q nervous wreck and trembled at the
slightest sound. l was so weak that I
had to sit down and rest every few steps
VIXEN 1 went up stairs. Now L can run
up whole flight at once. The smother
ing sensations have gone and the noises
in my head have stopped entirely. My
appearance has greatly improved, for
friends who were alarmed on my ac-
count before, now say: How we'll you
are lookingn My husband spent over q
hundred dollars on treatment for me that
Sfs Worthless, but few boxes of DR..
Williams Pink Pills brought me sound
health"
Sold by all druggists, or sent, post
paid, on receipt of price, so cents per
box, six boxes for SO so by the DIR. Will
iams Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

dent of the Southern Pacific Railroad
has been threatened, and Marquis ITO
president of the privy council, has been
stoned by mob. but neither was in
jured. National troops, called out for
service in the war. have been put on
duty in checking the disorder, the pO-
lice force having proved unequal to the
task
After the attack on the office Of the
Kokumin Shimbun. the government or
gan, Tuesday, mob attacked and
burned the official residence of the
minister Of home affairs, which stood
between the Mobiles Club and the In
perial Hotel and faced Hibya Park.
which was the storm center throughout
the day
Threatening demOnstra tons occurred
in the neighbOrhood of the official
homes of Premier Katsura and Baron
komura, foreign minister, who is now
in the United States, but the police
succeeded in preventing injury to the
occupants or damage to the houses.
The destruction Of the home minis
ters residence was intensely dramatic
Throughout the day a series of demon
STATIONS took place in the neighbour
hood of the building, and late in the
afternoon the mob attacked the house.
swept the police away and BATTERED
down the gates. The police and serv-
=
surged forward and entered the house
3 One Of the mob leaders carrying an
armful of burning straw gained the
rear Of the structure and succeeded in
setting it on fire. The police reserves
charged the crowds, using their swords
freely, but the mob rallied from sew
eral quarters and stoned the firemen
when they arrived. The members Of
the minister's household were rescued
and escorted to the Imperial Hotel
Accurate figures of the casualties in
these encounters are not Obtainable.
1t is known. however. that one man
was killed, that fourteen were mOrtaliy
wounded by sword thrusts and that
stones and injured in the brushes.
A member of the mob which burned
the home minister's residence said TO
a correspondent of the Associated
Press:
I'VE burned the house for the pur-
pose of attracting the attention of the
emperor. We want him to refuse to
ratify the treaty. We believe that
those surrounding him prevent him
from correctly understanding the popu-
lar attitude toward the disgraceful, |
peace
An imperial ordinance establishing
martial law in Toxic was issued. It
is reported there is rioting at Chiba. a ]
town with a population of 10000, |
twenty miles east of Toxic. The pre- !
Electorate building and the court house |
are reported to have been burned. The
government has suspended the further
publication of the Niroku. a newspaper
printed in Toxic
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
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OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS

ouohs Plato drew up the plan of republic where all
marriages should be under the control Of the Government
ana where children should be given for
Te ana training, but that twenty-five hundred years
ago.
Since that time plans without number have been tried
Oh having the State act as mentor and what
concerns family relation, its rights and duties, but
peraDundance of laws impossible carry into effect
always defeated the high purpose in view.
No doubt, marriages based upon scientific principles
would result IN far better of people than nhabt the
earth today but where is the State capable gng
with scientific affairs in which those
interested often make grievous mistakes?
the State better able to train children than the parents Of
the child who than any else have the child's
interests at heart?
Dr Lydston sees many Of the ills suffer under at
present, but he ignores the train ills would
from shifting responsibility from the family State
from those most interested most indifferent-Ch
caSO Chronicle.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
QUAKE SPREADS DEATH.
Violent Shock in CaIabria, Italy, De-
stroys Towns and Ends Lives.

d. V.
stroys Towns and Ends Lives.
Earthquake shocks in the province of
oalaorla. Italy. are reported. with an
estimated loss in life of 100. The towns
OF Martirano. Pizzo and Monteleon di
Calabria were almost entirely ruined.
The greatest damage appears to have
been done at Stefaconi. where the dead
are said to number close to the century
mark. Almost every house in the town
was wrecked, burying the people in the
ruins. The villages of Piscopio and
Ir!parni were destroyed. At Martirano
all the buildings have collapsed. includ-
ing the barracks of the gendarmes.
Pizzo. Monteleone, Martirano and the
other places mentioned in the dispatches
as having been damaged or DESTROYED by
an earthquake are towns in the extreme
southern part of Italy. They are stu
ated on the Peninsula of Calabria, which
for the most par is rough and noun
ta!aouS. The region is reached by n rail-
road running southeast and south along
the coast from Naples to Reggie on the
route to Sicily. Pizz0 is a town of about
10000 inhabitants and is located direct
ly on the lire of the railway 200 miles
from Naples. 1t is built on sandstone
rock on the coast. MonteleOne is a
mountain town of 1000 Inhabitants and
Is situated some miles from the coast.
Martirano is also mountain town in
Ii" interior &c Calabria. It has less
than 1000 iHia bitantS.
NeSuviuS. which has been in extreme
activity during the last ten days. is only
10 miles from tatanzaro. while Mount
Aetna. the loftieSt volcano of Europe,
towers in Sicily only ninety miles away.
The Lipar: Islands just west Of the Gaia
hr.a department. contains the volcano
S;ronlbr l.: threatening and active always
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14


on timely topics has become general among the pastors
city churches within the last several years.
Ministers who preach timely subjects sometimes
criticised as sensaonal but they follow old revered
examples. The sermons Of the prophets Israel were
not dry bones Elijah did not expend his and ener.
g1es eucdatng doubtful texts in the writings of Moses
BE ched against the doatrous worship Baal and de-
nou1ced King habs and Queen Jezehers wickedness to
their faces The of Isaiah and the lamentations
Jeremiah likewise dealt with the msforunes and the folly
of their immediate contemporaries. The preacher on live
topics has still better example. The Savior the
hypocrcal Pharsees and the avarcious money changers
of his time with singing sarcasm.
In Chicago and doubtless elsewhere the ministers who
preach on timely subjects !raw the largest crowds They
do SO because their the interesting The
great end and aim OF preaching is to teach people
right and get them to Go it. But before minister can
do this he must get himself heard There has been GOOD
deal OF discussion to why many city people do not 90
TO church The main probably has been that many
preachers have not strven to keep in the people
IN the struggling playing Borrowing about them
nave not kept Informed what men were doing and
consequently have failed to provide in their
sermons the kind of intellectual and moral pabulum for
winch their congregations hungerng Preachers who
strive constantly to keep in their lives and their ser
mons with the thought and life their time seldom COM
plain of lack of hearers.-Chicago Tribune
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
Fun Ahead.

"Beware,' cried the fortune teller
your bitterest enemy will shortly cross
your path"
'Hooray" yelled the man. delighted
ly, my auto won't do thing to him
Press.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

% IA large proportion of the mob be composed
ESyE@3A Of boys and very young Snap shots of a
EsNxIH fatal shooting affray revealed the fact that
those who scanpering from the zone
Of danger merely youths not workingmen re-
sponsible citizens Of any
OF course it is not true that all, nearly all, the
trouble made by them. but the best they formed
shield behind which hoodlums worked by the po
lice Their presence suggests the need of such home
police force" accomplished wonderful breaking Of
mob in Chicago in the strike of 1894.
The mob, which composed Of about thousand
men and boys had been raging unindered
freight had been overturned, other dam
age had been done The police seemed powerless All
this while the mob led by two very excited and noisy
young fellows the older not more than seventeen.
At last they had attacked switch tower in which
working At the head of the stairs deputy
marshal with frearm The mob the foot of the steps
and about the tower clamored. xiii the scabs" the
denly appeared upon the enraged and
woman, brandshng stout club
where's them two b'ys of mne:" she shrieked. She
caught sight of the two leaders, made for Them landed
resoundng blows across their backs
TITS nice work for ye," she exclaimed, tear
in the tracks while sit hot stove kapin dinner
fer ye! Come home now"
They hesitated not but went, their mother after them
with her club The mob deprived leaders, hesated boot
ed threw few and broke up single member of
the home police had vanquished it.-Youths Companion.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
Not Every body.

Nordy-I should think Astorfeller
would get discouraged.
Butts-Why so?
Nordy-Every body's abusing him.
Butts-NOt on your life. He gets
more than 500 letters a day from peo
pie willing to accept his coin.-Louis.
vile COurier-JOurnal.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

have been ire
quent. Four lives
have been lost, 600
persons, of whom
200 are policemen,
have been injured
and much property
has been destroy
ed. Ten Christian
churches and one
mission school
house We're burned
last night. f. II.
Hartman, DreSi-
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

!. &. Savery. owner of the famous
Gable mine and well known in Iowa
banking circles and in Wall street. in
dead at his residence at Cable, Mont.
Herr disease was the cause. He was
S. Yeas old.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

Probably the youngest general in the
world is q nephew of the late Shah of
Persia, boy not yet IA years old. He
holds the rank of full general in the Per-
sian army.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14


Ing marriage upon rational scientific principles would
extend the functions Of the State and make responsible
for healthy and suitable marriages. He would have
exercise paternal control the training children in
order that they shall have sound minds sound bodies
This confidence in the ability of the State work mir
Rcles in behalf of reforms that have baed religion phan
hropy and individual effort is expressed with surprising
disregard Of history and human nature 1t pardon
able in the Sparans to believe in the omnpoence the
State for they had had little experience social con-
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
MOB RULE IN TOXIC.
MARTIAL LAW IN CAPITAL OF
ISLAND EMPIRE.
Crowds of Japanese Battle with Police
and Apply Torch to Much Valuable
Property-Nationa1 Troops Are Called
Into Service to Que1I Disorder.

For days and nights mobs have
filled the streets of Toxic, the capital
of Japan, and clashes with the police
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

The line under the horses tail
causes more runaways than automo-
bileA
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

nounce than siblant And it has substitutes for
yes. One of them is yep other is .vab" oh.
vousy the yah through the influence of the simple
German ia which is quite elemental sound Yep"
the other hand clearly protest against waste
time in getting tongue palate position to
hiss. Phonetic lazness is what the Professor Max
Muller would call it, And within the last the present
writer has conversed with half of culture and
position, three of whom 'yahd" while other three
'yepped" We have all sermons the yOne on ths
Importance Of learning to say "no'-whch is easy-but
will the pulpit thunder warnings who will not say
'yes?"-London Chronicle.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
State Control of MARRIAGE.

o one can deny that the prevention of degener-
" is much more economical than the cure of
conditions which arise from it. It needs 10
prophet or the son Of a prophet at this late
day to expound the truism. The difficulty is to
find and apply the preventive
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14

Recently, however class of strikes developed
Since unionism made the fatal bunder admitting I'M
skilled labor to industrial equality with workmen
trades where proficiency acquired only by years of
perience and training, many Of the have de-
veloped disposition to go strike at certain seasons
thout regard to whether the conditions justify such
action.
No interest suffers severely than organized la
Dor from iladvised unjust strike. strike is
dangerous and should only be to when
necessity makes its imperative A strike is in
Rugurated merely because busy approaching
and it is believed that employers compelled to
assent to what they consider an unjust proposition in
preference to sacrificing their business is distinct in
justice to organized labor as menace TO the pros
perity of community.-Chicago Journal.
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
"1ah" and "YeD,"

! HE simple English affirmative is becoming
somewhat battered in common speech Yes"
mas long sounded as 'yus" from the lips of the
suneducated. But there is a present tendency
among the educated to adopt the American
warrants upon the world. America has found
that vowel q 1aha1 iS Sio 70 rro
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
Sermons on Live Topics.

HE ministers of Chicago preach more sermons
on timely subjects than those of any other large
city in the country. Battles, wrecks, MURDERS
strikes-events of every kind in which the pub
lie is interested-furnish them with themes
with which to point moral. While Chicago
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
The Strike Habit.

HE strike habit is becoming a menace to the
prosperity of majority of the people of this
country The primary purpose of organized
labor is to defend its membership from i'm
sposition and to secure a fair days wages for
a days work. a strike is only justified when
Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-09-14
Tome FoiiCe Needed.

4 EARLY every photograph Of the rioting III
4 Chicago during the first weeks Of May when
J the teamsters strike was in progress, showed
a large proportion Of the mob to be composed
Of boys and very young men. Snap shots of a
! fatal shooting ARRAY revealed the fact that
those who wore Scanneriny from the zone
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