Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-12-11
LAZY JIM WARNER.

Eating pie, like little Jack Horner,
What q lucky young chap I'd be!
There's the cat and the dog
And the ant and the frog,
And the bird and the bee,
All SO happy and free.
With nothing to do but to play;
While must learn, each day
To read and to spell.
Which, you know very we'll,
Is awful hard work for me-"
New! newt" said the cat, "you know
better;
OF rats l, this day, have caught five"
Bow wow!" said old Bruno, the
setter,
II know what work means, to the let.
ter"
"Buz! buz!" said the bee in the hive.
Yes, the cat and the dog.
And the ant and the frog,
And the bird and the bee.
Are all busy, you see.
And do their work thorough and well,
So don't give up learning to spell.
Jimmy Warner, pray,
But study each day;
Then see what "a scholar you'll be.
Philadelphia Record.
THE INDUSTRIOUS WARNINGS.
1t was one day in midsummer of
last year that some one succeeded in
getting picture of four little wax
wings for The Tribune. They were
perched on branch of the old apple
tree in the New Jersey orchard in
which they were born, and were just
thinking of starting out to seek their
fortunes in the world. Their clothes
Were still a little ragged and disor-
derby, but all who saw them a few
weeks later say there were then no
more elegant little birds than they.
Being young people of refined tastes,
their coasts were quiet in color, but
very fine in texture. AS they liked
little ornament of the right sort, their
tails were tipped with yellow, and they
wore decorations on the tips of some
of their wing feathers that looked
like bits Of red sealing wax. One of
them, who was more fond of dress
than the others, had these red, wax
like appendages on his tail feather,
too. Their crests, which ere not very
noticeable in the picture, became
loftier with age and gave the wearers
most courtly appearance.
The little waxwings lived almost en-
tirely OIL fruit last season, and they
and their numerous relatives ate so
much of that kind of food that the
fruit growers were not altogether
pleased about it. The waxwings and
the fruit growers have not all made
satisfactory arrangements about the
question of fruit eating, because, not
knowing each others language, it is
hard for them to transact business to-
gether. But some men and women
have taken the trouble to study the
ways of the waXwings most carefully,
and have decided that the fruit grow
ers can do nothing better than go
into partnership with them. 1t is
quite true that the waXwings have in
their days eaten good deal of fruit
that had been intended for the mark
ct, but it was found that there were
great many kinds of wild berries
that they prefer to the cultivated
sorts. So the best thing for people
to do who want to have plenty of
fruit to eat or to sell is to plant
few of the wild kinds of berries that
they know the waxwings like, and
then they will seldom touch the kinds
that are more suited to the taste of
human beings.
This may seem like good deal of
work to those who do not know how
well the little birds pay for it In
spring, when fruit is scarce and all
sorts of little creeping, crawling and
flying things are plentiful. Then the
waXwings cease to be vegetarians,
and as their appetites are always ex-
cellent they swallow myriads of small
caterpillars, beetles, canker worms
and other insects which would other
wise live to do great injury to the
fruit crop.
The ways of the waxwings are most
interesting, and when every one
learns what honest, Industrious and
useful citizens they are they should
have many friends. They are noted
for their love of travel, and although
they often fly far south in winter it
is more for the sake of change
and an abundant food supply than be,
cause they are afraid of the cold.
They often stay in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey all winter when winter
berries happen to be plentiful there.
Perhaps, after their love of travel
ing, their most marked characters.
tic is their sociability. They often
fly about in companies of dozen or
more in search of food, and on these
excursions are always exceedingly po-
lite and even affectionate to one an
other. Some one who has had a
chance to watch waXwings quietly
sitting together on branch, accord
ing to their custom, digesting good
uAaASis says lhaI OA oac OSSdSlOA uG
noticed one of them dart after an
insect, and when it was caught offer
it to the bird next to him on the
branch. The first bird to whom it
was offered politely passed it on to
his neighbor, and 1t Travelled back and
forth through the row for some time
before one of them was induced to
appropriate the delicacy to himself
New York Tribune.
REED BIRDS AND RAILS.
The only objection to reed bird
shooting, after it's ease in killing the
game, is the exposure to mosquitoes,
which are more abundant than the
birds themselves. There is also diff
Guilty in retrieving all the game kill
ed. The best trained dogs fetch in
only part of it, and it is impossible
to thoroughly search the marshes
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