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New-York tribune., 1909-05-16
UNCLE SANS HOMES FOR BIRDS

for the purpose of feeding worSmen
Most seafowl eggs are good to eat.
and they command fair prices Thus
for a great many wears the eggs C
INJURIES have been collected for the ~.1
Francisco market ON the FaralareS
Islands. thirty-five miles west .t San
Francisco. commonly bringing from
twelve 20 twenty cents a dozen The
business has been IN the hands
Greeks and Italians. whose pra,tl,s 4.
has been 20 take al egg az the e..
ginning of the LAYING season. g-tlt----
them once every fortv-eIGht E"---
In this manner. u Is estimated. --r
hundred Thousand eggs were taken
from the rcokerIes IN a single summer
In addition Co INJURIES. the bird COLONIES
on the Faralloue~ include pigeon
guillemocs. auks a~hy petrel~. ru--r.i
New-York tribune., 1909-05-16


From this time on IN accordance with TresIler..-.
urotanation all the roOkerIes VIII he safe from dep
relation as the limits Of the refuge include Nr-..e
and North FaralloneS Islands and Sea Lion R,,e
Seventeen Reserves IN the West
MR. ROOSEVELT. a short time before he ,e.- .a-
AA White House set aside seventeen of -lr ---.'
tracts IN the West covered bv irrigation projects
refugees for wild birds Fourteen of these re~er. @
in regions where edible water fowl hreet. ..-
the remaining three I'm Arizona and New Men. RE-
IN parts of the country sought by WlnEei migrant I'D
autumn for winter homes
Other proylauationS during the last wear have SEP
aside various lakes. with their islands. ON NG' .E
birds breed; such, for example. rs Chase Lake .r
North Dakota Lakes Nalheur and Haruel m OTc-,
and Loeb katrine IN Wyoming
Another tset aside IN August of last year. Is ,-'l
the Key West Reservation. and includes Mar, ,us~.@
KEYS and a large number Of small Islands m -H, same
ncIghborhood Another covers the Dry IortuSa~. '1
the same region. which likewise embraces rurrtt. us
lslets. which SoOtV terms nOdty terms. lud trF
least raise their families Another still Is .ae
Island BaV Reservation. containing several huu,rt
small islands of the west coast ot FLORIDA Else
where the same coast two more refugees 'Ie
of them in Pine Island sound where three l>ets
and the other in Matla,ha Pass. where upward Il
four thousand brown pelicans and two thousand
Florida coruoTaut~ 1--we
Likewise created within the last year Is The tu-etrA
Reservation of the coast of Porto Rico. Il tuclrtS
many small Islands, which breeding resorts Tor
several species Of terms laughing guls and other sea
birds
1t is at the earnest solicitation of the audubon So
cietIeS that the Government has set aside all these
refugees In every such instance "a warden. who Is an
officer of the United States Is put IN charge tie Ntts
only dollar a month from the treasury. The ~',I-
e-cS paving his wages hut he wears brass buttons
ari IN a position reIel poayhers and other tres
Pas eIs.
New-York tribune., 1909-05-16

tI-ne almost eNtcrmInlting the tcINcrcI T0puaU0n
Such was the situation when in March, 1908. PeI-
can Island as the mud fiat Is called was formally de
,arel q refuge sacred from intrusion by poaehers or
other bird foes Since that datc-aud this Is the
point If real ntercst-the population OF brown Pell-
cans has increased with such rapIdIty to become
o.ergroIyed and 70 overflow for breeding purposes,
TO other maugrove covered sles nearby This is the
reason the President issued Il special proclamation
extending the limits Of the reservation 20 make
II cover nearly a square mile
New-York tribune., 1909-05-16

has recently come 10 pass an
i event much more than ordinarily
interesting To all lovers Of birds It's
merely an enlargement. by presidential
proclamation, Of a refuge for pehcans,
already set aside as such by the Govern
ment. in Mosquito Inlet, Florida; yet
II signifies much
This reservation was the first one es-
tablished for the purpose by the Gov
ernmeut Il Is small island, "a
mere mud fiat. less than four acres IN
extent. partly covered by mangroves,
with "a few sparse patches Of salt grass.
Yeti had prosperous colony OF brown
pelicans. which bred there by thou
sands. until egg hunters and sports
men invaded II, rohhiug the nests
wholesale. shooting the magnificent
birds 1ust for fun and IN "A short
New-York tribune., 1909-05-16

eggs literally by the ton they have slaughtered i'm
mcnse numbers of the feathered occupants Ndtu-
rallv this process has resulted in large dmlnuuOn
IN the number Of Wild fowl Henry W. Elliott well
known naturalist speaks of having seen SIN men
Warus Island load a boat with four tons OF eggs of
the PallaS
At the mouth of Tuxedm Harbor, in Cook Inlet on
the South Alaskan coast two small islands called
ground for birds Of many kinds including thou
sands of puttins and guiemots There are also few
cider ducks \ proclamation from the White House
has made the islands a refuge
Another recent proclamation created the Bogos-
of Reservation in the neighbOrhOOd of the Acutian
Chain Bogosof Island is the largest and most i'm
portaut breeding rookery of hons, and is a nest
building home for myriadS of SEA birds including
murres auks and eormorants
Protection in Hawa
A T the extreme western limit Of the Hawaiian
Archipelago "a dozen or more small IsletS and
reefs which from time inmemordl have been otcu-
pied for breeding purposes by SEA fowl For many
slaughter the birds 10y wholesale. shipping the
wings and feathers 10y way of AsatC ports TO Europe
This was forbidden hl our Government at the time
Hawai- was annexed, hut extensive poachIng OF the
KIND has been going on ever since Recently q man
who calls himself the King of LavSau Island .thi> Is
albatroSscs) made contract with Japanese feather
dealers by which their agents 10 be allowed 10
do all the killing they wanted But the Government
however has declared all these islands. iuylud-
ing LavSan q refuge
Laysan Island by the way is about the most inter
esting breeding ground for wild birds in the world \
volcanic rock three miles in length and tritle less
III greatest width largely covered with valuable
deposits OF Guano resulting from thousands OF years
occupancy by pultItudcS of birds. EuterpriSIug
dealers carried Oft the guanO in ships and incident,
ally the eggs of the albatrosses aud other fowl
We're gathered bF the carload, Tor the most IaTt
New-York tribune., 1909-05-16

TuffIns. guIIS and several STc0ICS n C|TUT"T-T-'
From this time on IN accordance with Yresllcr--
proclamation all the rookeries VIII he safe from ttr
relation as the limits Of the refuge include Nr-e.
and North FaralloneS Islands and Sea Lion R,,e
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

rent to every American, savoring, as IT
does, of methods Russian, Spanish,
"monarchical and tyrannical. ~ During
the civil war the government had no
trouble TO bring action for sedition or
treason against editors who offended
the union interests, and It would seem
that the present regulations provide
sufficiently for proper control of those
publications which have no respect for
truth and patriotism. Fortunately,
that class of scandalmonger is rare,
and the great mass of prudent and
painstaking newspapers should not be
made to suffer for the sins Of the few.
War correspondents in the field have
customarily proved themselves to be
brave and honorable men, picked for
the service, and they have been sufi-
ciently hedged about with restrictions
without being subjected to an espion-
age which would render their work
virtually valueless. Newspapers spend
many thousands Of dollars TO get the
truth, in wal times, and in case this
country should become involved in a
conflict the people would demand the
facts without suppression.
The reader will be apt to cry out
that a censorship such as proposed
would be unconstitutional, yet it has
been found possible to enforce similar
prohibitive laws in some cases. In
Massachusetts, no newspaper is per-
mitted to discuss in any way a ease
that is on trial before any court in that
commonwealth, and some of the most
conservative papers in that state have
violated the statute for the sake Of
testing it, and have been heavily fined
as a result. Nevertheless, it is well
for the advocates of the proposed cen-
sorship to recall the constitutional pro-
vision, which reads:
Congress shall make no law which,
respecting an establishment Of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof; or a%bridging the freedom of
speech or of the press; or the right Of
the people %peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the government for a re-
dress OF grievances"
The fact that this was adopted as the
first amendment to the constitution
would tend to prove that a free press
was to the minds Of the states an es-
sential bulwark Of the nation.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
The Family and the Public.

Just now much attention is being
demanded by reformers of two sorts as
wide apart as the poles. One set is
clamoring loudly for the abolition, or
at least the restriction, of divorce, set
ting up that under the laxity of the
law which readily dissolves the mar
riage bond the family is threatened
with all but extinction. Much able
argument is brought to the support of
this position and the status of society
when the family shall have become ex-
tinct is painted in darkest tints.
Another set of reformers, almost as
numerous and equally clamorous, are
apparently bent on destroying the fam
lily. In the name of society these good
people go into the homes and under
take to regulate the conduct of parents
towards their children and, failing in
this, remove the children entirely from
the charge and keeping or their natural
parents and with the sanction of the
law thrust them into detention homes
whence they are taken, if at all, to
places where they may be reared at
least in a manner different from what
might have happened had they re-
NAMED with their parents.
Between these two sets Of reformers
happily stands the large body Of eiti-
zenship who hold aloof from divorce
court and juvenile court alike. The
family is still the unit In American So
oiety and must remain so. On its per-
petuity practically rests the safety OF
the government, II has not been es-
tablished that the so-called divorce evil
Is a serious menace to the sanctity of
the home. nor has it been established
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
King Albert's Opportunity.


Under the reign of Albert I, to be
ushered in this week, Belgium may be
expected to take a long stride forward
in economic and social progress, in
case the new monarch lives up to his
opportunity. The masses of the pop
ulation have for decades been ground
lower and lower under a most op-
pressive national debt and a system of
taxation that has constantly grown
more burdensome. So that they might
not rebel against the terrible drain of
the public revenues, which have taxed
even the trades, they have been kept
in ignorance and in a country whose
constitution forbids all armed ag-
erosion, the ministry Of wal spends
nearly twice as much as does that of
the interior and public instruction.
King Albert gives promise of chang
ing all this, for he has spent his youth
in studying the American and other
advanced systems of government, and
1t is expected of him that he will seek
to lift his people from the slough of
oppression, ignorance and debt. In
stead of maintaining the throne for
selfish exploitation or private ag-
grandizement, such a modern and high
purposed ruler should be able to in
stitute fiscal reforms, remodel and eX-
tend the schools, and lead his subjects
into the ways of an enlightened civili-
cation. Immediate improvements are
possible, and If Albert undertakes
them with the far-sightedness that is
said to be one of his characteristics the
progress will be steady and secure.
The world at large will be the gamer
to a CO nsiderable degree from an in
telligent application Of what the young
king has learned from his travels
among the nations. Belgium is too
crowded with people to hope eve to
regain its lost possibilities Is an agri-
cultural country. In mines and manu-
features it is susceptible of vast i'm
provement, but it must buy its food
poverty, the masses will demand more
and more of the worlds produce, and
the granaries of the United States will
have a new market as the Belgians are
developed along modern lines. Pros
perity for this long down-trodden
people will be a source of additional
gain for progressive producing nations.
King Albert has it in his power to lift
his millions of subjects from ignorance
and want into education and happi-
ness, and in so doing he will be benefit
ing humanity at large, from every
high, as we'll as every selfish point Of
view.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Time to Uncover Frauds.

With the testimony given in the
federal court at Denver as a basis,
there seems to be afforded an oppor-
tunity for discovering some phases of
the coal land frauds that have thus far
defied investigation. One of the farmer
attorneys advised him that the filings
had been irregular and hat there had
to be some quick covering up. 1t
would appear that any lawyers coercing
stockholders, as has been testified to
in this case, had laid themselves liable
to participation in the prosecution as
we'll as the profits, and it is to be
hoped that the government will not
overlook the opening thus afforded for
including the tricky legal luminaries in
the net.
Furthers than this, it is testified
that a minor official" in the land
office at Washington had advised the
promoters to change the identity eff
their company and bury il deep to
help the fraud" 1t is eminently in
order for those to whom the minor
official" gave this advice to name his
name. If any government officials are
included in the land fraud ring, %
is the time to uncover them. The ad-
ministration coyets just such facts as
are here limited at, for the more shin
ing the example, the more lasting will
be the lesson that these prosecutions
Of the government against public do,
main jugglers are intensely in earnest
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
SERMONS BOILED DOWN.

No man helps people much who thinks
only of pleasing them.
One way to defend the right is to at
tack all wrong vigorously.
Making the best Of that which is wrong
is often buttressing an evil.
Many believe in the discipline of suffer
ing, provided others take 1t.
No man hits the mark of righteousness
by aiming at responsibility.
II you never dream of the impossible
you will never do the possible.
You cannot SOW weeds in your heart
and keep the burrs to yourself.
You viii never lead a boy into your faith
until you have much faith in him.
Many talk so freely of religion because
they have never met the real thing.
The best way to get the help of heaven
is to give some other fellow a little HELM.
Many a saint eats pickles and cream and
then goes to sleep waiting for a vision
from God.
Many a man is so busy making a living
for his chiluron that he forgets to think
of their real lives.
The world is not likely to believe in your
faith if when it looks for fruit you can
show only sound roots.-Chicago Tribune.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
SECULAR SHOTS AT PULPIT.

Chicago Record-Herald A Philadelphia
preacher has arranged matters so that
half a dozen Of the prettiest young women
in his congregation act as ushers. A
largely increased attendance Of men is
reported.
New York Tribune: hat young minister
who wants to divorce his wife because she
does not appreciate his sermons ought to
prepare a discourse on the text about a
prophet not being without honor save in
his own country.
Charleston News and Courier: A Pitts
burg Presbyterian elder has departed with
$780, go, more or less, of money belonging
to IT, presbytery, of which he was treas
urer. He is reported to have gone to Japan,
but not as a missionary.
Philadelphia Press: President Taft has
missed no opportunity since he was in
augurated to emphasize his confidence In
missions, and his speech last night in New
York, at the diamond jubilee of the African
mission of the Methodist Episcopal church,
adds to the many occasions on which he
has given foreign missions his personal
support and approval,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
A Test Of ProsneritH.

II the proof of the pudding is in the
eating thereof, then the payment OF
dividends may be taken as a fair gauge
of business prosperity. Judging from
this standpoint, the record for 1909 is
most encouraging. II is far ahead of
1908 or 1907 aud proves most con-
olusively the ]soundness Of the state
ments made at different times during
the year that the business of the coun-
try was on a paying basis, and was
growing at a remarkably rapid rate.
1t is now estimated by a competent
Wall street authority that between
the 1st and 18th days Of January next
there will be paid to the holders Of
stocks and bonds Of the various cor
porations of the United States more
than 1925, OOO, 900, the largest interest
and dividend disbursement in the
history of finance of this country. This
enormous payment is compared with
similar payments in the corresponding
month of 1908 of approximately $685.
OOO,O 600 and in January Of 1907 of
SEQ, 10000 This great increase
represents the improvement in general
business conditions In the last half Of
1909, as compared with conditions pre-
valent during the same period in 1908.
Railroads will pay to shareholders
in January a little more than $72,-
600, 900, an increase Of about S49,-
600, 600 over the same month of last
year, while stockholders in industrial,
commercial and public utility concerns
will receive more than SCI, 600, 900, a
total Of over S133,OOO,O 900 in dividends.
Interest payments will aggregate more
than $4,000 900, of which $62,-
100000 will represent the fixed
charges on outstanding railroad bonds,
and 1000 900 of interest payments
will be made on the combined bonded
Indebtedness of miscellaneous cor
porations of the country. These figures
are referred to in order that some
better idea may be had of the enormous
NAINhN VI lAC ~ bOA puDlhOo5 Sol iCA
IN in the country.
While on the subject it may be of
interest to note that at the end OF this
year more than $500, 900, 900 will
have been paid to stock and bond
holders of the United States, which is
also a new record for such payments.
Recent compilations by the Wall Street
Journal show that the free stock Of
money in the United States is about
81, 500, 900, 900, 50 that if the entire
payment Of dividends and interest had
fallen on one day it would have taken
nearly all the money in the United
States to have discharged the obliga-
ton.
But the principal concern Of the
public with this matter is that the
business of the country is on such a
basis that these enormous payments Of
fixed charges and profits are possible
without disturbance or special notice.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
Sugar Ring Convictions.

The wisdom of deferring congress-
ional exploitation of the sugar ring
frauds is manifest in the success of the
prosecution under way in New York,
where five Of the offenders have
already been found guilty. When the
government shall have exhausted it's
ability to reach the ringleaders with
the arm of criminal indictment will be
time enough for a congressional COM
mittee to expose any ramifications that
are beyond the power Of the prosecu-
ton because OF the statute O. limita-
lions, and exposure her will be Just as
effective without having hindered the
administrators efforts.
Five verdicts of guilty are a distinct
encouragement. The jury's disagree
ment over the case of B~endernagel, a
former cashier, while disappointing to
the government, may prove to be of
real service, for Bendernagel testified
that his deeds were at the instigation
of men higher up, n on his retrial
the prosecuting attorneys may be able
to disclose some Of the chief offenders
not yet discovered. Fortified with the
records of the cases just closed, the
government may be regarded as in a
position to present v e stronger evil
dence in the trial Of the additional in
dictments now pending, and the public
may confidently expect that no Of
fender is to be permitted to escape if
guilt can be fastened upon him beyond
the reasonable doubt to which every
defendant Is entitled.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

That is a rather unusua process re-
puted to be under way in Washington
for the enactment of a law designed by
the officers OF the general staff TO es-
tablisL a legal censorship of news re-
lating to the movements of land and
naval forces in war times. AS framed
the bill is said to authorize the presi-
dent to issue a proclamation forbidding
the publication of news relating to the
armed forces Of the government, or the
means and measures by which the war
is to be prosecuted. Further pro-
vision is alleged TO be a proposal for
the definite establishment OF a press
censorship in the Wal and Navy de
partments to which correspondents in
period Of stress must submit matter
and ask leave to publish. Fines of
$4,000 and Imprisonment of from six
months TO three years are attached as
penalties for violation.
One OF the promoters of the bill is
said to be General J. Franklin Bell,
who, it is stated, desires to see the
measure enacted before he turns his
duties as chief-of-staff v e to Genera
Wood on being assigned to take charge
Of military matters In the Philippines.
The very name censorship is abhor-
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
THE SHIPS OF YULE.

Bliss Carmen in the Delineator.
When / was just a little boy,
Before i went &c school,
l had a fleet of forty sail
/ called the Ships Of Hule,
OF every rig, from rakish brig
And gallant barkentlne
To little Fundy fishing boats,
WITH g~unboats painted green.
They used to go on trading uips
Around the world for me.
For though / had to stay on shore
My hear was on the sea
They stopped at every port Of call
From Babylon to Rome,
To load with all the lovely things
We never had at home;
With elephants and ivory
Bought from the King of Tyre,
And shells and silk and sandalWood
What sailor men admire;
With figs and dates from Samarcand
And squatty ginger Jars,
And scented silver amulets
From Indian bazaars;
with sugar cane from Port of spain.
with monkeys from Coylon,
And paper lanterns from Pekin
With painted dragons on;
With coconuts from Zanzibar,
And pines from Singapore;
And when they had unloaded these
They could go back Tor more,
And even after / was big
And had TO 90 to school,
nv mind was often far away
Aboard the Ships Of Yule.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19

New York state is about TO abandon
its candle-power tests of gas for those
showing it's heating power, a fact
which emphasizes another phase of
modern development. Electric forms
of lighting have in a large measure
%supplanted gas, and those who still use
gas for light have discovered the eff
cheney and economy of the incandescent
mantels, while gas for cooking has
come into practically general use. This
is one of the marked evolutions in
household economy.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-12-19
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

Golden text for today: Ii you haven't,
do it early tomorrow.
Kermit Roosevelt shot a bongo, but the
whangdoodle got away.
A special election enabled the Traction
managers of Kansas City to see stars with
out a telescope.
Filming the New York Ice trust the awful
sum of 5000 is about as painful a penalty
to the concern as the melting of ice cakes
carefully placed on sunny doorsteps in
midsummer.
No United States senator Is to be elected
by the Illinois legislature at its present
session, and the more hopeful patriots ex-
pect it will devote its talents to business
worth while.
A salaried scribe .on the Detroit Free
Press pipes off the sentiments of the
Fourth estate in two lines. He will EN-
brace spiritualism as soon as a medium
makes the ghost walk twice a week. No
less.
A Pennsylvania grocer attempted to
prove the strictly fresh" quality of his
stock OF eggs by eating a sample. He eX-
poets to return to duty before Christmas.
Thereafter he viii simply insist on the In
tegrity of the printed label.
Every we'll regulated boy and girl can
increase the store Of parental esteem by
cutting out the habit Of spooking around In
places where packages might be stored
away. Catching on before the appointed
time dims the glitter of the Christmas
tree.
Expert rock sharks express surprise be-
cause they did not find a fragment of the
shaIe rock In a Chicago sewer trench for
which the city paid the contractor an Eek
tra' of SAG, 900. The conclusion is that the
contractor made a clean job of It, especially
the city rocks