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National Association of Audubon Socletles LUZ
tho protec+ion of wild Birds and Animals mas
resulted, although in the interim 'ne,e We"
many periods when the OUTLOOK .oi pu
lection in North America seemed aoomeo "
failure"
It was the result of an appear maoe ~
congress by the council OF the Ornltnoiosis.s
union that led congress to vote al appo
tfon of S.. 900. the money to be administered
under the direction of the department OF ag
riculture for the purpose OF taking means u
save the lives of the native American plrds
which were useful to man.
AS William butcher says further In MS
story of the protective movement:
"sIn recognition of the action taken by the
American Ornithologists union In securing the
apprcpriation the secretary OF agriculture IN
yited the council of the union to select su-
perintendent to carry on the work and at
SUBSEQUENT meeting held in Washington, Dr.
Clinton Hart Merriam was selected as the SUI
perintendent and DR.. Albert X. Fisher as MS
assistant. Both of these noted ornlthologlsts
were among the founders of the American Or
nithologists union
IT was from this humble beginning that the
present biological survey, a division OF the
limited States department of agriculture, has
grown 1t is perfectly apparent from the let
ters which agriculturists send to Washington
constantly that the work of the biological sur
yey has it's value appreciated more and more
every year. The survey has published great
mass of valuable statistics of the food habits
of birds and their relation to agriculture and
forestry.
AS has been said, there Audubon soci-
eties for bird protection in nearly every state
in the Union. They are affiliated in one great
society called the National Association of Au-
dubon societies. The writer of this article
from personal knowledge can speak Of the be-
ginnings of one of the largest and most ac
tive of the state organizations.
Persons who were known to be interested in
birds were asked to meet to form protective
organization A good many persons not par
ticularly interested in bird protection also
were invited. Several women came to that
first meeting, wearing the plumage of wild
birds in their hats At first the society in
tended to do it's work by persuasive mission
ary efforts and along this line to consider
able extent the endeavor has been ever since
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INDIANS CONE TO
DANCE IN AUTOS
WELCOME, TWO BITS" GREET
ING OF kIoWA BILL, TRIBAL
COUNCIL HOST.
RED MEN CHARGE GATE FEE
Ghost Dance, With Frequent War
hoops, Features of Big Three-Day
Meeting Near Hobart, Oklahoma
Great Attraction for Pale Face.

Hobart, Ok.-"Welcome, Two Bits"
was the greeting Kiowa Bill gave the
white visitors who gathered at his
farm to witness the ceremonies at
tending the council and ghost dance
Of the Cheyenne and Kiowas during
their fall visit. A good sprinkling Of
the Indians present made the trip
from their homes in automobiles.
Kiowa Bill Is crafty business man
and he knows the value of his chief
tainship and also of Indian ceremo-
malls. The gathering at his farm was
to last three days and provisions cost
money, so he proceeded to make the
show self-sustaining. Beef was the
chief article on the menu and often
there was not time enough to cook 1t.
The visitors found as much attrac-
tion In the personality of those gath
cred for the council, as in the proceed
fngs themselves. The Indians still
take these councils quite seriously, or
at least appear to.
Lone Wolf, in bis clerical garb, was
there. Wolf represented the Kiowas
in the opposition to the opening of
the Kiowa-Comanche country in 1901
so persistently that he lost standing
with the authorities. 1t was con-
cluded that he was more of a spokes-
man for wealthy cattlemen than for
his tribesmen and the government
has since ignored him, dealing with
his tribe through others. He is Bap-
tist clergyman and always appears in
civilian dress, which becomes pretty
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culture of the United States government The
biological survey has been of great service TO
the farmers of the United States and to all
men engaged either directly or indirectly In
any form of agricultural pursuits. When the
survey was threatened with extinction few
years ago by the apparent intention of con-
gress to refuse it an appropriation, the farm
ers of the United States with the bird pro-
tectors and the real sportsmen, rose in its de-
tense and saved it. The survey probably will
be spared to continue it's useful work as long
as the agricultural department has existence.
The history of bird protection in the United
States naturally and of right, is connected with
the history of two organizations, the various
state Audubon societies for the protection of
wild birds, and the American Ornithologists'
union. Recently William butcher of New
York, who is the president of the National AS
sociation of Audubon societies and fellow Of
the American Ornithoogists' union, told the
ornithologists of the world assembled in con-
vention in a European city the story of the
bird protection movement in North America.
Mr.. butcher and all the other officers of the
National Association of Audubon societies are
men who have devoted their lives to the study
of birds and to their protection.
A celebrated French scientist said not long
ago that if the bird life were to be swept out
of existence man could survive only few
months Because of the ravages Of the insects
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badly soiled when he sQuats in the cir
Gle with Komalty, Kiowa Bill, Little
Wolf, Prairie Chief, Little Calf and
the other wise men.
The long pipe and many grunts are
the most apparent features of this
council, which sometimes lasts as long
as the night session of a state con-
vention.
The ghost dance, however, enliv-
ened things. When time came for
the dancers to take their places, it
became evident what had been going
on in the tepees. The participants
appeared in full glory of feathers, war
paint, blankets, buckskin garments,
beads and gaudy trinkets. These In
dians justified any colored picture Of
a painted red man that has ever been
printed.
All dancers, squaws and braves to-
gether, join hands and form a circle
around group of few of the oldest
and wisest of the chiefs. The latter
sing or chant a tribal song. Their
voices are pitched in shrill, high
key, which might be compared to the
treble" of the early-day white folks
class meeting, and the song usually
ends with war whoop, which Is a
bit disquieting to timid spectators. Oc-
casionally the dancers join in the
chant and also In the whoop, espe-
cially when the dance is given by the
light of campfire and there is bet
ter opportunity Of mpressing white
folks.
The dance is given in f1ve-minute
rounds, between which the Indians
walk about and converse with each
other much as at fashionable ball.
Conversation with white visitors is
limited to the younger Indians, those
who have attended school, The older
ones, when addressed, answer mo
savee," but if the person speaking has
something of interest to the Indian to
impart and will continue talking, he
usually finds that the brave under
stands all that be cares to.
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CR4NE OF CL/yM
6QADZEy, ASSOCIATIONS las
NIAROEW IN HORll4.
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now held in check by the birds, the vegetation
creatures would be destroyed by the insect
enemies. So it would seem that ff this French
scientist Is right that in making their fight
for the birds the defenders have been making
their fight for man, fact which is not ap-
preciated by some of those who would suffer
were 1t not for the constant saving efforts of
men whom on occasion they have seen fit to
call cranks.
To lead up to the establishment of the Au-
dubon societies, of which nearly every state
in the Union has one, 1t might be said that 1t
was not until the year 1883 that the public in
the United States awakened to the fact that
too many wild birds were being slaughtered,
largely for millinery ornaments and other dec
orative purposes. In addition, thousands of
song and ihsectivorous birds were killed annu-
ally for food. In his story of the movement
for bird protection President butcher told Of
the beginnings of the crusade to save the
lives of the songsters which year by year were
coming back to the farm and the garden in
greatly decreased numbers. Mr.. butcher said,
speaking of the condition in 1888:
'The newspapers published items almost
daily on the subject, and many strong edito-
rials were written. quotation from one of
these entitled The Sacrifices of Song Birds
will show the earnestness OF the press in re-
spect to the situation: The destruction of
American wild birds for millinery purposes
has assumed stupendous proportions. The un-
holy work gives employment to vast army
of men and women and this army wages its
campaign Of destruction with diaboical per-
lection of system
"The editorial In question further refers
to details of the work published in other col
umns of the paper, which furnishes evidence
of the CHASTITY character of the business The
logical result of this newspaper agitation was
that the American Ornithologists' union at its
annual meeting held in New York city Sep
tember 80, 1884, appointed committee of its
members to investigate the extent of the al
legged wild bird destruction and to devise
means to stop the slaughter by legal or any
other Legitimate method
This committee found chat the claims of
the press and of individuals were not in the
least exaggerated, but on the other hand did
not fully represent the terrible inroads that
were being made on the non-game birds.
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Lovemakina and Practice.

The only way to become an expert
at lovemaking is to practice. This
was the information handed out to
handful of hearers by the Hindu phil
osopher, Sakharam Ganesh Pandit, in
lecture on "The Science of Love-"
Love is a divine discomfort" said
the philosopher, land if you want to
arouse love in others it can be done
only by giving them love. How to
develop the emotion of love in another,
is the great question of today-the art
of making love. 1t needs a great deal
of study and a great deal of prac-
tice."
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cow BREAKS UP AUCTION
Animal Resents Being Sold for $73,
ard Dashes Into Crowd, In
jurifg Several.

La Fayette, Ird.-A Jersey cow, an
apparently docIle animal, nearly
caused a panic during a sale at the
Guy Stockton farm, on the Dayton
road east of the city.
An auctioneer had just sold the cow
to the highest bidder for s73 when the
animal made a lunge into the crowd
gathered in the barnyard Dr. T. S.
Motter was knocked down and his leg
cut, and Georgia, the twelve-year-old
daughter of Mr.. Stockton, received a
fractured arm. Frank Baer was
thrown and bruised, and Smith Nc
Clure, Eli Brodsky, Jack Brady and
several others were knocked down and
trarpied on.
The COW fed across the fields aud
ass captured after much trouble.
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Model HfriDan kino-

The Christian village of Hombo in
Africa is a proof of the power of the
gospel. At daybreak every morning
the horn is blown and the people as
semble at the kings house to hear the
word of God read, and to praise and
pray. Witchcraft and superstition
have fallen under the power of the
gospel, and the heathens are taking
knowledge of it. The native church
at Loanda contributes SIT month for
the support of native workers on ma
tive station in the interior of Angola.
Some folks never feel sanity until
they have a chance to syndicate their
sorrows.
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er on the rejecting matter. . That
mankind is not to be smothered or
knocked out by this, however, is
shown in the fact that 10000 trillions
of light particles strike the globe ev-
cry second, these overwhelming num-
bers of particles equaling a five and
one-half pound shot falling the 1885,
600 miles in a second. Unless some
unknown influence suddenly should
CONCEAL the immeasurable corpuscles
of light into solid shot, each striking
every second, there's no danger eth
er of death from the shots or of
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letter. So, when Voltaire was starting
on a holiday, he wrote to Piton. eco
rus" which is the complete Latin for
81 am going into the country" Piton's
answer was just 'T'-complete Latin
for "Go!" The tick on the new post
card can hardly be shorter than that
single letter. In business correspond
ence the record is divided between
Victor Hugo, who, anxious to know
how his LES Miserables" was going,
wrote to the publisher -"?"-and the
publisher, who triumphantly replied
"!"-Londou Chronicle.
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Pressure of Light on the Earth

and there is no knob way in which
they could exert any impelling force
on matter"
But today Newton is supported and
science has gone SO far into the pres
sure of light as to figure that this
light pressure on the globe reaches
$4,000 tons. Further, along the lines
of deduction, there is pressure upon
any object that reflects or that alb
serbs light, the pressure being great
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After a lapse of a quar-
ter of a century it is
hard for the people OF
the present day to real
ize the enormous num-
ber of birds that were
slaughtered for the mil
linery trade alone.
"The greatest suf-
ferers were the white
plum ag e sea and
swamp birds, such as
terms, gulls and heron,
but incredible num-
sers Of land birds also
we're sacrificed, some
GO or 70 species Delns
included in the lists. In
one millinery estab-
ment alone $50 skins
of the Baltimore orr
oles were found.
"From the work
started by this commit
tee in 1884 the present
well-organized a n q
financially endowed cor
H. 11-ouTn oC the
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darkness. relieved only by the siz-
zling whitehot missiles bombarding
The Briefest Letters.

Even the new French ready printed
postcards, upon which you have only
to tick off the sentences that fit your
case, do not beat the record Of brevity
in holiday correspondence estab-
lished by a Frenchman in the eigh-
teenth century. Voltaire and Piton,
the epigrammatist, exchanged chal-
lenges to write the shortest possible
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Light, travelling its 10000 miles a
second, once was regarded an ethe-
real, immaterial something in vibra-
ton. Simon Newcomb, in his "Popu-
lar Astronomy" issued in 1878, said
OF this: eff light were an emission
of material particles, as Newton sup
posed it to be, this supposed pressure
of light would have some plausibility.
But light is now conceived to consist
Of vibrations in an ethereal medium
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head of woman constantly were raised. IL per
haps is hardly necessary to say that the aliusion
to the head of woman had to do with the fashloh
of wearing the plumage of native wild plros lor
decorations for hats and bonnets.
1t was a hard fight to get the masses OF the
people interested in the birS protection move
ment Today very little is k,own in a general
way of the manner in which success was wrought
out. 1t is not at all uncomma. even now 10
hear the bird protectors spoken Of as mere SEN
timentalists and there are men VINO have mad
part in the fight to save the wild life VINO haVe
been sneered at effeminate. The truth is that
most of the men who engaged in the work or pre-
serving the feathered species were hard-headed
and could prove occasion that they were hard
fisted
It'takes only casual glance at womans hat
today to show that the fashion of wearing feath-
ers is still if not supreme, at least ruler to
considerable degree. 1t should be known, how
ever, that not once in hundred times do you see
on woman's head today the plumage OF a native
American bird. The traffic in the feathers of
bfuebrds robins, catbirds and other dooryard
pets has been almost entirely stopped. Even
those who wish that the plumage-wearing habit
should cease altogether are powerlesS to prevent
the sale of the feathers of certain species of for
eign birds. The aigrette of which woman is
fond is part of the plumage of the snowy heron,
a bird which lives not only in the United States
but in certain foreign countries. If bird is to
be found in America and also abroad the sale of
its plumage is generally forbidden in the United
States, but there is, and always has been some
difficulty in proving from whence came the sup
ply. Law generally speaking, has it's technicality
loopholes and the bird protective law is not
exempt
Out Of the bird protective movement grew
the biological survey of the department of agri
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l Letter to
| DR.. kilmer q Co.
| Blnghamton, N. Y.

Commission expires March 26, 1914
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-17
SOUTH HTEC.

I.emue, Youdle Is moving 20 FaS;
Charlotte where he has rented q large
farm,--Luke Livingston was called TO
Canada the March Il by the sudden death
Of mis- mother.--'rhe ice is showing up on
The Sandbar bat the road Is stu passihs.
Roads in town are much improved since
iast week,-Considerabl sugar has been
made the past week.--An entertainment
viii nc given by the members OF the junior
lass OF Maple Lawn Academy Friday
vVening.-AIiss Ethel Wright and Hazel
Robinson have been III with measles at
Potsdam y Y, where they are attend
ug Normal school. Miss Robinson Is
able 10 resume hor work in school this
week, but Miss Wright win he obliged to
return home for time on account OF her
oyes.-rhe Congregational sunday school
library has Just received an addition of
about 40 volumes.--Tho pulpit of the Con-
Gregational church was supplied last
Sunday by the Rev. !. g. Goodali. D. D..
Of Essex Junction, Mrs, Juan Robinson
10 entertaining her niece, Miss Margaret
Robinson. and Miss Catharine Catcomb
of Boston.
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MONTGOMERY CENTER.

The school board held q meeting al the
Office cf W. !. Wright last Friday and
elected the following officers for the COM
ms year: Chairman, S. ). Hail. Jr. clerk
W. j. Wright; purchasing agent, Fl. H.
Parker. The same teachers will teach
il the Center md village schools as did
last term. Miss Madge Goodspocd VIII
have tie primary room in the ilectorvile
district The directors are discussing
Transporting the scholars from the notch
road school To the ono nj the center
Freeman Chandler and r. Fucry have
moved to CowanVile, ,lue,-Charles Cir
ard has moved to Rarton.-Fred Brooks
has gone to South Royalton for short
stay. He goes rom there to Rutland.
where he has a position.-p. w Hall,
Albert Laplant and George Whitney lot
Monday for Grcenvile Maine,--Mrs. T..
3 Wright went Tuesday to Burlington
for treatment of her eycs,--Col {. T.. Mel
son of Derby Line is Ia town.--Wm. Gras-
set has moved to Abbotts Corner, Que,
and Hormer Sheldon to Enosburg Lewis
Coodhue OF Euu9burG Center was IN town
Monday on husinoss.-Mis. q, q. Orion
of Fairfax Is in tOWn.--Wiliam Mari.
who has been quite sick is better,
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FAIRFAX.

T. l.. Smith of Fletcher has sold his
Fairfax creamery to ]. G.. Turnbull of
East Swanton.-John Town of Milton
and Miss Pearl Marvin were married AZ
the Methodist parsonage by the Rev. f'
W. Burke Saturday evening, March IL
Most of the farmers have tapped and
report quite a flow of sap.-Mrs. {. q.
Orton was called to Montgomery Satur-
day by the illness of her little grand
daueh,cr.-Nrs. j. II. Ruggles has been
called to. st. Adams by the serious Ill
ness of his sister. Mrs. David l'ooth.--B.
NJ Ballard has taken possession of the
store that he recently bought Of G. r.
St. Pierre.--C :. Howard returned Sat
urday from Boston whore ne went to AZ
tend the auto HhoW.-JaWcs Guoiall OF
Burlington spent a few days with his
aunt. Mrs. Carrie Farnsvorth. lass week.
H. y. McNall and daughter, Clara
spent Tuesday in St hlhans.-tilcn Paris
went to the Mary Fletcher hospital for
treatment March IA. y Butlcr has
closed out his grocery store and will work
at his trade, uantng.-M. T.. Strait LAS
his house about ready for the paintcrS.-
EMORY Grover md Thomas Grover were
brought before Grand Juror u. :. ufford
Monday and Tuesday. Three Of tho Duffy
children were also brought before him for
not attending SCHOOL Tncr were all
sentenced to tho Industrial School at Yer
gcrnes. Sentence was suspended II they
would attend school the remainder Of the
school year.