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Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30

out among the branches and having
the glorious satisfaction of catching
and eating bugs and worms without
having to divide with several hungry
brothers.
Jettys delight came near costing
him his life. Busily engaged in pull
ing a big fishing worm out of hole,
Jetty did not heed his mothers scream
of "Jetty, Jetty!"
He looked up just in time to see
himself surrounded with three or four
big creatures. He had heard them
called boys His tired little wings re-
fused to respond instantly to the in
stinct to fly. minute more and he
was caught. He was being crushed in
the hands of one of these big boys.
Wild with fright Jetty screamed:
"Help! Helpl Mamma Blackie, help
met and struggled with all his might.
The young nest robbers had not
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30

TETTY CROW lolled lazily in
j his downy nest, swinging
gently from the tree top. He
was enjoying the brilliant sun
set. Blackie Blackbird perched
lightly above him in all the glory
of a freshly brushed coat.
"Whee, wheel he sang; "how
do you find yourself, Jetty, my
boy?"
"Very comfortable if the wind
were not so chilly" r
ut is a trihe sharp, but moth
ing compared to what it will be
as the weeks go by and snow
comes down on the woods and
fields"
"What is this snow which [
hear so much talk about? l it
very cold 2"
Cold and wet and white,
which covers everything and
makes 'em stiff I'm glad I'm
going south with my family
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30


Harkl The beggars have blackblrd pie
They eat it quickly, then they cry,
We wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
We stored to keep them safe and sound
wiLMoT HAAsE.
95I1 Pomeroy avenue; age -; BIG. Corn
well street school.
Hark! The beggars have blackbird pie.
They eat 1t quickly, then they cry,
We wear rags in the towns y,
while our fine velvet gowns
We sep at price very high
CLARA WASSERMAN
2C19 Sacramento street; AT, Seventh street
school; age L.
Harkg The beggars have blackbird pie.
They eat it quickly. then they cry,
We wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
Are hid till the town we pass by
elena RUDY.
zoos Sacramento street; AS, Seventh street
school; age 10.
Hark! The beggars have blackbird pie
They eat it quickly, then they cry,
we wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
Cause others naught but to sigh.
GRACE TUNNICLIFF,
1916 e. Fourth street, Bs, Olive street
high school.
Hark! The beggars have blackblrd pie,
They eat 1t quickly, then they cry,
We wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
Are being worn by the clowns.
HILDA MURRAY,
AL E. 4Sth ST.; age 10; grade AS, McKin-
ley avenue school
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30

counted on the mother crow. Crazed
with the cry of Jetty she rushed among
the boys Blacllie was close behind.
With the second rush the old bird
aim was true and the boy dropped
Jetty with cry of pain. Away they
went and reached the nest safe but
tired out
Jetty never tires OF telling the ex-
citing incidents of his first long flight.
1t has been handed down from gen.
Grafton to generation and the next
time you see a mother crow busily
telling a story to her hungry little
ones just remember Jetty.
RALPH AMOS,
1856 Norwood street, Los Angeles
high school,
Use heavier paper, Ralph, or else
use ink for writing. This story was
difficult to handle.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
First Prize)

TET'rY had race, but Blacl<ie Bird
beat. When the appointed morn
- ing. came to start on their voy-
age south Jetty Crow and BlaclSie
Blackbird We're together with some
other crows; after they had gone about
fifty miles high in the air Jetty said;
II am getting tired; let's not fly so
high.
"Yes, fly high; the men down ON
earth have those horrid fire sticks. l
have lost many a friend by them, saia
Blacllie.
Jetty lowered, and so did the rest
but soon Blackie and some of the other
crows We're shot; then Jetty SCARED
way out of the reach of guns and be-
gan screaming because Blacllie was
d ad.
Soon Blackie was at her side. She
said: "Those men pretty near killed
me with them horrid fire sticks, but
they just burnt my feathers"
When Jetty Grow was in the middle
of a Brazilian forest she had new
friends. the bright-colored parrots and
other birds. She stayed out of reach
of those lions, tigers and other ami
mails.
When Jetty got back she lived in her
nest When winter came she went
south again, but on her way back
BlacIie Blackbird was shot.
Jetty lived many years, and then she
was too old to go south any more. She
STAYED in a barn. but soon died of old
age. Thus ends the life of two young
birds. WILMOT HAASE.
2641 Pomeroy avenue; Cornwcll
street school, grade Be.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
Juniors Shozv Skill in Rkyning Contest
Continued from Page Five)

1uf IdBo IANc(
Hark! The beggars have blackbird pie,
They eat 1t quickly, then they cry,
we wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
We = u'' = anu PAUL PFEIFFER.
Grade 4, Corona.
Harkl The beggars have blackbird pie,
They eat it quickly, then they cry,
We wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
Are SA''i-D''' pI5 BLOSSOM FERRIS.
1927 Manhattan place
Harkl The beggars have blaekbird pie,
They eat il quickly, then they cry,
we wear rags in the towns.
While our fine velvet gowns
Are worn by a prince as he rides by.
MILDRED C. SWOoPE,
BIG. Poll. Hill school. Ventura.
Harlk! The beggars have blackbird pie,
we wear rags in the towns,
While our fine velvet gowns
Are ripped up the side gsky-high.
PAUL FORT,
B7 Hooper avenue school; 5S23 Ascot ave
Harkl The beggars have blacibird pie
They eat it quickly, then they cry
We wear rags in the towns
While our fine velvet gowns
Recollect our sweet homes good-by.
LOVE sMALLWooD,
11s W. Ninth street; LA High
Harki The beggars have blackblrd pie
They eat it quickly. then they cry,
- We wear rags in the towns
While our fine velvet gowns
Are just as fine all the way round.
ARTHUR LASHER,
B5. washington school, 155 Hill street
Ocean Park.
(ContiDued on Page Eighty
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
(HonorabIe Mention)

\ ETT1 tnOuShl IT great sport ana
stopped to rest on a tree, when all
- at once he heard a shrill boyish
voice cry out; 'Ho, here Is fine tree
for our tent"
Jetty was frightened at this, as he
saw a crowd of boys marching with
hatchets and other things. He started
to fly, but one of the boys saw him
and yelled with all his might "a young
bird" Then he fell to the ground and
could scarcely move because his leg
hurt him so.
Blackie porched himself on a tree
near by and began to sing very loudly
one of the boys in the crowd took pity
on Jetty and picked him up carefully
and carried him home. When the boy
got home Jetty heard him say, moth
er, may | have some cloth to bandage
this little birds leg; it has got broken
some way" Yes, dear" said his moth
er, "and | shall fix some hot milk for
it," When Jetty told his mother the
whole story and she said she thought
* best to stay clear away from those
woods and the boys~-would not be
tempted to throw stones and injure the
birds in any way
CLEO HEATH.
1900 Reid stheet, Magnolia street
school, grade AS, age IL.
An excellent story Cleo, but remem-
Der to write on one side only of the
paper
Jetty and Blackie flew into the woods
Jetty was a little nervous, but Blackie
would coax him along. When they got
to the woods they rested, Jetty's
mother came up and told him not to go
near the mountains, as it was very
dangerous.
Jetty and Blaekie flew down to the
brook and took a little bath, as it was
very dusty. Jetty was young and full
of adventure. So they started off for
the mountains. When they arrived at
the mountain they stopped to rest.
Jetty was very tired.
While Jetty was resting he spied a
huge eagle sitting on a crag of the
mountain. He was somewhat scared
and called for Blaellie, who was too far
away to be heard.
The eagle heard Jetty and started to-
ward him. He flew down into the ra-
vine, the eagle closely behind and gain
ing. Jetty stopped, and being ignorant
of the woods he deliberately walked
into a rabbit trap.
Jetty stayed there all night, and in
the morning the boy came to open the
trap. Jetty waited for the boy to open
it. The boy was kind and let him go
without hurting him. Jetty learned a
great lesson by not obeying one SUI
perior to him. RAY WILSON.
Los Angeles high school. 1918 Over
ton street.
'Al right" said Jetty Crow. so they
started away and flew and saw a
whole lot of people trying to shoot
them. They soon same to the edge
of the woods and Jetty crow beat the
race. They heard a noise from lit
tie rill. Come on, let us drink" said
Jetty crow.
They ran another race home and
blackie bird beat" 1 told you L would"
he said AS soon as Jetty crow got
home he told his mother about his
trip. 'I'll never let you take another
trip alone while you are little" she
said. WILFORD ELLIS.
Grade g. age years; Azuza.
Use only one side of the paper, Will
ford, that all your story may be
printed.
This was not Jetty's first attempt
although he was far from perfect in
the use of his wings. Getty's mother
kept close watch on the pair as they
entered the wood. She Joined them in
the play which followed. This was
all new to Jetty; he was wild with
Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-30
Lazy Jetty Learns OF the Joys of Aerial NaUigafion
(Honorahle Mention)

M HEN it came time for Jetty
w Crow to start south with his
friends and companions he was
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12

The sporting parson," once a IA
miliar figure in English society, has
all but disappeared, in consequence
of the religious revlvals and reforms
Of the last century and a half. A
hundred years ago, however, he still
existed, says a writer in Tit-Bits, and
one Of the type presided over little
seaside parish in Lincolnshire.
The place was a favorite landing
place for woodcock at the time of
their annual immigration and the
parson used to tell off a native to let
him know as the birds began to ar
rive.
On Sunday he was preaching to
his congregation and had Just reach
ed the second head of his discourse,
when the church door was cautiously
opened and head appeared follow
ed by a beckoning finger. The par
son either did not see, or would not
heed the intruder, who then gave
loud cough.
The preacher stopped in his preach
ing in the middle OF a sentence and
sxcitedly asked, What Is 1t, John7"
"Cocks is coom," replied John.
The parson hurriedly closed his
sermon case. shut the door and
lock IT." he cried to the clerk.
Keep the people In church till I've
got my surplice of. Let's all have a
fair chance"
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
A Glove CLEANING Hint.

In washing chamois gloves do not
wiring them or even squeeze very dry,
as with ordinary glove cleaning. The
skins pull easily, and wringing breaks
the tender fabric.
Put the rinsed gloves into a thick
Turkish towel and press out most Of
the moisture, then hang them In a
strong current Of air to dry. Fasten
the pair together by buttons and hang
with fingers down.
The shrinking, Of which many wo-
men complain In chamois glove wash
Ing, can be overcome by drying the
gloves ON the hand after they come
from the Turkish towel and a few
minutes airing.
Rub gently until dry. The heat of
the hand makes this drying a quicker
process than most women imagine, and
there is little danger Of taking cold.
Do not neglect rinsing as well as
washing in soapy water If you do not
wish your gloves to stiffen.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Some Useful Goods.

A useful suit of English worsted In
brown dashed with white has a skirt
with alternating box plaits attached to
third length yoke that is perfectly
smooth fitting. A machine stitched
band In two sections, the ends of each
curved trifie and rounded, covers the
line joining and at the same time fur
nishes a trimming.
The coat that topped it was equally
chic, with darts in front that made it
all but close fitting. 1t fastened with
braid loops diagonally down to the
waist line, where the two edges were
slanted and took ON cutaway aspect.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Miss Georginn HoEarjh. who is sail
to he the original OF AEnes In "Du1 q
Copperheld" and was one Of the het
friends Of Dickens, Is still living.
Lady islington. the wife Of the GOV.
ernor general of New Zealand. f. con
sidered one of the best dressed nnG
most beautiful women in English oil
cial life.
Mrs. Mary Carroll has been appoint
Vi sanitary officer in st. Louis. She
works under the direction of the city's
recreation department and visits rest
rooms and public comfort stations to
see that all sanitary precautions arc
laken.
Mrs. Estill of Ada, O., has earned II
living and built herself home by
serving meals to students at 8 cents
each, and she is said also to have
helped hundreds Of struggling boys
and girls to get through the university
She has been in the business for more
han twenty years.
Mrs. W. II. FELTON,, despite her sev
enty-fve years and white hair, made n
brilliant Portia recently when she APP
)eared before the Georgia railroad
commission to argue single handed in
opposition to the briefs of fifteen cor
Doration attorneys. Mrs. FELTON, is the
widow Of Representative FELTON,.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Pen, Chisel and Brush.

Signor dAnnunzio is coming to this
country next year after visit to South
America. He proposes to deliver lee
lures during his journey.
Miss Laura Stedman, who is editing
the papers and letters of her grand
father, the late Edmund Clarence
Stedman, terms her book ian auto.
Geographic biography"
william Holman Hunt, the artist,
who died recently in London at the
Rge of eighty-three, was the last sur
vivor Of the Raphaelite movement
Of which he and John Everett Millais
were the founders.
Miss Anastasia Eberle was born in
Ohio, but was carried to Porto Rico
by her father In his military career
She continued her studies In SCULPTURE
in the island province, and now that
she has returned to America and has
a studio In New York she is rapid,
gaining wide reputation for artistic
creations
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12


Mary Roberts Rinehart, the popular
novelist and playwright, Is threatened
with blindness and Is now on her way
to consult a specialist In Europe who
has done wonderful things in restoring
eyesight. Last summer Mrs. Rinehart
and her husband, DR.. Stanley NJ. Rine-
hart, spent a day at Lilydale, the spir-
itualistic camp meeting near their
summer home, Lake Chautauqua, n. Y.
AS one might suppose. at this meet
ing all sorts of mediums, slate writer's,
clairvoyants. etc, do congregate, and
the air Is said to buzz with the whiz-
zing of spooks. Mrs. Rinehart found
excellent situations for copy" She
said that day at Lnydale gave her sug-
gestions for ten farce comedies and
just as many mystery stories that will,
If she is able to carry out her ideas,
rival the success Of her play "Seven
Days" and the detective story 1.-The
Man In Lower Ten"
Coming back from the ghost conven-
ton in their automobile they had
terrible experience, being caught in
cloudburst after night on strange
roads. with lamps that wouldn't light.
For an hour they worked in darkness
through wind and bowling storm to
get the chains on the car. And then
they beat it back to Spokesville-a
wild waltz me around again Willie
ride, hub deep in mud and water, skid
ding every inch of the way and only
recognizing the road by flashes of light
ming.
Mrs. Rinehart's readers do not need
ghosts, cloudbursts and spirit rappings
for excitement. All they need is to sit
in a comfortable chair and read her
latest romance. "The Window at the
White Cat" 1t sends up and down
your back delicious thrills and chills.
If some one rings the bell unexpected
ly you jump five feet in the air while
the spell of the story is on you. And
yet all the time you're laughing your
head off, it's so funny and clever. Mrs.
Rinehart seems to have a monopoly on
this combination of mystery and hu-
NOR. She constructs a plot as intricate
as any Of Anna Katherine Green's.
She solves it with an ingenuity worthy
of Conan Doyle, and she adds to these
virtues the priceless gift of ringing
laughter.
The author Of all this fun and mys-
terry is very domestic woman, de-
voted to her husband and children,
and story writing at first was begun as
a pastime, her family laughing at her
first literary efforts, but IN spite of lit
tie encouragement she is now one of
the most successful of women story
writer's and playwrights of the day.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12

War Is necessarily bad enough un-
der any circumstances, but It's laws
and usages are steadily changing for
the better, In very early times all
prisoners were ruthlessly put to the
sword or reduced to slavery, and as
for the property rights of the belli.
gerents, they did not exist. In the
famous Pandicts Of Justinian 1t is
stated. without the least equivocation.
that an enemy's property Of every de-
scription Is res nullius Chat is to say,
Ia without an owner). and that occu-
pancy. by which the caDtor makes It
his own. Is an institution of Natural
Law. II things were as bad as that
30 late as the time OF Justinian, what
must they have been in still earlier
times?
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Train and Track.

The frames of the most recently con-
structed locomotives of large size are
made Of vanadium steel
1t is stated that the Great Southern
lister of public works plan for an ele-
waited railway in Buenos Aires and its
suburbs.
The Baden state railways, after in
Vestigation, decided that the hearing
Of locomotive engineers is affected by
vibrations Of the engines communi-
Gated from the floor on which the men
stand. To prevent this cocoanut mats
are to be provided both for enginemen
and firemen.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Recent inventions.

A pneumatic bed bathtub which per
mits sick person to be bathed with,
out removal has beCA invented by Il
Tennessee doctor.
An attachment by which loose shoe
may be temporarily fastened to q
horses hoof until a blacksmith Il
reached has been patented by a New
Jersey farmer.
A New Yorker has invented "mat-
tress trucks" bit Of fire apparatus
which is designed to be elevated to
about the second story of a house and
then spread out in such a manner that
imprisoned persons in the upper sto
ries may jump into them with absolut,
safety,
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Current Comment.

When the baseball players join or.
ganized labor the fans" will have to
listen closely to hear whether it's the
umpire or the walking delegate who
calls out "Strike"-Albany Journal.
Sullivan county has just said fare
well to the last tollgate within her
boundaries. The old relics are grad
ually passing. 1t won't be many years
before a tOllgate will be regarded as
a curiosity.-Utica Observer.
If there is rich lady in New York
who has not smuggled something
through the custom house this sum
mer, will she kindly send her address
to Collector Loeb and receive a hand
some reward?-Albany Knickerbocker
Press.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
DRESS FABRICS
FOR WINTER WEAR,
Stripes and Other Combinations
In Blue and Black.

The new materials appearing in the
shops just now are quite bewildering
in their beauty and variety. There
are some distinct novelties, and many
old friends are seen in such different
guise that they attract as strongly as
ever. Stripes, for one thing, have
taken on such interesting form that
it seems unlikely that their popularity
will suffer any decline for some time
to come.
Some new velvets in blue and black
have stripes varying in width to suit
different tastes and types of figure.
One piece seen had a black stripe a
little wider than a hairline set quite
closely on its blue ground, and in an
other there were alternating stripes Of
blue and black about half an inch
wide. A very soft pliable corded silk
in blue had wide velvet stripes of the
same tone.
The use of blue and black together
is another mode OF the spring and sum-
uleI luul setlns lhSly W pIolOHB llS
stay. 1t is shown in the new chiffons
brocaded with velvet. Several of these
chiffons In blue have designs in black,
which, like the stripes, are in styles
the most conspicuous or the most sub
dued. They vary in form from gar
lands of big flowers to the modest lit
tie polka dot.
Among the trimmings that may be
effectively used for these blue and
black combinations are lovely motives
in gold embroidery with bits of pale
blue worked in with beads. Bands of
silver embroidery on the finest of
black net, too, are exquisite, and for
guimpes there are the most delicate
traceries upon black net in number
of more or less brilliant colors, gold
being the predominating one. A beau
tiful though more somber effect is pro
duced by the use Of black beaded net
One of the most fashionable color
combinations at present Is blue with
brown, and touches of brown of dark
old gold shade are seen on costumes
OF blue and black.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
CeaseIess Chance,

Reflect often upon the instability Of
things and how very fast the scenes
OF nature are shifted. Matter Is In
perpetual fux. Change is always and
everywhere at work; 1t strikes
through causes and effects, and leaves
nothing fixed and permanent. And
then how very near US stand the two
vast CULTS Of time, the past and the
future. in which all things disappear.
Now, is not that man a blockhead
that lets these momentary things
make him proud, or uneasy. or sor-
rowful, as though they could trouble
him for long?-Marcus Aurelius.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Proverbs.

He is lifeless that is faultless.-Latin
Proverb.
Emulation plows and rivalry reaps.-
Irish Proverb.
Every wind is against leaky ship
Danish Proverb.
Where the best wine grows the worst
Is drum uSfman Proverb.
Change yourself and fortune will
change with you.-Portuguese Proverb.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
State Lines.

Ohio mines a greater proportion of
its coal by machinery than any other
state.
The school fund of Minnesota has
been increased 100000 by the returns
from iron lands.
Michigan, New York and California
produce about 60 per cent of the beans
grown In the United States every year.
Rhode Island means Red island.
Sailing up the bay, land OF a reddish
appearance was observed, and it was
called Rood red) Island.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
BTNGHAMTON. N. Y.

NJ Office is hereby given that an ap-
~ plication will be made to the
Governor of Pennsylvania on Tues
day, November Is, A. d. 1910, by
Lorenzo r. Foster, John r. Jones,
Thomas j. Burke and others, under
the Act of Assembly of the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania, entitled,
"An Act for the incorporation and
regulation of banks of discount and
deposit" approved May 13, A. d.
1876, and the supplements thereto,
for the charter of an intended cor
poration to be called The Hawley
Bank" to be located in Hawley,
county of Wayne, and Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, which said propos-
ed corporation is organized for the
specific purpose of receiving deposits,
making loans and discounts, and do
ing a general banking business, un-
der the laws of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania. Capital stock is
fixed at fifty thousand dollars ESQ.,
000), divided into one thousand H.
000) shares of the par value of fifty
dollars ($50.O0) each, with ten
dollars ($10.0O) on each share for
surplus, the total capital and surplus
being sixty thousand dollars $780,
00O). Said proposed corporation,
for the purposes above stated, shall
have, possess and enjoy all the
rights, benefits and privileges of the
said act of assembly and its supple
ments.
JOHN r. JONES,
Attorney for Incorporators.
The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1910-10-12
Lady eoraon,s Dress ldsas.

Lady Dun Gordon thinks that every
woman should dress according to her
face and form. Middle aged women,
she thinks, should not follow the fash
ions, but should have fashions Of their
own, as a dress that suits ones own
face and form doubles the chances for
looking well, which is all middle aged
women NAV expect.