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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

few chips which 1t heaps at the bot
tom. The meadowlark bends meadow
grasses down to form tepee and,
through little side entrance near the
ground. goes in and out to hatch its
five speckled, cream-white eggs
The wrens are more easily pleased,
and an old hat or a tomato can will do
for them as well as anything. The
house wren. the bluebird. martin and
tree swallow are commonly regarded
as the species which take most gra-
ciously to the little artificial houses
which kindly disposed human friends
erect for them. Yet the habit of nest
ing in birdhouses has been adopted by
a number of species which would not
ordinarily be expected to make use of
them. This question of bird shelters
is an interesting one for those who
The secret of a successful one is to
fashion 1t as much after the birds own
nest as possible. Branches containing
real woodpeckers' holes. when obtain
able, are perhaps the best attraction
that can be offered to wild birds during
their breeding season. BY carefully
fitting such a branch to shade tree 1t
is quite impossible to notice that 1t did
not originally grow there, and even the
birds themselves can be fooled. Red
headed and golden fronted woodpeck-
ers readily accept houses built accord
ing to their standards and are willing
occupants of the artificial houses.
If one probes the subject OF birds
nests it seems never-ending. The
aueerest resorts are selected by differ
emit species in which to shelter their
nestlings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

from discarded wagons are spiked on
shafts and the birds are induced to re-
turn year after year to rear their
young upon them. The heron Is also
q tree breeder.
The beautiful famingo-the flaming,
Haunting hamingo, as Poe. calls it
nests on the ground. Naturalists in
the past thought that it would be i'm
possible for this long-legged bird to
accommodate itself to a ground nest.
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m " sons in Washington is almost
IL ~ over and the country round
~ about is filled with birds nests
to testify to the activity. A great
branch of architecture is this-the
building of birds nests-and it has
styles as varied as the sands of the
desert and as diverse as the Parthenon
and California bungalow.
When the migratory season is oyer
and the birds set about to raise their
families. the first object is to find
suitable place for a home. How the
different species of birds cling to
sort of traditional type of nest is a
fascinating revelation to those who are
tempted to look into the subject Any
one acquainted with birds nests is able
to identify a crows nest or a wren's
nest simply because all the feathered
species do follow the family habits in
BODYBUILDING from year to year with
out variation.
All the Washington birds with the
exception of the cedar waxwing and
the goldfnch. late builders who are
only commencing their breeding now,
have completed their work of nest
building. Scouting in the woods, there
fore. brings many nests to light, and
as an object of nature study they
carry a vast amount of interesting in
formation in their wake.
The typical nest of the we'll known
birds. jays. robins, thrushes or cat
birds. is, a round. grassy affair with
a foundation of twigs carefully set in
the crotch of tree. In Washington
there is great crested fycatcher
which builds a nest after this general
fashion and possesses the peculiarly
Of always Incorporating in its makeup
q piece of cast-on snakeskin. Why il
does this is impossible to decide.
The hummingbird. of which at least
100 species are known. builds a nest
which is a marvel of bird architecture.
1t is small, for the bird is small itself.
and II is cemented around with lichens
covered with cobwebs, or with spun
hair which the bird itself produces. Into
this tiny nest it lays two white eggs
never more, never less.
The phoebe is the first bird which
builds in this locality and it's abode is
to be found under brick arches and
aaueducts or wooden bridges. Leaves
and twigs compose its nest, and il is
built after the average pattern.
The bob-white. like all game birds,
makes a large-sized nest and lays a
dozen or more OF eggs. The male bird
sets on the eggs and helps the female
20 hatch them. Another example of the
male bird which helps its mate to
hatch their young is the hornbill of
India. but IL does not go about it in
last the same way. The female horn
bill goes into the hollow of a tree and
lays a single egg. The male plasters
her inside with clay. leaving only a
small opening. Through this hole he
passes her food during the entire Pc
Rod of incubation and until the young
ones arc snedged. Then the mother bird
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

The republican cliff swallow Is one
Of the Oldest. AS many as nifty OF
these swallows gather together In
colony and construct their isolated
nests. These are made of small pei
let's of clay fashioned together in
bottle shape, with neck and opening
for entrance. Fifty or sixty OF these
make a queer sight. and an accidental
disturbance of them by person not
knowing their nature brings forth
shower of little eggs.
The woodcock builds a conventional
nest. but the interesting fact about
this bird is that it Y the only species
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
The Land Of the Fighting Chance
By HERBERT KAUFMAN

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09
HUMMING BIRDS NESTS.
photos by DR.. r. W. GhufeIdt.)

breaks through with her young one.
head and feet attached, and she and
father hornbill devote the rest of the
season to feeding and rearing the
young one.
The duck nest is one of the most in
teresting of all nests. It Is lisIed with
soft feathers. Ducks usually build
their nests in the marshes and the eggs
vary in color from a greenish white to
a sky blue. In Iceland the elder duck
provides 2 great industry to the people
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

NE of the greatest building sea-
sons in Washington is almost
over and the country round
about is filled with birds nests
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16
NEW ZEALANDER IS NOWFAMOUS ASA GALL|POLI ARTIST Sapper MOore-JOnes Hon. Ored by King, COurted
 by Society GAVE UP CAREER
 TO JOIN THE RANKS But Has Won Still Greater Fame by His Sketches of Battle Scenes
 on the Peninsula
By HAYDEN CHURCH

Copyright, 1916, by Curtis Brown)
 London, June 22.-All England is paying tribute to the genius of solder-artist from New Zealand wEfo considered that by enlisting to fight for King and coun- try soon after the outbreak of the wal he had made mincemeat of schemes which he had been laying for years with the one aim of gaining a recognition for his art here similar to that which 1t has already received in his own land. Thus topsy- -turvily has fame come to Sapper Horace Moore-Jones, "The Artist of Gal lipoli," as he has come to be called, upon whom honors now lie thick.
 The apotheosis of Sapper Moore-Jones, known familiarly to his friends as "Spi- der came the other day when the King received the New Zealander at Bucking- ham palace and the artist exhibited and explained to his majesty, the Queen and Prince Albert and I.rsncess Mary the wonderful series of sketches which he made under fire in the Gallipoli penin- sula. Many of these sketches which were were made at the request of the general headquarters staff at Anzac, were used originally to illustrate the official dis patches. and the whole series, represent ing, as they do, the work of one of the most distinguished artists bred in the Antipodes, give a more definite idea of the difficulties Of the gigantic job which the famous Anzacs and the imperial forces just missed bringing off success fully when any photographs of the op- erations or any word pictures from the pens of experienced correspondents and that of the soldier-poet, Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton, have availed in doing.
 Previous to the "command appearance of the gallant artist at Buckingham pail ace, an exhibition of his historic sketches hod halsd af 1at al of of the New Zealand government in the Strand Art critics were unanimous Tn recognizing the genius of the soldier artist and crowds of distinguished folk, including Sir Ian Hamilton. the Gallipoi commander, indorsed the verdict of the critics. Commissions have flowed in upon Sapper Moore-Jones, a second show of whose sketches is now being held at the home of Hugh Rfviere the likewise dis
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me quite warmly, Princess Mary Prince Albert pausing on the way ou exa mine the New Zealand insignia my hat, which lay on side table suspect that one or the other of t young people went straight from me piano, for as Issleft,s heard one b played, and I'm afraid. I'm very n afraid, that what I heard was Amer ragtimev @s
 Sapper Moore-Jones. honored by King and courted by society, belle when he joined up to fight for empire. that he was nullifying the art labor of years. Nevertheless, this gi colonial, who is close on 50, shaved mustache and had hair cropped to him a youthful appearance. Succeede getting recruiting folk to accept si ment that he was 32. For two y before the war he had been wor hard in London with a view of exten to Europe the big reputation that he ready had made in Australia and Zealand.
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at once shook hands with me" went on the sapper, ''and so did the Queen. who remarked, And so you really did all these pointing to my sketches. I began to explain the things, in quite busi- ness like way, and they all listened. ap- parently with great interest, especially the King, who asked me a great many questions all very much to the point. As I went on,' observed the sapper. characteristically, T realized more than once that had my back to the Queen, but I figured that she probably realized that had a back as well as a front and might as we'll see it.
 .'Everything that his majesty said,' con- tinued Moore-Jones, showed that he thoroughly understood what we were up against there. At one point he remarked of certain Turkish position that one of the sketches showed that it was simple madness to ask men who never before had been under fire to storm such a po- sition.' My little lecture lasted about half an hour, and at the end they all thanked
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in assisting us by boinbardment by the same lack of reliable maps and the fact that they were practically without tar gets. Even at best the results of their fire was practically nil owing to this en- forced inaccuracy. You can realize this when I tell you that when we charged a position with the bayonet even after a hot and prolonged bombardment, we found the Turk sheltered between great wooden beams that had to be literally prized apart while we all the time were exposed to constant fire from below. No wonder the corpses were piled about"
 ONLY ONE WOUND
 Tn his eight months on the peninsula Moore got only one wound which he es- teems worth mentioning this was in the right hand and put an end to his sketch ing for awhile) and 1t was general ill., health, the effects of prolonged privatlon, under-feeding and strain on man no longer in the prime of life that resulted in his being, to his disgust, invalided home in December last. He finally wound up at military hospital in Birmingham where they nursed him back to compara- tive fitness. and, as soon as he was Tn shape for work. he started (working from notes he made on the spot, executing the wonderful series of sketches of Anzac whose creation has made him famous. Eventually he returned to London. where his drawings soon came to the notice of the high commissioner of New Zealand and the rest followed naturally
 These historic sketches, some 70 in num- Der, for the most part in water-color or in water-color and pencil. defy visualiza- tion in words. For the writer's enlight' enment the painter dealt with one aftei the other of them, almost in detail, ex' actly, he declared, as he had done re" days before with the King and Queer and. their children as audience, and al he proceeded in his intense. graphic Ian guage. there came home for the first timS to at least one mind what Gallipoli really meant. Here at last we discover how they really looked-Anzac Cove, Suvls Bay, Gaba Tepe, Plugge's Plateau, tht posts of Quinn, Pope and Courtenay, anf last of all, the Sphinx. that rocky pro
 lection from whose brow the Turks le
 down by ropes a "snper' supplied witF ammunition and food to last many days whose deadly fire sent so many gallan fellows to their graves before he himse was at last accounted for. A man o dauntless courage he must have been , whose comrades either forgot or desertee him when at last they retreated and Ter him to be killed by shell fire, though not until he had been potted" at by th' hour in vain. In these sketches at last we realize th' country-"ravine after ravine" as Moore Jones described it. He tells you what I meant to face those rocks, to climb thu | sheer ascent, to drive the Turks from tn i brow thinking to find a plateau, ane l then to be faced by descent equall, sheer. and beyond that another precipice and beyond that another. Row after TOW l they stretched. the natural defences O.
 the country, apparently inaccessible l:
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themselves, and fortified by the Turks so that shot and shell poured upon the in- vaders.
 So we'll hidden were the Turks in these ravines," said Moore-Jones. that where as we on the heights. could be raked by their fire, all that we could see was an occasional mule as it rounded a bend or perhaps the smoke of traction en- zine. As for our own positions every here and there we had small bits of bright colored cloth attached to the
 bushes at certain turns to warn men that 1t was best to get around those corners as quickly as possible. failure to do sc meaning death. As for that, however, we lived with death all around us. You car imagine what it must be like to live, day after day. facing plateaus that are GOV cred with ones dead comrades. whose faces had grown black by the time we could reach them, and the overpowering sickening stench. And what 1t meant tc sit, eating ones bread and jam surround ed by millions of flies who have been bred on dead bodies!''
 NOT ALL GREWSOME Btu the sappers talk is not all as grew. | some as this. Showing a sketch which depicts a line of "dug-outs flanked bs several large bales, he told mirthsons {, little tale in connection with 1t. Noticins l the sapper making his study, X the com | manding officer of the section burst out 1 Hello! Sketching my bales are you | Glad to have a sketch of those bales 1 Big ones, aren't they? Know what the, | contain! Why, man those are full O.
 shirts, thousands of 'em that kind ladie sent out to us only they didn't happei to think to sew 'em together. They mak' | fine rags and waste. What?" Imagin' the feelings of the poor. industriou l ladies
 Moore-Jones told a story on himself l too. Not long after he landed in Galh poll he sent a couple of fine penci I sketches illustrating the landing at An
 zac Cove to the Illustrated London News which published them forthwith. Month
 afterward, when he was back in England ! a friend of his, another New Zealander
 told him he had seen them and recog
 nized them as Moore-Jones.'
 l How did you know they were miner asked the artist.
 Why, Moore-Jones,'' said this yer l candid friend, you're a blanked fool
 and you always will be one. I knev | those sketches were yours because the,
 weren't signed!"
 1 Moore-Jones comes from Auckland an' l has sketched and painted ever since h
 was child. He married early in life his first wife-(for he has been narrie'
 twice. having been a clever young sculp l tress, a. former student at the Roya academy in London, and to her help. h
 declares he owes much Finding the ar world of New Zealand stoo small as h
 declares the young painter emigrated t l Australian and lived in Sydney up to tn
 time when the best part of three year ago, he made up his mind to conque 7 London Meanwhile he had made a rec
 ognized position for himself in the ar
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tistic world of the Antipodes. and ex-

tistic world of the Antipodes. and ex- amples of his work are in practically every big public art collection in Aus tralia and New Zealand as well as in the possession of many private collectors.
 In spite of the success of his Galipoli sketches, he is at his best in portraiture
 and semi-allegorical works, and in both , directions his success has been striking Of one of his portraits, a study of a
 Maori girl. originally exhibited at and
 subsequently, purcha sed for the Auckland
 city gallery, one finds a critic writing:
 "Moore-Jones' magnificent Maori figure.
 'Kiwi,' (daughter of the late great chief
 Maj. Te Wheoro), is assuredly the out
 standing feature of the exhibition, and
 probably the finest piece of Maori DOT traiture hitherto given us;. full of the essential poetry of the Maori race. The figure is full length, clothed in kiwi mat, with the right hand held forward and firmly grasping spear The low ness of the tone adds to the mystery and charm of the work. It is matter for congratulation that this picture has been purchased for the permanent art gallery and that recognition has come at length in New Zealand to this true artist Another of Moore-Jones' best known works. which has the simple title, Mother has had the strange fate of being exhibited in gaol after gaol in Australia, and at many Christmas and other gathering of "drown-and-outs" by R. B. S. Hammond, local prototype Of 1 Henry J. Ford, who. who believing in i the moral value of it's message" bought l it especially for such exhibition. And 1 this philanthropist asserts Moore-Jones says that in two cases, anyway, that
 picture has deprived the underworld of a predestined victim
 RECEPTION AT BUCKINGHAM
 asked Moore-Jones for some account of his reception at Buckingham palace knowing beforehand that he went there unostentatiously in a taxi.
 Tt was all surprisingly informal he l replied My appointment at the palace l was fixed for 10 in the morning, anG ! on driving up to the big front gates and | giving an affirmative reply to policeman
 or duty who inquired if were the ;! artist I was told to drive around to the | 'privy purse entrance. There was vel l comed by the lord of the household. whc l told me that his majesty would not keer me many minutes, so I asked if I could | go up to the room where my pictures were being hung by number of work. 1 men. I looked over the display, changed l the position of a sketch or two and was i ready for my royal audience. I had
 kept my 'Anzac' hat on, for a soldier Is | never supposed to remove his headgear
 and the lord of the household remarked:
 T think you can remove your hat but 1 that was the only hint I received. I was 1 told nothing whatever. much to my sur prise as to how should act and speak | to the King and was still in doubt about ! this when the doors were opened and he the Queen, Princess Mary and Prince l Albert came in.
 The King. who was in morning dress,
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-22
CAR TURNS TURTLE

Tuesday afternoon E. l.. Wilmoth
aud Ed Hellekson were coming home
from Winner in the formers Ford,
and when they were within two miles
of Wood, Mr.. Wilmoth, who had been
driving, got pretty cold and asked MI
Hellekson to drive the balance of the
way into Down. They attempted to
make the change without stopping
the car, and while doing so the car
got beyond their control and turned
turtle. The wind shield was broken
in a million pieces, and the. top was
also badly wrecked. MIR. Wilmoth
got clear of the car but MIR. Hellekson
was caught under the car and it re-
quired quite bit of effort to extricate
him. The boys tried to right the car
but we're unable to do so, so they
walked on into town, and team was
sent out after the car, which was still
living on its side in the road. 1t was
lucky accident in that neither of
them were seriously hurt and that it
happened so near town. Mr.. Will
moth had an ear and his face frost
bitten, and Mr.. Hellekson received
one or two minor cuts about the face
from the broken glass of the wind
shield. 1t was one of the coldest
days We nave had this year, and the
ground was covered with about an
inch and half of snow, which
made driving rather treacherous.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-22
WERE THEY ThIEvES7

A couple of young fellows by the
name of Bolt were in town last Sat
urday with a brand new Ford car.
They came from Vivian and were on
their way to Mission, but got turned
around at Wood, and started out the
Bad Nation trail, where they upset
the car and broke the windshield, the
top and the wishbone of the car
They got fixed up and came to town
and finally got started on their way
10 Mission, presumably. Sunday the
news came to town that they had
swiped about a thousand pounds Of
alfalfa seed in Vivian, and were max
ing their getaway with it in the car
While here booze seemed to have had
the best OF at least one of the pair,
which probably accounts for their
upsetting the Car and taking the
wrong trail. We have heard nothing
more of the escapade of this pair.
The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1916-12-22
Carl. A. ISAACS0N DEAD

Carl A. Isaacson, who has been
sick at White River for some time
past died last Friday night, Decem
Der Is.
The deceased was born in Sweden
in 1862 aud came to America in 1895
He came to Mellette county in July,
1916 and fled on a homestead twelve
miles west of White River in August
1916. He was taken down with sick
ness in September and has been ailing
ever since with asthma and rheuma
tism. He was taken to White River
October II and stayed at the Tomsik
hotel, where Gus Larsen took care OF
him. He was a member of the Swed-
ish Mission church. The deceased
has a brother and two sisters al
Wahrfield, Nebraska, another brother
at Red Oak, Iowa, and q sister il
Minnesota, and two half brothers in
Omaha.
The remains will probably be taken
to Wahrfeld, Nebraska, for inter
ment.
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A CLOSE CALL

Last Sunday Mr.. and Mrs. j. b
Brown attended church rs is theil
custom, and as the day was quite cold
they left good fire in their heater
The steve sat rather close to the wall
and while they were at church the
stove became overheated and set the
partition wall on fire. When Mr..
Brown and the minister returned to
the Brown home and opened the
door they found the house filled with
smoke and they Immediately got a
bucket brigade in operation, as a
number of others that were at church
came and lent helping hand. The
middle partition in the east part OF
the house was burned through and
some of the bed clothing and the
mattress on the bed bad caught fire,
but the fire was subdued without any
great financial loss, The Browns
had a mighty good scare, and had
Mr.. Brown been delayed ten minutes
longer before returning home, the
chances are ten to one that their home
would be in ashes today. We con
gratulate them on discovering the FIRE
in time to subdne it before it did
much damage.