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PUBLIC LIBRARY NOTES
The birds arq coming home soon
1 look for them every day
I listen to catch their first wild strain
For thoy must be singing by May
The robins have already appeared an cf
others will quickly follow Thoro is no
time when wo are so much interested in
birds and their individual traits as
when they are returning in the spring
Your attention is called to several in
teresting books in the library that are
helpful in knowing the birds their hab
its their usefulness and their destruet
iveness It is surprising how insignifi
cant becomes the last named trait when
compared with tho first
First in our list is The Alphabet of
Birds which as its name indicates is
a work for littlo readers Then wo have
Wake Robin by John Burroughswho
is first authority on bird lore and who
writes most charmingly of them Bob
a Story of Our Mocking Bird by Sid
ney Lanier gives a pleasing story of a
wild bird in captivity Birds Through
an Opera Glass by Florence Merriam
gives the results of close observation
and arouses ones desire to make obser
vations in the same way Bird Life
by Frank M Chapman treats of The
Bird Its Place in Nature and Relation
to Man It also devotes chapters to
the bird voice migration nesting sea
son how to identify birds etc Bird
Neighbors by JNettje Blanchan is an
other work that will help us to identify
birds Citizen Bird by Wright and
Cones perhaps gives the most complete
and detailed description of birds and
their relation to human life of any of
the books we have A citizen is defined
as one who owes allegianceto a govern
ment and is entitled to protection by it
On this basis Citizen Bird is treated
as a being worthy of protection because
of what he does for his country and
with no sickly sentimentality To quote
Every plant has an insect enemy
which feeds upon its life juices So a
set of animals has been developed by
Heart of Nature to hold the plant des
troyers in check and these animals are
tho birds Man may do all ho can to
protect his gardens his orchards his
fields and forestsbut if the birds do not
help himthe insects that work by night
and day tapping at the root boring
inside the bark piercing the very heart
of the plant nipping off the buds
would make the earth bare and brown
instead of green and blooming Yet
House People both young and old for
get this They shoot and frighten away
the birds either because some few of
their feathered friends take grapes or
other fruits and berries by way of play
or merely from thoughtlessness to see
how many they can hit
Give the bird books circulation this
spring Librarian
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A CAREFUL MAN
When It Came to Money He Had to
Put on the Brakes
The passengers In an accommodation
train which was winding its- way
through New Hampshire were Inter
ested and amused by an elderly couple
who sat in the middle of the car
They talked as if there were no one
else In the car Therefore having
heard most of their private plans no
one was surprised to huve the old mas
take the assembled company fully into
his confidence At one station he rose
and nddressed the passengers lu gen
eral
Can anybody change a Ave dollar
bill for wo twos and a one or Ave
ones he inquired
I can said a brisk woman and
the transfer was quickly made
Now could anybody change this
one dollar bill for four quarters or
tens and fives asked the old man
I can give you two fifties said a
man from the rear seat unless some
body else can do better
It appeared that nobody could or at
least nobody offered so as the train
started the old man lurched down the
car to the possessor of the two fifty
cent pieces
Thank you he said as he took the
money Im obliged though Id have
liked the quarters best You see Mar
thy has set hor nilnd to stop off at
Nashuy whilst I go on up to my broth
ers with the eggs and truck And
though she dont plan nor mean to be
a spendthrifty woman when shes let
loose amongst a lot of stores shell
ran through 50 cents In an hour easy
and I kind of have to put a curb on
her Youths Companion
THE TURTLES HEAD
Chopped Off It Retains Life For a
Number of Hours
On the counter in a porcelain dish
stood the severed head of a large tur
tle
That is rather grewsome said a
man who was buying oysters
The oyster opener glanced at the
head carelessly
It is a bet said he I bet Gus
SehmidJL that the head would keep
alive twenty four hours Its nearly
twenty five now since I chopped Jt
off Gus is late But I win anyhow
he added
Wheres my money Pay me my
money a deep voice shouted at this
moment and a short man swaggerai
In
Youve lost Gus said the oyster
opener There is still life in her
There is nit said Gus Schmifc
Nix on the life
And he extended a stumpy finger
fearlessly toward the turtles mouth
Gee
Startled amazed Gus Schmidt leap
ed back For in the turtles open eyess
a fierce light had flashed the ugly
mouth had opened and shut with a
sharp snap and the head in some
strange way had advanced an inch cr
two toward the tempting finger much
as a piece of steel advances toward a
magnet
This may surprise you Gus said
the oyster opener wiping his wet
hands In order to pocket his winningc
But it dont surprise me none Ive
seen turtle heads keep life in em long
ern this here New Orleans Times
Democrat
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Greeley Dodged Lincoln
President Lincoln having been often
and severely arraigned in the New
York Tribune for what Mr Greeley
considered his slowness in prosecuting
the war had said If he Greeley ob
jects to my policy I shall be glad to
have him state to me his views frank
ly and fully I shall adopt his if I can
If I cannot I will at least tell him
why He and I should stand togeth
er
If I weie to go said Greeley when
the words were repeated to him he
would simply twist me around his
fingers as he always does
Lincolns smile would wilt me in
halfa minute he said on another oc
casion when again urged to see the
president and have a talk with him
He is a wonderful man wonderful
I never can harbor a thought against
him except when I keep away from
him
The Experienced Swine
The crowd around the postoffico
stove after exhausting the possibili
ties of politics local and national had
been discussing the alleged lack of the
truth telling instinct in Old Man Simp
kins Uncle Ezra came in and Jim
Peters said
What do you think about it Uncle
Ezra would you call Old Man Simp
kins a liar
Well answered Uncle Ezra slowly
as he thoughtfully studied the ceiling
I wouldnt go so fur as to call the
old man a liar but I do know it to be
a fact that when feedin time comes
to get any response he has to have
somebody else call his hogsfur him
Womans Ilome Companion
Purely Professional
You say hes a professional man
Yes answered Miss Cayenne
doubtfully One of the kind who
hang out a sign Back In an Hour and
leave it there the year through
Washington Star
Both Busy
The girl who knows she Is pretty
makes a fool of herself
And the girl who doesnt know she
Is pretty makes a fool of some man
Houston Post
queens alwajs good Grandpa Not al
ways my boy not when there are aces
out against them Brooklyn Life
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Kepi His Word
A young fellow in Havana wio oc
cupied the ptiKliiuu of a repot tcr fell
iu love with a glrL the duughter of a
wealthy planter He applied to hei
father in the orthodox way for Iite
couseut to the marriage
Presumptuous said the father
with eyes Hashing You a poverty
stricken journalist and my daughter
Sir get out of my presence
The journalist was very angry It
brought forth a heated declaration of
pride
Your daughter is too good for me
you say I will marry a princess be
fore I die And with head erect he
left the irate father
The journalist went to Spain He
wrote poems The poems -were read
bj the Princess Josephine There was
a meeting The two fell in love with
each other It is said the journalist
was so sincere In his affection that
probably he forgot his declaration to
the Havana planter They were both
royally happy eloped married in Val
ladolid and were eventually pardoned
by Queen Isabella the one time jour
nalist being received with all the re
spect due to his new and high rank
When Ladies Wore Masks
In the seventeenth century ladies
wore masks In public and great was
the variety of face screens that were
seen Ladies who had coralline lips
preferred short masks as was natural
For others who wished to hide the
lower part of the face the mask was
completed by a chin piece of linen
which afterward passed under the
chin and over the ears In 1G32 a new
mask called the mimi from the Ital
ian mimics was all the rage and
threatened to usurp the place of the
black one It was even the cause of
violent quarrels between the ladiec
who held to the latter and those who
preferred the latest novelty Some
years later it became the fashion to
trim the upper part of the mask with
a ruche of lace to lengthen it with a
beard of the same material and even
to cover it more or less with lace to
the borders of the eyeholes Young
ladies of this period however fre
quently contented themselves with cov
ering the face simply with a piece of
black crape for coquetrys sake and to
appear the fairer
The Rack Pace and Amble
The rack is a gait of the horse be
tween a trot and a gallop or canter in
which the fore feet move as in a slow
gallop while the hind feet move as in
a trot or pace It is usually an arti
ficial gait but is sometimes hereditary
or natural There is much confusion
of terms in respect to this gait due
to the fact that the gait itself is some
what varied according as the racker
carries the one or the other fore foot
foremost in the galloping motion of
the fore feet that many confound the
rack with the pace the words often
being used synonymously and that
many have mistaken the use of the
woids pace and amble There fc
abundant evidence that the American
pace of today is the amble of Eu
ropeans of the last century and earlier
The motion of the hind feet is the
same in the trot the pace and the
rack In the trot the diagonal hind
and fore feet move nearly simulta
neously In the pace or amble tin1
hind and fore feet of the same side
move nearly simultaneously Boston
Globe
Exploding Ice Bubbles
The intensely cold nights of Siberia
says a writer produce a curious phe
nomenon Occasionally the silence is
broken by a loud report resembling the
boom of a cannon The noise is caused
by the bursting of an ice bubble on a
river The streams coming from the
hills are incased in ice six to nine
inches thick and as the water de
scends faster than it escapes through
the river the result is a heavy hydro
static pressure This first causes the
ice upon the river to rise in mounds
often six to eight feet Inch- For a
time they seem to yield elastically to
the pressure but finally can with
stand no more aud burst with an ex
plosive report The water rushes out
soon freezing however and causing
further explosions The writer assert
that he lias seen scores of these i c
hillocks within a few miles
Muskrat and Perfumery
The question is asked us whether
the musk of the common muslcrit ib
not used to make cheap perfumery
We have never heard of such use of
muskrat musk nor can we find any
thing definite on the subject in the
books Application to a large manu
facturer of perfumery however brings
out the information that some years
ago musk from the muskrat was tried
out for perfumery purposes but was
not found available for this use Not a
single instance of its being used now it
known The musk of commerce comes
chiefly from the musk deer Forest
and Stream
Not to His Taste
Proud Mother to admiring visitor
Yes we think that little Harry has
prettier hair than any of the other
children Five-year-old Bobby con
temptuously Umph They showed
me that color and I wouldnt take it
Exchange
Gave the Snap Away
The Dominie How is it my young
friend that your mother always does
the carving when you have company
to dinner Freddie Cause dad al
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Puck
A Nice Distinction
On the Wrong Tack Farmer And you say that the
Tommy Grandpa are kings and iast man you worked for was Si
gins Rambling Resteasy iso ma am
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