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FLIGHT OF BIRDS
Rapid Wing Movement Does Not Al
ways Imply Speed
Birds have different modes of flight
Just as meu have different gaits in
Walking or running Itapld wing
movement does not always imply
speed in flight any more than rapid
lei movement Implies spued in walk
ing or running With us it Is the
length of the stride that tells ultimate
ly What apart from wing movement
tells In the birds flight is not known
Sneaking broadly long winged birds
are strong and swift fliers short
winged birds are feeble in flight
When we consider that a cumbrous
alow moving bird like the heron moves
Its wings twice per second when In
flight it is evident that 11111113 birds
have a very rapid wing movement
Most small birds have this rapid
wing movement with feeble powers
of flight The common wren and the
dipper for instance have a flight like
that of a 3011 ng bird
Many of our smaller migrants seem
but to flit from bush to bush or from
tree to tree Members of the thrush
family are low fliers the blackbird In
particular with its hasty hurried
flight often just avoiding fences and
no more Wagtails have a beautiful
undulating flight with little apparent
use of their wings They look like
greyhounds bounding through the air
Nearly all birds sail or float occa
sionally without the slightest move
ment of their wings Even a large
bird like a pheasant will glide In this
way for more than two hundred 3 ards
Grouse have a rapid wing motion
without any great speed but wheu
they sail coming down with the wind
as they prefer to do the3 go very fast
Before alighting the3 flap their wings
several times very rapidly like the
clapping of hands Most birds after
gliding do this Does it correspond to
putting on the brakes or reversing the
engine in the case of mechanical loco
motion With little apparent use of
its wings the wood pigeon flies very
strongly and rapidly It never seems
to bring up much before alighting
but crashes into a tree at full speed
When it rises its wings crack like
pistol shots
Ducks are strong on the wing and
often fly In single flic Geese will fly
wedge or arrowhead shape generally
at a considerable height So do many
gulls and other sea birds in a stated
measured fashion their calls occa
sional sounding like Left right
left right
Kestrels have a beautiful clean cut
clipping motion of their wings and
look like yachts sailing through the
air while their hovering in the air is
one of the ni3steries of bird life
Peesweeps which are so graceful in
their motions on the ground look like
enormous bats when in flight Swal
lows and in a ver3 marked degree
swifts have rapid wing movement
with great speed and extraordinary
power of flight Scotsman
One Cold Saved
Logic is logic whether it touches the
affairs of nations or a cold in the
head The conviction sa3s London
Tit Bits was forced upon a Liverpool
woman whose coachman although he
had been ill for several days appeared
one morning with his hair closely crop
ped
Why Dennis said the mistress
whatever possessed jou to have your
hair cut while you had such a bad
cold
Well mum replied the unabashed
Dennis I do be takin notice this long
while that whiniver I have me hair
cut I take a bad cowld so I thought
to meself that now while I had the
cowld on to me it would be the time
of all others to go and get me hair cut-tin-
done for by that course I would
save meself just one cowld Do you
see the power of me reasonin niuni
Littlest Father
The woman who came to clean up
was telling how she left her bo3 to
take care of the baby The boy was
two and one half years old The baby
was six mouths
Thats the youngest little father I
ever heard of saiJ the flat dweller
she was cleaning up for Do you
loci them inr
Yes said the cleaning woman
Poor little fellow said the flat
dweller Locked in to burn in case
of fire Some day when you are
cleaning up for me 1 want to go over
and see that little father who ought
to be in the cradle himself taking
care of the babj I
want to just sit there and look on
awhile Poor little fellow Chicago
Inter Ocean
What Accountancy Means
Aecountanc3 is not and never can
be a matter of abstract knowledge to
be transferred by means of lectures
but is the art of knowing how to ap
ply that knowledge to the require
ments of business under very varying
conditions It is essentially something
that cannot be taught in lectures or
classes but can only be acquired as
a result of careful individual study
and a reasonable amount of actual
practice Bookkeeping
After the Honeymoon
Pa whats the difference between
idealism and realism
Idealism mj son is the contempla
tion of marriage realism is being mar
ried Boston Transcript
Greatly Overestimated
Hewitt Half the world doesnt know
how the other half lives Jewitt 1
think you overestimate the number of
people who mind their own busiuess
Brooklyn Life
Do not think that years leave as and
find us the same Meredith
LOVE AND FLOWERS
The Advice a Discerning Woman Gave
Unto Hor Daughter
My daughter wouldst thou know 0
mans secret Go to the florist then
O simple one for in him every man
reposeth his confidence
Yea by the flowers which he sendeth
a woman shall ye judge the quality
of a mans love likewise the quantity
and exact stage
As violets pass unto roses and roses
unto cheap carnations and carnations
unto naught so passeth his grand pas
sion from the first throes Into matri
mony
Lo at the beginning of a love affair
mark with what care a man selccteth
his flowers In person that not a wilted
violet shall offend thine eyes
Yet as time passeth he telephoneth
his orders and leaveth It all to the
clerk And there comolh a daj when
he murmureth wearily I say old
chap make that a standing order will
you
Then the florist heaveti a sigh for
he kuoweth that the end is at hand
Yea this is the mark of an engaged
man who doeth his duty So after the
wedding bouquets all orders shall
cease together and until he seeketh
flowers for his wifes grave that man
shall not again enter a florists shop
For stale carnations bought upon
the street corner and carried home in
a paper bag are a fit offering for any
wife Yet a funeral rcjoiceth the flor
ists heart and makcth him to smile
for he kuoweth that a widowers next
order shall be worthy of a new cause
and the game shall begin all ovei
again
Verily verily my daughter I charge
thee account no man in love until he
hath gone forth into the gardens and
the fields and plucked thee a few dinky
pansies or stray weeds with his own
hands
For when a man sendeth thee violets
It ma3 mean oul3 sentiment and when
he sendeth thee orchids it may be only
a bluff but when he doeth real work
for anj woman it meaneth busiuess
Selah London Tit Bits
HAD LUCK ON THE WAY
The English Thief That Dropped In to
See His Lawyer
Here is a story of a genuine instance
of the kind of business which fell to
the lot of a once notorious London
thieves counsel One day a thick
set man with a cropped poll of un
mistakablj Newgate cut slunk into
this counsels room when the follow
ing dialogue took place
Morning sir said the man touch
ing his forelock
Morning said the counsel What
do 3ou want
Well sir Im sorry to say sir our
little Bon sir has ad a misfortin
Fust offense sir only a wipe
Well well interrupted the coun
sel Get on
So sir we thought as 3oud ad all
the family business wed like you to
defend him sir
All right said the counsel see
my clerk
Yes sir continued the thief but
I thought Id like to make sure 3oud
attend yourself sir Were anxious
cos its little Ben our youngest kid
Oh that will be all right Give
Simmons the fee
Well sir continued the mau shift
ing about uncomfortabl3 I was go
ing to arst you sir to take a little
less You see sir wheedlingly its
little Ben his first misfortin
No no said the counsel impa
tientlj Clear out
But sir youve had all our busi
ness Well sir if 3ou wont you
wont so Ill paj you now sir And
as he doled out the guineas I may
as well tell you sir you wouldnt a
got the counters if 1 hadnt had a little
bit of luck on the way From The
Recollections of a K C by Thomas
Edward Crispe
Funny For Her
A New England lad was intently
watching his aunt in the process of
making pies and cake He seemed
very much inclined to start a conver
sation an inclination however which
the aunt in no way encoui aged She
continued in silence to assemble the
ingredients of a mammoth cake
Tell me something funny auntie
finally ventured the boy
Dont bother me Tommy said the
aunt How can I when I am making
cake
Oh you might say Tommy have a
piece of the pie Ive just made That
would be funny for you Exchange
Waited Twenty Years For a Solution
A bit of pure and harmless mischief
at recitation at Yale was the device
of a member of the class of 72 who
introduced at recitation a turtle covered
by a newspaper pasted on the shell
The tutor had too much pride to come
down from his perch and solve the
m3ster3 of the newspaper movement
but twenty years after meeting a
member of the class his first and ab
rupt question was Mr W what
made that paper move
A Relief
Johnny said the boys mother I
hope you have been a nice quiet boy
at school this afternoon
Thats what I was answered John
ny I woe to sleep right after din
ner and the teacher said shed whip
any boy in the room who waked me
up Boston Post
The Change
You didnt use to object to your hus
band playing poker
No but that was before I learned
to play bridge It Is a lovely game
but I cannot afford to play it unless he
stops playing poker Houston Post
JAPANESE ENGLISH
A Sample Circular Composed by a Na
tive Tradesman
There comes from a correspondent In
Japan this example of circulars in
English that Japanese tradesmen some
times compose
Dear Sir I have the honour to
write a letter for you that I have now
established the meat market and its
branch to deliver the meat as one of
the branch of my sloughter house as
which I have many cattle their pas
tures their markets milk houses and
a sloughter house etc and I will have
a fresh meat with the most cheapest
price from my sloughter house than
other bucher3 and especially make you
many reduction for every day pur
chaser for mouth I beg you can soon
make me your order without your
servants commission as 3011 know
your servant is alwa3s making money
b3 3our meat I will make you the
pass book for the creditor 011I3
P S If you handed bad meat from
your servant while you are making
purchases the meat from my market
ever3 day you will soon to let It ex
change by the servant without any
hesitation Please make me 3our or
der and if you can make me order by
letter I will have the postage reduc
tion from the count of meat with kind
regards Your trul3 Boston Tran
script
THE DELUGE
Queer Old Australian Tradition About
the Flood
The aboriginal blacks of Australia
have a queer tradition about the flood
They say that at one time there was
no water on the earth at all except In
the body of an immense frog where
men and women could not get at it
There was a great council on the sub
ject and It was found out that if the
frog Could be made to laugh the wa
ters would run out of his mouth and
the drought be ended
So several animals were made to
dance and caper before the frog to in
duce him to laugh but he did not even
smile and so the waters remained in
his bod3 Then some one happened to
think of the queer contortions into
which the eel could twist itself and it
was straightway brought before the
frog and when the frog saw the wrig
gling he laughed so loud that the
whole earth trembled and the waters
poured out of his mouth in a great
flood in which many people were
drowned
The black people were saved from
drowning by the pelican This thought
ful bird made a big canoe and went
with it among all the islands that ap
peared here and there above the sur
face of the water and gathered in the
black people and saved them
Curiosities of Superstition
When Egypt was in the height of
her power when she was most highly
civilized and delighted in being called
the mistress of the land and sea her
people worshiped a black bull There
was some discrimination however
even in this form of worship In order
to be an object of mad adoration it was
necessary that the bull calf be born
with a circular white spot in the ex
act center of his forehead and the
advent of such a creature in any herd
was the signal of wild demonstrations
from the Mediterranean to the border
of the Lybian desert Even as late as
the time of Cleopatra star eyed god
dess glorious sorceress of the Nile
such animals were shod with gold and
had their horns tipped with the same
metal Herodotus tells of a man who
died with grief because he sold a cow
that soon after became the mother of a
black bull calf marked with the sacred
white circle in his forehead
Lead Pencil Experiments
An English statistician was asked
how maii3 words could be written
with an English lead pencil and be
ing determined to answer it he bought
a lead pencil and Scotts Ivanhoe
and proceeded to copj the latter word
by word He wrote 93G0S words and
then was obliged to stop for the pen
cil had become so short that he could
not use it A German statistician who
heard of this experiment was dissat
isfied with it because all the lead in
the pencil was not used on the work
and therefore he bought a pencil and
started to copj a long German novel
When the pencil was so short that he
could not handle it with his fingers
he attached a holder to it and it is
said that he wrote with this one pen
cil 400000 words Possibly however
his pencil was longer or the lead in
it was of a more durable quality
When Silence Is Deadly
Silence is commonly the slow poison
used by those who mean to murder
love There is nothing violent about
it No shock is given Hope is not
abruptly strangled but merely dreams
of evil and fights with gradually sti
fling shadows When the last convul
sions come they are not terrific The
frame has been weakened for dissolu
tion Love dies like natural decay It
seems the kindest way of doing a
cruel thing George Meredith
Rubbing It In
The Bride That nasty Mrs Jones
next door said Id better try these
biscuits on the dog before I gave em
to you The Groom Hasnt she got
a mean disposition Why I thought she
was fond of dogs Cleveland Leader
Often the Case
Sillicus What do you suppose caused
him to go to the bad Cynicus Try
ing to be a good fellow Philadelphia
Record
The fools ear was made for the
knaves tongue Ramaswamis In
dian Fables
RESERVE HORSES FOR WAR
Switzerlands Method of Preparing For
Rapid Mobilization
In Switzerland the state Is part own
er of horses used by reserves It pur
chases a remount at three and a hall
3ears old and the soldier pays half
the cost of the horse to the govern
ment together with the difference be
tween Its cost and the price that the
horse fetches at auction for all horses
are sold by auction to the men
After ever3 year of training the gov
ernment refunds one tenth of the orig
inal half cost to the man and at the
end of ten jcars the horse becomes
the absolute property of the soldier
In this manner the soldier is not only
always well mounted but as he keeps
his horse with liim at his home his
mobilization problem is of the simplest
nature
The average price of these Swiss
troop horses is about 4o sa3s Bailys
Magazine and as most of these horses
are imported from Ireland and north
Germany their price Is considerably
higher than It would be In Great Brit
ain Thus the state secures the serv
ices of a horse for an annual outlay
of about 4 10s But there are certain
other expenses which must be includ
ed in this estimate such as the cost of
the establishment for remount depots
etc which raises the total cost of
horses for the Swiss government to
about 8 12s a year
ROADS IN CHINA
They Are Narrow and Crooked and
Edged With Ditches
The Chinese road is private prop
ert3 a strip taken from somebodys
land This is done much against the
will of the owner since he not only
loses the use of it but also still has to
pa3 taxes on It
One consequence is that it is wide
enough for 011I3 one vehicle and carts
can pass one another only b3 trespass
ing on the cultivated laud To prevent
this the farmers dig deep ditches by
the roadside As the surface wears
away and the dust blows off it gradu
ally grows lower and after awhile it
becomes a drain for the surrounding
fields A current forms in the rainy
season which still further hollows it
out and thus has arisen the proverb
that a road a thousand 3ears old be
comes a river
Those whose lands are used for
roads naturally prefer to have the
roads run along the edge of their
farms instead of cutting across them
and this accounts for the fact that
Chinese roads are often so crooked
that one ma3 have to go a considerable
distance to reach a place that is In re
ality but a few miles awa3 This al
ways interests the stranger
Only Pursuing His Profession
A Brooklyn magistrate recentl3 had
four darkies who were caught in a
gambling raid before him The first
of the lot to be brought to the bar was
an undersized man with a comical
face as black as night The dialogue
between the magistrate and the pris
oner created some merriment in the
court
What is 3our name inquired the
magistrate sternly
Mah names Smiff replied the
darky
What is your profession
Is a locksmiff by trade sab
What were 3ou doing when the po
lice broke into the room last night
Judge I was pursuin mah profes
sion I was makin a bolt for the
door
Officer said the magistrate with
a merry twinkle in his e3e lock
Smith up New York Tribune
The Art of Overlooking
Nobod3 can live long in the world
and not admit that the words noth
ing for nothing contain a sad amount
of truth He is of course a fool who
does not count the cost so far as the
future is concerned but scarcely less
a fool is he who does not overlook past
costs If we have an3 good or de
lightful thing in this life at all haz
ards let us not taint our enjoyment by
considering what we gave for it Was
it more than we could afford Never
mind We have afforded it we have
made our purchase Let us take off
the ticket with the price and burn the
receipt There are items in lifes
ledger which must be overlooked un
less we would spend all our days
in balancing closed accounts London
Spectator
How She Rules Him
Skinphlints wife certainty has re
markable success in managing him 1
wonder how she does it
When he undertakes to den3 her
4 lw r1s itnnTTf clin flilnif
ens to sue him for divorce
Does he care so much for her
then
Oh no its not that but he figures
that it is cheaper to let her have her
own way than it would be to either
defend the suit or pay alimon3 Chi
cago Post
A Bad Start
A man always looks foolish when
he proposes said the frank young wo
man
Yes answered Mr Meekton and
I have evidently failed to overcome
the absurd impression I made on Hen
rietta on that occasion Washington
Star
Social Paradox
Its impossible for me to dress on
o000 a year
Well my love you must wear less
Dont be silly You know perfectly
well that the less I wear the more it
costs Judges Library
Common sense is instinct and enough
of it is genius H W Shaw
QUEER INDIAN BELIEFS
The Five Worlds of the Bella Cooia
Sun Worshipers
There Is an odd feature In the theol
ogy of the small Indian tribe of the
Bella Coola which Inhabit British Co
lumbia in about latitude 51 They be
lieve that there are live worlds one
above the other and the middle one Is
our own world the earth Above it
are two heavens and under it ure two
underworlds In the upper heaven Is
the supreme deity who Is a woman
and she doesnt meddle much with the
affairs In the second world below her
The zenith Is the center of the lowr
heaven and here Is the house of the
gods in which live the sun and the
rest of the deities
Our own earth Is believed to be an
Island swimming In the ocean The
first underworld from the earth Is In
habited by ghosts who can return
when tbey wish to heaven from which
place the3 11133 be sent down to our
earth If then tho3 misbehave again
th03 are cast Into the lower of the un
derworlds and from this bourn no
ghostly traveler returns
The Bella Coola are sun worshipers
for Senex the sun the master of the
house of gods who Is called the father
and the sacred one Is the 011I3 deity
to whom the tribe pra3 Each famlty
of the Bella Coola has its own tradi
tions and its own form of the cur
rent traditions so that In the mytholo
gy of the tribe there are countless con
tradictions AVhen aii3 one not a mem
ber of a clan tries to tell a tradition
which does not belong to his clan It
is like a white man trying to tell an
others joke he Is considered as ap
propriating the property right which
does not belong to him
SMOKELESS POWDER
It Came Through Experimenting For
High Explosives
The idea is very general that smoke
less powder in being practically
smokeless achieves its greatest end
but as a matter of fact its smokeless
feature is incidental and was an ac
cident
When the idea of modern long range
guns was conceived it was at once ap
parent that the old black powder lack
ed explosive force and thousands of
experiments were made with various
chemicals to procure a powder of high
explosive properties and this was at
last accomplished
When the new powder was tried
much to the surprise of every one it
was found that practlcalty no smoke
followed the explosion though this
could of course have been predicted
had the question ever arisen The
volume of smoke from black powder
is due mainty to the quantity of char
coal in the powder an ingredient not
found in the smokeless explosive
Smokeless powder though a great
boon to the sportsman is of question
able value on the battlefield so far as
its smokelcssness is concerned The
smoke clouds of old da3s wore fre
quently most advantageously used to
cloak movements of troops and bat
teries and really interfered with the
enemy much more than with the
troops creating the smoke Exchange
Saved by Fireflies
The gigantic tropical fireflies which
swarm in the forests and canebrakes
of most of the low lying West Indian
islands once proved the salvation of
the city of Santo Domingo A body of
buccaneers headed by the notorious
Thomas Cavendish had laid all their
plans for a Jescent upon the place in
tending to massacre the inhabitants
and cany awa3 all the treasure the3
conveniently could and had actually
put off their boats for that purpose
As thc3 approached the land however
rowing with mullled oars they were
greatty surprised to see an infinite
number of moving lights in the woods
which friuged the ba3ou up which
the3 had to proceed and concluding
that the Spaniards knew of their ap
proach the3 put about and regained
their ship without attempting to land
The Wonderful Banana
Some people believe that the banana
was the original forbidden fruit of the
garden of Eden In aii3 case it is one
of the curiosities of the vegetable
kingdom being not a tree a palm a
bush a shrub a vegetable or a herb
but a herbaceous plant with the status
of a tree Although it sometimes at
tains a height of thirty feet there is
no wood3 fiber in an3 part of its struc
ture and the bunches growing on the
dwarf banana plant are often heavier
than the stalk which supports them
No other plant gives such a quantit3
of food to the acre as the banana It
yields 44 times more by weight than
the potato and 133 times more than
wheat Moreover no insect will at
tack it and it is always immune from
diseases of am kind
Convinced
Do you think a college education
helps a man in business
Sure Ive had two college boys
here workin for me durin the past
year and I was afraid to discharge
either one of em for fear theyd find
fault with my grammar when I done
it Chicago Record Herald
Following Orders
Charlie What have you been doing
to your face dear boy Percy I tried
to shave myself this morning Charlie
What on earth for Percy The
doctor told me that 1 ought to take
more exercise Illustrated Bits
At Cross Purposes
Scott Haif the people in the world
dont know what the other half are
doing Mott No that is because the
other half are doing them Boston
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NOTICE TO LND OWNERS
To Jonathan J Sam- C K CritchfcVId Heir-
of Storm Brahler Heir- of Richard E Hatcher
Sarah A Jam- Heir- of Tajlor K Qnigley
Mae Patterson Irene Patterson Murphy Enoch
A Sezson John Lontmecker Heir- of Noah
Sawer John B Dunlap Phebe J Taylor and
It H Taylor and to all whom it may concern
The Commi ioner appointed to locate a road
commencing at the northeast corner of tii
northwest quarter of thirty three 33
Township 4 Ranee U in Fritch precinct Red
Willow County Nebraska running thence soatk
three miles on the half section liii throoi
section- 53 4 28 and sections 4 and 9 in Town
ship 3 and terminatim at the oath
ea t corner of th quarter of
nine iP i Township 3 Ranse ha- reported in
favor of the location thereof a othat the pjih
lic road running north and couth for three miles
between 33 and 31 in Township 4 Rase
- and sections 3 and 4 and 9 and 10 in Town
ship 3 Ranee 2S b vacated and all objections
thereto or claims for damage- mu t be filed iu
the Countv Clerk- oilice on or before noon of
the second dav of May 1910 or said road will
be established without reference thereto
21 4ts Chas Skvila Cownty Clerk-
ve