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230 p m in Morris hall Mrs Lottie Brewer Presinent Mrs Kate Dutton Secretary p e o Chapter X P E O meets the second and fourth Saturdays of each montn at 230 p m at the homes of the various members Mbs J A Wilcox Pres Mas J G Schobel Cor Sec PYTHIAN SISTERS McCook Temple No 4 Pythian Sisters meets the 2d and 4th Wednesdays at 73 p m Lila L Ritchie M E C Edna Stewabt M of R C rheTribune It is Just One Dollar the Year F J - Like most Americans Interested in birds and books I know a good deal about English birds as they appear in books I know the lark of Shake speare and Shelley and the Ettrick Shepherd I know the inghtingale of Milton and Keats I know Words worths cuckoo I know mavis and merlle singing in the merry green wood of the old ballads I know Jenny Wren and Cock Robin of the nursery books Therefore I have always much desired to hear the birds in real life and the opportunity offered last June As I could snatch but a few hours from a very exacting round of pleasures and duties it was necessary for me to be with some companion who could Iden tify both song and singer In Sir Edward Grey a keen lover of outdoor life In all Its phases and a delight ful companion who knows the songs and ways of English birds as very few do know them I found the best pos sible guide We left London on the morning of June 9 24 hours before I sailed from Southampton Getting off the train at Basingstoke we drove to the pretty smiling valley of the Itchen Here we tramped for three or four hours then again drove this time to the edge of the New Forest where we first took tea at an inn and then tramped through the forest to an inn on its oth er side at Brockenhurst At the con clusion of our walk my companion made a list of the birds we had seen putting an asterisk opposite those which we had heard sing There were 41 of the former and 23 of the 1 tsr as follows Thrush Biackbird Lark Yellow Hammer Robin Wren Golden Crested Wren Goldflnch Greenfinch Pied Wagtail Sparrow Dunnock Hedge Accentor Missel Thrush Starling Rook Jackdaw Black Cap Garden Warbler Willow Warbler Chiff Chaff Wood Warbler Tree Creeper Reed Bunting Sedge War bler Coot Water Hen Little Grebe Dabchlck Tufted Duck Wood Pi geon Stock Dove Turtle Dove Pee wit Tit Coal Tit Cuckoo Night jar Swallow Martin Swift Pheasant Partridge The bird that most Impressed me on my walk was the blackbird I had already heard nightingales in abun dance near Lake Como and had also listened to larks but I had never heard either the blackbird the song thrush or the black cap warbler and while I knew all three were good singers I did not know what really beau tiful singers they were Blackbirds were very abundant and they played a prominent part in the chorus which we heard throughout the day on every hand though perhaps loudest the fol lowing morning at dawn In its habits and manners the blackbird strikingly resembles our American robin and in deed looks exactly like a robin with a yellow bill and coal black plumage It hops everywhere over the lawns just as our robin does and it lives In nests in the gardens in the same fash Ion Its song has a general resem blance to that of our robin but many of the notes are far more musical iore like those of our wood thrush Indeed there were individuals among those we heard certain of whose notes eemed to me almost to equal in point of melody the chimes of the wood thrush and the highest possible praise ror any song bird is to liken its song to that of the wood thrush or hermit thrush I certainly do not think that the blackbird has received full justice in the books I knew that it was a singer but I really had no idea how fine a singer he was I suppose one of hi j troubles has been his name just as with our own cat bird When he appears in the ballads as the merle bracketed with his cousin the mavis the song thrush it is far easier to rec ignize him as the master singer that he is It Is a fine thing for England to have such an asset of the country side a bird so common so much in evi dence so fearless and such a really beautiful singer was the black cap warbler To my my ear its song seemed more musical than that of the nightingale It was astonishingly powerful for so small a bird in volume and continuity it does not come up to the songs of the thrushes and of certain other birds but In quality as an isolated bit of melody it can hardly be surpassed Among the minor singers the robin was noticeable We all know this pretty little bird from the books and I was prepared to find him as friendly and attractive as he proved to be but I had not realized how well he sang No Cause for Alarm I have decided said the theatrical manager to give you a trial Miss Arlington Please be ready to begin rehearsing Monday afternoon Thank you so much But before we go any further I must inform you that I shall positively refuse to wear tights or a gown that is cut low in the neck Oh thats all right In the part that Im going to give you you will merely nave to stand behind a shed and help to scream when the cyclone strikes town M m English Singing Birds n Reprinted from an article by Theodore Roosevelt In The Outlook by special arrangement with The Outlook ot which rheodore Roosevelt is Contributing Editor Copyright 1910 by The Outlook Company All Rights Reserved j It was not a loud song but very mu sical and attractive and the bird la said to sing practically all through the year The song of the wren Inter ested me much because lt was not In the least like that of our bouse wrens but on the contrary like that of our winter wren The theme Is the same as the winter wrens but the song did not seem to me to be so brilliantly mu sical as that of the tiny singer of the north woods The sedge warbler sang In the thick reeds a mocking ventrllo quial lay which reminded me at times of the less pronounced parts of our yellow breasted chats song The cuckoos cry was singularly attractive and musical far more so than the rolling many times repeated note of our rain crow Ten days later at Sagamore Hill I was among my own birds and was much interested as I listened to and looked at them in remembering the notes and actions of the birds I had seen in England On the evening of the Qrst day I sat in my rocking chair on the broad veranda looking across the sound towards the glory of the sunset The thickly grassed hill side sloped down in front of me to a belt of forest from which rose the golden leisurely chiming of the wood thrushes chanting their vespers through the still air came the warble of vireo and tanager and after night fall we heard the flight song of an oven bird from the same belt of tim ber Overhead an oriole sang in the weeping elm now and then breaking hV song to scold like an overgrown wren Song sparrows and cat birds sang in the shrubbery one robin had built its nest ever the front and one ver the back door and there was a chippys nest in the wisteria vine by the porch During the next 24 hours I saw and heard either right around the house or while walking down to bathe through the woods the following 42 birds Little Green Heron Quail Red Tail ed Hawk Yellow Billed Cuckoo Kingfisher Flicker Hummingbird Swift Meadow Lark Red Winged Blackbird Sharp Tailed Finch Song Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Bush Sparrow Purple Finch Baltimore Oriole Cowbunting Robin Scarlet Thrush Thrasher Cat Bird Scarlet Tanager Red Eyed Vireo Yellow War bler Black Throated Green Warbler King Bird Wood Pewee Crow Blue Jay Cedar Bird Maryland Yellow Throat Chickadee Black and White Creeper Barn Swallow White Breasted Swallow Oven Bird Thistleflnch Ves perfinch Indigo Bunting Towhee Grasshopper Sparrow and Screech Owl I sent the companion of my English walk John Burroughs Birds and Poets John Burroughs life work Is beginning to have its full effect in many different lines When he first wrote there were few men of letters in our country who knew nature at first hand Now there are many who delight In our birds who know their songs who keenly love all that belongs to out-of-doors life For instance Mad ison Cawein and Ernest McGaffy have for a number of years written of our woods and fields of the birds and the flowers as only those can write who join to love of nature the gift of ob servation and the gift of description Mr Cawein is a Kentuckian and an other Kentuckian Miss Julia Stockton Dinsmore in the little volume of poems which she has just published includes many which describe with beauty and charm the sights and sounds so dear to all of us who know American country life MIfs Dinsmore knows Kentucky and the gulf coast of Louisiana and the great plains of North Dakota and she knows also the regions that lie outside of what can be seen with material vision For years in our family we have had some of her poems in the scrap book cut from newspapers when we knew nothing about her except the initials I signed in the verses Only one whe sees with the eyes of the spirit as well The most musical singer we heard as the eyes of the body could have written the Threnody curiously at tractive in its simplicity and pathos with which the little book opens It contains many poems that make a sim ilar appeal The writer knows blue bird and robin redbird and field lark and whippoorwill just as she knows southern rivers and western plains she knows rushing winds and running waters and the sights and sounds ol lonely places and moreover she knows and almost tells those hidder things of the heart which never find complete utterance THEODORE ROOSEVELT Still the 4C0 Ward They say there are about 275000 automobiles owned by Individ uals in the United States or one foi every 400 population McAllister Well are you in the 40C yet Yonkers Statesmen Filling Up What do you do when you have nc news It must be hard to fill up When we have no news explained the New York journalist we use larg er type LONDON BANK CLERKS Their Dress and Mode of Living a Cen tury Ago A hundred years ago the number oi bank clerks in Loudon must have been lncouslderable The old bunks ueeded only small stnlTs Quite late In the eighteenth century one of the bluest conducted its business with two clerks The engagement of a third created great excitement Ills arrival was still more exciting for we are assured that lie wore a long Hupped coat with large pockets the sleeves had broad cuffs with three large buttons some what like the coats worn by Green wich pensioners an embroidered waist coat reaching nearly down to hla knees with an enormous bouquet in the buttonhole a cocked lint powdered hair with pigtail and bngwlg and gold headed cane This no doubt was something of a peacock even fot his time A few years later In tin early part of the nineteenth century the correct official garb was knee breeches silk stockings shoes with silver buckles nntl often a white tie One can scarcely Imagine a dress more suggestive of sober opulence But it does not seem that according to our ideas the manner of life was quite in harmony with this impressive appearance Not for the bank clerk of the early eighteen hundreds the Im maculately cleau and elaborately fitted restaurants of the modern city Not for him tea shops with varieties of harmless drinks and tempting light food If lie wanted a meal he went to the butcher and bought himself a chop or steak for fivepence halfpenny oi sixpence This he carried himself tc an adjacent public house where thej cooked it for a penny The public house in fact played no small part in his life Is it not a tradition that the clearing house has grown from the meetings of clerks in a tavern where they met for the purpose of settling up accounts among themselves London Tele graph RARE WILD BEASTS The Kadiak Bear and the Tufted Ear Rhinoceros There are a number of beasts speci mens of which are ardently desired not only by the zoological gardens of the world but by the professional me lingeries as well Among these may be mentioned the Kadiak bear an ex tremely rare animal and one calculat ed to make a Roeky mountain grizzly appear insignificant South America contains a prize In the form of a species of jaguar never held in captivity This jaguar is of tremendous size and coal black There are two rare birds in the Ama zon forests whereof no specimens have ever been brought away the bell bird and the lost soul These naiueb are derived from the effects produced by the cries of the birds the former having a voice likened to that of a sil ver bell and the latter possessing the eerie accompaniment of crooning in such a manner as to produce goose flesh on the unfortunate person who hears Its song The naturalists will also vote an ex pression of heartfelt thanks to the in dividual who will fetch them from far off Burma a specimen of a rhinoceros having a black hide and big tufted ears No one has ever actually seen this rhinoceros but it is averred white men have frequently seen his hide New Zealand is a land of animal mys teries The most popular of the rare beasts whereof specimens are longed for by the civilized world is a kind of duck billed beast No one seems cer tain what it should be called Darwin it is added was always of the opinion that some day a true lizard bird i t not a flying lizard but a true missing link between the birds and the reptiles might be found in New Zealand narpers Weekly The Catalpa Tree Tin catalpa tree is the slouch of the forest It has a brief season of beau ty but this outburst of charm is so ex ceedingly ephemeral when compared with ihi long weeks and months when it sei s to lie fairly reveling in litter that thi wonder is its presence is toler ated to tin extent it has been in years gone b We believe it was Lord By ron wim oii e indulged in a few rhap sodical utteranres over the catalpa blossoms bur it is safe to say he never had to i lean up a yard which was mar red by the presence of one or more of the trees or the sentiments expressed would have been in other than poetic vein Des Moines Capital European Tattooers Tattooing is not by any means con fined to savage peoples There are races in Europe which make it a regu Iar practice and men women and chil dren bear on their bodies orua menta tions that are as ornate and queer al though not as extensive as are mark ings on the bodies of the south sea savages These European tattooers are among the Albanians and Bos nians who live in the famous Balkan peninsula Pride All Around Im proud to say boasted the man with the large stomach and the im mense solitaire that I aint never wasted any time readin poetry Weil ventured the gentleman with the seedy clothes and the high brow if the poets were asked they would probably agree that they were proud of it too Chicago Record Herald She Hadnt Patron to busy waitress You iiavent any sinecure have you Waitress Sorry sir but we just serv ed the last order Boston R0FESSI0NAL AM BUSINESS DIRECTORY A TOREN M D Surgeon Offico at roUlune 1012 Main tve Phone rod 311 tOLAND It REED M D Physician and Surgeon Local Surgeon B M Phonos Offico 163 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