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| Starte' ' lSkE51SZF15E53HSEKSHSSSESBS?5Z5El Worn Copyright. 1921. Western New?p?per Union. ORMAN HARDY was born on New Year's duy, and deemed the fact a decided misfortune. There was one feature in which his father I ff) specialized ? system ? and r this Involved discipline. "A strict disciplinarian," he would boast to his neighbors. "That's me," and he looked it and acted it out until Norman fancied lie had been placed in the world simply to become the butt and victim of rigid rules. When Norman's tenth birthday was only eight hours distant. Ills father gave the order, sternly spoken: "You will be in the house for the night at seven o'clock," and Norman moped In a martyrlike way, envying his boy friends who had mapped out a joyous New Year's eve program of skating, J hill sliding, and like boyish pranks. TI/"* tt*licit u?nc immInft Hut ! X1C W VUUCltU " lie* L nttO vv?u?ii^, his father simply viewed him speculatively and sent him to bed at the usual time. He was awakened to find his father roughly pulling at his arm. "Get up, Norman, and come down to the kitchen," said Joel Hardy; "you needn't dress." Norman arose, rubbed his eyes, and followed his father downstairs. There was a light on the - ASS h?use clock. ^^ 1 ^'?rmnn notioe(* utes to twelve. A1"1 was st"' nn(* solemn except its ? la IhYfjSsi^- monotonous tick, ^ Tlj and outside nn ocr A y >g casional echo of ^ r" i 1 shooting, nnnouncing impaw"^' \ tlent celebrants j M already prepared / ISj to herald in the new year. "My boy," spoke his father after a moment of ominous deliberation, "when I was a lad of ten, my father taught me u lesson that has left its impress on my whole life in n salutary way. Upon the tick of midnight Just preceding my birthday he always called me down to the kitchen and gave me a good sound strapping. It hurt him more than it did me, he used to say, but the reminder would be ever present with me. Until I was twenty-one, regularly, upon each birthday the strap played its part and I think it did a good deal towards teaching me that I had a master and in making me a better man. I have concluded to adopt that feature with my system. You're a pretty good boy, but for fear you might kick over the traces I'm going to bulk the system until you are of age. Now. then, take your punishment like a man." Joel Hardy prouucett a snort. tnicK piece of tanned cowhide and Norman winced, but did not cry out during the unique castlgation. It was five years later, and with the usual routine late in the afternoon Joel Hardy reminded Norman of the pending midnight event. His eyes bulged and his face betrayed overwhelming amazement as Norman stood up before him, a tall, well-knit stripling, almost menacing In nis bearing as he said: "Father, there will he no strapping this time. I'm through with It. Half the town has heard of It, and the boys taunt me and the girls twit me. Not that I care for any of them except Milly Daniels, and she's true blue and stands by me, and I won't have her humbled and shamed. I'm going to spend this New Year's eve with the crowd, and I'll be home to breakfast." "If you don't report here by ten o'clock I'll send the town marshal after you," pronounced his father, with lire in his eye. Norman inarched out of the house, hung around downtown until eight d With a JSSZSHS1BSZSH5Z5ESE5E5H5SSZ525Z5H5SS2S The New Year j ~i I'fi' II i "II~t ill if n^p^lTH the whirling and the drifting of inowi l;/\/ Comes breathless the Jp'^i wild Hew Year; While bitter north wind blows, O'er the fields that lie stark, and drear. Yet hope is alight in her eyes As she looks from the heart of the storm, "Earth sleeps in her shroud," she cries, "But the life in her heart is warm. "Death is but a dream of the night And the hymn of joy is begun, - ? *.1? i;_l? I t or slowly leeKing me ngiu The great globe turns to the sun. "Behold, 1 will bring delight In place of darkness and cold; Safe under the meadows so white II hiding the buttercup gold. "And summer's splendor shall reign In place of the winter's dearth, [ Her color and music again Shall gladden the patient earth." | ! Hark to the New Year's Voice Through the murk of winter drear 1 Oh, children of men, rejoice! At the tidings of hope and cheer. ?Celia Thaxter. o'clock, and then repaired to the agreed-on rendezvous of the crowd, an old buggy shed attached to a great barn owned by Farmer Logan. He felt uneasy, stubborn and nettled. Recent lj- he had been dared by his companions to smoke a cigarette. He had met the dare and now, with two of them In his poeKet, ne m one, anu, in sheer rebellion against his father's system, was ahout to puff out his resentment when the signal cry of his comrades echoed forth. Carelessly throwing the lighted cigarette into a 1 corner of the shed, he bounded out and for over an hour forgot all save the excitement of tlie moment. The unruly coterie rolled a giant snowball and let it slide down the hill leading to the town common; they got up into the town hall tower and rang its bell. In the midst of setting loose a drove of cattle from a live stock enclosure they were attracted by the dash and rush of the village tire cart, making for n vivid, spreading glare. "Why, It's Farmer Logan's place!" shouted a chorus of excited voices, and Norman Hardy's heart stood still. He recalled the cigarette and the littered woodshed. He stood dumb and scared. The flames completely en1 gulfed the great frume barn. Norman slunk off alone by himself, oppressed with an appalling sense of guilt. His emotions were doubly intensified when he heard some one say: "Logan thinks it was set ablaze. Arson. I pity the firebug if he's caught. It's straight 14 years in the penitentiary." "It will ruin Logan, they say," spoke j onotner. "i no nam whs siureu wnn , grain and machinery and the insurance ran out last week." Norman was crushed with a sense of his culpability. He felt like flying from home, town and all the people he had ever known. He skulked behind a hedge as a group of girls : _ A New Ye In some of the European eyuntries 1 Christmas is almost ignored, save as a religious observance, while the festival of St. Sylvester or New Year's eve is celebrated with great ceremony. One of the curious customs of St. | Sylvester's eve that obtain among the people of the Cevoimes mountains, in the south of France, is the blessing of the animals. A correspondent who has witnessed this curious and pretty cerI emony, says of it: "It is not known that this custom is observed anyI where save among this primitive, 1 credulous people of the hill country of i southern France. The wealth of these j simple people consists of their bonis I of cattle and every New Year's eve Smile I aSBSZSZSZSHScL5HSSSZS2SZ5ZS2SZSZ5jH I \ cnme along. They were discussing the fire so excitedly that they paid no attention to a lone member of their group trailing on behind them. Norman noticed her, however. She was Mllly Daniels. He startled her by stepping directly In her path. "Just linger for a moment, will you, Mllly?" he spoke under high agitation, "or I'll walk with you a bit. I'm In terrible trouble, and I'm going to leave town for good," and Norman recited the entire story of the evening. "There's only one way out, don't you see It, Mllly?" he said. "I don't dare to face Fanner Logan; I'm going away to make something of myself, and the day I have got the money to make it square with Mr. Logan I'm coming back. And Mllly, dear, you have been my truest friend and have alwnys stood by me. Will you try to think of me while I'm gone, will you?will you wait .for me? For I shall never love anybody but you." Five years went by. Not a word had been heard from the truant son. Joel Hardy had forbidden even the mention of his name In the home. Mrs. Hardy, half heartbroken, repined In sllepce. Mllly Daniels became an orphan, and when Mrs. Hardy needed n nurse and then man she loved. sf She and Mrs. Hardy, with the i tyrant father, all wWBT V unaware of It, j^B cherished n mut- WE&j if J | ual memory of H \l. I the absent youth fl and took comfort /J* A In watching und \ J hoping for Ids re- CM I turn. It was a few minutes after midnight, five years to a day since Norman Hardy had gone forth Into the world to seek his fortune. Mllly had pleaded to sit up and watch the old year out and the new year In. All three of the family, though In different ways, were thinking of the boy who had run away from home. The bells had just finished a resonant chime when the knob of the outside door turned. There stepped Into the room n bronzed, stalwart young man, at a sight of whom Joel Hardy gasped Incredulously, his wife uttered a Joyous scream, and Mllly stood breathless and fluttering. "I waited till I was sure the final hour of discipline and the strap was pnst and gone," spoke Norman Hardy. "Mother," a warm embrace. "Father,", and a sturdy hand reached out. "Mllly," and the young girl swayed to and fro and would have fallen had not Norman caught her. "I said I wouldn't come back till I could pay for the damage I did to good old Farmer Logan," continued Norman. "I've kept my word. I hear you are struggling with a two-thousand-dollar mortgage, father; I can pay It off and loan you as much more If you need It. Mllly. dear, am I welcome? I have come to keep my promise true." Joel Hardy left the l.iom. He returned with the strap that had been so laminar m in? sun. uui m? pocketknlfe, the cdd man proceeded to cut the strap to pieces und flung them into the blazing grate. "You've cheated me out of several years, my son," he observed, "but I forgive you. It's enough to know thnt you are hack home safe and sound this blessed New Y'ear's day!" :ar Custom they bring their precious animals to one of the little churches to be blessed by the priest, that they may be fruitful and multiply and bring prosperity to their owners throughout the year." The churches are often many miles apart and often the people have to drive their animals a great distance that they may receive this blessing NEW YEAR'S PRAYER. The Old Year has done what It could for me. All of It that was good for me Has now become a part of mo. Whatever the New Year may bring to me, May only the Rood of It IIiir to me And enter Into the heart of me. [ ? W. H. CAltRUTH. Ira pies '" willjk pfigbel PRICES IN MANY LOCALITIES ARE FAR TOO HIGH, SAYS ATTORNEY GENERAL. DIRECTOR BURNS IN CHARGE Retail Prices of General Foodstuffs, Fuel, Clothing and Shoes Will Be Closely Studied. Washington.?Federal investigation of retail prices charged in various parts of the country for food, fuel, shoes and clothing was initiated by Attorney General Daugherty. He gave orders to Director Burns of the bureau of investigation of the justice department to assign a force of men at onoe to the duty of obtaining data ( on retail prices in aiuerem iuwhucs. , Mr. Daugherty declared that prices , of necssary commodities were too high and that in some instances the * profits of retailers were "unconscion- " able." It would never be possible, he asserted, to get prices down to the pre-war level, but with wages lowered and the costs of foodstuffs reduced, he was determined to learn whether the present "badly proportioned" retail prices should be maintained . Mr. Burns was instructed to put his men to work simultaneously to obtain . the variations in various localities in ' the retail prices of general foodstuffs, such as meats, provisions, beans, bread and butter, fuel, shoes, and clothing and to make schedules of the comparative prices. Reports will also be gathered on the wholesale prices of I wheat, beef and meats of all kinds in ' order, Mr. Daugherty explained, that comparisons might be made of the costs of these commodities with the priced charged by the butchers and grocers. The department's agents are to be instructed to do their work carefully as rapidly as possible. Action to remedy price conditions, Mr. Daugherty declared, would be 1 taken through several channels. In ^ the main, he said, the situation was * a local one and the states would be * asked to do as much as they could to 1 solve it with federal co-operation. 1 Secretary Hoover, he added, would c be invited to join with the Justice de- 1 partment in its effort to lower prices, I while it was believed that the publi- ? cation of the comparative wholesale and retail prices would do much to f remedy high prices by conveying to 1 the housewives of the country accu- f rate knowledge of actual conditions. ' ' ( Henry Watterson Dead. Jacksonville, Fla.?Colonel Henry . Watterson, known to the American people as one of the last surviving members of the old school of journalism and to his friends as "Marse Hen- . ry," died at a hotel here. t Death came peacefully, the vener- , able editor retaining consciousness al- j most to the end and conversing dur- t ing his last half hour with his wife, f son and daughter. ] Colonel Watterson came to Jackson- , ville several weeks ago in accordance f with his annual custom of spending j the winter in Florida, usually at Fort Myers. The immediate cause of his death, his physician said, was heart failure. 1 To Lower Freight Rates. ( Omaha, Neb.?The railroads of the , country will put into efTect on January ( 1, or as soon thereafter as possible, a ( voluntary 10 per cent freight rate re- , duction on cotton, butter, poultry and \ other commodities, as well as the reductions ordered by the interstate com- ] merce commission for western terri- , tory on grain products and hay, ac- t cording to a statement issued by F. W. i Robinson, freight traffic manager of < the Union Pacific system. ( Peonage Is Alarming. 1 Augusta, Ga?United States Com- 1 missioner C. J. Skinner, Jr., announc- 1 ed that peonage conditions in Rich- ' mond county and other counties in ' this federal district are most alarming * and that he will recommend a federal ' investigation. < Report Mrs. Ralzen Insane. ' New York.?A committee of four 1 alienists appointed by counsel for the ' defense diagnosed as insanity the 1 mental affliction of Mrs. Lillian S. ( Raizen for months before and at the time when she shot and instantly Kin- ; ed Dr. Abram Glickstein. ( Ship in Trouble. Baltimore. ? The steamer Cam- 1 bridge, bound from Baltimore to Clai- . borne with a large number of passen- , gers, was blown aground by a north- ; west gale off Wade's Point. Supreme Council to Meet. Ixmdon.?Another meeting of the al- ! Hod supreme council, this time at < Cannes, on the French riviera, is the ; outcome of the parleys between Prime Minister Lloyd George and Premier Briand of France. Island Threatened. Rouen. France.?The picturesque Island of Mont Saint Michel is threatened with destruction by landslides. Engineers have been rushed there to see what can be done to preserve the island. , Explosion Kills Three. Columbus, Ohio.?While the police reported 12 dead and 40 injured, a check of hospitals showed only three dead as a result or a easement gas explosion that partially wrecked Wright's women's furnishing store in Main street near Third. Sleep Sickness Cure. Liverpool. Eng.?Professor Newstead of Liverpool university says German scientists have discovered a Aew drug which has proved invaluable in the cure of sleeping sickness. Mary Todd Line .maoMBta -^mWmSe i - ry^ Lm(? > I ^ . <! ' '.-/ . * Tp' 3 1 r i t'1 * "3r :>; | Hi' Elf . ^ ' V < ?> ' ? ' zdc&* TLn /%!*! Ta/1/1 Lnmn nf -\7 ^1 Woct \ffl antil her marriage to Abraham Lincoln, 1 ness purposes. But n group of public-Sj use It as n museum for Lincoln relics o\v rait of Mary Todd Lincoln. Europe H ofWt Habitat 5,000 Years Ago Was in j Lithuania, Declares Profes- s< sor Bender of Princeton. jj ?f d HONEY BEE SEEN AS FACTOR J k v\ ndo-European Language Indicates An- t! cient Home in Common Word for 11 Insect?Traced Through Com- * parative Philology. . h Princeton.?Whore would your home 0 >e If you had lived 5,000 years ago? s< rhe search by ethnologists and other S( iclentlsts to find Just where the first j vhlte peoples lived, before splitting f lp Into what are modem nations. Is lescrlbed by Prof. Harold S. Bender ^ >f Princeton university, who declares hat our ancestors of the cave man period lived In what Is modern Lithuinla. e As a student of languages and pro- " 'essor of Indo-Germanlc philology at Princeton Professor Bender's invest!- n X? 1 1-J Lt SLa aw- tl ;nilOI!S uuve 1UU IIIIU uiii'it iu me vi pin of all white races, before the dawn 0 >f history. His conclusions, together t! vlth a description of the methods by 0 vhlch he came to them, are embodied s< n "The Aryan Question, Did the Lan- 0i tuages of Europe Come From Asia?" P i lecture published hy Princeton. ^ The Indo-European race, which flourshed almost 5,000 years ago, Is the founder of all the present peoples of P Europe, save the Hungarians, Greeks, 0 Romans, Anglo-Saxbns und other Ger- Ir nans, Celts, all these people are de- ^ icendants of the one-time race, which Professor Render believes lived in that c tectlon of Europe between the Baltic 11 ind Rlack seas, or modern Poland and x Lithuania. Comparison of Languages. j. Living before recorded history, in fj vhat Is often referred to as cave man (; Imps, this ancient people from whom p ire descended nil of the modern Eur- y, ipean races left us little with which j; ,ve might learn of their culture and hilly life. All that we have Is a tneth- p xl of comparative language study by n vhlch we find their own language, and tl lenee much about their clvillzn'*>n. tl Philologists have discovered that the p nnguages of n quarter of a billion j?eo- y, ile in Asia and most of the inhabi- |. ants of Europe, North and South e \merlca and other regions of the |, ?arth colonized by Europeans are fun- y lamentally alike. That Is, Latin. Ger- tl nan. Russian and Greek are at the s lottoni of same, having all descended p 'nun the same parent Iniuntage. ProIpssor Render says: "Language Is the a test evidence of community, of life n ind culture, and we can at least as- y mine that at some time and in some e nore or less definite territory there lwelt a neonle. or group of peoples racially pure or racially mixed, who 1 Ived to n 'nrge extent a common life, ' ind who spoke a tongue which was die common ancestor of the languages V low spoken by the majority of the :IvillzPd peoples of the earth. "With the beginnings of the science if comparative philology early in the Nineteenth century came the know!- g ?dge that Sanscrit was the oldest of tl the Indo-European languages?if not 1: the mother of them all, at least their G c t T ? i Town Elected Six Mayors, j s | Each Serving Two Months ji *u * Political leaders of Pressburg, | a city of 80,000, In Czechoslo- j| j. I vakia, found thut party feuds |[ tj j? would make it Impossible to 1; ( ! elect a mayor or burgomaster. Jj j > They got together and agreed ![ () !; the city sliall have six burgo- ![ c ]| masters, one to lie elected by i! n j[ cncii party, each mayor to hold <> !; oilice for two months, succeed- j! n ? Ing one another. All parties are j, | now satlsliecJ. | | 1 ENEMIES OF ENG Pacific Coast Seagulls Drive Them Away From Wharves and Docks. I " Seattle.?The Pacific const seagull , conducts tin eternal warfare against s the Knglish sparrow, and because of a it keeps wharves and docks free of s the noise and litter so predominant e around sparrows' households. Observers declare some older gulls g :oln Home May Becc -' 'T-T-r r &aa4fckaz&''' j "" ?< ?>^?'?'??'H'% '? '"III !" .? " ^., .r,j,,^.",X i I ; '< - LL ^ ^ *? In street, Lexington, Ky? where Mary s on the market for the first tline In y plrlted citizens of Lexington Is plnnnli net! in Lexington. The Illustration s , ??? [ome . I lite Race Ider sister. Philologists concluded lint the home of the Hindus must alii have been the home of the Indoluropeans, and this common home ley visualized on the banks of Inin's most sncred stream, the Ganges, he study of the Veda soon showed, owever, that the Vedlc people did not now the Ganges, but lived In north- < est India; so the primitive home of ie Indo-Europeans was moved once lore, this time Into the Iranian reIon east of the Caspian sea." Professor Bender goes on to show ' ow philolpgians and theologians met 1 n a common ground for different rea- 1 uns and decided that the location was 1 iuthwestern Asia. He presents the { rguments In support of this hypolesls and shows how most of them ave been disproved and presents the lethod whereby modern philologists ave arrived at this new conclusion. Honey Bee Is Factor. On account of the fact that almost very Indo-Europeun language shares lth Its cognates a common word for oney, or for an Intoxicating drink 1 lade from honey, It Is made clear that ' ie primitive home of the Indo-Eur-. 1 penns must have been a land where ie honey bee abounded. But not one f the Asiatic sites that have been 1 ?rIously considered by modern philol- i gists as the posalMe home of these ! eoples, falls within the bee belt. In lurope, on' the other hand, the bee t Indigenous almost everywhere. I By continuing this process of com- ' aratlve philology and by the processes I f elimination the conclusion above lentloned Is reached. "We have left, nally," says Professor Bender, "the rent plain of central and southeastrn Europe, which embraces roughly ie present Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine nd Russia south and west of the Vola. Almost every condition Is satl3- i ed by the conception of the Indoluropeans as Inhabiting some part of lis plain as late as 3,000 or 2,500 B. ( Geographically this central Euroean plain lies in the very heart of tido-European territory as we now IJIMV 11. In support of lils theory Professor lender states in the closing paragraph f Jiis lecture: "Nor can we ignore tie notable fact that right here we And lie Lithuanian, which lias preserved ito modern living speech more of the udo-Kuropenn past than any other uiguage'on earth. Not a scintilla of vldence, historic or linguistic, has een produced to indicate that the Jthuanians have ever stirred from lieir present dwelling place since they efiarated from the otiier Indo-Euroenn speaking peoples. "Indeed, it has been made very probble on tiie grounds of linguistics, ntural science and history that the .itliunninn stock lias dwelt in Its presnt location for at least 5,000 years, J LOVE OF MOTHEI l/oman Assumes Blame for Son's Shortcomings to Save Him From Sixty-Day Sentence. Detroit, Mich.?A mother agreed to j 0 on a year's probation and to suffer lie penalty to report personally regu- , trly thut her son might not serve a j 0-day sentence in the Detroit house of orrection. She is Mrs. Charles H. Slailng, wife f a prominent Flint (Mich.) banker, he was given the "sentence" when he appeared before Judge' John Faust 1 Recorder's court, to usk leniency for : er son, Charles Reynolds, twenty-six. Reynolds was about to be semenvew or the third time in two years for irceny. His latest offense wus tiie i heft of women's silk hose from a owntown store. He was found guilty, ut sentence was deferred until the ourt could confirm reports that Iteyolds was a drug addict. Mrs. Slating, accompanied by Keyolds' stepfather, tearfully took the lame for Reynolds and volunteered ' he penalty. "I spoiled him as a child and after LISH SPARROWS I c* as sentinels and whet* a sparrow lights on a wharf roof several Ira lediately chase it away. i , On one occasion recently a lone I , parrmv flew seaward followed by half, , dozen gulls, who kept the tiny bird j o hotly pursued it fell into the water < xhausted. I Wharf operators are grateful to the tills for this bit of police work, as I < jme a Museum Todd lived from her early childhood ears, and the site Is sought for buslig to>purchase the old structure and ihows the Todd home and an old pori ? f * Given 24 Hours to \ Meditate and Pray 5 I Syracuse, N. Y.~Two girls, * arrested for shop-lifting, were * sentenced to "24 hours of raedl- t tation and prayer" by Police J Court Justice Shove. 4 "Spend 24 hours In medlta- * tlon and prayer," said the Judge. * "Search your conscience and t bare your faults before your * eyes. Then let me know you t are sorry?not that you were J caught, but because you stole." * 4 which would approximate the duration of the Indo-European peHod, so far as It Is known. There if probably no other part of Indo-European territory for which there Is so much evidence against autochthonous, non-Indo-European predecessors." POLICE DOG IS SHIP'S HERO Saves Little Girl From Death In Sea During Violent Storm on the Atlantic. New York.?Thyras, a shaggy police dog from Poland, Is a hero, acclaimed > by the sixteen passengers of the steamship Gdansk, which docked in Brooklyn recently after buffeting Its way across the Atlantic through storma tiiat more tnan once rnreateneu 10 carry youthful members of the ship's company over the rail and Into the sea. Capt. A. H. Peterson, who said lr was the roughest voyage of his lifetime as a skipper, told the story of , Thyras' exploit in saving Zeata Zaborowski, youngest daughter of a family of live children on their way from Danzig to join relutlves In the United M States. "Zeata dropped her doll over the rail and it caught on a nail on the side of the ship," he said. ,"A heavy sea was running, but Zeaca, who is seven years old, started to climb after the doll. Just as she was going over the side up dashed Thyras, who seized her dress and hung on. The girl screamed and the purser ran up and dragged ( , ? them both to safety. After that Thyras ' and his two companions, Tolf and Nellie, were masters at arms and practically took care of the children. i Mad Bull Has Fit Poplar Bluffs, Mo.?William Daniels admits thut he is as much opposed to Hereford bulls as Ireland Is to John- ' ny's "bull." And William Is !n favor of "fits." Because an angered Hereford threw a fit Daniel's two small sons ure alive. The two boys, ten and twelve, were attacked by an Irate bull. With the youths lying on the ground, the Infuriated animal was preparing to gore them to death when he suddenly was seized with a fit. Frothing at the mouth the bull was slain by a veterinary surgeon, who declared the animal had hydrophobia. I STAYS JUSTICE he had grown up," she told the court. "I, not he. am to hlame. I should pay 4 the penalty. Let him go home with nie and I'll keep him there, try to cure him, and report regularly in his stead. If I fall to do so you can give me the sentence you were about to impose on him." Judge Faust accepted the offer. Kills Big Bear. f Sr.rnnnc Lake, N. Y.?Charles Rivers of Ulen Valley, while deer hunting in the Black Brook section, had a thrilling experience when he killed the ? largest bear on record In that section of the Adirondacks since the days of the pioneers. When creeping along a low ledge In the wilderness, the hunter suddenly came upon the bear. He did not seriously Injure the beast with a hasty shot and was Instantly charged by it. In attempting to get a better Shooting position, the hunter fell from the ledge and dropped his rifle. The bear scrambled down the ledge and was almost upon his foe, when Rivers recovered his rifle. Kngllsh sparrows once inhabiting the rafters and overheud work Inside the jocks would produce an amazing amount of litter to fall Into freight and express shipments. A large amount i>f grain Is wasted every day 011 docks which would attract and feed myriad* of sparrows but for the watchful eyt of the seagulls. It Is believed the gulls show the an- * tngonlstlc spirit toward the smnllei birds because they fear competition % In the salvaging from the sea of tbeU dally food.