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The Protection of Birds. People have erroneous views as to the value of birds. Some women think that their wings and feathers alone have any value for them. The hunter thinks that all eatable birds are game for him. The average farmer looks on every bird that pulls up a hill of corn or pecks into a roasting ear as his enemy. These views are all wrong. The bird is the best friend of the farmer. Prof. Law rence Bruner, of Nebraska Uni versity, gives the following infor mation about birds: Quoting from a paper by Pro fessor S. A. Forbes, who has done much in the line of bird study in their direct relations to man, we have the following: "Excluding the inhabitants of the great seas, birds are the most abundant of the veltabrata, occupying in this great sub-kingdom the same prominent position that insects do among invertebrate animals." This position of the two groups in their respective divisions of the animal life of the globe can not be due simply to chance. There must be some connection between them. What is it? It is needless here for me to state that the insect life about us is untmerous and varied. .We all know this to be true. N early, if not nine-tenths, of all animal forms belong here, while the indi xiduals of many kinds are incal culable. We know also that their powers of reproduction are simply wonderful, being limite: only by the amount of food available, etc. Now, the disproportionate num ber of birds on the other hand, with their "universal distribution, the remarkable locomotive power which enables them readily to escape unfavorable conditions, and their higher rate of life, re - quiring for their maintenance an amount of food relatively enor mous," gives to them a signifi cance which few seem ever to have realized. Briefly told, the economic rela tion of birds to man, lies in the services which they render in checking the undue increase of insects, in destroyipg the seeds of noxious weeds, tb devouring of small rodents, and by acting as scavengers on land and water. Those who have studied the ab'eet carefully have estimated tha loss of nearly $400,000, ages in the United States and Canada. This does not include the damage done to ornamental shrubbery, shade, and forest trees, nor to the grasses growing on our prairies. "But if insects are the natural enemies to vegetation. birds are the natural enemies of insects." "In the air swallows and swifts are coursing rapidly to and fro, ever in pursuit of the insects which constitute their sole food. When they retire the nighthawks and whip-poor-wills will take up the chase, catching moths and other nocturnal insects which would escape day-flying birds. Fly-catchers lie in wait, darting from ambush at passing prey, and with a suggestive click of the bill return to their post. The warb lers, light, active creatures, flit about the terminal foliage, and with almost the skill of a hum ming-bird, pick insects from the leaf or blossoms. The vireos patiently explore the underside of leaves and odd nooks and cor mers to see that no skulker es capes. The woodpeeker 4, nut hatches and creepers attend to the trunks and limbs, examining carefully each inch of bark for insects' eggs anud laruae, or exca vating for the ants and borers they hoar within. On the grcund1 the hunt is cont ni ied by the thrushes, sparrows and other birds that feed upon the innunm erable forms of terrestial irse'ts. Few places in wthich iusr cts exst are neglected; even son~e species which pass their earlier stages or entire lives in the water, are preyc'l upon by aquatic birds." In nearly every case whetre the food habits of our birds ha.tve been carefully studied, do we find that the good done faor ex ceeds the possible harm that might be inflicted by our birds. Allowing twenty-five inseets per day as an average diet for eachi indlividual bird, and estimating that we have about one and one half birds per acre, or in round numbers, 75,000Q000 birds in Ne braska, there would be required 1,875,000,000 insects for each day's rations. Again estimating the number of insects required to fill a b~ushel at 120,000, it would take 15,625 bushels of insects to feed our birds for a single day, or 937,500 bushels for 60 days or 2,343,750 \, e stimates are very low when we take into consideration the num bers of insects that various of our birds have been known to destroy in a single day. For instance, the stomachs of four chicadees contained 1,028 eggs of canker worms. Four others contained! about 600 eggs and 105 mature femgles of the same insect. The stomach of a single quail con tained 101 potato beetles; and that of another upwards of 500 chinch bugs. A yellow billed cuckoo shot at 6 o'clock in the morning contained forty-three tent caterpillars. A robin had eaten 175 larve of Bibio, which feed on the roots of grasses, etc. Birds like all other animals feed upon that food which is most readily obtained, hence the insectivorous kinds destroy those insects which are "most numerous -the injurious species. Estimating that there is a sin gle grasshopper, katydid or cricket to each square yard of surface, it would require at least 650,000 bushels of those insects to cover the State. Not taking into acconnt any of the myriads of other insect forms nor the rapid rate of reproduction which is going on among them, these alone would be nearly one-third enough insect food for our birds during the year. This being true it is plain that at least twice as many birds could find the proper insect food in our State each year. A perusal of the various works that have been written on the economic relations of birds to man will support the statement that, if we were deprived of the services of birds, the earth would soon become uninhabitable. In addition to the actual good that birds do as recorded above in the destruction of noxious in sects, many of them are engaged for at least half of the year in hunting out and devouring the seeds of various weeds and other, to us, useless plants. Such is the mission of the various spar rows, snowbirds, finches and long-spurs which often occupy our fields in flocks of thousanas during the winter months. If, after ascertaining such truths as the above regarding birds, we continue to slaughter them, it is not due to thought lessness o our st. We do it EIE~fand malic1 two. It is the duty of teacher and parent alike to teach him better, to show him how wrong it is to destroy life uselessly. It is especially their duty to prevent the destruction of birds. If each schoolboy in the State of Ne braska were to rob a nest of say five birds eggs, what would be the result? Yet the making of bird egg collections is getting to be such a "fad" that almost every boy enters into it more or less zealously at some time or other. Some single collectors in a single season take 500 or more eggs. This should be stopped. We can study birds and their nests with out 'destroying either. A live bird is more interesting than a dead one. An egg left in a nest where it will in due time become a live creature is of more interest than an empty egg shell. We as citizens of the United States, pride ourselves on being highly civilized and humane. We are in some directions, in others not. We also claim to be in tensely practical and business like i everything. Are we? Prof. Lawrence Bruner, in Ne braska tUniversity Bulletin. It G$irdles the Globe Thamie of 13 ick e''e Artaica Salo., a'ei th est in' the world, extends round the ear bi. I.'s the os e perfect healer of Cu e, Cornte, 1urne, Bruises, Snres, S ali, Bo i-,; U ce, , re on., Achus, ' i andl all Skint Itap jonse. Oily :tall-b'e Pile cu.. %- a box a Mc Me- er Go's. An Argument. l~Em -dy mst see a large ad ver* , iewt, anid everybody [may *e . i . ci, o e. I heaiity in advertising, as well I s in v other part of the busincss, rad io~ s the chances. The domg of ar tbing as it should 1e do0nc nmy IIe t result in profit, but if the right way of doing something doesu't pay, the wrong wy of doing it cannot pay, and if the poorer way pays something the better waty must pay better, economize if you must, but re member that you had better economize on your advertising last, for the people may not know you are economizing when you ut here and there inside of your bsiness, but the world knows you are not doing well when you cut in the size of youir advertis THE PROFESSOR'S PRAYER. Some Terrible Evils From Which He Woald Have Deliverance. "The Day Book-of John Stuart Blackie," consisting of selections fr(>m the manuscript of the fear lessold professor, has just been published in London. The book starts off with the old professor's "Litania Nigelli," from which come the following typical clau ses: From the presumption of or thodox theology to define God in scholastic terms, from the de grading superstition that wor ships God with blind and the negative sense, Good Lord, deliver me. From beggars for my clients, from fools for my worshipers and from untidy women for my ser vants, Good Lord, deliver me. From the impertinence of youthful critics, from the un reasoned giggle of silly young ladies, Good Lord deliver me. From the barren subtlety of lawyers, from the slippery shifti ness of politicians and from the blind restlessness or calculated r^Ifishness of commercial specu lators, Good Lord, deliver me. From a man that simpers sweetly, from a woman that laughs loudly, and from a young woman ambitious to play the young man, Good Lord, deliver me. From a scholar who smells of books, from a sportsman who smells of horses and a mother who smells of babies, Good Lord, deliver me. . From genius without sense, from talent without love and from creeds without humanity, Good Lord, deliver me. From a spinner of fine phrases, a spinner of senseless rhyme and a woman who paints, Good Lord, deliver me. From the three infallibles, the Roman Pope, the editor of a party newspaper and a woman when she is wrong, Good Lord, deliver me." For Over Fifty Yearm. MRS. WINSLOW's SOOTHING SYRUP hae been nsed for over fifty years by milliona of mothers for their ' while teething, with perfec . It soothes the child, soten ' alays all paingn'tres wn e It~ is ebes r yforiarrhoeaa. every part of the world. Twentv.five cents a bottle. Be sur& and ask for "Mrs. Winslow'" Soothb.g Syrnn," and take no other kind. 1-1-17 Edison's Latest Triumph. After several years of hard labor and research Thomas Edi son is heard from again and an other most important invention as well as a discovery of great in terest to the world is announced. This latest invention, which prom ises to be as marked a revolu tionizer of traction as the electric light was in its field, is a storage battery. This new storage battery prchn ises to displace trolley wires, costly subways, steam auto-wag ons, noisy gas engines and wan dering earth currents which do so much damage to water-pipes and other metal conduits. It prom ises in place of all these nuisances, electrically driven cabs, busses, street cars, carriages, trucks and wagons of every kind. The storage battery is not new. It was originally invented by Planti in 1860. But the new Edison storage battery is as dif ferent from this original one of heavy lead and cumbersome coils as the modern magazine rifle dif fers from the fighting machines of the Greeks and Rtomans. Edison is a quiet, modest man and a hard worker. His inventions are not announced until they are per fected. There is nothing of the Nikola Tesla about him. When he invents something it is practicable and its benefits to mankind can be promptly esti mated and appreciated. For sev erl1 years in the quiet of his shop at Llewellen Park, out in East Orange, New Jersey, he has been laboring on this storage battery problem. What was needed was a battery which would be inex pensive, or light weight, capable of withstanding careless~ treat ment, and one with large storage capacity per unit of mass.. The new battery is said to com bine all of these advantages. It weighs only fifty-three pounds per horse power, whereas the old style battery weighed from 124 to18? pounds. The Edison bat-. tery gives its terminals sufficient energy to lift its own weight to a vertical distance of seven miles as against a power in the old, lead-cell battery of raising its' miles. This will givc the lay man unversed in electrical terms an idea of the value of the Edi son batter.-Atlanta News. Sheep in South Carolina. A correspondent in South Caro lina, who has a farm tributary to the Southern Railway, writes the Southern Farm Magazine: "I have been raising sheep here for the past nineteen years, anId am very much pleased with my suc cess in the business. The advan tages here are as follows: First our climate usually is wild in winter and not too hot in summer for the welfare of the sheop; second, our lands are undulatin. enough for good drainage, anl furnish quite a variety of nutri tions grasses and weeds, of which tho sheep are very fond; as they relish a change of food; and last, but not least, we have the Japan clover (botanical name, Lespe deza striata) in the greatest abun dance. The above named clover serves a two fold purpose, being the best grazing food for sheep, as it never gets to be too coaise, and the analysis of it is higher than that of any other clover. We do not have to sow it. I never knew any one to sow it in this country. It firsc made its appearance in the South in 1860, and since then it has become indi gonons to the soil. It is a won derful renovator of land that has become exhalsted by injudicious treatment. I consider this sec tion of country admirably adapted to sheep-raising. We are not troubled with severe changes in the weather, such as blizzards and blinding snowstorms, as they have in some other States. I have never vet had a sheep killed or heard of my neighbors' sheep be ing killed by dogs. The only reason that I know of why sheep raising is not more generally engaged in is that the farmersare so devoted to raising cotton that they cannot spare enough land for a pasture. Strikes at Rich ]ind "I wao troubled f.or several Teprs with cronie ind;ceation anid nervons debiiiv." wri:ef F. J. Gre m, of L tn canter.'N. 1, -"remdrd hipei n until ~r:' E ctric Bittrlo , . di mue more good btn all the medicines I ever u e. They have also kept my wife in excellent teilth for ears. She says Efectric B tiers are for weak, inn down womcn. No other medicine can take ita place in nnr fait." Try them,. O).lv'50-. Sitis fac'ion guiaranteced nly McMauter Co. The Judge's Rehearsal. When Judge Gage had put the finishing touches on his speech for the school closing, and had god reason to be satisfied with the production, his son George begged to hear it, and his father finally consented to give him a private rehearsal in the library. Before it had gone very far, how ever, George, Jr., interrupted the reading with the remark, "That will do; I don't want to hear any more; I think it's pretty poor." Chester Lantern. "EAG LE REMEDIES" The Malaria and Fever Remedy Cures All Kinds of Fevers. ARE OFGREAT VALUE IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD. MALABIA 25 CTS. CoLD 25 CTS, CONSTIPATION 10 CTS. Enclose price to Win. Mlayerhofer. 3700 Third Ave,, Newv York. Fill the bottles with H IRES. Drink itTnou- Every glass ful contributes to good health. Purifles the blood, clears the complexion, mnakes rosy cheeks. Make it at homc. Charles write for Malvern, ag off&. Pa. Root beer - i~gE ANAGE'. ENI i' 'FiTiE Equi'ehie Life~ Assui'ance S ciety of tt'. Uijted States dehire~s to announce the' siprointmentL of MJr. .J. M. E i 'tt aq - '.mtant Agemnt for Winosboro and -THE( TONIC U If you have sour stomach, indige breath, dizziness, inactive liver, hea of appetite, insomnia, lack of energ or any symptoms and disorders whic impaired digestive system, Laak It will clean out the bowels, stimt the mucous membranes of the stoi ",on your feet" again. Your appetil larly, your liver and kidneys cease t freshen and you will feel the old tim Mothers seeking tho proper medicin< diarrhea, collo and similar troubles, will I It keeps their bowels regular without pa naturo, aids digestion, relieves restlessne causes refreshing,restful sleep and makes &ke U and ask for u. For Sale by A L L Laxakola is not only the most efficient of fam bines two medicines. viz: laxative and tonic, and sample to THI LAXAKOLA CO., 32 Nassau S We will express to any address on receipt o e Family size bottle of Laxakola, sufficient to I SOUTHE'RN RAILWAY. 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Pullhpan drawing :om sleepiog cars beliw'e Por?1'amlp, Ja'ek nyIfl yavnaeih. Wash1 jon asdVew Yorje. PMl -sie ia:-onai l aW'c Caa~rot apd Reond. l'Jining cars btween Charlott3 sad vannah. Nos. '> aid .A-U. S. Fast Mail. Throurh ullan dr:,wvnr-room buffe: s:eepimg cars be ween Ja.leu)ville and New York and Pull man s.egning cars bet veen Augusta and Chat ltte. Dining cars serve all meals enroute. Pallmn gieeping caits between Jacksonvile anColuibia. nroute daily between Jackson 1le anid Cincinnati, via Ashe'ville. FRANK S. GA NON, S- 2. U ARDWICK, Third V-P. & Gen. Mgr., Gen. Pas. Agt., ahington, D' C. Washinigten, D. C. W. H. TA LOE, P. W. HUN T, Ls't Gen. Pass.. Ag't., Dlv. Pass. Ag's., Atlanta, Ga. Charleston, S. 0 W. A. WV. MRICAN TIlTTING REGISTER No. 25954 SIRED) BY RE!) WILKiE2 DA M, LETSY BAKEI. IBetsv IB Jer wva- sired h: D'clator. ietaor is lin Cir of .Ty1-Eve-8- e, 210; Nancy IThok-, 2 01: Director. 27; and t- c p' erler- Dirt cetam, 2.04. tother linbhsrd, the dami of Betb B.tker, i, b: Toronato, and i, the moth t- of great' t' ,jm. Te 'ervi e of this S allion is offered or fl('ee-i hilar'; colt insumred. When he is wantied byv si veral par ies rsidin'g in a ntiobbor hood be 31: e sent to th--r. A ddress, .JOHN G;. MOB3LEY, 12 Gm Winneboro. S. C. iREAT ~XATIV~ stion, biliousness, constipation, bad rtburn, kidney troubles, backache, los y, bad blood, blotched or muddy skin, :h tell the story of bad bowels and aa o1a Wil Cure You. - Llate the liver and kidneys, strengthen nach, purify your blood and put you :e will return, your bowels move regu. o trouble you, your skin will clear and e energy and buoyancy. to give their littlo ones for 6onstipation, Ind Laxakola an Ideal medicine for children. n or griping, acts as a general tonic, assists eas, clears the coated tongue, reduces fever, them well,happy and hearty. Mr Oildre DRUGGISTS. y remedies, but the most economical, becase It cin c25c. or 50. At druggists. Send for free Yand mention the name of your stmso otnote, &Hall 'r. SUMMONS. STATE OF 1OUTH CAROLTNA, COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Robert C. Gooding, as Trnaiee of Wil liam I Doty and Oavid V. Walker, lately <ioing bn inbea ndrr the Arm ra'ne of W. F. Poti & Co., Plain tity, against It. If. .vinii ga, as Excentor of the es:ktv. (it George Davip, deceased, ald Eliz-t .T:ck1on, Mmia stewart, lare:i F. akln, L-a Franklin, Gracy Fat.k!in, El n - Franklin, Deniis F a.k in, Tony Frai klin. George .-tcwort, Fer-na Stewart, Samuel S.ewart, Dudley Stewart, and .Jo : 1i Ste% art, Liefendants. Summons. Tor- Relief. Complaint, not Served. To the Pe'endanti fl, P 'Tp. . - , n, Stewart, armnet- a - Stewart, anid Joseph Stewart: Y OU are thereby summoned and tp Lquired to answer the conp'alut in ti ).iEnn, which is filed in the office of the Cleik of tbe Conrt of Common Pleas, for the'said County, ad to myie a copy of -your answer to the sa-id com liaint on the enbseritb er at his iffice, No. 7 Law Range, W.insboro, .siutnl ca: ohni, wathim went~ ( da-s ?fter the service hereer, ex3 naise ~>t the day e.t inch set:eie; an I if 'on fauit :o asuer the complains within'the timne aforesaid, the plaint'f ini this ac:jEIn will aupply to the I ONrt for the r lic-f dt mnanded in~ the cow plain'. D~jted 20th Ma , 1901. J. w. IIANA HAN, Attorne) ter Plainttiff. 4 21-lan 6 w furniture. SE still have a good srock on hand -the laest designis, best workman ahp. P.ices have adva ced, but we will give yon the b tir of the old prces !Or a shori si'sw.. FURINI ' URE NKATrLY li-Pilli.l> AND) UP' IIOLS tElRNG IxoNE. 5ewing fIIachines. We hver ii e Tw'nticth Gent nrr, the htet I ..nunil"-; cape I Ii c'iitax and car. i ir e o'd med 1 -4' :he Pariu Ext o -itw'. amtd o her expoairian-. Call -'n tme nedt I will telil lon how to SaVe n.o wy inii U c'a-iing hi& h y atd' :na cii es' and e~so giv v. u d.-t -i d dle acil t 01ns < 1 th. m. lRenn. tmaer t. mne dealr s are tice be.-. %' hen. -on bend1 st-On' to a di-t at ti y in a' ,wer t set a big bargain probablv yr-n will et lift. [Doi't be taken' in by i harp . r ; buy lrm rhase who have a repu tlation to Pisuti. MA. ltlNE4 REPAIRlED AT MODE RA'l E PRIlCE. :: stoves. :: IAir-Tieht Heat- rs, a'so Box and Coal St< ves a.t anrd l.elow clat, rather than carry ver usnt atnotber SE aaEno. 3.i8 S'OVE. REPAIRED AND .T.a.7r0\ E MADE AS GOOD I AS NEW. - The Undertaker's Denartn-etat is coplete. Al' c11ls promptly attend ed to 3.T. R. W. Ph ill ips. S. C. McDOWELL, --AG ENT FO - e Farmers' Mitmal Fire Ilsllartc ASSOCl a tioll 01 falrilli 111 oitY. C., Solitirs your insurancee on your coun try property. JNO. J. NEIL, Secretary. T. L. JO'lNSTON, Pz esiden'.