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THE RAIN CROW. Some Interesting Facts About American Cuckoo. ? """" " A door in the Swiss clock swings open with a click, a little wooden bird that would pass just as easily for a bald eagle as a cuckoo, pops out, and repeats the same sad sound, eight times, sound by the way, very mucl likft that made by suddenly jerking a finger out of the neck of a bottle. It is now eight o'clock?for the cuckoo has said so, and the sleepy eyed children trail off to bed. To childish eyes and childish ears, this is all very wonderful and mysterious?this little wooden bird that lives in a clock, that comes out, ail by itself and every1 time the short hand crawls around to 12, makes its little stiff bow, and calls out the hour. So, from our ' earliest recollection, we have assoWv : ciated the cuckoo with carved wooden clocks, and bed time, and seldom think of him as a very slender, longtailed, graceful and exceedingly intelligent bird. One reason we know him so slightly is that he is not often spoken of as a cuckoo as we have christened him the raincrow. But he is a real, genuine cuckoo, no matter by what name he is known. He is about twrelve inches long, with one of these willowy figures now considered so stylish. His colors are grayish "* J TOiw/vr. ond f o ll urown aim uiacA, wmgo auu u?u, ?uu white underneath. His bill is rather long and slightly curved. The tail is quite long and slim. Altogether his appearance is rather more gentle than beautiful. So stealthy and quiet \ . in all his movements but few people ever see him. He might examine every leaf in the tree, under which you are sitting and you be none the wiser, unless he happened to drop some Casual remark in the cuckoo language which would certainly cause you to sit up and take notice. That voice of his has no duplicate in nature?it stands unique and alone, I in a class to itself. How so gentle' jkv an appearing bird can utter sounds! P so entirely at variance with w- hat one J iV;. 5 would naturally expect from him, is; % something to wonder about. His vo-j cabulary is limited to the one single syllable kuk?wrhich he usually repeats several times in rapid succesS:: sion, as if anxious to get as many of j them out of his system as possible. . When a farmer hears his harsh, croaking kuk, kuk, kuk, he is apt to IP? remark: "Hear that raincrpw? Go-1 J- ing to have falling weatner Derore rlong." W? don't know how it happened that the mantle of a prophet j should have fallen across his slender v . shoulders unless it was the fact ins damp, murky weather the insects on1 which he feeds may be more active! and restless. He is a most voracious j feeder, and his waking hours are all taken up in continuous hunt for food. He goes slipping and gliding silent-' fr- ' ly among the leaves, carefully ex-! ?- amining each one for tent caterpil-' lars and the little green measuring' worms, these two being the leading dishes on his bill of fare. He ranks . very near head among the valuable1 insect destroyers of our birds, for he1 not only devours enormous numbers,' but when his appetite is satisfied and i ' * he can eat no more, he goes right on ! killing every single caterpillar orj worm he finds. It has been found by j careful observation and by dissectionj ^ that a cuckoo consumes daily from 50 j pC. ; to 400 caterpillars, and worms. Sp,! vmi eckCk ie r?na wh/VSO friATlHshin i ^ VU 0VV/| UV lo vuv f? A4VW A*4VM?.v ? r 3s worth cultivating. | Now when it comes to his home life it really would be charitable iust j to skip over that or say nothing, for we fear very little that is good can he said of it. As a family somebody and as a father, he is a sad failure. He takes the whole business too lightly, and home ties with him are fragile and easily snapped. It is said that he changes his mate every spring. He should be an accomplished lover and husband if there is anything in such practice, but he is not. The nest his mate builds is just the barest kind of an excuse. It is nothing but a loose bundle of sticks, pitched together in a haphazard fashion, without the slightest re fcCv ^ : gard for the rules of bird architecture. When finished or rather when the builder quits, it is but a slipshod, halfway, ramshackle platform, no provision being made for keeping the eggs from rolling out. In their nesting habits they are irregular and eccentric in the extreme. The female often lays the second egg when the first is about ready to hatch, and nests have been found containing two " . or three half fledged youngsters, scrambling over one or more newly laid greenish eggs. The mother seems to know no rules for household affairs and runs the home minus method or established custom. Such carryings on around the house are enough to drive the distracted father away and cause him to lose any interest he at one time might have had in the raising of a family. But, with all their slack ideas about nest building and family affairs, they have at least the decency to make a bluff at caring for their own offspring, wrhile their European cousins, across the water, sneakingly deposit their eggs in the p - - v EX-HUSBAXD HEIi HOST. j Singer Honor Guest at Party Given F by Man She Divorced. | J. Franklin Aldrich, former representative from Illinois, gave a tea and ol musical in honor of Mme. Mariska v< Aldrich, prima donna of the Metro- M politan opera, who divorced him two g: months ago. Their two children and se forty of their friends made merry as ai if nothing to speak of had happened ol in the Aldrich menage. ir The walls of the sumptuous rooms a: of the former representative, former ai husband, in Sonoma apartments, at la 1,730 Broadway, were almost com- Si pletely covered with photographs of w the opera singer. tl Mr. Aldrich, white-haired ana ais- w tinguished of appearance, told of his ei little "party." re "There is nothing unusual about g< it," he said. "Mme. Aldrich! It re may be very modern, but we see no reason why we should not remain the ai best of friends. We have often had at dinner together since the divorce." at Mme. Aldrich greeted her former g] husband kindly and without the least tt restraint. From 4 o'clock until 7 the F affair continued without a single la hitch. Mme. Aldrich sang. fr "Reconciliation?" said Mr. Aldrich. la "Thet idea has not entered the mind u] of either of us."?Newr York dispatch cc to Philadelphia Ledger. n< Guncotton's Substitute. A Alas for the dream of 20 cent cot- re ton that cannot be delivered! 211 German science has developed a substitute for cotton in making gun- 1S w] powder, is the information that eg comes from Bremen. The president of the Bremen Chamber of Commerce is quoted as making the following . x_ _ ^ ac siaiement 10 a cuuveuiiuu ui mcichants: S*( "Thanks to German science and 1 "L industry, we have succeeded in winning from the immeasurable supply 0E of German forests a cellular material a ha which is cheaper and better material for powder making than cotton. in Even after the war German ammunition factories will not buy another bale of cotton from America. 1 "The second important ingredient ?salt peter?now is manufactured aT1 exclusively in Germany from the air. Our factories already are so advanced that in the spring they will be able to cover the entire requirements for nitrogen and if the war lasts longer they will even be able to export this ^ product." Whatever disadvantage the discovery of a substitute for cotton in making gunpowder may work for the cotton farmer, the accompanying information that the manufacture of salt op peter from the air is an accomplish- ^ ed fact 6hould far more than offset ' it. The suggestion recently made in connection with the appropriation to cq be asked of congress for the improve- ^ ments of music shoals that the powor er produced could be profitably em- ^ i n nvlr>o rtlintr n i trnP'on frnm piu/ CU 111 CAUaViblug uiv* VQVU *. W? the air for the manufacture of abun?in dant and cheap fertilizers would thus gh seem to be so Utopian and fanciful as some have thought. trc If one-half of the marvels of , fn science reported to ha,ve been wrested from nature by necessity, the ^ mother of invention, since the Euro?ID pean war began should prove to be reliable, the additional resources for sustaining life that have been discovered and developed will operate in the far future to preserve incom- tic parably more lives than the war has ^a destroyed and it is destined to de- iai stroy. a 1 We cannot feel the compensation in this for the carnage of blood and slaughter that is now being witnessed, but it goes to exemplify the great yo truth that? W( "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform." re ?Knoxville Sentinel. - "t Help. th Miss Casey?And when we are married, papa, we are going to build m, a bungalow. We are saving for it now. Casey?And Oi'll help ye, Mary. Shure, Oi'll begin savin' the bungs now, though 'twill take a long time ja to save enough to be av iny use. nest of other birds, leaving their ba- ^ bies to be brought up by perfect strangers, and shifting all care and responsibility to the shoulders of birds who doubtless have troubles enough of their own. In England m the cuckoo prefers the nest of the F: hedge sparrow, when looking for a m place to deposit her egg. The young te cuckoo being much larger than its fr step-brothers, the baby sparrows, de- tc liberately "with malice afore- w thought," shoulders them out of the hj nest, to perish on the ground, while tt he gets all the food that the credu- ni lous little sparrow stepmother can w find. So, with all the shortcomings v< that can be laid up against our Amer- si ican cuckoo, the raincrow, he has te * - i* j ^ , -i much more to oe proua 01 anu a u great deal less to be ashamed of than n< his kinsfolk in the old world. If it cl just wasn't for his voice!?C. A. D., tl in Greenville News. oi I LAYMEN OF STATE ADJOURN. J] inal Sessions of Convention Well Attended. Columbia, Feb. 9.?The final day I the South Carolina Laymen's con- ? sntion of the National Missionary ^ ovement was a fitting climax to the t< reat gathering which has been in ti ission in Columbia since Sunday, n [id which has drawn fresh streams " f enthusiasm from the fountains of b Lspiration that have been developed 3 a result of this great comingling s< [id cooperation on the part of the Lvmen of all the Protestants of b outh Carolina. The call to service j e: hich is manifesting on the part of ! n i cj le laymen of all the denominations as emphasized today by the speak- n :s and great good is predicted as a i b isult of this four days' mingjing to- j a 3ther in the great common cause of i ^gaining the world. t< The great audience which packed N id jammed the spacious auditorium ^ : the Jefferson hotel last night and _ ?ain twice today illustrated the ripping power that the cause has on ie laymen throughout the State, armers from Pickens mingled with wyers from Horry, and bankers om Charleston sat side by side with ,boring men from Greenville, all aited and all enthused with the >mmon purpose which knows no deiminational bonds and which calls , ir the best that is every man. 11 professions and all trades are . presented in the great gathering of en from the mountains to the sea F id every county in South Carolina represented in the great audience hich has been in Columbia for the _ ssions of the convention. Men from Borgia and from North Carolina \ O] sre numbered among the laymen bi id the results of the different ses3ns are greater than one can tell. One feature of the convention is fa e absence of the women. At no rjj ie time have there been as many as dozen women in the convention ill. It has been distinctly a gatherg of men, a fact which one of the iders pointed out this morning. The registrations for the conven3n at 10:30 o'clock this morning hre 1,710 laymen, 376 ministers id 150 students. More registertoday and thus over 2,300 men om all parts of the State partici.Ted in the great gathering. HEX CRIPPLES TELEPHONE. ying to Do Tight-Rope Act, She Causes "Cut-Outs." ^ Telephone service between Clifford, irtholomew county, and Flatrock, ^ Lelby county, was interrupted. The j erator in the Clifford exchange was j w ping to talk to the operator in the 1 pi atrock exchange, but every few j >rds there was a "cut out," and the1 j, nversation was *lost. The connec- j _ >n at either end of the line was in I der. Finally a telephone employee the Clifford exchange was sent to int the trouble. He investigated, < d shortly the operator heard him out, "Shoo! Shoo!" Then the line jared and there was no further ? )uble. An old white hen had flown II )m a tree to the telephone wire and is trying to balance herself there.? lumbus, Ind., dispatch to Indianolis Star. j No Respect for a Lawyer. ^ I An English journal tells of an ac-i in brought against a farmer for | ving called another a "rascally _ vyer." An old husbandman, being I witness, was asked if he heard the I fendant call the plaintiff a lawyer, i I "I did," was the reply. j r> "Pray," said the judge, "what is ur opinion of the import of the; >rd?" j "There can be no doubt of that," plied the fellow. "Why, good man," said the judge, I! here is no dishonor in the name, is ere?" _ "I know nothing about that," angered he, "but this I know?if a an called me a lawyer I'd knock m down." "Why, sir," said the judge, pointg to one of the counsel, "that gen-'G< 3man is a lawyer, and I, too, am a ? wyer." "No, no," replied the fellow; "no, y Lord. You are a judge, I know, it I'm sure you are no lawyer." Matter-of-Fact WaA. Ware enmptimes conclude in al- ? ost a matter-of-fact way, as did the J ranco-German war of 1870-71. Bisark, who had just concluded the :rms of peace with France, told his lends at supper that "at 12 o'clock e might our troops and the French ill exchange their last shots, and I ive agreed that tne latter shall fire ? te last one." Shortly before mid- I Lght Bismark's guests left him, and L aited outside the Hotel de Reser)ir, Versailles. Soon they heard a lot from the Germans, and then, af;r a brief silence, the French fired leir last reply. Hardly had the canon's echo died away than the tower ^ " ?-i- 1 o ? ^ C; ock or Versailles shuck, h.?emu ie Franco-German war was an event ^ ; the past.?Boston Transcript. WEN SWAMP ROOT 7 AIDS WEAK KIDNEYS. The symptoms of kidney and blader troubles are often very distressig and leave the system in a runown condition. The kidneys seem d suffer most, as almost every vicim complains of lame back and uriary troubles which should not be eglected, as these danger signals ften lead to dangerous kidney troules. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root which oon heals and strengthens the kideys is a splendid kidney, liver and 1 ? J J a m ?? /I t ? V\ /\ i r\ nr n 1 > A _ Ictuutjl lemeuj, Ctiiu, ucmg an UCIal compound, has a gentle healing ffect on the kidneys, which is almost immediately noticed in most ises by those who use it. A trial will convince anyone who lav be in need of it. Better get a ottle from your nearest drug store, nd start treatment at once. However, if you wish first to test lis great preparation send ten cents d Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghampton. '. Y., for a sample bottle. When Titing be sure and mention The amberg Weekly Herald. 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You know hat you are taking, as the formula is rinted on every label, showing it is uinine and Iron in a tasteless form. < he Quinine drives out malaria, the on builds up the system. 50 cents FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law ? Mice Over Bamberg Banking Co. ! < GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. ? ^?? RUB OUT PAIN j< with good oil liniment. That's ! the surest way to stop them. ! 4 The hest rubbincr liniment is J !? MUSTANG -INIMENT Good for the Ailments of ' Horses, Mules, Cattle, Etc. Qood for your own Aches, Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, i Cuts, Burns, Etc* 25c. 50c. $1. At all Dealers. E. H. HENDERSON Attoiney-at-Law BAMHKIUi, S. (\ eneral Practice. Loans Negotiated. R P. BELLINGER I ATTORNEY AT LAW Office Over Bamberg Banking Co. General Practice . A. Klein Mrs. J. A. 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