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Show ft a TRICKY ACTS OF THE BLUEJAY 'NOISIEST CREATURE KNOWN A How TO ALBINO ORNITHOLOGY" BIRDS OSTRACISED. -nr v t: V England ' An arms act has been entlcular. forced which has made It Impossible for the natives of the land to carry weapons or learn to defend themselves with skill and success. The manhood of India has been cauterized to such a fearful extent that the British recruiting officer Is finding that it Is almost impossible to fill the ranks of the native suldieis who diop out of the army through death, resignation and desertion. Uncle Ilicks, who dilves the omnibus of one of the Adliomlack resorts. it Is doing a roaring trade these das. AJ ' i i, rs'e I rozin doings Every run the omnibus makes between the station and the hotel sees reA spui ions sjstem of education eery seat occupied, and there is an tailed from schools and unlveisltles I Nestlings Launched, Father Helping eatly rush to get the dickey seat with I built and engineered by British offTwo Strongest, Mother Three old "Uncle, In the hope that he will I icials, with East Indian money, has also hold forth on his recent marvelous exWeaklings in Their Effort to I been used to weaken the people. The 1 I Make Flight a Success. pel lences In and about New York. SING NIIIAL By ST. joung men on graduation from colUncle" Hicks, be it known, has lege have found that their physique BY EDWARD B. CLARK. lived In the mountains for 75 years, SrAV have been ruined. Physical culta"--ha- s and since Ills week In the "metiolopus vv Associate Member American OrnitholB Bowles ) been (.Copyright, by Joseph conspicuous in the educahe is inclined to say, with Chevalier, ogists Union ) tional system B. by its woeful absence. it dont seem a day too much. But Bowles.) (Copyright, Joseph While the educated people of India The instruction has been of a nature the mountain resort was thrown into When it comes to a question cf Inon 7 appear to be content with carrying - or that has invested the young men and consternation one morning last week telligence, the Corvidae family, to ' 0 i P V 'K JU V wordy warfare over political questions women with a ' . contempt for agrlcultu v when Uncle" Hicks appealed at the 'which belong the crow and the blue-jay- , yw V W. and arraigning the British administrral and trade woik; and has engen must be accorded the first rank. station with a cat pet bag, wearing his ator of Hindustan for inaugurating a dered within their hearts a hatred foi raiment and minus the These birds have practically an ieign of terrorism in the country, im- men and women of sects and castes omnibus. vocabulary and their characover the famine is pending hanging own. Nothing has "Me? he said, with the air of a ters are as many sided as that cf heads of the countrys 300,000,000 in- other than their in been schools and col the who has made up his mind. man taught Im Reynard, the fox, which is saying in failed habitants. have many Crops Young Robin the Last to Leave." leges that would teud toward uniting much. going to N'yawk. I been thinkln o sections, and already half famished the people and evolving an East-Idoin' it f'r th las 28 years an' now The bird lover who would get anyHindoos are face to face with the some case and weaker is nation. The history of India has I'm doin it, he added, firmly. lishman smaller for dlan them. The an nestling killing like of adequate knowledge of starvation. thing specter not been given so that it would stimuAnd so Uncle Hicks departed with the bluejay should live in the middle was decided finally in his favor, and than its brothers and sisters. This Is of the BritDuring the latter For Eomo reason or other, while scientists and bird lovers may probably due to constitutional causes, ish administration ofpoition famine has late the pride of the people and In his carpet bag. The engine driver and India, the conductors knew Uncle Ilicks known to his jayship aloae, the east- hold otherwise the bluejay now ap- for it is believed by most scientists followed famine with diieful fre- vest them with the desire to emulate those who have gone before them and and felt honored. Uncle was honern bird is of rather a r tiring disposi- pears In a precedent ,case as being and observers generally that the pa- quency. 25 the last Within year to keep abreast of the march of civ- ored, too, for the engine tooted as he a gooseberry gourmand. rent birds feed the little ones in rotation, keeping away from man and his The bluejay is perhaps the noisiest tion and show no partiality. It may 19,000,000 Hindoos have died of sheer ilization. In the school text books emgot aboard, and tooted vociferously haunts, or, if approaching them doing Grinding poverty is so phasis has been laid on the achievecreature known to ornithology, though be of course that through accident the starvation. when Uncle Hicks came back. There it stealthily and with much the air of In the country that many ments of foreigners; on what aliens was a delegation of Adiroudackers to a thief. The jay Is a thief and his if danger Is threatened he can main- more nourishing bits of food may fall omnipresent s of are millions perpet- did for India; and much has been I was repeatedly to the lot of two or three manner in the east fits his calling tain a graveyard silence. meet him. Also the omnibus was in a half starved condition. The made of the degradation in general, All through the middle western coun- watching a pair of bluejays who were of the offspring, while the others get ually waiting. scarcity of food becomes more pinch and especially of the defeat at arms The Adirondackers who had crowdtry the bluejay is a bird of the door- building a nest in a stunted pine tree. the food which has less strength-givinare and times when accentuated lng of native East Indians when combatqualities. in to hear the wonderful tale wore ed step. He is saucy and bold and ap- The two birds left the home site and inharder. Then the poor Hindoos, the aggression of the gieedy Brit disappointed. "Uncle" Hicks chewed ing parently is unaware of the fact that disappeared behind a close board The weakling of the brood is almost stead of starving Inch by inch, are ishers. his brilliant plumage makes him an fence. In a moment I heard a racket. a metrolopus" cigar and gazed the last to leave the nest. The quickly blotted out. alwrays He did at the easy mark for boys target rifles and Every note known to the jays jargon landscape. blankly came rapidly from behind the fence. parents lead forth the lustier young, The universities were established in vouchsafe a remaik to the effect that aingshots. The impoverishment of the masses India with a It is the very commonness of the The noise continued for several min- but do not forget the needs of the litpurely economic motive. "Summer seems ter be a bit late up divide their one behind. tle defies left It is much uglier, They to a to the and and in the cities utes, portrajal. of then, going The nation of shopkeepers parted tills way. point bluejay villages the Mississippi valley which is his left of its source, I peeped over the duty between the occupant of the nest much more poignant and painful than the educational system with a view to Then the rush fell off and a reporter are that which is to be found in the East Indian young men to fill took advantage of an empty omnibus greatest protection. Familiarity with fence. The tSvo birds were on an ash and its brothers, and sisters, whotime. piepare Ghettos and poor quarteis of Amer- the lower ranks in the bird breeds contempt in the small pile in the alley, and between them trying their wings for the first government serv- to get on the dickey, lie approached five I of the watched ican cities. It is estimated that an ice. The native agency being as eff- the subject with reportorlal tact. The young with an collar. the departures English sparrow. lay boy, and, extremely dirty paper It is left severely alone. The bluejay There was little question In my mind robins from their home on the top of average East Indian requires at least icient and much cheaper than the Brit- impressions of a man who had waited nests in the trees in the dooryard, but that they were disputing over the a porch pillar recently. Two of the a dollar to a dollar and a half a month ish, was given preference. Moreover, 75 years before visiting the metropolis steals things from the household and advisability of using the collar for young robins were much larger and merely to exist; but since his Income the occidentals, unacquainted with the could not fail to he Interesting from carries on war with the family cat. nesting material. They scolded back apparently stronger than their nest is computed by recognized British au language, customs, religions and a psjchologlcal standpoint. The reIt 1b hard to determine just how and forth for some time, but Mme. mates. The little home was filled to thorities to be only 50 cents a month, modes of life of the natives, and with pot ter recalled the flist time he himmuch damage the bluejay does by Jay finally ended the matter by seiz- overflowing, and the two sturdier birds it will be seen that he lives consider- a very poor capacity for adjusting self had seen the Inside of the Hippopilfering the eggs and murdering the ing the collar and taking it to the were perching on the edge of the nest ably below the poverty line. During themselves to the climate and other drome. young of the song birds. The diffi- nest, where, after much difficulty, one for a day before they ventured forth. the last two years the government has conditions prevailing In India, and Uncle said The Hippodrome! I culty in determining the damage end of it was woven into the structure, expended out of the revenues collect for learning languages, could not Hicks, with a start of recollection. arises from the fact that the jay is while the other end was left to flap tax payers o from the East-Indiaed that The twicct. went stage thar on of the the country carry plunder i . , I'.s """I You may watch him with each passing breeze, making the bad in streaks. over $130,000,000 in trying to keep the without the assistance of the natives. .tliar place Is about 2?0 feet long and s i' for a month and never detect him in a home in the pine tree a conspicuous V'j impoverished millions of Hindustan ' That altruistic motives were not re- about 80 or 90 feet wide. I seen It In - 7 1, i' 16 of sponsible for the establishment of the program book. An' (bar's a tank single depredation, but tufn your back object to every passer. One out of every alive. and there Is no certainty but that the I seen The Jay has a pertinacity that In has schools and colleges in India by the In It inhabitants the 300,000,000 je cud shoot, duck in. next moment he may be dining from some cases might be commendable. been in receipt of actual chailty re British government is evident for more anltnlles parforrnln' anliniles the new laid eggs of the robin or toss- After the pine tree nest was comlief. This was the case in practi- many reasons. The first and foremost In that thar pl'ie s Now that the is the sad ing the young of the chipping sparrow pleted and the eggs were laid the normal years. school-house- s But whut tuk me talkin of of cally insufficiency nest to their mother bird began sitting. from their hair-linedimenZoo. There vaster Four-fifth- s is Bronlcal was that in assuming India. scarcity and teachers deaths on the ground below. should have been young in the nest sions and appears to be developing The what did you say, uncle? of the East Indian vllllages are amusement of From the standpoint said at the end of two weeks, but no young Zoo," Bronlcal I said the into a colossal famine, a gi eater pro- without a school. After a century and there is moa fuij in watching a blue- came. The bird sat steadily, with the By of the people will have to be a half of British administration, more Uncle" Hicks, with a glare. portion jay than in the observation of a score exception of the time spent in seeking I seen anlmlles thar that I don't saved at the expense of the public. 99 per cent, of East Indian worn-ethan dum, comrades of the food, for 30 of his sweeter-voiceThe abnormal poverty has augmentdays before she gave up and 90 per cent, of Hindoo mqn are believe Is livin any other place. I field. A German living in a suburb hope of offspring. After which derate. collected ed had the death Figures they utterly illiterate. To show the con- seen a thing they call a zebra, of Chicago made some soap for home serted the nest I examined the eggs. from official records show that mortal- trast, it may be mentioned that in less Is just a blame mule painted up to He patted it nicely Into Each had a little dried-uconsumption. kernel inof the time the little look queer. But I know hoHsklnd, an ity has increased from 25 per 1,000 than cakes and placed them on a board in side that rolled about like a pea. J to 35 per 1,000 within the past ten kingdom of the mikado has been able it didn't fool mo. the yard to harden. The suburb it Albino birds are not of great rarity. Chronic starvation has led to to educate its masses almost to the I seen a sea lion, too. That was years. Is called Highland Park is about a3 and extent of those living in wide awake genwlne, all right, cause It hadnt no the propagation of cholera Perhaps it were better to say that full of bluejaws as it can be and still birds albino are not rare. A to such a fearful extent that occidental countries. Another and a feet, It flappered up on the rocks an partly plague leave room for other bird families. pure white crow was That's a dum recently in the during the last decade 5,000,000 East very powerful proof of the sordid mo- howled like mad. "When the German put his soap out all of Animal Keeper De Vry from th? tives with which the educational pol- queer beast. I must ha looked at that have Indians possession perished the bluejays of the neighborhood de- of the Lincoln Park zoo, Chicago. latter. Albino Crow. icy was framed and engineered In beast for an hour n a quarter." scended upon it. They ato soap for Ruthven Deane, a fellow of the AmerDid you see the snakes, uncle? masses In the such straits India Is that the British authorities . desperate an hour. ican Ornithologists union, has a Then the father robin coaxed them of India find themselves Naw, I didnt, said Uncle" Hicks. have done practically iothlng to train The wonder is they did not die, but mounted crow out. They followed him to a lawn di- The as is I love them things well enough that the specimen of dont the In existence use of the natives the farmer, very the diet did not seem to interfere white as the of a syringa blos- rectly across the street, and there he artisan, the workingman, the laborer farm and look at them for fun. But I an to petal go machinery in the manufacturing least. with their digestion fed them and gave them lessons In som. a seen business or the thing thar I wanttt to ask1 and methods. The East Indian agripetty month, by day When the owner of the soap found obcame under flying. abaout. It was a bird There In my serious alIs personal man and the jeopsomeb'dy and been have culturist artisan clerk, work he the thieving jays at their male the between The difference crow which a meant for a bird an' it a had was servation It reckn and famine large lowed to play with their Industries In plague. ardy through what was left of the cakes, , a shovel. white patch In the center of Its oth- and female adult robin is marked like a bill had their ways. 1 uncle?" a erwise black back. I saw this bird enough to make confusion of the sex toucan, "Was it While the education has been of a That India should be sunk In the on different occasions during two In the observers eye impossible. The Naw, It warn't no too can." which has utterly failed to nature and povof fearful mire agonizing dibrood of that and mother father once was Save it alone, years. always Maybe It was a duck mole. For modernize the people and render them Is no cause for wonder. and at the time marking the excep- vided their duties. Mr. Robin stayed erty It warnt no duck-mole- , Now, two centuries or more India has been capable of employing the new methtion Its company was a flock of Its fel- with the two young which left the in the position of a pig, whose throat ods of tilling land and making articles neither. The reporter tried a few more, but lows, who were chasing It to drive It nest first, while Mrs. Robin attended has been slit, and the animal hung of merchandise, the law has been so In vain. away from the neighborhood of their to the nestlings left behind. These to blood made the and to that administered the peothe heels permit retreat. It is impossible to determine three stayed in the nest for two days up by from its "Anyhow, It was a dum queer Hlndostan has ple have been reduced to the state of drain body. of their stronger after the the reason for what the departure said Uncle Hicks, with an air absolutely beast, unmerciof wood of and hewers bled drawers water, been bled profusely, Reckn they got every crows persecution was, but of course brothers. During that time the father of finality. fully, continuously by a conscienceless and their Industries have withered everything points to the circumstance did not visit the nest, nor did the and mercenary alien government. and died. The policy of England has blame thing on alrth thar. They even mother make any attempt to feed the of its white back as the real cause. got skunks." The knife thrusts have been directed been to force India to remain a pro) bobolink young which were in the father's care. The You must have gone In the sub(dolichonyx oryzlvor-usof raw the benefit for ducer of the toward the most vital parts materials, the rehas been painted part white by When the three little ones finally The arteries of Indus- of British laboreis and manufacturers. way to get there? suggested body politic. nature, but I once found a bobolink gained strength enough to leave the porter. have manufacture and agriculture said uncle with a "The subway, that was pure white, barring two home they flew to the same lawn to try, been slashed and the life blood of the I watched Englands repression of India Is un- frown. had which others the gone. The black streaks on his breast. It has way they hustle a man country drained away to enrich the rivaled In the history of the world. As In that Is a disgrace. been supposed that freak birds have the family closely for a week, and the occidental island which controls afplace a direct result of the mal administraBut New York itself, uncle? How some difficulty in procuring mates, division of duty was maintained by fairs in India. sunk are of the tion Hlndostan the people about Broadway? but this white bobolink had a wife the parent birds. The father fed In poverty, superstition and ignorance, and an Interesting family of young. two lusty youngsters, while the mother Pretty fair town, said uncle, Inof Biitlsh with and festered was famines, a company It plagues three weaklings. the after looked accibeen But I was disapplnted but have It may nothing who founded the British weak In mind and body. From the differently. wud think t hear folk talk The father had much the easier Ye seme. dent, but the mated pair built their comTo students of his- standpoint of unity, the teeming milrule In India. nest In a meadow where there were task, but the mother made no was a dum bad place fr accidents how the British mo- lions of India aro the worst situated It Is It not patent something tory no other bobolinks, murders and thieves. But I never although the plaint. Was there an the aegis of British in the world. fields directly across the road were manlike in the way in which that nopolists, under a cent while I wus thar, 'cept In lost East-Indl- a feature one o them blame slot mchines.' It But the most heart-rendinCompany, used notorious filled with their brothers and sisters. male robin portioned out the work, methods to plun- of British exploitation is that the peoBluejay. wus a swlndli or It wusnt It certainly looked like bobolink ostra- and something womanlike in the pa- and unscrupulous When the British ple have been kept under a state of either robin Hlndostan. female der the which alwith of tience to the the cism due But I went to a busy corner and more peculiarity added some material again of India in her hypnosis for such a long time that workin. and stood thar 15 minaccepted the dictum of her lord and crown took the reins This binos feathers. on Broadway put the soap out to harden. in 1858, the policy of governing only a small percentage of them are hands master. 30 trolley cars pass I that not seen It I which held infrequently time he placed the board utes. happens As In alive to the seilousness of the situaIndia remained unchanged. em an dezzens of automothe cakes upon two barrels and counted the days of the East India Company, tion. But the educated community Is biles and kerridges an wagglns an mounted guard at some little distance It continued to be the exploitation of increasingly awakening to a full to keep the jays away. there wusn't a blame accident that I They refor the benefit of the Eng- realization of the white man's purHlndostan see. turned to their feast in a few minutes, It still continues to b the pose and work In India, and this awak- cudI went to a show on Broad Way, lish. and the angered soap maker, who revolutionIs a same. developing into ening was only a few yards distant, threw Sawmill Man Evidently Was Some- attention of so many of the crowd as too. It was called A Day f'r a Night, ary attitude toward the Britisher. an wus a dum good show too." a cobble stone at them. The jays fled, and a of life propwere not trying to save Spellbinder. thing Famines and plagues are wielding As an essential feature of this pol But what did you think of the tall but the heavy stone, striking one end an speech. and made eloquent erty, ceasecombined influenco in breaking buildings, uncle? has their England of repression, An anecdote which is amusing on acicy of the board, turned it over and The ending was something like this: comes endeavored, and with gieat suc- the crust of fatalism native to the Uncle Ilicks turned a suspicious pitched all the soap cakes into a box count of the cheek it displays, "And now, fellow citizens and men If lessly from Ohio. It was during a freshet, you are men bestir yourselves and cess, to keep fanning the flames of East Indian. The wolf of hunger and eye on the repoiter. of soft cement. fell epidemics are slowly but The foreigner doesn't take kindly after a season of protracted drought. save those logs, and I'll give you half religious and racial animosities among the Funny thing," said he, that everj--bedbeen has Ohio and Divide rule the making the ignorant millions down steadily came flood the A people. to the ways of the American bluejay. great asks me that. Any how as everyof them! s, motto of the British official in pause and consider that something is the As has been, said, bluejays are thick river, bearing on its bosom body seems t want t know, they look They say it is an actual fact that India, and he ba3 done everything In positively wrong In the "sjstem. a I reckn in the suburbs of Highland Park. An driftwood, sawlogs, live stock and mighty dang'rous t me, but about 100 logs bemen saved the to keep the congeries of They have not yet come into a realizachildren and women cm knew what his clinging power built few men, that had fellows In the the of the place Englishman living Hun- fore they realized the absurdity East Indian populace from fusing Into tion that their country has been woe- they wur abaout. some gooseberry bushes which bore to the wrecks of their houses. offer. rescue to mass of people with a community fully bled and that the resources of forth came one nut talkin about that Bronlcal berries of extraordinary size and dreds of people and with patriotic, national the land have been misappropriated Zoo others Interest of sought victims, dethe drowning sweetness. The owner of the fruit A New Rheumatirm Cure. Their awakening Is horses By means of by foreigners. 1st ideal3 and ambitions. And where did you lle when you clared that the bluejays ate his treas- to save the perishing cattle, Heres another sure cure for rheu- playing the Hindoo against the Mohan yet in its infant stage. It is hazy and were In New Yoik, Uncle Hicks? the as a so excited none but deand sheep, ures, and securing his shotgun he man. He had an eye both matism: "See these, a man aid, medan, the Sikh aeainst the Hindoo; undefined and as yet a mere speck on reported inteirupted. stroyed several of the biid3. The law sawmill the of some He's on sawlogs, thousands of drawing three round sticks by petting the military races of India th horizon. But it is fast developing, eves "Why, I lived with my son in Illinois protects the bluejay, but a Thats and from black substance 500 pocket. and as the educated have doin men of them against the he's married an' son, leaguing the all property my well, and which them, there is a section of the statute electric light carbon. Carried em six 150,000 British- commenced an aggressive campaign an got a little boy my grandson gives the right to kill birds which are miles up stream. a touch ers have despoiled 300,000,000 natives. for the uplift of the masses, it is deshad never now and months at the but those logs, aa he lives on Central paik west. Ha wanted He the Used to have it all preying on the crops. Friends of of rheumatism. assume greater proportions to tined for Is to incur want sams not The did policy responsible he give me a pretty good time, my son bluejays said that the birds wouldnt same time In general day by day. Where it is to end, no did." the So he mounted the the time before I carried the carbon. people risk. emasculating a any personal cat gooseberries, and there was and the martial races of India In par one caa prophesy. and attracted the It beats a buckeye r holler. the Eng head of his logway started Jr of the family V v x V. x r Has Held Down India mvm fer' vnvnm . n East-Indian- n ; , i anl-mlle- d n d f p one-fourt- h to-da- g HAD HIS HEARERS HYPNOTIZED y hay-tack- non-militar- y East-Indian- prosecution against East-India- |