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Show on the farm, not more than fourteen BIRDS SONG miles south of jOUK ; ,CQ3), .! Pa-Ui- the . H ; jell. , h in C- J Tnm-tl-Tum-T- to ed so-call- - thrushes belong are PV three, one the proper. thrushes The family Turdi-na- e contains the y- report sSarar hi diV I !ffer tre- urdus. T ! Genus I thrush, the Hermit thrush, the 0 li,v - backed thnishi the Gray- -, Wood e. li-wow- n, Vliden-creste- ! wren, and Ruby-crown- ed the wreii. d od the r family, - Warblers, in the Genus; Sciurus, iM'ie con-.- ls known f the thrUsh, and the 'JYater thrush great many "family contains Golden-?- d the including ,.s well-know- n Scarlet Redstart, and: the s i;,f Another family the.Genus Harporchynons -- iningthe Brown thriish, also three (Liothrichi-!uic- sr tit ;a 0f this of E Mocking bird, and the Cat the genera I have mentioned the 4 All residents of the North fi lls The representative family lsjMimus, and con-:- 3 wrens. the Winter Hermit the thrush, thrush, the Browi thrush, are not The Wood J- - -- the jsh, Olive-baCke- uand the ills 2- - bird isj incident to Illinois in summer, and more a few locaiities of Western ntral Illinois. A considerable number illy -- ( t rv- - ia, ss- - ( the ;tc. E ith sro - re fill a,il-?er cl lie Mocking ;tiern ley tea g with possibly Z0ne, i tem-3t- in !v also are summer residents iis state. Among' thej most familiar 4e wrens families mentioned are tbe 'j ofthetheblue bjrd, the cat bird, and Irown thrush. When I was a young n, the farm, all these birds were j cncommon, and for several years a 7 of mocking birds made tbeir neat tewhere in a wooded ravine. Hawks, sand crows were jnumerous, and for :y years a pair of bald eagles nested 1 near the northegreat re-niai- fr t. burr-oak- 3 Lake Calumet. rn end of 20., ar, cisco. has rendered all rare Withiii the limits of confined to the parks civilization Wit birds comparatively singing i county. they are Cock ago j , j ce the indiscriminate killing aseetivorous 'birds on the farms, in- -: life has become so numerous as ously- to interfere with the produc-- 3 of e. f - cropS, some seasons, annual of I es-al- ly small grains, Indian :i, garden crops and .fruit. Ctringent laws have been passed to set the farmers,! and game wardens grass, the after the enforce-- t protect against the - cicus small bdy with stones and ina.aruhbersling.norcan they avail nst parents who allow their chilli to destroy the nests of the singing appointed to look They cannot -- are localities There s. :ane and wide-awa- ke "et singing birds, bird-hate- are rs tst birds. ir best song f vi jbut of the Tum-ti-Tum-Tu- m Tumi-Tum-Tum- cus-tomer- s where farmers do rs pot-hunte- majority birds; are more brds isorchapd and garden than of the 1 Their food is obtained from the 2 grounds, meddows, gardens hero away from civilization re openings, and natural meadows orchards; r' r I " Tum-ti-Tum-Tu- m them build near tho on the ground, rather - Mgh up in trees,! and for the rea- - that their most Idreaded enemies predatory birds! Thickets and -- Many of 1, and even are $ especially sought, and they homes and the orch- - - rl" seek the 3 v here not disturbed. Hence they generally found in villages and 3. and in suburban localities, and ? -- to The in the 1 trees and robin land the brown sing-bn.lo- of To the cf :'T-:ing- aterirc: undoubt-- , . extending from April is not a mimic, July its variation being all his . Ciat Ixi robin the meed of being the American birds, his so- -, S3 ; fair-haire- early morning, however, sing from the upper taller trees, where they to reared in confinement he is most cheerful and best of tfco vocalists. WORLD The brown I820 a Persi3teht singer, often r3 daylight appears, and then 113 at the decline of day V 4pr sonS, and on still moon-- n 3 ptten continues his song 4 J rtiio, the comon bat, comes --- c Tuverore.u 'or parthConii nyton, I one-four- th and thither in nocturnal Insects. But the 13 partially a mimic, and and i3 placed among the mocking bird and u. it i3 also mere pleasing, ? bable to be broken up with rt sounds; thofigh, like the 41. is often a night singer, and the air :0n is bright ucd to be a charming . ,?,ior.rS ?ton clam' Mto fcurfc -- 5 p A J1 , 1 7.41 arly made their nest near Englewood. From the a the cottonwood, p coy home, before the sun coring the after part of tho ll ; - ' the twilight, tho soft 3 flute-bear- d until July, and farly autumn. I fear that " captured cr senrsd P"r.tlon boys, who at Wad cicus for blood. nd the Hermit tho swrru st cf eur song, but they are cr;iz:r.s cf the vo-rdhaunts of men. 1 u ed e ' r- - .3 Ore j i M'ri i uo Erz-erou- o, d -- - Tum-ti-Tum-Tu- ! ping hither I - ns 1 4 i m, d, d poured into the French mint. BENEFITS THE EAST. Cheap Silver a Glorious land. A recent press dispatch from China to says: The British consul-general and accurately stated. In the present stage of the controversy in this country it seems to be in the highest degree essential that such an explanation should be made. A large majority of the opponents of free silver coinage bimetallists. proclaim themselves .The idea of a person being opposed to the free coinage of silver and at the same time being a bimetallist, is absurd. There are certainly some who are sufficiently familiar with the science of money to know that they are giving themselves a false designation; but the most of those who thus apply the term are no doubt innocently mistaken. There can be no true bimetallism with free coinage of one metal and a limited coinage of the other. The word bimetallism as used by monetary writers means exactly the same as the double standard. That is to say, it means a money standard consisting of two metals, used at a certain ratio to each other, both freely coined and each full legal tender after it is coined. In his testimony before the Royal Commission of England, given on the fourth day of March, 1887, H. H. Gibbs, of the then a director and Bank of England, defined bimetallism as follows: 1. An open mint, to which every man may bring either gold or silver to be coined. 2. A fixed ratio which the gold and silver coins are to bear to each other. 3. Th enactment that the money so . , . any j I ' , ...... China discusses the silver question aa follows: Under the influence of cheap silver, the volume of export continues to expand and the European consumer reaps the benefit of their cheapness in geld prices. The fall in silver and low freights have combined to enable the majority of the staple exports of China to be laid down in Europe at about one-ha- lf the cost at which they could be sold twenty years ago. The above item gives peculiar emphasis to the one concerning the sain of. Mexican silver bonds. For years past the bimetallists of Europe and America have contended that the rise In the value of gold wras operating a3 a bounty upon exports from silverusing countries. The facts here stated prove the correctness of that claim. The manner in which it does so is so simple as to be seen at a glance when attention is directed to It. Briefly stated, it is this: Silver has main tained a practical stability of value aa compared with commodities in general. For twenty years past, upon an average, an ounce of silver would buy a( bushel of wheat in India and lay it' down in the English market. It will do the same now. Therefore the East Indian can get no more silver for hia wheat at the present time than he could twenty years ago. Nor does he jose anything by reason of that fact, for 0unce of silver in rupees is just ae an(j just as good money in India equivalent in gold,, for a bushel But measured in American money which is of the gold standard, that ounce of silver Is only worth about one-ha- lf as much as it was in 1873. So. that while the East Indian is receiving the same price as formerly for his wheat, the American only gets about half as much as he used to. The very moment silver began to decline In the it acted a8 an induce. English or ex-gover- j in some residence the brown thrush, robin, .? wrens, and our only variety of the lining bird may be found. As a eon-,enicipally, though riots the - ' i Ad-in- g ounce of gold, and when CCjn i shall both be full h ;al tench r everywhere in France, it ought to be rlain 4 that no man with a grain cf ha sense would take much Icra than tho French mint rate. It was not zzry that all the silver in the w orld, as tho American goldito puts it, should la As the avowed purpose of this publication is to aid in the complete restoration of bimetallism in the United States, it is deemed proper that the precise nature of bimetallism, or the bimetallic system, should be clearly - r to IuYj cuucc3 cf rilwr; ; , th? i time saying to the own-r- s cf c;u( r Bring that ale;,; ;r j have it coined at the rate cf car,c ' tr 1 young children, decamped with many POSITION EXPLAINED. of the women of the community to their mountain fastnesses. There was a case, too, notable at the time, of a WHAT BIMETALLISM MEANS IN raid made by these monsters on some THE UNITED STATES. isolated hut where, having securely bound a ipundTather to a seat facing a huge fire, they proceeded having No Opponent of Tree Silver Coinage first killed to roast the body of his Can Call Himself a Bimetallist and grandchild. It is pleasant, indeed, to turn from such devilish devices as Tell the Truth at the Same 'line. these to the patriotism evinced by comparative babies the children of tbe villagers in Anatolia, who, in crowds, united in bringing up guns, when horses, mules or oxen were unobtainable, in such a way as to remind us that unity is strength, Indeed, and that their mite of patriotism was a by no means despised contribution to the page of history ,in 1877. My earliest memory of1 babies oU the battlefield is associated with tha Commune, when children, catching the war fever, marched and countermarched in and about the back streets of Paris, paying most careful attention to equipment and discipline, save in the matter of arms, in which they Can it be possible, you say, to associate babies and battlefields? Yet are they curiously interwoven in my own memories of tbe war path; Indeed, I have seen infants In arms, in both senses of the word, more than once at the front. Although some of the little ones to whom I refer may not be in the earliest stage of babyhood, HE WAS CONSCIENTIOUS I shall confine myself to children of tender And Honestly Surrendered to the As- years, and not avail myself of the legal limits afforded by that infancy signee All the Property lie Owned. Syracuse Post: It was under some which only .terminates at twenty-onSuppose, then, to begin with, we of the earlier Jbankrupt laws that this take the romantic story of little exhibition of rare shrewdness occurred, when" jit was required that in case of a mans insolvency he must turn over to the proper officer of the law every bit of his property for the benefit of his creditors. The subject of this story was yet !a young man and wealthy when misfortune overtook him and failure was inevitable. Some of his property was real estate, some of it was not, thq latter consisting of securities easil converted into currency. A nice littlq bundle of bank bills could be more safely handled than certificates of stocks, etc. When the time came, being in honorable man, he conscientiously Surrendered his entire effects, even a! tubular cane, from which the handle cpuld be disjointed, the gift of an admiring friend. After handing the walkingj stick to tbe official, thus satisfying the law, he suggested its return. It was a present from a friend, and could be of but little value to any one but himself as a memento. Certain, said the officer, "take it. Its of no use to us. Thanks. Ill prize it highly. Very Light Infantry (14kls Commune. Some time afterwards, in his quiet a wee bairn of some four contented themselves with knives and home, the shrewd financier disjointed Ayesha, summers, who, when the Russians sticks formidable weapons enough iu the handle and removed from his tubu- were pursuing Suleiman Pasha, after their way, since in some of their con lar depository several thousand dol- the fall of Plevna, through the Balk- flicts with each other these would-b- e lars of well crumpled bank bills. ans, was found among the mixed soldiers were actually killed, and in of horses, bullocks, men, wom- many others seriously wounded. en and children, ' crouching by the I recall, too, another incident during A Dijunkardg Precaution. side of her dying mother, by a non- this campaign which bore upon the A drunkard, who knew his weakness, commissioned officer named Savenka; same subject. Late one a troop took the precaution the other day of at- the woman, with an appealing, ex- of Baden soldiers passednight through a taching a label to himself with a name piring glance, winnihg the heart of deserted French village on their forthat rough, kindly soldier, who took ward march to Paris. Deserted, did and address on it. I am out for the the little one to his captain, To make I say? Well, yes, to all intents and day, said the label; when I am boozed purposes it was, though they had not tie this to iny buttonhole and send me penetrated far up in the main street home. What was very ingenious he when they noticed a guant figure did not wrijte his own name and address emerging from a shattered cafe about on the label, but that of his employer. to make his escape over the debris of a barricade, carefully hugging such a This reminds one of the presence oi Absence loot as he had been able to obtain, of exhibmind, but principle, In his brawny arms, evidently one of ited byi Sheridan who, being picked up those human vultures which haunt drunk in tle gutter, and asked his name the battlefield, ever ready, like tbe by the constable, replied, with a stutter, late lamented Mr. Micawber, foi I am the Jgreat and good Mr. Wilber-foresomething to turn up, even if it be the toes of an officer, whose gold lace, epaulettes and who knows, perhaps watch, may reward the searcher? Bottfers and Bottle Maklnj;. Itefefring to old memoranda, T find The bottlers of the United States emmany notes concerning the adventures of babies on the battlefield during the ploy 26,738 men, serve 1,489,038 customers, use 23,940 horses, have invested Spanish (Carlist) war of 1874, one of these bearing the singular heading cf use annually $12,747,635 $41,573,469 and the little one. worth of bottles, and the loss and breakmatter a A of j fact, to give him his age amounts to $3,522,804. He said' -' complete sobriquet, Consider the enormity of the figures a Turn was genial mandolinTurn, the. number of hands employed, th playing Spaniard, who, possessed of mouths fed, the horses used, the an unpronounceable name, was dufc bed by us with the musical appellation supplied and all, bottlers, hands to be and clothed fed have suggested by the instrument he aland horses,. ways carried, and with which he gave think of the number of wagons buili to his conversation (he was full of and the Enormous amount of monej wise saws and modern instances) a paid every year for American mad sort of running accompaniment of bottles. Jv Our jovial who .friend, evidently enjoyed a small A Red Cross Hero. independence, found a sauce piquante FLOTSAM AND JETSAM a long story short, Ayesha was adopt- ip war which suited his' peculiar nature to a T. ver and over again ed as the daughter of the regiment An artisan of Brussels has invented the Kexholm frontier fighting in the of regiment grenadiers daring the a revolver that shoots seven times s by whom a fund tc was subscribed Siwinish war was for second. cause humanof in fore in education the good her Warsaw, to which the Walter G. Bennett of 121 East 88tlr her "majesty, the e&press of Russia, ity, often going into dangers to succor street, ?New York, was bitten on the subscribed. That curriculum over, she the sich and wounded of both sides, face by a! mosquito. Erysipelas result- most appropriately married, a year or which many members of the Red two ago, one of the officers of the reg- Cross might have hesitated to face. ed and caused death. One morning Republican scouts iment to which she was indebted for while Some men in Wauson, Ohio, us sad news into Fuentarabia. brought boring for water, struck a gas well defies the efforts of fiction. As for the Our genial ' companions body riddled The gas became ignited, and for hourr personal appearance of Ayesha Kex-l- i with bullets had been found in a feet high, threw a flame seventy-fiv- e byeuKis tor itself in me sketch maize field not far from that town, A mowing, machine operated by John I contribute, which iwas done from one clutching in one hand the mandolin he loved so well, while by his side was a Russell, of Liverpool, Md., ran througt recently taken by a Russian artist. indark-eyechild a The was not bumblebees. enraged This, however, a nest of Singular scared, four who h in about Instance memorable old, so that that years lisped to severely campaign sects stung him who found a her the babies which in on those for story of hei played part, died. terror-stricke- n one more were abanoccasion than otherparents having wa? A Brooklyn young lady, who a adin her doned entered wise deserted huts farm house, burning by rather stout, tried a quack preparatior vancing troops, and the tenderest and her screams had attracted the atfor reducing her flesh. She lost som chords of manhood touched by the tention of her dead deliverer our old flesh through its use, and also hei smiling face of some welcome little friend Heroism in war, however, is curimind, and is now in an insane asylum stranger. oi are sheets Kurdish atrocities whether damp test Just now, whenj ously balanced by brutality, whicl To be- occupy the puDlic mind, it would be, can be better appreciated when I say tumbler an not place ordinary tween the sheets for a little while, and if they are not perfectly dry trace of moisture will appear on the inside of the glass. A system of treating iron ore by by Dr. electricity has been discovered claims Re Laval, a! Swedish scientist. be can that by bis method the ore the converted into steel at usual cost. An Italian officer has invented a magazine rifle which automatically fires twenty shots in two seconds. This weapon was lately tested in Florence, and at a distance of 400 yards, the twenty shots hit the target. erected A new theater about to be in London is to have a novel adjunct. This is a nursery, with paid attend-to ants, who will pay proper attention infants jWhile the mothers are enjoystage.-Thing the performance on the decision of an Alabama judge 13 causing alarm among the bachelors Left Dehind in a Bnlgswian Hut. of that state. He declares that when wrong, however, painful the subject, that I have, on several occasions, seen a man places his arm about tbe waist to evade reference to certain barbari- Carlist and Republican troops alike of a marriageable woman, it is prima to ties which took place while I was firing indiscriminately on women and facie evidence that he has proposed on children in the coldest of cold blood traveling toup country in Armenia Mukh-taof r In many cases, while both were herothe her. encampment way my bePasha before Kars. Apart from ically engaged In staunching the The cutest cat in New London a at Byazid, wounds of those dearest to them; In She put the wholesale mrjsacrea longs to William Gillen. I was whil? rat-hin fact, the descriptive power of pea i a which took place piece of lobster meat near a few mo-- I v- -a on In an I pencil wuold fail to conrey any idea night myself and concealed herself. In which was attacked of some of the atrocities I have seen Armenian village ments a rat came out, grabbed tbs crocodile-eyeKurds, who, mur- committed in the natno of glorious the by old meat, and the cat pounced upon indiscriminately people and war. The Queen. dering her prey. made it ml ILt, j and the Itobln, among also in the Genus , Blue bird, and in the Genus ,cs um k, HE families which otir witt 1 C. Madalmcon, see, see, Bobolincoln, Mad-alinWhiscodink, wait, wait, wait. Down among the tickle tops, hiding Id the buttercups. The little rascal has a bad name in the ripening grain North, and In the rice, fields South, but no less a charming fellow, jolly singer, and poet. Jonathan Perian in Farmers Review, Chicago. Singers. s 1 cian JS NOTE-BOOI- j 3 j, geetesv -! ta nifTht 'Kith , : BABIES IN WAB TIME. what an infinity of birds with them arvd among them. There was none that history ,of could chatter with the Bobolink, and CURIOUS INCIDENTS FROM a WAR f-VSfamily. ARTISTS this happy and hearty little fellow, when singing on some tall weed, and Wood The parts Three pouring out hi3 song, suddenly seemed The Romantic Story of Little Aveshn ei o think of 'ilermJfc Thrush and the Heroism of something forgotten, and Children Wood During the Paris ComThrush ?Jltiered away, singing Phew, shew, mune. c feed e'ieb t ; aycar. 5 o PerfV lyiiousp' s- Randolph street, and ' jj.g -- n to Any Nation upon the coinage ae-oteither or upon its legal tender, than the United States He could stroys one of the fundamental princi- ' ther first buy the silver at a profit, and then pies upon which bimetallism rests. The with a given other at once becomes the standard, buy as much wheat ever as could. This he while the one subjected to a restric- amount of silver consul-gener- al tion is dropped into a secondary or sub- is exactly what the English means when he speaks of the ordinate position. The theory of bilow and price of silver expanding the trade metallism is that the free coinage The great staples of. the afof China. full legal tender of the two metals ter they are coined will keep them at United States are and for years, have a substantial parity. If, for example, been sold in the European market at prices and Jn direct competition the value of one should rise a little, by silversilver-using countries. Neerthe- with reason of a stronger foreign demand, the home demand for that one would less the gold advocate continues to roll the immediately decrease and fall upon actthus and cheaper, metal, other, ing as a compensation. But, if one has free access to the mint and the other has not, then they meet upon unequal terms and this principle cannot act. The one which can be freely coined will always be in stronger demand than the other, and, consequently, of greater value. Platform Contains Nor is this merely a theory. It is a Creed. principle as well established as the law our If republican and democratic of supply and demand. In fact, it is one of the most perfect illustrations friends could only realize the fact that of the working of thatrlaw, and its cor- - j the main sources of information from has been proved by seventy which the people of their respective orderived financial wisyears of European monetary history, ganizations havefirst the old greenback In 1803 France threw open her mints dom have been the and later peoples party, the to the free coinage of both metals at party be simplified. would situation the ratio of 15 oz. of silver to 1 oz. of political The goldbugs in both old parties are gold, and this mint ratio controlled the not in relative market values, planning to head off the silverites, and' only to the year the republican and democratic silver France, but everywhere, up men are planning how they can head off 1873. In 1816 England adopted the gold the populists. Yet the populists (who-- i standard, and at once put forth an un- include a great many of the old green-- j usual demand for gold. Had there been backers), are the very chaps who have no bimetallism in France, gold would persistently kept up the agitation of the-immediately have risen greatly in financial question. While the two old parties were quar- -j value. As it was, though, a large part of the gold required by England was reling over the tariff, which. Is now furnished by France, but the demand played out, as Mr. Bland truly says , of the latter for silver to take .the place the populists were making a fight or of the gold withdrawn by England op- the money question, the real issue. erated as a compensation, and preventHad it not been for the agitation kept ed the silver from falling or the gold up by the populists the free silver coinfrom rising, except to a very limited age 16 to 1 men in the two old parties extent. would have been snowed under lonf Again, when the American civil war ago. broke out, England was forced to turn Dont imagine, dear democratic silver to India for cotton. She had no silver, brethren, that the gold wing of your and the East Indians had no use for party is the least bit afraid of you. gold. So England exchanged large They fear the growing strength of amounts of gold for French silver. the peoples party will cause you to This, combined with the immense slip out fr0m under Wall streets thumb, gold production of California and Aus- goldbugs will, if they can, keep a of France drained large por- you from joining us, for in unity there tralia, tion of her silver. The conditions of lg strength. 1816 were now reversed, and Englands You learned much of your silver docwas demand for silver extraordinary trine from us, and you know it. The offset by the French demand for gold Omaha contains, your silver to take its place, and again the parity creed. platform was preserved. We are making the only straight fight These are facts recognized by all on the money power,', and the money monetary writers of sufficient standing power knows it, and, hates us. to be remembered fifteen minutes after Were you to join the populists politithey are dead. Wolowski on the bi- cal chaos would come like the crack of metallic side, Jevons on the gold mono- doom. metallic side, the Royal Gold and Silver And after that the Satan of monopoly Commission of England, consisting of would be chained for a thousand years. six bimetallists and six monometallists, Nevada Director. all concede the correctness of the prinThe ciple here stated. But without consultto at it authorities all, ought .the ing Daughter These English novels are be manifest to any person of ordinary always speaking of an intelligence who stops to think. When What does it mean? , Old Lady I spose its the same way a rich and powerful country like France bulhad who man over there as ,tis here. The heir algold said to every and mint lion, Bring it to the French 1 ounce ways has to go to law before he can get. anything. it shall be coined at the rate of ; Your-Silve- r : i j j ; , j ; ! j j j . ( j ; ITfir-atLs- w. heir-at-la- w. |