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Show I W THE VEITLY REFLEX. KA YSVILLE. UTAH ISE BILLY" they called him up way. Ha was' called this In derision, for Wise Billy was witless. There were some of the Bowmanvllle people who wouldnt havelt that Billy was entirely witless, and It was in the expression of this belief these people showed that they were to be classed : with the wiser ones. Wise Billy had been'hlt on the head when he was nothin more than a toddler and It was the blow that set his mind tropin for thlns that It could never fully grasp. Bowman rllle, while It Is a part of a great, city, has green Helds and great forests yet untoUched by the ax of nature's tyrant. Billy roamed the fields and threaded the forests. Like Little Hiawatha he learned of the birds and the squirrels their secrets They were playmates that never made sport of his mental He loved thent and they loved shortcomings. him. The streams beyond the little stream which farther on In its course beoomee the Chicago river, were the haunts of bobolinks. It was there that the Italian bird catchers hired by the big city dealers were In the habit of sitting their traps to catch rollicking Robert of Lincoln that he might be cooped up In a 7 by JS cage to pine away a few brief summer months for the sup posed pleasure of someone whose Ideas of liberty did not Include bird and beast One afternoon the Italians set their traps all ever the meadow with a captive bird In the lower compartment The men went to a hedge by the roadside to watch results. They saw a boy start en a keen jump across the meadow. His feet were winged. Before the trappers could realize what was up. the lower door of the first trap In line was open, a bobolink was freed and the trap Itself was a crushed mass of wire and sticks. They tried, but they could not catch this greyhound of a lad. He liberated twelve birds and smashed twelve traps, and then shot into the Budlong woods. It was Wise Billy who had done this turn for his bobolink friends. Wise Billy's father and mother sent him to school. The teachers did not want to receive' him, but he was quiet and be showed shortly that Impression could be made upon his disordered mind. He knew more about the pictures than he did about the words, but In the course of a year or two he wrote sentences dlsjolntedly. It wpa poetry that Wise Billy loved, especially the poetry In which the. words sang of birds and trees hnd flbwers. It was an inspiration to hear Billy repeat Bryants Bobolink and the Lines to a Waterfowl. ' There was a place In his heart seemed" to speak to some little sound section of his muddled mind. Wise Billy reported at the school one morning that he was going to be a poet. He stood at his desk and made the announcement out loud. The pupils laughed and laughed. The teacher tried to look kindly, but there was a bit 'of merriment In her face.- - Til bring some verses and show you," cried Billy. He was keenly alive to eule, witless though he was. Wise Billy had found a friend. He was a man who tramped the field with a round box In which he put leaves and flowers and with an opera glass- - through which he stared at birds. Billy had come across the stranger near the river's edge, just west of the Budlong wood. The man was picking marsh marigolds. Billy told him he would show" him where there were some prettier ones If the man would promise not to pick them: The stranger seemed struck by this appeal from the boy with halting tongue and, vacant Bow-manrtl- le t , !; J r. V l ' At any season of the year fruit is a most refreshing ' breakfast dish served as the beginning of the meal, then a bit of bacon always makes an appetizer whatever else there may be. eye. Toure 'a second edition of Ralph Waldo Emerson, my boy, said he a little quizzically. . Theyre pretty by the water," said Billy, and the wind whispers, to them and they tell me what the wind says." Youre a poet, said the man with the box. I wouldnt pick your flowers now were they the real gold they seem to be, but Im after birds, too." "Bang em and put em In- a boxY No, Just look at them."Ill show you lots," said Billy. The man came to the meadows often after this and met Billy. The lad knew where the lark finch, where the vireO placed Its paper-linehome and where the oriole swung Its cradle. -- He showed all his treasures to the man who was willing to look and to spare. One day Billy brought some papers to his acquaintance. "Theyre poems," he said, like what the man with the gray beard wrote about bobolinks and like what the man Shakesomething said about the yellow swamp flowers." Billys naturalist friend took the manuscript. Rhythm there was none; the spelling would make a lexicographer weep, but there was poetry. The bry said in essence that the marigold (didnt die because he thought of It fll the year ''through, and thinking of things "makes em live." One of Billys schoolmates had trapped a shore lark. The bird sings as It soars, and In that respect Is like unto the lark that St heavens gate sings." Billy had fought a good fight for the trapped lark when the trapper was taking It homeward, but a crowd of schoolmates who re -- d botanical-ornithologic- al garded the larks as fair prey made numbers carry the day. . ' home in small flocks, and in early of the chimney, and to rough placet, asmorning and late afternoon may be sisted by their spine-lik- e tails, and are By JULIE ADAMS POWELL. seen rapidly sailing over the house- never seen to alight on the ground, betops, where th?y build their nests In cause they would be unable to arise unused chimneys. Their nests are again, on account of their long wings When the King bird arrives In the parts are grayish slate color; on his of glued together with and abort feet Thelr tong consists composed twigs Is crest red concealed a orange early spring with his .bride from the head of a rolling twitter, which la quite south, he guards her most jealously, The under parts 'are whiter washed pleasant to hear. and fights most pugnaciously all oth-tr- s with gray on the breast The tall is The Chimney .Swift Is about an Inch is nest with white. The black, tipped of his kind who come near. some of shorter branch end of than, the English Sparrow, but a the. built at e Noted. for, hie fighting nature,-thIts from several the feet low long ground, wings make It appeal larger. tree, King bird is entitled to his royal name; and Is a compact structure, composed male and female are marked The and Is also called the tyrant Fly Catch-tr- , fine of a deep, sooty gray. The alike, of being weeds, grass, leaves, Instring, and from his epicurean love of tail Is even, and has very elastic and and hair. The number bark rootlets, Bee as the sects, he is known again of eggs are generally five, and they sharplyjpolnted quills, beyond which Martin, although far removed from the are with dark the wingi extend and a half: white, spotted creamy Martin family, being really one of the The feet, babe exceedingly sharp brown and purple gray. Fly Catchers. claws.' J. suppose, that every hoy . who reads . ... He possesses no noble qualities, as In country houses, during the sumhas seen the Barn Swallow, this paper without provocation he often allows but bow many bave seen the bird at 1 have heard the roar, like dismer, "bis angry passions" to rise,, and work building her nest? Some day of a flock of these birds tant thunder, makes bold and aggressive attacks on If one of the large chimneys. from and the hide Inside barn, rising away Tou ' the 'crow,' and 'often 'chases away In the early morning. keep very quiet, you can witness this from bis field the less offensive small The Swift lays from four to six . performance. very interesting birds. Very like the Indians of the 1 wss out on a summer white eggs. last One day pure western plains, the King bird never and In the bam I heard a great The' Splashed and Sprawled Eggs of farm, tikes to meet a foe In open warfare, Point of View. chattering and chirping, and discoverthe Purple Crackle, preferring to swoop down upon some ed the Barn Swallow were building. saliHow gracefully Mrs. Poet The of birds the secretion a gummy enoffendlng neighbor, giving him a As the male of most bird families Jones sweeps out a parlor. vary glands. does not assist his mate in this work, The Housekeeper Yes, but does she When the Swift files, his move1 concluded that it was he" whq was ments are more suggestive of the bat take the dirt out of the corners? doing the chatterlngwhlle the little housewife carried the mud and straw of which the walls of the house were built Most of the time he was inside nest giving advice, the while she worked. There were three nests under way, and they were round In form and the mud and straw were firmly and smoothly plastered together, and the inside of a finished one was lined with . soft feathers from the chicken 'yard. These birds are very graceful, and they go about In colonies, flying - A low over "the meadow s and fields" while on the lookout for the insed? on whith they feed. The male and the female Barn Sw allow are marked alike. The upper parts are steely blue throat, upper breast and forehead are chestnilt rufous in color, and the under parts are washed with the same, shading to a buff., The talLls-ver- y slender, and deeply forked. ' The female is slightly smaller than the male, and her col Cat Birds Nest.' is paler. She raises two broods orlng ; peck la tbs back ef the head, sad then of young In'a'season. from the four eur King bird turns like a flash to to six eggs at a sitting, which are white with spots of purplish brown. Boys snd girls may be saved for the agricultural districts by teaching his resting place. commore Swift Is The Chimney them to love the country and to look upon farming at a noble snd profitable The King bird la about eight and a . called The Swallow, HU Chimney occupation. upper monly aJt inches la length, U'W : ? r are going to do great things, you ay But what have you done? Tou are going to win In a splendid way. As other have won; Tou have plana that when they are put Tou In force Will make you sublime; Tou have mapped out a glorloua upward ' course But why dont you climb? not- quite ready to start, you Bay; If you hope to win . The time to be starting Is now today Dont dally, begin! No man has ever been ready as yet. Nor ever will be; Tou may fall ere you reach where your , hopes are act But try it and see. Ton are going to do great things, yon Toure - ay. Ton have splendid plans; Tour dreams are of heights that are far sway; Theyre a hopeful mans But the world, when It Judges the case for you. At the end, my son. Will thlnk not of what yon were going to do, But of what youve done. oven-Hav- whereas It is no swallow at all, being th&a those of a bird, as he darts hithmore nearly related to the humming er and thither, and It is often perplexbirds than to the swallows. ing, at dusk, to distinguish the two. These birds congregate about my These odd birds cling to the sides -- Oat meal cutlets are a good subcold stantial dish made by using cooked oat meal formed In cutleta and fried In bacon fat until brown on both sides. Insert a stem of Jiarsley and serve. r Eggs In Nests. Beat as many whites of eggs as there are pairs of people to serve as one white will be sufficient for two. Heap the white hlch has been salted on buttered toast, hollow a place and drop in the yolk of an egg, place on a platter, and when enough are prepared set In the oven to cook. Serve with bits of butter and a dash of salt and cayenne on each. Garnish the platter with parsley. The extra white not used, may be used in a pudding or cake. Relish Select Egg and Potato smooth shapely potatoes and bake n the oven. When done, cut in halves and remove the center of the potato. Break in an egg yolk, sprinkle with salt and season with butter, add a teaspoon of cream and set in the beat the oven. In the meantime whites of the eggs to a .stiff froth and add the mashed potato, which was taken from the, centers. Heap, roughly over the baked dgg and when well puffed up and brown,' ' serve with minced parsley sprinkled over each. slice from Breakfast Rolls-C- ut the top of the rolls, spread with bute ter and brown the shells In the fill creamed some fish, ready the shells sprinkled with parsley and serve hot. Another pretty way of serving eggs to eut bread into rounds an inch and a half thick, scoop out the center, leaving a place to drop and egg. Rub the case with butter and brown In the oven, then add the egg and set In the oven to cook. Season and serve. Mush Rings With Fruit Prepare a pan of corn meal mush and when eold turn out and alice, then use a doughnut cutter to cut Into rlnga Fry brown In bacon fat and serve with prunes and cream. One day Billy and the stroller afield were tramping the meadow that edges the Bowman-vlll- e road that runs along and crosses the rustic bridge over the north branch of the river. They heard shouts and turning saw that a building facing the road was on fire.',-- It was a frame structure with the two upper stories occupied by families. It was on the ledge of the front window of the upper apartment that the caged lark which Billy bad tried to save had been imprisoned for several days. The man and boy started for the scene of the fire. The building was a furnace. Everybody's out," called a man in the crowd that had gathered. Billy, the witless, looked up. He saw the lark In the cage. The stairway was burning. He eluded a detalnlng-hsn- d and dashed inUrthe entrance and up the stairs. A man Jumped after him, but It was too late. He was driven back. In' less than a minute the people with staring eyes saw the boy appear at the front upper dow. His form was framed with smoke and flame. They saw him fairly tear apart the cage that held the lark. , In an instant the bird was free and went soaring heavenward singing. There was a crash; a floor had given way. A little later a crowd had gathered round the dead body of a boy. The school teacher and Billys naturalist companion were looking dqwn on the face that the flames had left untouched. Let me fall In He wanted to be a poet," said the teacher. rather than ait still "Wanted to be? said the tramper of the fields. Cyrus Hamlin. Tis an ..old saw. Wanted to be? His whole life was a poem Children and fools speak true. and his death wan a song." John Lyly. half-finishe- d ,1 You Done ? SUGGESTIONS FOR BREAKFAST. an-tac- I What Have to " . i gladly Not what we would, but what we must. Makes up the sum of living; Heaven la both more and less than 3usjl , In taking andin giving, the cleave to hands that ' plow, And laurels Kiss the soldier's prow. BARN SWALLOW, CHIMNEY SWEEP AND KING BIRD 1 that hath learned she. U I rule but O MAN doth safely i c What Hs Deserved. What," she asked, looking down at the ahinlng tip of her dainty little shoe, and speaking very softly and sweetly, "would you do if at this moment your fondest wish, your highest hope, could be realised?" He started up suddenly, with a gleam In his eyea Her heart throbbed expectantly; It seemed as If paradise were opening to her. '" SEASONABLE DISHES. Yes," he said, "by George, I'd do it! j Td order a carriage when 1 go home During the grape season the Juice I tonight, even if I do live just around should be prepared for winter and the block. Later, when he looked out and saw Jelly made as well as other good things which may be prepared from that it was raining, and wished he had an umbrella ahe merely said: grapes. l What a nasty night" and Grape Fudge. Separate the skint from seven pounds of grapes, chop the slammed the door behind him. tkina and add a pound of raising, cut Into small pieces, a pound of walnuts, WORTH A "TIP." broken in bits and seven pounds of M sugar; codk all together until thick. "Ton most be Turn Into glasses and cover as one new to this busdoes jelly glasses. iness,. said the Peach Chutney Prepare and half customer as the sufficient peaches to weigh, when prewaiter was brushpared, three pounds. Put them In a the away ing large agate saucepan, add a pint of crumba elder vinegar, and stew Until tender. "Why do yon Pound together in a mortar four think so, sir?" ounces of onions, two ounces of garlic,' I noticed that you didnt have your and fiTe ounces of root; thumb in the soap when yon served add these to the peaches, with sli IL" ounces each of raisins, white mustard seed and sugar. Add two ounces Her Modest Wish. ef dried chillies, a cupful of vinegar said the poet "I A"Sometimes," and simmer ten mlnutea Bottle for lmost get to thinking I would rather winter. Marmalade Tart Line a pie plate have been born rich than a geniua" Oh, dear," his wife replied, "I dont with pastry and fill with peach or to such extravagant extremea If go marmalade. Cover the apple top with rings cut from peeled and cored ap- youd .only been born with ft- longing to oat and get a job somewhere Td plet. Sprinkle with lemon juice and be go satisfied." sugar and hake a half hour. Serve with whipped cream. - Alices Limitations. AUc practices with dumb-bell- s In the college gym;" She can beat her brother Jumping; ' Br-r-r- c fresh-ginge- - r - - She outclasses him sprinter snd a fencer; for suppleness. t She can double up to look like A big letter 8; d. She can chin a pole She can .vault and leap. But. alas, alack, she isnt Strong enough to sweep. As a As Lectures Him, Probably. Wife (with newspaper) This article says that a person speaks oa an average about 12,000 words a day. Hub I've always said that you were above the averadge. one-hande- Insulted. Mose This May Explain It Why is It that women are strongly opposed to polygamy?""""'' I dunno," replied Mr. Henpeck, unless the average woman Justly considers herself more than a match foi any man." " Taller by I think yonah slatai - am very chic. Melinda" Mokeby (angrily) IT yoh mean to sinuate dat sbe looks like a hen? Puck. Loose Screw. Very often a screw hole gets worn so that the screw will not stay in. To remedy this cut some narrow stripe of cork and fill up the hole completely, and then force the screw In. Thlswifiprove Just as tight driven into a new hole. One Little Sin. la astonishing how soon the whole conscience begins to unravel If a single stitch drops; one little gin Indulged makes a hole you could pjt -war head throagh. tharKaf Buxton. It Their HIta . i I notice that nearly all the coma dlans are playing Hamlet now." Yes. and you cant deny that some- of them are a good deal funnier thas they wero before." Frugality. "I thought she was going to marr an English duke." No. Her father found a Russia prince that he could get for half ths fiTice." " |
