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Show BtRlit to llulltl Dovecot In Srntlnnd, It Is not universally known that the right of erecting n dovecot was the privilege only to be enjoyed In Knglnnd by tho lords of the manor, nnd tho law was vigorously enforced on this point. But in Scotland, according to a statute still held in observance, nobody has n right to build a cot la either town or country unless ho Is tho owner of land yielding about 000 Imperial bushels of produce per annum, nnd this property must bo situated within at least two miles of tho dovecot, or pigeon house. A further enactment nlso stntc3 that on tho above-named conditions only one cot shall bo built. A distinguished authority on husbandry husban-dry estimated that In l(K!S thero were 20,000 dovecots In Dnglaud, and that allowing 500 prlrs to each house tho damage wrought by birds In dovourlug com would work out at no less than 13,000,000 bushels, that Is, nn allowance allow-ance of four bushels j early to each pair. Any one who destroyed a cot was guilty of theft aud Is so held at tho present time lu Scotland (tho net was passed In 1571)), while n third of fenco of dovecot breaking was capitally capi-tally punishable. Hour Glass. White Mnu Treated by Iiullnn. Chailes Miller, a cleik In tho land otllco who has been nllllclcd for a number num-ber of mouths with rheumatism, has adopted tho usual method of taking treatment from an Indian medicine man. Recently Simon Billy (Foloba), ot Dufaula, began a treatment which Mr. Miller declares Is curing him. Billy is a fullblood Creek. Ho is nbout fifty years of age, and hns been a medicine man slnco his boyhood. In his treatment of Miller ho uses incdl-clno incdl-clno raado from herbs Btccpcd iu an earthen pot over which Incantations are said nnd mystic songa aro sung whllo the preparation is being made. Ills manner of administering tho medicine medi-cine Is nlso of an unreal nature. This Is believed to bo tho only In-stanco In-stanco In recent jenrs wherein a whlto man hns had sulllclcnt confidence In tho Indian medicine man to employ his services. Kansas City Journal. |
