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Show PROOF in tho A Fair Return. Minister (aroubtng himself in bar-tier-'s chair) All through yet Barber Aye, l&cg syne. Minister Then I must have been indulging In a quiet nap? Barber Ye wls that, 6ir. Minister It was very good of you not to waken me. I am very thankful for what has been a most refreshing sleep. Barber lloqta, man, baud yer tongue; its only a fair return. I slept all through your sermon last Saw-LatLondon , RESUMAHLY everybody knows by this time that I 1 there Is a standing offer of in casl1 for tlle man -f ' f boy or girl who woman, I finds the nest of a wild pigeon (ectoplstes migra tortas known otherwise us), the passenger pigeon, and finds with it the nestling birds. In order to get the reward the person who makes the discovery must leave the nest and the birds unmolested and prove the truth of it by making a report and giving the scientists an opportunity to verify the case Magazine and newspaper articles literally by the thousands have been written about the disappearance of the wild pigeons which once, as it is always put, "darkened the sun with their flights." The members of the biological survey in Washington are specially interested in the subject of the disappearance of this bird of passage from its wild haunts. For years it has been hoped that nesting pairs might be found in some part 'of the country and that with proper protection the bird might be restored in part at least to its place in nature. Recently there was a story published to the effect that the birds, wearied of the constant persecution which met them in the United States, had changed the course of their flight and had gone into Meiico and there were living peacefully and happily. This story proved to be absolutely without foundation. Still another tale was to the effect that the pigeons had gone into the heart of South America and there finding conditions pleasant were leading a life. This tale alo proved to be entirely fictitious. In all parts of the southern states in the winter seasons' there are people for a glimpse of watching sharp-eye- d the bird that once was a common sight. Jn the summer sharp eyes of the north are constantly on the alert for the same purpose, but as yet no authentic report has been received that the bird of mysterious disappearance has revisited the scenes familiar through the centuries to of the- con n ALCOHOL- men p- - - cate-becau- 7 se -- le. r . that they had seen pigeons that spring, st leaBt 1.000 of them, but that none of them had been shot. Mr. Burroughs was inclined to believe the report, for the men who e made it were sportsmen and supposedly knew the Bird well. However, there is no positive proof today that the New York farmers and gunners were not Jfist as much mistaken as were who told the the story of the return of the pigeons to the upper Michigan country. In The Auk, a qusr-"terl- y journal of ornithology published by the American Ornithologists union, there recently appeared a paper by Albert Hazen Wright on Some Early Records of the PasIn this senger Pigeon. paper are reported some of the first accounts which ever saw print of the pigeon multitudes of the early days. When ons reads them it seems almost increiible that a bird Bpecles which numbered its is ivtduals almost. It would appear, by the million pillions could ever disappear from the face of the earth. The accent of the great pigeon flocks which .most the people of jhe country is faajliar-t- o is that wrlttel by John James Audubon, the naturalist It sees from Mr. Wrights paper, however, that a'cent)y ana a half before- - Audubon - was born reconfc were made of the TmmenaettUttiDPra of the blrdi' which were seen In America. The earliest writers called them turtle doves. Mr. Wright quotes from the Jesuit father, Le Jeune. who 10 the year 1637 likened the American Indiana to the px eons.- - Our savages are always savtheir age; they resemble the migratory birds of someown country. In one season turtle doves are times found In such abundance that the end of their army cannot be seen when they ar flying In a body. Mr. W right found another reference to the numbers of the pigeons In the writings of another Jesilt father In the year 1671. The observation wm made at Cayuga lake In New York state. "Four leagues from here I saw by the side or of a ri'criTlthln a very limited space-eig- ht, are snares fine Many extremely salt nine springs. set there for catching pigeons, from seven to eight Another fahundred being often taken at once. of the sevenchurch In the latter the of ther part teenth century writes of the passenger pigeons of the St. jAWfence country: Among the birds of every varlebf to be found here It is to be noted that pigeonl abound in such numbers that this year one nfl killed 133 at a single shot. Within the last five or six years reports have come of ths reappearance of the pigeon in Missouri, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, PcnnRjlvania,NeW York and Virginia and perhaps froa some dther states. In no Instance has proof hern adduced that the real passenger pigeoni the Mrd of the old time, was the species seen. The disappearance of the flocks which once covered the iky as with a cloud Is one of the of natyre. Mans persecution of course had much, ir not everything, to do with the annihilation of the species, but It would seem that some-tinelse, disease perhaps, must be held accountable at least In part for the dying out ot a noble race of feathered game. mvs-terie- Signature Arjw tfoid DrSAStUMCEK $md MxStnnm AWMM AmtH fhymmmt s &d hprm CUrtttd A perfect Remedy forConsIlp lion , Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea. Worms .Convulsions .Fever i sh ness and LOSS QF SLEEP.. fac Simile Signature of Thx old-time- Chicago, to look for migrating birds 'which had dropped down Into the pleasure ground from their night flight In order to rest and feed. I had Just entered the park when my attention was attracted to a large bird perched on the limb of a maple tree and facing the sun, a Web. was. Just rising out of Lake Michigan. My heart gave a sort of leap, for I recognized It Instantly as the . passenger- - pigeon,-- a bird trf -- wtilctr- ItadTiot seen a living specimen for at least twelve years. Then instantly I began to doubt and thought that my eyes must be mistaken and that the at- mosphere was magnifying the bird and that what . was before me was really a mourning dove. 1 drew .closer and then J knew there was no pos- siblllty of deception. Before me was a beautiful specimen of the male passenger pigeon with the sun striking full on the burnished feathers of his throat. I stood within IB yards ot the bird for fully half an hour and then It left the maple and" went In arrowy flight down the Kike s! ore drive toward the heart of the city. I have often wondered since what was its fate. Theodore Roosevelt . is deeply interested in the outcome of The Search for surviving members, if such there may be, of the passenger pigeon tribe. Mr. Roosevelt knew the bird when he was a boy and in bis trips afield he always has kept a watchful eje open for a possible sight of a specimen of the species now feared to be extinct 'Wheh Mr. Roosevelt was president of the United States he occasionally went to a wild spot In Virginia where he owned a cabin. He called the place Pine Knot While there one day he saw what he believed to be nine wild pigeons. It would be perfectly proper today for a man , f who saw as many pigeons as this together to shoot one of them one only In order to prove beyond peradventure that the tribe still has existence. When one simply reports the appearance of a pigeon or of a flock of pigeons everyone doubts very naturally the' truth of the tale, holding that the mourning dove has been sgain mistaken for its cousin bird. President Roosevelt did not have a gun with him on the occasion of his meeting with what he thought were wild pigeons. If he had he probably would have shot one of them. He told no one except a few scientists and a few friends of his discovery. He knew as well as anyone else did that in the absence of the proof furnished by a bird in the flesh It would be said at once that he made the common error. No one knows positively today whether the nine birds which the president saw were or were not passenger-pigeons. Every time that Mr. Roosevelt has been to Pine Knot since he has hoped for another sight of the birds which made him glad some years ago. John Burroughs heard from his friend, Theodore Roosevelt, that the nine pigeons had been seen In Virginia. Burroughs believed the story because he knew bow accurate an observer of nature his friend the president was and la. The stories of the pigeons In Virginia Mr. Burroughs to make Inquiries st ones In the counties- In New York state west of the lower Hudson lying In the old line of flight of the migrating pigeon armies of retrs ago. There the farmers Bears the Not Nar c otic he country sportstold Mr, Burroughs i old-tim- tryofthhrea e CH iVo ft ENH Promotes Di2stion,Cheerful-nes- s and Rest Contains neither Opium .Morphine nor Mineral and Always' Bought per cent -3 i I NTAVT&X itors. It was a long Journey to the northern Michigan club house, but an ornithologist undertook the trip believing In his heart that finally the passenger pigeon had been founL.for he knew that the men who had made the report had been familiar with the bird in the old days and supposedly knew the appearance or Its every feather. At thd end of the journey he was told that the pigeons were there and he was led out to see them. They proved to be mourning doves, a bird common in nearly all parts-- of Michigan and In most of the states of the Union. The ills appointment was keen, and keener In this this was one report which seemed to have about it every mark of truth. When 1 was a boy I knew the wild pigeon fairly welL It was nothing like as abundant as it had been In the years gone, by, but occasionally small flocks were seen in the vicinity of my birthplace In the foothills of the Adirondack mountalna In central New York. I am sorry to say that I shot some of the birds before I fully realised the value of giving protection to a vanishing race. The mourning dove I know as well aa I know the English sparrow, and I think that there la no chance of confusion in my mind respecting the identity of the dove and Its bigger relative, the pigeon, ,11,1s possible, though I am not sure that such la a fket. that 1 saw ih last wild pigeon reported In Illinois. . Others may within the borhave been seen since ders of the state, but if so I have not seen their 7 appearance reported. At five oclock on the morning of a late April ftay, fifteen years ago, I went tpto Unwin park. that-tim- DUHQElwoh AwCctaNe Preparation for Assimilating Ihe Food and Reg ula jmg the Slomactis and Bowels of pearance of the pigeon, but on investigation it invariably has been found that the discoverers had seen nothing more nor less than the common wild dove (venaldura macroura), or mourning" dove, Which Is so familiar a bird that it seems almost lmposslblethat any man of the countryside could have failed to overlook it as his constant neighbor and could confuse it with Its much larger cousin, the passenger pigeon of other days. To give an example of how the search is conducted for the wild pigeon and how conscientious' are the scientists In attempting to verify reports of Its reappearance this one Instance, taken from a hundred instances, may be noted. Recently a report from northern Michigan reached the president of the Illinois Audubon society that the passenger pigeon In very truth had reappeared In the vicinity of a club house frequented by fishermen and - gunners, many of whom had known the pigeon well in the old days and who were certain that In this case they could not be mistaken as to the Identity of the bird vis- -- en you need a remedy d COLDS COUCHS The Kind You Havo com-mo- n sections- lor For Infants and Children. - atf name to rememl , Shortly after her marriage a woman packs her Ideals away in moth balls and pays no more attention to them until she becomes a widow. thr - We tell you about bow good youll feel after taking a C A SC A RET that millions of people buy. use and recommend them But thats talk you buy a box now take as and get the proof directed In the morning After you know CASCARETS youll never be without them. CAHCARFTS Oe a Iwi foe s week's treatment. alldrneirtaia. Blogeat artier ta the world. 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