Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, January 13, 1920, Page 3

TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1920 BIRDS SHOW INCREASE Beneficial Effects of Migratory Act Being Felt. ‘Waterfow! Have Been Breeding Rap- idly Under Protection, the Bureau Declares. Washington.—The beneficial effects ©f the migratory bird treaty act are beginning to be felt. The United States -department of agriculture, through its bureau of biological survey, has con- ducted investigations of the breeding -areas of ducks in North Dakota and Nebraska. Compared with former .years, a gratifying Increase of breed- ing waterfowl, particularly in North Dakota, is evident. The fifth annual series of counts of birds of all species ‘breeding on selected areas in various parts of the United States contained a large proportion of reports showing in- <reases in bird population. The total number of reports received, however, Wwas not large. Many of the persons who had formerly taken part in the -annual bird counts were unable, be- <ause of extra duties assumed during the war, to find time for the work re- <quired by the fifth count. “Many species of migratory birds,” reports the chief of the bureau of bio- logical survey, “have had a murked in- <crease under the existing treaty act. ‘Waterfow! formerly driven to the far North by spring shooting have re- mained in steadily increasing numbers to breed in localities where none had /previously nested for many years.” OLD CONVICT IS LET OUT /Released From Pennsylvania Peniten- tiary After Passing 33 Years for Wife Murder. Harrisburg, Pa.—After serving thir- ty-three years in the Western Penp- sylvania penitentiary on the charge of anurdering his wife, William Josiah McMeen, who went to the institution A8 a youth of twenty-four, was recent- Ay released, a gray-haired, feeble man. -0ld before his time. Convicted upon purely circumstan- tial evidence, at the time when Grover ‘Cleveland was serving his first term as president, McMeen has been a model prisoner and the pardon board of the State has recommended that he be lib- -erated. By a trick of fate John J. Patter- son jr., a boyhood chum of McMeen’s, ds district attorney of Juniata County, from which county the prisoner was -sent to the penal institution. Under the law Patterson was compelled to :appear before the state prison board and oppose his friend’s release, but it was graoted despite the objections. .McMeen has served longer in the peni- tentiary than any man in the custody -of the state today. A position is -awaliting him in a coal yard in Juniata ‘County when he is finally given his freedom. In 1885 McMeen purchased some -strychnine In Harrisburg and sent it :to his wife to kill rats, as he said. His -wife put the strychnine in grape jelly, -‘which she was making, ate some of the jelly and died. Bl e e Sight Fails As Artist Paints Heroic Nurse London.—While engaged on a large picture dealing with the fate of Edith X. Cavell, Mr. Van Ruith, a veteran painter, dis- covered that his eyesight was failing. Oculists predicted that the painter, who is eighty years of age, would lose his sight in a few months. Nevertheless he persevered and added the last touches to his work on the an- niversary of the armistice. Girl's Prayer Answerad. Kenosha, Wis. — Gladys Roemer, eight, cannot run and.play as other children do, because she is crippled. When she goes long distances she uses her “Irish Mail,” a little handecar af- fair which she can operate herself, and on that she went to St. Thomas’ church with her mother. After the services the little girl returned to the church steps and the machine was gone. A youngster, not aware of the conse quences of his act, had raced down the street on it, and Gladys was forced to stay from school. Officer John Breidt discovered a boy riding on the cart. The boy admitted he had taken it from the church and hid it in a barn near his home. "The “Irish Mail” was returned to the little girl. “It came in answer to my prayers,” she said. % Bird in Jail. Bath, Me—Cramped quarters were furuished in the Bath jail recently for the oddest prisoner ever harbored there. The inmate had been arrested in the neighboring town of Woolwich and turned over to the Bath police for safe keeping. He was not a tippler, but a crippled crapne, and measured from ten to twelve feet from tip to tip of the wings. After being on exhibi- tton for 24 hours the bird was liber- ated, all fines being remitted on con- dition of good behavior. Shin Bone for Her Spine. Watertown, N. Y.—With a portion of her shinbone replacing what had pre- viously been a diseased section of her gpine, Miss Irene Houghes, eighteen years old, of Alexandria Bay, is on the road to recovery in the Sisters’ hos- pital here. John Barton Payne, chairman of the United States shipping board, in a statement to the Southern Commercial congress, said in part: My conclusion is, it is not possible to have a successful American mer- chant marine until the country grows into the ship habit. The American newspapers and magazines must arouse the thinking men among manu- facturers, investment bankers, farm- ers, and labor to the necessity for a merchant marine. The congress is giving the matter close attention, ::nd besides the Greene bill should pu:s a mortgage bill sub- stantially like the one now before the merchant marine and fisheries com- mittee, to guurantee investors a lien for the purchase price of the ships which will, in financial circles, have as much value as a railroad mortgage, and investment bankers and the public may freely invest in ship securities. American insurance is essential that we be not dependent on foreign com- panies for ship insurance, as we are now. . To accomplish this great task all Americans of all classes must pull to- gether. The tales of the sea must become the gossip of the nursery and of the fireside. SEES BACK OF THE CLOUDS Uncle Hiram Refuses to Be Down- hearted Because the Weather Is Not Just Right. “Yes, this is a lovely day,” my gloomy friend says to me, looking out at the dark, lowering clouds and the steadily falling rain, and meaning, of course, exactly the opposite of what he says; but then, said Uncle Hiram, I say to him: “Well, we've been having lots of beautiful weather, haven’'t we?” and that is really the way it strikes me. Cold, dark, rainy days don’t worry me a bit; not the least little bit. On such days I recall the bright sunny days that have gone before, and dwell on them. In fact I store up out of them enough sunshine to last me through a longer period of stormy weather than any I have ever met vet. As I look out of my window at the present mement, why, back of the clouds that to my gloomy friend seem so dark and dismal I can see the white fleecy clouds of yesterday and the blue sky and the bright sunshine and I know that we shall actually have all those things again soon. There never was a storm yet but what clear- ed off some time, was there? Never! And thie one will be gone before you know it. As a matter of fact, I like weather, it doesn’t disturb -me, not a bit; it's just an appetizer for the bright days that I know are sure to come, Work Together to Take Fish, The best examp.e of company fish- ing is furnished by scme of our North American fresh-water pelicans. Flocks of 30 to 50 pelicans may sometimes be seen fishing in the very shallow wa- ters of a lake shore or drying river. They spread out in a thin semi-circular skirmish line in the water a few inches decn and-then advance with flapping wings toward still more shailow wa- ter, driving schools of frightened fishes before them. Soon the fishes are so crowded the pelicans can wade in among them and scoop them ap in the great pouches beneath the beaks. Such dipnet fishing is very effective. DIFFEFRENT NOW. “Da you have any trouble about officeseckers ?” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “but it’s a different kind. The diffi enlty now is to find able and willing kands who want te work for the wages the governmen® feels able to pay.” Essay on Baseball. A small boy was told to write an essay about baseball. handed to his teacher: game.” THE DIFFERENCE This s what he “Rain—no for dessert?” “How s0?” “Put on the table a cottage pud- ding on a floating island.” [ Dr. W. K. Denison—Dr. D. R. Burgess DENISON & BURGESS Veterinarians Phones: Office 3-R; Res. 99 Bemidji, Minn, NORTHERN MINN. AGENCY. Dwight D. 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