Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 10, 1900, Page 4

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SOL STOMLINSON’S FALCONRY OL TOMLINSON says it was a: Sunday school book that caused him to be nursing an injured spirit and mourning the loss of the finest collec- tion of fancy breeds of chickens ever seen in Pike county,” observed Deacon Todgers to the crowd at the corner grocery. “But I tell him it was his own foolishness in trying middle age notions in this closing year of the nineteenth century, and also in trusting too far to ture of hawks. “One Sunday afternoon Sol went out to the woodshed and found his boy Tom reading a book he had drawn from the Sunday school library. Sol cracked the boy over the head for reading novels on Sunday, gave him some chores to do, and then sat down to read the book himself. It was all about knights and how they rode about the country fighting for the color of their ladies’ eyebrows and how they went hawking and all such foolishness. But it seemed to impress Sol mightily. “And are you, with your blue jeans and bald pate and white whiskers, go- ing to ride around Pike county ona “prancing palfrey,” and fight for the honor of your lady, also?’ I asked him. ‘Or what particular kind of foolishness has that book inspired you to?’ “Sol looked hurt. “ ‘Fudge, deacon,’ he said tome. ‘I’m a respectable married man without any “lady loves,” as you call them, and my rheumatism wouldn’t allow me to ride “prancing palfreys” any way. The plan I am thinking of is agpractical one, and one that will bring money to a worthy old man without his working forit. Did you read what that book said about fal- conry, and how all those old coves used to catch heron and ducks and other kinds of birds by the use of falcons? Well, that's what I’m going to do,’ he says, earnestly. “‘But you haven’t any falcons,’ I ob- jected “*Tush, deacon,’ Sol retorted, sort of impatiently. ‘Of course, I ain’t gotany falcons. But what's a falcon except a hawk, anyway, and it will be easy enough for me to get a few young hawks and train them to catch ducks and other birds which sell well, but are a good deal of trouble for a tired old man to shoot.’ “Well, the first thing Sol did was to get his boys to work gathering in young hawks. That was considerable of a contract for the boys, as neither the young hawks nor the old birds took kindly to having their nests robbed, but the boys gathered in about a dozen young birds. “Sol had a lot of chickens of his own, and every time he killed one he would feed the young hawks a bit of liver. Then he would buy up the livers when- ever any of the neighbors killed chick- ens, and feed them to the hawks. Of course he fed the hawks other things, but pretty soon those birds had as well developed a taste for liver as some men have for ‘paty de foy grass,’ or what- ever it is called. “Then Sol began the second part of the training. He would put a dead duck on the ground, and carry one of his hawks over to it, go off a ways, and sort of indicate to the bird that he wanted the dead duck brought to him. Hawks are pretty intelligent birds, and it wasn’t long before they appreciated the fact that every time one of them brought Sol a duck there was a big piece of liver coming. “By the time the duck season opened | all but six of Sol’s hawks had died, | but he certainly did have that half dozen trained down toa _ fine point. Their appetite for liver had gotten to be like that of a man’s for drink, and they understood that ducks and only ducks were what Sol wanted. so they never interfered with his chickens. By and by the ducks began flying south. Then Sol started out to gatherin his harvest, “‘For months,’ he said to me ‘these hawks of mine have enjoyed fatherly care and lived on the fat of the land and the livers of several hundred chickens. Now is the time for them to repay my devotion. And, by gum, they will do it or get in trouble.’ | “That afternoon Sol got a couple of long sticks, and carrying them over his shoulders with three hawks perched on them, .started after ducks. Pretty soun along came a flock of ducks. fiy- ing pretty low. Sol untied his hawks and pointed at the ducks. It wasn’t half a minute before those trained hawks understood what was wanted of them, and off they went at full tilt efter the ducks, Each hawk grabbed a duck, started back with it toward Sol and dropped it at his feet. Then came the first of Sol’s actions, which turned aside the hearts of his faithful duck hunters. When the hawks delivered up their ducks to Sol they began to look for some liver as a re- ward. But Sol didn’t see it that way. "Those ducks are still in sight,’ he says to the hawks, as if they could un- derstand him. ‘And duty ¢alls on you to go after them. Now is your chance to repay a little of my care and affec- tion, This is no time to be looking for liver.” “Sol kept pointing at the rapidly dis- appearing flock of ducks, and as his hawks didn’t seem to understand what he meant, he grabbed a stick and be- gan pounding them with it. It was plain that the hawks were grieved and mystified, rather than angry. They had each of them brought in a duck, why didn’t they get their liver? And why did Sol, the man who had fed them and whom they had looked up to and ven- erated, beat them with a stick? “Finally they gave it up as a bad job trying to figure out what it all meant, and seeing that So: wanted more ducks, off the hawks started, but act- ing in a patient, puzzled sort of way that was really pathetic. “‘Those birds of yours are faith- ful and well trained,’ I observed to Sol, ‘but loving kindness isn’t the strongest quality of any hawk, even an educated one. If you beat them about once more they will try to geteven with you. And from what I know of hawks, I’m bet- ting they will succeed.’ “But Sol only grunted out that it was ducks and not tokens of esteem that he wanted from those hawks. “After quite a wait we saw the hawks coming back. They had had a long chase after the ducks and were pretty weary when they reached us, but each faithful hawk was bringing back a duck, and laid it in front of Sol. Then every bird looked up in an expectant sort of way as if he now felt certain of getting his liver. And it was here that the real meanness of Sol’s nature showed up. “Sol was just going to reward his hard-working birds, when away off to- the north another flock of ducks showed up. Then Sol wanted tostart his hawks right after the new flock. “Don’t you do it,’ I warned him. ‘These faithful birds of yours are pret- ty nearly worn out, and if you don’t OUT FOR DUCKS. give them the liver they expect they will lose faith in human nature. A trained hawk who has lost faith in human nature is an ugly animal,’ I said, solmenly. “But Sol was set on starting his hawks after this particular flock of ducks. The patient birds, instead of go- ing just loitered around, waiting for their reward. Then Sol grabbed his stick and began pounding them worse than before. For about a minute the birds stood it, then it seemed to come over them all at once that they were being beaten and cheated after they had done their duty. Each bird gave a sort of queer little ery, in which there was more disappointment at the way Sol had treated them than an- ger, and then rose in the air and turned, not in the direction of ducks, but toward Sol’s barnyard. “It’s fancy chickens and revenge your birds are looking for,’ I warned Sol. 4 “Sol looked at the hawks and then begaa running home as fast as his legs would carry him. But it was too late. The six hawks swooped down among Sol’s chickens, and by the time Sol ar- rived on the scene all that was left of the best collection of fancy breed of chickens ever seen in Pike county wasa mass of feathers and dead fowls. “What heartless ingratitude,’ says Sol, almost erying. ‘I fed and trained and eared for those birds, and then they turn and rend me, or rather my inno- cent and best breeds of fancy chickens.” “But I didn’t give him any comfort. ‘It was all your own fault, Sol Tomlin- son,’ I told him. ‘If you had treated those hawks halfway decently they would have cheered your declining years | and gathered in ducks by the bushel.’” —Boston Globe. Odd Signs on Staten Island. A bicyclist who has been making runs in the neighborhood of New York reports that he found the most unan- fmous and impartial slaughter of English in a sign posted on a Staten Island windmill. It reads: DIS VIND MILL FER SAIL. At a rude wharf on the Staten I» land sound this greeted his eyes: BOATS TO HIER. Another sign showed this legend: ‘WE LIVE TO DYF AND DYE TO LIVE. The Siberian Railway. ‘The British commercial agent in Rus- sia, Mr. Cooke, has just issued a very optimistic report on the great trans- Siberian railway. Siberia, he points out, is no longer a mere Russian penal settlement, but a young country with a great future before it. The railway has already diffused hundreds of thou- sands of settlers over the vast domain and is opening gold deposits which it has not hitherto been possible to work | at a profit. Siberia already ranks among the leading gold-producing countries and other important indus- tries are expected now to develop rap- idly. In many respects the history of Siberia is curiously like that of Aus- tralia. the |. PHILOSOPHY He Tells a Party of Boys Out Hunting Why Some Birds Commit Suicide. ‘ While hunting for birds’ nests re- cently in clumps of virgin forest that fringe the lake shore at Edgewater a party of high school pupils discovered a dead woodpecker hanging head downward from the limbless side of a tall tree, relates the Chicago Chron- icle. Its legs did not seem to attach to anything, but on closer scrutiny @ particularly fine-spun, though very strong, cobweb was found entangling the tiny bird’s claws. The youths had not concluded their speculations as to “the how and the whyness” of the bird’s sad end when | a sea-bronzed sailor of the type of Coleridge’s ‘ancient mariner” arose as from a mist out of the lake and, ap- proaching the scene of the discovery, gave a curious explanation of the puzzle the students were resolving in their minds. What the sailor said was about as follows: “Alas and alack, I am grieved to see that the tropical custom of the so- called spider web suicides among small birds of the South sea islands is spreading to the feathery tribes of the northern latitudes. That you, my youthful friends, may understand my meaning, it is only necessary to say that the aborigines of many tropical how the male humming bird commits suicide by entangling its toes in an overhanging cobweb of the spider-in- fested woods, whenever the female for which an attachment has_ been formed is mysteriously missing from | its haunts or has died or been trapped for the millinery shops of the highly civilized nations.” ADVANCE OF THE BICYCLE. It Is Now Being Used by Some as a Means of Earning a Live- hood. “To what base uses is the bicycle put,” exclaimed an elite member of the Scorchers’ Protective association to a Detroit Free Press man. as a machine heavily laden with tinware and guided AN OLD SALT, | COUNTY AND | ILLAGE OFFICERS | | | | | | | countries have a pretty fable telling | !TASOA COUNTY. ©. Miller W.C. Tyndall .J. R. Donobue -A. Clair Register of Decd: Clerk of Court Judge of Prob: Surveyo ‘oroner. Dr. ©, M. Storch Supt. of Schools. UMrs, 0. H. Stilson COMMISSIONERS, District No. ie PRPS A ios 55 <p haens ih e3 George Riddell hy J. ¥. O'Connell CEWORORS 45.0055 dope ate = - « John Hepfel (Lew y Recorder. Treasurer. Attor: F Street Commission Marshal GRAND RAPIDS LOD 18k: meets every Wedn P. hall * 1. D. Rassmussen, Ree. ITASCA LOT meets the month at f A. A. KREME WAUBANA LOD¢ every Thursday ev E. J. FARRELL, K. R. S. DIVISION } meets first Monday of. . KREMER, Capt. corder, POKEGAMA TENT NO. 33. K.0.T.M: every first, and third Thursday of month at K, of P. hall E, J. FARRe1 t, Com. A. E. Wippr. R. K. ' A. O. U, W. No. § Monday night, i i J. J. Decker, W. M F. A. McVicar, Recorder. ic A.: meets of 1 SCA CAMP No. 6444, M.. W second and four M month at K. of P. ha Li by an elongated individual made a zig- | 1 zag line down Griswold street. The rider was almost cqmpletely obscured | by dishpans, lunchbaskets and a choice his assortment of kitchen utensils, nether limbs and his wind-tossed b being the only means of ident him with humanity. As he pa down the street he kept constantly jingling an unmusical cowbell, which did not affright as much as it amused. | i Tle was a rare street spectacle, ws movable tinshop, and street car pa- trons and pedestrians gaped widely at him. But he kept steadily on his way, eas though his was ‘the most ordinary ‘business inthe world, and by and by he stopped at the house of a regular cus- tomer and sold a teapot. Farther up the street the observer caught sight of a laborer on a bicycle. He was acting asa steam barge for a cart loaded with tooted an alarm signal that made mov- ing vans and every sort of street vehi- cle give him the right of way. “Ah, well,” solilioquized the observer, “the scorcher may call it ‘base uses,’ but I believe there is some hope for the bicyele after all. As a feature of in- dustrial activity it is certainly advanc- ing.” HOW CHINESE USE THE BIBLE. | The Explanation of a Sudden Demand That Astonished the Mission- ary Society. ~ ‘What becomes of all the Bibles that go to China?’ used to be a stand- ing puzzle to the missionaries,” re- marked a Chicago preacher as he dis- cussed the Boxers. “A few years ago,” he continued, “there went up a great cry for 'mis- sionelly Bibles’ in the Flowery king- dom. The Bible society was extreme- | ly gratified. The demand was unprece- dented and thousands of dollars were | spent in sending them nice red moroc- co Testaments. “This sort of thing went on for a long time, but the number of native converts did not increase accordingly. The missionaries investigated. What do you suppose they discovered?” “That they used the Bibles for gun- wadding?” “No. They made firecrackers of ‘em. Practically all the nicely printed Bibles that we were sending over there were rolled up in nice little rolls, a | page at a time, and made into fire- crackers, The Chinese make firecrack- ers at home, for an incredibly price, and the’ paper that they were getting free cut a considerable figure | with them. But it taught usa cclestial | lesson, as I might y-” A Historic Cable. According to the Telegrapher, the cable of the Western Union which runs under Lake Champlain from Ticon- deroga to Larrabee’s Point has some- thing of a history. Europesand fifst connected opposite shores of the Red sea. Later it was brought to this country and connected ‘Yybee Island, near Beaufort, S.C., with Hilton Head. At the end of the civil war it was taken to New Yorkcity and | remained in the company’s storehouse | until it was placed under Lake Cham- plain. Exports of Scientific Instruments. The exports of scientific instru- ments from the United States to for- eign countries during the past nine months amounted to nearly $5,000,- 000, being an increase of 54 per cent. cver the corresponding period of the previous year, and larger per cent. of ng inerease than for any other class of exports. This is a notable showing of the increasing appreciation which our scientific apparatus is receiving abroad. teas Sis low | It was made in; ITASCA CIRCLE LADIES OF ts the first Monday of hall M CHURCHES. ae BA Bd SRIAN CHURCI— Rev. EL Py pastor. M. E. CHURCH—Rey. R. J. MeGhee. pastor ATTORN: plaster and building material, and he} | eae ata TTORNEY AT LAW Office over Ita ea Mercantile Meat Market GRAND RAPIDS, | | } ». McCARTHY, Cc ATTORNEY AT LAW | Office over Itasca Mercantile Meat Market. GRAND RAPIDS, . PRATT, ATTORNEY AT LAW Office over Marr's J R. ATTORNEY AT LAW County Attorney of Itasca ¢ GRAND RAPIDS, Clothing DOXONUE, D GEO. C. GILBERT, PHYSICIAN AND SURG Office over Cable's Meat Market, GRA.D RAPIDS. ing eas PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office and Residence, Cor, Kindred 2 , GRAND RAPIDS. THOMAS RUS PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Odice and Residence, South Side, GRAND RAPIDS, Eastern Minnesota R tiway. 10. - rr en eme SN