Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 10, 1889, Page 10

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10, B DIRIGOS = Warranted Hand Made and Long Clear Havana Filler. 1880~SIXTEEN PAGES DECLARKE EST ) Sure Cares!} Gicago, tis. | Ciark e, e T The Best B¢ Cigar in Amenica j=- THE ABOVE CIGARS CAN BE FOUND AT THE FOLLOWING PTACES: Parties purchasing 1,000 cigars of this brand will have their names inserted in this advertisement. ) Bamsen, 101N toth &, nhart, 24 E iivont. s N, 28, Lyon. Woodbin N 10th St 6 St ETCHINGS, ENGRAV INGS, ARTIST SUPPLIE! \a OUL! l)]\(. 'RAMES 1513 Douglas Street, THE BIRDS OF NEBRASKA. Driven from Home by the Pestilon- tial English Sparrow. THEIR SONGS HEARD NO MORE Btartling Increase of the Foreign Vagabonds—In Twenty-four Yenrs They Have Spread Over thoe Entire Country. A Feathered Ishmaelite. It is an undeniable fact that wiihin the past few years an cnormous decrease fn our native birds has taken place. In n great measure this has been brought nbout by the ruthless and illegal kulling of these beautiful creatures, slain indis- ecriminately in sheer wantonness, or for B greed of gain. It isa well-known but doplorable truth that the heads and wings and whole skins of the birdshave in late years been an exceedingly mar- ketable commodity, as is uulhpummv testified to Ly the countless thousan s that perch upon t hats of your and your cousins and ' aunts, al ghough just now the i running largely to ribbons and flowers. This has been oceasioned, in 4 great d gree, by the clamor of the press for pro- gection for these harmless beauties of wood, meadow und glen. If such orna- ments must be indulged in, dealers should be compelled to trafic in only domestic or game birds, or couldn’t the pestilential Lnglish SpArrow be sot aside xclusively for this purpose? The m st {hmrnl and romantic of all ornitholo- fimn cannot conform his little, w.gly, ust-begrimed and sut-besmer *»¢ shupe Anto one of bonuty, or twist his miser- Rble, discordant chirp, at any senson of lhe 3vnr into a gush of bewildering Mlu English sparrow is unquestion- Bbly an imported nuisance, and is rapidly becoming the farmer’s principal ornithological execration. They were Prought to this country some twenty- five years n;w and lnlrmlmul at Central Park, New York, for the expr ol destroying i certain bl which infests the eastern es in unlim- ited swarms in certain vears, o the dis- figurement and defolintion of all sorts of vegetation and the insutferable annoy- snce of the citizens, The beneficent rhllnu\.hruph\w{ who imported twent, our pairs of this little feathered p can now cast Lis eye over this broad and vasty country, to its furthermost ooks, and count them by the mil- ion and the billion, They were supposed 1o belong to the family insec- tivora, but careful observation has roven conclusively that this class of rovender for the meagre in- credient in their daily diet, and that instead they are almost wholly gram- mnivorous. 1 was delegated eight years 8go to make an investigation upon this ticular head by the Ohio Ornitholog- E:l society, and resenrches were orough and convin ing. An English sparrow will Ny away in horrvor from flyuflna that even bears the vermicu- d shapo, and I have never known I.hem to wolest insects,or their larvae,of mny deseription, und [ have slaughtered t:.m by the score and minutely snalyzed contents of their crops. To be sure, out of pure devilment, they will make a pavage darvt at some gaudy butterfly oc- <oasionally, but uo ove has ever yet seen with a eaterpillar, beetle, spider or in its beak, Kill an rwrow.apeu his crop, sud yo IS S v % % MBAT 5 " PIANOS & ORGAN &FSHEET MUSIC. A. O, Potershn, Birasall, foy Ute WALNUT BLQEK & ,Hm € EMERSON €5 HALLET & DAVIS EKIM L, & ORGANS Omaha, Nebraska. find it stuffed with seeds, fine and grain, if the latter article is acces- sible at all, and they are generally well fed in this vespect, if ouly from the ox- crement of the horses 'in the street. Farmers, in these western stutes oven. are at las roing of the won- dorfully destructive capacities of this vile bird. Last seasou, in the eastern middie states, the wheat fields fairly swarmed with them, and they devoured bushels and bushels of this precious cereal. = Whole fields, [ have been told, were laid to waste. All through the hot sultry days of JTune and early July the birds swooped down like bees upon the golden grain, and gorged them- scelves to bursting, almost, from e morn until dewy eve. Wi will be the result within a few more yens? The sparrow is increasing a thousand- fold every day. They lay and hatch every hour from the last of February uill the middle of November. Their period of incubation is short, and they hring forth sevoral hroods each season, Hot or cold, wet or dry, it doesn’t s em to make any difference to this ¢ constitutioned foreigner, Another most objectionable fenture is that they are driving away all our sweet little native songsters, and no more sare they beheld in their wonted haunts in the orchard, the garden and the door yard. W hile 1 have never seen an Bog sparrow in combat with any other species of bird, I know that in & great measure they are responsible for the disappent of the catbird, robin, blue bird, martin and swallow, and that they are a philopolemie, Ish- maelitish tr lbu. und every (‘nv nesses gladitorial conflicts among themselves. The cock sparrow will stand up and strike with wing and foot like a well- ordered game chanticlieer, and some times they become so oblivious to all surroundings in their deadly despera- tion that you can almost walk up and catch them. Howover, I do not con- sider that it is on necount of their pug- nacious propensities or their warfare on other birds that has caused this wholesale vanishment, but a sim- crowding out by mere force numbers, occupying places that our native birds formerly found desirablo for themselves, and the strong dislike all their kindred evince for them. Formerly there was hardly a yard in city or town, without its "pole, sur- mounted with blue-bird or martin-box while to-day only upon isolated countr premises can such an ornument be see The sparrows took possession of them, and when citizens became convinced that they were established there for good, bird-boxes were taken down and tne ugly little interloper made to shift for himself. But he is veady in in- geouity as the defaccment of alwost every cornice and building facado in the city attests, What & woeful commentary upon our lawe is this vegretted scarcity to-day of our native birds, compared Wwith their plentifulness of fifteen or twen- Voo lons ago. Then & ramole l. \mufh the woods aund fields was fraught with most pleasurable sensations, all attuned to one grand cko- rus of melody that issued from the del- icate throuts of unuumbered birds, The mournful, faraway yet sweet note of the blue bird—dear "little harbinger of spriuz——l.lm homely, though exquisite ‘.vu( the robin, the plaintive warble of the meadow lark, the peculiar chick- ebick-chick of the uu\huu.h the whin- ing flicker the gollu\\hummt the petulaut eaw of the "crow, the burst of rming sony from the tiny indigo bird, the delightful carolings of tg et taninger, the amusing screams of the ‘ay, the ecstacies of the incom- b, ! Nebraskn Olty, | Bluffs, () Neb, SOLE AGENTS OMAHA JAMES MORTON & SON BUILDERS MNARDWXIRK, Gutlery, Mechanics’ Tools, Tfllenhenef.’fl, One door west of Postoffica, DON CARLOS Manufacturers 1511 Dodge St. s ———————y LUMBER CO,, and Wholesale Dealers in Yellow PPine. To denlers only. Mills Southern Missourl. Telebhone parable cat-bird, the thrush’s roundelay, sweeter than that of fabled Philomela, the redbird’s canzonet, the soothing twitter of the skimming swallow, and the drone and hum of myviads of other gay-plumaged primadouna, made an afffuence’of alien sound und color that was fairly intoxicating to the senses. But those days ha roceded until now the, buried forever in the ¢ realms of romance and mem- Now the birds are almost gone, and the commonest then are the rarest now, while not a few ies have dis- appeared entively. 1 One of the birds that is rapidly losing identity heve is a sweet little fellow with plumage liike blood, with a black blotch on either wing, and known as the scarlet taninger, It was once a numer- ous habitant of Nebraska's prairie copses and thickets, and its delicicus song was a welcome sound all through the long, hot summer days, for the taninger sings at all hours with a uni- form gusto and volubility and it does not confine itsell to matin ‘and soiree con- certs, like the majority of our feathered vocali This bird has undoubtedly been destroyed for its gaudy plumage alone, as I can conceive of no other ause for its extermination. As I remarked previous ars 4go, Dblue-bivds, martins, robins, yellow- birds, pewees, grosheaks, tomtits, wax- wings and numerous other birds were common visitors in every dooryard in all country towns, and the fruit trees, ornamental evergreens and gurden shrubbery were their favorite resting places. But now the only ones with temerity enouygh to reside without the solitude of the rural distrl , are the robin and pewee, and ravely the silique- like home of the golden oriole is to be seen devending from the sway- ing branches of some tall maple or cottonwood, when for- merly they were quite plentiful. But few martins, and not a singile blue- bird, I venture, nested within the lim- its of Omaha during the past summer. have been driven incoulinently vay. This is to be regretted,for whila the bluebird heralds the coming of the sunny summer time, the marctin brings it with and, naturally enough, aftar the long, dreary winter season, his first glad note is & welcome sound, indeed, and his bluck-green satiny plumage, flashing in the soft sunlight as he gy- rates and convolutes aguinst the blue background above, is a sight that stim- ulates the nmv\.nnd infuses new life into the heart of the most sordid and in- different of us all. Oh! for the powers reviviscent. TIf mine, I would again fill the world with beauty and song by the restoration of the birds, DY GRISWOLD. 1f you suffer pricking pains on mov- ing the or cannot bear the light, and find your sight weuk o failing, you should promptly use Dr, J, . Me Strengthening Eye Salve. 25 box. s Thanksgiving Approaches. Boston Courter, Let the winds blow cold, let the wiads blow s be dark aod dreer. Wi el Thanksgiving's drawing vigh, A time of mirth and cheer. What though we burn wood by the cord And weather prophots croak Soon on the groaning festive board Tho turkey, stuffed, will smoke. Then something to the poor we'll spare— Who're always with us hore— Auad we'll forget all grief and care Tn swoet Thanksgiving oeer. Martin Kennody luherited from his grandfather,an u&twr of the Fast India Company, at Calcutta, the valuable recipe ior Kennedy's East India Bit- ters, which are now made extensively by Iler & Co, Rooms, sadd. U8 National Bauk Butlding PAPAS AND PAUPER PRINCES Why American Girls Make Absurd Foreign Matches, HOW TO BE A MODEL HOSTESS. Always fietain Your Seclf-ossession ~Mprs, * Harrison's Bric-u-Brac— Incon iences For Woman— Which Sex Isn't Willin." If Registrars Wers Ladics. Columbus Dispateh, 1f registrars were ladies, With cyes as black as hades, Fair and potite, With laughter sweet, As wany a Buckeye muid is. A simple invitation To come for registration Would bring all men With iuk and pen With trifling hesitation, Whate'er tho voter's trado is, Or his complexion’s shiade is, He'd go and sign, In rain or shine, 1£ registrars were ladio The Amer Girl, The American father discourses loudly he sirect ear upon the folly of mar- ges between Americun girls and Titled but impecunious foreirners, says the Indianapolis Journal, He wondors what Huntington and others mean by permitting their daughters to throw themselves away in this manner, and avers with great emphasis that in such case he, the American father, would march the girl home without ceremony and tell the foveign prince to go to tho country assigned by anurchists to all potentites. But the American futher who talks so loudly would, when the emergency came, behave just as other American pavents do. He might protest vociferously at the ‘beginning, but he would presently grow meek and submis- sive, und end hv agreeing to all the young woman of his house desired, in- cluding not only thé acceptance of afor- eign appendage to'his family, but the paying of the appenduge’s debts, The American girl husithe American fathor too well trained to, be. m danger from that quarter when § xu has once caught the coveted title in her net. The father may chafe in his, clmms at times, but after all is not to bg, pitied, since he is alone to blame for permitting the processof family h.uu.uu; to be reversed from its natural ordeyr. Train up a young girl in the way she shopld go, and when she is of legal age. she will noy depart from it to marr ml)ul\cm.ulm. How to Be a Matiel Hostess. A hostess has s0 \Lcry charming a po- sition, if she is aiitdle, one wonders she should ever pf‘l'l it by being un- amiable, says the "Ladies” Home Jour- nal, She is, in the Hour of her hostess- ship, perhaps at the acme of a woman’s ambition. Tt is her place to see that a number of people are well fed aud hap- py. She is the person of all others to whom ever: 7 "wulle, gweet emotion, every grate! ful feeling turns, A hostess at a pretty country house is very much to be envied, and she can, without much effort, make e ybody lmpp_vl A hos- tess 1n the eity can become an enormous social power, if she has tact and & certain intelligence. She becomes the envied of women and the admired of men. That she ghould ever use this power to wake her- sell disagreeablo is amazin If we had not seen it done, we could hardly be- lieve it possible. 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'[}' LOW "SHOE 5 ¢/ LWSSF”E;A#unE » <9+ SOLD BY THE ¢~ s‘(\«t‘ DEST TRADE THROUCKOUT THE ‘{ UNITED STATES. Stanton's Amori peRNYRAVAL p'n'u.s ularly n o nate eases. N | 1y gverywhera or by Fuil puriiculars, 4 ota, Specific Medicine Co., Vindelpin, Fae He.2 m.m.l.fingg e trednent ot Wl wud Lol Haper oo tnrs's Erclal Roup for th ki e ufi.fibnflo et e e 'Heallh is Wealth! Dit B C. WEST'S NERVE AND BRAIN TigAT- i for Hysteria, Diat- 1018 Neuralgia, Colio] tobacco, Sottening of the 1) 3 ading to mis, Prematur Age, Tari in either sex, Involintary torhaa caused by estliing in ¥, and doath, nricss, LOSS of Powoer Tosses nnd Spermat- rexcrtion uf thio brain, solt- abnse or overiidu Each bBox contains ONE MOnNEN's treatment: §1.00 @ box, o siv hoxes £0r15.00, sent by mall prevaid on receipt of price, WE GUARANTEE SIX BOXES. To cure any case. With each order received by s for six hoxes, accomvanied by #3.00, we will send the purchaser our written zuarantes to re- fund the monay if the treatment does not effect tocs fssned only by Goodman 315 Koo Agets, 110 Farnam Nt bl er. H Tost servants in the presence of her guests. All that worries her must be carefully concealed from. them It is her place to oil the wheels of the domestic machin- ery so that nothing will Itis quite impossible in America dmt such aset of trained servants could be obtained, who should make the domes| wheels move without jaring. But the hostess should uot appear lo notice it. If she is Alhlmhufl tered, or miseruble, This necessity for cu)mnois on the part of the hostess 18 well smmn d in an old fashioned novel called *:Cecil,” where the hero writes to his Hiswr, “Learn 1o be perfectly unmoved at your own table, even if your cook sends up stewed puppy.” And the old poet eulo- gizes the hostess. who is— (il.llshus of herself, though China a There is no such utter mistake as to lose one’s temper, one’s nerve, one's composure, in company. Society may be a false condition of things, but what- over its faults, it demands of a woman of the ver, h virtues of self-command, gentleness and composure, politeness, coolness and serenity, Good manners are suid to be th i But they are v To be polite is a virtue of the \my highest. Mrs. Harrison's Bric-a-Brao M Harrison showed her friends the pretiy, antique pieces of furniture that she purchased for herself at Nantucket when she wasthere this summer during Mrs, Lord’s illness, snys the Washing- fton Star. One piece of pohished old muhogony is called in the Nantuc! kuv. voeabulary a “low boy.” drawers in its broad top, with ymll»shml brass hanging handles and plates, and the graceful arching spindling legs of the |u‘l'|')d to which they belong. The “tall boy” is in ,mlmhud cherry, of a vinkish ow tint, and has u chest of five drawers upon its delicate logs that are fashioned e the legs of the “‘low boy.” The drawers have br: handles and piotes also, and both pieces are genuine treasures of curiously wrought furniture of England bef the ever- memorable 17 A spinning-wheel set with brass hooks for a hall-rack is also among M Hurrison’s purchases at Martha's Vineyard, Mrs. Harrison had on approval Saturday an exquisitely fashioned silver gold-] {incd cup that she Baaloutbrac {os the prize to be given at the chrysanthemum show to be held at udianapolis next month, The cup is about four inches high, in solid silver, and the outside is chased in a design of chrysanthemums in low relief, Mrs, H on returned it to the maker to be suitably eng d. Another pretty silver plece which had a position upon’ Mrs, Harrison’s boudoir table is the souvenir log cabin presented to the president when he visited Baltimore this summer, It was quietly handed to him in its mulberry-morocco blue satin- lined case, It is about two inches squave, and is a perfect cabin and suit- ably engraved, Books as Woman's R.val. ‘Why is it that the books in the house usually belong to the men? says the Cleveland Press. Married women sel- dom accumulate them, but speak of the room used for reading and writi “my husband’s library.” And, verily, it is big, The other rooms in the house the husband and wife enjoy in common, but in this the wife abdicates all right —exeept the vight to keep it in order. Perhaps there is a shell in some corner where she has tucked away a roll of school books—a French grammar, & botany, & universal history—relics of her seminary days. These she dusts carefully, and touches caressingly she passes; upens oue cr]lu])s to llm page where the four- eaved clover is pinned. She was uc- counted intellectual in that day. But where are the books she then planned to read—the novelists who were to amuse, the poets who were to soothe, the philosophers who were to help her to live nobly, the scientists who were to assist her in applying “‘classified knowl- edge” to every-day affairs? They are not here. and she sighs as she proceecs with the dusting. ‘Women have many temptations to spend their smull change—uot for to- bacco or at the bar, but for bits of bric- a-brac, trifles for personal adornment, embroidery silks, and table delicacies, Some women may shop three times a week and leave none of their monay at the bookseller’s unless they buy books for gifts. To such all books are alike. They care not for difference in quality of paper or size of print, and so long as the binding is protty no matter if it be not durable. The experiencoof buying a book to read would be guite novel with many women. The libraricsof the city furnish them with euough for their leisure hours. Were they willing to sacrifice some of the luxuries which they have to con- sider necessities—the extra gloves, the quaiut teapot, the expensive desert— and put the price into books they could shortly accomulate a libra of fine quality if not of generous size. Surely one may be ns proud of a classic poem as of an ugly Chinese jar. Inconveniences in Woman's Work. The San Francisco Call suggests a so- ciety for lightening the burdens of women who huve houses to keep in or- der. and says: Does the shoemaker try to lighten woman's work by sewing the buttons on honestly or “tipping” the footwear with honest leather? Does the tailor who makes the pants with his boasted beney- olonce of **double knees” evor put them ontho right place or large enough? Does the carpencer ever put the nails and hooks where a medium-sized woman, let alone a child, can them! Is there ever but tho fewest possible shelves that a woman can reach without standing on n chair at the risk of break- ing her back? tis a vory little *thing to have no waler-back to a stove—so a man think; but to a wife-of-all-work it 1s—well, there is no word strong enough to ex- rrnss the trouble it cause: sink ona ovel, with cold water, is not an ensy % hing to keep clean. Why not make a little decline? Also, bring the zine over the edges somewhat, The contin- ual settling of grease in the fine cracks or interstices is very tryingtoa deli- cate-stomached woman, The bureau-drawers that never open or shut without a trial of temper, why cannot they be made to run smoothly? 1t should be declared & punishable offense to make a window that cannot be brought in to clean. Men invented all these mear and in- convenient things,and men made them, and they are responsible for the broken- down, haggard-looking women we see ou the streets, or rather in the hou Which SBex lsn't Willin'. A leading woman physician of Boston says that the great superiority in cul- ture of 80 wany girls of to-day over tho average young wan who has to go ear ly into business has one bad effect—that such girls do not care to marcy such young men, Thereupon a wn-um- in the New Orleans Picayune retorts: “'There is no doubt a great deal of truth in this statement. [n fact, in other devart- ments 1t has always been notl that ome of the standing ill effects of the culture, say of How- ers, has been to make its votary preie a ton rose to a hoad of cabbage; or of musie, to prefer a harmonious orchestra to a discoraant street. band; or of reli- gion, to prefer piety to profanity. Thero son why the rule should not ly in the case of rringe. im that ‘any husband is better than no husband” had once a great deal of truth in it, for the condition of the unmarried woman was in bygone days o forlorn one; she could no more help growing sour than mmlk in a thunder storm. Any and every woman with the most_insignificant sprig of a husband ould turn up her nose at her, and om- body a weight of public opinion in he contemptuous attitude that few single unfortunates could have thoe dignity and self-respect to stand up against. To-day however, the scales tip the other way with a vengeance. e THE HONEST YOUNG FARMER. How Ho Swindled a Bank of About $1,700 With a Forged Draft, Kansas City Star: About three weeks ago a young man having the appear- ance of & gentecl farmer went into u leading real estate office of the city, where he said he wanted to buy a house and lot 1f ke could find what suited him. He gave no name, but snid he had just sold his furm near Olathe, Kan., and had made up his mind to become # rosi- dent of the city, His wife ho said had been raised in a city, and had tived of farm life. She was a strict Baptist ana the property he intended to purchase must be near o Baptist church and con- venient to public schools. The young man had on a collarbut no tie, and had the drawl of a countryman. He was taken in charge by the réal e tate firm, put into a carriage and driven to property supposed to be just what ho wanted. The hu‘ppuwll purchaser wag very particulur about all the minor de- tails, and it was several hours beforo he could find just what suited him. The purchase price was to be paid the next ay. "Tist as tho stranger was leaving the ren) estate mon he took out of his pocket an old chamois skin pucse und from 1t took a crumpled araft on an Iowa bank for #1,700. He casually asked for reference to a good Imnf(. Tho firm at once introduced him to ono of the ‘leading banks, The stranger con- tinued farmor-like in appearance, Tha rumpled draft was dated o weel or 8o The manner of the stranger was such that the bank had every con- fidence in the genuineness of the draft and it was placed to the stranger's credit. At the nk he snid that he and his wife had taken temporary quar- ] Grand avenue, between Kif: teenth and Sixteenth, He did not re- member the number, All this occurred before noon. The #1,700 were placed to the stranger's credit and before 2 o'clock his check for #500 was honoreu, The next day he dmew within a few dollars of the ontive $1,700, ostensibly to make the firet pay- ment on his home. That was the last seon of the stranger. After he had disappeared the bunk received intoiligence that the draft was aforgery. The bank felt so ashamed of the transacted that it charged the $1,700 up to profit and loss. It even re- fused to let detectives try to cateh the man. This, right on the heels of voun Henton's swindle of the Midlahd banle by xlnposmng two $500 drafts and deaw- ing against them before the bank had been ndvised, shows how traqrently the ft swindlo is resorted to by forgers. Pinkerton’s manager here says this is looked upon by detectives a8 the bews place in Ameorica for confi