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Bfl? VOL. 23 NO. 46. There may be a few bears in South ern and Western wilds who are not on friendly terms with President Roosevelt, and several wild turkeys are hidden in the woods of Virginia glad to have escaped the honor of meeting the chief executive. But with the birds of the sea it is different. The president has declared himself protector of the feathered fleets of the salt air and he is doing all in his power to prevent the ruth less extermination of a species of life which is one of the chief charms of the ocean. Many a transatlantic voyager has leaned comfortably on the- rail of a liner on a sunny day and watched the strong-winged gulls sailing gracefHlly above and about him. He has watch ed them many hundreds of miles from shore, their white and gray plumage shimmering in the sunlight. as they followed the ship or sank down upon the blue waters, and their every move ment seemed to suggest power and self-reliance. Yet though they appear more than able to take care of themselves, they need a guardian and the president has accepted the task. Almost as numerous as the fish in the sea, these birds were found not many years ago breeding in every nook and sandy inlet all along the At lantic coast. They swarmed over the beaches, they perched on the cliffs and they sailed in thousands and tens of thousands along the shore. But wherever they congregated the man with the gun went, too. There 'were no state regulations to guard the birds as they were a non-game varie ty and, too, being denizens of the deep like sailors, landsmen's laws gave them small recognition. Behind the man with the gun was dame fash ion who needed wings and quills for various hats, and while the hunter slaughtered the pretty creatures, the egg collector robbed every nest he :oul find. The raid on the birds soon had its effect and presently there was an ap preciable decrease in the vast num bers seen along the beaches. They sought out secluded spots and finally most of them quit the mainland for barren islands off the shore. This was especially noticeable on the Southern coast, where, off Louisiana and Flori da, the gulls appropriated hundreds of sandy keys and tried to raise their families in peace and quiet. But the quill hunter and the egg destroyer followed and things looked still worse for the refugees. This was where the Audubon socie ty, the national protector and friend of all birds, stepped in, did a splendid piece of work on its own account and then interested the federal govern ment. This society went into the leg islatures of the various states on the Atlantic coast and put through a number of protection bills then it set about to .purchase the barren island liomes of the sea birds and set them apart for reservations. Keepers were placed on the islands and every pos sible precaution was taken to prevent further slaughter. The society finally got the govern ment interested in its work and suc ceeded two years ago in having set apart as a national bird reservation two groups of small islands off the coast of Florida and one group off the Louisiana coast at the mouth of the Mississippi river. It is to the latter reservation that President Roosevelt has just added another preserve adjoining the origi nal Breton reservation as it is called. By executive order, just issued, the Tern Island reservation, which com prises the "Mud Lumps" at the mouth of the Mississippi, has been set apart I^Pff^l^^^lS HE APPEAUEEPS IN FRONT BECAUSE: 1 It aims to publish all the news possible 2It does so impartially* wasting no words-' 8Its correspondents are able and energetio GOVERNMENT PROTECTS THE BIRDS OF THE SEA New Reservation Created at Mouth of Mississippi, Where Sea Gulls May Raise Broods in Peace. NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY'S PATROL BOAT ROYAL TERN, Which keeps an eye on the bird breeding Islands off the Louisiana coast. His Love Letters. HusbandHave you still the letters -wrote you before we were married? WifeYes why? HusbandBring them here, I want to bum them. I am just making my will and I am afraid that If any of my relatives see those letters after I amthe dead they will,think I was of unsound mind. rT^-fe.''v*': Lots of people let their daily manna poll while they pray for butter and sugar to spread on it. ZMY- Wl'U w& iHI for the' birds of the sea, and the fed eral government will protect them as zealously as she is protecting the "in- fant industries" of the country with the tariff. On this southern coast the .govern ment has taken two distinct types of birds under its sheltering wingthe gulls and the pelicans. The latter find safe breeding places on the Flori da reservations, the most important islandin this group being,.Pelican.. isV ariarrwhlch is alive with these birds. The terns or sea swallows, which are the most numerous of the small gull family, are breeding in vast num bers all over the "mud lumps" or small flats formed by sedimentary de posits at the mouth of the Mississippi. Here among the grasses and salt marshes they thrive, laying their eggs in the sand and hatching their young under the watchful eyes of keepers. These keepers are now in the employ of the government, although the Audu bon society formerly raised funds by popular subscription to p'ay them, and does maintain a number even now, independent of the federal authorities. By some unexplained instinct the terns seem to know they are protect ed, and they virtually cover the little island. They vary in size from nine inches long to two feet, and in color from white to bluish gray and darker shades to almost black. In the win ter months thousands of ducks also find refuge on the tern reservations. By far the most interesting of the protected birds, however, are the pel icans, the big, ungainly creatures which are always the delight and won der of the visitor to the zoo. The white and brown species are found off the Florida coast and Pelican island, near Sebastian, is an ideal spot for the birds to breed. Here in the warm climate especially suited for them they live in peace, unmolested by the hunter or the egg collector. Accord ing to a government report on the isl and one egg collector who visited the place in 1896 carried off 125 sets of eggs in an hour, "which must have represented a very considerable pro portion of the eggs then in the nests." It was just this ruthless destruction of bird life which inspired the presi dent to extend federal protection to the feathered tribes. In connection with the pelican it is interesting to note the fact that the bird was the subject of a tradition in olden days. The tip of its long hook ed beak is bright red, and because of this there was a belief that it fed its young with its own blood, which it took from its breast. The fact that the bird has a habit of burying its Drums Drove Rats Away. 'tfi The beating of snare drums has been found efficacious" by Newton W. Rueh in clearing out a rat-infested farm., He lives on the old Peter Shields farm, near Washington, Pa. The rats were so numerous they ate fodder, nipped his cattle and took possession of his place. He engaged four friends to help him and they beat five snare drams about the house and farm buildings, causing the rats to scatter. Rush said* he has not seen a rat. about the place since. ~*T beak in its bosom doubtless gave rise to the belief, which, of course, was merely a myth. At the same time the legend made the pelican an emblem of heraldry and it was emblazoned on many a noble crest as a symbol of self-sacrifice. SELF-LIGHTING LIFT BUOY. A Novelty on the Lusitania That At tracted Attention. One feature of the big Lusitania which attracted crowds when she was open for inspection was the automatic life buoy which is fastened between WARDEN HALFORD, One of the Louisiana Audubon socle* ty's keepers. decks on a slanting frome in such a way that it can be released by thecongressmen, pressure of a button on the bridge. On each end of the four arms of a large cross shaped framework is a copper ball. These palls are so weighted that when the buoy strikes the water it will float upright. To the cross arms are fastened long v&% ~A"/^S.'!i .nfeWM *V~X*,.J J"-^~ -A' W BROWN PELICANS ON PELICAN ISLAND RESERVATION. brass "cylinders. These cylinders are calcium carbide lights so arranged that they flare up by contact with the water. Should a cry of "Man overboard" be raised at night the officer on the bridge presses the button, the buoy hits the water and the lights flare up. If the man overboard is a swimmer he can reach the buoy, to the arms of which loops are attached to aid himiam in keeping above water/ The ship also has a mark to guide it. A POULTRY QUEEN. Woman Who Started With a Setting of Eggs .Clears' $5,000 a Season. Five years ago Mrs. O. H. Bur bridge secured a setting of Orpington eggs and raised a brood of chickens. To-day, accoring to. Spare Moments, she is called the Poultry Queen of California. She has taken more ribbons and cups than any one in the Golden State, but the bulk of her money is made by fattening capons for the big hotels. Mrs. Burbridge makes at least $5,- 000 in a season of four months by sell ing capons. Her aim has been to demonstrate that poultry raising is woman's field. Mrs. Burbridge says that the pleas antest part of the whole business is the opportunity to help women who come to her for advice and assistance* and she points with pride to-one old lady whom she started two years ago with a setting of eggs and who used a piano bo for a hen house, but who now clears nearly $100 a month from her flock. 'j'\,-'\\^. 'i^-. O ")-^3B5K Up^o-Date|Ht^ Th "I suppose you go to the city at least once a year," said the summer boarder. &*& "I used tew," replied the old fainS er, "but I ain't been thar fer nigh onto three years neow. Sense we got rural free delivery 1 km git bunkoed list as well by mail, b'gosh!''. WB&tiSk American Manufactures. Seventy-six American cities oack produce more than $20,000,000 of manufactured goods every fear. S*i ST. PAUL ANDifflNNEAjPOLIS. MINN, SATUBDAY. NOVEMBER 16. 1907. A most important patriotic move ment is the Thomas..Jefferson Memor ial Association of Washington, D. C. The object of this association is to erect in the national capital what will unquestionably be the most beautiful architectural structure in America, a duplication df the "famous Parthenon of ancient Athens, In memory of the author and signers 1 of the American Declaration of Independence. This tribute will be of the masses, of the old and the young, and in de sign andeost fully in keeping with the magnificent character of the man and the importance of the document de claring to the world in unmistakable terms "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Cre ator with certain Inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness The proposed memorial to be erect ed on one of the government reserva tions in the city of Washington, will be ,a replica in white marble of the famous. Parthenon f Athens, which has long been recognized to have been the most perfect architectural struc ture in the world, arid its cost is esti mated at $500,000. A large model is now on exhibition at the historical building of the Jamestown exposition, and later will be exhibited in the im portant cities of the} country. The association is] non-partisan, its board of governors/and its member ship being composed* of men of all po litical faith, and this fact is well dem onstrated by the certificate of incor poration as filed wi|h the recorder of deeds in the city ofSJWashington with a list of over 300 incorporators, in cluding United Stages senators and jurist^, the clergy, and leading men of the country. It is the first organization eyjer formed in this country for this purpose.' Inasmuch as it was decided at the very beginning of tl^ts movement that the tribute should be.of the masses, no appeal has been made to congress for financial assistance, as is frequently the case in the erection of memorials in this country, but, the project has been formally ap^ro^e^^y^coh'gfSSis and a law has been enacted by that body providing for the making at the Philadelphia mint of 150,000 medal lions in bronze for the association, and which will be used as one of the ways of creating the required fund. In order that the true spirit that un derlies this great movement may have its greatest effect it is .proposed that the children of the country shall have an opportunity to contribute, and plans are now being formed in Wash ington whereby an appeal will be made to the school children of all the states. The general- affairs of the associa tion are conducted by aboard of gov ernors consisting of one representa tive from each of the thirteen original states, and among these are Former Postmaster General Charles. Emory Smith, Alton B. Parker of New York, Congressman H. L. Maynard of Vir ginia, and Joseph Daniels of North Carolina.. Each state is represented in the association by a vice president for that state, and notable among these are United States Senators Per kins of California, Money of Mississip pi, Foraker of Ohio, Nelson of Minne sota, Daniel of Virginia, Newlands of Nevada, McCumber of North Dakota, Culberson of Texas, Dillingham of Ver mont Former JPostmaster General Don M. Dickinson of Michigan, Will- J. Bryan of Nebraska, Congress man Champ Clark of Missouri, exTSec retary of Navy Hillary A. Herbert of Alabama,. ex-Vice President Adlai E. Si^i-i'S TO DUPLICATE FAMOUS I W PARTHENON OF ATHENS Memorial Association to Erect in the National Capital a Duplicate of This Famous Structure in Hbnor of the Author and Signers of the Decla I ration of Independence*\",-X Hornets Building for Mild Winter. A mild winter, says John Peterman, the Butler, Pa., hornet nest prophet The hornets are building high in the air. if the signs are for severe cold they build on the* ground, where the snow drifts over them to protect the larvae from the cold. If they select a place high for their nest they phophesy a warm, open winter. The corn husks, too, tell of a Jmild winter, says the hornet nest prognosticated The husks are thin and few. JSSft. THOMAS JEFFERSON. TWO KINDS OF MISERY. Both Are Suffered by Authors, but One Has Compensations. "Among' the acutest of the small miseries of my existance," declared Hall Caine in the Book Monthly, "has been that of seeing a man, or more frequently a. woman, take up and lay down, in the midst of a running fire of desultory conversation, in the trains, on the steamers, in the halls of hotels or on the seashore a story on which I, might have spent all my strength and have written, as I sup posed, with my heart's blood." "Now, that's all very well," com ments Keble Howard in the Sketch, "but Mr. Caine must remember that there area good many novelists also writing with their heart's blood who never see their stories taken up at all. When they do see them taken up there is often a large fly in the oint ment. "A week or two ago, for example, I spent five hours in a railway car riage with a wealthy gentleman, un known to me save by name and repu tation, who was actually reading one of my own humble works. 1 "When he had finished it he handed the volume to his son. The son re marked that his mother had read the same copy. It was a sixpenny edition, sold at four pence half-penny. I got the half-penny." PROPOSED MEMORIAL TO THOMAS JEFFERSON i Danish Journalists Here. &>1fd JFifteen members of the staff of the Copenhagen Politician -'/newspaper, who will visit points of interest in this country for a month, have arriv ed in New,Yprk,tbn. the steamer Os carll. %^.-r- r^Oyama Living Quietly. field Marshal Oyama is now living on half pay in a little-house in tb% west end of Tokip. He does hot en courage any herb business, and isvl|_y- ing as a quiet old man should, f^fff? i^KM MINNESOTA HISTORICA '-ft-.'-"*" Stevenson of Illinois- Justice of the United States Supreme Court William H. Moody of Massachusetts, and Gen. J. M. Wilson, U. S. A. Branch associations and state com mittees are being organized as rapidly as possible by the national association for the purpose of devising ways and means for the creation of the fund for the erection of the building. Among those who have indorsed the move ment from the State of Minnesota are Senator Knute Nelson, vice president of the association for this state, Gov. John A. Johnson, Congressman F. C.to Stevens, Congressman Frank M. Nye, ex-Senator William D. Washburn, T. B. Walker and O. C. .Wyman. The association is now conferring a series of honorary/life memberships to the prominent citizens of the coun try as one of the ways of the creation of the, fund. These memberships, which are non-assessable, are limited and are proportioned to the different states according to population. The names of these life members are to be perpetuated in the building in endur ing form under the section allotted to the respective states. ,v- TRUCKMAN ANDSMALL BOY. Etiquette of Free Rides in the Street The Rule as to Bundles. The small boy dearly loves to ride on the tail of a truck, and as a rule the truckman is kind to him and lets him ride. Influenced by the truck man's example of tolerance, a bunch of small boys riding thus on an empty truck will make room for still anoth er boy if they can. Suppose four boys are sitting across there, scattered somewhat, and soess occupying all the space if another boy comes prancing out from the side walk he four boys will crowd up and give him a chance. And if the fifth boy has a bundle that he wants to get a lift with, one of those four boys wijl back up and sit on the floor of the truck to give the newcomer room. While the truckman is thus kind to to the small boy and freely lets him ride, yet it is commonly understood that the small boy shall not fill the truck and so make a load for the horses his privileges are understood be confined to the tail of the truck. As many of him as can sit there may do so but if they should fill up the body of the truck they would be liable all to be ordered off. And bundles area somewhat tick lish proposition. Some truckmen who may willingly let boys ride draw the line at bundles, and especially at big, heavy bundles, and the 4on driver of a light wagon who might let a boy jump on behind would almost certainly shoo him off if he tried to get on there with one. So a row of boys sitting along on the tail of a truck might decline to make room for another boy who came along with a big bundle, knowing the aversion of some truckmen to carry ing dead weight free, and if some boy did back up on the floor of the truck to make room for such a boy to get aboard, the boy that backed up would be likely to insist, when the new comer was safe aboard, that he should move up back and let him return to his place the tail so that it would be the boy with the bundle upon whom the truckman's wrath would fall. Still there are exceptions to all rules, and even the driver of a light express wagon may, let a boy with a bundle get aboard and ride. Such a wagon the other day had when first seen eight riders aboard altogether, including the driver, a youth, who had with him on, the driver's seat two boy friends. The other five were free rid ers, boys who had jumped the wagon. One of these was a district messen ger boy5 who was calmly sitting on the top edge of one of the wagon's sides, with his feet on the floor, and the other four sat on the wagon's tipped down tailboard. Seeing the wide latitude of freedom allowed by this driver still another boy, this one with a bundle, ran) out into the street and! put himself and his bundle aboard, too, and the driver let him ride, so that on this wagon there were riding nine boys, one of them carrying a bundle. But even this does not mark the limit as to the number of boys that may sometimes be seen carried by drivers exceptionally tolerant. Thus there was seen going down Broadway, New York, recently a long empty scenery truck on which were sitting sixteen boys, strung along, nine' on one side and seven on the other, two long straggling rows of. boys sitting back to back and with their legs hang in down and all immensely enjoying their novel ride on this peculiar daschhund of vehicles, and presenting incidentally an unusual spectacle. Dogs Size of Rats. If there should be a further boom in the toy dog pet craze the Western Australian desert should prove a small El Dorado. In the course of an exgranting pedition to look for a practical stock route between the Northern pastorial lands and the central gold fields a party found large numbers of a tiny animal of the dog tribe, no bigger than a rat. The natives eat it greedily. ffikpA Timid Folk. "England hasn't had a war some tfnWff- "No, they don't dare. They're afraid Alfred Austin might write an ode about it M-vm \?m~ HE APPEAL STEADILY WIN S* '4It Is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans: 5It is not controlled by any ring or clique. 6It asks no support but the people's. for Mrs. CallerI'm having all kinds of trouble with my cook. The way she carries on is. something awful. sS^Sg$ Mrs. HomerI'm doing my own cooking now. What my last cook car Tied off was. sufficient to start a small grocery. "\f^k 1 %MW: $&* 12.40 PEJt YEAR. -M TO HAVE NEW HOME HANDSOME STRUCTURE IS BEING BUILT FOR FRENCH EMBASSY. Will. Have Wings Divided from Main Roof by Portico, in Old Roman StyleErected by Ex-Sen ator Henderson. One of the imposing houses in proc of erection on Sixteenth street i9 the home in which ex-Senator and Mrs. Henderson will build the French embassy. It will be a home for the ambassador and office of the em bassy. The plans call for a house of impos ing style. The proposed arrangement can be likened to the homes of the rich Romans at the time of Caesar and Nero, where certain wings were divided from the main roof by a por tico or colonnade, thus allowing both sides privacy, and at the same time convenience of reach: The plan will be followed in the part that will act ually be used as the offices of the embassy and the home of the ambas sador. It is held that such division will facilitate matters and will offer advantages. For instance, the wing given over to the oflices is to be built for commercial purposes, while the other will retain all the comforts of the home, intended only for such use. In planning the residence the archi tect chose the modern French style of architecture as the type of the new house. The exterior will be construct* ed of white marble and terra cotta. New Home of French Embassy. The main entrance will be on Six teenth street and aside entrance on Kalorama avenue. The embassy of fices will be arranged. on the first floor,-and will be finished in the re fined style of a modern business of fice. The kitchen and minor rooms will also be located on the first floor. A finely designed marble stairway, with balustrades of wrought iron, will lead to the second floor. On this floor there will be a small ante-room, a large drawing-room, 22x40 feet in di mensions, a smaller circular drawing room, with windows on all sides, and a large dining-room, 20x38 feet in di mensions, with a breakfast room ad joining. The upper floors will be given over to bedrooms. The drawing-room will be finished in modern French style, with wood work in white and gold. The dining room will be finished in brownish stain, with wall spaces for the hang ing of tapestries, which will be fur nished by the ambassador, who has a rare and valuable collection. 1907 A RED LETTER YEAR. Right to Vote Won by Women in Four Countries of Europe. Women all over the world are be ginning to look upon 1907 as a red letter year for their sex. Their first notable step ahead this year was the of parliamentary suffrage to the women of Norway. Then Swedish women were made eligible for munici pal office next came the granting to the women of Denmark of the right to vote for and serve as members of boards of public charities, and now the British parliament has just passed the bill making women eligible as town and county councilors and alder men. In 1888 when the county councils were instituted' in England it was thought that women were eligible^ and' threeLady Margaret Sandhurst, Miss Jane Cobden and Miss Conswere elected by the voters of London. Beres ford Hope, who had been defeated by Lady Sandhurst, contested the elec tion on the ground that women were not eligible. The litigation was pro longed and meanwhile the women were allowed to serve. One of the duties assigned to Lady Sandhurst was the supervision of 23 infant 'asylums. When Mr. Hope finally succeeded in ousting her one of the leading London dailies sarcastically remarked: "It is to be hoped that the gentle man will find himself equal to mother ing all those babies." Indian Cigars Cheap. mm -./fey 5^i*fc'8 Cigars are cheap in India. United States Consul Michael, of Calcutta, says: A firm in Madras advertises three of its best cigars at seven and one-half cents, one and three-fifths cents and two and one-half cents each, respectively. I suppose these cigars would sell in the United States at ten. to 15 cents each, or two for a quarter. j$3J The men who grow the tobaccothat' is, the laborers in the fieldget tent, to 12 cents a day and the men who make the cigars get from 12 to 20&ff.$| cents..a dayboth classes boarding %t4M and lodging themselves. Nice-looking M^M stogies are "manufactured in Madras oS/... and sold at wholesale for 56 cents a iig thousand,. '-m '''A '(m vt