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THE TRAVELING BIRD PUZZLING PERFORMANCE OF THE RED EYED VIERO. Doea He Fli a Thonaand Miles In a Single Night f — Where Does the Mj-NtertouH Chimney Swift Go For Five Months Oat of Every Year? A ninu who travels 10,000 miles in a year is counted a ''globe trotter" of un usual energy. But our common night hawk, that every American boy and girl knows, thinks nothing of having a. summer home up in Alaska and a win ter resort in Argentina and traveling the 7,000 miles between twice a year. Its annual trip often covers 115 de grees of latitude. And some of our shore birds, a gov ernment naturalist tells us, are still more inveterate voyagers, making ex tra flights and covering 10,000 miles or so a year. Voyaging by the air line is some times extremely rapid transit. The summer warbler that spends the win ter In Central America and the nesting season at Great Slave lake, far up In the arctic, travels twice as fast as the Bpring docs. One hundred and sixteen miles a day is the record so far to Great Slave lake, the speed always In creasing as the birds move northward. The robin is an old fashioned, leisure ly tourist In comparison with some oth er species. It never does more than seventy miles a day. The average rate for all migrating birds from New Or leans to Minnesota Is about twenty three miles a day. But after leaving Minnesota several species of feathered migrants make first 40, then 72 and finally 150 miles a day before they reach Alaska. The bird traveler that gives the nat uralist the hardest transportation problem to solve Is the red eyed vireo. It winters In Central America and ap pears each spring at the mouth of the Mississippi, traveling twenty miles a day. At this leisurely rate it proceeds for six weeks, all the way up to the latitude of northern Nebraska. Then suddenly, in the space of twenty-four hours and before a single red eyed vireo has been seen anywhere in the region between, numbers of the birds appear in British Columbia, a thousand miles to the northwest. This puzzling performance is repeat ed every year. Unless the red eyed vireo files a thousand miles in a single night, how does it manage this be wildering schedule? Nobody knows, but then nobody knows either where the chimney swift goes for five months out of every year. Great flocks of chimney swifts, with numberless fledglings among them, leave the United States every autumn. Their movements can be easily follow ed till their various migrating bands Join into a countless host on the north ern coast of the gulf of Mexico. One day they are there; the next day they are—nowhere. Five months later, in March, a joyful twittering far up in the air heralds their reappearance on the same spot, plump and brisk after their winter so journ. But where the winter has been spent only the swifts know. It used to be a tradition (made out of "whole cloth") that they hibernated in the mud. But that merely showed the hopeless attitude of men's minds to ward the problem, for no swift was ever found In the mud in any known spot. What mud? Where? was there fore the natural question, never an swered, and leaving the mystery deep er—and muddler—than ever. The golden plover, too, has a yearly schedule of travel known to the nat uralist in every detail. In June it reaches the "barren grounds" far in the arctic circle, where Greely found these bird voyagers as far north as latitude 81 degrees. The nests are built on the moss, close above the frozen ground; the young are rear ed, and then the flocks hasten to Lab rador in August, where the crowberry grows for their benefit so thickly that when they leave the feasting place In the fall their bodies are plump almost to bursting, and their very flesh is stained red with the crimson juice of the berries they have eaten. They strike straight for the Antilles and for South America beyond, more than 2,500 miles In all. The plover can swim, however, and rest on the ocean wave, and on the way down it fre quently feeds in the Sargasso sea, where, far out in the Atlantic, thou sands of square miles of seaweed teem with marine life. After resting a few weeks in the Antilles the plover starts afresh, this time for Patagonia and southern Ar gentina. Unlike other birds, it puts its whole mind to traveling and flies both night and day. Six mouths in Patagonia, and then back it travels to the arctic by way of Guatemala, Texas and the Mississippi. The whole yearly route forms a great, Irregular ellipse, 8,000 miles long and 3,000 miles across at its widest point. Surely, marvelous as were the stories about the migration of birds believed by the ignorant in early unscientific times, the truth is, as usual, stranger than fiction.—Youth's Companion. Influenza and Turpentine. In the year 1890, when influenza was epidemic throughout Europe, many workmen contracted the disease in three watch factories at Madretsch, Germany, and a number died. At one factory at Madretsch, however, the dis ease did not appear. Investigations showed that oil of turpentine was used in the turning of the metals used for watch cases. The oil became warm and evaporated, and the workmen In haled the air laden with it. This seem ed to protect them against the disease. Since then oil of turpentine has been always evaporated in that factory up ion a stove, and not a case of influensa tui ever occurred there. SKOBELEFF'S REVENGE. The Way the Ruzslan General Re paid the Czar'a Innnlt. During the Iiusso-Turklsh war the (lay after the passage of the Danube had been made good the emperor of Russia crossed the river to congratu late and thank his gallant soldiers. In front of a long, massive line formed on the slope below Sistova, awaiting the coming of the great white czar, stood Dragomiroff, Yolchine and Skobeleff, the three generals who had been the •leaders of the successful attempt. Dragomiroff, the divisional com mander, the emperor embraced and gave him the cross of St. George. lie ihook hands warmly with Yolchine, the brigade commander, and gave him, too, a St. George to add to the decorations which this cheery little warrior had been gathering from boyhood In the Caucasus and central Asia. Then the emperor strode to where Skobeleff stood, and men watched the little scene with Interest, for It was notorious that Skobeleff was In disfavor with his sov ereign, and yet of him the camps were ringing with the story of his conduct of the previous morning. Would Alexander maintain his um brage or would he make it manifest that it had been displaced by Skobe leff's heroism. For at least n minute the czar hesitated as the two tall, proud, soldierly men confronted each other. You could trace in his counte nance the struggle between disapprov al and appreciation. It was soon over, and the wrong way for Skobeleff. The emperor frowned, turned short on his heel and strode ab ruptly away without a word or a ges ture of greeting or recognition. A man of strong prejudices, he was not yet able to exercise from his tnlnd the cal umnies that had blackened to him the character of Skobeleff. That officer, for his part, flushed scarlet, then grew deadly pale and seemed to conquer an impulse ns he set his teeth hard and maintained his dis ciplined immobility. It was a flagrant insult in the very face of the army and a gross Injustice, but Skobeleff endured it In a proud silence. The time soon came to that gallant and brilliant soldier when he could af ford to be magnanimous. As the cam paign progressed he distinguished him self again and again, so that his name became a synonym in the army for splendid daring as well ns for oppor tune skill. On Sept. 3 Skobeleff after exploit on exploit devised and led the storm of the Turkish position In Loftcha and drove his adversaries out of that strong place. On the following night at his own dinner table in the Gorni Studen headquarters the emperor stood up and bade his guests to honor with him the toast of "Skobeleff, the Hero of Loft cha!" It is not given to many men to earn a revenge so full and so grand as that. A Troubled Conscience. "I had a horrible dream last night," said Huddleston when he came down to breakfast the other morning. "What was It?" asked his wife. "I dreamed that I was In purgatory and was made to do all the things I had told my friends I would do If I were in their places."—Town and Coun try. } t E- O. Bl/SEXBURG Hilger <£ Busenburg The Pioneer Real Estate and Live Stock Commission Agents I Land Office Attorneys L Conveyancing and Life, Accident and Fire In surance Agency. LAND SCRIP FOR SALE Phone 81 LEW 1 STOWN, MONTA NA i %'S Subscribe fsr the Democrat Abiolutal) the Best Coal in the county BLACK < DIAMOND COAL > COMPANY Bring in Trial Order Telephone No. 9 Office corner 4th and Main ARCHIE HARRIGAIN. 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