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BIRDS OF ARGENTINA.
Mm r of Beavtifal Plomaca and Baaaa
That Are Wonderful
llagera.
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i Among Argentina’s greatest treas
ures are her birds, which abound there
tn great number and variety. One pe
culiarity of the birds is their gaudy
plumage, brightest scarlet, orange,
olive, yellow, pink and green—painted
perhaps by the southern sun, says the
Montreal Family Herald.
In color they are beautiful and la
Books wonderful. Let us go to the
wbods bordering the river and see how
many we can find. Yonder bird is
called the “arm of fire” on account of
his bright color. He appears to take
great pride in showing himself. There
is the cardinal with the scarlet crest,
white breast and dove colored back,
also the yellow cardinal with yellow
body and black crest. It is so named
because It’s crest resembles the car
dinal’s hat That beautiful pink line
that you see in the distant sky is a
flock of pink flamingoes. They are
nearing us. Now they alight on the
. Band on the margin of the river. How
Pretty they are! Listen to that exquis
ite song. That is the “Bugero," a large
black bird with white beak. From the
grassy marsh comes the discordant cry
•f the heron, and the green parrots are
•battering in the trees over our heads.
They think their scolding will fright
en us away. See that lovely golden
wren creeping up the tree, hunting
Bpiders. He does not seem a particle
■fraid of us. Hear that sweet voiced
robin. They are much finer nine-era
than the robins of our country. Here
,jve find a dove’s carelessly made nest,
.with two white eggs lying on the
.-ground. This dove is very small, not
?niiH* larger than a sanary. That mod
ist little gray bird Is the bulbul or
-nightingale, which keeps hie sweet
gong for the night.
There is a tree that appears to be
covered with balls of cotton, but in
stead of cotton it is a flock of magpies
winning themselves. They drop their
wings and fluff out the feathers of
tbs back until they resemble balls of
eotton. They are singular birds. One
will catch a frog and run around be
fore the others, apparently to tantalise
Ahem. When they bathe they Jump intts
41 pool of water, then out again and roll
>In the dust, then into the water again
They Impose on each other by several
■hens laying in the same nest. The
, eggs are very pretty, green and white
^mingled. Hear the mournful call of
the ralnblrd, a kind of cockoo which
palls almost Incessantly the day befort
a storm while there is no apparent
evidence of Its approach, yet they are
Unfailing. Here comes a scissors tail,
another peculiar bird, one of the fly
catchers.' Ah! the beautiful birds! W*
hear their glad songs as they flit from
(yee to tree seemingly without a sor
row. but they have their sorrows, too,
^br they will go to seek food for their
young birds and come back to find
them devoured by the snakes or some
other marauder. But perhaps their
greatest enemy is women, for whose
adornment hundreds of thousands are
destroyed annually, especially of the
White heron, an elegant bird whose fe
male has two dainty hair-like feather*
or aigrettes, which are used for
trimming.
Kxeenflve Appointment*
Washington, April 21.—The pros!
dent has appointed Win. M Jenkins
of Oklahoma territory, to be gov
ernor of that territory, and James W
Jteynolds, of New Mexico, to be secre
tar/ of the territory ot New Mexico.
MOCCASINS FOR SOLDIERS.
Inquiries Made by Representatives of
Powers at War for “Bangor’s
Golden Slippers.”
Inquiries have been rereived in
Bangor, Me., from persons sup
posed to represent either the Rus
sian or the Japanese government
concerning prices for moccasins
in large quantities und the earli
est date of delivery at Atlantic or
Pacific ports. It Is supposed that
the moccasins are wanted for sol
diers campaigning in Manchnria.
For that purpose they would be
eminently suitable, says the New
York Sun.
The moccasin is the favorite
footwear of the lumbermen of
Maine, and was first made in Ban
gor in 1851. At first only one or
two styles were made, but now
moccasins are manufactured in
great variety, ranging from slip
pers for women and children—
soft as kid. and embroidered with
beads—to the stout boots and lar
rigans of the Penobscot lumber
men.
Much of the sewing is still done
by hand, being let out by the piece
to French Canadian families in
the neighborhood of Bangor. All
moccasins are made of a specially
prepared leather, rendered a gold
en yellow by a peculiar process of
tanning.
The common moccasin is not
proof against water, but it has
100m for several pairs of stock
ings, and that is a strong point in
Its favor. For keeping the feet
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warm auu uij m tuiu ncaiuvi
moccasin has no equal.
The greater part of the mocoa.
sin leather still comes from the
place of its origin, Pawtucket,
R I., although a considerable
quantity is tanned in Bangor.
Some years ago Bangor men es
ta Wished factories at Red Wing,
Minn., and Racine, WTis.
The dainty bath slippers, which
aie not really moccasins, but are
made from soft elk skin, are in
g) eat demand at home and abroad,
and are especially favored by the
ladies of Japan, to which country
Bangor sends large quantities. It
nc>w seems likely that “Bangor’s
golden slippers,” as moccasins are
i called, may be worn by the con
; tending armies in Manchuria.
JAPAN’S FIRST IRONCLAD.
H*r Crew Made a Brave Start, But
Couldn’t Stop Her Till Fires
Went Out
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That the role of Japan as a mar
itime* power is a new one is
brought strongly to our notice by
reckling the quite well authen
ticated story of the first adven
ture of the first Japanese iron
clad, says Country Life.
She was built in England.
While she was building her crew
were plso in England practicing,
in other ironclads how to drive
her. When she was finished the
Japanese seamen took possession
of her, bravely maintaining that
they were fully equal to the task
of starting her.
And that, to be sure, they were,
for she steamed out finely. The
trouble only began when she came
back to port again. Then, when
they wanted to slow her down and
stop her, they were unable to do
so.
They had to put her out to sea
again and go on steaming her
about till her fires went out, her
engines stopped for want of
steam, and she could be towed in.
From this to having the best
mentally-equipped crew’s, perhaps,
of any nation seems a long step,
but it has been a very rapid one.
Insect Senses.
Naturalists have decided that
many insects have senses which
human beings lack. That of loca
tion, shown by the wrasp, for in
stance, is remarkable. One spe
cies builds its nest in a sandbank
that is only a part of several acres
of such soil, and when it leaves in
search of food it covers the nest so
carefully that no ordinary eye
could discover its location. That
is to say it is just like all the sur
rounding location, and yet the
wasp flies back to it without hes
itation and finds it without mak
ing a mistake. There is another
wasp ttat unerringly locates the
eggs of the mason bee under a
thick layer of sun-baked clay, and
deposits her eggs in the same
cells that her young may have
food when they are hatched.
Timber for Cigar-Boxes.
Practically all the timber used
lor cigarboxes comes from Cuba.
WHO GETS MOCHA COFFEE 1
1C oat of If Taken by Sheiks and Gov
ernors of Arabia—Little la
Ever Exported. "
“I don’t believe there is u
pound of genuine Mocha coffee ou
this continent,” Mr. C. T. Hilli
glas, a coffee merchant, informi
I me, says a writer in the St. Loaii
l Globe Democrat, “or that 200 peo
pie in this country have ever taat
ed It, unless they hare at some
time visited Arabia and drank il
st the table of some sheik or gov
, ernor.
| “The true Mocha is the flqest
j coffee grown; it has a delicious fla
ror that makes it as superior to
the very best of other brands ai
silk is superior to cotton, bqt the
crop is extremely limited, and
hardly ever more than satisflei
purely local demands. Some
Arabian coffee may find its way to
this country; it may even be called
Mocha, but it is not the real arti
cle, I am sure, and none of us hai
ever had it here, though we get the
best of other brands that arc
grown in Ceylon and Java, and
that means some mighty fine cof
fee. It is not Mocha, however, for
the whole of the true Mocha crop
each year wouldn’t supply the cof
fee demands of one ward in St.
t<ouis alone for a period of six
mouths. The best and plumpest
berries of the Mocha growth,
those with thfs most exquisite
flavor, are eagerly taken by
the governors and sheiks in the.
vicinity, and they have to get their
orders in in advance, so inai mej
may be sure of their annual sup
ply. The second-grade berries go
to the wealthier citizens, not of
the governing class, and the third,
or poorest, grade of berries, which
are not much superior to the best
Java coffee, are sold to the people,
and the demand invariably ex
ceeds the supply.
“Sometimes a few pounds of
this cheapest grade of Sfocha finds
Its way to Constantinople, but it
fi very, very seldom, and I don't
believe an ounce of it has ever got
any further west than that. I pre
sume that if, by some hook ©i
crook, a pound of the real plump
berried Mocha were landed in this
coiintrv it would sell for a price
that even a Rockefeller might hes
itate to pay. We get the best cof
fee grown, apart from the Mocha
bnt the local conditions which pre
vail where that coffee is raised
prevent us from obtaining any,
and I hardly think the real ththp
will ever be found in our markets.”
POPE A GREAT FAVORITE.
Has Been a Pulpit Orator of Renown
from Very Outset of His
Priestly Career.
One recalls, writes William J
D. Croke, in Century, those raov
ing speecbps which, as car
dinal, he delivered weeping in the
conclave, setting forth all his im
perfections (his sins, even), and
the disadvantages of his careei
from barefooted boyhood up, but
which really secured him the
throne, and the stories of him
which every one knows in liom
bardy and Venetia. For no eccle
siastic can have been more widely
known than he. A pulpit orator
of renown from the very outset
of his priestly career, the sought
after panegyrist of great occa
sions when bishop and patriarch,
no wonder that he was hailed by a
voice in Home when he took pos
session of his title as cardinal
“No one has spoken so well as this
cardinal!” As country assistant,
then parish priest, then professor
in the seminary of Treviso, canon,
chancellor of the diocese, greal
hierarch of Mantua, the successor
of St. Mark, everyone seems to
know him, and no one has anj
memory that is not pleasant.
Developed by Nature.
When the petals of the great
laurel magnolia are touched,
however lightly, the result is a
brown spot, which develops in a
few hours. The fact is taken ad
vantage of by the South Amerl
can lover, who pulls a magnolia
dower, and on one of its pure
white petals writes a motto oi
message with a sharp-pointed pen
cil. Then he sends the flower, th«
young lady puts it in a vase of wa
ter, and in three or four hours th«
message written on the leaf be
comes perfectly visible, and re
mains so.
Charity.
There Is too much charity in thii
world—for worthless people.
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