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be done in the way of extending that 

 market. There are more than one hun- 

 dred fine martin houses in that town. 

 Study into almost any great business 

 and you will soon get back to a point 

 where that business started, as by 

 magic, to prosper — that point is gen- 

 erally where the right man got into the 

 right place in the sales department or 

 at the publicity helm. Dr. Jane gave 

 headache prescriptions for forty years, 

 but the headache powder business be- 

 gan when his daughter married a sales- 

 man. Dr. Hess had his sick chicken 

 hospital over a livery stable at Ash- 

 land, Ohio, until Clark, the salesman 

 and advertising expert married Mrs. 

 Hess' sister, but why go on? 



Mr. Jacobs says : "The purple martin 

 is to-day at the threshold of a stimu- 

 lating and prosperous advance, which 

 during the next few years will spread 

 its progeny over territory where it has 

 not been seen for years. A large 

 amount of correspondence during past 

 years shows a wide-spread desire and 

 longing to re-establish the martin in 

 communities from which the birds long 

 ago departed." 



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American Birds Good Enough for Us. 



A lot of crazy people are clamoring 

 for the importation of some English 

 skylarks. It is strange that some peo- 

 ple never learn by experience. We 

 have imported two birds from Eng- 

 land which have proven veritable nui- 

 sances, though both were entirely inocu- 

 ous in their native land. The skylark 

 is a harmless bird and a beautiful sing- 

 er in England, but God only knows 

 what it would turn out to be if intro- 

 duced here. Judging from past experi- 

 ences we might expect it to insist on 

 nesting in our houses, on our pianos, 

 book cases, lace curtains or even in the 

 women's hair. 



It is always a safe guess to let well 

 enough alone, and if the people who 

 are clamoring for skylarks would ex- 

 ert themselves to take care of our na- 

 tive song birds their energies would be 

 much more effectively placed than now. 

 — Shield's Magazine. 



I enjoy your magazine very much. — 

 Mrs. Robert Milde, Lezviston, Minn. 



