The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
991 
Increase in Bird Population 
Lasl year I reported an alarming 
scarcity of birds in this locality. This 
year I am able to state that we have a 
full average or better. From our front 
and back piazza, in the trees within 50 ft. 
of the house can be seen five robins’ 
nests, though the young have left two of 
the nests; four chipping sparrows, two 
red-eyed vireos, and one yellow-throated 
vireo, which has its nest in the old horse 
chestnut, now for the third consecutive 
year. In a Norway spruce is a hlnojay’s 
nest in the identical spot where one has 
been for nearly 30 consecutive years. On 
a low-hanging maple branch over the 
well is a ruby-throated humming bird's 
nest, containing two tiny young birds. 
In an old flicker’s nest in the horse chest¬ 
nut. Jenny Wren has set up iter estab¬ 
lishment. having rented the suite from 
Mrs. Starling, who raised a family there 
earlier in the season. And from the Weir's 
cut-leaf maple is suspended an orchard 
oriole's nest, this making the seventh or 
eighth consecutive year in that same tree. 
And just about 100 yards from the house 
on a wooded hillside a pair of yellow 
warblers, indigo birds, brown thrushes, 
chewinks and catbirds are also nesting. 
For 30 years I have looked for a killdeer 
plover’s nest in vain, and recently I 
ran across three, almost in a day. We 
came across one quail's and many meadow 
larks’ nests at the farm, and song spar¬ 
row and grass finches’ nests in great 
numbers. 
But there is still a great reduction in 
the number of swallows—in all branches 
of the family. Could Volstead have had 
anything to do with this? At any rate, 
it was always an interesting sight to 
watch their gyrations in following the 
mower, and catching, as a little city girl 
I knew said, the “milliners'* as they were 
disturbed by the fall of the gra ss. And 
T must not forgot to include in my list 
the little screech owl. worth his weight 
in gold, which has a nest in a hollow in 
my neighbor’s tree, but in plain sight 
from our front piazza. Aside from the 
vast practical benefit which we derive 
from their work, it makes country life 
much more enjoyable to have our trees 
once more the homes of our feathered 
friends. IIARVEY EOSEE. 
Dutchess Co.. N. Y. 
Great Trouble from a Hornet's Sting 
Whether a bee sting ever did cause a 
man’s death I don’t know, but from my 
experience 1 think it might be possible. 
About 10 years ago my son, then a boy 
0 or 10, was coming home from the village 
through the fields, but following a well- 
worn path. About an eighth of a mile 
from the house he was stung by two hor¬ 
nets. the kind we call yellow-jackets, on 
his leg just below the knee. When he 
got to the house I saw that he had beeu 
crying, and that his face was very red. I 
told him to sit on the piazza while I got 
some mud, a favorite remedy with him. 
When I returned he said he couldn't see, 
and his face began to swell. I was 
alarmed, and telephoned for the doctor, 
and took off the boy's clothes. The whole 
surface of his body was very red, and 
large white patches began to appear on it, 
and his agony was something dreadful to 
see. I wrung bath towels from hot wa¬ 
ter and alcohol and wrapped him in them 
till the doctor arrived. He substituted 
other things for the water in the alcohol 
solution, and told me to make a mask 
with which to apply it to his face, leav¬ 
ing a hole for his nose. In 24 hours the 
swelling had subsided, and after a few 
days in bed lie was as well r.s ever again. 
Of course, I don't think the location of 
the stings had anything to do with it. 
The doctor thought possibly the hornets 
had beeu feeding on some poisonous plant. 
I’oisou Ivy does not poisou my sou. and 
lie has never been poisoned by any plant 
in the woods about here, where he spends 
a great deal of time. So we have con¬ 
cluded, with Shakespeare, that there are 
more things in heaven ar.d earth, than 
we, in our philosophy, have ever dreamed 
of. A. w. H. 
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me you were so pretty.” “No," said 
Reggie's fiancee, “I’m not pretty, so T 
have to try to be nice, and it’s such a 
bore. Have you ever tried?"—Boston 
Globe. 
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