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THE NEED OF BIRDS. 
John Davey, “tree surgeon,” in a recent ad¬ 
dress at Columbus, Ohio, and Prof. Miller, of 
the State University in a talk at Winona Lake, 
both pointed to the great damage and loss 
caused by insects that prey on crops and trees. 
The subject, by no means a new one, and al¬ 
ways of interest, has also been taken up by a 
writer in the Indianapolis News. Why are the 
maples that contribute much to the beauty of 
Indianapolis, and other trees which give shade 
to the State, dying? Davey, tree expert and 
naturalist, may suggest cause, in this: 
“I am by profession a tree surgeon, but I 
long for the day when it will be no longer neces¬ 
sary for me to ply my trade. It is a simple thing 
to make tree surgery unnecessary. If we could 
get plenty of native song birds no trees would 
be troubled by insects. That would eliminate the 
danger of decay. And if we could curb the de¬ 
structive activities of the tree butcher, I would 
be out of work for good. * * * Approxi¬ 
mately $100,000,000 loss is caused annually by 
the decrease in the number of native song birds 
and the increase in the activities of the human, 
or rather inhuman, tree butcher.” 
Prof. Miller looks to the fields, instead of the 
trees, and finds the same needs there to protect 
the crops. He says: 
“Unless quick measures are taken in protect¬ 
ing the insect-breeding birds of this State, the 
crops in a few years will be at the mercy of 
the grasshoppers and other insects, and instead 
of having a land of plenty we will have a 
desert.” 
At one time the island of St. Helena was a 
paradise of verdure and birds. The birds sang 
sweetly and were of bright colors, and the 
people of England took a great fancy to them. 
They were shipped for their songs, killed for 
their plumes. The island was robbed of them 
and its inscet life got the upper hand. Fields 
became bare, trees died and even the sheep 
were bothered to death by the ticks. St. Helena 
was on the way to become a desert in the sea 
not because of lack of rain, but lack of natural 
enemies of the small destructive forces. Great 
Britain, the administrator, saw the handwriting 
on the wall and reversed the policy. It was a 
long hard fight, but it has won. The birds are 
back, the island is green, the sheep graze in 
peace, and there are only here and there scars 
that serve as a warning to man not to tamper 
with the divine balance, which is finely set.— 
New Era. 
THE LAKE HAD A BOTTOM. 
Up in the Adirondacks there is a lake which, 
according to local tradition, is bottomless. 
Whether it is or not is beside the mark, but 
sure it is that few persons ever have seen the 
bottom or reached it with stones tied to strings. 
A party of New York folk were at the lake 
this summer, and spent much of their time row¬ 
ing. One day they hired a man to row them, 
and one of the party asked him: “Is it true 
that this lake is bottomless?” 
The man at the oars stopped rowing and 
wiped the perspiration from his brow. 
“Well,” he drawled, “mebbe it is and mebbe 
it be’n’t, but I’m inclined t’ doubt it.” 
“Why so?” 
“Wal,” thoughtfully, “I be’n a thinkin’ that 
thar must be a bottom somewhars, ’cause ef 
thar wasn’t th’ water’d all run through to th’ 
other side.”—Times. 
AWKWARD. 
His dog was a fierce Airedale, which could 
whip, and had whipped, every other bow-wow 
in the neighborhood. Then he clipped his coat. 
‘Yes,” he said to a friend, “the clipping was 
my own idea. I believe it made him look bet¬ 
ter, but it was very awkward for the dog.” 
“How was that?” queried the friend. 
“Oh, the other dogs didn’t know him. He 
had to fight them all over again.”—Tit-Bits. 
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