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A VESSEL 
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VIBRATION 
And there are times when all of these 
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At the Same Instant. 
Read Kipling’s “The Ship That Found Herself.” 
The best of workmanship stands the 
racket none too well. 
How can anyone expect much of the 
other kind. , , 
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Gas Engines and Launches. 
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to the man who contemplates purchasing a power boat. 
The main feature of the book, however, is a clear descrip¬ 
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space and into every-day language. The amateur power 
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and trouble, and probably not a little money. 
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THE STARLING NUISANCE. 
The English starling has become an American 
citizen He knows nothing of the part of good 
citizenship, but, like some other immigrants of 
the vicious kind, he has come to stay. We have 
Tad the unspeakable sparrow, for fifty years and 
now we are to have for all time the unspeakable 
starling. Some person who ought to have known 
better brought a few of the starlings to America, 
about ten years ago. They were freed from their 
cages in Brooklyn and they have increased and 
multiplied, but have done nothing to replenish the 
earth. William Dutcher, of New York, presi- : 
dent of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies, has said recently that near New York 
city flocks of starlings composed of at least ioo 
individuals each are not an uncommon sight. 
The starling is black, morally and physically. . 
There are a few diminutive white spots on his 
weathers to relieve their blackness, but the white 
in the starling morality never yet has been found. 
He is a thief who takes delight in his thieveiy. 
The man who brought the starling oyer the water 
probably found a redeeming trait m the birds 
voice, which, while thin, is. sweet, possessing a 
peculiarly liquid equality which makes it akin to 
pure melody. , .. I 
As soon as it was found that the starlings 
took readily to the New York climate and that . 
they were multiplying, the biological survey peo¬ 
ple succeeded in securing the passage of a bill to 
forbid the transportation of the birds from one 
State to another. The law does not apply to the 
starlings personally, for birds, having wings, 
naturally laugh at laws that have to . do with 
boundary lines. The starling is a nuisance in 
one way and an absolute pest in another. It 
lives in colonies and pre-empts church towers 
and structures of all kinds in which there are 
crevices. The nests are bulky and the deface- | 
ment of the building in which the. nests are placed , 
is in itself nuisance enough to bring the feathered j 
immigrant condemnation. j 
The starling has a fondness. for fruit. I he j 
particular varieties of fruit which he loves aie 
not overolanted in the immediate vicinity of New 
York city, and for this reason no sharp attention 
has been called by the farmers. to the damage 
which the birds are capable of inflicting. Already, 
however, the starlings have over-lapped into 
Pennsvlvania Tnd New Jersey, and it is only a 
question of a short time before the starling flocks 
will be found keeping com»anv with the sparrow 
flocks all over the United States.—New York 
Post. 
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