;-> SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRII 4 1909 . .... ;i and at turn he is met Chat's it!" says Bug, and more as l>i_^ as boned ham, every .... *<\u25a0;.!\u25a0- with the friendly smile. !!<• finds town a place we're bein' rolled up of the stone and this •\u25a0 maj be the Latin remarks. kind and sunny corners. He was just say; \\ liv. he's livii' of hearts he, < r "Well, Swell outl eh'" says Bui;, takin* was he want stayin' here long iilong here,"' says now! " ing how lie sorry But if Doc's struck as enough to get Utn-r acquainted with more of us Oh, Do r when he has the cash! Lei a }K>ep at the entrance. it when he's struck with a sudden spasm of memory lub he told \u25a0 to? Had rich as 1 susi>ect. this would just suit him. And if something to do with colk . he ain't here, Ireckon they ran put us or.hi- trail. great snakes!" says he, swattin' his knee Yon don't mean the Ui -I I'llrun in and see ." •\u25a0 lidn't stay All he found oat was WHYII- •\u25a0 I've plumb forgot He lon^. that about lookin' up old Hoc Keezar. Professor Keezar's name hadn't been on the list for Don't happen to know anybody ten years ick might try the telephone book," says I of that name," do you, Henry M. "-You Keezar? Hooj-er did; but there want a Keezar of any "No," says I. "\Vhal kind of description in it. Then we strikes a dru£ store and — the X's city directory. a doctor is he, pill, !<.-.;h, ..r paws through in a Nothing horse?*-' doing there, either. his "Huh!" growls Mr. Hooper. "That's -peer. Mr. Hooper explains that Henry M. friend want a rcg'lar doctor <>f Mean to tell me a man like Keezar. .1 pro- brand: but got his tag <>n fessor and a rich inventor, can't be found anywhere any in this town?" account of havin' been a professor " in some college] Bug had met him ll : I out West, where the !><><\u25a0 had gone health. They'd ;^ot some for his \u25a0 chummy <>n a couple of prqspectin' trips, located some claims, and in he's Keezar got so interested the cm! \u25a0 in mmm' that he went to work and invented a self dumping ore . IUT I car. He can't get the D«x: out of his mind, though. a mighty slick thing, He goes or. tellin' me what a tir.e old ch.ir* he "It was was, ' all ri^ht," says Hooper; "but it and all about his gentle ways, ..: how wasn't worth wasting so much hor.est am! white he was clear thn •:-!: time over. Why, just as I*«1 figured \u25a0"Ami to think." says Hooper, "that out a scheme to develop our pro probably he's right in this city,maybe nding j»ertv, he takes itintohis head lie's around just—" like we are; ant! Ican't so gottocomeon East anil sell that much as "fhis Was willing to cash patent flow in allhis holdings, t<>o, for enough Sj\l< HOOPER'S of vain regrel \u25a0 money to take him to New Yorl stops as sadden as ifhe'd swallowed Wclh Iscraped it up and let lii'ri i «/ork. i Iks around to see what's have it; but'of course Iwouldn't ha{.'{filed,and finds him star::.', with take such an advantage of a friend. his eyes set and his month open,• at I never had the share transfers the people on the sidewalk. i-t car made. That's nearly two years has been held up by a line < f cross- ago, without his writing a single tov. •. traffic, and as we art- next t» line He'll!•<• some surprised when the curb he .cets a t;ood view. he hears what his share is worth As near as I cai make out, today. Guess he must have made though, what he's lookus' it hard- good on here, though; for they're est is only—one of tries* waßrin' making those rars of hi l>\ the handbills. a seedy, wa^erv eyed thousand. Say some of 'em only olil pan with mangy whiskers, yesterday." whose costume ismostly . cvered The more h< tall aboul Doc Here's Some of Youi Property Yo« Can Keep!" Explodci Hooper. Ccntnu?3 on p.:ge 2~

LIFE AND DOOM OF THE HUMMINGBIRD BILLrecently before the British House of Com By Rene Bache - 1 A which had ill 1 the Lords, pro so disposed . c hibit; the importation \u25a0>! the skin ol hummingbird light . whence the peculiar •hi objeel of the measure being to preveni the ex- The chid enemj termination oi those exquisite leathered creatures the date of the landing of Columbus About OtheT birds, even hawks Hummingbirds, of course, are i xeeedingly numer- dred species are known, the smallest being Pr Swift and incredibi; o tropical America; but, when it is considered Helena's• hummingbird, native to Cuba; while the ingly at a pursuer's i thai no fewer than ;ix thousand millions of their is tin- giant hummingbird of the Ande reach a fraction ol skins have been .sent to market up to date, it willbe inches in length, which, as it hovers over a Bower, steal the eggs of hummingbirds realized that they are in serious danger ol being wiped flaps its wings with ;islow and powerful naovi firi>r the sake of safi off the face ofthe earth. Afiinner Governor of Trini- This is a striking characteristic, inasmuch as other the eud.s of long dad ti tified before a committee of the Lords that hummingbirds arc remarkable t'«»r the rapidit) with bird were common on that island, whereas at the As most people have had o tportunities to notie< than the other pal a | ne only five were Ift The redthroat used the wings <>(' a hummingbird Hap with such rapidity Yet others use spiders' w< to fly constantly into the rooms of dwellings, and its as to present a mere Slur to the eye. It is probable hki :my hammock were frequently found in the bushes; but thai the vibrations are not fewer than five hundred was a thing of the past. tothe minute Though so tiny, the dainty feathered Fairies in Feathers Order v 'd frequently to reach Trinidad from New creatures have very wing muscles; are in truth the fain • powerful and it York for t• n thous md or fifteen thousand humming- is w..rth remarking that they fly rather like fa THESEworld Their nests, which a bird skins; and. to (ill these dera inds, whole spe< ies than like birds Their proper home is the air imitate tree km were destroyed Nowadays exportation of the skins they cannot without the help of their wings, though ceahnent, are built ofplant downchieti . from the island is prohibited, and the little birds are they perch, -and some species make annual migra- and held together with spiders' webs; increasing in numbers; but supplies are easily ob- tions oj nearly two thousand miles. ill!,' likewise made to Serve I tained from elsewhere, especially from Colombia, Bo- It used to be supposed that, hummingbirds could twigs Usually they arecup shaped or t n livia, Peru, and Ecuador. They are most abundant not be kepi alive in captivity for any length of time, Butalways they are ofexquisite constra m Ecuador Some species are restricted to single though they are easily tamed. This notion. h<>wever, number of eggs laid, of immaculate mountain" peaks or valleys, while others, known as has been disproved by a naturalist. Captain Albert variably two. Innr.it -. are found in the darkest and least known lam. who several years ago managed to carry a One might, indeed, onagine that these ri*j ! thi forests of Brazil. number of living hummingbirds from Venezuela to were related to the BoweiS Set oiih \u25a0! ilwrf London, where they were placed in the Zoological among them, th by Indians and feed upon their nect *^ Cati.ht Gardens Being kepi there in a warm boose, they very structure exhibits, as one might sa) rT"M[E skins ofhummingbirds areexported by millions ha\<- thriven nicely. viottsand conspicuous Horalada] \u25a0*\u25a0 even from Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, and Bogotd fof example, the sitklebill is provided « Many dealers at those ports are engaged exclusively They Live on Insects like beak to fit the curved thro iti the bm mess of buying and shipping them, the de- TT is not true, as commonly supposed, that hum- while t!u- sword bearer, to the ho! • \u25a0*\u25a0 reach mand for them, chiefly for millinery purposes, being mingbirds feed exclusively <>n the nectar >>i long, trumjH't shaped blossoms conn ' -i always equal to tin- available supply. Many are Sowers. They n the blossoms of The ruby and topaz hummingbird b thi monly employed by tin' native Indians, who furnish plants Often they are seen to rob spiders' webs mostly exported from tropical Amer* a fo* the '-r-m most of the skins, is to shoot them with the blowpipe, of the llies they contain, not hesitating to run some ming of hats and bonnets Alreatl >win| .i weapon they know how to use with astonishing risk of being caught themselves; for many a snare signs of serious diminution I accuracy. woven by the industrious arachnid is strong plenty more, of other kinds, to supph This instrument is a hollow reed, and the projec- enough to hold one of these little birds, om c tangled For instance, down in Texas the other a. tile, which is discharged by a sudden puff of the m it dred hummingbirds were ordered for ' breath, is a small pellet of clay This suffices to It is only the male hummingbird, as a rule, thai is The demand willcontinue, doubtless. and will kno k down the little bird, and does no harm to the arrayed gorgeous colors Sometimes it is the in years come by the destruction of .nil in U< dainty plumag" The expense for ammunition, ofcourse, is thro it that is luminous in other species there is a millions, and in the long run billion-, of the ml. To remove and preserve the dainty skins prop- h do of radiance on the crown, while m yet others the and beautiful creatures Eventually, however, 't erty is a delicate job, requiring no little skill; but the tails are brilliant. The Vomets" have forked ta;ls will be with them as with the buffalo, and. ac< Indians learned the art long ago from the whites, and of glowing red One kind of hummingbird changes or two from now. when they have be-jun tobe are able to practise it with great expertness. its throat mstant h from vividfire color to light green : the skinhunters, spurred \u25a0 One reason why hummingbirds are so inter another from bright crimson to brae,—an alteration pnees, will be pursuing the few survin I is that they an i \< lusively American, being unknown made possible by the fact that the hues of these extinction in the more remote and I in the 'Mi World No white man ever s.iw .neup to "feathered jewels" are attributable not to pigments, gions of tropical America