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-- (SLL^IiiDS, copr/?/c/fr or WA.&trTzyrjav^ V REST'MABLY everybody knows by ibis time that there is a standing offer of $400 In casa for the man, woman, boy or girl who finds the nest of a wild pig­ eon (ectopistes migratorl- ua), otherwise known as the passenger pigeon, and finds wltii it the nesliiug birds. In order to get the reward the person who makes the dis­ covery must leave the nest and the binds unmolested and prove the truth of it by making a report and giving the sci­ entists an opportunity to verify the case. Magazine and newspaper articles lit­ erally by the thousands have been writ­ ten about the disappearance of the wild pigeons which once, as It is al­ ways put, "darkened the sun with their flights." The members of the biologi­ cal survey in Washington are specially interested In the subject of the disap­ pearance of this bird of passage from its wild haunts. For years it has been hoped that nesting pairs might be found in some part of the country and that •with proper protection the bird might be restored in part at least to its place In nature. Recently there was a story published to the effect that the birds, wearied of the constant persecution which met them tn the United States, had changed the course of their flight and had gone Into Mexico and there were living peace­ fully and happily. This story proved to be absolutely without foundation. Still another tale was to the effect that the pigeons had gone into the heart of South America and there finding conditions pleasant were leading a non-migratory life. This tale also proved to be en­ tirely fictitious. In all parts of the southern states in the winter seasons there are people watching sharp-eyed for a glimpse of the bird that once was a common sight. In the summer sharp eyes of the north are constantly on the alert for the sams purpose, but as yet no authentic report has been received that the bird of mys­ terious disappearance has revisited the scenes familiar through the centuries to its ancestors. One of the scientists most interested In the search for the wild pigeon is Ruthven Deane, fellow of the American Ornithologists' union and president of the Illinois Audubon Society for the Protection of Wild Birds. Mr. Deane virtually has given up all hope that any living specimen of the passenger pigeon e-»er will be found, but he is as tireless today as ever in tracing reports of the bird's reappearance to their sources. The offer of $400 for the discovery of a nesting pair of the pigeons and their undisturbed nest comes from Clifton R. Hodge of ("lark university, but $100 ad­ ditional will be paid for the discovery of a pair of birds and their nest if found in the state of Illinois. The additional reward is the joint offer of Mr. Deane and, as I remember it, of Professor Whitman of the University of Chicago. One of the most curious features of the search for the wild pigeon is the mistakes which are made constantly by men who years ago trapped the pigeons and were as familiar with their appearance as they were, and are today for that matter, with the appearance of the com­ mon robin of the dooryard. Reports have come in from all sections of the country of the reap­ pearance of the pigeon, but on investigation it invariably has been found that the discoverers had seen nothing more nor less than the com­ mon wild dove (venaidura macroura), or mourn­ ing dove, which is so familiar a bird that it seems almost impossible that any man of the countryside could have failed to overlook it as his constant neighbor and could confuse it with its much larger cousin, the passenger pigeon of other days. To give an example of how the Bearch is con­ ducted for thr> wild pigeon and how conscientious are the scientists in attempting to verify reports of Its reappearance this one instance, taken from a hundred instances, may be noted. Recently a report from northern Michigan reached the presi- d e n t o f t h e I l l i n o i s A u d u b o n s o c i e t y t h a t t h e passenger pigeon in very truth had reappeared in the vicinity of a club house frequented by fishermen and gunners, many of whom had known the pigeon well in the old days and who were certain that in this case they could not be mistaken as to the identity of the bird vis­ itors. It was a long journey to the northern Michi­ gan club house, but an ornithologist undertook the trip believing in his heart that finally the passenger pigeon had been found, for he knew that the men who had made the report had been familiar with the bird in the old days and sup­ posedly knew the appearance of its every feather. At the end of the journey he was told that the pigeons were there and he was led out to Bee them. They proved to be mourning doves, a bird common in nearly all parts of Michigan and in most of the states of the Union. The dis­ appointment was keen, and keener in this case because this was one report which seemed to have about it every mark of truth. When I was a boy I knew the wild pigeon fairly well. It was nothing like as abundant as it had been iii the years gone by, but occa­ sionally small flo< ks were seen in the vicinity of my birthplace in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains in central New York. I am sorry to Bay that 1 shot nome of the birds before I fully realized the value of giving protection to a van­ ishing race. The mourning dove I know as well as 1 know the English sparrow, and I think that there is no chance of confusion in my mind re­ specting the identity of the dove and Its bigger relative, the pigeon. It is possible, though I am not sure that eudi is a fact, that I saw the last wild pigeon reported in Illinois Others may have been Been since that time within the bor­ ders of the state, but If mo I have not seen their appearance reported. At five o'clock on the morning of a late April day, fifteen years ago, I went into Lincoln park, I i i ' *v t ? SfJ Hi if E Hood's Sarsaparilla i r f i f n r w r r i n n n i ? TWO MEN 8AVE 18 AFTER BARKEN* TINE STRANDS AND STORM FOIL8 LIFE SAVERS. ONE MAN LIFTS 4 INTO BOAT But for the Heroism of the Two Sail­ ors Not Only the Vessel's Crew but the Life 8avlng Force Would Have Been Lost. For All Spring Blood Diseases and Ailments Possesses medicinal merit Peculiar to Itself and has an unequaled record of cures. Take it this spring, in usual liquid form or tablets known as Sarsatabs. A Chicago, to look for migrating birds which had dropped down into the pleasure ground from their night flight in order to rest and feed. I had just entered the park when my attention was attracted to a large bird perched on the limb of a maple tree and facing the sun, which was Just rising out of Lake Michigan. My heart gave a sort of leap, for I recognized it Instantly as the paseenger pigeon, a bird of which I had not seen a living specimen for at least twelve years. Then instantly I began to doubt and thought that my eyes must be mistaken and that the at­ mosphere wa§ magnifying the bird and that what was before me was really a mourning dove. I drew closer and then I knew there was no pos­ sibility of deception. Before me was a beautiful specimen of the male passenger pigeon with the sun striking full on the burnished feathers of his throat. 1 Btood within 15 yards of the bird for fully half an hour and then it left the maple and went in arrowy flight down the lake shore urive toward the heart of the city. 1 have often wondered since what was Its fate. Theodore Roosevelt 1B deeply Interested in the outcome of the search for surviving mem­ bers, if such there may be, of the passenger pigeon tribe. Mr. Roosevelt knew the bird when he was a boy and in his trips afield he always has kept a watchful eje open for a possible sight of a specimen of the species now feared to be extinct. When Mr. Roosevelt was president of the United S'ates lie occasionally went to a wild epot in Virginia where he owned a cabin. He called the place Pine Knot. While there one day he saw what he believed to be nine wild pigeons. It would be perfectly proper today for a man who saw as many pigeons as this together to shoot one of them one only--in order to prove beyond peradventure that the tribe still has ex­ istence. When one simply reports the appear­ ance of a pigeon or of a flock of pigeons every­ one doubts very naturally the truth of the tale, holding that the mourning dove has been again mistaken for Its cousin bird. President rtoosevelt did not have a gun with him on the occasion of his meeting with what he thought were wild pigeons. If he had he probably would have shot one or them. He told no one except a few Bclentlsts and a few friends of his discovery. He knew as well as anyone else did that in the absence of the proof fur­ nished by a bird in the flesh it would be said at once that he made the common error. No one knows positively today whether the nine birds which the president saw were or were not pas­ senger pigeons. Every time that Mr. Roosevelt has been to Pine Knot since he has hoped for another sight of the birds which made him glad some years ago. John Burroughs heard from his friend, Theo­ dore Roosevelt, that the nine pigeons had been seen in Virginia. Burroughs believed the story because he knew how accurate an observer of nature his frisud the president was and is. The stories of the pigeons in Virginia led Mr. Bur­ roughs to make inquiries at once In the counties in New York state west of the lower Hudson lying in the old line of flight of the migrating pigeon armies of years ago. There the farmers and the country sports­ men told Mr. Burroughs that they had seen pig­ eons that spring, at least 1,000 of them, but that none of them had been shot. Mr. Burroughs was inclined to believe the re­ port, for the men who made It were old-time sportsmen and supposed­ ly knew the bird well. However, there is no pos­ itive proof today that the New York farmers and gunners were not Just as much mistaken as were the old-timers who told the story of the return of the pigeons to the upper Michigan country. In The Auk, a quar­ terly Journal of ornithol­ ogy published by the American Ornithologists' union, there recently ap­ peared a paper by Albert Hazen Wright on "Some Early Records of the Pas­ senger Pigeon." In this paper are reported some o f t h e f i r s t a c c o u n t s which ever saw print of the pigeon multitudes of the early days. When one reads them it seems al­ most Incredible that a bird species which num­ bered its individuals almost, it would appear, by the million millions could ever disappear from the face of the earth. The account of the great pigeon flocks which is most familiar to the people of the country is that written by John James Audubon, the natural­ ist. It seems from Mr. Wright's paper, however, that a century and a half before Audubon was born records were made of the immense numbers of the birds which were seen in America. The earliest writers called them turtle doves. Mr. Wright quotes from the Jesuit father, Le Jeune, who In the year 1637 likened the American Indi­ ans to the pigeons. "Our savages are always sav­ age; they resemble the migratory birds of their own country. In one season turtle doves are some­ times found in such abundance that the end of their army cannot be seen when they are flying In a body." Mr. Wright found another reference to the im- cense numbers of the pigeons in the writings of another Jesuit father in the year 1671. The ob­ servation was made at Cayuga lake in New York state. "Four leagues from here I Baw by the side of a river within a very limited space eight or nine extremely fine salt springs. Many snares are set there for catching pigeons, from seven to eight hundred being often taken at once." /jiother fa­ ther of the church in the latter part of the seven­ teenth century writes of the passenger pigeons of the St Lawrence country: "Among the birds of every variety to be found hero it is to be noted that pigeons abound in such numbers that this year one man killed 132 at a single shot." Within the last five or six years reports have come of the reappearance of the pigeon in Mis souri, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia and perhaps from some other states. In no instance has proof been adduced that the real passenger pigeon, thfc bird of the old time, was the species seen. The disappearance of the flocks which once covered the sky as with a cloud is one of the mys­ teries of nature. Man's persecution of course had much, if not everything, to do with the annihila­ tion of the species, but it would seem that some- ting else, disease perhaps, must be held account­ able at least In part for the dying out of a noble race of feathered game. Wood's Hole, Mass.--Of all the res­ cues in these parts for years the great­ est was made the other night when Capt. Sam Jackson and Frank Veeder brought 18 men to Cuttyhunk island In a dory and yawl after pounding seas had put the life saving outfit out of business. But for the heroism of these two men the entire force of the Cutty- hunk station would have gone down, together with tbe erew of the new barkentine Stephen Q. Hart, bound from Gulfport, Miss., to Boston, with lumber and driven by storm and cross­ currents on a reef off the island. The barken tine stranded in a fog and was not spied by the station look­ out until she had tossed on her jagged bed for several hours. Her signals told that she was fast filling and that help must come quickly to be of any use. Not knowing how many lives might depend on their getting to the wreck In a hurry, all the men at the fetation turned out and to make sure of room for everybody, they towed the surf boat behind the big power craft. Two of the island fishermen named Cornell volunteered for the trip with them. When they climbed on board the Hart part of her keel had settled on the reef with the receding tide, which steadied her a bit, but made haul­ ing her off out of the question. Captain and crew were willing enough to leave her to herself for the night, for the leakage had displaced her cargo and threatened to Immerse her, and the j wind Dili ieked warnings of a stormy night. I The seas that broke over her parted < the line to the station power boat and | set her adrift. That left only the yawl for the 18 men who needed to go ashore. Meanwhile Capt. Sam, with a 8prlng Humors are due to the Im­ pure, impoverished, devitalized condi­ tion of the blood brought about by the unhealthful modes of living' dur­ ing the winter, too close confinement, too little outdoor air and exercise, too heavy diet. Hood's Sarsaparilla cures tham and builds un the whole system. Hood's Sarsaparilla has no equal for cleansing the blood and expelling the humors that accumulate during the winter. It effects Its wonderful cures because it combines the utmost remedial values of more than twenty different ingredients. Insist on having Hood's. 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" Why Their Mourning Garb? a- -- Englishman Gets Explanation As to Reason for Traveling Americans Wearing Black. The liner pitched wildly in the win­ ter storm, and an Englishman in the •molhng-room, as he gravely wiped a cup of overturned coffee from his shirt bosom, said to an American: "I have traveled a great deal, and I have met a great many Americans in my travels, and what puzzles me is why so many of you wear mourning." The American, who was In mourn­ ing himself, said: "We don't at home." No,' sa id the Englishman, "I know yo,u don't at home. That's why I am puzzled. For, when you travel, the | greater part of you travel in black." | "Well," said the American, as he i flicked with his hlack-edged handker­ chief some ash from his black pan­ taloons, "I don't mind telling you, sir, that in my case It is a legacy from an aunt that I am traveling on. 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Eighteen would have crowded the station surfboat in smooth weather. The telupesi then thundering set her craay. Overboard went the dunnage of the ship's crew, but the boat be­ haved no better. She lurched and plunged and took flying leaps across the tops of the waves without making headway and then turned Bomersault, sprawling the 18 into the sea. Fourteen regained the surfboat and clung to its upturned keel. Capt. Sam made for them. The swift and violent Bee-saw of the water hurled his dory on the turtle back to which the crew were clinging and shoved a streak of daylight through the dory's hull. The 14 pulled themselves aboard, however, and she headed top speed for shore, the rescued crew stuffing their cloth­ ing into the cracks in her bottom to keep down the leak. Veeder Jumped into his dory when the surfboat upeet, and, letting his yawl take its chances adrift, went to the rescue of the four of the eighteen who had nothing to cling to except the boiling waves. 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