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Gene Stratton Porter has given us many amusing incidents from her ex- periences with the birds. One of her books. "Homing with the Birds,” is a book all folk who take interest in the inhabitants of the woods will enjoy. Another of her interesting books is “Tales You Won't Believe.” NW1!“ One day when Gene Stratton Por- ter was at field work in the Limberlost. she was hidden under a cravenette raincoat among the leaves and bushes beside a stump and had a camera fo- cussed on the chewinks nest. The male chewink was on the floor scratching as a setting hen scratches, sometimes usâ€" ing his feet alternately. Then he did a trick that Mrs. Porter never saw a hen do. He gripped both feet into the leaves. and with a quick spring upwards and backwards threw away last year’s dead. dried leaves to give him free ac- cess to the earth which he scattered with his feet until he found a tiny bug or worm which he carried to the nest and fed to his young. By and by he uncovered a spot as big as a saucer with one of his deft springs that lift- ed the leaves. Then he saw a worm he had uncovered beginning to dig its way into the light soil of the forest floor. He made a jump for the worm and caught it in his beak. but with it he caught at the same time a fine. thread. like root that had been on top of the? worm. He could not get the root from his mouth without laying down the worm. so he began walking backward. his beak closed on both root and worm in an effort to break the root. Just when he had straightened to his full- est height. braced his sides with his wings. stretched his neck to the ut- most and leaned as far back as he could pulling with all his strength. that root broke and the momentum that the re- lease gave him. rolled him over back- ward in a double somersault. When he regained his feet the worm was lost. Mr. Chewink was completely surprised but he thoroughly understood what happened. He peered forward for an instant where the root had broken. and then his beak parted. and his head lifted and he laughed and laughed like Como in 8: Chat Awhile At Home Thirty. July 21. 1932 Does Your Business Need “PEPPING UP” ? BUYERS. NOWADAYS BUY ADVERTISED GOODS Why Not Advertise? -Rnth Rubun. Advertise in THE CHRONICLE S THERE that “Something” at the end of the day that tells you your receipts are not quite what they might have been, but fails to suggest a remedy? The Paper with the Durham and District circulation When Madam Bluebird returned she lit on the telephone wire and looked toward her home and saw the spar- row in possession. She uttered a sharp little yelp of surprise and flew traight to the verandah of her home but she couldn‘t get the sparrow out nor froce her own way in. though they bickered for some little time. Then Madam Blue- bird flew back to the telephone wire and looked as if she were doing some serious thinking. She decided it would be a good thing to carry war into en- emy territory. Short. sharp and stac- cato was the call she uttered for her mate. His answer came from perhaps a quarter of a mile away. Without waiting until he came in sight Madam Bluebird flew straight to the ash. perched on the sparrow’s nest. struck her bill into it and ripped out the big- gest mouthful of material she could manage at a jerk and flung it on the morning wind. Then she plunged in for another beakful. By the third at- tack the air was filled with straw and grass and feathers, and pell mell Moth- er Sparrow came from the bluebird One morning as Gene Stratton Por- ter sat at her desk beside the east win- dow in her library, she heard the ex- cited chirping of an English sparrow and looked out to see the sparrow from the nest in the ash tree doing her best to annoy Madam Bluebird, whose house was on the tap of a stump of a wild cherry eight or ten feet in height. Madam Bluebird stood in her door and every time the sparrow came too close tried to pick her. Finally, the sparrow went back to her nest and Madam Bluebird settled down on her nest of eggs. By and by she decided she need- ed a drink and exercise so flew away to the river. She was hardly out of sight when the sparrow from the ash tree flew down and entered the blue- bird’s house and turning round filled the Opening with her head and shoul- ders. And there she sat, a malicious little rascal intent on stirring up a little ra rumpus. As she sailed in and perched on the structure Madam Bluebird gave it, one final yank, threw her beakful of feath- house and went tearing to the protec- tion of her own nest and of her young. laughed in the same circumstances. a dunce. His laughing note was not a note that Mrs. Porter had ever heard in any previous experience with the Chewink family. He simply laughed a plain straight “Ha! Ha! Ha!" exactly as any human being would have These are days of competition and "every little bit helps". Sales may not be very brisk, but this is the very-reason you should get your share. Tell the people What you have to sell and if your price is right they’ll buy. The bedtime story for this evening, children is: “Once upon a time there was a young man, the son of a wealthy farmer. His father wanted him to go to the city and leave the father to run the farm alone, but the young man said he would not do so. He did not want to live in the city and work short hours; he desired to stay with his father and work on the farm. The young man took pride in the stock around the place; he attended to mar- keting the pigs, the poultry and the eggs and prices were so high that each time he visited the market he went to the bank and put in the money, fear- ing to carry it around with him. In the course of time the young farmer fell in love with a girl from the city. She worked as a stenographer and :earned $36 per week, while her father [worked in a factory and earned much more than that. Things were so busy that he could never get a dav off and he sometimes worked at nights too; there were no men to be had. The young lady did not wish to have her young man-quit the farm. She said she would rather go out and live with him, as there was more money and more happiness on the farm. So the young man’s father built him a new house costing $10,000. paying for it with the profits from one y‘ear’s oper- ation on the farm. And all the girls in the city envied the young lady who moved away to live with the wealthy young farmer in the country. That is all for this evening, children. and if you do not like this story perhaps you can tell a better one. Now off to bed and good-night."â€"Stratford Beacon- Herald. Never again was a sparrow seen near the bluebird home. Strangerâ€""I‘ve come out here to make an honest living.” Nativeâ€"“Well, there’s not much competition.”-â€"Washington Dirge. ers on the air and went back to her front verandah and there she said all the mean things a bird of her disposi- tion could think of. When Father Blue- bird arrived and perched on the roof of their house, she told him what ad occurred and my! how he did praise her! and. oh my! how she loved the praise. Never criticrze anything at a charity? bazaar. You can never tell who made it. NOW. YOU TELL ONE THE DURHAM CHRONICLE One driver was injured in a colli- sion involving three cars near Bronte Sunday night. Vincent A. Dunn, To- ronto, suffered head cuts. The other cars were driven by James R. Wilkin- son, Masson Road, Swansea, and Syd- ney Starkes, Bloor street west, Toron- to. Missing from her home since Wed- nesday, Nellie Beaudry was found late Saturday lying under a tree on an abandoned farm near Mattawa. She was completely exhaused and doctors regard her condition as very serious. Poisoned by deadly hydrocyanlc gas from their own fumigating bowls as they were about to leave an upstair apartment at 302 Eglinton avenue, To- ronto. two fumigators Sunday evening were found dead at the foot of the nar- row entrance stairs, just inside the door leading to the street and the safe- ty of fresh air. William Warren Cherry, director of the Rowntree Company, Limited, and of the H. N. Cowan Company, Limited, died at his summer home at Bale on Sunday after a short illness. A too efficient rat trap caused a fire in the home of Ben Waxman, Cannon street west, Sunday afternoon. and several hundred dollars damage result- ede. When the rat decided to sample the cheese bait, the spring was re- leased and the trap was sprung with such force that it dropped into a pile of matches, and fire followed. The flames spread to the living quarters, and were burning fiercely when the firemen arrived. Joseph M. MacKenzie, aged 45, son of the late Sir William and Lady Mac- Kenzie, was fatally injured early Sat- urday night, when his car failed to make a turn on the Victoria-Ontario Counties boundary road, near Bolsover, and crashed into a ditch. Further Protestant demonstrations disturbed Liverpool Sunday. as the new Anglican Cathedral was being dedicated. Members of the Protestant Reform League demonstrated around Interesting Happenings Briefly Outlined for the Buy Benders News in Brief Joseph Albert, burly truck driver, is trying to pursuade a police magistrate in Montreal to impose a major penalty on Dave Trottier, rugged left-winger of the Montreal Maroons National Hockey League team. for undue rough- ness. Albert said he and 'I‘rottier got into a dispute on the highway near St. Andre d’Argenteuil over who had the right-ofâ€"way. Albert was getting down from his truck to argue the point, according to his claim. when Trottier An unique honor has been conferred on Robert J. Donnell, youthful Guelph carilloneur, who left last Saturday for Ottawa to spend a month as guest car- illoneur on the carillon in the Peace Tower at the Parliament Buildings. Mr. Donnell will be in charge of the Gov- ernment carillon during the Imperial economic conference. places. Fire engines were still pouring water on the embers of Coney Island's big- gest fire last Thursday. twenty-four hours after the flames had ruined four blocks of boardwalk, apartment houses and concession booths. Dry leaders constituting the “Nation- al Board of Prohibition Strategy," clashed recently over whether they should openly endorse President Hoov- er in their conference at Washington over campaign strategy. Operators and miners are still dead- locked over wage reductions in the Drumheller Valley coal fields. Alberta. Striking employees from the F. J. Welwood box factory last Thursday in Winnipeg, lost a second battle to the police. Four of the rioters face charges of rioting. while a fifth man is being held without charge. A 300-acre farm just to produce flies is being de‘v010ped at Bean. Ga. dencies of the church. Fire recently destroyed a dwelling. grocery store. millinery shOp and two barns at Jasper, near Brockville, and damaged three other houses before fireâ€" men, assisted by a detachment from Smith's Falls. could extinguish it. The liner, Transylvania. a shining new soda fountain set up in the ver- andah cafe and the smoking room bar transformed into a soft drink station. sailed recently with 600 members of the American Bible Conference Associa- tion on a seven day cruise to Bermuda and Halifax. from New York. Police are conducting a search for chicken thieves Operating in Prince Ed- ward county. Mrs. George Ward of Bloomfield had eight chickens stolen, and Daniel Pope lost 200 which were almost ready for marketing. After years of delay and months of intensive negotiations, the St. Law- rence waterway treaty. embodying the final diplomatic step toward the com- pletion of a deep ship channel from the head of the Great Lakes to the sea, was signed on Monday by the Canadian and United States governments. Canada. A. F. and A. M. in the Prov- ince of Ontario. which meets in that city yesterday and today. Every steamer ,whistle in the harbor at Quebec screamed a welcome on Mon- day night at the docking of the Em- nress of Britain. bearing delegates to Florenz Zeigfeld. the New York “Fol- lies" producer, was reported in a ser- ious condition on Monday at Cedar of Lebanon Hospital. Los Angeles, where he was taken from a New Mexico sani- tarium suffering from pleurisy. On Monday night 300 delegates had arrived in the city of Kingston to at- tend the sessions of the 77th annual communication of the Grand Lodge of press of Britain, bearing delegate: the Imperial Economic Conference. Little Margie on her first visit to a} farm was told to wander about the barn and search for eggs. Some time laté'r the child returned almost in tears. “Couldn’t you and any eggs, deary?", asked her mother. Military and commercial aviators, who flew for hours over the snow-la- den Andes Mountains in Chile. search- ing for the missing plane, San Jose. re- turned without sucess. The $128,000,000 new Welland shin canal will be formally Opened on Sat- urday, August 6. by the Governor-Gen- eral, Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, Hen. Robert J. Manion. Minister of Railways and Canals, whose depart- ment is in charge of the project, and leading delegates to the Imperial Con- ference will be at the opening. his leg and broke in two *. (our of whose stained 31.5; ‘6‘ It's a great old world! acre we've been trying to offer some good W'- tions and somebody shed. "Isn‘t there anything good in Durhun it all?" Evi- dently these articles aren’t being taken the way they are given. Well, the fact is there is plenty good in Durham. But what we are trying to put across is that the local citizens have lost sight of it. We steted some true :30 thnt there are few towns that have the mtunl benuty of Dur- ham. The surrounding country is ex- ceptionally tine. Some time (when you aren‘t busy) wulk up the hill. or if you me up there, look around you. Many pe0ple have travelled miles to see coun- try like this with its hills end vulleys. beuutitul trees end the vuried colors of the fields of ripening crops. Then look down into Durham. Yes it's a beautiful townâ€"generully speaking. It is only the close inspection that re- veals ‘the ugly spots. The wild. unkemp properties thut we have been “raving" ubout for weeks, are a detriment to the town. Instead of hey fields we need little parks and tourist camps. The town needs grooming. and more grooming. But Durham has some lovely gardens. There are several line ones up on the hill. There is one in particular where there is a myriad of colors. We noticed Hollyhocks, Larkspur. Sweet William. Lillies. Roses. It is a beautiful spot and the owner can well be proud of it. And there are many more places where the flowers are not quite so profuse; but they nevertheless reflect the in- terest oi the owners. And down below there is that quaint. little spot at Mc- Gillivray’s. It is without a doubt one of the show places of the town: with its log cabin, rustic bridge and minia- ture water wheel. It certainly makes a pleasant place to look at. An Unsanitary Practice We have hear much criticism of late about the practice of merchants setting out fruit and vegetables. etc, on the sidewalks in front of their stores. This is a very old custom and one that is very prevalent. But when people pur- chase edibles they want them. above all. clean; and they cannot be so when exposed to all the dust and grime of the street. In some towns there is a by-law prohibiting this practice. 1.283 MOTOR ACCIDENTS OCCURRED IN EARLY MORNING If you drive a motor vehicle of any kind, the next time you ere tempted to relax vigilance because the hour is early and traffic lightâ€"don't. l.283 accidents occurred in the prov- ince of Ontario last year between mid- night and breakfast time. Most of these accidents took place because driv- ers. concluding there wasn’t much com- petition for right-of-way. stepped on the accelerator just a little harder than usual and took it for granted that the approaching intersection or blind curve would be clear. This attitude resulted in 82 known death and known injuries to 768 per- sons in 1931. An analysis of the acci- dent statistics furnished by Motor Ve- hicle Branch of the Ontario Depart- ment of Highways. indicates clearly that there is no hour during night or day. in any season or under any con- ditions. when either motorist or pedes- trian can afford to take a chance. “Woman rally is capable of stand- mg strain better and longer than nun." â€"Ameliu Earhart. It's a A Walk Through Durh- HOTEL WAVERLEY HAS ALWAYS BEEN POPULAR m MOVMSTS BECAUSE OF "S HNE ROOMSâ€"[Am lNEXPENQVE FOOD Aw PARKING FACILITIES. 16¢ GARAGE Is ONLV ONE mum! WALK. AHENDANYS tAxc CARS to GARAGE MD mm W W R!- m.mom~vm 'ACE. Rates MOTORINg TO TORONTO (By Lenora Q 'fibu O CJWM. N5.» 1's SOON) PAGE 3 Wave 75c