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In Baha'i time it was the Bulb Grackle that was rather common on P. E. Island: "the bird that in early spring comes whistling so ahrilly and yet so sweetly along the borders of‘the glassy ponds. Blackbird is the common name, and who does not remember a summer eve when the silvery pond reflected the forms of the unbow- ed ledges, and one lone swallow skimmed its surface, and the Rob- in's warble in the distant ‘grove was faintly heard, and '

". . . the sooty Blackbird

Mellowed his pipe, and softened every note." '

The nest is built in s fir thicket. The four eggs are pale grayish marked with brown. In autumn the birds wander in flocks, the young conspicuous by their rusty coats.

The Purple Grackle is a _less common bird with glossy. indel- cent black plumage. The ngst is placed in a spruce or fir tree, and contains five eggs marked with curiously arranged dark scrawls.”

When the 101d Bulletin was is- sued the Rusty Grackle was still referred to as "not rare," but by i925 it was believed to b! extinct here, or at any rate driven away by the larger and more combative

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Bronzed Grackle (the Purple Grac- kle of Bain.) '

And now a more sinister trait came to light: the Bronzed Grack- les were found to vary their diet by taking as many small birds‘ eggs and young, as they could find. It was a common sight to see a gang of Grackles, called together by a peculiar cry, attack a Robin's nest; and while the parents were vigorously defending the nest at one point, one of the raiders would dash in at another and secure a victim. In consequence the num- ber of Robins and smaller birds grew noticeably fewer. Perhaps one should not blame the Grackles alone for this, since the’ Crows and Jays are equally culpable. The Starling, another newcomer is said to kill small birds at times.

For some years after the above date the Grackles were numerous —too numerous-in this northern district; but fdr the past six of seven years the numbers seem to have greatly decreased. though Grackles may still be plentiful in the southern districts of the Pro- vince. I was once in the Southport district at harvest time, and not- ed hundreds of young Gracklcs on tho stocks.

Bronzed Grackle, Crow Black- bird. AOU. 5lib. Summer Resi- dent, becoming common -—_ i916. Male. Plumage at a little distance appears completely black, but dis straw-yellow eye gives the bird a sinister look. Head. neck. thwai. and upper breast, vary from pur- ple to bluish-green or steel-blue;

k bronse; wings and tail pur- lish black, (all these parts with a metallic sheen). Lower breast similar to back but duller. _Fe- male much duller, back brownish. sometimes without metallic reflec- tion. Length of Adult l3 inches.

Dialect Words‘

In a news item from the Pacific coast I noted a surname. Oxter. This I think was originally Exe- ter, the name of a city from which the family took its name.

Oxter is the Scot‘! and f!!! Northumbrian‘: name for the arm- pit. I have not heard it for years. In the Anglo-Saxon it is "oxts." and has a distant s “, t0 oxllla, which is the modern medi- cal term for that part of the body.

1n the days of my youth my Scottish friends sli ate ~ oatmeal “parrltch" for breakfast, s good custom, which I fear ls falling into desuetude. The native of Northurn- bria likewise ate parriich but call- ed it crowdy, with the “ow" as in now. "Howdy in, hinny, and get thee crowdy," said the rustic moth- er ‘to her truant offspring. The word is one of the few that have come down from the Latin of the monasteries, and in contracted form, become the property of the common people. A "corrodium” (or corrody) was a meal eaten to- gether by the brethren, and it is interesting to find the second "o" was pronounced like "ow."

The word "stamp" has been roughly handled. "He stumped away," writes an English author. ifad he been American, he would have used "stompedFThc young Tynesider, howcven. has ingen- iously given us a hybrid of stamp and tramp. “He strampsd on me toes!" he complains. At the seaside he "plodged in th' water," and seemed to combine the verbs piod and trudge. "How vulgar!" said the precisians, referring to the Tyneside dialect "Ne," l said, "how ancient! Old Bishop Coverdale would have understood us at once, and Shakupesn would have come in a good second!"

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'\L‘C\(¢\.'Y.\6\DC\\L\.~ A Ihilosophe ‘n View (I)

"So much for what requires our repentance - these are the specif- ic sins of ourselves as individuals, of the Church, and of the nations," continues Dr. Nlebuhr. Our task, he says. is to present the Gospel of redemption in Christ to nations as well as to individuals, though these collective forms of life do not have as direct an access to di- vine judgment and grace.

We have made shipwreck of our common life through the new powers and freedom which a technical civilization has placed at our disposal. This shipwreck is seen in the misery and insecurity of all the world, and is an objec- tive historicsl judgment: it Ls the death which has followed upon the vsinglorious life of the nations. It is our business to so mediate the divine judgment and grace that nations, classes, stated-and cul- tures, as well as individuals, may discern the divine author of their wounds, that they may also know the possibility of a new and whole life. _ ,

Against those who make the state sacrosanct we must insist that the state is always tempted to set its majesty in rebellious oppo- sition to the divine majesty. To those who fear the extension of the state for the regulation of mod- ern economic life we must point out that their fears are frequent- ly prompted not by a concern for ll-l-"tice, but by a jealous desire to maintain their own power.

Arid with this we come to the end of Dr. Niebuhfs searching address, the gist of which is that "W" h" built UP a civilization which is out of his control, and that until he seeks. divine help it will remain so. .

Our Scallops

Renewed interest in our Scal- lop fisheries has come about through the discovery of the “Small Scallop" bed off our south coast. We have two species of Scallop, but comparatively little is known about them: hence the notes that are here presented have some value.

The first species of Island Scal- lop to come under notice was the Large, or Smooth Scallop, Pecten tenuicostatus. otherwise P. Magel- lanicns or P. grandis. This was first reported by W. B. Dawson in his "Survey of P. E. Island" in 1871. It is an attractive shellfish, the valves ("half-shells") being nearly circular, one flat, and the other convex. Usually they are from 5 to 0 inches in diameter, though an 8-inch specimen is on record. The flat under-valve is very smooth, white or cream col- or. The upper valve, usually of some reddish color, has very sien- der radiating ribs over its outer surface, to which are often attach- ed barnacles, Bryozoa, and other parasites,.lt is really a beautiful shell, the interior being smooth and satin-like; the exterior, es- pecially ln young shells, presents delicate and attractive colors, white, pink and so on. The “wlngs" or ears of this species -- the out- growth: of the hinge — are equal

in size, and almost similar in shape. Our "Small Scallop" is the

Peclcn‘ ‘lslandious, which is found from Iceland to the State of Maine. 1t is usually referred to as the Northern Scallop. It is pale orange to reddish brown in color, says Moi-rid in his "Field Guide t0 the Shells of the Atlantic coast," and grows to s length of about 4 inches. The shell carries about 50 nar- row, unequal, radiating ridges, frequently grouped together to form unequal ribs. The "wings" are vary unequal. one fairly long, and the other very short.

In my collection is a fine shell of Pccten lrradlens, found from New England to Cape Hatteras. l‘. derives its name from the radiat- lfll lines on the “wings? Tons of this scallop are dredged annually for market,

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MANILA, Oct. i2 (AP) - Police in Tondo, Manila’: slum, rescued Lourdes Cornejo Santos. 20, from three years in n locked room where she had given birth to three babies. Her husband. Al- fredo Santos, 3i, s second-year medical student, said it had all been by agreement. He was charg- ed with maltreatment. Little Alma Xella, the couple's 2 I-Z-year-old daughter, had never been outside of the room until police broke in Two other

the padlocked door. children had been born in the room but had perished shortly

after birth. The woman now is pregnant.

EGGS I-‘OI! BRITAIN

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7 Fannie Hurst

Don't worry about the money, my dear. Int little Kitty do your

in: to give you reason to remun- ber her right name."

Six mornings a week, before eight o'clock, three breakfasts were delivered on immaculate trays by the vigorously trained small maid, a graduate in precision of Kitty's relentless tutelage.

Binday mornings were the ex- ception. At ten-thirty during the winter, the card table in Char- lottenburfs office-living mom was opened up before a. coal firs and spread to the perfection demanded by Kitty. A Hofiitan lace cover over yellow sateen. Frail daffodil china, painted by Kitty. The smell of steam from hot muffins being opened for s. slide of butter.

Kitty, on these Sunday mornings which she ‘ntended to establish as tradition, loved to breakfast in s. pink woolly bed jacket that en- cased her as softly and warmly as a sachet bag. Never lost upon her was the contrast of Sierra, her face calm above a gray wool bath- robc, and of the Chariottcnburg, shirtwaisted and doing quick jus- tice to three two-minute eggs, whose heads she slashed of! with a. stroke of her knife and drank from the shell.

These clearinghouse breakfasts constituted a weekly balance of affairs and experiences. 1t was pleasant to loll over muffins pil- ed with marmalade, sip hot coffee -with the exception of Kitty who never drank it or tea-dmd verbal- ly thumb back and forth over the record of the week's events.

This Sunday moruinE. s. lumin- lus object, surrounded by three women at breakfast, lay on the lace cloth. The color and size of half a. frosty grape, it shot off a shy milky sort of radiance, its star burning down into its depths. “My little lavendJ dove has swal- lowed the evening stair," whisper- ed Kitty, leaning over it.

"A little lavender piece of loot has swallowed your blarncy, hook and bait," remarked the Charlot- tenburg, crackling toast along her vigorous teeth. "How you man- aged to extract, on consignment, one ‘grade-A’ star sapphire from a firm like Olin and Collins, with- out so much r leaving something negotiable as collateral, is beyond me. Kitty Mullane, who makes arty lapis labuli and silver breast- pins, goes suddenly star sapphire on a shoestring.

"On good straight business thinking," interposed Sierra.

“That from you, my dear Sierra, is praise from Caesar. It was both good and straight, if I do say so. I went to Olin himself. Never mind how 1 bribed, pined, whined and tarried for three days of waiting to reach him. You re- member the evening I pawned off on you for dinner the little girl who paints velvcts when I couldn't

get home in time, Char‘ “ burg?"

"Yes, so do I remernbe my chicken pox."

“That was the evening the of- rice boy tipped me off that Peter Olin was to be in his office late, and I waited in his antarocm un- til eleven and caught him! And please note, Charlottenburg mia, that all this was accomplished with no collateral beyond my frank young Kerry Patch face, the address of my one-room, one-man organization in semi-precious jewels. Yum. yum, my beautiful starlight, starlit darling, kiss Mull- anei You are going to lie on a dingy Pretorious neck but it can- not dim your splendor. I never had enmigh e1 anything-clothing, blankets, candy, 1o , beauty. That's what I missed most and that's what I want most. Hanging star sapphires along even s. wat- tlcd old neck is s. kind of attempt at beauty. Elena's strange still face looking at me is a kind. of beauty. Even _ I in this cruel morning light, with the lines s11 out in my thirtyish looking face, and my eyes too old from want- ing things, am a kind of beauty; the beauty of being lean and un- satiated and etomaily hungry." "Loan and humry? What about hungry for a little kippcred hur- ringi" interpolated the Charlottcn- burg, her eyes small, amused and sardonic.

"Kippercd herring," cried Kitty, her expression pricking up, "wait a minute, there. In spite of your- self I think you've said some- thing!"

The Kitten’s ,forthright little mind must be working somewhat like this: Kippered herring break- fasts could start a fad and become town talk among our local idio- tics."

"There's more than idea there, Oharlottcnburg! There's inspira- tion," cried Kitty. “Miss Amos, Miss Baldwin and Miss Muilana at home, Sundays. Twelve o'clock breakfast. Kipprred herring.’ Oh, Ohariottcnlvurg, suppose I hadn't

ever found your Suppose I were not living with the ciiarlotten-

burg and the High Sierra in Twen-

ty-one East! Suppose!"

"The answer to that," observed

the Oharlottenburg to her knitting

needles, “la either emravsd across

eternity or written on a pinehcod.

Both equally illegible to our ag-

ing eyes - - -" CHAPTER l!

00mg to dine in her father's home and thenewdominionwhich Leonora had created there, was still a disturbing, not to say up- se , experience. invariably ei braced herself for the oc- casion. facing with dread the or- deal of entering as guest the house which had been the citadel of her schoolgirl years and over which she had presided ever since, as a horrified child, she had be- held her mother half carried. her heels dragging, out of the home to that big house on a hill from which she had sieves returned.

You oould count upon loonorc, who made her moves as slowly as

thinking and scheminl. She's go-

Toy-llaliing Girls Once Tumed 0ui

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. By NORMAN CIRIB-‘BENB Canadian Press Staff Writer LONDON, Oct. 12 — (Ci?) -—

Girls who broke production re- cords in British war factories are still breaking records - making toys for export.

Iior nhree years pretty M-yfiar- old Alice Turner produced shell cases by the thousand. Now she paints eyes on dolls at the rate of 900 a day.

“This work is lmuch nicer," said Alice, between operations in s London toy plant. "and from my point of view it's a darn sight more useful. I got to hate uh-e sight of a shell case."

Then there is bright-Pym lfisley Waikham. In wartime Icsley packed eye-shields for fighting forces at the rate of 150 an hour. Today she gives dolls their rosy checks, spraying more than 2,000 a clay.

“It's monotonous all right, but when you see the finished product and think of all the kiddies get out of dOlls you feel it is worth- while. And, mind you, there's a tc-izch of art Ln ii. Some mornings I spray better than others."

April Lesseinsef. plump and-

good-liurnored after 15 years of factory work, made _ i::n:oi:i1:i.~e netting during the war Non she

dggigpg and product's rlnlnly‘ dros- ses for dolls.

“I've always been keen on dress- making,” Aiitril said. ..l ii right in my line. There's. more scope in dressing dolls than human beings. You have s0 much more material at your iiirposni."

These three girls with thousands of others, M!‘ helping Britain's toy trade to turn oui 217000.000 ($52,700,000) worth of toys a year of which £3,000,000 worth are for

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export. Canada last year absorbed- 12 per cent, of the export total

amounting to £4l2.94l. The United States and the Argcntine_ each received six per cent and South Africa. lil per cent.

Export target for the end of 194B was £500,000 a month. Ai- t-hough that figure was exceeded in one month, October, ihe mon- thly average was only £272,000.

"In view of sli the difficulties inherent in the change-over from a sellers to a buyers’ market, the industry put up a very credit- able performance," n

ness in the brooding brownstone rectangle of a house. Baldwin. at this period, would tell you that horses would remain in his stables as long as God made little ap- ples, automobile shenanigans to the contrary notwitstnnrling. But it was surprising what ground Leonore could cover with that little electric cab of hers in which she skittled about like a glider bug. (‘Ilo be continued)

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Manufacturers say that the main obstacle to increasing exports to the United States is the tariff

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