LIBERTY BELL WILL PASS THROUGH ALTAMONT

Famous Bell Which Proclaimed Liberty Throughout U.S. Will be at Albany Nov. 24 — Efforts Will be Made to Have train Stop Here.

Residents of Altamont will have an opportunity of seeing the famous Liberty bell, as Albany is to be visited on the night of Nov. 24 by a special train conveying the bell back from San Francisco to Philadelphia. The special train of two drawing room coaches, two baggage cars and a steel flat car on the rear fitted up for the bell, will arrive in Buffalo on the morning of Nov. 24. In the journey eastward over the New York Central railroad stops will be made at all the principal stations. Albany will be reached at 9:30 p.m., and the train delivered at the lower level of the Union station to the tracks of the Delaware and Hudson railroad, where Albanians will have a chance to see it. The train will remain until 11:30 p.m., when it will pull out over the Susquehanna division for Scranton, and will pass through Altamont at about 12 o’clock.

MRS. MARY S. SAGE TALKS ON BIRDS AT ALTAMONT SCHOOL

Gives Interesting Address Before Students of the Grammar and Primary Departments, Wednesday Afternoon.

Mrs. Mary S. Sage, representing the National Association of Audubon societies, spoke before the students of the grammar and primary grades of the Altamont school, Wednesday afternoon. Prof. E. B. Elmore assembled the students immediately after the noon recess and introduced Mrs. Sage.

Mrs. Sage is visiting schools and speaking on behalf of the birds of our country. She spoke of the great benefits derived from them, of their economic value and of the measures taken by the government and private individuals for their protection and increase. The talk was illustrated by numerous colored plates.

In part Mrs. Sage said that many birds believed to be harmful, are not. The crows, hated because of their liking for corn, have been found to do more good in destroying the cutworm than all their harm. Owls feed upon rats and mice. The sparrow hawks devour immense quantities of grasshoppers. The common English sparrows are great scavengers. Bob-whites live in or near grain fields, feeding upon insects. The yellow-billed cuckoo is an enemy of the tent caterpillars.

Mrs. Sage concluded her address with an appeal to the students to refrain from injuring the birds, to study them and through the winter to remember that many starve to death, and to feed them whenever possible.

The talk was most instructive and enjoyable. A knowledge of birds, indeed a closer study of nature, will never be amiss. The subject should be perused with greater diligence, especially by those who live close to nature and who may some day wrest their living from the soil.