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ing* most of my spare time in experimenting wiui me Phonograph, making record alter record, trying to overcome the obstacles which usually confront the beginner. Whether the bird thought I was working for her benefit or was actuated by a spirit of mischief I do not know, but she took advantage of every opportunity to demonstrate her ability as an artist in the record making line, until patience ceased to be a virtue. I arose in my wrath and cast her out. However, if I thought I was to have an easy victory I was mistaken, for the bird came back into the lower part of the house and made her way into the room, just as I was finishing what afterwards proved to be an unusually fine violin record of “The Holy City." As she flew on my shoulder she yelled, “ O, Hell, you think you are smart, don’t you, to put poor Polly out, pretty Poll." There it is on the end of that Holy City record to this day—Poll’s blasphemy, blended with Hosannahs. My first thought was to wring her neck, then and there, but I could not help being amused at her persi stance, so I compromised the matter by hiring a small boy to take the parrot off to a remote part of the city and lose her. Now peace reigns once more in our neighborhood. Modern times have not produced the equal of the Phonograph for amusement and in- struction . — Chapin . THE PHONOGRAPH AS A RECRUITING AGENT A sea captain who has just returned from a cruise to Australia and the South Sea Islands tells of a clever way of recruiting laborers from the Islands, to work on the plan- tations. It seems a custom daring the early spring for the