wE—————— DEATH KNELL Work of the United States A OF GYPSY MOTH. GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. Would Not Have Hubby Made Nurse and Assistant Chambermalid. From the Washington Times. Are you one of those women who con- tinually request your husband to run get you this, that, or the other as long | és he 1s about the house? Do you | habitually call him back from the cor- | Department of Agriculture. Will the Gypsy Moth spread over the United States and devastate shade and fruit trees and meadows as its ravages in New England Indicate that it cer- tainly will unless some drastic and ef- fective measures are put forward to check it? During the past few years the State of Massachusetts alone ex- pended over a million and a quarter dollars In attempting to exterminate this moth, the caterpillar of which feeds upon leaves and has stripped tens of thousands of the great spreading elms and other trees in the old Bay State. This is a subject which might not particularly interest the farmers and fruit growers, or even the sircet aul park superintendents of Kansas or other distant States except for the an nouncement of Dr. L. O. Howard, the ner to mall a letter or give him oa saw- | | United States? Dr. Howard, the Goy- | le of silk to mate? Does he no | | ernment entomologist, made a visit to | Sooner sit down than you ask him to continental countries and be has just | Fun upstairs and get the baby's pins, | returned, bringing with him the death | oF take the small child walking, or run warrant of the Gypsy moth. around the corner and get the meat for In Europe this terror of the New | supper? England States Is but one of the in-| There are misguided wives who sect pests which do some, but not very make It a constant practice to keep the | meterial, damage to foliage plants and | man of the house fetching and carrying trees, Nature always provides for a | for themselves and baby from the time proper equalization of things, and in| he enters thé door until bedtime and | its habitat this moth has some 20 ene- | all day Sunday. It's “Tom, get me mies—parasites and carnivorous in-| this,” and “Tom, please bring me that" sects—which prey ferociously upon it, | until in the eyes of a third party Tom's Leeping It In check and reducing its position in the home appears to be that ravages to a fairly negligible quantity, | of a well-trained servaut. Growing Moths’ Mortal Foes. The Poor, Paticnt Worse Half “It only remains,” sald Dr. IToward, It 1s hardly fair to | : In spealiing of his Investigations, “to that is it? 3 8 J 0, et him drop to propagate some of these foes of the hr hey] : 0 you really require that uioth in this country. They can be we. | Le $h0Uld go info bondage of this wr iv neha : : { dg mtiently, cured, packed, shipped and landed in maybe, but it wears on him, i hurts Loston 10 Safeny. Caetber Hey hid, his self-respect. Why don't you do ak y «1 States is . . ” " . 4 question, but there is no good reason Fok Jue Diving, and mail your own to Believe that they will not thrive as Why don't VR a Jour on 8 samples ? we as in Europe [ ‘ro . A ave the baby's things . Europe, or as well as the handy, so he won't have to walt on Sad moth does here, and grow fat and lusty hand ; when turned out to pasture upon their land and foot when you're busy with the little one? hereditary prey. | The Gypsy moth is one of those in- bat would you think po your bus N oura wme a lot o 1s office sect pests which has loomed up large : . i ‘ , . " y be fore the entomologist or bug special | york for you to do at night? Suppose Ist of this country as a possible scourge | » Miley fod Jou o spend your spare of the entire United States, gradually | 2OUrs clerking for him and helping him spreading from State to a eating | with his bills and accounts? Ridien aud killing both deciduous and conifer | 1008, wouldn't it be? Yet, for some rea 18 trees, devouring gardens and every | JO You expect him to act as second green thing, and leaving behind the m housemaid and assistant child's nurse 3 » les i i a brown trail of desolation, causing the whole time he Is away from oti (ve ol > y il 1 DR. L. 0, HOWARD, FOVERNMENT ENTOMOLOGIST, will prol five in » expert it they wie practically all of the testi | mony a re 1 to co "nited States. dest ine Ordinary Methods Unavailing, | Cotton batt mixtures, ng kerosene torches, chemical fumigations and In Times of Necod, Ys. Nine times out of ten it's «! that gets you pract nmrse, there are ! ) Iness which make a tthful husband | shoes of a domest] | wih the meals 8 there ' me mbit yf ’ f into this il 0 1 ( v rest 1 DE ready to ny an A ENGLAND'S — WAR PROBLEM. Royal Commission Finds That it Consists Mostly in Lack of Food Supply. | | AUGUST SCENE IN MASSACHUSETTS TREES DLFOLIATED. at least the expenditure of millions of irs to hold them in check, Dr. Howard's trip for the Depart ment of Agriculture shows this moth to be but one tr hundfed noyances which the intry ha +" LA m After all, what are ginows « ! Are they amm heavy artillery, The royal appointed to nditions of England with preparedness for war does no do unit Runs and and ®i0 1 CAYAIrSY i comm in { y p nn | I i minor i 1 1 1 gate gard 1 [ h p inves the re to FAMOUS DEXTER ELM AT MALDEN, MASS, ENTIRELY STRIPPED BY i MEN AT WORK KILLING PESTS { iY MOTHS other devices have been tried with only partial success and In no case has com plete extermination resulted, minute this work censes, the moths In crease with astonishing rapidity. What was to be done? The Depart ment of Agriculture was finally applied to, and it was realized that since the worm and moth might spread over the entire country, It became a national necessity to provide for its eradication. Fhe department took up the subject at once It was known that the Gypsy moth was of European origin, as it had been brought bere In connection with silk worm Investigations, some of the moths accidentally escaping. The ques tion then arose, Is this pest in Europe what It threatens to become In the - -- IN Jr - Fa AAR AA A NA The! on— m to pay much attention to ti amount of men, ships or firearms on | hand, but Is attention to fact that If England's mighty navy were | to prove as weak and Inadequate as | her dull battalions did in the Boer war, 1 were to be sent to slumber among wrecks of the boastful Spanis! Armada, the little island under a state of would be pract lly help! Much of England's actual neeessar { 1. Su i of | p length of tin je | ’ 4 cal the | the & fiver % & » : y Is imports pen ng the BE 1} oR tants woul nt m ically brings t Hand face to face wi ! ns as they e to face with the have been providing for war g vast sums for army and navy £ no atiention to the actual war-food, Recommend on to Parlia n of a system of eles } 1908 of suff to £50.000.000 worth of a vast guantity of prov mn that the wid supplies of food suf fizn that emrnd ep h tl br fact that b : n exist, ne { f ve f n has b { nd stor ont v re les ons } °s storehous : ~ cient i that w long enough | rittania would Ix » waves or go down vit mst unde wkading rine M relen over the ne lea 'edl at the mere y of the bl ’ : . ng "1 fle The Commission would he wise, too, if It conld work ont an Industrial rev. on by which 1 vast tracks of | ind held In England In great unpro- | In tat nid be transformed | | Into small, self-supporting homes, such | as oan be found by the tens and hun dreds of thousands In J pan Fagin itself contains much more arable land than all of Japan and the single Island | comprising Fngiand, Scotland and | Wales has fully three times the agri | cultural land of Japan. ot " ’ : ‘ tive os od | vide against. It Is a question of tiger | eat tiger, needing only the knowledge of how to apply the natural remedy. — Merciless to Graflers., From the Kansas City Star, If William Travers Jerome Is re | elected district attorney of New York | on an Independent ticket it will be be cause the people will respond to his splendid courage In denouncing all po litical bosses and to his remarkable | activity and Inspiring fearlessness in | nothing superior to a healthy corn, going after the evils of the Metropolis, | Isn't it a pity that the average re showing no mercy to criminals on the | former neglects to begin his work at one hand and shaming tne welldis- home? posed people for their indifference on Clgarettes, If properly classified the other, would come under the head of fouls of a the alr, — ll t— Pointed Paragraphs. From the Chleagn News, leware of the financial pointer usually points the wrong way. As a weather forecaster there it in SOME ADVICE FOR WIVES, ~ i retaliation | SHORT WEIGH of « that raisins are oy Any small boy will make a home run every time he knocks bis ball through | a pane of glass, Nothing arouses a woman's wrath #0 much as a man who appears to be well satisfied with himself, One man may be able to break a THE CHINESE BOYCOTT. Alarm Beginning to be Felt by American Merchants, The Chinese boycott of American im. ports into China continues in spite of the action of the President In modl- fying the harsh execution of our ex-| clusion laws, and our evident desire to placate the Chinese, has been brewing and gtewing for some time, There have been mutterings and threatenings dur- ing the past two years but they have F-. = —— od) 1905 $40,667,829 t heen generally disroearded and It was apparently believed that they amounted to nothing more than futile tureats. Information comes from San Fran cisco that In China some ten thousand of the merchants have signed the boy cott resolutions, which carry a penalty of about $1000 In each case for thelr violation. Further, the ( papers are refusing advertisements of American firms, Since the factg are coming to be realized, the question In this country becomes a live one, The Natlor soclation of Manufacturers whi hinese news 100s 1004 fomee] $ 20500 vied ram the we # Hed Bueies Wanihe ending in Aged i, | bo ans arr 2 “ 1905 — i : IS IN HOUSEHOLD GOODS, | As Much Need for This Legislation WEBB PUBLISHING las for Pure Food Laws. : : ¥ in the ds. but wl) ' ' ij { 5 aj 'y | LH : ! ! uch nee re food laws, own fact tl 11 or 11'5 ounces are sold as a pound ; put up In pack “ ntaining 12, 14 and 15 ounce ! 1 as pounds ; that there is fn ve ire mM Southern Advancement. Northern methods n vading the S , and | advantage. Mr ad of 1 Industry e Ro ern R ne over field, wn there ro rads grad tl to | M. al Dep way 1 : { n arme } ’ o L ’ yn : says tl ’ DeCome LF rilu rm will antry ral region, w of land, intelligent] ean be his ow nn hat no other man can anywhere is ne r heart than the sidewalks of the « Besides the alr Is purer, and so is t water, and food ri out of the ground is not adulterated. uth Horn e y cul n . : ar 1 nature n : shit ———I———— The Packers Were the Hogs. Of sixty-eight samples of sausages examined by the government analyst ot Melbourne, Australia, not one ound unadulterated. In the socalled pork sausage put up by the packing houses not a particle of pork could be discovered. was — The Race Growing Smaller, Rize and sufficiency are not neces sarily associated, as Is shown by the way the Japanese have outwitted and outdone thelr Russian enemies In strategy and In combat. 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