GIRDLER ATTRACTS ATTENTION
AS ENEMY OF THE GRAPEVINE
Has Been Found In Several States From
Missouri to Pennsylvania,
SonETfilNd
L ittle O nes
EASY TO MAKE BARREL BOAT
Timbers Attached Prevent Capsizing
and May Be Constructed by
Any Handy Boy.
REDUCE YOUR LIVING EXPENSES
.,***
Food* «nd rreommend them to your acquaint-
anee». 1 ou set better quality and more for your money. They are
made in your home state from the beat Oregon O.ta and Whe.7
Large parkagee contain a Handsome Premium and all goods are
guaranteed. Ask your grocer.
Golden Rod Oats.
Golden Rod Pancake Flour
Golden Rod Wheat Flakes. Ralston Select Bran.
Golden Rod Wheat Nuts.
Golden Rod Chick Food.
Wild Red Rice.
Tn Senegal red rice grows wild. Tbe
fields in which it grows are Inundated
regularly by the Senegal or by its af
fluents, and in measure as the tide
rises the rice plant rises above the
flood. The grain Is very red and very
dry and hard. It swells in the water
and as it swells loses some of its rich
color. It
' is
‘ very nourishing and re-
quires no cultivation.—Harper’s Week-
iy.
A boat that any handy boy car
easily make Is constructed of a bar
rel which is kept with the openlni
cut in one side up by two 4 by 6-ln
timbers and two tie pieces, 2 by 4
says the Popular Mechanics. Thf
lengths of these pieces will depend
on the size of the barrel.
A good watertight barrel should b«
selected and an opening cut in the
The Wedding Ring.
center between the hoops, of such a
The w-edding ring is of foremost in
size as to allow the body of the oc
cupant room for handling an oar. The terest to the groom and a new wed-
timbers are attached to the barre) ding ring is to be had. called the "al
with iron straps—pieces of old hoops liance ring.” This appears to be one
solid ring, but is actually two, the
joints being invisible, and whenever
engraved, the ring is separated by In
serting a pin in the inside pinhole,
which separates the ring and the mar
king is done on the inside surface.
A Barrel Boat
will do. The two tie pieces are pu
across the timbers at the ends of the
barrel and spiked in place.
The boat is to be propelled with a
»ingle, double-end paddle. There Is
no danger of the boat capsizing or the
water splashing into the barrel.
CUTTING BOARD QUITE HANDY
The Grapecane Girdler. a, Egg; b. Larva; c, Pupa; d, Adult; e. Beetle Gird-
ling the Cane Just Below Its Egg-Chamber. The Upper One of the Twin
Holes in the Center of the Cane Contains the Egg. All Greatly Enlarged.
<By FRED E. BROOKS. West Virginia
Experiment Station.)
CLASSIFIED
IDEAL FRUIT PICKERS' BAG.
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M,'d we wil> mail you samel«
°C Ideal Apple Pickers Ikur Positively tho lint
T“ “It*’« market, allowin« man to um
both hands. • Harker
Co. M a £
»ri M.nufactarin«
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bro«
St., Kochniter.
N. Y.
FOR SALE — WELL PAYING WHOLESALE
ursr business in Tacoma. W ash., at a very n«-
orands. Well established trade: fixtures -tn
Cheap rent, yood lease. Olymp., ¿ox 31». Chica«*
FOR SALE -40 ACRES ON THE WESTERN
pV’K’ I’ear IN-lta. 15 acres Marina orchard
1 lenty irrigating water. Place worth S20 iksi m
Must sell quick, will sell at t“ihe priS „’M
Lousy terms. George Hlanke. Olathe. Colo.; R. NaT
Overlooked.
"Very few mosquitoes taste any
thing but the juice of tender plants,"
remarked the naturalist. "Is that sot"
exclaimed Farmer Corntossel.
“It
kind o looks as If human being«
hadn't been properly advertised as
mosquito food.”
Dirt Eaters Everywhere.
Time and Place.
The practice of eating dirt has bees
A little six-year-old Philadelphia girl traced by a scientific authority to peo
was sent to the family physician for Pies in every part of the world. Thai
a vaccination certificate, so that she hunger which lends a man to want th«
could enter school.
The certificate earth Is characteristic of no one n»
required the date of vaccination. Not tlon.
remembering when he had done it, he
Where Massachusetts Leads.
said, Janet, how long are you vac
More than 50 per cent, of all v*
cinated?” To which Janet innocently
replied, "Here it Is on my leg, about hides In Massachusetts are motos
propelled, a greater proportion thaz
an inch long.’
in any other state
Marking on Wood.
Convenient Article for Use In Any
If any one in your home has a py
Play Room May Be Made of Or
rograph outfit, use it for marking your
dinary Piece of Pine.
boy’s hockey sticks, baseball bats, ten
Use pine three-quarters of an inch nis rackets and all such wooden things.
thick, You shotsld have a piece 7
Painted names can wear or be scratch
inches by 12 Inches for a cutting ed off, but when burned In deeply the
board.
Identification is there to stay.
Round the corners by making them
dn'i Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing
one-quarter of a circle whose radius jyrup tho best remedy to uso tor theii eUUdroa
■ uring the teething ^riod.
h three-quarters of r.n
— Inch. Round
with the grain of the wood, as shown
Fish Puzzles Scientist«.
A quantity of extraordinary and
quite unknown fish has been landed
by a trawler at Granton, England. The
fish were caught while the vessel was
wj
engaged in trawling in the North sea.
Fish-curers and experts state that
they have never seen this species be
fore. It has the appearance of a
herring, but the head is pointed and
the tail forked, while the eye covers
the whole side of the head.
Don’t buy water for bluing. Liquid blue la «L
Vi Buy Red CroM Ball blu* ths
blue that a all blue.
Day of the Whip.
The dreaded "cat" is probably th»
best known of old naval punishments.
Whipping was provided for at least as
long ago as the fifteenth century, and
in Drake’s time the regular trouncing
of the ship's boys by tho boatswain on
Monday morning was regarded as the
only means of Injuring a lair wind for
the rest of tho week.
mustang
LINIMENT
deep groove with Its strong jaws so
The grapecane girdler is an insect that the branch above dies and is fre
not often mentioned in entomological quently broken off by the wind. Tho
literature, probably for the reason that elm twig-girdler,” Oberea ulmlcola,
In the past it seems to have confined a beetle of the same family, attacks
its attacks chiefly to the plant known elm in a similar manner. The female
as Virginia creeper or five-leafed ivy, cuts a deep groove around a twig so
ampelopsis quinquefolia, and has that it is easily broken oft by the
Slide Back!
seemed, therefore, of but little eco wind. Below the groove she cuts a slit
Backsliding, indeed! I can tell yot
nomic importance. In this state It ap in the bark and deposits an egg and
on the ways of most of us go, the fast
pears now to have developed a prefer then moves further down the twig and
A Cutting Board.
er we slide back the better.
Slide
ence for the grape. In several locali girdles it a second time, now merely
ties I have seen grapevines presenting cutting through the bark so as to dead in the figure. Do not go quite to the back into the cradle, if going on is
a ragged appearance on account of the en the part above. Another species of line with the chisel, and finish with into the grave—back, I tell you; back
—out of your long faces, and Into your
dead tips resulting from the insect’s the same genus, known as the “black the plane.
Named for General Wadsworth.
long clothes. It is among children
attacks, but I have never been able to berry cane-girdler,” Oberea blmacu-
Next drill the hole. Drill until the only and as children only that you
Fort Wadsworth in New York har
find either the beetle or evidences of lata, cuts a double girdle and lays an
egg between the two, in a similar man point of the drill begins to come will find medicine for your healing bor is not named for Capt. Joseph
Its work on ampelopsis.
through the wood and then take it out and true wisdom for your teaching.— Wadsworth, but for Gen. James Sam
The species cannot now be regarded ner, in the young canes of blackberry
and
put the point in on the other side Ruskin.
and
raspberry.
Still
another
"long-
uel Wadsworth of Geneseo, N. Y.
as a pest of very serious consequence,
ot the board. When the bole is fin
General Wadsworth raised a regiment
except in rare Instances, but it has horned” beetle, the "oak-pruner,” Ela-
adulteration. Glass and wa- when the Civil war broke out, serve*
ished, plane the sides of the board and ter make liquid blue contly.
Huy Red Croat» Bal]
several times attracted attention as an phidion villosum, lays its eggs in the
finish it with sandpaper.
Blue, makes clothes whiter than snow.
with distinction, and was killed in tho
enemy of tbe grape in this state dur branches of oak and other trees but
battle of the Wilderness. In his mem
ing recent years, and heretofore but leaves the girdling to be done by its
Dlvlded Nest.
ory the name of Fort Tompkins was
little has been known in regard to its larvae. In this case the larva feeds in LIFE OF CHINESE STUDENTS
A North Westmorland (England) changed to Fort V’ndstvorth
the
heart
of
the
twig
until
it
is
nearly
habits.
full grown and then cuts the twig al Exercise Is Net Given Attention It farmer recently came across a very
The distribution of the species
Women Form Fire Brigade.
most oft at the lower end of its bur Should Receive In Far East Colleges unusual sight. In the course of his
seems to be quite general throughout
rounds through his fields he found a
The women of Idrfa, in the Aus-
row. Immediately after the cut is
—
Much
Superstition.
the eastern and mid-westem sections
nest with 25 eggs in it. The large trian province of Krain^ were so dl^
made it retreats into the burrow above
of the United States. In 1862 Mr. C.
number was not the only marvel, for , satisfied with the
.1_ fire-brigade
.s,—,« that
and waits for the wind to blow the
Tbe life of the Chinese college «tu- on examining the eggs, he found that they have formed one
V. Riley, in his first report on the nox
of their own,
twig to the ground, where It completes lent
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_____
_
is different ft. many ways from 15 of them belonged to a pheasant,
ious Insects of Missouri, mentioned it
consisting of 60 "firewomen,"
as forming galls on the common creep its transformation within the burrow. ‘ that of students In our own univeraL and the remaining ten to a partridge. Frau Marie Straos us their with.
The
adult
of
the
“
raspberry
cane-
1
‘
*«8.
The
Chinese
student
is
not
very
com-
er. At about the same time Mr. Benj.
The pheasant, as the stronger bird, wander.
maggot,
”
ft
two-winged
fly
of
the
genus
'
Btnong
physically.
He
has
stooned
D. Walsh had specimens of the Insect
was the probable Intruder.
in his collection In Illinois, marked Phorbla, lays its egg near the tips of ’boulders and a pale complexion. His
"Madarus ampélopsis.” It was not un- young raspberry snoot«. The larva, “Te is not wholesome, for he sleeps in
Answer of a Soldier.
room which Is not ventilated
til the year 1876 that a description which hatches enters the cane and •
When Napoleon was a student
of the beetle was published. In that after working its way downward for and be does not eat very wholesome Brfenne he happened to be asked
------- by
year Dr. John L. LeConte described it several inches It encircles the shoot food-
one of the examiners the following
several
times,
with
a
spiral
groove
Exercise
1«
not
given
the
attention
in his work on the Rhynchophora of
question: "Supposing you were In an
America, and gave to it the name made just beneath the bark, which t it should have in the Chinese college Invested town threatened with starva-
which it still bears. Le Conte gives kills the shoot above, and the larva' The intercollegiate sports Include a tlon, how would you supply yourself
its geographical distribution as "south feeds thereafter on the dead wood. 100-yard dash, the high jumn nnia with provisions?” ‘‘From the enemy,”
Btem‘glrd,er’"
and a football
ern and western states.’ Since the
replied the sub-lieutenant of artillery;
description was published the species tiger, a saw fly, punctures the bark of ’ game. In the Imperial university at Pe- and this answer so pleased the exam
And you would like long
has received but infrequent and brief currant bushes near the ends of grow- kin the teachers are gathered from ati iners that they passed him without
Ing
tips
with
its
saw-like
ovipositor
—
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—
-
—
-
hair? Rich, heavy hairi
parts of tho world. The Chinese bw further questioning.
notice, but has been recorded as oc
curring in several states from Mis and lays an egg in the orifice. Just ; lieve that topics that are foreign to
Beautiful,
luxuriant hair?
above the egg, it girdles the twig by them should bp taught by foreigners.
souri to Pennsylvania.
Shake Into Tour Shoes
That
is
perfectly
natural, and
making several deep cuts with its ovi- The students accept practically all of Allen'■ Foot-Fare. ■ powder fnr the fret. Tt enree
The wouml which the beetle makes
positor so that the twig breaks over. the foreign teachings except medi painful, swollen. amartlng, sweatina fret. Makea
we are here to help you.
in ovipositing causes the tip and
The larva which develops from the cine. The medicine which is taught new shoes erey. Sold by al! DrumrlaU and Sho«
Ayer’s Hair Vigor is a great
terminal leaves on the young cane to
»KES' J
‘
'r"t ■'W «ubatltute. Sample
egg feeds on the pith of the stump.
Ruy, N. Y.
I
Is largely Chinese and is made up of 4KLK Addrera A. S. Ofonnted.
drop over and die, and shortly after
did
to nature in producing
There are other species that operate
ward to fall from the vine. The egg in a similar manner, but the ones that many superstitions. The Chinese be
Superstitious
Italian«.
just the kind of hair you de
lieve that a man has nine pulses and
is not carried to the ground with the
Perhaps of all countries Italy Is the
have been mentioned will serve to two hearts. They do not believe tn
sire. Do not be afraid to
prunings when they fall, but it re
most rife with superstition in all it«
show that the peculiar habit, in one
mains in the vine, and the larva which form or another, Is shared by insects cutting up dead human bodies tor the strange and Imaginative varieties. Ital
use It. No danger of its col
develops therefrom feeds in the heart belonging to widely separated groups. purpose of studying their parta, as we ians beWeve in the "evil eye." They
oring your hair. The Ingre
of the stump from which the leaves It is interesting that so many species, io. They would not do this because have a "fal«e spirit," which 1« given
they think the disembodied spirit
dients
are all given on each
and tip were removed.
to practical jokes on poor mortals, and
which in most respects do not resem
It is interesting to compare the ble each other In the least and which might return to punish them through a darker hobgoblin, th« "Fata Mor
abel,
thus enabling your
torture.
methods of this Insect with those of represent at least three orders, have
gana," who draws youth beneath the
doctor to wisely advise you
other species that girdle twigs or । adopted some form of this peculiar
waves of th« Straits of Messina to
Wanted His Cream Spanked.
small branches in order to kill or part way of providing for the safety and
concerning
Its use. Consult
drown.
“Mamma.” said four year old Bobby,
ly kill the wood in which their eggs < comfort of tbeir progeny.
iim
freely.
He knows.
"what is that white stuff on my ber
are laid and their larvae are to feed.
Not Yet.
ries ?"
The "hickory twig-girdler," Oncl-
A bard who make« "fin«* rhyme
Peas In Grain Stubble.
“That la what we call whipped with mind" ba« won a prize In a "po
deres cfngulata, a "long horned" bee
Get busy and plant peas on that cream,” answered his mother.
». N. U.
tle, lays its eggs In the branches of grain stubble. It will mean dollars
No. »»-’ll
etical” contest. Nevertbele««, w« are
A few days later Bobby dined at a not yat convinced that "poetical” con-
hickory and other trees and then glr- in your pocket, both this year and
neighbors and, being offered some or teats «re the most ridiculous thing« In
Ales the branch below, by cutting a next.
dinary cream, be asked: "Haven't
world.
you folks got any spanked ersamr-
Want
Long Hair?