Garber Sentinel. (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SENTINEL, GARBER, OKLAHOMA.
5Y5TEMS OF
THE WHITE M
REWROTE TO LAST MOMENT FINDS WILL; GETS $14,000
PREPARED DY THE UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT ^AGRICULTURE
TI
HE white ant or "ter-
mite" is one o. the so-
called social Insects that
lives in a highly organ-
ized community where
there are castes—royal,
military, working and
colonizing. I'nfortunate-
ly for man, however, the
caste system Is designed
to aid "white ant" communities In de-
stroying timber, and has helped to gain
for it the reputation of being one of
the most destructive pests Crumbling
walls, collapsing floors, breaking bean
poles and weakened fence poBts are
evidences of the ravages of this tiny
Insidious Insect.
The term "white ant" Is misleading,
as It causes many people to consider
this insect merely a variety of the
ordinary ant, and therefore scientists
use the word "termite" In preference,
to describe the insect. As a matter of
fact, the real ant Is one of the ene-
mies most to be^feared by the termite
The two Insects may be commonly
found Inhabiting the same lug or
stump, and yet the former will capture
and carry away members of a colony
of termites if they are at all disorgan
Ized by being exposed. Such a help
less colony will attract from a dis
tance ants of several species and will
offer little resistance to the marauders
The caste system, which is such a
distinctive feature of the life of the
white ant. Is evident only among the
adults of a colony. When the young
have Just hatched from the eggs, as
BOtft white grubs, they seem more or
less the same, but after a series of dor-
mant stages and molts they develop
along particular lines.
The "workers" are probably the
most Important caste In any colony.
They make the excavations where the
ants are to live, and help care for the
royal couples and the young
The "soldiers" are more highly spe
cialized workers, but are functionally
less important than the workers. The
soldiers are armed with a powerful
head and "pinchers" which alTord pro
tectlon to the colony when there Is an
attack made through the openiug of
the narrow channels leading to the
nests. Their suit of armor is not com-
plete, however, and their soft bodies
are quite defenseless when a colony Is
opened up and an energetic army of
real ants attacks them.
The "colonists" are the winged mem-
bers of the community, who In the
spring fly away in great numbers to
found new colonies. These estab'lsh
themselves In pairs and Immediately
devote themselves to raising a pew
community. Each original pair be-
comes a "royal couple" in its new en
vlronment.
Among other social InsectB, like the
boo, the king of a new colony dies Im
mediately after he has fulfilled Ills use-
fulness. However, the king termite
continues to inhabit the cell with the
1
young trees—forest tree nursery stock,
for example—eventually cutting the
trees off near the ground, and exam-
ination disclosing that the stems were
honeycombed This is not necessarily
due to the presence of dead wood near
by, since termites will tui nel for long
distances underground.
While usually confining their work
to moist or decaying timber or to vege-
table material of any sort, and to
books and papers that are somewhat
moist, termites will attack seasoned, |
dry wood, provided there Is access to
moisture elsewhere; 1. e.. they use
moist grass and earth in extending the
burrows, thus creating more favorable
conditions. In the southern states
termites will infest the bark and outer
layers of the wood of the base of yel-
low pines killed by bark beetles before
the foliage has fallen; trees that have
been killed in the spring and show red-
dish-brown needles and much fallen
foliage being infested by the middle of
August. Tree's killed in the spring
will have the outer layers of wood of
the base honeycombed by the follow-
ing December. The larger-celled
thin-walled, spring wood Is eaten away
first, leaving the smaller-celled, hard
er, summer wood uneaten.
The United States department of ag-
riculture has Issued a bulletin describ-
ing the white ant from a scientific
standpoint, and suggesting inanv rem-
edies for limiting the ravages of these
little creatures.
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Queen. the latter caring for the young
and moving the newly hatched grubs
from place to place when the colony Is
disturbed
Notwithstanding the fact that the
white ant Is such an Interesting In-
sect. it Is one nf the most destructive
in North America. While In a way they
serve in a favorable role by converting
the wood of dead stumps and trees
into valuable Boil material, this Is
more than ofTset by the damage they
Inflict on Injured living trees, to say
nothing of their insidious borings In
all manner of timbers, props, poles
and posts, which often give way with-
out the slightest warning. White ants
will InfeBt the heartwood of living
trees Injured at the base by fire, dis-
ease or other insects, and sometimes
In such trees they excavate upward
throughout the dead heartwood, longi-
tudinal tunnels, irregular In diameter.
These Insects also Infest the roots
of living trees, finding ingress through
abandoned burrows of the large round-
headed borers. Sometimes they girdle
The Aggression of States.
The world is divided, politically,
into states. The:se states are a kind
of abstract beings, distinct from the
men, women and children who inhabit
them They are in perpetual and in-
evitable antagonism to one another;
and though they may group them-
selves in alliances, these can be only
for temporary purposes to meet some
other alliance or single power. For
Btates are bound by a moral or physi-
cal obligation to expand indefinitely,
each at the cost of the others. They
are natural enemies, they always have
been so, and they always will be; and
force is the only arbiter between them.
That being so, war is an eternal neces-
sity As a necessity, It should be ac-
cepted, if not welcomed, by all sound-
thinking and sound-feeling men Pa-
cifists are men at once weak and
dangerous. They deny a fact as fun-
damental as any of the facts of the
natural world. And their influence,
if they have any, can only be dis-
astrous to their state in its ceaseless
and inevitable contest with other
states.—Prom the Atlantic.
As the Sequel Shows.
A young woman in Harlem blamed
the tango for her bad temper which
caused her to abuse her mother and
get arrested. Her disposition before
the tango craze started was probably
nothing to brag of.
Tolstoy's Habit Was to Correct Print-
er's Proofs as Long as They
Were Sent to Him.
When "Anna Karenina" began to
come out in the monthly Russki
V.vestnik, writes Count Ilya Tolstoy In
his ' Reminiscences of Tolstoy," long
galley proofs were posted to my fa-
ther, and he looked them through and
corrected them.
At first he would mark the margins
with the ordinary typographical signs,
letters omitted, marks of punctuation,
and so on; then he would change In-
dividual words, and then whole sen-
tences. That would be followed by
erasures and additions until the proof
sheets became a mass of patches that
were perfectly black in places. It was
impossible to send them back as they
stood, because no one except my moth-
er could make head or tail of the
tangle of signs, transpositions and
erasures. My mother would sit up
all night copying the whole thing out
afresh.
In the morning the pages lay on her
table, neatly piled together, and cov-
ered with her fine, clfear handwriting.
Everything would be ready so that
when "Lyovotchka" came down he
could send the proof sheets off by
rost. My father would carry them to
his study to have "one last look," and
by evening the sheets were all writ-
ten over and messed up once more .
"Sonya, my dear, I am very sorry,
but I've spoilt all your work aeain; I
promise I won't do it any more," he
would say, showing her the passages
he had inked over, with a guilty air.
"We'll send them off tomorrow with-
out fail." But that tomorrow was
often put olT for weeks, or even for
months.
"There's just one bit I want to look
through again," my father would say,
but he would get carried away and re-
write it all afresh There were even
occasions when, after he had posted
the proofs, my father corrected them
by telegraph the next day.
Several times, in consequence of
these corrections, the printing of the
novel in the Russki Vyestnik was in-
terrupted, and sometimes it did not
come out for months together.—
Youth s Companion
Reason of His Faith.
"Bruddren and sistahs," began Jim
Dinger, the gambling man, during the
revival in Ebenezer chapel, "I rises
to testify dat 1 has done been snatched
fum the slough o' sin and de sasspole
o' 'nickerty whah 1 has been wallerin'
for lo dese many days."
"Hallelooyer! Bless de Lawd!"
shouted a dozen earnest voices.
"Yas, bruddren and sistahs, de
Lawd's done made muh eyesight so po'
of late dat I kain't sca'cely see de
Bpots on a cyahd, and I mought dess
as well Jine fie church as to stay out-
side Muh days o' usefulness is ovah,
anyhow."—Kansas Ctiy Star.
Engineer Overwhelmed When He
Opens Box and Finds Fortune
Left by Friend.
A windfall, as welcome as It was un-
expected. came to Harvey A. Acker, a
locomotive engineer on the Reading
railway, living at Allentown, Pa., with
the finding of the will of Radley Mohr,
retired cigarmaker and widely known
lsporteman, who died at the age of fifty-
six.
Mohr for years, living very modest-
ly, boarded with Acker, who was one
of his cronies, the pair often going
out together for a day with rod or
gun. Mr. Mohr for several years, on
account of falling health, did nothing
but hunt and fiBh.
It was not known or supposed that
he had any fortune. While cleaning
up his effects the morning after the
funeral Mrs. Acker came across a doc-
ument which indicated it was Mohr's
will. She showed it to Acker, who
found he was the sole beneficiary jf
the estate, and Arthur J. D. Koenig,
clerk of the orphans' court of Lehigh
county, was named executor.
The will, besides bequeathing to
Acker a small property, said he should
have the contents of a safe deposit
box in one of the banks, and it tola
him where to find the key and how to
open the box. He called on Mr. Koe-
nig and the two did as directed in the
will. Their eyes opened in astonish-
ment when they found $14,000 in clean
| new bills and gold.
i Preventing Premature Burials.
| The fear of being buried alive al-
ways has been, and is, so widespread
j that the French Academy of Scl°nce
i some years ago offered a prize equal
j to $7,500 for the discovery of some
j means by which even the inexperi-
| enced might at once determine wheth-
j er, in a given case, death had ensued
or not. A physician obtained the
j prize. He had observed the following
j well-known signs: If the hand of the
| suspected dead person is held towards
j a candle or other artificial light, with
the fingers extended and one touching
the ether, and cne looks through the
spaces between the fingers towards
the light, there appears a scarlet red
color where the fingers touch each
other, due to the blood still circulat-
ing: it shows itself through the tis-
sues which have not yet congested.
When life is entirely extinct, the phe-
nomenon of scarlet spaces between
the fingers at once ceases. The most
extensive and thorough trials estab-
lished the truth of his observation.
OUR COAST DEFENSE
In these modern days of heavy arma-
ment and Beientilic war equipment, much
thought haa been given to our coast de-
fense. The quewtion of preparedness is one
that concerns all patriotic Americans for
is always the unexpected attack that causes
connternation.
This is also true in matters pertaining to
health. That great enemy of health-
Stomach trouble—may spring an unexpect-
ed attack at any time and it is well to be
prepared by always keeping a bottle of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters in the house.
It is your bulwark in time of distress^
Be on guard at all times, and as sooh as
you notice the appetite failing, digestion
becoming impaired, the liver inactive and
the bowels refune to perform their daily
functions, commence taking the Bitters.
Prompt action, together with the aid of
this medicine, hns been the means of pre-
venting much suffering from Sick Head-
ache, Nausea, Poor Appetite, Indigestion,
Constipation and Biliousness.
Don't trifle with your health, but rather
help Nature when weakness is manifested.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is Nature's
ally, and these together, form a combina-
tion that is sure to result to your welfare.
Try it today, but be sure you get Hostet-
ter's.
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
A toilet preparation of merit.
Helps to eradicate dandruff.
For Restoring Color and
Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair.
60c. and (l.ooat l>r UK-pints.
tor sale price fc.'J and $-5 per turn#, on easr M-rius,
loeat.-d < n the New Bocktf-rd-M. nUknu lire ;>t the
tit. Northern and east ox' Wllu n on Northern
Kieiilo lliSMAitik UMALTY (JO. Bismarck M L)
SEPARATED L.AM3S AND GOATS
Governor Knew What He Was Doing
When He Told Anecdote of
Ancient Vintage.
The governor of a southern state
came to his office with a friend one
morning to find a number of men wait-
' ing in the anteroom. Pausing an in-
stant, he told a story that was a de-
cided "chestnut." When he got inside
! the private office the friend said:
| "That was a horribly old one you
■ sprung on those fellows."
| "I know it," chuckled the governor,
j "but did you notice that one that
j laughed?"
i "Well, I noticed that three or four
| did."
"Those," said the governor, "are the
fellows who won't get in to see me.
They are the ones who have favors
[ to ask."—Rehoboth Sunday Herald.
Method in His Madness.
"Do you realize that your long ser-
j mons are rather tiresome?" asked the
j young parson who was new at the
j game.
"I do." replied the wise parson, who
was beginning to carry weight for age.
"That is why my congregation gives
me such long vacations."
He Ought to Know.
Adam complained.
"The early bird may get the worm,
An Insinuation.
"They tell me, Mrs. Comeup, your
... , i daughter went through that recep-
Kut if you are too early you get a ; tion ln her honor wlthout any fauj[
pas."
"No such thing! She had as much
of it as anybody that was there."
snake," he cried.
Their Identity.
Germany—The other powers come
to these straits in fowl disguise.
Turkey (mournfully)—Yes, as Tur-
key gobblers.
A man must Indeed be mighty busy
when he hasn't time to stop and watch
a dog fight.
Parliamentary.
Brown—Where's that fiver I laid on
the table a moment ago?
Mrs. Brown—You never expected to
see that again, did you?
Brown—And why not?
Mrs Brown—You told me that in
parliamentary practice, when a bill
is laid on the table, it is seldom heard
of again.—Harper's Bazar.
One of Several.
Little Lemuel—Say, paw, is that a
wild man across the street?
Paw—Something like that, son. He
is a member of the state legislature
who voted against free lunch, and to-
day he had to give up real money for
the food he consumed between drinks.
Proofs of It.
"The author of that work hasn't
leg to stand on."
' "How about his footnotes?"
FUNERAL OF A NOTED FRENCH PATRIOT
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Cortege of Tollpot, president of the Medaillcs Mllttatres, passing through the Court of Honor of the Invalldes, Paris
COLD SURFACES GATHER DUST
Why Rooms Lighted by Electricity
Are Free From the Bane of
the Housewife
The reason that lath and plaster
walls become streaked is explained
bv John Altken in Nature as due to
the tendency of hot air to deposit Its
dust on cold surfaces; and the colder
the surface the weaker the power of
resistance. So where the aths pro-
liMit the plantar troui the cold outside
the plaster receives less deposit of
dust than where it is between the
laths
Wherever a hot steam or water
pipe comes through a wall a vertical
streak of dust may be seen above it,
due to the hot air driving the dust
against the cold wall. Rooms that are
heated by open grates are much less
dusty than those heated by radiators,
because In the former the furniture is
heated principally by radiation, and,
being warmer than the air, It repels
the particles of dust Instead of catch-
ing them, while in the latter the air
heats the furniture aud in so doing
deposits Its dust on it.
Rooms lighted by electricity keep
clean longer than those heated by gas.
simply because the light is almost
cold.
Mr. Altken sums It up as follows:
"Any surface hotter than the air keeps
free from dust."
Next to the I'nltrd States, Germany
has the greatest number of telegraph
offices and the largest line mllwag*.
Comparative Food Values
pound of rib roast beef
pound of Grape-Nuts food
Comparative Cost per Pound
1 pound of rib roast beef
1 pound of Grape-Nuts food
It would be difficult to find a food that affords the same
abundance of true nourishment, at so low a cost, as does the
famous wheat and malted barley food—
Grape - Nuts
At three-fifths the cost, a package of Grape-Nuts supplies
nearly one-third more nourishment than a pound of rib roast
beef. And besides, in buying a roast you pay for about 20#
refuse, and there's a shrinkage in cooking.
Grape-Nuts food comes ready cooked and every particle
in the FRESH-SEALED package is good to eat. Its rich nutri-
ment includes the 'vital' salts that are necessary for brain,
bone and sturdy muscle. Grape-Nuts is delicious—easily
digested — economical.
Thinking people everywhere are more and more adopting ,
Grape-Nuts —
"There's a Reason'
Sold by Grocers everywhere.
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