The Canadian Valley News. (Jones City, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 2 Friday, May 5, 1911 Page: 3 of 4
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1911 Invasion |
Insect Armies
HE most widespread "lo-
cust” invasion that this
coifctry has experienced
in seventeen years Is due
this spring.
The bug prophets of the
United States bureau of
entomology have Just
framed a forecast that
will Indicate to citizens,
far and wide, the coun-
ties in which the in-
vaders will appear.
Prophecy, we are told, is not yet an
exact science, but the process of pre-
dicting this Insect Invasion is an ex-
ception to the rule.
I never religiously believed that it
could be done until I beheld for my-
self in the spring of 1902. Four full
years in advance of that date the offi-
cial prophets had given me a map of
the predicted theater of war. I filed
it away, and when the scheduled week
rolled around I visited a spot marked
as within the prognosticated field of
battle. Here I saw the enemy ad-
vance and viewed the succeeding
tumult. It was a sight for sore eyes, a
Rperlacl" to be remembered through-
out a lifetime.
Rut the high doings of 1902 were as
nothing compared with those which
Mother Nature will pull ofT this spring
in 389 counties of twenty-one Amer-
ican states. For the first time since
1894 two of the “major broods" of
periodical "locusts” will simultaneous-
ly appear.
It will be the last time within our
natural lives that such an onslaught
will be witnessed, nor will our chil-
dren’s children see the like, for,
strangely enough, two of these "major
broods" will not again appear at the
same tinje until a century and a half
shall have passed.
The two armies are of distinct races,
the one peculiar to the north aud the
other to the south. The southerners
have been intrenched under ground
for precisely thirteen years and the
northern warriors have been similarly
hiding beneath their cooler soil for
exactly seventeen twelve months.
Those which now are to appear in the
south last saw the scenes of their
birth in the year of the Spanish war—
1898—while those that are to invade
the north have not gazed upon their
native heath since 1894. In these
years countless millions of the re-
spective races went into hiding be-
neath the soil and since that time not
an individual among them has chosen
to lift his eyes above ground.
The two broods will overlap in In-
diana, while the whole of New Jersey
and the District of Columbia are
marked for invasion by the northern-
ers. The latter constitute one of the
best recorded of the 17-year broods—
one which has been regularly reported
in Connecticut every seventeen years
since 1724, and at equal intervals in
New Jersey since 1775. And the south-
yi JOHN tlFRETH WATKINS
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WITH OPtAT RAPIDITY UNTIL
THfY ARP PVLL «3IZf-
News 0/Oklahoma
AMENDMENT SEEMS LOST
Complete Unofficial Return# 8how
Defeat By Small Margin
Oklahoma City.—Returns received
up to 3 o'clock Friday morning indi-
cate that the vote on the constitu-
tional amendment was extremely
close and the official count will be
necessary to determine the result.
All during Thursday, returns came
straggling in and the Indications were
favorable for the measure, the figures
showing, however, that the majority
would bo less than at first estimated.
Late returns received Friday cut
down the early majority and left the
result in doubt./
The uncertainty of the vote that
has been cast ail over the state and
the peculiar majorities given for and
against the amendment are somewhat
puzzling.
Three counties failed to vote on
the proposed amendment. These I office of the six members of the school
were Seminole, McCurtain and Dela | board, which absolutely ignored the
ware. It was announced Tuesday wishes of the citizens in refusing to
night that there wus no vote in Dela- | retain Superintendent Masters for the
ware county, which has been counted next school lerm.
largely in favor of the measure, but! The “committee of Fleven" is pre-
no word was received from McCur- paring an ordinance or charter
tain and Seminole counties until j aihendment, and if it is not saiisfac-
early Friday morning. In both in-t torily acted upon by the city commis-
stances it was stated upon excellent sion, the committee will initiate it and
authority that no ballots had been try to force its adoption with the sup-
supplied. port of the thousands of Masters ad-
i - ......... herents.
PREPARING OUSTER PETITION
Tulsa School Patrons May Rerall City
School Board
Tulsa, Okla.,—That not only will the
present trouble in relation to the
action of the school board in not re-
taining Superintendent J. O. Masters
be remedied, but other unsatisfactory
school matters as well, is the report
of two legal firms, hired by the citi-
zens “Committee of Eleven" selected
•ft a recent mass meoting to look into
the possibilities of ousting the school
board.
The legal advisors announce that a
session act of the 1910 state legislature
will make possible the removal of the
school board which heretofore was
said to be Impossible, both by the
board and those opposing it. By this
recent provision, a charter amend-
ment, or ordinance, passed by the city
commission, or initiated by the people,
will terminate the present term of
S3.50 RECIPE CURES
WEAK KIDNEYS, FREE
RELIEVES URINARY AND KIDNEY
TROUBLES, BACKACHE,STRAIN-
ING, SWELLING, ETC.
Stops Pain In the Bladder, Kidneys
and Back.
Wouldn't ft be nice within & week or »o
to begin to say goodbye forever to the
scalding, dribbling, straining, or too fre-
quent passage of urine; the forehead and
the back-of-the-head aches; the stitches
and pains In the back; the growing mus-
cle weakness; spots before the eyes; yel-
low skin; sluggish bowels; swollen eye-
lids or ankles; leg cramps; unnatural
short breath; sleeplessness and the de-
spondency?
I have a recipe for these troubles that
you can depend on, and if you want to
make a QUICK RECOVERY, you ought
to write and get a copy of It. Many a
doctor would charge you 03-50 just foi
writing this prescription, but 1 have it
and will be glad to send it to you entire-
ly free. Just drop mo a line like this:
Dr. A. E. Robinson, K-264 Luck Building,
Detroit, Mich., and I will Bead it by re-
turn mail in a plain envelope. As you will
see when you get it, this recipe contains
only pure, harmless remedies, but it has
great healing and pain-conquering power.
It will quickly show its power once you
use it, so I think you hud better see what
it is without delay. I will send you a
copy free—you can use It and cure your-
self at home.
i nitN THEY BECOME DPY ANb
i*- F-m h up
Ckt- INSECT IN ITS NEW ARMOR
READY POP A BRIBE AERIAL LITE
adorned by the colors that will char-
acterize them during the winged stage
of their existence. Over night their
bodies will have turned black, while
their eyes, their legs and the marginal
veins of their isinglass-like wings will
• have become tinged orange-red.
Their life, extending for seventeen
or thirteen years underground, is en-
dured for preparation for but five or
six weeks of gladsome life upon the
wing Ity the middle of July all these
patriarchs of the Insect family will
have fallen to the ground. But mean
time they will have attended indus-
triously to the perpetuation of their
species, the female plowing the young
branches of trees with furrows Into
which to plant the tiny eggs, from
which, during the coming summer,
countless billions of ant-like cicadas of
the new generation will emerge only
to burrow directly into the ground and
there await the trumpet call of the
next resurrection day, which for the
southern brood will occur in 1924 and
for the northern brood In 1928.
Schedules for the appearance of all
of our cicada broods have been pre-
these wingless insects build in many
localities little mud chimneys, like
those in the accompanying picture,
erners compose one of the two largest These are sometimes erected six or
13-ycar broods known to entomologists, eight inches above the surface of the pared for generations to come by
Although others have appeared ground, and they are built of soft pel- Charles Lester Marlatt, assistant chief
among us at more or less frequent in- lets of clay brought up from below and 01 the United States bureau of en-
tervais, these two exact broods have pressed firmly into place. Just why
not appeared together in America the insect resorts to this peculiar
since 1690, nor will they again visit architecture is still a mystery of sci-
us at the same time until the year ence. Either from these chimneys or
J132. from the flat surface on the ground
The periodical cicada—found only The cicadas will all be ready, shortly able alarm and arouses fears for the
In America__lives to he older than any to emerge and take their first peep at safety of shade trees and orchards,”
other insect known to science. The the sunlit scenes from which they hid said Mr. Marlatt.' “The actual dam-
themselves back in 1894 or—If of the age, however, Is usually slight. Ex-
southern brood—in 1898. cept in the case of newly planted or-
The exact date of emergence from chards, and even here, by vigorous
the ground will be later in the north pruning back after the cicada has dis-
than in the south. In high cold areas appeared, much of the injury caused
tt will appear later than in warm by the egg punctures can be obviated.
WHOLESALERS OBJECT
The legal firms alBo advise that this
{ state session law adopted last winter
also provides for the remedying of sev-
eral other school laws that do not har.
monize with the city charter, and re-
move ambiguities and uncertainties
Ft. Smith, Ark., Co., Insists Whiskey
Was Its Property
Oklahoma City.,—-Friedman & Co.,
Wholesale liquor dealers, of 9 ort j exi*i ing at the present which make the
Smith, Ark., appealed to the supreme j procedlire in holding elections and
court from the action of the county
court of Pottawatomie county in con-
fiscating 48 cases of whiskey consign-
ed by that company to John Hall, and
seized by the sheriff in ft raid on the
Katy depot in Shawnee on March 3,
1911, which netted altogether 112 cases
of whiskey and four barrels of beer.
Drafts were attached to the bills of
lading, and sent on for collection, and
the contention of the company was
that inasmuch as the bills of lading
voting bonds very confusing.
Dowell Returns
Oklahoma City.,—J. B. Dowell of
McAlester, who was sent to Blaine
county by Game Warden John B. Doo-
lin to make further investigation of the
violations of the game laws there re-
turned Friday, in addition to filing
another case against Paris Rupert of
Okeene, two suits were brought against
had not been taken up nor the drafts j the Rock island railroad for receiving
paid the liquor was still its property, j jjiegal shipments of quail, one in Blaine
The court found, however, that ship- j and one in Garfield county. Rupert’s
ments for Hall were being received at j action in pleading guilty to the tv-40
the rate of ten cases or more a day; J counts against him involving the same
that they were never delivered to him, j shipments on which the railroad suits
but on orders signed by him to the are now based is regarded as strength-
O. K, Transfer and Storage company,, gning very greatly the cases against
and that certificates were made with I (tle ranroa(].
each shipment that the liquor war for _
Haii's personal or family use. The j C(jt Alfalfa Early
court held that Hall was not a bona 7
fide consignee, and that to all intents ; Oklahoma City. H. M. C ottrell, agri-
and purposes In this action Hall was; cultural commissioner for the Rock
a fictitious person In view of thejrr«m u ‘Ob'- of a considerable part of
way in which the shipments were i the state, sayB that alfalfa farmers will
handled it was further held that their j err if they do not make a cutting as
receipt by the Katy agent constituted soon 08 the first bloom is seen.
tomology, to whom I am Indebted for
the preceding information concerning
these remarkable insects.
“When the cicada appears in gTeat
numbers it naturally causes consider-
two broods which are to appear this
year have respective spans of life
which a dog and cat could with but
difficulty attain.
Why the northern species lives un-
derground for exactly seventeen years,
while the Southerners"'maintain'thet'r re^°n8 of >«88 elevation. But over Recent experience indicates that trees
the great bulk of the territory in- thoroughly sprayed with Bordeaux
volved the date of emergence will be mixture of lime wash are apt to be
during the last week in May, although avoided by the cicada.”
in some parts of the far south they -
will appear perhaps a week earlier. Good jn secret Societies.
If you wish to behold one of the During his visit to Boston Col. Wit-
subterranean existence for just thir-
teen years—never more nor less in
either case—is one of the riddles of
science, but is supposed to be due to
differences In climate—to the" same
phenomena which cause higher spe-
cies to mature earlier in the south most remarkable phenomena of nature Ram Jennings Bryan made a brief ad-
than in the north. visit some orchard or wooded area dress to the members of Horace
The eggs which bore the countless where the northern cicadas were plen- Greeley lodge, Knights of Pythias, in
billions of the two broods to appear tiful in 1S94, or where the southern which he said; "When I joined the
this spring were laid in the summers brood was abundant in 1898. Hero Knights of Pythias, which was the
of 1 !-94 and 1898, respectively. A few Just at sunset during each evening of first fraternity I ever joined, I was
weeks later the baby cicadas—about the week indicated institute a close conscious of violating a kind of irn-
the size of minute ants—escaped from watch over a patch of open soil. plied promise to my wife. When she
their shells, fell lightly to the ground Just after sunset you will see scores was my sweetheart I remarked to her
and quickly burrowed out of sight, of the brown wingless insects emerge once that I didn't belong to any secret
each forming lor himself a little sub- from their holes with a rush and
terranean chamber or cell adjoining scramble for the nearest tree, bush,
the sappy root of the family tree, in weed, pole, stump or fence. If you
whose twigs the productive eggs had have selected a particularly favored
been deposited for nourishment. In locality the ground at your feet will
this underground cell, at first the size he literally alive with and hidden by
of a small grain or bird shot, but the running insects. By nine o'clock
gradually growing with Its occupant, the bulk of the army will have come
each cicada has remained within two out of the ground, each fastening him- her mind. Now I am a Mason, an Elk,
feet of the surface through winter and self to some selected object, prefer- an Eagle, a Woodman, a Highlander
Hummer buried from sunlight and air. ably a leaf or twig. Then within and many others. I have observed
it has lived thus in solitary confine- about an hour after settling, each will that all these fraternities are built
ment for thirteen or seventeen years, be seen by your lantern light neatly upon words, phrases and teachings
as the case might be, knowing only Its to spilt ills parchment-like shell down which represent heart characteristics,
moist earthen chamber, separated the back from collar to waistband. They tc&c’u us the things which bind
from its brothers and sisters, rarely Watch closely and you will behold, 118 together. I believe these fratefnl-
changlng its position, save as somo emerging from the slit of each shell, tie* are among the most potent influ
accident to the nourishing rootlet has what appears at first to be a creamy ences in bringing mankind together."
societies and so was not liable to go
away from home in the evening. I
did not say It very loud and was not
conscious that she paid any particular
attention to my statement, but when I
went home about daylight after join-
ing the knights I found that it was one
of the most distinct recollections in
a delivery, and that they were subject
to seizure.
Not a Singer.
■Johnny,” the teacher said, "here is
a book. Now, stand up straight and
slug like a little man.”
The song was "Nearer, My God."
No sooner had the school commenced
to sing than a iittle girl waved her
hand frantically. Stopping the sing-
ing, the teacher inquired the cause.
"Please, teacher, I think Johnny
will get nearer if he whistles.”
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets, small, sugar-coated,
easy to take as candy, regulate and invig-
orate _ stomach, liver and bowels and cure
constipation.
From many a woman’s point of view
a bird on her hat is worth a back
yard full of poultry.
Clear white clothes are a sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
I-urge 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
Little wtta are often great talkers.
-De la Roche.
Lack
of moisture has stunted the first crop.
If it is cut quickly the second crop
will be much stronger and ripen in
about the same time that the present
Attempt to Burn Court House crop might be expected to fully mature.
Guthrie, Okla.—An attempt to burn This Plan, he says, will save one csop
Logan county's $200,000 court house, t° ,he alfalfa farmer,
which was used here until recently as
the Oklahoma state house, was made J Oklahoma Farmers Led Attendance
by unknown parties. The evident J Oklahoma City—A statement has
desire of the incendiaries was to de- been issued by the International Dry
stroy the ballots, voted at the general [.'arming Congress showing the result
election last fall, because of several 0f tfie recent tour of Colorado, Kansas,
election contests now pending. The I Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas,
outside wire screen was torn from j The train covered 2,384 miles with a
a small window into the big vault in
the county clerk’s office, the window
was pried upward and a ball of fire
was dropped through the iron bars
into the sacks of ballots lying under-
neath.
Government Wins Case
Oklahoma City.,—A verdict in favor
of the United States government was
rendered by a jury in the federal court,
sitting here against Robert H. Dren-
nan for $1,420.50.
total attendance of 53,320 at 158 meet-
ings. The statement shows that the
train covered 868 miles in Oklahoma,
had 71 meetings with an attendance of
27,555, In this Oklahoma led all the
other states.
Admits Killing Brother
Muskogee, Okla.—Casina Washing-
ton, ii full blood Croek Indian, walked
into the sheriff s office at Muskogee
and gave himself into custody, stating
that he had killed his step-brother,
The suit instituted by the govern-! George Washington. The killing took
ment against Mr. Drennan was for the ’ place near Oaktaha. Casina claims
collection of a fraction lesH than $5,-1 that hlB brother came home drunk and
000 for lumber alleged to have been cut i attacked his wife with a poker. Casina
from a piece of land in Yell county, ; then shot and killed him. An invest)
Arkansas, in 1901.
caused it to burrow further. In search
of another.
In this sepulchral darkness and soli-
tud‘ each of these littie grubs is today
awaiting nature's signal for it to
emerge from the ground, grow wings
and enjoy only a few weeks of the so-
ciety of its fellows, the warmth and
brightness of the sun.
white worm with pink eyes and heavy
black brows,
Lika the moonfiower petals bursting
upon the lattice, they will shoot out
until the tree covered by the myriad
insects will appear to be in bloom.
“In the moonlight such a tree looks
for all the world as though it were full
-Kansas City Star.
A Vague Impression.
“What is your idea of the character
of Lady Macbeth?”
■•Really,” replied Mrs. Cumrox,
“there is so much gossip about people
connected with the stage that one
Today these of benutiful white blossoms in various scarcely knows what to believe."
billions of waiting cicadas are within stages of transformation," is the way
about a half inch of the soil surface the phenomenon was once described
ot the twenty-one states indicated, by Prof. C. V. Riley, late chief en-
Each is now of the color and shape of tomologist of the government,
the brown "locust shells" which in Rise early next morning and you
past years you have seen adhering to will find the trees filled with the
ust before coming to the surface
mpty shells and nearby you will see
tho fully developed dcadua, now
Woman’s Inyipendence.
“Woman, must be independent."
"I think so, too.”
"Then will you come to our suffra-
gette meeting tonightV”
*T will' if Ferdinand will consent
to escort me homo.”
Animals Donated
Oklahoma City.,—John B. Doolin,
state game and fish warden, has pre-
sented to Wheeler park here eight i
squirrels which were sent in by Dep-
uty Game Warden George Wyvell of
Claremore. Mr. Doolin 1b expecting
to make an extensive collection of live
and mounted birds and animals from
all over Oklahoma.
gation lias been started.
Prisoners Saw Out o' Jail.
Tulsa, Okla.—Sawing their way to
liberty with a steel brace from the
j sole of a shoe and a pocket knife,
two negroes, Dave Savage, alleged
burglar, and Joe Thomas, alleged
horse thief, made their escape.
Crop Condition Good
Tulsa, Okla.—The crop condition
continues favorable in northeastern
Oklahoma and the outlook for wheat,
Cement Plant Destroyed oats and com Is bright. Even in dis-
Cement, Okla.—Fire destroyed the txlcts where the wheat has not yet
Acme Portland Cement Co. here, en- been ploughed under the fields are
tailing a loss of $100,000. The tire ‘ doing nicely and the yield is estimat
started from a spark which fell from ed between 50 and 80 per cent of
tho smokestack. I the land.
Wife’s Death Brings Release Plan For Good Roads
Guthrie, Okla.,—Under orders from ; fi,jci[aBha Okla.—A good roads
Deputy Marshall Chris, Madsen, Otis j meetlng wlu be held In Ohickasha
soon. Arrangements have beep made
Reioh was released from tile federal
jail here under $500 bond because of
the death Tuesday of his wife at Paw-
huska. Reich was awaiting trial on a
bootlegging charge,
Bond Issue Voted
Enid, Okla.—Enid has voted a bond
issue of $25,000 for the improvement
of tile park system and for boring for j Kilgore and Bailey
Oil and gas. Of the issue $15,000 is I Territory road and tho wire gat
to be used for park improvement.
for an illustrated lecture by J. S.
Murray, state manager of tho farmers
Institute work. Road conditions in
Grady county in some parts are very
bad. Harris township in the southern
part of the county has not an author-
ised road. The mail rouic between
is tho old Indian
;.r
still opened and shut.
V
Facts
About
Motherhood
The experience of Motherhood is a
trying one to most women and marks
distinctly an epoch in their lives. Mot
.-^rsone woman in a hvn-
tP^IfJJdred is prepared or
understands how to
™ Yv)properly care for her-
self Of course near-
ly every woman now-
adays has medical
treatment at tho
time of child-birth,
ibut many approach
__________________ tho experience with
an organism unfitted for the trial of
strengtli, and w hen the strain is over
her system ha3 received a shock from
which it is hard to recover. Follow,
ing right upon this comes the nervous
strain of caring for the child, and a
distinct change in the mother results.
There is nothing more charmingthan
a happy and healthy mother of chil-
dren, and indeed child-birth under rigid
conditions need bo no hazard to health
or beauty. The unexplainable thing is
that, with all tho evidence of shattered
nerves and broken health resulting
from an unprepared condition, women
will persist in going blindly to the trial.
It isn’t as though the experience
came upon them unawares. They have
ample time in. which to prepare, but
they, for the most part, trust to chance
and pay the penalty.
In many homes once childless there
are now children because of tho fact
that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound makes women normal,
healthy, and strong.
Any woman who would lflco
special advice in regard to this
matter is cordially invited to
write to Mrs. Plnkiinm at Lynn,
Mass. Iler letter will be held in
strict confidence.
44 Bu. to the Acre
In a heavy yield, but that'® what John Kennedy of
Kdmonlon, Alberta, Western Cunsdu. «ol from 4U
a or Spring Wheutin 11UU. lie ports
from other districts I n l hat prov-
uco showed other excel-
lent resnIts—such a« 4,-
UdO bushels oi wheal
1 corn 120 acres. 4>r 33 1- 3
bu. pemere. 2.x."4)nml 4 0
busnelyluld-s were num-
erous. As high an 132
bushels of onts to tho
ucre werethreshed from
Alberta fields in 1010.
Tho Silver Cup
a t the recent Spoknno
Fa I r wiis u warded to the
Alberta Government for
Its exhibit ol grains,gras seeand
vegetable** Report* ot excellen t
yields for 1210 come also from
Saskatchewan and Manitoba in
Western Canada. , .
Free homestead* of ISO
ucre*. ami adjoining; pre-
emptions of ltW) aerostat
fffCt per acre) are to be had
lit t ne choicest dlst ricts.
Schools convenient, cli-
mate excel lent, S4»il the
very host, railu ays close at
hand, building: lumber
cheap, fuel easy toget and
reasonable In price, u ^ ter
easily procured, mixed
farm lu K
xrinlrK a success.
Write as to best place for net-
m tiler s' low railway
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