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V
ROYAL FEAST
Saved Lives of Scientists
in the Arctic
Annual assembly of Oklahoma's big family at the Oklahoma State Fair,
Oklahoma City, September 26 to October 7, Inclusive.
Thrilling Experiences of Museum
Agents in the Country Where
Even the Polar Bears Pave
Chills aid Where Letters Writ-
ten in March Lie in the Mail
Bag Until July Before They Are
Started Toward Civilization.
THE MELON APHIS
The life history of the melon louse
Is comparatively unknown. We know
how it passes through the summer sea-
son, and we know Its food plants, but
do not know where or how it spends
the winter In this latitude, its first
appearance is often noted on young
cotton plants. Soon after the cotton
begins to grow well the melon louse
becomes disseminated and often in-
fests cantaloupe, water melon, cucum-
ber, and squash vines to a marked ex-
tent. Its most radical effect, how-
ever, is shown on the water melon
and cantaloupe vines. There are two
forms of the aphis: one has wings
and the other has none. Both,
however, are females that pro
duce young at the rate of six or eight
per day
The melon louse has about fifteen
enemies in the form of other insects.
All of the enemies reproduce by lay-
ing eggs. In cold weather the louse
Itself can reproduce as rapidly as In
hot weather. The eggs of the enemies,
however, will not hatch quickly In cool
weather; this fact is one of the rea-
sons why the melon louse Is so serisus
at the present time. While the weath-
er has not been cold. It has been too
cool for the rapid development of
such insects as prey upon other In-
sects. The enemies of this aphis in-
clude the following;
1. The lady bugB and their young.
The latter are dark colored worms
with a few reddish spots on tlieir backs
and six legs on the under Bide near
the head. Many of these are now
transforming to the adulty stage. In
doing this they attach themselves by
the tall to an object, shed their skins,
turn from dark to a light yellow color
and soon transform to the beetle stage.
Both the young and the adult ladj’
bugs consume about fifty aphis apiece
per day.
2. The lace wing flies and their
young. The adults are ab out one Inch
long, of a greenish color, and have
four lace-like wings. They lay their
little pearl colored eggs on pale, slen-
der stalks about an Inch long. These
hatch into six-iooted larvae or worms,
which are somewhat si milar in form
and habit to tho larvae of the lady
bug.
S. The scymnus beetles and their
young. The former is a little round,
dark brown, or black beetle about one-
fourth the size of the lady bug. The
young is covered with a white wooly
coat. Their food habits are similar
to those of the lady bug, but on ac-
count of their size they can devour
only about one-third as many aphis as
the former.
bowhead,
4. Several species of young syrphus
flies. The adults are yellowish in col-
or and are sometimes known as sweet
bees. They eat the honey dew sec-
reted by the aphis, hut their young,
which are footless, sluglike worms,
eat about as many aphids as the lady
bugs.
6. The Internal parasites. These, in
many places are now Dresent in num-
bers equal to the melon aphis. They
are like the little bees that sting and
lay eggs in the green tug. A few days , . - _____________
after an egg is laid in the body of the “iles to the west and more than
melon louse by them, the louse turns
brown and is attached to the leaf by
the young bee which hatches from
N the authority of Dr. Ru
dolph N. Anderson, whose
word is as good as a first
mortgage bond in the
world of science, the
three-year-old carcass of a
while slightly acrid and a
bit mussy, is certainly filling. The
doctor knows because be ate a few
double portion slices. It was bow-
head or nothing. As the doctor had
had plenty of the latter he welcomed
the bowbead.
It was In that forlorn country, where
even the polar bears have chills, 4.000
1,000
north, and then some, that he made
the' choice, relates tho New York
World. He and V. Stefansson, as rep-
the egg. Within a week or ten days ] resentatlves of the American Museum
the young bee guaws a circular hole in
the top of the aphid’s body, through
which It esoapes.
Artificial Methods of Control: Ac-
cording to our experiments at this stA
OI National History, were up there
staring death in the face looking for
specimens. They are now returning,
after two years' absence. Stories of
their hardships have got here first.
tion we have learned that Black Leaf, Catching the mails Is no Joke up there,
a tobacco decoction, is superior to j To got a letter in the letter box at
any other Insecticide for controlling ! MacPherson in time for the July de-
the melon louse as well as other allied | livery Mr. Stefasson wrote on March
forms. This insecticide will not serl- i 13. If a letter Is carried around In
ously Injure the enemies of the melon : one’s pocket over night the folks at
louse. It is a contact spray meant ; home have to wait another six months
especially for the soft bodied insects. f°r news.
Many of the enemies of the louse are Mr. Stefansson and Dr. Anderson
hard-shelled, and withstand the effects : left New York on April 6, 1908. They
of the application remarkably well. ! made their way by railroad to Edmon-
This solution is manufactured by the ton, Canada, the furtherest point to
Kentucky Tobacco Product Company, ; which human ingenuity and daring
Louisville, Ky„ and is generally sold | ha<1 been able to push the steel rails,
at the rate of one dollar per singla | the advance agents of progress. From
gallon or eighty-five cents a gallon in j Edmonton the two explorers made
five gallon lots. Although its use has ■ tbefr way to Athabasca, at the head-
been advised by this Station for the i w-aters of the Mackenzie, where, the
past few years it is not yet generally river being free from Ice, they would
upoD the market. A similar spray j tind sturdy little steamers ready to
solution, known as Black Leaf 40, is ! carry them one step further into the
equally effective but Is more highly ! wilderness of Ice and snow. The mo-
concentrated. and is sold at a higher j ment they left the deck of the little
price; in Its dilution more water can
be used than In Black Leaf. The Black
Leaf should be applied by means of a
spray pump fitted with an extension
rod provided with an upturned nozzle.
The spray should be directed toward
the under side of the leaves where
boat that had served their purpose to
the best of its ability the two adven-
turers plunged Into the terrible fast-
nesses® of the great silent north.
Two Years in the Ice.
For almost two years the great
sweeps of snow and Ice hid the
the plant lice are present. One gal- • men from the rest of the world almost
Ion of the Black Leaf Is sufficient for
spraying about an acre of plants. II
applied at the proper time, that Is
when the infestation begins, It will
not be necessary to spray the entire
field, only the plants that are infested
should be sprayed. Often times not
more than from five t o twenty-five per
cent of the vines will be infested if
spraying is resorted to in the begin-
ning of the infestation.
—C. E. Sanborn, Department of Ento-
mology, A. & M. College, Stillwater.
Oklahoma.
Remembering Faces.
Remembering faces Is a gift, and
one cultlvatsd should It not be grant-
ed by nature. Many a kindly girl has
been unfairly characterized as rude or
haughty, just because, lacking this
particular sort of memory, she has
failed to recognize an acquaintance.
In business life such memory is an
Important asset and well worth the
effort needed to acquire it., It took
me some time to learn this, but the
lesson was worth while.— Harper’s
Bazar.
England’s First Airship.
History repeated Itself when a
lord’s debate was interrupted by an
aeroplane. For when Lunardi made
the first balloon ascent in England on
September 15, 1784, a cabinet council
was engaged on most important state
deliberations. But King George said:
"My lords, we shall have an oppor-
tunity of discussing this question at
another time, but we may never again
see poor Lunardi; so let us adjourn
the council and observe the balloon.”
—Loudon Chronicle.
The Turkish Way
We don’t think we ever pungled for
a real Turkish bath, though we have
produced for the Turkish bath, so-
called. The real Turkish bath, judg-
ing from the appearance of such
Turks as we have seen, 1b a dry clean-
ing process.
Try it for a Day.
Do you begin the day saying thus?
This day I will live as becomes a
man. I will be filled with good cheer
and courage. I will do what is right;
I will work for the high test; I will
put soul Into every handgrasp, every
smile, every expression—into all my
work, i will live to satisfy my other
self.’’ You think it is easy. Try it
for a day.—Elbert Hubbard.
Cautious
Mr. Willis—"But why don’t you
take your bank book in and have it
balanced?” Mrs. Willis—"I don’t
want that snoopy-looking cashier to
know how much money I’ve got there I"
—Puck.
as completely as the walls of a tomb.
Once an Eskimo, traveling far from
his home down Into the haunts of
sturdy white folks who were fighting
for existence on the very edge of
the arctic circle, brought with him
a story of two white men up above the
circle. Only one other time did word
come from the men. Then, by long
and tedious sled Journeys, did an Es-
kimo attached to their party carry a
letter to the daring skipper of a flsh-
| lng smack that had literally forced its
i wa-v through ’he Ice Into the far
north.
j Now the men are making their way
slowly back, bringing with them de-
j tails of a story the mere hints of
; which have outdone the dreams of
| w-rtters of fiction who love to tell of
Imaginary adventures In the frozen
north. And the men who faced perils
and hardships that would have tried
the courage and strength of the hard-
| est; who set out on long and painful
j Journeys when the mercury froze In
the thermometer; who were forced to
j camp on mountain ridges and peaks
at the height of blizzards—they have
| sent a plain, impassioned report of
; their Journeys without giving a hint
} that they encountered aught but what
they expected when they left
i York.
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Powell—Well,
everything.
Included.
weather-beaten
the weather beata
NOT A BRITISH UNIT IN IT
Map of the Wanderings of Dr.
Ander son
Nor th.
and V. Stefansson In the Frozon
Watch the Small Things
Grand temples are built of small
stones, and great lives are made up
of trifling events.
Petroleum in China
Petroleum abounds in China, and
even Shanghai has its quota of mil-
lionaires made rich overnight, as it
were, by the marvelous wells.
Beef Goes Down
The cow that fell through a Penn-
sylvania field into a coal mine fur-
nishes the first example in modern
times of a downward movement In
baef.—Washington Post.
Spirit of Sympathy
Beware of that bane of social life,
evil speaking. Seek for the spirit of
love which is the spirit of truthfor
you can never know anyone without
sympathy or love—and take care how
to speak of those who have not yet
learned to love. Never talk of other's
faults without necessity aud avoid
those who do.—RusKtn
Nature’s Law
The desires and longings of man
are vast as eternity, and they point
him to it.—EdwardB.
Hardships of the Trip.
It would require far more space
than the limits of this article permit
to give more than a mere skeleton of
the story of the two years' trip, ug |t
is now in the possession of Dr H C
Bumpus, director of the Museum’ of
Natural History, who authorized the
expedition. When the men themselves
arrive they will fill in with detaj, ,he
story of periods of ten days and more
that often elasped without a morsel of
sustaining food passing their lips and
which they dismissed with a single
sentence In their preliminary report
In many respects the trip of Mr
Stefansson and Dr. Anderson sim
passes any other expedition ever made
Into the north by white men The dif-
ficulties With which they had to con
end, because of the very nature of
their Journey, exceeded even those
which confronted Commander Peary
on his dash to the north pole His
was a hurried trip across several hun-
dred miles of Ice to the pole and
back. Carefully constructed sleds
drawn by the finest Eskimo doss In
the arctic circle carried provisions
a-plenty.
Not so with Stefansson and Ander
son. Their mission was the collection
of specimens that would enlighten the
rest of the world as to human, animal
and vegetable life within the arctic
circle. They had no single objective
point. Their wanderings and search
es took them a part of tho time out
over the Ice of the Arctic ocean and a
part of the time across mountain ran-
ges that rise thousands of feet In the
air.
Food Stolen by Wild Beasts.
They also had plenty of provisions
when they started. As though, how-
ever, the ordinary perils of the coun-
try were not sufficient, the real own-
ers of the country, polar bears and
wolverines, added to their dangers.
Time after time the daring scientists,
wearied by months of privation, would
seek the storeB of food they had hid-
den in caches for Just such emergen-
cies, only to find that four-footed ma-
rauders had broken in and stolen hun-
dreds of pounds of food.
Stefansson, as the actual leader of
the expedition, has reserved all but
the briefest summary for his personal
report to Dr. Bumpus. A brief ten
pages sufficed for him to announce the
results of the two years’ Journey, as
well as to outline his plan for a last
dash Into the country of the hostile
Coppernlne people, Eskimos who
viewed with Jealous eyes any attempt
on the part of white men to penetrate
their country.
On the map you will find a tiny
point of land projecting Into the Arc-
tic ocean and named Cape Parry.
Nothing Illustrates better, perhapB,
the uncertainty of the position of the
explorers than the very first para-
graph of Mr. Stefansson's letter,
which was written from that place on
March 13 of this year.
“An Eskimo (the same ’Jimmy’ Me
na-ran-na who accompanied Captain
Amundsen in 1905-6 from Herschel
island to the Yukon)," wrote Mr. Ste-
fansson, “has come here from Baillie
island and intends starting tomorrow
for the Mackenzie delta. 1 am giving
him this letter, hoping it may get Into
the July mall at Maepherson."
Just think of It—grave doubts as to
whether a letter will reach a mall
post in four months’ timel
"My Eskimos,” he wrote, "are in
deadly fear of the Coppernlne people,
who have the reputation of being a
murderous lot. While they have
agreed to accompany me, I can never
tell on what night they may have a
dream which they will construe as a
warning not to go and I will be left
to make the Journey alone."
Braved Death for Science.
The dangers from the people them-
selves were not the greatest obstacles
to this, the climax of his trip, as Mr.
Stefansson hinted In his letter. The
trip would require, all conditions be-
ing favorable, fit least 15 days going
and the same time returning, to say
nothing of the time that must be
spent In gathering scientific data. Six
days’ provisions, however, were all
that Mr. Stefansson had. For the rest
of his food he must depend upon a
country In which even the Esquimaux
found It exceedingly difficult to find
sufficient food sustain th dr lives.
The possibility of fta.t don, how-
ever, did not deter the adventurer
That he made the irlp, secured his
specimens and is now safely on his
return is all that those who are most
deeply Interested In his welfare know.
Dr. Anderson, who, shortly after he
set out from the friendly deck of the
little river steamer on the Mackenzie,
separated from Mr. Stefansson and
headed a party of Esquimaux Into the
country, has written a little more at
length of his two years' trip. He too
has found a sentence quite sufficient
to tell of experiences that must have
tried the heart and courage of every
member of the party.
Balllle Island, In the Arctic ocean,
was the headquarters chosen by Dr.
Anderson for his party. From there
he wrote his report, which by its very
simplicity and directness is one of the
most remarkable documents ever sent
through the malls of the United States.
Day by day has Dr. Anderson de-
tailed his Journey. Of the entire first
year spent in the north his report says
nothing, the letter he had sent out
earlier on one of the two occasions
word was received from the adven-
turers being sufficient in his opinion
to cover that period. Of the second
year, when tho provisions taken north
by the party had either been eaten
or stolen by the bears and wolverines,
he says but little more.
At the eud of their trip, when death
and starvation stared them In the face,
they stumbled across tho carcass of
a bowhead whale. Dr. Anderson, writ- T... ____ , .
lng of the find, said, "The carcass was „ T ‘B °lh*r: be,"K, new [° ,he eofl
............ . ... business, did not know that coal is
Irishman Would Not for a Minute
Allow the Possibility of Such
a Thing.
George Mockler has Just returned
from an Investigation of what coal
Is costing some of the other cities.
He brought this story from Balti-
more:
An Irishman there Inherited a coal
mine up in the state. He immedi-
ately entered the lists for one of the
big coal contracts and went around
to say a good word for his coal.
The man who was letting the con-
tract heard him a moment, and then
interrupted with:
"That's all right, but how about
British thermal units?”
evidently two or three years old, but
tho meat wns fairly well preserved.’’
Although It was still early lu the aft-
ernoon the party camped Immediately
and there dogs and men feasted side
by side. “The meat," wrote Dr. An-
derson, "was fairly palatable, slightly
acrid but not offensive and all In all
was very filling."
At the conclusion of their letters
both Mr. Stefansson and Dr. Ander-
son express themselves as being de-
sirous of returning again to the coun- j
try In which they spent two such ter- j
rible years to complete the work they j
started.
The first specimens gathered by Mr.
Stefansson and Dr. Anderson have ar-
rived at the Museum of Natural Hla- !
tory. The men will reach New York
In the near future.
rated uow according to the British
thermal units In tests.
•That's that?” he said.
"How many British thermal
are there In your coal?’’
The Irishman blinked his eye
snorted a bit.
"British thermal units, Is It?" he
he said. “Why there ain’t a wan In It.”
—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
units
and
WAS IT ABSENT-MINDEDNESS?
CANDYMAN’S ANGER PUT ON
He Orders Gluecose Salesman Out of
8tore When Customers Are
Present.
The recent flood of pure food matter
In the papers calls to mind a couple
of stories told of and by a traveling
salesman who in 1876 represented the
first big glucose factory established In
Buffalo. He sold the stuff to the can-
dy makers by the carload. One day a
friend met him In a Boston hotel and i
he was In a state of great Indignation, i
It seems that he had been thrown out
by one of the big candy makers. He j
was boiling with rage because the
dealer who had so treated him had
been using glucoBe for a year or more
and In large quantities and he could
not understand the change In his atti-
tude.
While the two were talking the j
candy maker came Into the hotel, j
walked up to them, smiled at the glu- I
cose salesman and said: "When I
threw you out this morning my store I
Vas full of customers and I wasn't tak-
ing any chances on some one of them
not knowing you and your business. !
I wouldn’t have It known that I am us- |
lng your glucose for all the profit ;
that's In it. Never come to my store !
again. Let me know that you are here |
and I’ll call on you. Send me ten bar- I
rels at once. And now let's go take
a drink."
The other yarn was about a New j
York concern. A grocery house had
purchased ten barrels of glucose. As !
an experiment they fitted up a top
floor ns a honey factory. First they j
had tho floor concreted, then they I
poured In the glucose and on the top !
of it floated a number of very thin
boards pierced with holes like a col- j
i.-”,er. Several hundred bees were
then turned loose In the room. They j
alighted on the boards and their j
weight was sufficient to bring up the
glucose through tho holes In tho !
boards. Hives had been prepared |
around the room and when tho bees
were surfeited they went Into the
hiveB and stored the honey. It was !
"pure honey" and, according to ths
salesman, was sold as such.
<aSrv<«try
Mrs. Nelson—My husband Is awfully
absent-minded.
Mrs. Bilsou—In what way?
Mrs. Nelson—He went fishing yes-
terday. When he had finished ha
threw away the fish and brought horn*
the bait.
The Real Thing.
"Say, mister, if you throw three
cents up in the air I kin ketch 'em
all before they come down every
time.”
“Humph! That is nothing but a
catch penny scheme.”
Surely.
‘Is that bargain really cut glass?”
"Sure; It was marked down.”
Held Fast to Their Rights.
Our ancestors were never inconsid
crate enough to trust those rights
which God and nature had given them
Into the hands of princes.—James
Warren.
His Stock,
"Has that man got much businessT”
"Much business? Why, he has or-
ders to burn."
“But I thought he dealt In asbes
tos goods."
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