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COLONY COURIER
J. M. 8EGER. Prep.
N. H. 8EQER, Editor.
COLONY.
OKLAHOMA
MENACE OF DRUQ8.
The number of people in ima coun-
try who are becoming addicted to the
different phases of what Is known as
the drug habit Is so numerous as to
excite alarm. Years ago the victims (
of drugs were confined to consumers
of opium or morphine, says the Mil-
waukee Wisconsin. Now there Is a
considerable variety of habtt-formlng
drugs, with cocalno at the head of the
list. At first It was hailed for its
usefulness as a local anesthetic. Now
It Is dreaded for the number of men
and women who have fallen under Its
away, and whom It reduces to a condi-
tion of moral Irresponsibility. Many
—probably nearly all—of the victims
of cocaine and other hablt-formlng
drugs use them at first for medicine.
They are prescribed by physicians to
allay pain. The hideous evllB that fol-
low slavery to these drugs rarely are
dreamed of by those who use them,
until after their use has become a
habit, and then the damage is done—
for dr habits, once formed, are In-
conceivably difficult to break. These
drugs shatter the nervous system and
blunt the moral faculties and predis-
pose their slaves to crime. No won-
der thnt physicians and officials
charged with the administration of the
criminal laws are banding together to
check the sale and use of these in-
sidious destroyers of health and mor-
als.
As our manners Improve, have our
children as good manners as our fa-
thers or grandfathers had? We do not
mean by good manners what the new-
er term social etiquette Implies.
Among the so-called social sets we
find changing codes which direct the
form of handshaking, modes of ex-
pression In meeting people, repetition
of useless “don't you knows" In con-
versation. ability to select from mul-
tiform knives, forks and spoons for
the multiform courses at luncheon and
dinner, sayB the Knoxville Journal and
Timer We can detect no purpose In
these flippant forma of fashion except-
ing as the knowledge Is a badge of
fellowship. And there seems to be
much striving to get within the circle.
But these mannerisms are not good
manners. The essence of good man-
ners Is kindness and courtesy. They
extend below the surface deep Into
the character. A person habitually po-
lite la one who has transformed Into
conduct the habit of thinking of oth-
ers. They are apostles of good cheer,
being unwilling to cause embarrass-
ment or chagrin to either their social
confreres or the lowliest person they
meet
DESCRIPTION AND LIFE HISTORY OF THE
BOLL WEEVIL AND METHODS FOR ITS CONTROL
Many Mistaken Reports About Occurrence of Insects Far Out-
side of Infested Area Have Been Due to Errors That
Have Arisen on Account of Similarity of Other Bugs.
Odd Callings Are Found in Uncle Sam’s Census
They pay the waiter for the priv-
ilege of being served at all, after
paying the head waiter to get a table
If the restaurant la. full. They pay to
have their hat and coat kept for t lem
during the meal, pay for getting a
taxicab, and after It la over and pay
the Chauffeur for the privilege of rid-
ing home with him In a cab for which
the company has had to pay the hotel
license fee for the right to use the
publlo etreeta, saye the New York
World. Prom the time they enter a
restaurant until after they have left
It they are subjected to numerous di-
rect taxes, In addition to the Indirect
taxes Imposed for music and marble
corridors, which are but lll-dlsgulsed
In the exorbitant prices charged for
tho food. Why should not the Hotel
association round out tho system of
petty extortion by charging for adtuli-
slim ?
If, as reported, the sultan of Tur-
key sent a bag of millet seed to the
king of Bulgaria to show his numerical
strength, and the king of Bulgarin sent
back n bag of pepper seeds to show
the style of opposition, the Incident
typifies the struggle between quan-
tity and quality which has had but one
result since the world began. Mere
brute strength and number no longer
count In the great contests of the
world
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Shakf Buamija i&>
A FifiE Business '
-©«£ DOESN'T
HAVE TO WbARY
about 8URCXARS
nr ASHINGTON—Oftentimes a man
YE doesn’t do as well at his own oc-
cupation as he ought to—thinks he
has made a misfit and believes he can
better himself. Here are a few sug-
gestions for anvone thus dissatisfied
from the thirteenth United States cen-
sus:
There Is a snake merchant who has
a ranch out In Texas and has for
more than seven years mude a busi-
ness of handling snakes. In one year
he sold over ISO,000 rattlers and
blacksnakcs, getting from a quarter
to two dollars each.
Formerly all . tho parts of a shoe
were made by a shoemaker; today
this Industry employs Judges, fakirs,
plowers, sluggers, bustera-out, cripple
chasers and pancake-mnkers—all en-
gaged one way or another In the
making of shoes or parts of them.
Another man seems to be In a class
by himself. In Kansas City he bot-
tles the smoke of hickory logs. He
says that when it Is let loose In an
alr-tlght compartment where meat
has been hung It will produce the
same results as though the meat had
been cured In an old-fashioned smoke-
house.
There Is a man out Seattle way
whose business It Is to secure the
mustaches from walrus killed in Be-
ring Strait.' These stout bristles are
plucked from the nose of the walrus
by Indians, tied Into small bundles
and sold by tho Seattle citizen (who
made *1,000 by this traffic In 1911) to
agents on the Pacific coast. The
agents ship them to China, where
they are In demand as toothpicks.
In an aged bull walrus the bristles
are about a foot long and nearly as
thick as a lead pencil. They are
tough, and when made Into picks can
be pushed between the teeth without
Injury to the enamel.
Then there are also the whltler
and the pouncer'in a hat factory; a
dock walloper 1b a kind of longshore-
man; a vibrator works In a clock fac-
tory; a tonger works In connection
with oysters, a teaser works In a
glass factory.
(By XV D. HUNTER, In Charge of South-
ern Crop Insect Investigations. United
States Department of Agriculture.)
The adult cotton boll weevil Is about
one-fourth of an inch in length, vary-
ing from one-eighth to one-third of
»n Inch, with a breadth about one-third
of the length. This measurement in-
cludes the snout, which Is about one-
half the length of the body. Variation
In size is due to the amount of food
the Insect has obtained lu the larval
stage. Individuals from bolls are
therefore nearly always large than
those from squares. The color (gray-
ish or brownish) depends upon the
time that may have elapsed after
transformation to t*he adult stage.
The recently emerged individuals are
light yellowish In color, but this
passes to a gray or nearly black shade
Tests Confirm Danger of Common Stable Flies
n URGEON JOHN F. ANDERSON
d and Past Assistant Surgeon Wade
II. Frost of tho United States public
health service have completed exper-
iments which confirm the contention
of Dr. Milton J. Roseneau of the Har-
vard Medical school, that infantile
paralysis Is communicated by the
stable fly.
At the International Congress— of
Hygiene and Demography here re-
cently Dr. Rosenau described his ex-
periments. He Infected several mon-
keys with Infantile paraysls, and ex-
posed them dally from the time of In-
oculation till death to the bites of sev-
eral hundred stable files.
Twelve other monkeys were then
exposed to the bites of these flies. At
the time that Dr. Rosenau made hlj
announcement six of the twelve had
developed symptoms characteristic of
Infantile paralysis. Of the six, two
died, three were paralyzed and one
recovered. In the cord of one of the
monkeys were found the characteris-
tic lesion of Infantile paralysis. The
cord of the other dead monkey showed
changes less characteristic of the dis-
ease. At the time of the announce-
ment a sufficient Interval had not
elapsed to determine the result of the
attempt to transmit the Infection of
other monkeys by Inoculation with
had
the cord of one of the two that
died.
Dr. Anderson and Dr. Frost sought
to repeat the conditions of Dr. Ros-
nau's experiments.
Their report made public the other
day states that on October 3 monkey
No. 242 was Inoculated with an emul-
sion of the cord of the monkey which
died of Infantile paralysis. Until Its
death from the disease on October 8,
the animal was exposed for two hours
dally to the bites of 300 Btable files,
collected In Washington. Another mon-
key similarly Inoculated on October 5
was, beginning October 7, exposed
dally to the bites of the same files.
Beginning October 4 two other
monkeys were exposed dally for about
two hours to the bites of these same
file's, and, beginning October 5, a third
new monkey was similarly exposed.
All three subsequently developed
syr ptoms of Infantile paralysis.
Fair Sex Drinks More Than Men in the Capital
'OAOTHEA
JOE TWNKS
IT AWFUL
THAT »
ORtflK
TIT OMEN, especially young girls, are
ft rapidly becoming more and more
uddlcted to Intoxicating liquor In tho
national capital, while the men are
rapidly growing more abstemious, ac-
cording to Albert E. Shoemaker, at-
torney for the Anti-Saloon league of
the District of Columbia. His adcusa-
satlou has aroused women generally
here, nnd It Is u subject of agitated
discussion.
Mr. Shoemaker made his charge be-
fore the Women’s Christian Tetnper-
nnce union, attributing tho increasing
thirst among women to the heavy com-
petition among proprietors of hand-
somely furnished cafes and their will-
ingness to "tnke a chance" In per-
mitting women and young girls to
drink.
He also declared that under tho ex-
isting laws It was Impossible to secure
the conviction of those who sold liquor
to minors.
Insanity seizes upon the bachelor
with greater ease than upon the bene-
dict, despite the worry the latter Is
supposed to undergo, according to
the report of t he government hos-
pital for the Insane, Just submitted to
Secretary of the Interior Fisher. An-
other fact brought, out by the report
is that out of nearly 3,000 patients In
the Institution only three are being
treated for Insanity brought on by
tho use of alcohol. This is contrary
accepted theory,
to alcoholism a
of the uufortu-
to the generally
which contributes
large proportion
nates.
A significant feature of the report
lies In the statement that there are a
far greater proportion of foreign In-
sane patUnts than American, and thta
of the foreigners the majority are
Germans. Thnt Insanity, In a Inrge
measure, Is hereditary, is evidenced
by tho statement thnt the nsylum sci-
entists have discovered one family In
West Virginia whose pedigree has
been traced hack through C75 Individ-
uals, of whom 54 were mentally defec-
tive
Fig. 1.—Cotton boll weevil: a,
beetle, from above; b, same, from
side. About five times natural size.
In a few weks- time The general
appearance of ihe Insect will be evi-
dent from the accompanying Illustra-
tion.
Many insects resemble the boll
weevil more or less closely. In fact,
there are hundreds of species of
weevils In this country that may be
easily mistaken for the enemy of cot-
ton. Many mistaken reports about
the occurrence of weevils far outside
of the infested area have been due
to mistakes that have arisen on ac-
count of this slmlllarlty. The only
safe way to determine whether any
Insect Is the boll weevil Is to send It
to an entomologist for examination.
In the field the most conspicuous indi-
cation of the presence of the boll
weevil Is tbe flaring and falling of
great numbers of squares. However,
unfavorable climatic conditions and
careless cultivation frequently cause j
great shedding. If excessive shedding
be noticed and the squares upon being
cut ope.) show a white, curved grub
that has fed upon the contents, there
Is little doubt that the boll weevil Is the
insect causing the damage.
The boll weevil passes the winter
In the adult stage. In the spring and
throughout the fruiting season of cot-
ton the eggs are deposited by the fe-
male weevils In cavities formed by
eating Into the fruit of the plant. An
egg hatches under normal conditions
In about three days and the grub Im-
mediately begins to feed. In from
seven to twelve days the larva or grub
passes Into Its pupal Btage, corres-
ponding to the cocoon of butterflies
and moths. This stage lasts from
three to five days. Then the adult
issues and In about five days begins
the production of another generation.
Climatic conditions cause considerable
variation In the duration of the stages,
but on tho average It requires from
two to three weeks for the weevil to
develop from the egg to the adult.
Males and females are produced in
about equal numbers. The males feed
upon tho squares and bolls without
moving until the food begins to de-
teriorate. Tho females refrain from
depositing In squares visited by other
females. This applies throughout
most of the season, but late in the fall,
when all the fruit has become infested,
several eggs may be placed in a single
square or boll. As many as 15 larva
have been found In a boll. The squares
are greatly preferred as food and as
places for depositing eggs. As long
sb a large supply of squares Is present
the bolls are not damaged to any seri-
ous extent. Tho bolls, therefore, huve
n fair chnnce to develop as long ri
squares are being formed.
Is only under stress of starvation.
Under natural conditions they would
pay no attention to these substances.
The boll weevil Is strictly diurnal
in Its habits. Repeated observations
made in the field at night have shown
that It Is not active after sundown.
Unlike some related Insects, It Is not
attracted to light. The fact that
somewhat similar species do come to
lights In great numbers at times has
frequently caused unfortunate con-
fusion.
An Interesting habit of the boll
weevil Is to feign death; that Is, to
“play possum" or "sull,” as it Is
popularly called. When disturbed, the
Insects generally contract their limbs
and drop to the ground. This habit
Is not equally strong In all individuals.
It has been taken into consideration
In plans of control, as will be de-
scribed beyond.
The age to which weevils live varies
under different conditions. During
the winter the longevity Is much
greater than In the summer. During
the summer season the majority of
weevils do not live longer than 60
days. During the cooler part of the
year many of them live as long as
six months. The longest-lived weevil
on record lived from December 10 to
the following October, a period of
about 11 months. Undoubtedly sucli
prolonged life Is exceptional.
Foremost among the methods of
control is the killing of the hordes of
adult weevils that are ready to enter
hibernation In the fall and the preven-
tion of the development of millions
more that would later emerge to pass
thrr gh the winter. This Is accom-
plished by burning the Infested plants
in the fall after the weevils have be-
come so numerous that there Is no
prospect of the maturity of any addi-
tional crop. There are many vital
reasons why the wholesale destruction
of the weevils In the fall should be
practiced by every cotton planter In
the Infested region. Some of these
are stated below:
First. Hordes of adult weevils,
many for each plant In the field, are
killed outright.
Second. Many more weevils that
are in the Immature stages, possibly
as many as a hundred for each plant
In the field, are also killed.
Third. The few adult weevils escap-
ing will be weakened by starvation
The little Irish cow has proved a
prize winner at the National Dairy
Show In Chicago Lord Decios ex-
hibited a herd of ten, which was
awarded several first prizes, and three
seconds. Cows competent as those
would bent the pig for paying the
rent.
An English woman left $500 In her
will to another woman for smiling
pleasantly at her as they left church.
Such a bequest does more for tho sun-
shine habit than any amount of mere
talk.
The society leader who proposes
that dog shall be eaten as a relief
from the high cost of meat, should bo-
gin as an examplo. We do not know
of any law prohibiting tho consump-
tion of Hoston bull steak or poodle
chops by tho gtldod clrolea
Cholera killing 10,000 out of 21,000
esses reported In one province In In-
dia In a month t.< described ns not be-
ing as severe ss usual Wbat would
they call severs, anywayT
Capital Society Girls .Abandon Sports for Art
a GROUP of Washington society
A girls huve forsaken outdoor sports
for the fine arts In previous years
most of tho members of the smart set
could be found almost any morning
taking a "beauty ride” lu tho purkB
or on ihe speedway.
Three mornings each week the
daughters of cabinet ministers, sol-
diers and diplomats may bo found
leaning over eoHels, with brushes,
studying oil painting under the
tutelage of E. C. Messer, head of the
art school of the Corcoran art gal-
lery.
The embryo artists do not seem to
get any special attention from their
professor Just because they happen
to be daughters of notables.
When Professor Messer was asked
what progress tho members of his
class were making he replied that
they were all showing some talent,
although ho did not *Som to renllzo
that there was anything unusual In
the late additions to his class role.
"Miss Nngel, ths daughter of a
cabinet officer?" he asked "Why, It
never occurred to me to ask who hsr
father Is. Girls are Just girls when
&
then come to tho school. Hut she Is
doing fine work. Miss Meyer and
Miss Townsend art) doing well also
Miss Townsend already has gone
Into the 'life class.’"
Miss Townsend Ib tho daughter of
a former minister to Portugal. As a
child she played with the deposed
King Manuel. Several years ago the
former playmates met lit London, and
It was reported that tho king had
asked her to marry him.
Miss Itlldegiirde Nngul Is the eldest
daughter of tho secretary of com
metre and Ishnr and Miss Meyer Is
the daughter of the secretary of the
navy. There are about a dozen alto
gether In the class who were recruit
ed from Washington's smart set
r,<y 2
Fig. 2.—Cotton boll weevil: Larvs
ft left, pupa at right. About five
times natural size.
Whenever froBt or other unfavorable
weather causes tho plants to cease
putting on squares, the weevils at-
tack tho bolls A conservative esti-
mate of tho possible progeny of a sin-
gle pair of w-eevlls during a season be-
ginning on June 20, and extending to
November 4. Is 12.756,100.
The cotton boll weevil, so far as
known at present, hat no plant food
other than cotton This has been deter-
mined by planting various plunta re-
lated to cotton In tho vicinity of tho
Infested cotton nnd In cages In which
weevils were placed. It hnn there-
fore been demonstrated beyond any
doubt whatever, that the Insect Is
restricted to the cotton plant for food
When confined In bottles, the weevils
wtll partake of various substances,
such as npplea or bananas; but tills
IIPI
mm
Via. J
Fig, 3.—Cotton square showing
larva of boll weevil In position. Nat-
ural size.
and the great majority will not have
sufficient strength to pass through the
winter.
Fourth. The development of the
late broods, which experiments have
shown furnish the vast majority of
weevils that pass through the w’lnter,
Is cut off Immediately. In this way
hundreds of weevils that would
develop from each plant are absolutely
prevented from so doing.
Fifth. The removal of the Infested
plants with the weevils facilitates fall
or early winter plowing, which is the
heat possible procedure In cotton rais-
ing. Moreover, this plowing assists
greatly In the production of an early
crop the following season.
In short, In the fall the weevil Is
at the mercy of the planter as It Is at
no other time. If tho planter desires
to kill the Insect he can do so. Work
in weevil destruction at that time far
outbalances all remedial measures
that may he applied at all other times
of the year.
A Good Poultry Ration.
Probably no experiment stntlon It,
the coutnry haB made more careful
Investigation along the lino of soien
tide poultry raising than that of the
state of Maine; hence the ration for
laying hens recommended by the sta
tton experts Is of especial Interact.
Dry mash Is kept before the1 hens
all the time, and this consist* of a
mixture of 200 pounds of bran and
100 pounds each of cornmeal, nhorts,
linseed meal, beef scraps and gluten
meal. Besides this mash there Is fell
to the hens twice a day in the Jitter a
scant amount of whole corn, wheat
and oata. while clover, mangels, oys-
ter ahella and grit are also provided
Footrot in Sheep.
A sheep that la damp to the akin ta
never a well aheep.
Keep a shnrp lookout for •'ootrot,
nnd at the very flrat.algna oflnmeness
cut out all the affected parta of the
hoof and force the entire flock to walk
through a shallow trough containing
disinfectant.
Whenever You
Use Your Back
two
Met*it Ttllt
* — r—"
I Story"
Does a Sharp
Pain Hit You?
It’s a sign of
sick kidneys, es-
pecially if the kid-
ney action is
disordered, too,
passages scanty or
too frequent or
off-color.
Do not neglect
any little kidney
ill for the slight
troubles run into
Dropsy, Gravel,
Stone or Brights
disease.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills. This good
remedy cures bad kidneys.
AN IDAHO CANE.
L. C. Warner, N. Fairfield Ave., Poca-
tello, Ida., »ay«: "I Muttered severely
from gravel and many of the attacks
confined me to bed for weeks. The pain
I endured when the stones were passing
was indescribable. Doan’s Kidney Pllla
cured me completely and the cure has
been permanent. Though In my 76th
year I am hale and hearty.”
Gat Doan', at A nr Drug Store, BOo a Boa
DOAN’S K*?LNLfY
FOSTER-MILBURN CO., Buffalo, New York
Spur Farms
are Good Farms
Crops of 1910-1911-1912 (consid-
ered as poor years in most parts of
Texas), prove their sure value. The
farmer looking for a substantial home,
wonderfully productive, fine climate,
perfect title from Swenson ownership,
(no commission) can have the details for the
asking. Any good farmer can make the land
pay itself out on our low prices and easy terms.
Spur Farm Land,
(S. M. Swenson 4 Sons. Owners!. Spur, Texas
Not Frequent.
“Do you like rare beef?”
“Is there any other kind
days?"
these
A grent majority of summer ills nr*
due to Malaria in (suppressed form. Las-
situde and headaches are but two symp-
toms. OXIDIN'E eradicates the Malaria
genu and tones up the entire system. Adv.
Reason.
"Pa, why do they call It the rhinoc-
eros?"
"Because he has such a thick rind,
eon.”
Able Work.
Filkins—Thought you intended to
Bell your suburban home?
Wilikins—I did, until I read the al-
luring story my advertising man
wrote; then I decided to keep It my-
eelf.—Judge.
End of a Noted Folly.
The monocle has long since been
out of fashion In England, and is soon
to disappear from Paris, which has
been its last stronghold. It was in-
vented by a Dutch dandy, and Its evil
effects upon the eye were at once
noted by oculists. The monocle first
appeared at tho congress of Vienna
In 1814, when it was worn by Its in-
ventor. One folly, at least, has had
only about a century of life.
A DOCTOR’S SLEEP
Found He Had to Leave Off Coffee.
A
Reason for Inquiry.
The following after-dinner story
was related by Dr. Henry Churchill
King, president of Oberlin college, be-
fore the Chicago Congregational club
banquet:
“I was standing out In front of one
of the big exposition buildings at the
St. Louis fair, when a man came out
of the building much the worse for
liquor.
" 'What’s tho name of thlsh here
building?’ he asked as he reeled away.
"I told him the name of the build-
ing.
■'‘Thanks,’ he said. 'I was Just In
It and 1 wanted to check It off.’ ”
Many persons do not realize that a
bud stomach will cause Insomnia.
Coffee and tea drinking being such
an ancient and respectable form of
habit, few realize that the drug—caf-
feine—contained in coffee and ten, is
one of the principal causes of dys-
pepsia and nervous troubles.
Without their usual portion of cof-
fee or tea, the caffeine topers ar®
nervous, irritable and fretful. That'*
the way with a whisky drinker. II®
has got to have his dram “to settle his
nerves”—habit.
To leave off coffee or tea is an easy
matter if you wnnt to try It, because
Postuni gives a gentle but natural
support to tho nerves nnd doos not
contain any drug—nothing but food.
Physicians know this to be true, as
one from Ga. wrltos:
"I have cured myself of a long-
standing caso of Nervous Dyspepsia
by leaving off coffee and using l’ost-
um," snys tho doctor.
"I nlso enjoy refreshing sleep, to
which I’ve been an utter stranger for
20 years.
"In treating dyspepsia In its various
types, 1 find little trouble when I can
Induce patlentB to quit coffee and
adopt Postum."
The Drv Is right and "there's a.
reason." Read the little book, "Th*
Road to Wellvllle," In pkgs.
Postum now comes In concentrated,
powder form called Instant Postum.
It is prepared by stirring a level tea-
spoonful In a cup of hot water, adding
evigar to taste, nnd enough cream to
bring the color to golden brown.
Instant Postum Is convenient;
there's no waste; nnd the flavour Is
always uniform. Hold by grocers—50-
cup tin 30 ets , 100-cup tin B0 cts.
A 5-cup trlnl tin tnnlled for grocer’*
name nnd 2-cent stamp for postage.
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., llattlo Creek*
Mich.—Adv.
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