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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta ' Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. ^ JBSCR1PTION PRICE Twelve months v* Six Months 40c Three months 25c The Semi-Weekly .Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is* mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. . It contains news from all over the world, brought by soeclal leased wires into our office. It has a staff distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the home and the farm. • Agents wanted at every postoifi'-e. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRAD LEY. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid t» the abqvo named traveling repra- sentat!\es. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least t*»*4 weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old. as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to /begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga. Charles S. Barrett For Secretary of Agriculture. The cordial and nationwide response to the sug gestion that Mr. Charles S. Barrett be appointed secretary of agriculture in the Wilson cabinet is a source of peculiar satisfaction to the people of Geor gia. That Mr. Barrett is as highly regarded abroad as he is at home is attested by theHiearty indorse ments in his behalf which are reaching the Presi dent-elect from all sections of the country. Not only have the various State organizations of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-operative Union, of which he is the national ‘ president, urged him for the agricul tural portfolio, but newspapers and citizens, repre senting all ranks of political faith, have joined in commending Mr. Barrett to the President-elect’s seri ous consideration. Even from such faraway States as Oregon and Washington delegations are said to have journeyed to Trenton to lay before Mr. Wilson the Georgian’s peculiar .fitness 1 for the position of secretary of agri culture. y By native gifts and seasoned experience, Sir. Bar rett is eminently qualified for the duties of this im portant station. He is in intimate and sympathetic i ouch with the nation’s farming life. He is thought ful and progressive. He is skilled as an organizer and rich in Executive ability. • Above all, he is sin cerely and intelligently interested in the country’s agricultural welfare. He would make an excellent secretary of agriculture. --*■* Parcel Post Revenue. The steady increase in Atlanta’s postal receipts for many years paU is easily accounted for by the city’s inherent growth. But such a remarkable gain as that shown in January, 1913, over the correspond ing month of 1912 calls for a particular explanation. For the month recently ended, the receipts amounted to one hundred and thirty-two thousand, five hundred and eighty-four dollars; for the same period of the preceding year, they were a little more than one hundred and eleven thousand dollars. To what influence can this sudden advance of twenty per cent be due? January is not a heavy month for ordinary mail. Business correspondence is not then especially active; indeed, the commercial world feels a temporary lull. Evidently, it was the new parcel post service that played the major part in this, more than twenty-one thousand dollar increase in At lanta’s January postal receipts. If other, postoffices throughout the country en joyed proportionate gains, the Government has al ready begun to realize a handsome revenue from the parcel post; and, i. the system is well managed and duly extended, it should become not only self-main taining but really profitable. For many years, keen s udents of tbe postal de partment have contended that a parcel post would be advantageous to the Government as well as to the public. They have argued that though the rail roads might not be overpaid, they were certainly underworked in carrying the mail; that it to say, mail cars were only partly filled, yet their full capa city was paid for. They have urged, and with good reason, that the department should seek more busi ness in order that it might make a better financial showing; that it should use its vast opportunity and machinery to the utmost, if it would prosper instead of entailing a deficit from year to year. The establishment of the parcel post is a step in this direction. While the expenses of the new service will be heavy in the outsit, its ultimate returns will be fully compensating. Especially important is the bdhring of the parcel post on the rural mail deliv ery. In times past, the rural service has been a source of postal loss, but when the people on the farms and in farming communities begin to use the mails for buying and selling, this condition should be reversed. The parcel post is. as yet largely in an experi mental stage, but it has developed far enough to show how favorably the public is responding to the, opportunities it offers and to suggest what its future returns will be. A Wasteful Policy. The assertion in a recent issue of the Southern Farming magazine that Georgia buys from other States some eighty million bushels of corn a year at a cost of not less than 58,000,000 dollars has bestirred much discussion and incredulity. It would seem well nigh unbelievable that a commonwe».tn whose soil is peculiarly well adapted to the growth of all manner of grains should spend so great a sum of money for corn in distant markets. But, inquiry shows that the figures given are sub stantially accurate. The State food inspector whose records on this matter are official, testifies that in 1910 there were imported into Georgia eighty-th^ee thousand cars of corn of a thousand bushels each at an average price of seventy-one cents a bushel, mak ing a total cost of nearly fifty-nine million dollars. The exact data for the past two years is not com piled, but it is the inspector’s opinion that the record for those seasons would vary little from that of 1910. What stronger evidence could there be of the vital need of such work as being done by the Boys’ Corn Club movement? It is only through organized edu cational methods that the State can be saved these millions of dollars which it has been needlessly spending abroad. By every natural circumstance, Georgia should be one of the greatest food-producing corners in America. Its farm should be the most in dependent in the country. Its people should be fed largefy from their own soil. And yet we find that fifty-eight millions of Georgia money are flowing out of the State every year for a staple crop that can be raised easily and cheaply at home. it is heartening to note that the conditions respon sible for this shortsighted and wasteful policy are at last being grappled; and we have reason to hope that in the not distant future they will he overcome. The Boys’ Corn Clubs of Georgia are steadily growing in membership and efficiency. Already they have in creased the State’s average acre yield of corn and, what is most important, they have shown how profit able scientific cultivation of the soil can be made. Nor can any observer doubt that in every field of the State’s agricultural life, a new and progressive era has dawned. Farming is being placed upon a busi nesslike basis. Haphazard ways are being supplanted by orderly and farsighted system. The resources of the soil are more keenly studied and more precisely developed. Farmers are giving more and more thought to economics; the relationships between the field and the market are being more clearly traced. It is inevitable that the folly of buying corn at a dollar a bushel when it can be raised in abundance at home will soon he fully realized and forsworn. Let us hope that the time is not far .distant when Georgia instead of importing corn, will be, as she can and should be, one of the country’s largest ex port States. New Settlers and New Capital For the South. The tide of rural immigration which until a few years ago flowed into Canada from the northwestern part of the United States, developing the Dominion’s lands and increasing its wealth, is now turning steadily Southward. It is estimated that within the past week more than a thousand homeseekers have passed through Atlanta on their way to South Georgia and Florida where the majority of them will remain as settlers to press their own fortunes and to add to the State’s agricultural output. This influx of new energy and productive power means much to every sphere of Southern interests. Men who are skilled in progressive farming and who have within themselves the fibre of good cit izenship are valuable not only to agriculture but also ■to commerce and industry and to all fields of busi ness. These newcomers are of sturdy Saxon or Teuton stock. Many, if not, most, of them are ac companied by families. They will prove home builders and wealth producers. The South has done well to discriminate keenly in regard to immigration and the fqct that it has don e so has spared it divers problems with which other sections have been vexed. But settlers who are American bred and whose interests and ideals are mainly those of our own people, should he and are cordially < welcome. Indeed, the South should exert organized efforts to secure this type of cit izens. Until recent years there has been no pur poseful movement to this end but now, it is hearten ing to note, the railroads are advertising this sec tion and are joining with trade bodies to make the South’s resources and opportunities better known throughout the Union. V « If it is important to attract new settlers, it is even more important to attract new capital. The development of the South’s natural treasure demands money as well as labor—money that can be secured conveniently and in sufficient amounts and at rea sonable rates of interest. This vital need is receiv ing more thoughtful and effective consideration to day than ever before. Investors are realizing that there is no corner of jhe Union or of all the world where capital can be placed more safely or more advantageously. Soil that can produce almost every crop needed to feed and clothe mankind, a climate that fosters all harvests in abundance and encour ages all industries—these are the South’s guarantees to the men or the institutions that have money to invest. Naturally, therefore, as such resources become duly known, the South,will find closer and easier connections with th e sources of capital and its de velopment will he proportionately helped and has tened , Menelik Dead Again. Once again—whether it be the seventh or the seventeenth time, we cannot recall—marvelous old Menelik, king of Abyssinia, yea “King of the Kings of Ethiopia and Conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah,” is dead. Such at least are the tidings which have drifted from his little mountain-hugged empire between the Red Sea and the Blue Nile; but so often has Menelik died within the past few years, only to be found hale and regnant when his obitua ries were being read, that the world may properly restrain its tears a little longer. This Interesting sovereign has been dying as easily and as frequently as the old-fashioned actress would lose her diamonds and each demise had heightened and extended his renown. But who will begrudge him the publicity? Who could weary of his romantic tale? Born and crowned on the jungle’s rim, Men’elik has made a court that has interested all Europe. He has given his people many of the arts and amenities of civilization. He has led a life which Plutarch would have loved to portray. He found his kingdom, like himself, in virtual savagery. He has left it with schools and railroads, and automobiles, not to speak of phono graphs and motion pictures; with courts of justice and with a stable commerce of its own. It is said that Menelik was one of the first monarchs of the East to buy an automobile and one traveler reports that he showed his originality by having the chauffeur beheaded every time the ma chine ran over a subject. There is another story illustrating his minute grasp of business details. On one occasion when a State conference yas in progress, a carpenter who was stopping leaks in the palace roof, appeared and asked for more nails; “whereupon,” says the chronicler, “Menelik took a buch of keys from his pocket and, going to the royal nail house, gave the man what he wanted.” Menelik unblushingly avowed that h e was a direct descendant of King Solomon, tracing his ma ternal ancestry to Queen Sheba, whose visit to the wisest of met is one of history’s most engaging hits of gossip. Whatever his ancestry, Menelik himself was, or perhaps is, one of the most picturesque per sonalities of the time; and should he cease to die as regularly as he has in the past, the day’s news will lose a particularly sparkling feature. Good Roads and Social Progress. It is seldom that thp gospel of good roads finds a more liberal or trenchant expression than in the recent inaugural address of Governor Sulzer, of New York- The economic value of well-built and well-kept highways is taken for granted, but it is doubtful that their intimate and far-reaching influ ence upoh the civic and social life of the people is yet duly appreciated. W)icn we have measured the benefit of a good road to the farmer and the mer chant, we have still to gauge its manifold blessings to the school and the home and its ministrations to the higher needs of men. It was this phase of the subject that Governor Sulzer illumined when he de clared : “We knoiv that good roads, like good streets, make habitation along them most desirable; they enhance the value of farm lands, facilitate trans portation, and add untold wealth to the producers and consumers of the country; they economize time, give labor a lift and make millions in money; they save wear and tear and worry and waste; they beautify the country and bring it in touch with free city; they aid the social and religious and educational and industrial prog ress of the people; they make better homes and happier firesides; they ar e the ligaments that bind the country together in thrift and industry and intelligence and patriotism; they promote social intercourse, prevent intellectual stagnation, and increase the happiness and prosperity of our producing masses; they contribute to the grt,.l- ui.w} g/ the city and the glory of the country, encourage energy and husbandry, inculcate love jor our scenic wonders, and mak e mankind bet ter and happier 1 his appraisement is no less true than eloquent. The State or the county that builds good roads is promoting not only the agricultural and the business nterests ot its citizens, but their speial and educa tional interests as well. There is, no field of public endeavor that is worthier of a people’s thought and money or that repays them more abundantly. Surely, an enterprise that lies so close to the nation s common life should receive the national gov ernment s support. Thus far road building lias been left chiefly, if not entirely, to th e individual States; and many States, to the individual counties. The results that have been achieved are gratifying in that they reveal an intense popular interest; rbut they are far short of what they should be and will be when the feueral government shoulders its share ot the task and when each of the State governments places its organized strength and resources behind the work in every county. Mexican Diplomacy. From Senpi- Manuel Calero, formerly Mexican am bassador to the United States, comes this naive and interesting confession: “I lied to the American gov ernment for ten months, telling them that the Mexican revolution would be over in a few weeks. I was forced to invest my diplomatic mission with a domino and a mask.” Diplomats have often practiced the Calero art, though they have seldom indulged in such an after- math of candor. Time was when statecraft itself was in many respects a matter of ingenious dis sembling and official speech with foreign nations was conducted after the rule of Talleyrand who de clared that words were invented to conceal thoughts. Modern diplomacy seems to have found a higher ideal and directer methods, but Mexico still lingers in a Machiavellian past. ' Under a government where free speech has so long been forbidden at liome v it is not to be expected that frank speech will bo offered abroad. , The conditions which Senor Calero took such pains to conceal ar e now a matter of common knowl edge. The situation in Mexico has shown little, if any, imprqvement. President Madero has given re peated assurance that the rebellion was squarely under the government’s heel and would soon be crushed. But the uprisings in one province after another continue, the reign of pillage goes on and business finds it it, as difficult as ever to proceed in peace and protection. To be sure, there are no reports of hard fought or important battles i.« Mexico. The warfare is largely from the hush; but for that very reason, it is all the more a menace to political stability. It is a pity there is not some one party or some one man strong enough to give the country a firm and orderl/ ad ministration. t CAPTAIN BARNACLE’S LOG BY JOHN H. WISHAE, "During my younger days I was down in the South Seas freighting and haulin’ missionaries around where they could civlllz the heathen,” said Captain Barnacle. "M, vessel was an old-time side- wheel steamer with a pulling capacity of an ocean liner. She was noted all around the South Seas. “I got pretty friendly with an old planter on the Island o f Palatava, about 200 miles south of Suva. This old planter, who was an ex- mission- ary, was clear ing some land and anted me to help him pull some stumps. So to oblige him I gets a heavy hawser ashore and made it fast to one of the big palm roots. I started my old ship to steaming, and we pulled and pulled and pulled. But that stump seemed to Jje too solid to move. X couldr’t understand it. For two-solid weeks _ kept steaming and pulling on that stump, but ther e was no sign of it giving. At last I had to give It up as a bad job. "About that time I decided to take a sight to determine the island’s true position. When I worked out my figures I found I had pulled that whole b.oomtn’ island more than 200 miles from its original position. When the old planter-missionary found ou. what had happened he was as mad as a wet hen and he insisted that I take his island back where it belonged. Well, sir, it took me all summer to tow that blanjed island back to i. original location, and even then the old planter wasn’t satisfied. He swore I’d tried to steal his blamed island and he had me arrested for grand larceny and they came near send ing me to England to stand trial. ’That was the last time I tried to do a South Sea isla ;d planter a favor." THE HIGHER PROBABILITIES Bv Dr. Frank Crane It is not facts that save men; it is probabilities. The greatest truths, in the realm of human des tiny, are not demonstrable. You cannot prove them, you must believe them. The highest laws of life are inherently dubitable. You cannot be certain about whether your beloved loves you in the same way you are certain about a piece of cloth being a yard wide. You can never know tl^at it pays to be honest in the same way you know that water is composed of oxygen and hydro gen. You cannot know that virtue is best for you, that purity of mind * will bring you happiness and power, in any such fashion as you know that there are a dozen apples in a box, where you may count them an4, see them. It is impossible' to prove there is a God, and that He is good, as you can prove that the square of the long side of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The evidence that the soul lives on after the death of the body is not at all the kind of evidence that there is such a city as Paris and that it is situated on the %>eine. If you could prove these things of the spirit mathematically they would b e of no use to you. Nothing you know for an absolute certainty has power to do you good, because such things impose upon your mind like dead matter. Only those truths which call forth your faith and will-to-believe are potent to help your character. Moral truth, redemptive, life-giving, does not strike you like a brick, it quickens you like a medi cine. The niost important things you have to deal with aro necessarily subject to doubt. For it has more to do with your ,oy or sorrow, whether your beloved loves you than whether boards are level or stones square; it means more to you to believe in honesty, virtue, purity, God, and the life hereafter than it does to Know all the laws of steam and steel. It’s the uncertainties of life that count. To know how to weigh probabilities is more vital than to know how to- measure accuracies. “Philosophical truths,” says Barthelemy Saint- Iiilairc, “have value only as they are disputable; they do not atfect your reason like the axioms of geometry; their very power to save or* ruin a man lies in fhe fact that they may always be freely ac cepted or freely rejected.” All moral truths have two ma'rks of force: First, they arouse opposition which proves their force of resistance; second, they stimulate thought, emotion, and action, which attests their fecundity. A truth nobody denies is of no spiritual use. Aerograms From Antiquity BY EDWARD J. COSTELLO AGINCOURT, Feb. 14 (A. D. 1416).—The custom of swains inditing amorous epistles to their sweet hearts on this fourteenth day of February every year was partly accounted for today. The discovery near here yesterday afternoon of a weather-worn bundle of .letters, which apparently once belonged to Charles, Duke of Orleans, has helped to explain the mystery. The Duke of Orleans, it will be remembered, was captured by King Henry V. and his army during the terrific battle near Agincourt, October 25, last year. It is supposed during the combat he dropped the let ters. They were in a ravine on the road leading to Harfleur. In the package were found several amorous epistles addressed to various French ladies of quality, some of them containing poetry, and all of them indicating that the duke was something of a ladies’ man. tie was known in Paris as an indefatigable writer of these amative addresses.. In one of the letters it is stated that the day shall henceforth be knoWn as “Valentine’s Day,” in honor of the saint of that name who was beheaded on a February 14, in the third century. It is related that formerly the custom was for boys and young men to draw the names of girWs in honor of their goddess Februata Juno, which is considered heathen ish, and that in order that the day might become Christianized it .s to be called after the saint. In accounting for this observance, the duke says, there is a disposition ,o indulge in foolery occasion ally, and an inclination on the part Tjf most every body to believe that a person drawn as a valentine has considerable likelihood of becoming the associate ‘of the drawer in wediock. Formerly the proper ceremony of the day was a kind of lottery, in which girls were drawn, followed by ceremonies not much unlike what is generally called the game of forfeit. But the Duke of Orleans thinks the proper cele bration of this day is to send valentines or love sen timents to the loved ones, and cites himself as a glittering success along those lines. Another letter tells of an old custom in which it was supposed, for instance, that the first unmarried person one met on St. Valentine’s morning in walking abroad was a denned wife of a destined husband. At any rate this amusing observance of the day is popular with the Ripper classes and is in vogue at practically all of the European courts. The im aginary engagements made> in sport today are sup posed to hold good through the year, and really often result in weddings. The Duke of Orleans and the Duke of Bourbon, who were prisoners to the English after King Henry won his remarkable victory with ten thousand soldiers over fifty thousand Frenchmen, are not so situated that they can meet very many persons, being under guard, so it is not likely they will make any extended search for “Valentines” this year. A Batch of Smiles Joe was down in bis luck—lower than lie had been for a long time. That is why he decided to turn his hand to crime. He had never dab bled in crime before, but,being lone ly now, out of work and hungry, with..one old pistol in his possession, lie could see n^ alternative. So one evening, happening to meet an old gentleman in a deserted oad, he gravely levelled the afore mentioned -pistol at his head, de manding with traditional fierceness, his money or his life. “Come,” said the old gent, “we can settle this mat ter better than that. How much do you want for that pistol?” “Ten pounds,” came the answer. Without a murmur the old gentleman forked out the notes and in a moment the sale was completed. But, just aj Joe was preparing to move on with the money the purchaser turned on him. •*That money back,” he demanded, “or I’ll blow your brains out!” “Blow away,” said Joe sweetly, as he began to walk away. “The pistol isn’t loaded.’’—London Answers. Professor Metchnikoff (sneezy name to pronounce, but we are never sure about the spelling), in his latest book asserts that with sour milk and its^ by products as the chief articles of diet one may defy time and the,un dertaker and easily live to 200 years of age or thereabouts. A friend of ours who has given the Metchnikoff bill of fare a month’s trial says that, while 200 years of life on earth may sound like an attractive proposition, if he has got to stick ,o the sour milk dietary as a steady thing he would be perfectly wiling to die at the end of the first 100. —Judge. * PLANT QUARANTINE By Frederic J. Haskin Thpse interested in the agricultural welfare of th«i United States are rejoicing that this year will see put' into full effect the various provisions of the law j passed by congress last year! authorizing a quarantine] against all plant products af fected with any kind of insect | pest or disease which may be ! spread and thus cause the trou-j ble to extend to other parts of I the country. The importance! of some method of protection of plant life has been actively \ urged by the department of ag riculture for a number of years. | The new law gives to the secretary of agriculture the right to issue a quarantine against the plant products of, any region in which insect pests or disease may be discovered, to regulate the importation of nursery stock and other plant products and to regulate the movement of fruit plants and vegetables in such manner as may best serve for the protection of the country from an increase in any pest. Soon after the laws became effective in October last, four quarantine notices were issued. These are regarded as a good beginning to the great preventive work it is hoped will be in operation against the many pests that cause such enormous annual waste- The first is against the white pin e blister rust which is a new disease not yet widely prevalent but which, if not checked, may become as serious as the chestnut canker. The quarantine forbids the Importation into the United States of three specified species of pine from Great Britain, France, Belgium, Holland, Nor way, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Germany, Austria,' Switzerland and Italy. • • • The second quarantine was placed against the Mediterranean fruit fly which is prevalent in Hawaii and is new to and not widely prevalent as yet in the United States. This prohibits the importation into the mainland from Hawaii of a considerable number of fruits and vegetables excepting those which have been passed upon by special inspectors appointed for that purpose. • • • The third,, quarantine is against the potato wart, a disease which has been fouijd to exist in Newfound land, the islands of St. Pferre and Miquelon. Great Britain, Ireland, Germany and Austria-Hungary. The fourth notice was directed chiefly against the spread of the gypsy moth and the brown tail moth. It chiefly affected the New England states and was slightly felt by dealers in Christmas trees and other holiday greens, although its effect was much less serious than was at first feared by the dealers in those prod ucts. « • • The white pine blister menace is partially the ef fect of the movement in favor of refojestration which has become so widespread during the past ten years. In their efforts to replant ground from which all the pine timber hgd been taken, hundreds of thousands of trees were imported. Some of these imported trees were infected with the disease and as a result have ’ had to be taken up and burned. The cost of the cure of the disease has already greatly exceeded the value of the importation. It is now possible to secure the trees for planting in this country, so there is no real need of importing them. It was recently necessary to burn an entire shipment of 25,000 young trees re cently received in New York state, each of which was infested with the blister rust and Would, therefore, help to spread the disease. * * • The state.of California for years has maintained a plant quarantine at San Francisco which has been the! only port in this country so protected. A number or years ago California suffered the loss of millions of! dollars from the phylloxera, a small insect which at tacked the roots of grapes. This pest is known in 1 France, Germany and Italy. It is best under control in the United States, although it cost California enor mous sacrifices of vineyards, which have in most cases been replanted with a species of grape less sus ceptible to the insect, while a vigorous warfare is constantly being waged against its complete exter mination. The Mediterranean fruit fly is most apt to affect California and the southern states, and its progress will he checked by the rigid enforcement or the quarantine which prevents any additional infec tion being brought into the country. • • • Of the four quarantine notices, perhaps that against the potato wart attracted most notice for the reason that some New York dealers who had invested in large quantities of potatoes in Newfoundland etA deavored to secure a suspension of the law in order that this special importation for which they had ar ranged might be admitted to the New York markets. Their efforts were unavailing, however, and the quar- antine has been rigidly enforced *from the day it was issued, and will be so long as tljere is any need of it. Notwithstanding the number of potatoes raised in the United States, over 13,000,000 bushels were imported last year, so that there is a possibility that this quar- antine may have some effect upon the price of the popular tuber which is in daily use upon most Amer ican tables. There would be a more permanent scarc ity of the supply, however, if this disease were to become established in this country as, when once in the soil, it absolutely destroys the potato and, there fore, prevents its culture. This disease was first discovered in Hungary in 1886, and has since spread over different parts of Europe. It has also reached England and Newfoundland. The latter territory has been the greatest source of danger in the United States. This potato wart is a much more serious pest than the Colorado beetle or potato bug on ac count of which the German government nearly thirty years ago issued a quarantine aginst American po tatoes. • • • The most serious pests with which the forestry service of the United States now has to deal are the brown tail motli and the gypsy moth. These tw>» pests are now costing the New England states an ex penditure of more than $1,000,000 annually merely for their control. In addition to this, the United States government has been expending $300,000 a year to aid hi controlling this pest along the highways and* by this means check its more rapid distribution. In spite of these efforts it is spreading and the yearly damage done to private grounds, woodlands and or chards can hardly be calculated. * * m / The gypsy moth is most frequently found upon coniferous trees. The insect destroys the leaves of the tree and it dies in a few months. Scattered over New England are acres of dead pine trees or of un sightly stumps of trees which have been cut down and removed, and many, parks and pine groves which a few years ago were the delight of villages are now places of utter desolation. The brown tail moth at tacks the deciduous trees but does not always kill them the first year because a new leaf crop is more readily formed. ‘ This pest extends its ravages to many kinds of trees including those bearing fruit. LENT Well may the millions destitute repent That they exist; they keep perpetual Lent. But, those with ample store for every need; Strong in observance of all form and creed; Forward in every soothing word and deed; Self-satisfied their thrifty life’s well spent. • Why should thiese fortunate repent, or plead# Their lives arc full of all that’s comfortably If Lent they’d keep, then must they borrow • trouble. —WILL HERFOBJX