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“MUSICIAN, MONSTER AND AVI-‘
ATOR,” IS WAY EXPERTS CLASS
HIM. HAS MANY INTEREST
ING CHARACTERISTICS.
Once more the ravenous grasshop
per is wreaking devastation upon
western fields, and the plague is be
coming so destructive in parts of Tex
as that federal aid is being employed
to check it, newspaper dispatches
state.
Writing to the National Geographic
Soeiety, David Fairchild describes this
fascinating if ruthless creature as fol
lows:
“The young king grasshopper is
probably 20 days old, and its wings
have not developed, but it can jump a
hundred times its length, whereas
man can scarcely cover three times
his length at a leap. When its wings
grow and its internal air sacs fill with
air it can sail away for nmles. One
representative of this great family
can sail for a thousand miles before
the wind, and they go in such numbers
that they make a cloud 2,000 square
miles in extent.
“Its great front lip hides a pair of
jaws as effective as a hay-chopper,
and it has an appetite as voracious as
that of a hippopotamus. This vora
ciousness and these jaws are what
have made several of its relatives the
plague of mankind. They multiply in
such numbers as to baffle all calcu
lation and every living green thing
for thousands of square miles disap
pears down their throats, leaving the
country they infest desolate. The
great famine of Egypt, mentioned in
the book of Exodus; the grasshopper
yvears of Kansas, which ruined thou
sands of families on our plains, and
more recent devastations in Argentina
and South Africa are examples of the
tremendous effects which the migra
tory locusts have had upcn the happi
ness of mankind.
“As this young grasshopper stands
looking so inquiringly at one with
his varicolored eyes, each of which is
composed of hundreds of facets, I can
not help thinking tha’ he represents
a creature quite as fascinating and
actually more dangerous than the
East African monsters of our school
geographies.
“A baby creature, scarcely two
weeks since it issued from a grasshop
per egg, and yet with two moults be
hind it—two bright green baby skins
cast off!
“Imagine looking forward, as this
baby creature does, to the day when
the pads on its back shall have grown
so long and parchment-like that it can
leave its hopping terrestial existence“
and sail away across the fields. Un—}
til that time, however, it must be‘
content with its six springy legs,
pushing its way among the blades of
grass, tasting everything green and
eating what it likes, and hiding from
its enemies when moulting time comes
around.
“A young chick finds itself shut in
side the egg-shell and must work its
way out alone, but the young grass
hoppers when they hatch “out find
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themselves-—the whole nestfull—put!
in a hardened case in the ground made
by their mother, and it takes half al
dozen .of them working together to
dislodge he lid which shuts them in.‘
“When the young grasshopper
emerges from the egg it is very small
indeed—a wingless, helpless little
creature, all legs and mouth.
© “Jt passes through successive ages,
or stages, as they are called, each one
of which is separated from the oth
er by a moult or casting of its outer
shell.
“These moults take place at fixed
periods, and the insect finds itself
restrained by its firm, inelastic skele
ton, a longitudinal rent occurs along
the back, and the insect, soft and dan
gerously helpless, struggles out of the
old skin inclosed in a new but delicate
cuticle, which takes some time to har
den and color up.
“Whether this creature has a per
sonality or not may be forever ex
tremely difficult for humans to de
cide. Its eyes that look like cows’
eyes really cast a thousand images
on a special kind of brain, so differ
ent from our own that we cannot un
derstand it, and then besides these
great big eyes it has three others. Its
short ringed horns are not horns at
all, but sense organs of so complicat
ed a nature that we do not yet know
certainly whether they are organs of
smell or not, and it is supposed that
they may be the seaf of sense organs
that we humans do not have.
“In front of the great thighs em
bedded on each side of the body are
the so-called ears, turned no doubt to
catch all the vibrations of the air far
too delicate or too frequent for our
ears.
“The jumping legs of the creature
are filled with powerful muscles,
‘which when they expand can hurl it
‘through the air and enable it to es
cape from its enemies. On the inner
side; along the lower rib of the wing,
is the musical instrument. It is a row
of hard bead like projections, which
are very highly developed” in the
males, but not at all in the females.
When the edge of the wing is scraped
over these projections a musical
sound is made. It would seem to be
the case, as with so many birds, that
only the male can sing, the female
being mute.”
THE NUMBER OF OCCUPATIONS
THAT ACCEPT THESE GRATU
ITIES IS INCREASING.
WASHINGTON. Approximately
7,000,000 persons in the United
States now depena on ‘‘tips” or
gratuities for a major part of their
earnings, the occupation report of the
1920 census soon to be issued is ex
pected to show.
This would be an inerease of ap
proximately 2,000,000 persons in the
tipping occupations since 1910.
~ Advancing living costs and “na
’tional extravagance’ are the causes
for the increase, according to
students of social causes and gov
ernment officials who study the
census reports, Some of these
deplore the rapidly increasing
number of persons in the tipping
occupations. About 3,000,000 women
now depend on tips as a regular part
of their earmings, reports indicate.
The number of = occupations in
which tips are regularly coming to be
regarded as a part of the compensa
tion is also increasing.
More than 100 such occupations
now have béen listed, including that
of barbering, in which until a few
years ago tips were unknown, chauf
feurs, messenger boys, manicurists
and department store saleswomen.
Labor wunion officials are coming
to be interested in the tipping occu
pations. The tipping practice tends
to keep down wages, union officials
say. Some labor officials are giving
support to the American anti-tip
ping society, which recently estab
lished headquarters here for a long
term national educational campaign.
RUB-MY-TISM IS A POWERFUL
ANTISEPTIC; IT KILLS THE POI.
SON CAUSED FROM INFECTED
CUTS, CURES OLD SORES, TET
TER, ETC.—Adv.
'MAINE PROSPERS AS “TOUR
‘ ISTS” FLOCK TO THE WET
CANADIAN LINE.
JACKMAN, Maine.—Booze is
flowing through Maine like water
through a fire-hose.
And, of course, it’s Canada’s
fault because canada grew so near
to Maine.
Maine is selebrating its one
hundredth birthday this year
and the celebration seems likely
to continue for a long time un
less the hootch supply in Canada
gives out.
Maine prospers. Tourists are
thick as ants. They’re eating the
food grown on the farms and wash
ing it down with Canadian hootch
supplied by the natives. What could
be more nearly perfect?
Jackman First Stop on Dry Side.
I sat on the veranda of Jackman’s
good hotel, “The Moose River
House.” Jackman is on the main
automobile road to Canada and the
main line of the Canadian Pacifie, be
ing the first station this side of
Hootchland. It was Saturday night,
and the hotel was jammed to the
guard. Down the street Jackman
was enjoying itself at the weekly
dance. All was quiet and lovely as
the sun slowly sank behind the ma
jestic pine trees of the Maine woods.
“This is a quiet place,” said 1.-
“H’m,” said the hotel eclerk, “It
ain’t begun yet.”” He will never say
anything truer.
For the sun down, a steady
stream of automobiles began to
appear. One after another the
headlights flashed and on and
on they came, one whirling after
another. From them came no
noise but the whirring of the
motors.
“Must be a meeting some place,” T
observed.
“Yeh,” said the clerk. “Meeting at
the Line House. The Modern and Fra
ternal Order of Hootchseekers meets
there every night.”
“And what’s the Line House?” I
queried. |
“The first watering place on the
border,” said he. . “Half of it is built
on the United States side. That
side’s as dry as a desert. The other
half is on the Canadian side and that
side is as wet as the ocean.”
541 Cars Pass On Way to ‘Line
House.” |
The procession kept up. One would
have thought that someone had con
ceived the idea of having all the cars
in the world meet at the Line House.
There were every imaginable make,
size and variety. Counting as best I
could I totalled 541 cars ,jin three
hours. In the meantime, the dance
over, all the male residents of Jack
man apparently disappeared, follow
ing much whispering, much talking
of Canadian French and much crank
ing of autos.
And then about midnight the cars
began to whiz past, going the other
direction. Only now came from them
the sounds of much merriment, much
laughter and most of them were driv
en recklessly with cutouts snorting.
“Well,” said I, “I guess I'll go to
bed.”
“What for?" asked the clerk. “You
can’t sleep. No one can here Satur
day nights, The cars make too much
noise.”
That was the most' truthful clerk
I have ever met. :
PRODUCTION OF MEAT
SHOWS A DECREASE
400,000,000 Pounds Less for Past
Six Months Compared With Last
Year, Says Report. :
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Decrease
of 400,000,000 pounds in the coun
try’s meat production for the last six
months as compared with the last
year was reported today by the Insti
tute of American Meat Packers. Sta
tistics of the agricultural department
showing 2,500,000 fewer cattle, hogs
and sheep were slaughtered at sixty
nine markets during the last six
months were used as the basis of the
estimated decreased production.
Cattle prices in May, the statement
added, were “down near the ievel
when the United States entered the
war,” but in June the average price
in Chicago of $14.95 for native beef
steers ‘“was, with the exception of‘
June, 1918, the highest June average
on record.” Fluctuations in receipts
during the two months were said to
have caused the changes.
Amusement Places Costing Millions
of Dollars Are Seated, While Con
struction of Homes Is Delayed.
Millions of dollars are being spent
for new playhouses to insure New
Yorkers ample amusement this win
ter, although flat puilders cannot get
loans for housing the masses of the
metropolitan district,
This was revealed when a survey
was made of the rush of theatre con
structions, which disclosed that $25,-
000,000 worth of mnew amusement
houses were underway.
Many of the new play houses are
wiping out old flats and dwellings ur
gently needed for homes, social wel
fare investigators declare, and as a
| result the housing shortage is becom
ing more acute. >
Although there are 500 running
theaters in New York city and 650 in
the entire metropolitan district, eight}
new theaters, costing more than $12,-
000,000, are planned in Long-Acre
Times square district, three in
Greenwich village, four large houses
and a score of smaller theaters in the
Bronx, three in Washington Heights
and five in Brooklyn, There are now
115 theaters operating in Brooklyn.
666 QUICKLY RELIEVES CON
STIPATION, BILLIOUSNESS, LQSS
OF APPETITE AND HiADACHES.
DUE TO TORPID LIVER.—Adv. ,
THE DAWSON NEWS.
ANTS ARE REMARKABLE
AS BUILDERS OF CITIES
Network of Highways and Streets
Lead to Underground Villages. |
There are more than 1,000 species
of ants, and there is no insect more
marvelous in its habits. Even the
bird architect cannot equal it as a
builder of roads, towns and cities. THe
ant’s road is frequently merely a
beaten path from which all obstacles
have been removed, but it is more oft
en a tunneled highway, covered with
dead leaves®and varying from 1 to 3
inches in width to 100 or 200 yards in
length, ending at the village. When
streams of ants are seen ascending
and descending a tree it is a sure sign
that there is such a road at the base
of the tree.
Ant nests vary according to species.
Some are in the shape of complicated
‘tunnels, with a system of galleries
‘partly above and partly below ground,
‘under a big rock or s6me other place
’of concealment from the ant’s natural
enemy, man. Others cut passages in
'wood, preferably more or less decayed
timber, where they build their houses,
using small sticks of wood, covered
with dirt and leaves.
MAKES SUNDAY MORE POPULAR.
An Illinois genius has invented a
chair that can be adjusted to 1,000
different positions. = Presumably .it
was designed for the small boy to sit
on when he goes to church.
A whale is able to remain under
water for an hour and a half.
Doctors’ Favorite Medicine Now
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Objectionable Effects. ‘‘Calo
tabs’’—the New Name.
What will human ingenuity do next?
Smokeless powder, wireless telegraphy,
horseless carriages, colorless iodine, taste
less quinine,~now comes nausealess calo
mel. The new improvement called “Calo
tabs” is now on sale at drugstores.
For biliousness, constipation and indi
gestion the new calomel tablet is a prac
tically perfect remedy, as evidenced by
the fact that the manufacturers have au
thorized all druggists to refund the price
if the customer is not “perfectly delighted”
with Calotabs. One tablet at bedtime with
a swallow of water—that'’s all. No taste,
no nausea, no griping, no salts. By morn
ing your liver is thoroughly cleansed and
you are feeling fine, with a hearty appe
tite. Eat what you please—no danger—go
about your business.
Calotabs are not sold in bulk. Get an
original package, sealed. Price, thirty
fiveecents.—(adv.)
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 193,