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* KEEP THEM OPT brat hnJtn C?st lib ( tr; 183t . Iim* Ever; SewM. NO BARRIER IS PUT UP Wheat, Cotton and Other Pests, Say the Experts, Come from Abroad is ??Argentine Ant, Mexican Boll Weevil, Hessian Fly and Gypsy Moth Some of Evils. Are we in danger of a foreign invasion? No; the Invaders are upon us and doing much more damage than ^ an army would do. One foreign invader from Hesse Cassel costs the farmers in the wheat belt from $50, 000,000 to 1100,000,000 annuauy. A tough-backed invader from Mexico is crossing the cotton belt, eating $25,000,000 worth of fibre between early July and late frost. 'Another invader whose original home is stated by various experts to have been in Asia or In Mexico is costng the United States government and a dozen states $1,300,000 to check his annual ravages among the fruit trees. Still another alien enemy has recently been slaying the woodland . shades and roadside trees and doing " incalculable damage to the forest areas of the nation. His ravages have never been estimated.. Officials of the Department of Agriculture say that fifty per cent of the damage done by pests and parasites among the orchards and crops of the United States is caused by foreign winged plagues that have been allowed to gain a foothold in the couu I *.r y Every other civilized nation guards against the Introduction of stinging flying, creeping things that devour the strength of vegetation. The United States does not. There are no statutes making such action mandatory, and if there were there is no machinery to put 'in action against these pests. European governments j watch every entry port carefully, f The orchardists of Europe watch ^ -every shipment of nursery stock that Is sent from the United States. Their shipments to this country arrive and are unpacked and bugs and flying things that are death to vegetation flutter out and make for themselves new homes In a new land. In a few years the department experts are hur rylng to the despairing calls of the orchardists who are making a losing lght against some new and extraordinary kind of pest that is withering, their trees. One of the winged plagues poisoned hundreds of people in New England last summer and fall. One man died of the effects of what was known as the "browntail rash/' so called because it was caused by the presence of P millions of "brown tail moths/' brought over from Europe years ago by some careless shipper. Whole townships turned out to fight them last year. The gypsy moth is another tree devastator that is slowly being spread all over the United States. Both these moths came originally from Europe. ^ They are but two of our foreign in vaders. Five hundred tons or lead arsenate were used In New England last year In the stubborn fight made against these two. The San Jose scale of infamous memory was a terrible invader. A tree lover near San Jose, Cal., found certain parasites on his orchards. These spread to the trees of his neighbors. In a few years the San Jose scale was all over the United States. It Is dying out now. An 0 indefatigable professor traced it here and there over th? world and finally located its original home somewhere In China. tHe brought home with him a sackful of its hereditary enemies, a sort * of Chinese lady bug As soon as they \ onnllmnthov fttftrtpd in t.0 in ' fSW nVVllUIMWV. crease and wax fat off the tremendous number of their old victims, the ecale Still there are enough San Jose scale remaining in the United States to cost the farmer and fruit grower about $10,000,000 yearly. An evil-looking bug came across the Rio Grande near Brownsville, Tex., in 1892. Nothing has ever checked him since that time. He crossed Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, jumped the Mississippi in 1908 on/i onmA rinv Hnnn will have reached the Atlantic unless checked. He has cost the cotton planters nearly $125,000,000 since he invaded Texas, and for the last three years he has been gobbling up the cotton bales to the tune of $25,000,000 yearly. Altogether he has eaten up millions of bales. The boll weevil has forty-flve parasitic enemies, but they are tbo weak for him. In the East the entomologists hope N to kill off the gypsy moths during the ^ present season by Introducing "moth cholera" among, their invading swarms. It is *known as the "wilt* and the infected moths die of it by tens of thousands. Their bodies become putrid and semi-liquid. Another enemy, especially importer from their old homes in Europe, will be turned loose among their breeding areas soon. A particularly savage beetle that manages to keep them from becoming a pent In South SCARED TO DEATH THE SAD FATE OF A YOUNO NEW YORK BRI1>E. The Glowing Eyes and Shriek of An 1 Owl at a Window Too Much for Her. The strident scream of an owl and its shadowy form and gleaming eyes frightened Mrs. O'Neill, the beautiful bride of Assistant Corporation Counsel James T. O'Neill, of Brooklyn, to death Tuesday night. The bird first appeared on Monday night while Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill, with hands on each other's shouldflp? wfipfl walking along the road from fashionable Argyll Park to Dabylon. It flew In front of their faces, then hid In the tlrees and screamed. The sunshine and the bright green-* ery of Argyll Park banished from the minds of both, on Tuesday, alt memory of the incident. Tuesday evening they started again upon their customary walk to the village. They had scarcely left the lights of home behind when a double shriek, long drawn out and terrifying, assailed their ears, and a spectacular form, with huge yellow eyes, ewoopeu swiftly toward them. It veered off only within a few feet. After taking Mrs. O'Neill, who was frightened, home. O'Neill started out again alone, recalling, the lines from Macbeth: It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which gives the stern's good-night. Later Mr. O'Neill and his bride exchanged some joking words about her fears and retired; Of a sudden. I when all was still, there came a ! blood-chilling shriek, a tearing or | clawe and a beating, of wfngs at the wires of the window screen, and the vision of the great golden eye peering in from the darkness. Mrs. O'Neill started up with an answering scream, then fell hack, Mr. O'Neill, with a word of anger, sprang for a walking stick and jumped out upon a balcony. He was just in time to swing and miss at the form that flopped leisurely away. He spoke a cheering word as he reentered the room. There was no j reply. He snapped on a light. His bride way lying senseless. He sprang | to the telephone and called Father Logue, a priest of Babylon. Then he oalled a doctor. The priest was first to come. There was still life in Mrs. O'Neill as he administered the last rites of the ? ' * -- 1-- J church, nut. jubi as nt? uuu mi lOUCUf I the priest touched his hand to a wrist. and said to Mr. O'Neill: "She's dead, my son.'" DEATH OP REV. DAVID HUCKS. Beloved Minister Soon Follows Bon to the Grave. A dispatch from Pinewood says the Rev. David Hucks, Methodist minister at that place, died Wednesday morning about 9 o'clock after an illness of six weeks, from typhoid fever. His fifteen-year-old son, Bennie, proceeded him to the gnave by only five days. Mrs. Hucks has also been very sick with fever, but is now considered out of danger. This is, indeed, a sad home, and iMrs. Hucks has the prayers and sympathy of the entire community in her bereavement. Out of a family of ten, only Mrs. Hucks end her little daughter, Mary Ethel, are left. All have passeu to the other world. a ftor mativ Years. ? W A large open face gold watch of the build known In the old days as a "turnip," loet fifty years ago by Frank Strome, has been curiously recovered. An allgator was killed in Double Bayou, Texas, and the timepiece was found in its stomach. * em Europe is the imported enemy Argentina ants are among the latest of the invading pests that are securing a foothold in the West and South Shipments from the South American Republic brought them into the United States Another of the invading plagues is the alfalfa weevil No one seems to know yet just where it came from. The orchardists and farmers have 1 #/*! a of rnn cr ueeu IIKItLIUg 1UI jrtftin 1U1 ? ?i..v..s federal enactment that will help to keep out the insect pests of other lands. So far it has failed to pass. Just about this time in the year the first despairing wails of the wheat grower are heard. The native cinch bug and the imported Hessian fly are tossing up for his crop. Of the two evils, the imported one is the worst. The cinch bug may be the bigger, but he cannot create the havoc that follows in the trail of the Hesetan fly. I The invader is a legacy of oiit war with George III. Illinois, Iowa and Indiana know of his power. On his off seasons he manages to de* stroy 50,000,000 bushel* of wheat. He robs the world of a million tons of flour, or enough to make 2,000,000,000 loaves of bread; enough .bread to feed every man, woman and child in the United States for over a week. i MEET DEATH IN AIR 2 TRIPLE TRAGEDY OCCURKS AT AEROPLANE RACES. ? Fifty Aeroplanists Took Wing on Vin- l cennes Field for Flight to London and Three Are Killed. Fifty aeroplanists took wing early Sunday from the aviation field at Vincennes, France, on the first stage of the European circuit race, which calls for a flight to London and return. with stops at various places, going and returning. Three of the aviators soon after the start were killed and at least one was gravely hurt. The dead: Capt. Princetau, whose motor exploded in mid-air, flooding him wi.th gasoline and burning him to death. 'M Lemartin, who dashed against a tree, the motor of his aeroplane crushing h<ls head. Lendron was killed near Chateau Thierry. Benzine in the reservoir exploded and the aviator was burned to death and the machine consumed. The injured: M. Gau'bert, a former lieutenant in the army, who was entering In the civilian race under the name "Dalger.'? He was found lying senseless near his machiine in a wheat field four miles from VilLars Ooterets. His injuries are seious. iM. IBllle's aeroplane struck the earth within a mile of the start and was wrecked. Bille was injured, hut not seriously. Three other aviators fell?M. Lort'.ian, near Charleville; Oscar Morrison, close to Gagny, tand M. Mori a at Chevon, within 22 miles of Liege, which is the end of the first stage of the race. 'None of these men were badly hurt. Or the 50 aviators who started the race, 38 were civilians and 12 officers, assigned for military duty. Hung up for the competitors are prizes amounting to $94,000. DYNAMITE EXPLODES. Tn a Box Car Killing Four Negroes Working There. Four negroes met death in a series of peculiar accidents at Atlanta, | Thursday. Sam Whitlock was killed when he accidentally struck six sticks of dynamite in an old railroad work car which he was sweeping out. The dynamite had been left there many months, it was stated. Washington Kendricks was engaged in a scuffle with another negro nam- j ed Quit Wooley on the eighth floor of the new Third National hank ! building, fell, or was pushed into the elevator shaft and was dead when found at the .bottom. Wooley was arrested. Joe Arnold and his brother, Will, negro farmers, were drowned while engaged in cleaning out a email lake near Lakewood. Neither could swim. * Grasshoppers Hurt Cotton. According to a prominent cotton planter who has returned to New Orleans Thursday after a two weeics trip through various parts of the cotton belt, grasshoppers in large quantities are beginning to attack the cotton crop in sections of Louisiana and Mississippi. So far, the pests have become noticeable only in certain localities, but it is feared, the planter says, if the hot dry weather continues much longer they will become a great danger to the crop. * Paces Bigamy Charge. A dispatch from Laurens says Ed Hutto, a white man was brought back from Union several days ago by Deputy W. H. Worthy and lodged in the county jail on the charge of bigamy. The warrant was sworn out by the alleged wife number two, who ~ * ?nflv wK A was a miss Armenia *?U auu mm works In the Laurens mill. Hutto is said to have a wife now living in Augusta, who has agreed to come here to testify against him. m m ? Very Strange Case. Andrew C. Fears, a well known merchant of Athens, Ga., is desperately ill at his home from a most unusual origin. Monday afternoon he had a tooth pulled, and the bleeding from the dental operation could not (be stopped for hours. 'Mr. Fears lost a gallon of blood from the tooth. Later, hemorrhages from the kidneys set in, and it is feared that his condition is very serious. * llaby Drowns in Tub. AI Graham, N. C., the 18-monthsold child of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rason fell into a tub of water and waa srftwnflH T\hA mothflf had gone out to draw a bucket of water and the ba/l>y fell into the tub of about seven Inches of water and was drowned before it was noticed. It was an ordinary lard tub, which easily allowed the infant to overbalance and fall in. Bomb Explodes in Condnit. On Friday for the third time In a month an explosion occurred in a cable conduit of the Commonwealth Edison Company, under the subway of a railroad track in Chicago. The police believe the explosion was a bomb set off by labor agitators. Official* of the Edison Company, however say that they have had no recent trouble with their employee*. WAR ON THE FI.Y WORLD WIDE PLOT TO SLAY THE LITTLE PEST. Scientists Claim That Typhoid Fever Would Practically Disappear Were the Flies All Killed. During these hot summer days in which flies glory and In which they thrive enthusiastically, it is well for every indivdual person to boar in mind a few facts concerning thoee house hold pests. In the first place! a single harmless fly may carry from 550 to 6,600,000 bacteria. These germs may be, often are, the germs of typhoid fever, in part. The fly bears away virulent typhoid bacilli not only upon its tiny legs but also in its digestive organs. These germs it carries to food, leaving them In quantities on every tiny spot of food touched by a fly which has come from a typhoid patient's room. A colony of bacteria, begins to grow with wonderful rapidity. A person not in fit physical condition; and few are in hot summer weather, has an excellent chance to catch ty.pho'd fever from this con.aminated food. One case of fever tcnn, of coutve. furnishes the boundless possibilities for other cases. It is by the careful experiments of scientists that the habits of flies are made known. Leland O. Howard, chief of the United States government bureau of entomology, in his "The House Fly, Disease Carrier," a compleeetaoinfl5 Disease Carrier," a complete manual on the fly and how to fight it, published by Frederick A. Stokes company, this spring, gives scores of experiments, which show that disease germs by the millions have been fnnnri on flips hv both laboratory scientists and army surgeons. Back in 1898, Surgeon General Dr. George M Sternberg, of the United Stat>es army, waned the army gathering for the Spanish-American war that flies would carry typhoid in crowded camps. His warnings were somewhat neglected. Flies were allowed to swarm from the tents of the sick soldiers to the tables of the well, and so every regiment of the United States army dveloped typhoid fever. In the national encampments in 1 898, one-fifth of the soldiers developed typhoid. While water was partly to blame, the doctors have retermineh that the fly was the chief agent for this terrible spread of disease. (Doctors Tooth and Calverly of the British army, found in the Boer war that in tents full of sick men, * * - ?' ? i-?i re ,,?n me nies itri l ;|uuvicm ni/iu ouustroke alone, 'but settled pitilessly on the faces of tyiphoid patients?and then swarmed over food It was then noted that when the cold weather killed the flies, the typhoid stopped. From India, Lieut. Col. F. W. C. ones shows that flies are the chief carriers of typhoid; and that all who carelessly ?at food which have been allowed to be touched by the filthbearing flies, are rothing less than eaters of filth. Aside from army camps, in the ordinary peaceful cities, proofs of the fly's disease-bearing have been h though here. where there are no army surgeons in charge if tvory man, it is harder to Investigate. As for the wholesome country, doctors have shown that practically nl' of the terribly prevalent typhoid lk. borne, not so much by bad water, as by flies. Once the coontry flies gather the germs, they can leave them in milk or butter for transportation to crowded cities. They gather thickly about most dairies, markets, etc. And typhoid germs will live in milk for 20 days ready to infect in the very milk that goes to children?while in butter the germs will live for 14* days. -In the laboratory, many scientists have lyy careful experiments proved that flies do carry germs every time they touch them. In a number of cases cited by Dr. L. O. Howard in his book, scientists have had flies walk over and feed on solutions containing typhoid bacilli. When a*!?0e flies were transferred to clean containers, they always were found to enrrv the eerms to the new vessels. (Typhoid causes more deaths in one year than yellow fever does in fifty? and flies cause 95 per cent, of typhoid in nrany rural and some city districts. What makes is most dangerous is that even where there are no typhoid patients about, still flies can collect the germs and carry them, for a goodsized proportion of typhoid patients, even when absolutely cured so far as feeling goes, continue to be "chronic carriers," and are likely tc ,be sources of danger for the rest of their lives?unles the flies that carry these germs are destroyed. There is only one posible manner in wihch the constant mer.ace from typhoid germs nvay be avoided?the whole community must work togeth er, hlanning to end the fly scourge That is what 'Major Wanhill did witt his typhoid afflicted Brithish troops ir Bermuda. In two years he almos wiped out typhoid, largely by ending the fly nuisance. The fly should have nc place li which to be born. If, however, h< . does suceed in entering the world h< ' should find no space therein in whicl to live. There should be a "worl 1 altogether plan" against him. SHE TOOK THEM IN FAKE FORTUNE TELLER REAPS GOLDEN HARVEST. ' Magic Talismans Sold to Number of Superstitious and Credulous Peo- J pie for Large Sums* Mrs. Jennie Hunter, alias Madame ^ Hunter, who was arrestel in Baltimore recently on a warrant from Raleigh, charging ner with obtaining money under false pretenses, worked a number of superstitious and credulous people there for considerable sums of money as a fortune teller Mrs. Annie O. Eatman, a well- t known dressmaker, lost $800 through ( the representations of the wily for- j tune teller that she could unravel and work out the happiest solution of j some family troubles that were dis- j turbing Mrs. Eatuian.. Just what they were has not yet been divulged * except to the authorities in confidence. The next largest amount claimed to have been obtained was from a * well-to-do negro woman. Madame j 11 n ii for roul hor rtnlm anrt tnlfl hor ' 11 II II W I 1 Vl?V? itv* 1 ... ?v. she would soon break out with terrible sores unless some counteracting < spell was worked for her; that she * had been conjured to have these sores develop. For $200 she gave her a { talisman that would ward off the af- ' fliction. It was a small wooden box 1 securely sealed. The victim was told that if sho opened the box she would die. Chief Police Stell opened it when the woman brought it to him, and found that it contained some 'blackish pow- ; ders. Some of this, he says, he rub- ' bed between his fingers, and much to his alarm, the fingers began to itcu. Put he is convinced now tlvat the ' itching was maginary and that the powder was really perfectly harmless and worthless. Another victim brought a talisman in a red flannel sack. It contained two pieces of worthless ore rock. It had cost her the small sum of $2 and was presented by Madame Hunter to possess allpowerful charm for her wellfare. 1 (Madame Hunter came to Raleigh 1 early in the year, openel a tent-house in a cavant lot two doors from the ' State house of Fayetteville street. ' Here she did a flourishing business as a palmist until late in April, when she disappeared over-night. A notable thing Is that she refused to take Mrs. Eatman's check for her pay, but required her to get her own checks cashed and bring the money. CONVICT DYNAMITES GUARD. ] Convicts Make Near-Escape Near Yorkville Friday. An unsuccessful attempt was made Friday afternoon ,by a member o\ the chain-gang fo'rce, a negro named Stinson, to kill guard Williams, by exploding some dynamite near the officer. Mr. Williams was knocked down and rendered unconscious for a short while. 'On recovering consciousness he observed that the convicts were running away. Quickly regaining hi? feet, and seizing his gun, he ordered the fleeing men to halt, which they did, none escaping. Stinson had been entrusted with dynamite to blow up stumps in the road. The attempt waa made it Caste i branch, west of town where the gang is now work. * Collins Can't B? Found. Will Collins, the negro who killed J. P. Pouknight, in Lexington coun ty, can't De rouna. i ne onicers wno have been on the hunt for him ever since the tragedy, declare that Collins is 8tl 11 'alive and that he will soon be captured. Others, however, 1 assert that the negro was killed soon after he shot the white man, ana that his body wins thrown into the river. * Drowned at Georgetown. Willie Tarbox, a lad of about 16 years, was drowned at Georgetown FfMd'fy afternoon about 6 o'clock in the Sampit river, while in bathing with several of his playmates. He was the son of J. P. Tarbox, a misionary to Brazil who had just left on the train about two hours before the drowning of his son took place, and was recalled by telegram. Hats 54 Kggs. Breaking eggs as fast as they j could bo handed to him and cata> pulting the contents into his mouth at the rate of one in three seconds, Nick Volz, a butcher, of San Francisco, Friday night swallowed flfty. four eggs in 186 seconds, thereby i refuting the positivo etarenien* of a > well known physician that it couni . not be done. Volz got the eggs and $too. [ j Quite an Old Horse. t E. T. Blgelow, of Fairfield, Me., ; Is the owner of a horse 41 years old believed to be the oldest horse lit 1 the State. She Is driven every day, i and can go to Watervllle, a distance b of eight mllee, In a little more than t a hour. Her teeth would Indicate t her to be not more than 13 years oiu and she la fat and plump. ? 1 FREE AT LAST i Vmii a Priwacr Far Three Tears ia a Private Saaitariaa. SAID SHE WAS INSANE rho Case is * One of Much Interest to tlie People of Ashevllle, Where the Hospital is Located. The Doctor Ordered by Court to Releaee the Woman. On the strength of the report of he board of examining physicians, composed of Dr. D. E. Sevier, Dr. L?. 3. McBrayer and Dr. G. W. Purefoy, Appointed by Judge Carter to inquire nto the sanity of Mrs. Alice Muckow, who alleged that she was being letained by Dr. Ro.bert S. Carroll at lis sanitarium at Asheville, N. C., igainst her will and that she was beng illegally deprived of her liberty, Judge Carter Saturday signed a judgment decreeing in effect that Mrs. Muck low was sane; that she was illegally restrained of her lib? crty and directed the said Dr. Robert S. Carroll release her. The order also provides that Dr. Carroll shall pay all costs in the proceeding, including $30 each to the examining physician and $49.95 to Miss Amy Emanuel for stenographic work. This judgment in effect informs the world that Mrs. Mucklow, who spent three and one half years in tho Carroll sanitarium is a sane person -and that she was illegally detained. The case reads like fiction, but every word of it is true. Many other sane persons, no doubt, are locked up in private sanitariums. The case of iMrs. Mucklow is interesting. She is an accomplished lady, a daughter of a late English officer, educated in Germany, and at the death of her father left an estate of 3,000 pounds, or $15,000, the revenue from which amounted to approximately $S0 per month. Three and one-half years ago she was placed in the Carroll sanitarium. There Mnr.inlnn/1 until t 11'A f\f thpnA MIU I t71U(ll Ul^ll U Hill t ?T U vi tut w weeks ago, when on a writ of habeas corpus sued out before Judge Carter at the instance of Judge Adams, of police court, she was produced In court, the writ having directed again Dr. Carroll to produce his patient. At that time it wa/3 contended for Dr. Carroll that the lady was nsane and should not be at liberty. Affidavits were filed with the Court and Judge Carter, pursuing a wise course, decided that a board of three physicians should inquire into Mrs. Mucklow's mental conditionfl Dr. Sevier was named one of the physiclons, while counsel for Dr. Carroll was privileged to name a second, and the counsel for Mrs. Mucklow a third physician. The board as finally constituted was composed of Drs. Sevier, McPrayer, and Purefoy. In the meantime, however, Judge Carter directed that Mrs. Mucklow he given into the custody of the sheriff of the County. This was done and since that time she has been with friends in the city. It was claimed by Mrs. Mucklow that she could not endue longer the treatment accorded her at the Carroll sanitarium. She declared that she had been made a "subjct'' for demonstration purposes, and that the humiliation was more than she could endure. She wrote a letter to Judge Adams of the Police Court, imploring him to render her assistance in an effort to free herself from the sanitarium. She also wrote another letter to an Asheville lady. These letters succeded in reaching the persons to whom thy were addressed and Judge Adams took the matter up and on the affidavit of Police Captain Jordan that on information and belief Mrs. Muchlew was illegally re strained of her liberty by Dr. Carroll, a writ of habeas corpus was issued. Just what further steps if any will now be taken in this mater is not made known. It has been rumored lioweveif, fch'at ^n the event Mris. Mucklow was found to be a person of sound mind the matter would not he allowed to drop, that an effort might be made to have Dr. Carroll's license revoked and also that a suit for damages might be instituted Those reports, however, could not be confirmed Saturday, the counsel for Mrs. Mucklow declining to discuss the case sayng that they had not yet decided upon their future course. Roy llamlit Surrounded. After a series of running battles with officers of three counties near Vallejo, Cftl., on Friday, Frank Melville believed to be the boy bandit who has held up a doeen saloons In California towns recently, is surrounded In a swamp on Carquines Straits. It is thought Melville's ammuition is almost exhausted, and It is believed that his capture is certain* ? Revolutionary Records Returned. Three charred volumes of the revolutionary records of South Carolina which escaped the capital Are at Albany, N. Y? were received recently by the South Carolina hlatorlcat commision. The records were returnled under a special act of the New i York legislature.