The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-30
OLDEST OF ALL INSECTS.
THE HUMBLE cooKRoAoH KING or
AZ MS KIND.
HIS Noble Elmo Traced Rack Tiroush HIrnions
OF Years by tho Fo-slis In Rocks or tho sIiu.
rinu Away n Rovcr and Sea vcnrer.

"'s Nos'o A,n" arhee" .'"cE lhronEe mhItons
-. -. ...-. ~
lhoro Is uouotioas many n good housewife In
TINS worlu VINO WONDERS, us shc chascs about
tho Kitchen and tho pantry, poking into dark
nooks anu crannics, with her pail OF hot watcF
OF box OF poison, Whatever tho little pests
called cockroachcs arc here for, anyway, and
what Roou thcy DO. .lhcso questions would be
rather uncut 10 answer ior' hko most OF ma
lures scavongcrs- and they, or most OF tbs;
varieties. at least. have certainly been such in
the past-they nave obtrndcd, In these times
OF advanced sanitary arrangements and mod
orn improvements where their services migho
Won be dispensed with. But there is no doubt,
however much VIC may ocGrndSe the little In
sccts q few liny, warm crevices In our homes,
or nm occasional burial place in our puddings
ana cuisine at inc summer motel, that, by all
recognized ioWs OF priority thcy haNo at lcaso
as much right nero as we nave, for their very,
worry Rroat-grandsircs were settlers upon this
carth many ages before our progcnitors were
even thought OF.
In Biolo times thoir presence was far more
disasrceaoly felt than In our own, both on 40
count OF inc diifercht ana moro slovcnly mode
OF hvlng That prevailed among those peoples
and OF tho warm climate of the countries OF
which the biolc lciis. Ana IL Is probable, al
thougn no oistihct mehtioh IS made OF 1.-The COCK
roach IN the scriptures Ms among tho animals
OF Noah' thnt IL was hevorthciess, In tho very
vanguard OF the procession that so placidly
wehned its way INTO the ark. Even tho first OK
her kiha' the wiie oil Adam. was unquestion-
aoiy acquainted with the littlo siS'footed crca-
lures But EVo was q very happy -go'lucky
sort OF DAME. and was no little troubled with
househoid cares and victuais as she was with
fashioh' and II Is ikeiy that tho fact Of their
existence dld not weigh heavily upon her mind.
The antiquity of tho eockroach, however. is
not. reckoned by the thousands of years with
which we commonly compute our vast stretches
- ~ ~ " Nv u' h ~ MI
mons upon miiliohs. It's beginning takos US
the cpochs of the gigantic mns,odon and the
.U VI !" s,sa".io II .ne
ern part of this land, to disappear beneath q
warmer southern sun: INST tho cpocb NJ the
the universal marshlands and boys, and fitted
through the air with their strange, tapping
wings, like the hends in Dante's "1nferno;"
past the long period of the luxuriant solitudes
OF the earboniferous forests when the great
forces OF nature were at work storing away the
pas' II .nr W.. ! wv gum. sharks anu
monarchs of the oceans. THOR origin carries
us back to the very commencement of things.
They were one or the earliest or the forms OF
life and the pioneers of insect life. As some one
has said ..tbov aro tho truo oris,ocr.t, 80 ,n-
LOG o"'u, .n'' ~ ~ uuo "'ie'oefo'o VI III
sects,' the kings OF their kind.
Learned savants and researchers tell us that
tbo rnost nr;m;,iro - ro..h... -.
.ho moe1 plthi,iNe u coekroacnes are iound
deep down IN what are known as the silurian
ago that thew don't ottcmnt r. Count ,hon, "a
"So ,na' 'he9 III a''enp' . count .nem az
oil. They were not very unlike their lineal
descend ants of to-day. the principal differenco
ho,nn = 80 ,,oi, - -, =, - ps...n,a.noS
uoihs d ' 'ner WINGS IL 10 propaoie tnae
should ono or those ancient creatures be in some
way resurrected and 90 scurryinp ecrosa tha
litohor a., e ,ron,s ho $500 -,
hitchcn hooi "ouiu DC s'ePPeo Oh Win az
little thought and conjunction as are its mod
ern kindred. As these wings constitute thu
1t. - 90. T. ii.
ohie, IL Y .no onis .heahs U sIuoyihg theih
species-the bodies having in most cases been
wholly dissolved nv putrefactjon-it IA Nor.
~. 1919, =, n,.. .,at ,h";ssam. -
hapS' "orthy VI hote that theiiVneVeiophent Wao