The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1902-05-08
HOW BILL ARP KILLS THEN
His Plan TO Get Rid of Potato
Bugs Offers Children a
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Bugs --Oners Children
Prize.
, Atlanta Constitution
l am trying Colonel Rcdding's plal
TO cNtcrminate the potato bugs. IL,
says begin early ond watch for The frs
ones that come. Make an inspection
every morning AMI kill the larg,
stripped ones before they lay then
eggs. My crop is about six inches
high. | have siX long rows in the
garden and the other morning founC
the pcsky things had como. ! killct
about thirty and then told the children
the grand children | mcan-that
would pay them a nickel for every
dozen bugs they found. That evening
they killed sixty and next morning
forty, and this morning fifteen, and
this evening ten. SO the three little
girls brought me in debt sixty cents
and feel rich. The bargain is that
they are TO pay me back for all | find
and l have not found but five yet,
though | don't look very carefully
| Children like to work for money Just
like grown folks. | remember we'll the
| first half dollar | ever earned. NV
father was clearing land and told me 1
might have the saplings if would trim
them up and pile the brush, and
might have the wagon and team 70 haul
them to town and sell them. | had
the evenings after school and Satur-
days to work, and soon had a load
ready and sold 1t to our school teacher
for silver half dollar. was rich, ,
and as drove home felt of it in my
pocket every little while to be sure it
was there.
like TO reward these little chaps,
for IL does them so much good and
makes them love me. The love of an
innC cent child is the purest on earth
except the love of mothor. have
no greater comfort now than Tic glad
smile Ola little one that jumps into my
arms whenever | come. 1t ilatters my
vanity. for though | am old and ugly
the little one will hug me and pat my
wrinklcd checks and turn away from
those who are young and handsome.
The greatest inducemcnt for parent
TO be q Christian is to secure the saliva
ton of their children and meet them
in heaven, for it is said in the Scrip
lures in three places " Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt he
saved-thou and thine house." It was
said by Paul and by Peter and the
Spirit, " thou and thine house." So
let the good mother not despair of her
wicked son who went unrcpentant to
his death and may these words always
comfort her, thou and thine house."
For the sake of ten good people the
Lord would have saved Sodom, aud for
the sake of good parents He will save
the childrcn.
Last year my potato crop was
seriously damaged by these bugs, and
by the paris green, too, for used too
much OF il, and so ! am taking Colonel
Rcdding's advice and killing off the
big striped beetles before they lay their
patches of yellow eggs on the under
side Of the leaves. | instructed the
children to look for eggs and they
fonnd only two leaves with eggs on
them. With little sharpencd stick
they dug around the base of every plant,
and there found most of the beetles,
but am already satisfied with the cx.
pertinent, and hope that | will not have
to use paris green at all. shall con-
Linuc my bargain with the children,
even if it is expensive. | overheard
them plotting this evening about going
to the drug store tomorrow and buying
some ice cream, and they agreed to
take two sauccrs apiece. These little
girls are great Inventions, and love to
watch them and then ruminate and
ponder why it is that children, cs-
pccially boys, get more selfish and CO.
ccitful as they grow older. The devil
seems to let them alone until they get
weancd from their mother.
The good and the bad are strangely
mixcl in this world. New plaques
and pestilcnccs keep on coming, both
on animal and vegetable life, but a
kind Providence has provided remedies
and given us minds TO find them. But
| have found no way to keep the pigeons
from preying upon my young peas as
they peep out of the ground. They
utterly destroyed my first planting ant
have begun on the second. We have
had flock for many years, aud never
knew them to trouble the garden be-
lore. say, ColOncl ItcdulnS, VIVA
must do about it? My wife says cover
them with brush, and / will if | car
find the brush. The English sparrow.
do leave us most of the crop, but thu
pigeons don't leave us anything
Reckon will have to turn the boy
loose on them. The beans, onions ant
early corn are all right yet, and tht
Strawberries seem to have no enemies
They make beautiful show, and giv'
us g cat comfort.
In a week or two we will have rip'
fruit in abundance and shall send som,
to the preachers. Brother Yarbrougl
says he does not think it any harm &
send good things to preacher even OF
, sunday. Strawberry culture is spread
! ing rapidly in our town and some O
3 the ncighbors are trying 1t as q bus
, ness for profit. DR.. FELTON,, Jr., ha
v put out thirty thousand plants the las
r season. 1t was Isaac Walton, tn
:. great fisherman, who wrote in his boo
l. on angling, "Dr. Butler said th'
~ 'doubtlcss God could have made o be
.n, borru tbop tho of orru Il,