The evening Republican., 1902-05-20

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EXPERTS say that the pesky little
English sparrow is a sworn enemy
to the seventeen year locusts and
tears them into pieces. A well
known landscape gardner advises a
solution of paris green and water
sprinkled on the trees and foliage by
the aid of sprayer. He says it is
the only sure preventative, as it
will kill the eggs laid in the bark of
the trees by the troublesome locusts.
Prof. John B. Smith of Rutgers
College, New Jersey State Entom-
olcgist says: mo steps will be
taken to destroy the brood of To-
Gusts. In the first place, it would
be impossible to successfully combat
them, and in the second place, the
evil is greatly counteracted by the
English sparrows, which destroy the
cicada in large numbers. The spar
rows do not devour the insects, but
simply kill and tear them to pieces.
Why the sparrows do this, I do not
know, but there seems to be some
strong natural antipathy between
the two. The eggs of the locnsts
are laid in trees, but finally fall to
the earth. There they soon hatch,
but not before the parent locusts go
to that, home whence no locust re-
turns
From the above it would be well
for all those owning trees or shrub
berry to give them unusual care and
protect them from these pests that
apparently have no mission on this
earth but to destroy every green
thing that comes i'll their way They
are of no earthly use but Il plague
The coal strike bids fair to assume
alarming proportions before it is
ended As usual the public will
have to foot the bill, as coal has al
ready gone up in price IL ton aud
how much higher it will 60, will be
decided by the length of time the
strike lasts. All strikes should be
settled by arbitration without pro
longing a struggle that benefits
ne4her the miners nor the the coal
operators. The miners and opera
tors possibly have grievances, but
no good can come Of struggle be-
tween capital and labor that may
lastfor months. One can't get along
without the other. The people will
not be SO hard hit as if the srike
took place in the winter, but they
will have to pay for this struggle
between capital and labor for SUI
premacy.
The miners appear to be as deter
mined as the operators and the
strike will cost several hundred
thousand dollars before it is ended.
besides hloodshed and rioting. We
will be pleased to See the day when
strikes are unknown and the work
lngman receive fair pay for 4 fair
days labor.
1t is hard to say where the pres
ent struggle in the anthracite region
is going to stop and how many 9TH
er labor organizations will be pulled
into it before it ends.
THE residents of Newark and the
Faculty Of Delaware College speak
In the highest terms Of the way the
students behaved during the recent
trouble, which ended Monday when
they resumed their studies. The
fathers OF several student visited
Newark and advised them to ~
back. The students after II spirited
conference, decided by IL vote Of 81
to 81 to end the strike.
Thus good advice was listened to.
The students are as intelligent set
OF boys as ever attend this College
and showed by words and actions
that they were gentlemen, during
the meeting held last Friday. Tie
experience Of Chief Justice Lore
made profound impression upon
them, as also did that of Mr.. Evans,
of Elkton who has two sons at the
College. 1t only required the right
manner to be taken to accomplish
the desired result.
We would urge diplomacy on the
part of the Faculty to win the sup
port of the students and have every
thing go along us smoothly as before
the trouble. The teachprmust have
the good will Of the students and
the student must have the support
Of the teacher, if progress is to be
made with lessons. No teacher
should be employed who is obnox-
ious to the pupils and the sooner he
is dismissed the better for the Col
lege. Now we have no particular
teacher in mind and this article was
not written to pillor anybody in par
tlcular, but what we think as Il par
ent.
WITH news of the fearful disaster
on the Windward Islands, comes
word that a destructive cyclone