The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-10-10
John Says il Certainly Looks
Like EASY Money"
ENEMIES OF PLANT LIFE
THE HOP PLANT LOUISE, THE
MOTH, HESslAN FLY, CHiNcH
BUG, BOIL WEEVlL AND
OTHER PESTS.
Special to The Bulletin.

/
the only ones making money at this
/ fair. Uncle Sam is doing few
"s,unts" In that line himself, as John
would say. The Japs are making
their money ola OF Cloisenno vases
and embroidered screens. Uncle Sam
4 is making his out of solid strips Of
silver and copper. Ana he doesn't
appear to he afraid of the counter
feiters for the whole process Of max
4 ing coins is exhibited in the govern
ment building every day TO thousands.
i The Government Exhibit.
/ We were an hour late getting to the
4 government building to resume our
4 tonr through what is generally pro
/ nounced the most interesting and in
4 structive exhibit on the grounds This
delay was due to the fact that John
4 had learned from the program that II
was Apple Day." on which barrels
] of Northern Spy, Rhode Island Green
ing and Jonathan apples would be
/ distributed to the multitude at the
/. horticulture building and, of course,
4 true to the masculine instinct that
goes back to Adam, he was there to
get his apple
How Uncle Sam Makes Money.
None of Uncle Sans manifold ac-
/ tiyities Is quite so interesting as that
/ Of making money. 1t is well that this
section OF the government building is
enclosed with stout iron railing for
4 the crowd that surges around it from
morning till night would soon take
possession of the United States mint,
/ The government has spared no pains
OF expense to make this exhibit as
/ well as all others in the building. the
most complete and comprehensive
!. ever made. Big multiple shears cut
the copper into strips the width of
/ half dollar. They are rolled in roll
ing mill and then showed through a
machine which cuts out the little
round wheels and these in turn go to
the 'upsetting machine Which turns
/ up the edges ready for milling" They
are then passed into revolving cyl.
inder which looks like a peanut roast
er and reyolved with sawdust until
| they are clean, then to the big coming
presses from which they drop bright,
blinking coin
It is Easy Money" Says John.
The careless way in which silver Is
made 10 associate with common cop
per In this process would break the
heart of William Jennings Bryan. at
certainly looks like easy money" said
John
One of the pleasant revelations OF
this great building is the fact that
Uncle Sam is doing something besides
building guns and battieships 10 kill
of the human family and to "assini-
late the benighted heather OF our
ISLAND dependencies. The department
Of bugs and insects is where Uncle
Sam really shines. He goes after the
hop-plant louise, the cotton-boll weevil
and the San Jose scale with the same
energy and skill he employs in build. |
ing fighting machines to protect our
'oHllhtltt Oll lnt ntsH seas.
Enemies of Plant Life.
In the department of entomology |
all these enemies of plant life are |
modelled in wax several times the ma. |
tural size to show people Just how |
fearfully and wonderfully they are
made. The hop-plant louise looks like
4 big green mosquito two feet long
while the 1arva of the "Asiatic lady
bird looks like a small porcupine and
the adult like a turtle. The coddling
moth is shown at work in the heart
of the apple and when he comes out
adult size he resembles prairie
pheasant. The Hessian fly is shown
deyouring a stalk of wheat, and there
are enlarged specimens of the cotton
boil weeyil, the San jose scale. the
salt marsh mosquito. the chinch bug.
the Australian lady-bird and thou.
sands of other pests that are destruc-
tive of plant life There is speci.
saen of the common housefy a foot
long which makes him out a very dan.
gerous looking animal, a carrier of
disease and pestilence.
II there is any bug that is not mark
ed by science and Uncle Sam for Ger.
tain destruction 1t is because II is not
harmful TO plants or animals. Jane is
getting that creepy feeling and says
she wants TO see something besides
bugs.
LITTLE EGYPT"