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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-24

California. Mr.. Bowers has been an
operator for a number of years in the
employ OF the Short Line and was re-
Gently promoted to the position Of
agent here. Both these young people
are held in high esteem.
The first ward of Rexburg held a
reunion on Wednesday. In the after
sumptuous spread in the hall. In
the evening programme was rem
dered, also old-time dances.
The Hyrum Kicks Real Estate COM
pany made a number of important
sales this week. The Rands' hotel and
the property to the west Of it were
sold to Tom George for consideration
of $500. Mr.. George intends to put
up a first-class hotel on the property.
A residence lot in the northern part
of town was sold for $500, q pretty
good price for a building lot. John L.
Baliff bought the Philip property
south of Main street for 1850. There
are valuable improvements. however,
on this property
The dramatic opera, THE Heroes Of
70" presented this afternoon and
again tonight by the academy choir.
was we'll executed The students did
their work very creditably and their
Efforts were highly appreciated by the
audience Professor o. A kfrkham is
TO be congratulated for the musical
training he is giving the young people
in this part of the country.
Thomas George left last night for
Beyreuth. Syria, his old home, where
he will visit relatives and return again
in the spring
At this writing a snowstorm is in
progress and bids fair to continue for
some time. There has certainly been
no shortage Of the beautiful this
season. 1t has been more plentiful
than coal.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-24

tiee here, he has been a lecturer of
the University Extension society. To
give lectures and organize classes for
mothers for simple medical and sani-
tary instruction, he established the
Bohemian National hall, in Seventy
third street, near Avenue A.
DR.. Luhan was graduated from what
is now the medical school Of New
York university, in 1880, and studied
in Prague and Vienna afterward. He
came to this country from Bohemia
when he was 10 years old and began
life as a druggist
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
~ e. a. MATTHEWs.

Alas for the serpent that turks in
every parsdisel This little garden plat.
that looks so quiet and inviting, is by
no means the home OF perfect peace.
Within its narrow boundaries there is
never-ending warfare fight TO the
finish grim and CHASTITY. Here is life
IN eeaseless activity and struggle and
strife waxing hotter and higher as the
sun fingers about the summer solsuce,
insect preylng upon insect species upon
species. until utter humiliation seems
" threaten them all. The great war
Va our part Of the country begins early
in June. although elaborate prepare
lions are made on both sides long be-
fore the first shot is fired. In every
growing tree and every swelling bud
the germs OF a countless army are
quietly awaiting the period or the
signal 10 begin active work all along
tile line.
AS the season advances the insect
soldiers grow and develop until ready
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
Grim and Ga Tragedies Enacted Around the Silent Plants little Garden P

10 spring forth full-hedged to do their
duty in the ranks.
The saw fly is busy all through the
cool weather of May depositing its eggs
under the leaves of the gooseberry and
currant bushes-an ugly green process
sion crawling up and down-and early
in June the tiny lines seem to quicken
and move about in innumerable swarms
Where they come from is a mystery to
the casual observer. but the cunning
gardener is not surprised. He knows
the coming and going of the enemy
And after that in quick succession
appear the insidious plum curculio, the
destructive Goblin moth. the hop
louise. the aphis. the red spider. the
squash bug, the potato beetle and
score or more Of nameless grubs.
Thoreau grows respondent over the
perpetual fighting and complaints rs
not destruction the rule of existence?
There is not single lily pad floating
in the water but has been riddIed by
some insect Almost every tree and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

depositing their eggs on grubs and
worms. where they hatch out and de-
stroy them.
Even the fiery wasp is more our
friend than our enemy. He will not
harm you IL you let him alone; he
destroys the slugs and the caterpillars
by the wholesale.
One tribe OF wasps Is a great enemy
to the tree cricket. laying their eggs in
the hollow stalks OF grass and weeds.
then killing the crickets to feed the
larvae.
Thus in a chain of alternating links
we find the friends and enemies of our
gardens. To know them well. TO sepa-
rate the friendly insects from the in
furious ones and watch them in their
daily work is a most fascinating occu-
patton for the long summer days.
There never was blade or leaf too
mean to be some happy creatures
home" says the poet.
Nature has beautifully arranged her
checks and balances in this little world
of life next TO the ground. so that one
species shall not predominant over all
the others. and il is our duty TO study
them and help to keep the order intact
and thus preserve the well being OF eur
gardens.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

chards that shelter colony Of toads
are always free from destroying in
sects- Toads placed in cabbage fields
will rid the crop OF cabbage worms.
and they even relish the Colorado
potato beetle. the most repulsive of all
our garden enemies.
Other friendly creatures are the
dragon flies, ant lions and aphis lions.
These live entirely upon other insects
and have voracious appetites that soon
clean the crops of their parasites
Among our common beetles we find
many friends enlisted In the good cause
The beautiful little ladybird is a
famous hunter; the tiger beetle Is
fierce and valiant; the ground beetles.
so repulsive to the eye, perform great
feats among the enemy. Black spiders
and plant spiders easily succumb to
the attacks of the beetle family; cut
worms make good food for them
The tachina flies saved the wheat
crop of 1889 in Ohio, Michigan and
Indiana. These are internal parasites
on other insects that eat into their
hosts and destroy their life The
ichneumon flies and chalcids are para
site insects that do Incompatible
good in the garden They prey upon
a great variety of noxious creatures.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

shrub has its gall oftentimes taken for
an ornament, and hardly to be distin-
guished from its fruit. If misery loves
company. misery has company enough,
for now, at midsummer, find, IL you
can, a perfect leaf or flower or fruit"
So every fair picture must have
shadows, all music must have minor
chords. But we need not fear total
failure or dread complete destruction.
There are friendly insects as well as
injurious ones. In every little camp
there are traitors to the race-creatures
devoid of any feeling for members Of
other species than their own-and these
unconsciously labor for us and help to
keep our gardens. Nature has beauti-
fully arranged for checks and balances
in the insect world so that one kind
shall not wax too strong and naughty,
and, like the old Assyrian monarchs,
wipe their enemies off the face of the
earth.
But we poor. ignorant mortals too
often interfere with the designs of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

to an ordinary Eastern climate, where,
he says, he has made cat raising ex-
tremely profitable.
In establishing a cattery IN the warm
regions OF this coast, he says he be-
lieves the fur will not be quite OF the
best because of the salubrity Of the
climate but that the pelts will be much
larger, as the cats grown In the open
will grow larger as they get further
toward the wild state. until his live
stock will be practically what are now
known as wildcats"
1t is the nature of the house cat,
when sent back to the woods" TO grow
greater in size and fiercer In disposition.
as successive generations come on. 1t
is sad to think how the weil-behaved
Preside tabby will lose its gentle and
polite ways and go ravening up and
down the stretches OF the Walker cat
farm. snarling&at man and drooiing
from it's chops the blood of some un-
lucky rodent II has pounced upon and
rent with claws and jaws. Truly q
horrifying vision for the gentle person
who had been wont to stroke IL.
There's money in cats" Walker said
when asked about his unusual venture
that is one of the new industries the
fire has brought from the active, inven-
tive East. Il believe I can make
fortune here. IL I can get a suitable
place. I have been up both the Sacra
mento and San. Joaquin rivers and
looked at several places. The estab-
lishment OF my industry only rests
upon the securing Of suitable loca
ton These foods they have been hav-
ing lately have frightened me little,
but 1 am assured that the levees are
going to be made SO strong now and
that such excellent drainage canals are
to be dug that flooding will be impos-
sibie in future. Were my farm mum
dated, every blessed cat would be lost
to me. If they weren't drowned they
would float away. There would be cats
clinging to treetops and logs and what
ever else they could find a resting-place
on from the tule lands to the potato
patch, and there would be more OF them
in San Francisco than there were rats In
the Western Addition after the fire.
They'd be crawling down the chimney
f1ues and sitting on the fagstafrs. You
can't stop the cat when IL begins mi
grating. A Hood OF cats borne down on
by the tide upon San Francisco would
MT be any joke
Walker seemed to be more amused
at bis conceit of a myriad OF half
drowned. lf-starved. cats sweeping
down upon San Francisco than be was
perturbed at the possibility OF imam
elal loss coming TO him through such a
but he got back to the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

The poor creatures are generally as
harmless as kittens. The little green
snake so common in our yards and gar
dens is timid and shy, but can easily
be tanned. Once overcome it's natural
distrust, and It will eat insects and
crickets from the hand of its owner
and cuddle up in the palm for warmth
and comfort. When you see these
green snakes and toads and lizards in
your garden you may know that there
are too many noxious insect foes
Astounding there Toads are the natu
raj policemen of hotbeds and cold
frames. French gardeners buy them
by the dozen for insect hunters. They
devour everything in the shape of
worms and insects. from the smallest
green fly to the largest cutworin or
May beetle. The little treetoad leads
a busy life among the branches OF
trees and shrubs. croaking dlsmally at
times, singing cheerfully when the sun
shines and always lively at night.
They live on the green aphides, cater
pillars, worms and various singing
creatures that attack our trees. Or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

nature and thus destroy the nice bal
ance she has arranged between alien
creatures. For example, we destroy
the birds and forget that they eat in
sects, vermin or rodents and are the
appointed guardians of the crops of
the world A writer given to statistics
estimates that ''in the summer months
our States average from two to three
birds per acre, If each bird required
twenty five insects daily for food Ca
very low estimate), the number of in
sects consumed would be 1850 000
At this rate the birds would consume
in six months about $4,000, 900 900
insects. Ten thousand insects left
untrammeled on each acre of Gull
tivated land would destroy every
green blade of grass. and these
figures show, imperfectly, what the
birds do for the crops. If it be
poor policy to kill the birds, is it not
equally unwise to kill the snakes,
toads, lizards and friendly insects?
Why are people so afraid of a snake?
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

This man from Chicago is the ogre
of catdom, and unless tabby is wary
and keeps close about its mistress. it
viii find itself abducted and making a
long journey in a dark bag.
Little kittens would better scamper
. in early and not wander too far down
the alley after that ignis fatuus-a
Juvenile mousse The cat ogre will get
them II they don't look out He isn't
after bad cats particularly to punish
them for stealing from peoples kiteh-
ems in the darkness of the night or en-
gaging in disgraceful brawls on the
roofs when human beings are trying to
slumber. He wants all sorts of cats
good, bad, ugly, young and old-though
he prefers those very ones that have led
respectable and domestic lives under
kind nistresses, for he covets their
handsome skins.
Howard L. Walker OF Chicago is the
cat ogre. His name is already reviled
by the felines of the East, who spit and
make an acute angle of their backs
every time they hear II mentioned, 1t is
SO odious to them. He has gone thor
oughly into the business of skinning
cats for their furs. Even though 1t is
not very valuable. he can make a very
good profit off each cat he has kid
naped from it's home or raised on his
cat farms. especially after he has
brought the once aristocratic and deli
catelX nurtured Tables TO sleep out
doors like outcasts and eat the coarse
food he provides for them. Tho hide
of the domestic cat is coming more and
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22
ooR Cat,

What miserable fate is
threatening the homeless
feline? AS il IL had not
endured enough sad experiences during
the recent fret is now destined to
b deported and finally slaughtered
We the less domesticated animal and
sent back 10 its former owner or
patron in the shape Of well tanned
leather or fur.
Driven by the fire from its accus-
toned haunts. frightened nearly to
death by the exploding dynamite
and suffering untold hardshlps for
the want OF shelter, food and
water. il has barely shed its
singed hair and reconciled itself to
a new and unattractive outdoor life,
when an unsympathizing man sets his
brain going to devise a plan for has
tening the end of the unonending cats
career
Nor is the cat that did not lose it's
home or go through the ordeal of the
homeless one by all means safe from
this designing man.
So, madam. don't worry yourself into
sick bed if some day your own be-
loved cat disappears and fails to re-
turn al its usual time.
Don't think when the cat leaves the
comfortable rug on which 1t has lain
purring so many happy days. never TO
come back in its entirety, that II is an
migrate and has deliberately deserted
the mistress that has been so kind to
It. You may feel certain that it has
been kidnapped
y There is man here who wants cats
all he can get. He is becoming rich
through the medium of the domestic
feline. He takes all the ready made
Tables he can find and grows thou
sands more. He always likes to get
hold OF aristocratic cats. for they help
greatly In toning the general average;
but there is no cat so humble that II
isn't acceptable to him. He can make
some profit out of the scrawnieSt out
cast that was ever shooed away from
the back porch He grows cats for
their pelts
from Chicago a few days ago, estimates
that there are $4,000 felines wandering
about the ruins of San Francisco, pitt
able four-footed refugees. some Of them
Of a hearthstone aristocracy that can
trace a lineage back TO the gorgeous
caffres that purred under the caresses
OF the moon goddess Pasht; more that
were homeless. but always had a box
to crawl into or a scrap Of nourish-
ing food, if it were only a bacon rind.
before the fire came and made the
beautiful city Death Valley for them.
AS they wander amidst the wreck.
coated with the flying mortar dust.
gray shadows against the crumbIing
walls, these Grimalkins are under the
keen eye of the man who is in the bust
ness Of supplying the furriers with cat
skins.
He wants them all He comes here
because there are so many refugee cats.
but he won't ask questions If a tabby
happens TO look as If it had just come
from its mistress lap.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

material. He fs one Of those that have
come to profit by the city's misfortune,
though his is a rather unusual method
From slaughter-houses of this city
and of the city near which he locates
the farm, Walker expects to obtain the
principal supply OF food for his thou
sands of cats. He wants an island for
his enterprise, because he says one cam
not herd cats. Unless they are sur
rounded by something they are likely to
disappear from the farm" altogether,
taking their hides with them.
There Is no sort of fence that will
hold them, he says and a body of land
entirely surrounded by water Is what
he must have for the large enterprise
he has in mind. II he can make suit
able arrangements with the other own
ers or lessees of land he would rather
be on a large island. with the under
standing that all cats belonged to him,
as his felines would then find a great
deal of food that was not supplied them
by the commissary and there would be
reciprocal advantage to the other ten
ants in the killing of gophers and mice
and other Questionable rodents.
Walker thinks, though, that he will
have to have a water-encircIed tract of
land all to himself. as the felines, when
they become larger and wilder because
OF getting back toward the original
state of nature. would also kill young
ducks and broilers. and perhaps even
a full-grewn rooster at times.
walker is not cruel appearing man.
as every indignant lady who owns a
pet Angora or Manx will Immediately
think when she hears of him and his
mission here. He looks on cats simply
as a commercial ommodity-something
that Will bring him revenue, as a band
of sheep to its owner. In one case 1t Is
the fur, in the other the wool and meat
- Walker tried growing cats In the cold
region of Canada, thinking that their
fur would attain in time a greater COM
mercial value, as all the richer furs are
taken from animals that thrive in the
regions where the extreme low temper
AZURE prevails. He didn't get any
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larger cities of the interior. Walker, ac-
cording to his present intentions, will
establish the Pacific Coast branch OF his
cat industry, ths supply OF felines left
ton to be the foundation OF his fur
growing enterprise here. Like the man
who comes for the scrap iron, he is
after that which might be called refuse.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-07-22

more into use for cheaper fur articles,
and this man has found that it is
profitable to propagate-~and gather the
animals-as he calls picking them up
in cities wherever he can find them
Walker didn't want his advent into
San Francisco or his project to become
known, but he has been discovered. He
says this is a splendid field just now
for the promotion of his industry Be-
sides the $4,000 homeless cats in San
Francisco, there are a whole lot that
are not homeless and these are just ss
valuable to him as the refugee cats.
He viii not be able to tell whether a
cat that is brought to himS for sale is
a fire victim or still the pampered pet
of happy home You can't ask a cat
whether it has home or not, and it'll
be too late for it to protest after 1t
takes the journey to Walkers cat
farm-for that is what he calls the
places where he propagates and skins
the animals for the fur market
On an island In the Sacramento or
San Joaquin river, close to one OF the
St. Paul tidende. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1902-1928, 1906-06-22
Grip
Medfsrte digtsmerter / I1ofterne.
Nerves svekkelse paafulgte.
DR.. Miles Nervine tilbageqay Hell.
bredet.

Jeg var sengeliggende / vintefen 9I95 af
! Hofterne og nerves Svakkelse, for
aarsaget af ct alvorligt Anfald af La Grippe.
G'gtsmerterne var saa strike til Tider, at det
var umuligt for mig at vende mig i Sengen.
Jeg kunde like sove. Jeg havde to af wore
nedste Lager til at tilse mig, tog allie averterede
hed1c!ner for denne Art Svaghed, men opnaa-
ede 1ngen Lindring, indtil jeg tog DR.. Miles
restorative Neryine. SEEKS Flasker giencav
mig Helbredet; jeg er bedre end jeg var i dere
Aar = ia faktisk belt helbredet. Jeg kan sige
med rolis Samvittighed, at Diet var DR., Niles
restorative Nervine, som gjengav mig Helbre-
oct. Mar Gigtsmerterne var starkest fix leg
nasten oieblikkelig Lindring we'd Brugen af Dr..
Miles Anti-Pain Pills. Jeg har anbefalet DIR.
Miles Midler til mango Mennesker."-Fre
Meyers, Redfeld, s. d..
tJeg blew angrebet af Smerte / Hiertet OF
under den venstre Skulder, med en- saa tryk-
kende Folelse j Brystet, at jeg like kunde
aande frit. Jeg hayde Hjertebanken i saa h0i
Grad, at hele Sensen rystede. Jeg havde ligele-
DIES Ell svag. tom F6lelse i Hjerteregionen Min
iAge behandled mig for Lever og Mayesyg-
dom, men jeg fix ingen Lindring, indtil en- Ven
anbefalede DR.. Miles Heart Cure ogRestorattive
her.ine: Jeg brugte begge Dele og ell Aske at
Anti-Pain Pills. Jeg tror, at jeg err fuldstan-
digit og varigt helbredet. Mrs ]. W. Cold
ing, Noblesville, Ind.
ALE Apothekere> silger og garanterer den
f5rste Flaske af DR.. Miles Lagemidler. Skriv
efter fri Bog ON Nerv0sitet og Hjertesygdom-
me. Adresse: DR.. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart.
Ind.
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