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In chancery.

Howdsrshell
Upon petition Of Rufus Scanlsnd We. John
NJ. Scsnlsnd. Jenis Scanland. Thomas Scan
land and Benjamin canland.
Memo The object OF this petition is to as
certain the interest Of the heirs Of Alberta
Scanland in the funds in the above cause be-
longing to hei aud for the division Of same
among them.
1t appearing by an affidavit filed lin this
cause that the defendants, John n. Scanland.
Thomas scsnland, JENA Scanland and
Benjamin Scanland, are non-residents Of this
State: 1t is Ordered, That said defendants
appear here within fifteen days after
due publication Of this order. and do what
is necessary TO protect their interests in
this suit, and that copy Of this order be
forthwith inserted in the Alexandria Gazette,
a newspaper published In the City Of Alex
andria, once week for four successive weeks
and posted at the front door of the Court
House Of this city.
A cOpy-TEsTE.
NEWELL ). GREENAWAY, Clerk.
Moore, Barbour & Keith, p. q.
Attorneys foy petitioners.
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SCHEDULE FOR ALEXANDRIA CITY CAR.
NnpTu pnTTNn
STEAMERS.
POTOMAC * CHESAPEAKE
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.
SCHEDULE IN EFFECT JUNE u. zoe.
Steamers Leave Alexandria


Steamers Leave Alexandria
SUNDAY. II ESDAY and THURSDAY
at 80 a. m. for landings from Somer ct
Beach to Wirts, including Poseys, Brenls
and Upper Machodoc Creek landings. Sun
day trip to Nomini Creek landings in addi-
ton 10 above
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY at $50
p. m. for landings as far as FL GEWATER
and PARHAM'S POINT, including the Up
per bschodoc Greek, Wicomico river land
ings and those in Nomiui Creek. :
SATURDAY at $50 am. for landings as far
as NOMINI. including Wicomico river land
'ngs.
Steamer Estelle Randall Tuesday ana
Thursday as far as Smiths; other days, ex-
cept Saturday and Sunday. as far as Grinders
Schedule subject to tide and weather and to
change without notice.
REARDON & GRIMES. Agents.
Cameron Street Wharf.
Call phone go jy2 If
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THE ANIMAL MEETING of the stock
holders Of j. H. SMALL & SONS will
be held at the offices of said company, rooms
l and 2, Alexandria National Rank Building,
on THURSDAY, July 10, 1909, at IL o'clock
am. j. II. SMALL,
jy6.td Secretary.
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THE UNITED STATES NAVY.


The Paris Temps takes issue with NJ.
Michel, who declared Tuesday in the
French Chamber of Deputies during the
debate on the naval inquiry commits
sion's report that Germany stood second
among the naval powers. The Temps
points out that second place is held by
the United States, which with feet OF
sixteen bsttleships accomplished an
admirable feat in the cifcumnavigation
of the globe"
The paper adds that sll English au-
thorities class the United States second
among the naval powers. Germany
therefore would be third and France
fourth. Germany's advance is explained
by the fact that Germany has been able
to devote appropriations to the building
Of new ships, while France bias been
forced to expend her appropriations in
the maintenance OF an already large
navy.
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MEETINGS.

NOTlCE.-A special meeting of the stock.
holders of THREE RIVERS MANU-
FEATURING COMPANY will he held at
ll9 south Fairfsx street, Alexandria, Vir-
ginia, on MONDAY, the 10Th day of July,
1909, at 10 o'clock q. M, the purpose of said
meeting being to consider ths borrowing by
this company of the sum of seven thousand
five hundred dollars, the same to be secured in
such manner as may be deemed advisable.
jos I'd J. NJ. MILLER, Secretary.
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MARYLAND, DELAWARE AND VIZ.
GINA RAILWAY COMPANY,

SPRING SCHEDULE.
Steamers OF This Line Leave Ala1 andria
on and after May 10, 1909,
Every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and
SATURDAY at 4:30 o. m.
FOB BALTIMORE AND ALL TIE
USUAL RIVER LANDINGS,
Cuisine and appointments unexcelled.
Freight for Baltimore, Philadelphia ana
New York solicited and handled with care,
Through rates and bills Of lsding issued.
Single fare 10 Baltimore, $3.50; round trip
$3.50. statsrooms one way, $l.5O. Meals, 500,
REARDON & GRIMES, Agents,
Foot Of Cameron street,
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HAVING qualified as executor Of the es-
ii tate Of MALCOLM L. KERRY, de
ceased, all persons indebted to said es'
iate are requested to make prompt settle
ment Of their indebtedness, and all per-
sons 10 whom said estate IS indebted are re-
quested TO present their accounts properly
certified to me for settlement
JOHN s. WEST,
625 south Alfred Street,
js29 lot Executor.
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Mary E. Bannsker,
Memo. The object Of this suit is to obtain a
divorce vinculo from the defer dant, Mary
f. Bannsker.
It appearing by an affidavit filed in this cause
that the defendant, Mary E. Bannaker, is a
nonresident Of this State:
1t is Ordered: That said defendant appear
here within fifteen days after due publication
OF this order, and do what is necessary to pro-
tect her interest in this suit, and that copy
be forthwith inserted in theAlexandriaGazette
a newspaper published in the City Of Alex.
andria, once week for four successive
weeks, and posted at the front door of the
Court House Of this city.
A copy -TEsTE.
NEWELL :. GREENAWAY, Clerk.
BY LOUIS N. DUFFEY, D. G..
Howard W. Smith. p q. mY3 w4w.m
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LEGAL NOTICES.

XTIRGINIA.-In the Clerks Office of the
V Corporation Court Of the City Of Alex
andria, on the oath day Of June, 1909.
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GROCERIES.
w. A. JOHNSON 4 CO.,
Holm AHERN 4 CO.

JOHN AHERN L CO.,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERs
kc.' Dealers in
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS.
Country Produce received daily. Our Etcck
thing to be had In this line.
We mold largely in United States bonded
warehouse and carry In stock various brands
Of the best
PURE BYE AND MALT WHIsKIEe
made. Have also In store superior gredsi ol
Foreign and American
WINES, ALES, BROWN STOUT, &c.
I1Satisiaction Guaranteed a. 10 PEics ana
Quality. -
Corner Prince and Commerce Streets.
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Washington, Alexandria &
Mt. Vernon Railway.
In effect May /, 1909.
LEAVE ALEXANDRIA,

For Washington, from corner Prince and
Royal streets. week days, at $40, sos. $40,
6 80, 6 40, 6 So, 705, 7 10, z 80, 740, 7 80, co.
s 10, s 25, 8S5, $50, go, $50, 80,
10 10, 10 30, 10 so, II TO- II 25, II 80, II 20 a,
NJ, IL 10, IL %, IL 30, 12 so, 10, 125. 80,
so, 10, 2 %, 2 80, 2 80, 90, 3 rs, 8 So, 3 so
4 ~ 4 %, 80, 4 40, So, 10, 25, 80, 5 81,
6 0s, 100, $50, 6 45, 700, 715, 725, s 90,
So, 900, $50, 10 90, 80, II 10 and IL 90
Pm,
sundays-7 90, z IS, 8 10, 8 20, 8 40, 900, 20,
8 40, 100 10 20, 10 40, II %. II 20 and II 40
q. NJ, ~ 90, IL 20, II 40, leo, 20, 1 40, 100
220, 2 40, 100, 800, 8 40, 400, 4 20, 440, 5 90
$50, 5 40, 6 90, 20, 6 40, 7 90, 100, z 40, 8 90
$780, 900, $50, 1000, 109, and II 10 p. m.
FOB MOUNT VERNON.
Leave Alexandria for Mount Vernon, week
days, %, $50, 7 56, s 81, 10 %, IL rs, q. M
II %, %, 2 70, $50, 40, So, s 80, 7 So,
8 60, so, 10 so and IL 30 D. m.
Sundays 90, 80, 9 30, 10 30, II 80 q. NJ,
IL 80, 80, 2 80, 80, $50, $50, $50, 73)
s 46 and 10 Is p. m.
SCHEDULE FOR ALEXANDRIA CITY CAR.
NoRTHBOUND.
Leave Ferry Wharf 8 Is, 6 IL, 8 10, 9 50,
10 %, IL 90, IL 80 a. ~. II 80, 05, So,
2 %, 2 45. 3 80, 4 CO. 4 IS, 5 O5, 5 IS, 6 80,
7 %, 7 %, 8 %, 9 90, 9 40 p. n.
s0UTHBOUED.
Leave Spring Park 8 %, 8 80, So, 8 35,
10 10, 10 45, II 20 a. M; ~ 10, IL so,
l 20, So 2 80, IS, 8 80, 4 20, 4 30, 8 30,
%, 60, %, 8 10, 8 40, 25, 10 90 p. m.
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Sale

Desirable STORE and
DWELLING located on
the southwest corner of
Henry and Wilkes streets.
Owing to owner having
removed from the city,
can be purchased at a low
figure for cash.
Choice building lot on
the west side of Mt. Yer
non Avenue, Braddock
Heights, adjoining on the
north the handsome resi-
dence of Mrs. Noble Lind
sey.
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NIRGINIA.-In the Clerks Office of tina
Corporation Court Of the city Of Alexan
dria, on the Slst day Of May, 1909.
William III. Bannsker
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Ifyou are contemplating anything in the
line Of painting, LeadbeateFs want you TO
come in and talk it over with them. They
" II show you points wherein they excel.
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Good valne in every bottle Of MOUNT
VERNON TALCUM. It's pleasure indeed
to sell 50 good toilet aid for 10 cents. It's
made in Leadbeater's laboratory. EzEs
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completely destroying the orange trees
and stopping the large and fourishing
cut flower industry.
Somehow colony was shipped in a
bale of cotton from New Orleans to
the plant of cotton works at the foot
of Twenty-second avenue in East Oak
land about eight years ago. They imme-
diately migrated farther, according to
their restless habit, and now they have
established themselves in the whole
section lying between Lake Merritt and
Fruitvale, from the estuary to the
hills. During the unmolested years
they have also secured free trips to
Alameda, San Francisco, Stockton
San Jose, Los Angeles, Ontario, River.
side and other southern California
points.
Until last summer California was ig
norant of the menace. The communi
ties affected had complained ineffec
tually of the bother of keeping away
the ants, but it was not until J. G
Bradley, an entomologist connected
with the University of California
gathered a few specimens and, not be
ing able to classify them, sent the
specimens to Prof. W. I. Wheeler oil
the American museum of natural his
tory that the awful truth was known
Argentine anti It sounds portentous
and it is.
Prof. c. ". Woodwork, of the col
lege of agriculture, hearing the I'm
pleasant news, lost no time. He made
trip to New Orleans to learn what
had been done there and returned i'm
mediately to establish an experiment
station in the midst of the largest col
ony in California, that in East Oak
land. Last October he rented a house
at 1888 East Twenty-second street
fitted it out with the proper apparatus
and placed assistants in charge. Little
however, could be done in the fall, al
the ants were holing up for the winter
Last February L. Fl. Day, formerly
entomologist for San Benito county
was placed in charge of the active worf
by Professor Woodwork and, afte
months spent in studying the lif,
habits and experimenting with poison
he has succeeded in reducing them to
few per cent. of their former number
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som opens, the Argentine ants swarm
up the trees until each flower is black
with them, and looks at a distance like
a plum. They destroy all the blossoms
on every tree and finish the crop be-
fore it is started. In Louisiana the
orange crop was once important. Now,
in the affected districts, there is none.
The ant life history, as studied by
Mr.. Day, showed that the larvae which
had not Matched last fall Matched early
this spring and that from these long
dormant eggs the queens were Matched.
Many drones and workers also Matched
at that time, but no queens Matched
later. The existing queens and the new
ones then began to lay, the new ones
beginning a month later than the
others. All have been laying at the
rate of forty eggs day ever since
May and will continue to do so all
summer. AS every Garden has several
hundred thousand queens waiting at
home below the surface for the workers
to bring the food and care for the
larvae, the rate of increase is seen to
be almost beyond reckoning. To each
queen there is an average of two hun
dred workers.
In their domestic economy the work
ers attend to the eggs at all stages
nursing the larvae and carrying them
from hot to cold and wet to dry places
as necessary. They also bring the food
When they become dissatisfied with
their surroundings, which happens fire.
quently, they move and colonize some
where else.
Queens often get the wander fever,
and, forsaking their followers, set out
on adventures by themselves, picking
up other followers, which, being re
tanners by caste, will follow one queen
as readily as another. The new colony
establishes itself across the street or in
the next garden. In this way their
| work is thorough, and as they leave nc
crack unentered, they spread rapidly
The warmer the weather the harder
the ants work, and in the middle OF
summer they frequently force people to
close their houses and go to unaffected
districts until the heat has passed.
Infants can never be left alone where
/, there are Argentine ants, the pryins
little creatures lining up in rows about
| the ehild's mouth and distressing il
with their bites.
There is really no effective way OF
keeping them from any place which at
tracts them except by solid construc
tion. Kerosene ON water frequently
acts merely as a convenient footing
upon which they can pass. The sur
face of fresh water is almost suffi
eient support and as soon as slight
coating of dust collects they can skiI
across with impunity. Running water
is the only effective barrier. Bands
of kerosene, crude oil, tar, oils of sas
safras and citronella, tree tanglefoot
zenoleum, naphthaline, coal tar disin
| fectants, whale oil soap, sharp edges OF
tin and fur have all been used as bar
riers without success.
AS the queen often lives a dozer
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wherever he has worked.

wherever he has worked.
His remedy is simple, easy to use
and not dangerous to children, animals,
birds or bees. He fills a sponge with
syrup, places it in small fruit jar,
screws on the top, making few holes
in it with nail, and sets the con-
trivance in the garden.
The ants, always in search of food,
soon find it, and the word is passed to
all the ant colonies within several hun
bred feet. After they have fed off
the sponge for several days and hum
bred million ants or so are receiving
some part of their nourishment from it,
he puts poison in the syrup. By this
time the lines of ants from the differ
emit nests are well established and they
carry away the poison to their queens.
Within a few days the nests are nlled
with the dead.
Day had just come to the conclusion
that he had solved the problem, but
had few points yet to cover when
visited him at the experiment station.
Being scientist, he was not ready to
announce his discoveries until he could
give out everything accurately, but he
granted me permission to print what
he had accomplished.
In the field in which he has been at
work every garden and vacant lot in
several sqaure miles is the roof of an
enormous ant house. The ants are
everywhere. Their tiny burrows ex-
tend under every piece of ground. The
imagination is staggered at their num-
bers in that limited territory. Their
nests are so thick as to form one COM
munity of gigantic proportions. And,
as there are no feuds existing between
families, as is usual with ants, they
! direct their attention solely toward
work, which, from the human point OF
view, is destruction.
| Housewives keep all food on tables
which either stand in bowls of con
stantly changed water or suspended
from the ceiling by wires wrapped IN
| kerosene soaked cloth. Even then the
ants make the dangerous passage
| either on the backs of the dead who
| precede them or on the thin dust that
| accumulates on water within a few
hours. A crumb dropped on the fool
has black stream passing to and from
| it within minute, the scouting ants
| quickly discovering new forage.
| But more important yet, aphis are
thick ON all the trees and bushes. In
vestigation has proved that the ants
protect these from parasites and the
| ladybugs, and move the little lice from
leaf to leaf, carrying them carefully
so as to not injure them. This friendly
action is due to a selfish cause, the ants
preferring to all other food the honey
dew excreted by the aphids. They xii
the winged parasites, preventing them
from laying their eggs among the eggs
of the aphids, and fight the ladybug:
in person, rushing them in bodies anC
literally rending them from limb tt
limb. In consequence the aphids work
unmolested, and kill the trees.
| Of fruits the oranges are in the
! greatest danger. As soon as the bios
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ing Jars containing only syrup for jars
containing arsenic or other poison yet
to be decided upon every few days for
several weeks, and, after that length
of time, leaving exposed the poison
jars until the ants have all sought win
ter quarters.
In territory like East Oakland, il
the recommendations are followed, in
stead of being overrun with the insects,
the number can be kept down to
few per cent.-hardly more than the
native ants. Wherever there are fruit
trees this plan will undoubtedly be
followed, so that the ultimate injury
to the crops will be small and the val
liable orange crop, which would other
wise be wholly destroyed, will be saved.
The amount of arsenic or other
! poison to use has not been fully deter
mined as yet, but it will be so small
that if a child succeeded in screwing
off the top of the poison jar and suck
ing the sponge it would probably not
be injured.
As long as one queen remains the
Argentine ants will be with us, so
that there is little hope of absolutely
| annihilating them, but they can al
ways Nc hOpt Al CohtlUi Ny thC use Va
| the poison remedy.
There are several ways of discover
ing whether ants are of the Argentine
family. The easiest of these is to
crush few and smell their odor; if
they have none they are Argentines;
all other ants have a disagreeable
smell when crushed. They are black,
and the workers-the ones seen-are
| rarely above one-eleventh of an inch
long.
Scientists make certain of their iden-
| tity by two characteristics which no
other ant has; the swelling of the
waist is long and pointed instead of
being almost portion of the lower
end of the body, and the arrangement
| of the "teeth," which are really but
| the rough edges of their bill-like
| mouths, begin with two long "teeth,'
| followed, by three short, one long
| three more short, one more long, three
| short, two long and two short.
| Louisiana did nothing to rid itself of
| the Argentine ant and has suffered the
| loss of millions. California has dis
/ covered remedy, and it will do well
| to take heed of what happened in
| Louisiana.
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years, each laying 5000 eggs summer,
the increase reaches the astounding
figure of 100000 per cent. annually.
Ten years, Professor Woodwork be-
lieves, viii be ample time for the ants
to take possession of the whole state
unless something drastic is done while
there is a chance.
Considering this awful possibility,
the results obtained by Mr.. Day are
especially important. Studying the life
history of the ants, he discovered two
vulnerable points, one that the work
ers will carry poison home to the
queens, and the other that the queens
all hatch from the larvae which have
laid undeveloped all winter. Later,
he expects to find a way of destroying
these brooding larvae during the win
ter, but at present he is combining his
attention to perfecting his poisoning
system.
advantage of being easily conducted.
Recently ten or more people day have
been at the experiment station to re-
ceive instructions in handling it, and
the result has already been the death
of untold millions of ants. IF the peo-
pie in the affected district in East
Oakland or in any other section make
concerted effort, they can reduce the
ants to l or 2 per cent. of what they
are at present It will take continuous
action, but very little on the part of
any one person.
Mr.. Day S own experiments with one
block will give point to this statement.
When he first experimental with poison
in syrup, he chose double block in the
district where the ants were thickest.
There are thirty-two houses on it, with
many fruit trees and large gardens.
Things had reached state where life
on the block was almost intolerable.
Absolutely all means to keep the ants
out of the food had failed, and any
thing that was not eaten at bedtime was
gone in the morning. The fruit bios.
SONS had been injured and the trees
| were so covered with aphis that the
fruit had in no case progressed beyond
the first stages. Tt was an extreme
ease. The ants could hardly have been
worse.
First he placed one jar containing
syrup in each yard, poisoning each with
arsenic after four days. Two days
later there was already noticeable
decrease and many ant nests were
found on investigation to be full of
dead ants. Within the next few days
he placed 200 jars on the block and
within three weeks from the beginning
of the work 80 per cent. of the ants
| were killed.
Mr.. Day is now experimenting with a
formula giving the exact number of
jars which should be used to the acre
when the poison should be introduced
and how often the jars should be
changed. Where there are fruit trees
or houses to attract the ants in mum.
bers jars forty feet apart win prob.
| ably be recommended by him, exchang.
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A PLAGUE WHICH MAY
CONE TO THESE ISLANDS
Argentine Ants Now Infesting Parts of California,
Destroy Everything in Their Way-Measures
to Check Their Ravages.

SAN FRANCISCO, August 2s.-An
ants that works its way through walls,
walks with ease ON water, slides down
a wire, strolls into the baby's mouth,
eats kittens, protects all fruit lice and
kills It's enemies, destroys orchards,
and, in time, renders life in COM
nunity not only proftless, but intoler-
able, has come to California with the
intention of staying. And as it has
stayed everywhere else it ever visited
there would be every reason to believe
that it would within a few years take
complete possession of the state, do
away with fruit, especially oranges,
render pale and siekening the brilliant
flowers and make of this lovely country
but a feeble imitation of itself, were it
not for the fact that young man
working in quiet, prosaic garden in
East Oakland has solved the problem
of its destruction.
This ant is from the tropics, but II
has none of the easy going ways ac,
credited to that cline. It is beyond
all comparison the busiest little ant
there ever was and would serve to point
the favorite analogy. Moreover, it sup
ports the analogy, which modern nature
observers would diseredit, by working
with definite purpose. AS an EN-
pire builder humanity offers nc
parallel. It drives out all other ants
before it and takes entire possession
of the field. 1t increases at an un
believable rate--an ordinary garden
producing perhaps 100,0oo.000 in sum
mer. If left alone it will eat you Out
of house and home, and it is next tt
impossible to keep groceries out of It'll
reach AS house pest alone it is al
most unconguerable.
The first scientist who made not'
or it discovered it in Argentina, bu
it is even more common in Brazil, ant
it is from that country that it migrat
ed to America. 1t was met in thi
country for the first time on tn
wharves of New Orleans, having
Travelled from Rio Janeiro on COFFEE
ships. That was in 1892. Nothing wa
done about it there until very recent
iy, and in seventeen years it has spread
over 5000 square miles in Louisiana