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prisoner by gently inverting her small homeo
pathic VIAL which may then be promptly corked with
bit of cotton. 1t important that she be allowed
to take square meal before being disturbed because
if she does not get it, her eggs, when she lays them
later on. will not hatch. The lady mosquito, one
but for the reason that she needs the albumen of
blood to supply food to her offspring before they
ready to chip the she'll
With supply of homeopathic walls on hand, as many
female mosquitoes may be secured, one in each,
desired. 1t then remains far breeding from them
is concerned, merely to put each of the insects, by
herself, into wide mouthed bottle-a fair sized
empty vasene bottle will do for the purpose an
inch of water in it. To the cork should be attached
wisp of paper, in order that Mrs Mosquito may have
something to roost upon while she is getting ready
lay.
This is where the performance begins to be really
interesting From two to five days may be expected
to eapse after she has had her meal of blood before Mrs
Mosquito starts in to deposit her eggs. For this pur
to the water standing the surface thereof. One
Continued page 10
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By Rene Bache

people would take the trouble to breed
mosquitoes artifcialy? This very thing is now being
done considerable scale and for purposes thoroughly
practical
The latest and most approved method of diagnosing
case of malaria is to mosquitoes to draw from the
patient the blood needed for microscopic examination.
For such work wild insects will not They must
have been Matched and reared in the laboratory to
make that they have drunk blood and there
fore cannot be infected in advance with malaria mi
crobes.
The most important of all for which these little
pests articialy bred however, to furnish oppor
tuntes for studying the life history of various species
In research work of this kind it necessary begin
the beginnng-that is to say with the eggs,-and, in
order to be certain of the authorship of the latter it is
absolutely requisite that the mother insect shall be
to lay them. To accomplish this ordinarily, she must
first be made captive.
This is not very difficult but there is in
knowing how than one might imagine. The customary
scientific method of capturing femaes- is only the
genter that btes-s to sit quiet in suitable place,
and exposing bare arm temptngly, wait for custom
ers. There is such excellent bait for mosquitoes
human being and the chances that they will not
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proach Then suddenly from somewhere, the
sound of pistol shots fired in rapid succession and
before l could move ball tore through the trees just
level with my eyes, showerng with leaves sped
that in protected State park such Macknac Island
IS it could not be the shot of hunter and then al
though | had not seen Ralph Prescott for nearly
week. and he had apparently left the island, neverthe
less | Immediately thought of him, and felt that
somewhere in these woods he had surprised the
who was badly wanted elsewhere.
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can't tell you how followed it along, said in response
to look. Sometimes it just seems to me | smell
things out a hound takes up the scent of chase
But at length after long winding tramp through the
thickest woods l have found on the island yet came
out into what call oasis, little open circle its
stones covered with moss, and pretty little spring
bubbling up at side and trckling away don t
know whereand right beside this spring the little heap
of snow white plaster of paris.
"Well?" said Ralph Prescott, who seemed to have
grown detached and professionally taciturn all of sud-
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Yet, with all these horrors keeping step with me-
hardly prepared for what did upon scarcely
rods from where had been arrested by the voice
less warning which had held spellbound the very
hair-line of safety
IN messy, open circle scarcely fifteen feet in di-
l ameter, shut in by the heavily foiaged, dropping
all Mackinac, three men; one as l had expected
Ralph Prescott But what Ralph Prescott! Dirty
and unshaven, with blood trickling from wound in
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l make claim to bravery in what followed. l
could not stay where | was. l did not even know
the direction from which the ball had come. l
flash. | could hear no voices There was nothing for
me to do but to go l not brave. I trem-
bling with naneess fear was abectly shaken with the
soon another shot might come. l did not know what
gruesome sight, what grave peril to myself, might open
up at each STEP Yet there nothing else for to
do; so | went on.
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lilo III NliNCldy CilN OlloIllSl ollSCilll
reddening the shoulder of his shirt,
his face set, his eyes hard and cold,
making him look like merciless
bird of prey, as he covered two
roughly dressed men who stood
handcuffed and utterly as
founded, he looked anything but
like the well groomed, handsome
young man who had been the
cynosure of so many feminine
eyes at the Grand View only
short time before.
You're just in time!!" saw on
his lips. And then with paraly-
zing suddenness l read, Course
you! If either one of you so much
as moves a hair breadth, I'll pack
you SO full of lead you'll sink
through the earth! Quick" and
this knew was voiceless and
meant for me alone. First aids
in my hip pocket! Pack that
scratch on my shoulder! Quick!
I've got to get out of this!"
Perhaps because cannot hear,
perhaps because of the training l
have given my nerves, which now
refuse to jump and vince and fly
off at tangent, managed to skirt
that awful circle, cold as | was
with the terror of the situation.
and, pulling out a small fiat parcel
from Ralph Prescott's hip pocket,
quickly stanched the wound and
clumsily bound it up, Ralph Pres
colts arms all the while resting
like bars of steel across my
shoulders, his fingers pressing the
triggers of two revolvers trained
on the men behind me, his eyes,
now sharpest, most piercing steel,
never wavering from them for so
much as one instant.
Nov stoop!" he said when
the last pin was in the bandage.
And as l thus left him free, he
said, and l knew the words were
spoken aloud for the benefit of
the men, I'm sorry you hap
pened along to get mixed in this.
Turn to your right now! Walk
straight ahead for fifteen min
utes! And don't so much as look
back! Now march," he said to
the men.
of Ralph Prescott, his slim boyish
ely as that of a lion just posing
prey, his eyes just as cold and
he sort of man who, at the trigger
'uld cow any malefactor.
hat is, until the time several years
any things happened to me that
lappen to a we'll meaning, peace
'inster, travelling wholly for pleas
IN !,
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out into what | call an oasis, a
stones covered with moss, and
bubbling up at one side and tri
know where and right beside thi
of snow white plaster of paris"
Well?" said Ralph Prescott,
grown detached and professionally
den.
That's ALL" l said.
Didn't you investigator he
asked.
mo; for some reason l did
not feel like touching anything.
1t is a ladylike fear of microbes,
| think. | always feel that the
less | NEEDLE with such things,
the better
You were wise" he said, and
then, as he rose and held out his
hand to help me up, | saw the
words on his lips, as if they
might have been said under his
breath. "a good deal wiser than
you know"
Suddenly as he had appeared
above my horizon, Ralph Pres
colt disappeared below it. He
left me that afternoon with the
promise of a promenade on the
morrow-and after that he might
have sunk into the bowels of the
earth through the Devils Kitchen
TO the average tourist, Mack
l mac Island begins and ends
with a scamper along the two
blocks of the shopping district,
and the regulation drive of two
hours that takes in the old fort
and the natural curiosities of the
island along the beach drive, Arch
Rock, Robinsons Folly, Devils
Kitchen, Pontiacs Lookout, as
well as the many winding drives
between pines and birches and
naples that meet in a green
fragrant arch overhead, on the
higher reaches of the interior.
Even the more fortunate ones
who are able to spend days or
weeks where the tourist can give
only minutes, rarely look beyond
the butterfly existence of the
boardwalk, the tennis and golf
grounds, the bride paths and
boulevards, and at most an oc-
casional walk on the old Indian
trails which have been carefully
blazed.
Tome the greatest JOY of Mack
mac was its woods. Back of the
old fort, whose whitewashed walls
zigzag up the heights just above tt
acres of untouched northern woods
Indian trails have been blazed az
carefully removed, and-crownine
heavily graveled. For one day
tons lasted me. Then my eyes
knowledge of woodcraft, discover
an ancient trail, covered though i
ing leaves of untold years.
Without a qualrn of fear, secl
that there were no snakes, no will
in all Mackinac, l pushed aside
laden with spicy leaves, and step]
trail worn generations ago by tho
feet, fearlessly giving myself to
family traced that at times it c
tinguished from any little lane be
That was the beginning of lol
perfect peace l had had in all tn
deafness. No one can understand
is for me to be on guard cont
streets, nor how, in order to carry
as | have learned to do, one m
fiber during every waking mom'
things that Others know without
sense of hearing. Think then of
able to wander as l would in the
Mackinac, without a fear of me
careless drivers, or even wild an
offensive kind!
A ND never was this feeling so
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INCUBATOR MOSQUITOES

V7HO could have supposed that the
" time would ever arrive when
peODIe would aLe tho trO,,b1a to hraa5
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be long in coming. When one arrives and
alights on the arm, it is an easy matter,
after she has sucked her fill. to make her
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
GOVERNMENT HAS PROF.
LOVES AIRsHIP PLANS

LOS ANGELES, June 3.-[Editor
Herald1: Those who have been in
clined to regard the navigation of the
air as a dream must now awaken to
the fact that aerial navigation has
come to stay. Five years ago the
round trip across the English channel
without a stop, in a flying ma hl1a
would have been regarded as wild a
dream of the imagination as tf> wire
less telegraphy ten years ago. or the
now almost commonplace telephone
less than forty years ago.
The element of personal danger is, of
course, the chief obstruction to its I'M
mediate general acceptance; but this
condition obtains in all means of rapid
locomotion, and is overcime in an
amazingly short time by that fanil-
iarity that gives courage and a sense
of security. Indeed, it seems logical
to conclude that rapid locomotion on
the earth, where physical distractions
are so numerous, and the risk of dises-
trous collision is ever imminent, in
wolves greater danger than locomotion
through the atmosphere, where the
track is clear.
The people of our community are not
fully conscious of what the immediate
future may have in store for them and
for the world because of the presence
here of Professor T. S. G.. Lowe--a man
who has given a long life to the study
of aerial navigation. and whose me-
chanical and inventive genius has
evolved the plan and mechanism OF a
dirigible airship apparently as COM
plete in it's appointment for safety,
comfort and commercial effectiveness
as an ocean liner or train of Pullman
cars. He is now seeking to interest
the government in the possibilities of
his airship. MELVILLE DOZIER.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
LAW AND JUSTICE

II ROFESSOR ROSCOE POUND of
the Northwestern university asks
= a simple question which will set
many people a-thinking: WHAT is
JUSTICE?" He says the idea that pro-
cedure must of necessity be contentious
disfigures our judicial administration at
every point. 1t leads the most consci-
entious judge to feel that he is merely
to decide the contest as counsel pre-
sent it, according to the rules of the
game; not to search independently for
truth and justice.
1t leads counsel sometimes to forget
they are officers of the court, and to
deal with rules of law and procedure
exactly as the professional football
1t leads to exertion to "get error into
the record" rather than to dispose of
the controversy finally and upon it's
merits. 1t turns witnesses, and espe-
cially expert witnesses, into partisans
pure and simple. 1t leads to sensa-
tional cross-examinations to affect
credit which have made the witness
stand the slaughter house of reputa-
tions. 1t prevents the trial court from
restraining the bullying of witnesses,
and creates a general dislike. if not
fear, of the witness function which
impairs the administration of justice.
There is a great and growing de-
mand for "a square deal" in the ad-
ministratiOn of iustice
No rogue e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion OF the law.
But there are some habitual houters of
law and justice, called by Theodore
Roosevelt malefactors of great wealth
who. most unfortunately, have neither
a good nor bad opinion of the law
but regard it with irritating indiffer-
ence or even (as various indications
would show with actual contempt
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
YELLOW JOURNALISM

n RESIDENT TAFT was an active
newspaper worker long enough to
Il realize what newspaper work real
ly means. He speaks therefore with
the voice of practical and experienced
newspaper man now occupying the
most exalted and responsible public
office in the world when he says muck
raking is an odious and illegitimate
form of newspaper enterprise, and yell
low journalism soon will be of the past.
yellow journalism is not representa-
tive of the American people, and never
was representative of the American
people. 1t occupies the same relation
to legitimate newspaper work that the
cheapest kind of variety show does to
legitimate drama.
AS advertisers have discovered the
patronage it attracts is not of the
solid kind which supplies the response
BILE, progressive, enlightened portion OF
American citizenship. Yellow Journal
ism is a freak. And the "old newspa-
per man" who is now president of the
United States is right. yellow journal
ism has almost fiared up and out. Its
course will soon be run, and the news
paper business and profession, freed
from it's polIuting association and de-
moralizing influence, will be stronger,
better, greater AND MORE AMERI-
CAN than ever before.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
Superstition Still Big Factor
memphis Appeal


* UPERSTITION is yet big factor
~ in the affairs of men. We laugh
~ at the idea, but there is a latent
influence still exerting itself in super
stitious minds. The appearance OF the
comet proved this, and there are sun
those who are confident If they pick
their teeth with a splinter cut from
tree which has been struck by lightning
thew will never have the toothache.
There are some 5000 different superstl-
tions which still hold sway in the world.
1t is a day of enlightenment 1t is a
day when we feel the influence OF
higher education, and yet the most ed
ucated, the best read and the wisest are
subject to superstitious influences and
superstitious beliefs.
Recently DR.. F. B. Dressler, professor
of psychology in the University OF Al
abama. made a careful study of the
different superstitions. HIS research
has extended over a term of years, and
some 5000 beliefs have been properly
recorded. He holds that As per cent OF
the people whom he questioned belleVe
in one superstition or another. In an
address recently delivered before the
Psychological society in Wash
ington he made several astonishing
revelations in regard to the people of
this country, which goes to show that
there still linger in the minds of many
the old superstitious beliefs which were
current in the age of ignorance. HIS
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
Another Conspiracy Revealed
tsan Francisco Bulletin)

Richard A. Balllnger. against whom,
to take the word of his attorney, a con-
spiracy exists that is positively "lep-
rous."
Even distinguished bankers have been
caught in the net. From his prison.
quarters Charles w. Morse shrieks
conspiracy" so loudly that many emil
nent citizens who did not suffer by his
financial methods are deeply impressed
and are answering his cries with an
appeal for his pardon No doubt John
r. Walsh, Chicago bank wrecker, could
also tell pathetic story of vile plot
ting that sent an innocent man to a
felon's cell.
However, San Francisco does not
have to look afar for victims of CON
spiraeies." Patrick Calhoun raised the
now familiar cry when the town learned
that his overhead trolley franchise was
obtained by bribery. Harry p. Flan-
merry, the president of the police COM
mission, who agreed to exchange pro
lection" for share of the loot of a
gang of bunco men, shrieked "conspir-
acy' and declared that newspaper
was bounding him. Abe Ruef and Eu-
gene Schmitz used to make the very
same reply to accusations OF grating.
In fact, that conspiracy story has been
overworked here as we'll as in all other
portions of this land where the pre-
sumption of guilt runs only against the
man without money or influence. 1t is
time that the eminent '1nnocents" va
ried their plea, for experience has
taught the people that the cry of con-
spiracy" is made solely for the purpose
of confusing the multitude.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
Public Letter Box
CITES SCRIPTURE TO SHOW
THAT SIN is IN THE FLESH

LOS ANGELES, June -IEditor
Herald: Commenting on my letter
anent the need of a modern Bible, Mr.
Rode says: "Mr. Kits seems to think,
as do great mass of theologians, that
sin in the flesh is some evil substance
infused into Adam when he sinned,
transmitted from parent to child and
thus permeating the whole human fam
ily."
Precisely; and those who have
learned this truth are on solid ground.
1t is not a case of seeming to think,
but actual knowledge, based on the
evidence of thousands of years of
travail, as well as by the testimony
of the prophets, both in the old and
new dispensations.
Perhaps Paul puts it plainest when
he says. For l know (mark the word)
that in me chat is, in my fiesh) dwell
eth no good thing" and declared that
evil was present with him, not in his
mind, but in his flesh; for with his
mind he delighted to do Gods will.
This then has been the condition of
the whole human family.
When we ponder over this deep truth
nothing could be devised more simple,
more effective than this strange gift of
the Creator to the sons of men; for
Solomon declares that This sore ira
vail hath God given to the sons of
men that they might be disciplined
thereby" And Job says: "Shall we re-
ceive good at the hands of the Lord,
and shall we not receive evil?"
"The creature was subject to vanity,
or evil, not willingly, but by reason of
him who hath subjected the same in
hope" (Paul)
Like Goodness" great in the "mys-
tery of. iniquity,' Satan manifested in
the flesh: but undeniably true, alas!
too true for the worlds peace.
j. r. KITS.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04


statements were backed with facts and
were no doubt, true. Superstitions and
superstitious beliefs are still powerful
factors in human behavior. 1t Is
strictly a human manifestation, for
there is no known animal that has
ever shown symptoms of superstition.
According to DR.. Dressler 1t is due TO
an animistic conception of the uni
verse, which holds that sticks and
stones play part in the. life OF man
and conspire against him.
Mans superstitious beliefs do play q
great part in his life. They are vari-
able and change with the conditions OF
mind and body, and even with the
weather and times of day.
No one ever sees ghosts in the day
time. and the old negro many will tell
you that only the left hind foot OF a
rabbit killed in graveyard at mid
night will bring immunity from all the
ills that flesh Is heir to.
Not everybody is superstitious ana
most men are above the belief even,
and vet, upon close investigation, 1t
will be found that they have lurking
belief in certain signs or in certain
accepted ways of doing things which
come very near being superstitious be-
liefs.
DR.. Dressler has made an exhaustive
study of the question, and his recent
revelations are both unique and inter-
esting.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04

MI ANY men in the course of the
W different hobby periods of their
AA youth were struck with the
stamp craze. Nearly all will recall the
days that were spent in securing tho
neighborhood for new varieties, the
hours of pasting and counting, as well
as many other tasks they somehow
imagined themselves duty bound to
perform
This fact that nearly all men at
some time in their lives were stamp
collectors is said to account for the
popularity of the official stamp cotlec-
tion of the United states postoffice de-
partment maintained in connection
with the Postal museum in Washing
ton Postoffice department officials say
that 100000 men call every year to see
the museum stamp collection.
The postoffice department museum is
not by any means a new institution,
but many notable additions have been
made to it in tho last year. Conse-
quently it is now quite full of inter-
esting objects. 1t contains almost
everything from a lock of Charles
Guiteau's hair to models of the big
battleships of the navy; but by far
the most interesting feature, according
to the officials in charge, Is the stamp
collection. Few visitors miss that
sight, and many "hobbyists' spend
hours poring over it.
Uncle Sam as q stamp collector is a
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
How Taft Flayed the Machine
(san Francisco Bulletin.)


in the present controversy the people
will again side with the insurgents.
President Taft expresses himself as
greatly desirous of the success of his
party in the coming elections. That
being the case, why should his spokes
men go from banquet to banquet de-
nouncing as renegades and traitors
Republicans whose insurgency Is
based on a desire TO make their party
responsive to the people. To quote
the New York World, a paper which,
although not Republican, would pre-
fer a cycle OF Taft to a day of Roose-
Velt:
''Mr. Taft can easily read the in
surgents out of the White House, but
he cannot read them out of the Re-
publican party without the consent of
several hundred thousand Republican
voters, and if these voters retire the
Republican majority will retire with
them'
NThere is only one way to combat
the insurgency which now troubles the
raft administration. Let the Repub-
Iican organization rid itself of corpor-
alton agents and there will be no
stancher regulars than the men who
are now being unjustly denounced as
party traitors.
Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-04
Errors of Eastern Editors
Sacramento Union.)


that they overlook at home, they mag
nify in California;; and the very char
acteristics which they consider praise
worthy in a New Englander they con-
denim In westerner
The westerner, it is true, is more
liberal as a rule than his eastern
brother, for the reason that he has
Travelled more and that he knows the
east, while the easterner does not know
the west, and 1t would be a good
scheme IL the editors of a number OF
eastern papers-such, for instance, as
the able gentleman who presides over
the destinies OF the Springfield Repub-
lican, or the editor of the Boston Tran
script or the writer's for the editorial
columns of the Manchester (N. H.)
Union--were invited to spend month
in California. They would go home,
we feel confident, delighted and sur
prised with what they had seen, and
their editorial columns would not make
the many mistakes they make now
when discussing this country, which
they still see through the spectacles OF
liarte, Twain. Morris and other writer's
of years past.