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about it The army worm in his moth
form is CARRIED in dull Quaker gray, and
the only harm he does-or maybe 1t would
be better to use the opposite gender in
this case and say she-is to lay the eggs
from which the worms of the following
year are Matched. Each moth lays a
good many OF these mischievous eggs
and the eggs bring forth each their re-
-cruit to the army Of the coming year.
which takes up the work of destruction
where the last years army left 1t off.
When the worm has done all the dam
age he is capable of-and that Is q mighty
into the earth, spins some sort of cocoon
about him and becomes pupa. Any
schoolboy or girl can tell you what a
pupa Is, IL you don't know. The pupa
later develops into a moth, the moth
fiutters abou until it gets ready to lay
its quota Of eggs, and so the endless pro-
cess goes on.
The fall army worm is an annual pest
in many parts of the United States. but
this years outbreak is worse than usual.
The damage wrought throughout the en-
tire south during the present season has
been tremendous when 1t Is all taken to-
gether, and the expert insect-pest fighters
of the Department of Agriculture have
been kept busy telling farmers and plant
ers what to do to combat the armies.
Paris green London purple and arsenate
of lead are the weapons to use against
the army worm. Use them dry or mixed
with water as a spray, and get them
where the worm will have to eat them
along with his vegetable diet. and the
army worm yields up the ghost In short
order. But as these things are poisons-
being forms of arsenic-care must be
used in applying them. Crops that are to
be used as fodder. or such things as corn.
cabbage and the like. should be busted
with the dry poison. mixed with bran,
flour or lime. If the poison is used as
spray on cabbages, for instance. the veg
etable must be carefully washed In many
waters before it is used. to remove the
last traces Of the poison.
Fields OF grass that have been ravaged
by the worms may be treated with the
dry poison, mixed with three or four times
its bulk of bran or come such material.
but the grass will not be much good
afterward. as the poison used to kill the
worms would kill cattle pastured on the
fields. The Department of Agriculture ad-
vises the following. for use in vegetable
gardens infested with the worms:
Take 100 pounds of wheat bran and
pounds Of Paris green or powdered
arsenate of Leader use these materials
in this proportion-and mix with enough
molasses to make a stiK dough. Then
place little dabs OF this delectable mo-
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of In
~ dian Affairs in Extensive
Interview Outlines Projected
Cleanup Campaign of Indian
Country Where Shocking
Death Rates from Tubercu-
losis and Trachona Have
Been Just Discovered-Will
Correct Sanitary Defects in
Indian Houses-New Build
ing Scheme Guaranteeing
Model, Sanitary Homes
Stock Plans Drawn by Archi-
tects Include Sanitary Bath
rooms and All Modern Con-
veniences-Women Employed
to Go From House to House
Teaching Home Sanitation
Thirty Stereopticon Lecturers
and a Moving Picture Man
Commissioned to Circulate
Through Indian Country Civ
ing Object Lessons in Bene-
fit of Cleanliness.
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sent striking pictures. illustrating the
causes Of and best methods for the pre-
vention Of tuberculosis and trachoma.
Some OF these pictures will show dirty
homes in contrast with. clean homes.
A moving picture lecturer has also been
sent into the field to circulate through
the reservations and give free shows
similarly illustrating the benefits of
cleanliness and sanitation.
A corps of itinerant dentists Is to be
sent from reservation to reservation to
look after the teeth of our wards and
three travelling oculists are already going
about the Indian country instructing the
local physicians how best to treat ira
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rASH1NGTONIANS reau with
considerable interest a few
AAI DAYS ago that an army had
wv attacked the War Depart
ment and was working
havoc about the big. grim, cannon
guarded stone building at 18th street and
Pennsylvania avenue. The sunken gar
dens on the Avenue side OF the building,
il was reported was the field of active
operations of this invading host. which
was reported to be rapidly reducing the
grass and the beds Of Towering plants
10 a CHASTITY ruin.
And persons who passed that way look
ed with interest to see il any portion or
the army might be seen. But the most
OF these curious individuals saw nothing.
save that, day by day, the green grass
and the beds and borders of flowers grew
more ragged in appearance But the
army was there, just the same In fact,
il isn't quite vanquished even yet But it
was an army of worms. however-army
worms, at that.
What sort OF fellow is this army worm?
One would think. from the havoc of which
he IS capable, that he must be terriDte
creature, big, bold and predacious- He
isn't at all. In fact, unless one sees
him along with the rest OF MS army ne
doesn't look at all formidable. But, just
the same, he is big. bad and bold enough
10 warrant the publication OF special
bulletin telling how he may be extermi-
mated; the great Department OF Agricui-
ture issued such a bulletin only last
month. when the army worm made des-
perate attack on the gardens at the War
Department.
He doesn't wear much Of a uniform,
and he doesn't march to the music OF
military bands. He doesn't have to. II
appears; for this fellow leaves a trail
by which any one who has ever had any
experience with him knows OF his pres
ence. He carries two weapons-a mouth
that never ceases working and an APP
petite that is Unsuitable. With these and
his limitless numbers the army worm
makes war. and the sort of war he
wages is about bad as the kind Gen.
Sherman talked about. The great Napo-
leon once said that an army Travelled
on ts-er-abdomen. That's the way the
army worm travels, constantly filing and
refiling the aforesaid as he goes-whlch
is why the department over which Secre-
tary Wilson presides pays much at
tention to him and his fellows.
Ii seems, however, that the pest which
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SCULPTO@S' WORK DONE I'm BRONZE.

into a huge cavern-like place, called the
casting room. Here are great hillocks or
yellow clay and red brick. fumes OF sui
phur rise with heat waves: the glow OF
the big furnaces is reflected on the dusty
diamond panes of many windows. there
are hanging ropes, cranes, pulleys, All
sorts of mechanical devices: earthern
shards are here and there. and. i'm the i'm
mensity, a workman approaches your
guide and in the palm OF his hand shows
a half sphere of silvery plaster, on which
is intaglioed a seal SO dainty that it seems
as IL it might have been etched with q
sewing needle.
In a finishing room you watch
breathlessly, while the outer covering.
still solid Notwithstanding the tre-
mendous heat to which II has been
subjected, is removed with the greatest
possible care to avoid any injury TO
the cast. After the mold has been
broken the, gates" and channels
are removed A workman picks up a
stiff brush, and, delicately as he would
wash the face of baby. eliminates
some tiny particles that have adhered.
Then is displayed a kneeling figure. abb
solutely faultless in execution. the color
a pure gold-the original color of the
DTOnZe DeIoFe the pdtlHd vi thitihS 40
applied.
The success of his establishment has
depended. states the proprietor. on the
sentiment which has always existed be-
tween himself and his workmen. AS I'm
the "boteegs'' of Celini's time, master
and employees live together in sort Of
community, changed to suit modern re-
quirements, but with the spirit OF the
olden days carefully preserved. They
are his children and his apprentices, at
one and the same time, and they must
be treated with dignity, ruled oftentimes
by fear. and always with sympathy and
understanding.
Most of the workmen are from the
south Of Italy, where the fine arts rather
than agricultural pursuits are the key
note of life They are a temperamentat
people, highstrung, and artistic to the
core They are dreamers. and they can
not be driven to action. but must be led
there. They cannot be made into ma
chimes. but when the need comes they
will work uncomplainingly day and night
without stopping and without word OF
complaint or an expression OF fatigue.
They take their Joys and their sorrows
TO their BOSE" He advises them, lends
them money, tides them over domestic
dificulties. advances wages when the
wife Is In the hospital and the children
down with the measles. They are a unit
In the life of the city about them, and
yet absolutely alien to IL.
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housekeepers to keep the home clean. these
women selected for their tact will encour-
age members Of each family to sleep on
porches or in separate rooms. instead Of
budding together in one sleeping room,
and to occupy beds instead Of "sha xe-
downs" or rag piles, on the floor.
One Of the most interesting features Of
this cleanup campaign organized by Mr..
Valentine is his lecture courses. He lately
purchased thirty stereopticons to be sup
piled to lecturers who, in the different
schools and other public places will pre-
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pieces in which it was discharged from
the foundry.
So important was the work considered
that R. Bertelli the proprietor, sent out
invitations for a private view, responded
to by hundreds Of artists, sculptors and
artistic folk, who took the opportunity
to familiariZe themselves with the In
teresting departments of the unique es-
replicas of their own work to the Wis
itorS.
A cowboy of Borglum's, the OUTLAW
Of the late Frederick Remington and a
Tanagra-like figurine of Isadore Konti's
look down at you from the desk; the
proprietor fingers a paper weight showing
an Indian head by J. Q. Ward as he
talks; a Mother and Child of Bessie
Potter Vonnoh; the Frog Fountain Of
Janet Scudder; the 'Salome" of Hinton
Perry; several Deming bears and children
hobnob in a far-away corner. There are
bits showing the work done on the bronze
doors of st. Bartholomews Church at
Madison avenue and 44th street. design
ed by the eminent trio, Messrs. French,
Adams and Martigny. 1.-The Last Drop
of Shreyvogel is also in replica.
The Barge work is not protected by
copyright; any one has the right to re-
produce it, but SO popular is 1t with the
proprietor that hundreds of copies are
to be found, separating pieces by Mead,
whose plaster cast of Mr.. Carrere has
not yet been cast: by Humphreys Aitken,
Lopez. Stirling, Calder, Charles Rumsey,
Davidson, Niehaus, Mrs. Longman, Mrs.
Edgar Walter.
x
In fact, every sculptor of note in the
United States is represented in this
small anteroom, and, grouped as they
are without thought Of order or display.
the wandering eye cannot help but note
the prevalence of the native animal speci-
mems and the aboriginal Indians, truth
disputing the oft-heard criticism that our
sculptors are neglecting this fresh field OF
models to reproduce outworn classical
types. AS il reading your thought, Mr..
Bertelli states that he has been asked
by visitors IL he made a speciality of In
dams, the question suggested by the fact
of this repetition.
The bronze works had it's small be-
ginning in a building situated on 3Sth
street, New York. This was fourteen
years ago, when its present proprietor
had come from Italy. fresh from the
Neapolitan Beaux Arts School and a
graduate chemist and mechanical engi-
neer. 1t started with small space and
four workmen. 1t has moved several
times each time charging it's scope. and
at present employs nearly a hundred
Italians and Frenchmen in its several
departments. There are few foun-
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has laid siege to the War Department
and other places in and about WASH
ington Is not the real army worm. He
is the fall army worm. or grass worm.
But an army worm by any other name
behaves just as badly and does just as
much damage.
The fellow who is doing all the damage
is just trifie more than an inch long.
He 10 gray-green in color-sort Of an
olive drab. as 1t were-and wears three
stripes running the long way, with sec
tiOnal stripes ringing his body. This is
his uniform. and 1t fades into the some
what dusty foliage OF the fall season or
late summer as admirably as the regular
army khaki is supposed to do when Uncle
Sans soldier boys-the real, regular
army-takes the field.
Travelling in almost uncountable num-
bers the army worm-both the fall and
summer varieties-destroy or damage al
most every green thing they come across.
Grass, flowers. notwithstanding but
useless weeds-are food for the army
worm, and he has an appetite that is a
wonder. No eight-hour day for this SOL
der: he doesn't need any bugle to sound
reveille in the morning. and he wouldn't
pay any attention to one sounding taps
at night. Because he came into the
world with just one fixed idea, and that
Is to eat, to eat more, and then to keep
on eating. And he keeps on. too twenty
four hours out OF the twenty-four.
The worm starts his campaign in the
south. gradually working northward. This
year the army worm was first noticed in
Florida and Texas. where his ravages
speedily became such as to arouse the
farmers and planters. IS. o. S." calls
came to the Department Of Agriculture
from all over the south. and the calls
continued to come. until Congress heard
them and made a special appropriation
available at once to wage war on the
pest few weexs ago the scouts Of the
army worm appeared in Virginia, and
soon the advance guard was ravaging the
District Of Columbia. And, notwithstand-
ing the attacks made on him all along the
line of march. the army worm will con-
tinue taking heavy toll of all valuable
growing crops until the arrival Of frost.
when he viii retire into the ground to
hibernate for year, and then renew his
attack.
Although he travels as Napoleon says
any army does, he comes from aerial an
cestry. does the army worm. His parents
are moths. and he himself becomes a
moth in his Anal transfgur ation-just a
little, plain. fiuttering moth. that doesn' {
look as II 1t had nickers worth Of harm
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dries in New York and other cities where
casting in bronze is done, but the Green
point establishment, which turns out ap-
proximately 125 tons of bronze castings
annually. is unique in limiting its output
to strictly artistic products and In sew
eral other particulars, notably the use
of the "cire perdue' Qost wax proc
eSs.
ployed in Europe for hundreds Of years,
and a crude form of the process was
used by the ancient Greeks ana IN SUI
seuuent works established In Rome.
Benvenuto Cellini, master or TINS wore
in Firenze, developed it to practically lis
present state. and there Is now little al
ference between the methods employed
by him in the sixteenth century and those
of the Roman Bronze Works at Green
point.
In one of the rooms an equestrian
statue of Washington, from the model
of Henry Kitson, is under way. 1t Is
to be placed in Gettysburg. 1t Is d.
vided in several sections, and ropes are
tied about it to keep 1t in its Moham-
med-like position. Several workmen are
hammering the head, some the tail.
others the trunk. The noise is like that
of shipyard. A huge flag which is to
form part of the completed piece is hav-
ing the finishing touches put on by still
another group in distant corner OF the
workroom.
* x
If YOU should draw straight line from
this heroic in another equally dusty part
you would collide with bent figure, with
piercing black eyes, putting on, with
dainty touches, a coating Of wax to the
skirt Of a dancing girl statuette, which
is about five inches high. His knitted
blouse has been removed, as the stove
in his special corner is red hot. and he has
hung it on a bust of Beethoven by
William Ordway Partridge.
Through an arcade of ghostly figures
you stop to watch workman busy
with q figurine, applying the wax In
molten state, with a brush-another
step. When the coating, very delicately
put on, has acquired a certain thick
ness SO that no line of the original has
been destroyed, the wax Is then applied
In sheets and is pressed into shape with
the hands The thickness of this wax
varies in several instances noted, from
q quarter to three quarters OF an fnch.
according to the size Of the model ana
the finesse of it's treatment.
You see the mold for the metal formed
by two. Italians who pour in and around
the wax a composition practically liquid,
which hardens in a few minutes Ihis
composition can resist high tempera-
ture, ahd. Of course. all the wax inside
will melt away, leaving hollow space,
which. later, will be occupied by the
bronze.
From a raised platform you look down
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about q mile from the Brooklyn
navy yard as the crow flies, is
one Of the most interesting and
artistic establishments to be
found in a long days journeying. The
path to it has been kept warm by sculp-
tors feet. for here are cast in bronze the
products Of their brains, which after
ward are ready for the market, museum
or studio.
X X
The buildings comprising the foundry
are low. rambling frameworks. NO at
tention has been paid to architectural
form; only space and light have oeen
studied. Both of these requirements have
been answered, for nearly city block Is
covered in all, and big windows with
small diamond panes ARE distinguish
ing feature of the structure.
II YOU happen to arrive at an oppor-
tune moment, like as not you Will see
half dozen great Normandy drausnt
horses harnessed. two by two, and at
tached to a heavy dray. on whlch score
of workmen, with a complicated arrange
ment Of ropes. pulleys and cranes, are
dragging a completed statue. When TINS.
after an infinite amount or labor. IS taut
and trim, the horses move generously
ton from their foreheads, the quiet OF the
side street, momentarily disturbed from
it's normal calm, is restored. and the
routine of the establishment goes on as
IL nothing unusual had taken place. Mean
time hurried passersby stop and gasp
at the huge monolith of covered canvas
and the half dozen Percherons. They
question the right to impede and delay
traffic. and wonder whether the mys-
FERROUS burden is a motor boat, an aero
plane. or possibly explained by that mys-
ferrous word machinery; not one In
thousand inquirers. probably, ever dream
ing Of it's real significance.
Such a burden was recently discharged
with all the necessary marks of clear
ance. This is the group Of artillery de-
signed and executed by Henry Merwin
Shrady for the Grant monument in
Washington. 1t is soon to be compan-
toned by a cavalry group. both part of
the gigantic memorial of which the
equestrian statue of Gen. Grant will be
the central figure. The length Of this
completed piece is twenty-eight feet.
height eleven feet, width ten feet. 1t
contains six human figures and five
horses the weight 10 $500 pounds. and
it took ten months to cast 1t in the four
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

IN we save the III
dian?
Shocking discov-
cries concerning
his physical de-
generation have
just caused a note
of alarm to be
sounded by the
President. The an
nual summing up
Of reports from
our superintend-
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are now very strict in the matter Of re-
curing marriage licenses and doing
everything possible to improve domestic
relations and moral conditions. And l
should state right here that In the white
mans sense of the term Indians. as a
race. are very chaste. Among them there
has never been anything like the pros
titution and promiscuity Of that kind
that has existed among whites.
II believe that under proper eugenics.
such as ought to be applied also to white
people, our Indian blood would be one OF
our best assets, as to both ability and
character
"Are our civilized habits. thrust upon
him, to blame for the Indians physical
degeneration?" asked the commits
sioner.
I'm going from his native state to our
so-called civilization he has. mentally.
morally and physically. passed through
the valley Of the shadow of DEATH" Mr..
Valentine replied. Our civilized habits
disagreeing with him most have been
whisky drinking. sleeping indoors and
sitting in insuniciently ventilated, super
heated school rooms. He found the log
cabin without windows far less healthy
than his native arbor of tepee. 1t was
this log cabin which went farthest to
fasten the curse of tuberculosis upon
him.
"All Of the other things which we are
doing for the uplift of the Indian-the
safeguarding Of his property. the i'm
provement Of his education SO as to
teach him to be industrious-must re-
main futile SO long as such a large
percentage Of his race (as we have dis
covered in some places. most of his
race are headed for the grave. What
is the use Of giving the highest grade OF
education to one who is going to COM
plete his schooling at twenty-one and
die at twenty-three? What is the use OF
giving the Indian industrial training and
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entS of Indian reservations shows that
our picturesque aborigines, the original
landholders of our continent, the first Of
all Americans. are dying of more than
twice as fast, each year. as are our white
citizens. A medical inspection OF nearly
$4,000 of those upon our reservations re-
veals that tuberculosis now has it's
white stamp upon one-sixth. and that a
like proportion face blindness as the re-
suit OF infection from trachoma. a terri
Bile contagious disease of the eyes. On
three Of the big reservations-the Apache,
Comanche and Kiowa-nearly three-Quar-
tiers Of our Indian school children are af-
fiicted with this eye disease. AS many as
one-third Of the nations wards so far
examined on the Blackfoot reservation, in
Montana, have tuberculosis, which white
plague" already has its hold upon more
than a fourth of the redskins of the Pine
Ridge. and over a fifth of those of the
Colorado river reservation.
The vigorous campaign which he is
waging against these conditions was de-
scribed to me yesterday by Robert Gros-
venor Valentine. the national commits
sioner of Indian affairs. Commissioner
Valentine Is a live wire. He Is a Massa-
chusetts Yankee and a Harvard grad
uate. He has been out OF college but six
teen years, more than half of which
period has been devoted to a post-grad-
uate course in the university Of varied
experience-as bank clerk, railway ac-
countant and college instructor. He en-
tered the Indian Office seven years ago as
private secretary to his predecessor
Commissioner Leupp. and within five
years he hade a rather phenomenal climb
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Correspondence Of The Star.
NEW YORK. September :, 1912.
! IGHT in the heart Of Greenpoint.
about a mile from the Brooklyn
navy yard as the crow flies, is
one Of the most interesting and
artistic establishments to be
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R~R 1ASHINGTONIAN read with
Nv considerable interest few
NAA days ago that an army had
wv attacked the War Depart