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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
PLAN TO TOUR GERMANY.
Minute Men Sail Tuesday-Kaiser
TO Receive Them, :.

Members of the Minute Men of Wash
ington are busy with preparations for
the start of their tour of Germany. the
organization will leave tomorrow Tor
New York, and will sail the following DAY
on the North German Lloyd steamer
Friedrich der Crosse.
The party will land at BremerhaNen
August ~, and will proceed direct 10
Berlin. reaching that city August 81. Inc
visitors will be received by the kaiser
September - and following that cere-
mony the entire party will make a tour
of the fatherland.
Among the points to be visited are
Potsdam Breslau. Dresden. Munich
Auesberg. Stuttgart. Karlsruhe, Malnz'
Leipzig and other German cities. ne
party will sail from BremerhaSen In
time TO arrive in New York october ..
Among those who will make the tour
are Col NJ y. Winter, commanoer-in-
chief of the Minute Men; Capt; julius r.
Albrecht. Capt. W. II. Wunder. APT
Charles A. Goldsmith. Maj. A. T. Paul.
Capt. II. H. Kramer. Capt. r. Latterhel'
John Becker, Capt. ID. w. Thayer. cap.'
y. j. Evans, Capt A. GUIDE, Nal J. D.
costinett. Capt. J. 5. NJ. zimmerman
Lieut. Col Campbell, Maj. Charles :.
Wheeler. Maj. Z. T. Pane. w. oehm'
Matt Horn and Capt T. X. Clark
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Another trap on the same principle can.

be made in 1.-THE shape Of a cusptdor, the
top of which slopes to the central aper-
ture or hole. which should be one or two
inches from the bottom. Compulsory
fumigation of every dwelling house once
annually by the municipal health au-
thorities should be an important part Of
the code of sanitary laws Of every COM
munity and would accomplish much to
diminish the morbidity and mortality
from the so-called vermin spread dis
eases.
Typhus fever is spread by the body
louise. Rocky mountain spotted fever by
the tick (Dermacentor occidentalis). btu
bonic plague by the flea (Pulex irritans);
and African sleeping sickness by. the
tse-tse fly tGlossina palpalis) Recently
DR.. Lambon. working IN Egypt. has dis
covered that pellagra, disease that is
steadily increasing in the United States
is transmitted by sand flies fSimulidae)
Surra. a fatal disease Of cattle In the
just been discovered to be transmitted
by the bite OF the stable fly (Stomorays
calcitrans) and other blood-sucking in
sects. Texas cattle fever, the transmits
sion Of which by a species of tick was
discovered by DR.. Theobold Smith and
DR.. Emil de Schweinitz, professors in the
medical department Of George Washing
ton. University, has exacted an annual
loss Of untold amount for many years
southwestern states. South American
nagana, disease of horses, cattle and
wild animals, is transmitted by a species
of the tge-tse fly (Glossina morsitansl.
and one of the seven or more species OF
this fly transmits dourine; a disease Of
horses in the region about the Mediter-
ranean. The list of diseases of man
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
MFLONS ARE PLENTIFUL.
Season at It's Height and Prices Are
Moderate.

The watermelon season is at its best
stage. and yesterday afternoon there
We're twenty vessels heavily laden lying
at the wharf market. Those who wanted
To bay melons could find them at prices
ranging from So to $25 per hundred.
The latter price was for the select ones,
about as fine as is usually found in
the markets anywhere. Though it has
been hut two weeks since the first load
of melons arrived here by vessel, the
season has advanced rapidly. In the
past week twenty-five vessels laden with
melons arrived at the wharf market
and they brought over $1,000 melons,
Of which over two-thirds were sold al
most soon as the vessels made fast
u the wharves.
30 far the bulk of the fruit has been
coming from the Chesapeake, but
Potomac melons are coming en- the mar
ket in good quantities and they are said
10 command a slightly better price than
does the lower Maryland and Virginia
stock. The melon season will continue
Tor a month longer. and before ii ends
RE oyster season will be on and oyster
iaden boats will be arriving at the
narf market
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
CHANNEL BEING DEEPENED.
:, "
Dredre at Work on Cut Through
Shoals at Fort Hunt.

A dredge belonging to the Dorsey q
Miller Company Of this city is working
ON the dredged cut through the Virginia
fats into the wharf at Fort Hunt. Va,
and it is said that the artificial channel
is being made both deeper and wider.
several wears ago. when the long pier at
Fort Hunt was abandoned and the short
one was built, a cut was made through
the ,shoal flats to the wharf. and a
basin was dug In front of the wharf to
allow the army tugs and other vessels
that land at Fort Hunt to get to 1t with
out difficulty.
This is the second time. 1t is said. that
dredging has had to be done on the
Fort Hunt channel since 1t was cut
through, and il is probable 1t viii now be
made wide and deep enough to permit the
tug SwartWout and other government
craft to get in and out for several
years.
1T ID understood that the dredge will
be employed on the work for the remain
der Of this month or longer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
REQUIRED TO EXPLAIN.
Colered Lads Said to Have Appropri-
ated Horse and Buggy.

Samuel Brown and Robert Perry.
seventeen year-old colored boys. the
former residing at 4 8 street southwest
and the latter at 1906 Carrollsberg
street, were conveyed by Deputy
Sheriff Penn of Charles county. Nd.
yesterday to La Plata to be asked to
explain the disappearance OF a horse
and buggy from point near La Plata
last Wesdnesday.
!. Perry was arrested by Detective
Simpson of the first precinct. 1t is
charged as he was about to get SIS
for. the outfit. Brown was arrested by
Detectives Springmann- and oBrien
later. >.
.rhe boys were lii Charles county last
week. looking for~work in canning
factory. wednesday. 1t Is alleged, they
attended q picnic and drove or with
an. outfit belonging to colored man
who was enjoying the outing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
and beast for which insects act as the
porters or hosts Of the causative para
sites is growing year by year.
Ants Are q Menace.


Ants Are a Menace.
Ants are not only nuisance. but are
capable of transmitting disease, and
some varieties are deadly Current
medical literature cites the case of a
child that was left alone: sought amuse-
ment in a hill of red ants, and was
stung to death It is stated that white
ants have done incalculable damage to
the walls and flooring of the Smithson-
ian. building In this city. 4 few speci-
mems that were imported from South
America for experimental purposes es-
capped and have multiplied to countless
billions.
The potato tuber moth is being spread
over the country in shipments of infest-
ed potatoes and by careless methods of
using and distributing seed potatoes.
The timber beetle Dencroctomis month
nually as forest fires. The boil weevil
Is extending its ravages on the cotton
crop Of the south, while the green wheat
fly reaps its annual toll of the wheat
crop. and the alfalfa weevii, the alfalfa
crop. The locust-leaf beetle % dontota
dorsal!s) causes tree blight and the
Mediterranean fruit fly. that has reach
e. Honolulu, is a veritable scourge to
the fruit trees.
The brown-tail moth, one of the most
serious tree pests and heretofore confin-
ed to New England, has recently invad-
ed Pennsylvania. The gadhy has cost
millions of dollars and caused many
milk famines. A species of budmite de-
stroys black currant bushes. and a
similar insect lives on mustard. The oil
fly is the dreaded enemy Of the people
Of southern Italy. = France and Spain.
and does terrible damage to the olive
plantations. The common wasp is an
inveterate enemy of man. beast and
agriculture The damage done by the
common caterpillar, which answers to
the roll call every summer, is patent to
every one, and SO the list Of insect enc
mics could be increasd ad infinitum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Meeting of Colored Journalists.

K. ". Thompson of Washington, pres
ident of the National Negro Press AS
ISOLATION. plans to go to Philadelphia
20 attend the opening of the fifth
annual convention of the associa-
ton. which opens there tomorrow The
association has a membership of about
I'D editors. correspondents and publis hers
or negro newspapers throughout the
country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Mrs. 7. ]. Lewis Dead.

Nord has been received in this city of
the death al Lake Toxaway. n. c.. We'd
resday OF Mrs. Lewis. wife of Lieut.. Col.
Thomas j. Lewis. United States cavalry,
and mother of First Lieut. c. r. Lewis,
I'D United States Infantry. The body
viii be brought to this city for inter-
'lent ct Arlington. Funeral services will
be held at the cemetehy at 4 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
TO GIVE EXCURSION.
Order of ALEXANDRA to Go to Chesa-
peake Beach Tuesday.

Arrangements have been completed for
the annual excursion of Alcantara Cara
van. No. l.. Order of Alhambra, To be
held Tuesday at Chesapeake Beach. The
excursion is under the auspices OF the
divan of the order. Vice Grand Com
mander Leo A Rover being in direct
charge, assisted by William j. Niece.
Thomas L. Petty. Edward Weight. r. L.
McAuliffe. Charles J. Began, Joseph $.
Repetti. John p. Dunn, Frank Dunn.
John 4. Eckert, a. C. Neubeck. Wallace
Fl. Morris. j. j. Sullivan. Richard p
Witty. f. j. Malloy and Frank >.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Problem a Vital One.

The study. control and destruction of
insects is one of the most vital prob
lens facing the world today. While
pose. their number is infinitesimal as
compared to those which damage crops.
buildings, trees, horticulture, grains,
foodstuffs, render thousands of square
miles of the earth's surface uninhabitable
and last. but not least, act as porters
of disease. Previous articles have de-
scribed the ravages of flies and mos
Quitoes, SO recapitulation is unnecessary.
A few figures are given to show the
financial loss caused to the United States
by insects, as figures do not lie and are
expressive when sufficiently large.
Annual cost of the fly to the United
years of human life.
Annual loss from tuberculosis. $780,
100000.
Annual loss from typhoid fever. $780,
600, 900.
dysentery and other intestinal dis
eases. s37.2OO,OO0.
Annual number of deaths in New
York city from typhoid fever. 1000.
Annual number of deaths in New
York city from intestinal diseases. TO-
600.
Financial loss of Mississippi valley
in 1873 from a single epidemic of yell
low fever. s15,e0O.000.
Annual loss from the cotton boil
weevil in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee
and Florida. $1OS.00O.000.
Annual loss of cattle from ticks in
fifty-one counties in southern states,
SO. 100000.
in Wyoming, North Dakota. South Da-
kota and Montana, $40,000,000.
Annual loss from the oxwarble fly,
| $40, 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Dr.. Brecht Makes Investment

Dr. Nelson Du Val Brecht has bought
as an investment the property at 729
Harvard street northwest from the firm
OF Harry Wardman 4 Co. The property
Is improved by a two-story brick dwell
ing. with basement and attic, construct
ed in colonial style
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
CHAUTAUQUA PLANNED
FOR cOLORED PEOPLE
Opens Tomorrow at Lincoln, Nd,
and Will Continue Through This
Week and Next-Programs.

ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
the Lincoln chautauaua for colored peo-
pie. which is to open at Lincoln, Nd,
tomorrow, and continue through this
week and next. The program for the
first day includes addresses by ]. c.
Napier. Emmett J. Scott. Harry Cum
mings, Ernest Lyon and Mrs. Booker i.
Washington. reception to the dele
gates of the National Negro Business
League will be held, and the program
will also include base ball game.
Tuesdays and Wednesdays program
will consist of a Sunday school congress,
and a church convention for all denomi-
nations viii be held Thursday and Fri
day Saturday will be laborers' and
mechanics day, and a monster camp
meeting will be held sunday
The program for the second week OF
the chautauuua starts with the day de-
voted to secret societies. and TUESDAY a
reception to the knights of Pythas dele
gates will be held.
Noted Colored Women to Speak.
Wednesday, of the second week has been
set aside as womans day, and number
of noted colored women will make ad
dresses Thursday and Friday will be
family picnic days, and Saturday
"everybody's day
The last day of the ehautauqua, Sum
day, September Z. will be featured by an
address by Booker T. Washington. the
colored educator.
The committee in charge of the ehau-
tauqua consists of Bishop John hurst,
Harry T Pratt. ]. Fl. Blackwell. Prof.
d. s. s. Goodloe. T. j. Galloway. Rev
L. G.. Jordan, Darlington L. Davis, Rev.
". G.. Parks. Garnet c. Wilkinson and
John X. Hawkins.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

The bedbug (Cimex lectularius) is a
conveyor Of the infection or contagion
disease germs) of relapsing fever, bu-
bonic plague. kala-azar. smallpox.
typhoid fever, infantile paralysis, tuber-
culosis or phymatiasis. leprosy and other
polecat OF insects disseminates epidemics
of smallpox in cheap hotels and rooming
houses. and is the commonest propa-
gator of house epidemics of typhoid
feyer-that Is where cases repeatedly
occur IN the same house and no other
source OF infection can be discovered. 1t
breeds in lumber camps. summer houses,
empty apartments. log cabins ships, rail-
way trains. old-fashioned insanitary
paper. in cracks behind wainscoting,
poultry houses. dove cots. pigeon houses,
public hospitals, sparrows' and swal-
lows nests. under caves Of houses and
rookeries or hiding places of bats. It
may d live from season to season and
often hibernates throughout the winter
This insect prefers blood as its raison
de etre. which it imbibes through its
maxillae, while anchored to the skin of
its victim with its claws or mandibles.
at the same time depositing its, saliva in
the wound of the skin. In the absence
Of blood. 1t can feed on the dust in floor
cracks and juices of decayed wood. and
can survive without any. food for q long
time. It can and often does migrate or
travel from one house to another through
walls or windows. along cutters or
water pipes, or may invade the travellers
trunk or travelling grip in an uncleanly
hotel or sleeping car. 1t often enters
the. home In the laundry or clothing.
Bedbugs usually migrate from q vacant
house to one that is occupied and are
nocturnal in their habits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
CITY ITEMS.
Virginia.

The Bohemian Girl" Today. Virginia.
through sleeper Via Ches. & Ohio Ry.
to st. Louis. Leave Washington $40 p.m
daily: arrive st. Louis 6:2S pm. next day
Phone Your Want Ad to The Star.
Main .I40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

Line. 1856. Open All Night. Limo. a1b5.
Tyres 18th and II sits. ne. Druggists
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be considered for convenience in con-
nection with insects. from a public health
and agricultural standpoint. Vermin
comprise rats, mice. bats, ticks, spiders.
insects and other small animals, which
are destructive to agriculture and food
products and buildings. and spread dis
ease among man and domestic animals.
The chief natural enemies of insects are
known as insectivora. The insectivora are
an order of Quadrupeds or four-footed
animals, including the shrew, and an
order of birds, including the swallow,
that feed on insects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
SAVE TROUBLE

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\ a more efficient
|or economical method.
of building business
than through
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advertising.
We soyate the
right ads to
make advertising
good advertising.
Star Ad Writing Bureau.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

Sacred Band Concert
at Randie Highlands tonight-Advertise-
meNt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

SevtembeF Weddings.
Consult Guide now about the flowers and
,;orai decorations for your wedding LIZA F.
advertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
How to Destroy Them.

They may be destroyed by the local
application Of boiling water or by furni-
cation. The latter is the most effective
means of extermipation One room at a
time may be fumigated by burning two
pounds Of sulphur candles to each 1000
cubic feet OF air space The sulphur
should be placed in an iron receptacle, q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17
Devastation of Crops.

Annual losses to the United States by
insect pests:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-17

Reliable Roof Repairln9.
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18
tsoxernor ignored summons.

governor ikt8Oi Co
Gov Francis E. McGovern i'll a
message to the senate refused TO
comply with its request and sub
poena for his appearance before the
senate to be questioned as to the re-
,noval of Insurance Commissioners
Ekern and the incidents in comes
tioI Herewith. He denied the power
Of one branch of the government 10
Investigate another in courteous but
explicit language. He in fact read
the senate a lesson to which, how
ever, the senate gave no heed.
1T is not competent to review my
acts. he told the senators. THE re-
sponsibility lies with the people. not
with the senate CT its committees.
He denied that Mr.. Anderson had
"connived" at the removal of Ekern.
He had nothing to do with the re-
moyal of his predecessor
The mere fact that have appointed
Mr. Anderson is probably the best
testimonial l can give concerning my
estimate of his fitness Tae
appointment came to him without
any solicitation on his part.
On Senator Randolph's motion the
senate voted, % to 6, TO go into COM
mittee of the whole and proceed with
the inquiry. Senator'S Browne,
Burke, Hoyt, Kileen, Stevens and
Tomkins were those voting no. :"
and Senator'S Browne and Burke
voiced their protests against the
nearing. stating that they believed
the senate to be without Jurisdiction
in such action.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18
FAVOR PENSION TO
NORMAL TEACHERS
STATE BOARD OF REGENTS IN.
DORSES PLAN FOR MAKING
A CHANGE IN LAW.
PROPOSE LEVY ON SALARIES
Bill Drafted Provides an Assessment
Against Normal Teachers of Per
Cent for First Ten Years and 2
Per Cent for Next Fifteen Years.

Madison. pension fund for
teachers in Wisconsin normal schools
upon retirement from service is
given unofficial endorsement for leg
islative enactment by the state board
o. normal regents. The plan was
proposed in the form of bill by
Prof. ID. 0. Kinsman of the Whitewa-
ter normal school, and it was the
unanimous sense of the regents,
speaking as individuals, that the
same provision accorded university
and college teachers and retired pub
lie school teachers in this state
should be extended to the normal
teaching profession Under the bill
proposed, levy shall be made upon
normal teachers salaries for period
of twenty-five years in the proportion
of one per cent per year for the first
ten years of service as teacher, and
two per cent for each succeeding
year until the teacher shall have
had twenty-five years of service,
when the assessment shall cease.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18

In working certain Kansas town.
said the drummer for a Chicago mil.
linery house, y formed the acquaint-
ance of an angel in retail store. II
was no Irritation on my part. 1t was
head over heels in love. / had to go
to another village twelve miles away
and while there l stepped into a
grocery to telephone to my love and
assure her that / was still faithful.
There was no booth and oil could hear
what was said. l had just got my
messages started when l was taken
by the back of the neck and run out
doors and thrown OF the platform.
The man was farmer, and / was
getting ready to go for him when the
grocer seized me by the arm and
whispered:
Don't raise no fuss, It's simply
a curious coincidence.
"But he assaulted mel
4 know, but you can't help coin
cidences.
BLAST your coincidence What f.
itr
"sWhy, the man who gave you the
hump happens to be the father Of your
angel over at Sodtown,'"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-02-18
Delays DissoIxina Injunction.


Judge Stevens of the Dane county
circuit court dissolved the injunction
restraining Gov McGovern, l.. A. An.
derson and others from interfering
with Herman L. Ekern as insurance
commissioner. Upon notice by
Ekern's attorneys of an appeal to the
supreme court, Judge Stevens with
held actual dissolution of the injunc-
ton until Feb. IS.
AS to the question, whether or not
Gov. McGovern had the right to re-
move Ekern, in the limits of the
action brought, the court determines
that the removal was within the iur-
isdiction of the governor Coming
with this, is the further order that
the governor, as determined in the
injunctional proceeding, has no right
to seek to install into office the per
son appointed The effect of this is
that Anderson must institute proper
proceeding, through quo warranto or
otherwise, to GUST Ekern
The status of the case is practically
where it was following the appoint
ment of Anderson Whatever title
there is with holding the office, An
derson has, while Ekern holds pos
session of the office, The presump-
ton of the court is that Gov. McGov-
ern will take no steps by force to
eject Ekern and that legal proceed
ings Will be instituted to try the title.
In this respect the decision acts upon
Gov. McGovern as an individual and
not as an official
An attempt to GUST Ekern by force
is regarded as an individual and not
an executive act. 1t is believed that
Anderson under the decision has the
legal title to the office. The fact is
that Ekern is in present possession.
Whether the move next made to de-
termine who is entitled to the Office
will come from Anderson or from
Ekern is conjecturaI.
Both sides to the controversy claim
a decisive victory The right of the
governor to remove has been estab-
lished. The question of whether or
not he has the power to place the
affairs of the insurance department
in charge of Anderson, as the legal
custodian, is up to now undeter-.
mined.