The Washington herald., 1913-10-12

u. or hornets called the Vespa crabo.
~ One season. when in despair Of OBJ
tanning any hornets for his expert
nents, he took hold Of two colonies Of the
large. common bumblebee and some wasps.
With the assistance Of two colleagues he
smoked and dug out nest of three hori-
zontal combs full Of these insects.
They were placed In central hive with a
few young wasps and queen wasp. The
young ones were newly born and could hardly
Hy. This did not deter them from cleaning
and feeding the young wasps still left in the
combs. Mr. Hardy and his aids fed these en-
bryos with house flies insects and jam, and
in about a week sufficient brood OF newly
Matched working wasps were able to fare
forth and forage for food. Thus they reared
the whole brood.
The first strange discovery made was that
certain lazy wasps made & habit Of alight-
ing on the boards OF their bunblebee neigh
bOrs and there awaiting and begging for food.
There never were any threats or fights OF
any kind. but the bees willingly fed the
wasps without realizing that thus they
fatally neglected their own broods
Mr.. Hardys wasps never entered the nests
Of the bumblebees, nor did either Of them
resent his, approach. The only thing that
made them So far forget themselves as 10
grow vicious and undomestic was to shake
their hive.
Mr. Hardy also discovered hornets busy
around four straw hives in the front garden
Of his cottage. He kept these hornets as
pets without any bees around. The habits Of
hornets. according to Mr.. Hardy. differ much
from those Of his wasps. Horpets, he says,
are, in spite of the popular notion TO the
Fpp go IL
lures, suitable for pets. Accustomed to hunt
high IN the tree tops. the hornet really re-
mains in ignorance Of the savagery Of the
average schoolboy. 1t is rare indeed to find
hornets that suffer from malice of man or
the shrieking fervor of timorous maid at
the mere sight Of them.
Hornets Forage at Night.
The service of a hornet is overwhelmingly
beneficial to woods and orchards They for
age in midsummer mostly at night and they
avoid the light except when driven in search
of food. While the honey bee gathers from
sunrise to sunset. the hornet works hardest
at an earlier and a later hour. So says Mr..
Hardy. Indeed they sleep little and work
practically throughout the twenty-four
hours weather permitting.
Hornets can be made great pets in con-
trast to wasps because they start new COL
onies every year in the same hives or even
the hive itself and see the queen at work.
There is no danger at all II you care to
make pets Of them install them either in
front of your cottage or high up near the
top of your house, because those innocent,
gentle, and useful insects like to fly high.
For the first time in the history Of the
Franklin Square hospital. Baltimore, and
+l,a ArS f, he Of NJ IA
physicians at that institution, the cure Of
cerebrospinaI meningitis by the use Of car
bolic acid injections has been effected by DR..
L. s. Horl1a, resident physician there. The
patient was Charlotte Walsh, daughter Of
Mrs. Thomas J. Walsh. who was taken to
the institution in a dying condition suffer-
ing from the dreaded disease. Seeing that
the usual treatment could not possibly save
the child. the physician thought Of the car
bolic acid injections, and. mindful Of the
many cases of blood poisoning and lockjaw
these had cured when patients had been
given I'D as lost, he decided to try them on
the little girl.
Even after the first injection Of the acid
the child began to show Improvement, and
with three more she steadily became better
until she was able to sit up. The needle
used for the injections was run into the
muscles, not as usual. into Ihe veins or
merely under the skin. The treatment has
been used often for tetanus with excellent
results and also in cases of blood poisoning.
but its use for spinal meningitis is rare, and
physicians and surgeons throughout the city
are showing considerable interest, as it is
certain that the cure is complete.
When the child was first taken to the hos
pItal her temperature was los, but after the
first injection it dropped slightly. The next
use of the needle brought it down consid-
erably, and after the third injection her tenn
perature became normal The fourth in
lection was administered as a precaution.
Medical men have been much interested in
the fact that a large number of horses in
Chicago have been deliberately made blind
to make them more easily managed. The
report Of agents Of the Anti-cruelty society,
whose curiosity was aroused by the docility
of young and apparently normal animals
shows this to be the case. Warrants were
properly asked for horse dealers accused of
the mutlations.