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THE towers Of the United States
i naval wireless station at Arlington
have, in a way, displaced the
Washington monument. They have sue
| ceeded It as lofty landmark It is the
| mark against the sky which tells far-off
people where lies Washington. Time was
when traveller coming into the city over
the roads of Virginia or Maryland looked
to the Monument as the first note of
the capital. To come within sight of the
Monument made one feel near TO Wash
fngton, even though in instances the
tall white shaft might have been glimpsed
at a distance of ten, twelve or fifteen
miles. Yet the Monument seemed to give
assurance that the city was not SO far
away and the end OF the walk or the
drive, tiresome perhaps. was approach
ing. A sight of the Monument was ones
first view of home.
1t Is now the Arlington towers which
first come into view ard which cheer
the tired or impatient Traveller. The main
tower with more feet between its base
and summit than there are in the Mon
ument, and with its lofty site, comes
into view long before the traveller gets
a peek at the Monument. Whereas the
incoming traveller Of the roads of this re-
gion once looked to the Monument to
give him welcome home, he gets his
greeting now from the aero towers
the Arlington towers, or ''the towers at
Arlington" as they are commonly spoken
Of
I. j.
From the highlands, the hills and
ridges around Washington these towers
may be seen by day about as far as the
light halo OF the city may be seen at
night, and how many Washingtonians.
far out in either Of the adjoining states
and feeling sense of loneliness in the
night-quiet of the country. have watched
the pale glow in the sky marking the
direction and location of their home city.
These towers have greatly extended the
sensation which comes upon the Wash
ingtonian when he sees the first land
mark which he associates with home.
Perhaps it is with sense OF sadness that
one looks back for a parting glance at
these towers, visible symbol that one
has turned his back on home. 1t is in
this respect that the wireless towers
have put the Washington Monument out
of joint.
OF the main roads around Washington
which bring you closest to these towers is
the Columbia pike. the first deep-dusty
road at right angles to the Washington
Alexandria road after you cross the
Highway bridge. From q point on this
road opposite the towers you will gain
keen perception of their height. and
you will probably think Of the marvel
Gus If not mysterious agencies at work
there. Over the brick buildings attached
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thanked him. 1t came to her that he. or
somebody exactly like him, had done the
same thing before.
That night they Travelled up town again
in company. They sat on opposite sides
of the car and tried not to look at each
other. 1t was very embarrassing and
very interesting. A tangle of traffic de-
layed the car. 1t began to rain, too. Ce-
cily had no umbrella. The rain became
downpour. When the car stopped Ce-
cily got off in something of a panic The
wind had risen. Her hair whipped into
her eyes and for an instant she was blind
and helpless. Then she realized that the
rain was no longer falling upon her. Also
that steady hand had kept her from
stepping right into the path of a skidding,
carelessly driven taxi. She heard a voice
from somewhere above her head, saying:
I'm sure you'll forgive me. But I
couldn't see you get wet"
ooh" gasped Ceci1y. Then you did
have an umbrella. l wondered"
They turned toward the house where
Cecily lived.
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usually has to do its work at range Of
thousand miles or SO, suddenly dis
covered trouble right at its own front
door. Instead of getting complaints by
mail of the ravages of the insects, and
pleas for advice and help. it found the
irate residents whose lawns had been
eaten up camping on its doorstep and
demanding help by telephone and in per-
son. A circular was quickly gotten out
to tell of the work Of this insect and OF
the best methods of combating it. The
army worm made its appearance not only
In Washington, but throughout the coun-
try, especially in the northern states east
of the Rocky mountains.
For those who cannot claim intimate
acquaintance with the army worm it
would be well to Introduce it by its
technical name of "Heliophila unipun-
cia" The caterpillar which does all the
damage is the child Of a moth whose
wings spread about one and one-half in
ches. These wings are brown with white
spots in the center of each forewing. 1t
is not an unattractive moth. although it
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partment declare that the next genera
ton will hardly be noticeable. DR.. F. NJ.
Webster, who Is in charge of the investf-
cations of the cereal and forage insects
for the Department of Agriculture and
who has made long study of the army
worm, has staked his professional reputa-
ton on the announcement that no one
except entomologists will see another
army worm in Washington this summer.
That certainly ought to be good news to
those who fear another invasion.
This strange disappearance of SO un-
pleasant and unwelcome a pest is trace
able to two causes. according to the ex-
perts The first and more important Of
these is the prevalence of tiny tachinid
fly. whose professional name is 'Winthe-
mia quadipustulata.'' This little parasite
makes it it's business to lay it's eggs on
the army worm. The eggs are oval and
little less than one-sixteenth of an inch
in length. They are the tiny white spots
you may have noticed upon the caterpil-
lars. For Mrs. Winthemia rarely misses
an army worm when 1t comes to deposit
ing her eggs Thousands upon thousands
of army worms will never develop into
moths because of the work of this fly
The tiny eggs of the parasite hatch al
most over night an dthe wicked little
maggots burrow down into MIR. Caterpil-
lar. and then it is all off with him.
The other cause that makes the ex-
perts 40 confident about their assertions
that the army worm will not be heard
from again this summer is the fact that
the moth of the army worm doves to
migrate. AS soon as the few moths who
will survive leave their cocoons they will
take the next train. by wing, for other
regions. Few of them will lay their eggs
near their birthplace. Much of this Is
due to the fact that they do not care
for the short lawns in which they will
make their appearance or the dry
clumps of weeds that would be nightly
attractive if they had such a place of
abode in a rainy spring.
Not more than one in thousand of
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But she shook her head and stared
out of the window obdurately.
At her corner he rose and helped her
off. And then resolutely he turned with
her toward Mrs. Drummond's: :.
II must know the rest of that why
he pleaded
"oh!" Cecily laughed family. II never
dreamed / had seen you SO many times.
That was why you seemed familiar
He laughed. too "Tve wished hun
dred times 1 could speak to you" he
said. ITS awfully lonesome in the city
for chap who never sees anything
but the inside Of an office and his own
room. I tried going to church and to
the theater. but it only reminds you
that you are among strangers and
makes you feel lonelier than ever OF
course, there Is my deskmate in the Of
fee. but when you are brought up
Presbyterian, and country Presby-
terian at that He stopped. AS
for girls. I've never had a chance to
meet any that l thought were worth
knowing until met you"
i've been through It ALL Cecily said.
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lays absolutely no claim to beauty. and
the caterpillar is about as repellent a
pest as one could imagine 1t is little
naked worm-like caterpillar that starts
out pinkish brown in color and becomes
darker as 1t grows older.
The female moth lays her eggs In mats
Of grass and weeds. pushing them down
as far as possible into the sheath Of the
leaves to conceal them. Usually she
lays from fifteen to twenty in a string"
1t takes eight or ten days for these to
hatch and then the little worms begin
to work at once. It takes about three
weeks Of good feeding to bring them to
their normal maturity. This is the time
during which they do their damage. Us
ually they eat at night and hide when
the sun it out. But II they happen to
come in large numbers. as they did in
July, they find it necessary to eat dur
ing the day time as well, and to migrate
from one feeding ground to another II
is from this migration that they have
received their name of army worm.
Usually they march together in full regi-
mental fashion from one lawn or field to
another. much as though they were an
army Of invaders.
After they have eaten their fill and
maintained their growth. they burrow in-
to the ground. where they are trans
formed into brown cocoons and emerge
two weeks later as adult moths. In the
northern states there are two or three
generations year, while there are as
many as six in the south. Fortunately,
however, only one of these generations,
as n rule. is really destructive one.
Just where this summers flock of
Washington invaders came from nobody
knows The entomologists who have
studied them insist that they are the
products Of moths that blew into WASH
ington in the spring. Thousands of their
broken wings were noticed in the Union
station in June. But not even the most
careless Of observers would try to main.
tain that they came in by train.
The department of Agriculture hurried
to the front with remedies to kill off
the pests. The chief trouble lay In the
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~ know. There are girls in the store,
but-well, they're different. Oh, hate
the ethyl" she burst out, I'm staying
because I have to. Some day 1 mean to
go back home. That is. 1 mean to go
back to the country. 1 haven't any
home now
'Why" (they stood on the doorstep and
he looked at her earnestly, I'm living on
just that hope myself. l want to go back.
l mean to go back. There's a little place
know But of course, I don't like
to go back alone
Cecily hung her head. The country
roses in her cheeks were blooming as in
June time. Her heart was beating ter
ribly. She heard him say with a world
Of wistfulness in his voice: Its beauti-
full in the country in June. And I know
you'd like that little place
Then she looked up. Il know I would,
too,' she managed to say.
Breathlessy she ran upstairs. She flung
herself on the bed, crying, and yes. pray
ing, too. 1t had come! 1t had come
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fact that it seemed difficult to combat
the little caterpillars once they had
started on their work. The best remedy
offered by the experts takes the shape
Of n delightful compound which will make
quick work of the caterpillars wherever
they can be induced to eat it. To make
this composition take one pound of Paris
green, fifty pounds Of wheat bran, the
Juice OF half a dozen oranges and enough
diluted molasses to make the whole into
a stiff dough. This is to be sprinkled
among the worms. Care must be taken,
however, to keep this dough from chill
dren or animals.
Another efficient remedy. particularly
recommended in case Of lawns or other
restricted areas, is the application of a
spray of one pound Of arsenate Of lead
dissolved in twenty-five gallons Of water.
II the powdered arsenate is more easily
obtainable, one pound Of this may be
mixed with eight pounds Of flour and
busted on the grass where the worms
are feeding. This arsenate, however. is
also a deadly poison for men as well as
animals.
Prompt action to prevent the worms
from invading field is far better than
later efforts to kill them in the grain or
grass. Once the caterpillars have infest-
ed field the measures necessary to de-
stroy them may seriously hurt or even
destroy the crop.
The worms at first are almost always
localized In some definite breeding place
In the field, and immediate efforts should
be taken to eradicate them in these
small areas before they have had time to
spread. The normal breeding place of
the army worm is in rank grass, such as
Is usually found along the edges OF
swamps or in spots of pasture land that
have been overfertilized. They are prac-
tically never found in swamps, because
the worm needs a reasonably dry place
in which to breed. Clean cultivation, ro-
tation Of crops, cleaning up of fence cor
ners. close pasturage and the burning
over of waste grass land in the spring
or fall are good measures to prevent q
recurrence of the army worm.
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the street and went into big office build
ing. She turned and entered at the side
door Of the department store where she
worked
All that morning the thought Of him
constantly recurred to her. BY the time
she had sold her seventh blouse she was
beginning to be angry with herself for
not remembering where she had seen him
before Il know he's from the country"
she reasoned. He has that look. It's
unmistakable. And know ] know him.
1 must know him or he wouldn't appear
SO familiar. I've never met any man since
I came to the city, SO he must be some
body I've known before. He noticed me-
too. When he went out he looked at me-
I thought he was going to give me his
paper 1 wonder If I shall see him
again
It was quite improbable, Of course, that
she would ever see him again. And yet
next morning when she took the car there
he was with his paper. He had a seat
and he got up and gave it to her. She
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through comprehension and not
through thunders of admonition. About
all the kinds that go to make up the
world are gathered in this wild and
surprisingly beautiful spot, and to
both the human nature of the lumber
man and the magic loveliness of the
country this writer is as keenly alive
as he is competent to embody them in
sturdy and at the same time charm
ing story. A romance of the pattern
of the people and their surroundings
shapes the action and gives the color
to this tale of "The Ontonagon."
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The Star man was told that in operation
these towers are charged with 100000
volts, that electric waves are sent out
which travel in all directions with the
velocity of light, or at the rate Of more
than 10000 miles a second, and that ar
irving at an aerial receiving station the
waves there set up electric oscillations
affecting a wave detector which produces
signals in sensitive telephone receiver
step-up transformer operated by a
motor-generator set produces the electric
oscillations. and il the Star man made
his notes correctly and Transcribed them
without error. "a helix of wire change
able contacts is connected with the in
strument to vary the length of the cleo
tro-magnetic waves radiated from the
antenna."
For results in sending and receiving the
stations exchanging messages must be In
tune" and to effect this. tuning coils
are employed to alter the length of the
receiving aerial SO as to oscillate syn
chronously with the transmitting an
tenna. If the receiving aerial is not of
the same length as the transmitting an
tenna there is confusion In the signals
and most likely they will not be made out
at all.
When the Arlington station was under
contract for construction 1t was guar
anteed that the instruments would trans
NIT and receive intelligence over a space
of 5000 miles. and this has been achieved
The Arlington station was the first in the
chain of six powerful aero stations by
means Of which the Navy Department
will maintain communication with all the
naval stations. possessions and ships of
the United States, no matter in what seas
those ships may be sailing.
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How Nature Fights
the Pest Parasites,
Birds and Beetles Do
Their Share-Govern-
ment Scientists Say
They Are So Effective
That There Is No Dan
ger of a Recurrence
This Summer of the
Invasion Which De-
stroyed Many Wash
ington Lawns in July.
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BOOKS. RECEIVED.

HOW TO PLAY BASE BALL; . Manual
for Boys. By John ]. McGraw. 80
illustrations from photographs of
big league stars in actual play. New
York: Harper & Bros.
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the army worms arrives at the moth
stage If the parasites fail to get in
their work. there are always the spar
rows, who have a remarkable appetite
for army worms. There are also num-
Der of hungry ground beetles that like
nothing better than to make dessert
off nice juicy army worm caterpillars.
1t is hard lIfe to be an army worm
in big city. But he can make it
nightly unpleasant for all concerned
while he is at it. The recent outbreak
Of the army worm in Washington was
one of the worst invasions the city has
ever had. Persons who had spent years
trying to get their lawns into shape found
their work ruined in night In many
Of the parks the worms got busy almost
before the authorities knew 1t, and then
it was too late.
The Department Of Agriculture. which
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trembling. She spoke out loud. II dom
know his name. And he doesn't know
mine"
Then she began to laugh.
(THE END.)
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of. is a most interesting waif from q
long ago time

GLORY OF THE PINES, q Tale Of the
OntOnason. BY William Chalmers
Covert. Philadelphia: The West
minister Press.
This is a fresh and robust story of
a lumber camp in the Lake Superior
region. The story is told by the young
minister of the camp, in the spirit Of
the new shepherd who has finally come
to understand that men are reached
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He cared! He cared. She snatched the
arbutus out of its dish ard kissed it pas
sionately. Then a thought came to her
a soaring, ridiculous queer thought She
wondered II he had 1t, too. She sat up
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army worm will not be repeated this
year.
The casual observer who saw the
swarms Of usly-looking little caterpillars
that devoured lawns and then cluttered
up the sidewalks with their parades to
the next feeding grounds naturally ex-
pected that the. second generation. due in
about five weeks, would be worse than
the first. II these fears were to be real
lied there would be millions Of the little
caterpillars this month where the July
invasion was numbered by the thousands.
The caterpillars that ate up hundreds Of
lawns burrowed into the ground and or
dinarily would reappear as moths IN
about thirty-flve days.
But the expert entomologists of the de-
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starting With Small Capital. BY
Joseph Dillaway Sawyer. 11lustrat-
ed. New York: Orange Judd Com
pany.

THE ROUSING OF PARKsIDE. By
william Ganson Rose, author or
"The Ginger Cure" etc. New YORK:
Duffield & Co.
AT THE SHRINE, and Other Poems.
BY George Herbert Clarke. Cincin-
natl: Stewart & Kidd Company.
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Towers DispNace Monument

to the aero station-the administration
building, the transmission buildins and
the receiving station-rise the towers.
The taliest points into the air for 600
feet and the other towers are 45O feet
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MADRID, VIENNA, BUDAPEST. By
John c. Van Dyke. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons

OUR MEXICAN CONFLICTS, Including
Brief History Of Mexico From the
Sixth Century to the Present Time.
BY Thomas B. Gregory. New York:
Hearsts International Library Com
pany.
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HOW To MAKE A COUNTRY PLACE,
An Account of the Successes and
the Mistakes Of an Amateur In
Thirty-five Years Of Farming, Build
Ing and Development. Together
with q Practical Plan for Securing
q Home and an Independent Income,
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BOOK REVIEWS.

THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HAPPY
WOMAN. New York: Moffat. Yard
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THE LAYMAN REvATO; a Story Of q
Restless Mind in Buddhist India at
the Time Of Greek Influence. By Ed
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WNERS of lawns should feel re-
lieved by the announcement
from the Department of Agri-
culture this week that Wash
ineton's recent inva sion nv the
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ward p. Buffet. New York: Douglas
C. McMurtrie.

ME AND THE DOG. By 10 Anderson.
Sacramento: Published by the
author.
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DIALOGUES CONCERNING TWO NEW

DIALOGUES CONCERNING TWO NEW
SCIENCES. By Galileo Galilei.
Translated from the Italian and
Latin into English by Henry Crew
and Alfonso de Salvo of Northwest
ern University. Introduction by
Antonio Favaro of the University of
Padua. New York: The Macmillan
Company.
In order to revive the learning of the
ancients. as well as to give credit where
credit Is due. this reprint OF some of
Calico Galilei's most important work has
been issued in an easily available form.
1t is unique and interesting volume. The
dialogues constitute the form in which
Calico developed his ideas upon what he
considered the most important of all his
discoveries and upon which he expended
thirty laborious years. The book Is d.
vided into "days'-four of them all to-
gether-in which by question and answer
he sets out his theory of dynamios as one
of the new sciences" and as the other
one, his discoveries and theories concern
ing the resistance which solid bodies Of
fer to fracture by external forcAs-both
subjects of immense utility in the sciences
and mechanical arts. The book itself, in
the subterfuges and devices attending its
publication at time when free thought
and free speech were rs yet undreamed
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Applied Mechanics.
Materials of Construction.

Burr, W. II. Elasticity and Resistance Of the
Materials of Engineering. 1904. SC-B942.
johnson, j. b. Materials OF Construction. 1905.
SC-J627.
Merriman Mansfield. Strength of Materials.
1913 SC-N554s.
Murdock, II. E. Strength of Materials. 1911.
SC-M946s.
Smith II. E Strength Of Material. an E1s-
n14utary Study 1909. SC-Sm55s.
Thurston. r H. Materials Of Engineering. ~.
fnwir. ". . Testing Of Materials Of Cunstrps-
tion. 1859. sC-ru9i.
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THE THINGS HE WROTE TO HER.
By Richard Wightman. New York:
The Century Company.

Like children. we are always calling for
the story. but the story is sketched so
lightly in 'The Things He Wrote to Her
that one is able to gather only. and that
vaguely that this is an Indian summer
romance as well as the passion Of two
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yonng farmer of that neighbor-
hood, and Miss Walker is a pop
uIar teacher of the county and
very popular in her neighbor-
hood.
DIR. w. E. Sanders has re-
moved to Clementsville to prac-
tice medicine.
Mr.. Roy Reynolds, of Garlan,
is visiting at Rev. W. H. Lem
mons.
Oscar Sinclair and wife. visit
ed Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Campbell,
of Dunnville, Sunday.
Mr.. S. H. Workman made a
business trip to Casey last week.
Mr.. James Allen, of Huston
vile. was here last week buying
cattle. Ns
Mrs. Mary Propes is very sick
at this writing.
Mr.. ]. M. Perryman visited
his daughter. Mrs. J.'J. henson,
near Dunnville, Saturday.
There is the finest prospect for
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that his actions were wise and
patriotic. Besides the President,
he has associated with him wise
men, men who know what war
means. In our Judgment if peace
can be secured, it would be bet
ter for those who man the ships,
for the land forces and for this
enlightened nation. If our en-
treaties for peace are not heed
ed, there is not a doubt in our
mind but the Washington gov
eminent will declare war, and
that the fighting would be over
before the leaves fall Z
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WAR IN MEXICO.

Vera Cruz, April 23.-Early
yesterday afternoon the city Of
Vera Cruz was in undisputed
possession of the American in
vading forces. Although there
was no organized force used
against them and the snipers
were less in evidence than at
any time during the fighting,
eight Americans were killed and
some thirty wounded. While
the Mexicans suffered more Sc
verely, the number of their cas-
ualties has not been ascertained,
but the best estimates obtained
by Capt. William R. Rush, of the
battleship Florida, indicated that
in the engagements of Tuesday
and Wednesday their dead
amounted to about $50. No per-
son knows how many Mexicans
fell wounded, as large part of
them were taken away and hid
den by friends.
In the streets about the plaza
Wednesday afternoon lay fifteen
or twenty bodies, majority of
them attired in citizens clothing.
some of the men evidently had
been dead since the engagement
of Tuesday and the tropical heat
made their disposal imperative.
One of the first prders given af-
ter the town had been captured
was to bury the Mexican dead in
a trench at the sea end of one OF