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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

based on Professor Towards experiments, has
been made and shows that one fly can have be-
tween June l and September %, 4,353, 654, 672, OOO,-
OOO,OOO,OOO descendants.
Prof. S. A. Forbes, state entomologist of nli-
nois, found that house flies breed freely in decay
ing animal carcasses, a point Of significance in
connection with war conditions.
1t is most important to have an efficient fytrap.
One known as the Minnesota fytrap" appears to
be the best constructed. 1t is planned on the
principle of having a box with a hole beneath it, a
piece of bait under the hole and sufficient space
for the fly to walk under the box. The box is
entered through a funnel that is q decapitated
cone. The fly, having gorged himself on the bait,
will, according to his invariable habit, fly upward
through the funnel and become imprisoned in the
box. He will not fly out.
Health officers Responsible.
The courts have passed upon the question of
damages for a sufferer from typhoid who could
trace his illness to flies feeding upon the filth Of
sewage. A few years ago a man living in German
town, Philadelphia, recovered heavy damages from
the city for his illness, which he proved was
caused by a stream flowing through his yard which
had been polluted by sewage from a house ten
anted by a typhoid patient. The defense relied
upon proof that the plaintiff had neither drunk nor
bathed in the stream, but an entomologist con-
vinced the. jury that he had contracted the dis
ease through the medium of flies, which had car
rled the infection from the stream to the food
exposed to their visits in his house.
Scourge Of European War.
A horrifying form of the fly peril has been en-
c%ountered during the present European war. This
is the presence of myriads of flies that have bred
on the bodies of the dead soldiers and carry
septcemia (blood poisoning), and other diseases.
Pro6ting by the experience of the Spanish-Amer-
lean and Boer wars, the military authorities pro-
tected the pits in permanent trenches and camps
against flies, but thousands of dead bodies are
lying in the shell-swept area between opposing
trenches, where it is absolutely impossible to carry
out sanitary measures.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
HOME -
TOWN -
CO. COOPERATION LIFE TO CITY
Community Which Does Not Eneour-
age Growth of Individuals and
Industries Cannot Thrive.

Speaking before the gathering OF
business men of Baltimore at a ban
quet in his honor, Charles NJ. Schwab
said: " No large industry can thrive in
a community unless it enjoys the good
will and the support of that commu-
nity.''
That statement is as true of the
small industry as of the large indus
try, and it is true of the individual
business man as well.
And there is also truth in the state
ment that the community cannot
thrive which does not give to the indi.
viduals and to the small industries as
well as to the large industries stu
ated therein every encouragement to
growth and expansion.
Cooperation is the life of the city.
Without it there can be no city in the
true sense. There may be an aggre-
cation of houses, of businesses and of
people-but that does not make a city
as we know the city today.
The true city of the twentieth CEN
fury is a place of schools, a place OF
churches, a place of wide and we'll
paved streets, a place of Fairgrounds
and of parks, a place of beauty and a
place of culture.
1t is as well a place where every
man who is doing his share for the
mutual welfare is receiving his share
of the credit and the profit; where the
new industry is given local support in
the period when that is needed and
still receives that support when it
reaches prosperous maturity; where
the farmer who brings in the product
of his labor may be sure of a market
at a price that is fair and just; where
the stranger receives every considera-
ton and is not robbed.
In short, the true city is a place
where people can live in happiness and
contentment, secure in the enjoyment
of pleasant homes, loyal friends and
]prosperou business conditiOns-and
without the spirit of cooperation it is
impossible for a city long to exist.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

way In which the acquaintance oyer
the fence progressed, till one day Mrs.
Bennett invited him In.
'This place must look very dingy
to you after your shining new paint
in there" she said to him.
mo" he said, ut looks very coy,
very honey He took in the ample
books, and the good pictures on the
walls. ut looks very much as l
thought it would"
we've asked time and again to
have this room papered and painted,
but that miserable old skintlint of an
to next door,"
ibid you ever see the owner7" he
asked.
mo, / don't even know his name.
The agent said he wouldn't"
II think he WILL" said the young
man.
'Mr. Royal But how do you known
"Well, you see, 1 work for him in the
silk factory"
docs he own that too2 Well, he's
worse than a skinflint |"
mo, he's a decent fellow, if he is a
millionaire. It's the agent who's to
blame"
The speedy way in which the cottage
was overhauled, and everything done
just as Florence and her mother
wished convinced them that young Mr.
Royal must have some pull"
The love route is sometimes sub.
ject to fluctuations, but this one
seemed to progress steadily. One day
he put the important question:
"Tm getting only twenty-five a week
now, but I'm promised a raise. Would
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
SCHOOL GARDENING NOT FAD
Tendency in Some Quarters Not to
Regard New Development Serious
Iy Is Decried.

The federal bureau of education of
the department of the interior has is
sued a pamphlet, Gardening in Ele-
mentary City Schools" which overs
the progress and prospects of school
gardening. The testimony presented
by school officials from cities of mOre
than 5000 population in all parts of
the country indicates that while gar
den work is offered in the schools of
about four hundred cities and enthu-
siastically praised by the school Off
Gals of these cities, there is still a ten
dency in some quarters to regard it
merely as another educational fad.
This it certainly is not. The United
States is still an agricultural country,
and the teaching of gardening brings
the schools at one point closer to the
thing else taught, says the Indianape-
lis News.
But of course there must be some
system about teaching gardening. The
natural desire for a garden must be
cultivated and conserved, so that h
transition from play to work can be
accomplished. This is the problem of
the educators. Many cities have COM
planned that they cannot get good
teachers to undertake the work. The
school authorities will have to cult
vate teachers as the children cultivate
their gardens-that is, if they are to
meet the demand. For it appears
from the governmentreport that school
gardening has won its place. 1t has
developed the home garden under
school supervision, and this has proved
not only it's educational worth, but
afso its economic worth. E
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
Growth Of ORANGE Industry.

The first Washington naval orange
tree was imported to the United States
from Brazil in 1873 and planted in
California. From this beginning has
developed the enormous California or
ange industry, which in 1916 returned
orange growers more than $40,000,O00.
More than $200,000,000 are invested in
the citrus property Of that state. At
the present time POS 900 acres of citrus
are in bearing in California and $4,000
acres will add their yield within a
period of four years.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

Another case / remember of a young Tommy who
had a long, weary illness from an awful wound,
He, too, no doubt, was bound to die, but he, too, lost
heart. 1t was arranged that he should go to Eng
land, but he had ceased to care to do so, and re-
fused. The end came rapidly after that.
l think these instances show that much depends
on will power. My own father was a man of ex-
traordinary vitality. A month before his death his
doctor said to me: by all the laws he ought to be
dead now" 1t was difficult to believe a few hours
before his death, at the age of ninety, that he was
a dying man. His again was a case of the most
absolute belief in the other world, coupled with an
soon.
Probably the greatest pain in death is mental
pain l can conceive q wasted life, a stupid life,
and, still more, a wicked life, making it very pain
full for a man to die.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
In a Model Industrial Town,

In Port Sunlight on the Mersey,
where 1000 tons of British soap are
manufactured each week, "kitchen"
cottages, containing three bedrooms, a
living room, kitchen, scullery, bath and
larder, with a yard and outbuildings,
rent for an average of SIPS a week.
"Parlor" cottages, with two additional
rooms, rent for $3.50 a week. For
$1.25 a year anyone can have an al
lotment of ten perches OF land, with
water supply free. 1t is the fntenti~n
that there shall never be more than
ten houses to the ere. Consequent
ly, there is no lack of sunlight and
fresh air.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

The London Lancet announces that the spread
of typhus, an eruptive fever quite different from
typhoid, has been traced to flies. Typhus has al
ways occurred in dirty and starving communities.
1t has been very prevalent in Russia, and is said
to have been largely responsible for stopping the
first Russian invasion of Austria, because it killed
and Frustrated so many men.
The spreading of infantile paralysis virus on the
feet and in the gullet of the house fly, as observed
by Doctor Flexner of the Rockefeller institute, has
already been thoroughly explained. Experiments
have also been made indicating that the poison
of this disease is conveyed by the bite of the sta
BILE fly very much as malaria is conveyed by the
bite of the mosquito.
These experiments are thus described by DR.. G.
d. Winslow, an expert on insect pests, of the
American Museum of Natural History:
Tests With Monkeys.
"Prof. NJ. J. Rosenau of the Harvard Medical
school, succeeded in producing '~infantile paralysis
in six out of twelve monkeys bitten by stable
flies which had been allowed to feed on other
monkeys suffering from the disease.
Professor Rosenaus work has since been con-
firmed by Doctors Anderson and Frost of the Unit
ed States public health service. There is, of course,
no certainty that the disease is always transmitted
by the stable fly. The work of Doctor Flexner
and of the Swedish observers and the occurrence
of a certain proportion Of cases in cold weather
strongly suggest that sometimes infantile paralysis
may be spread by direct contact between human
beings or in other ways than by fly bites. On the
other hand, 1t seems certain the biting stable fly
is one means by which the disease is conveyed ;
and the seasonal and geographical prevalence of
the epidemics make it seem probable that this is
the usual and most important means.
"The habits of the stable fly differ widely from
those of the house fly. The stable fly is a biting
fly, feeding on the blood of the higher vertebrates.
1t is found in the vicinity Of dwellings, particularly
where horses and cattle are kept, but 1t is apt to
remain outdoors in warm, sunny places, and does
not come into the house much except at night and
before rain"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

Gravity is the only power used to
convey heavy objects over a roller con-
veyor that has been invented for fac
tories, warehouses and stores.
The king of England and the Ger
man emperor are grandsons OF Queen
Victoria; the queens Of Greece, Nor
way, Spain, Roumania and the czarina
of Russia are granddaughters.
Among the many fine gems that the
new Austrian emperor has inherited
from the dead Franz Josef is an opal
which weighs IL ounces and is esti-
mated to be worth about $2QQ.QQQ
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

Many of the largest Japanese war
ships have been equipped with wire
less telephones which operate success
fully for distances up t 100 miles.
Quails, part of the food of the Chill
dren of Israel when in the Wilderness,
are still numerous in Egypt; anc dur
Ing their yearly migration descend in
swarms.
1t is believed that the observatory
at Picking is the oldest in the world,
having been founded in 1870 by Kublai
Khan, the first emperor 81 the Mon.
goi dynasty.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
Human Resolves Weak.

What mockeries are eur most firm resolves,
To will is ours, but not toNexecute. We map our
future like some unknown coast, and say here
is a harbor, there a rock the one we will attain,
the other shun, and we do neither; some chance
gale springs up, and bears us far DER some un.
fathomed SEAL. E. Landon.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
Early DAYS of Eovnt

Predynastic Egypt consisted of various petty
states ranged along the banks of the Nile-this A.
600 years before Christ. The Egyptians had al
ready mastered the art of making textile fabrics by
spinning and weaving, and the men wore kits and
the women long robes. Wonderful pottery was
made, though this was done by moldlng, as the pot
ter's wheel was unknown. Gold, stone, ivory and
bone were made into ornaments and utensils. Boats
were used and the art of sailing was discovered.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

A device that vibrates the real light
on an automobile when the car stops
to warn following vehicles is the in
v~ention of a Philadelphia.
Out of 2,750,0O0 children in Eng
land between the Z of twelve and
sixteen, only 100000 received any
further education after thirteen, oc-
cording to the latest reports.
The Scouts of Baton Rouge, La, dis
covered by taking a census, that there
were 81 varieties Of trees in their
city, The grand total of trees of all
kinds Has 14.S03
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
SOME P~osTscRIPTs

There is said to be more unexplored
country in Brazil than in all the rest
of the world put together.
The gibbon is the smallest of The
manlike apes. The gorilla, which is
often six feet high, is the largest of
the apes.
AS a result Of the special one-cent
assessment to organize women, approx
imately 10000 women workers have
Joined the trade union movement with
In a year
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
When the Mikado,a onld

The Japanese do not sleep on Eu-
ropean beds, but OF many thick, soft
puffs piled n on top of each other
upon the floor. For bed covering they
use more of the same kinds of puffs.
1t is said that the Japanese emperor
has 200 such ruffs. One of those which
coyer him is made in the shape of a
kimono and has a velvet collar. Prob
ably he creeps inside of this If he feels
cold in the night.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31
Assist Nature IN eardens.

In garden building never initiate
nature with intent to deceive; but
where natural beauty already exists
make use of 1t, and add to it. Banks
to be restrained often have large out
cropping rocks; make use of them.
even If remainder of wall is Of dis
tinctly different material. Merely as
sist nature.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

A trap has been invented TO catch
rats as they try to enter a ship by
climbing o hawser as 1t is moored In
port :
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

Brookfeld, VT, enjoys the distinc-
ton of possessing the first library or
ganized in the state.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-03-31

.HAT the common house fly is the great
est menace to human life In temperate
regions the highest medical and scien-
ti6c authorities in the United States
u and Europe are now generally united in
II declaring.
The dissemination through this in
sect of tho nnidnmin inPnntiln nnrnlrrin
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-13
"SAvE RUSSIA" MASS
MEETING IS PLANNED

New York, Sept. 10.-The Ameri-
can-Alliance for Labor and Democracy
Of which Samuel Gompers is president
announced tonight the list of speakers
for the "Save Russia" mass meeting
to be held next Saturday night in
Madison Square Garden. Charles Ed
ward Russell and James Duncan,
members Of the recently returned Am
erican mission to Russia, will be the
principal speakers. William B. Will
son, secretary of labor, Clarence Dar-
row and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise also
will address the meeting.
eve must make it clear to Russia
quickly" says a statement issued by
the alliance, "that the working people
of America are in solid support of the
war, that the nation is a unit in the
war, and that there can be no peace
except peace that will guarantee
democracy to the world"
The Devils Lake world and inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1915-1920, 1917-09-13

sewer system. The water supply
comes from a reservoir with a capa-
city of 100000 gallons. This, it is
estimated, will be emptied twice daily
when the full quota of 45,165 men ar
rive and are under training.
The heating system for the vast
camp will cost in the neighborhood of
half a million dollars. It provides for
semi-central steam heating plants To-
Gated at different points throughout
the camp.
A total of 33,500,00O feet of lumber
was used in constructing the buildings.
Into such a city has come the draft
ed men from North Dakota with those
from Minnesota, Iowa and part Of Il
linois.
Thus far it is evident that the gov
ernment's plan for raising and train
ing an army by selective draft will
prove success.
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n. P. TELEGRApAERS
TAKE STRIKE [ VOTE.

st. Paul, Mimi, Sept, 10.-Follow-
ing the refusal of the Northern Paci-
ic railroad to grant the Is per- cent
increase in pay asked by it's 1900 tele-
graphers, the men are taking strike
vote among the local unions. The re-
suit of the vote is expected to be
known within week.
Taking of the strike vote, it is said,
does not necessarily mean that the
men will strike, but rather that the
men will continue to hold out for the
Is per cent increase.
"The total average earnings of the
telegraphers on the Northern Pacific
at present is $96.51 per month";" M.
H. Clapp, superintendent of the tele-
graph said today. "We have offered
the operators an increase of 8.32 per
cent. which will make the scale of the
Northern Pacific in excess of the wa
ges paid by other roads in our terri
tory"
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Pen GUARDS STABBED;
CONVICT SHOT
HAD BEEN IN DUNGEONS
MEN HAD BEEN IN SOLITARY
CONFINEMENT SINCE THEIR
PREVIOUS OUTBREAK.

Joliet, ILL.,, Sept. 11.-A riot occr-
red in the state prison yesterday.
One convict, H. Wiemand, was shot
through the lung by a guard. Mich
ael Marks, a guard, was stabbed in
the throat; L. Il. Shotwell, was stab
bed in the abdomen and Charles Wal
ters, guard was stabbed in the alb
domen. The rioters numbered fifty,
including fifteen ringleaders in the
riots of two months ago. The fifteen
lead by Wiemand, had been in solitary
confinement until recently. Twenty
convicts broke from the line Sunday
Wiemand seizing a spade began 5.
threaten Guard Clarkson, who shot
Wiemand. The trouble broke out
again at the same hour this morning.
In the melee three guards were stab
bed.
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|, ", ". MEMBERS
QUIT ORGANIZATION

jamestown, N. D., Sept. 11.-"1'm
through with the I. w. w. and their
methods. I believe in organized la
Dor, but not anarchism and the blood
thirsty tactics employed by members
of that gang"
B. Hoover, held in the county Jail
here as witness in the Kensal shoot
ing affray Of last week, in which two
transients were shot in cold blood by
five I. w. WIS made this statement to
Sheriff James H. Ross in telling his
story of the affair. Hoover boarded
the train at Valley City with about
80 other I. w. WIS. Herald and Cru
Der, the two "wobblers" shot by their
five comrades in arms also boarded
the train when Hoover got on.
"The five hold-up artists went thru
nearly all of us on the train," said
Hoover. They stuck me up against
the side of the box car was riding
in, but I didn't have cent, SO they
let me CO."
Cruel tactics of the bandits in
shooting down of Herald and Grube'
were also described by Hoover.
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GRADUATION At
GENERAL HOSPITAL
THREE YOUNG LADIES RECEIVE
THEIR DIPLOMAS FRIDAY EV.
ENING.

Bipfon1as for the completion of the
nurses training course at the General
hospital will be awarded t oa class of
three tomorrow evening at gradua-
tion exercises in the assembly room of
the institution. The young ladies who
have completed the course are: Clara
Louise Fowler, Michigan City; Elsie
Lavina Stenson, city; Alice Gertrude
Torrey, Cando.
The program:
National anthem. s'e
Prayer, Rev. c. E. Stinson.
Address, Judge Cowan.
Musical selection, Mrs. C. I. Ner-
haugen.
Address, Rev. A. c. Barron.
Musical selection, Mrs. r. r. Young.
Address, E. F. Flynn.
Musical selection, Mrs. C. A. Conant
Address, DR.. E. r. Lihder.
Musical selection. Mrs. ]. A. Moran.
Presentation Of dipomaast pins,
President, DR.. w. F. Sih1er.
Benediction, Rev. C. E. Stinson.
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INSURANCE COMPANY
TO ELECT OFFICERS

At the Commercial Club rooms in
this city Saturday afternoon, Sept, Is,
the organizers of the North Dakota
Publishers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company will hold their first meeting
for the purpose Of electing their first
set Of officers and to transact such 9TH
er business as may come up. This
company has recently been organized,
and will start out under very favora-
BILE circumstances. Mutual fire insur-
ance companies have proven a great
success in North Dakota, and have
saved policy holders much money, and
this company will do a general fire
insurance business, taking only choice
risks, and we predict that it will have
a bright future.
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records and makes it difficult, if not
impossible, to credit the board for a
portion of it's quota.
Dealing with the subject of aliens,
the provost marshal has sent out the
following information:
All Citizens Eligible
"The deputy commissioner of natur-
alization advises this office that thou
sands of alien registrants on June S
have declared their intention to be-
come citizens Of the United States
since that day. If such persons were
registered on June S and if, since that
day, have become declarants, they are
subject to the draft. In particular
cases the local boards can determine
whether or not persons have declared
their intention by writing to the coun-
ty commissioner Of naturalization at
Washington, who will be glad to fur
nish the information very promptly"
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CANADIAN wheat
PRICE FIXED At $2.21

Ottawa, Sept. 1.-THE Canadian
board of grain supervisors has fixed
the prices for the Canadian wheat
crop Of 1917, at Fort Williams and
Port Arthur as follows:
Manitoba Northern No. 1, 1921;
Northern No. 2, $2.18; Northern No.
8, $2.15; Alberta Red Winter No. 1;
$2.21; Red Winter No. 2. $2.18; Red
Winter No. 8, $2.15.
It is understood the Canadian prices
are the same for the three grades O.
dark spring Northern and dark ho-''
winter at Minneapolis and Du'-
1t is stated that prices for other
Canadian grades will be announced a:
soon as the authorities have more in
formation.