The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-02-17

take out long worm that you could
not see with a spy glass.
Take a purple martin. They feed
In the air upon the insects. gnats,
purple martin and kept him locked
up couple OF days Then they
turned him about 8 o'clock In the
evening and let him ny In the air for
an hour. and then shot him. They
! opened his craw and he had 5000
mosquitoes and snats In his craw In
Il Ina "a. u, ,,s,x :. .a. 49,, !.
SSyAss a gun ard shoot a, chicken ~ho VIZ
that wants TO catch hen that would
not cook in ten TO forty eight hours.
j will tell you about that chicken
hawk He couldn't find any more
mice and rats and gophers out there
in the field. and he came around to
the barnyard.
Owf Steals Chicken.
Take the owl He will come and
steal the chicken off tho roost. IL he
can't find any more rats and wea-
seis, so he tries to come around and
find something TO eat He's been
working for you. and You ought to
pay him. Why. the potato bug cost
the farmer sic, 200, 900 last year: the
boll-weevilI cost him 100000, goo; the
Hessian fly cost him $4,000 900; the
graSShopper $115,0oo.oQe.
| Take the Panama canal--the peo-
pie died down thereby the thousands
by the mosquito that would bite them
and start yellow fever. They brought
a thousand Cinnamon down there.
and they died htty a da5, and three
hundred OF them walked deliberately
out onto the beach and sat down and
let the incoming tide engulf them.
The mosquito defeated them. Uncle
Sam bought the right from the com
pAny- He went down there, sent the
1 doctors Down there. They drained
the ponds and put In perrnangenate
OF potash until the death rate In the
Panama canal today IL iess than It IN
in New York city.
The mosquito defeated the French.
They couldn't build a big canal with
him there on the job. so our doc
tors went down to CubaS and spent
Their lives and found out that yellow
fever comes from the mosquito bite.
They changed 1t until we'll never have
any more yellow fever.
| Little things-oh, yes. Why,
Harvard professor went to England
years ago. and he brought back \ tiny
male and female gypsy moth He
wanted to cross them with our silk
worm moth. He had them In n little
hne mesh net out in his yard. They
sping the wind came and tore that
net. and they escaped They threat
ened to annihilate the shade trees OF
New England. and In Massachusetts,
Connecticut and Rhode Island they
have appropriated millions of dollars
just to figh. the gypsy moth. He has
already killed nearly every chestnut
tree in the country. Little thing
yes, but just see what RES done
a ia al IN AL Ca
in l77S they had gigantic engine
there to furnish power for the expo
sition. Everybody said il couldn't be
done. OF course, they always do! So
got all ready and gave the signal. The
engineer opened the throttle. bot n
wouldn't move, and the man that
made H. rushed up ard examined the
/ f,y-whee1, and II wouldn't move.
&. They View Discouraged
| They were discouraged Everybody
was waiting and said, ~ told You
So"
Then. bye and bye. he WINS turning
away broken hearted. when his face
lighted up like n halo OF glory. He
caught sight OF a little piece OF steel
he could hold In his hand. between
his fingers Il can make the most ex-
pcnstve locom olive absolutely junk
with little nail / can make them
perfectly useless with tenpenny
nafl-) He said. 'Here's the trouble"
and re showed that IN place. frightened
a bolt. put a little oil on the bearings.
and said. Try her now" and all the
machinery in the entire exposition
! WAS humming with power. II was g
little thing. but IT parAlyzed the great
engine.
That may he your trouble. You
have too little communion with him
and his word, I think one of the
signs Of the mental and moral degen-
GRAFTON in our day II the ignorance
God. That Ia one OF the inevitable
signs of the degeneration OF our day.
and examine their knowledge Of the
Phelps OF Yale
He said II he could h.ve his way,
he would make an examination Of
the English Bible . condition upon
which any student could enter any
institution In America II you gather
| together all the graduates Of college,
and examine their knowledge Of the
( Rtbie. the result would be the ereat-
est nonsense you ever read
| Heard . Doctor Sssy.
| heard a doctor say. IF the aver
about his profession and treatment
than the average church member
knows abont the word Of God 1t
wopid be pretty bad"
! Oh. this iamentable ignorance
about God and Gods word as revealed
| in the Bible, Years ago. Mr.. Wanna
maker was po,'tInaster- General Of the
| United States The Indian chiefs
, from the Reservations out West came
to Washington to interview the great
| president
Mr.. wanamAker was presiding over
the conference. One Of the chiefs adj
dressed tho conference--with all his
paraphcrnAiia,--a magnificent spcci-
men OF manhood He said, "Our
homes are not like your homes. Our
! women arc not like your women. We
don't live Ike the white man lives,
| What medicine must we take? Whist
10 the troubie7 Tell me that may
go back and tell our people in the
! wigwams,"
Ea,or- General o. o. Howard sat on
the platform. He wore an empty
coat sleeve at his SIDE. He Jumped to
his feet and he rushed up and seized
the Bible and 'ifred II above his head.
He replied, "Nr, Chief. tefl the poor
i Indian that that In the medicine ne
needs. That's the medicine that will
change the whole world That's the
! medicine that will turn every red light
! into an abode OF worship