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Insects Take Big Toil c!ach Year ftmy Aie Found Every*here and Ar» More Numerous Than Hu man Race. Damage to All. Man in his more egotistic mo menta has called this the age of man; but let us see if insects nave not a valid claim to this distinction hi this remarkable world in which we live says Omrr 1 aw. The grounds on which Mr. Lee maker, this stateemnt, are as follows: In the first place there arc five times •a many more insects as there are the various kinds of animals put together. One can hardly think of n thing that cannot be inhabited or infected hy some kind of an insect as they gre found in tha air, water in the ground, in the best kept homes and id practically all foods, even tobac co. also red pepper, however the two last items mentioned may not be classed as foods, yet insect.* hiber nate and thrive on these two coy: modities. In fact there are very few if any plants which do no. have from three to five different kinds or types of insects whii h prey upon them. In fact there are in Cects that even bore into lead ca bles and causing trouble such as ahort circuits, which is an incon venience to the consumer of public Utilities, as well as an added cost. The toll of insects taken from the agricultural crops of this coun ty alone is staggering, as it runs Into millions, and from a nation'll standpoint billions of dollars an nually, saying nothing of the dam age done to domestic stock by ths various types of insects and disease carried by them alone; as an ex ample I sight you to the inefficien cy of a cow which is fighting flies. Some of our best -.uihorities ere quoted as follows that a cow fight ing flies trill decrease in her lpilk production from a ouart to two quarts aril a half dailv from her Usual giving, however th's depends largel * upon her capacity as a milk giver. The damage done to food pro ducts which are stored as well as tobacco, furniture and clothing can hardly be estimated and natur ally no estimate can be placed on the loss of human life caused by di sease* carried by disease tarrying la sects, in-as-much as last year flics alone were responsible for the death mt 75,000 babies in the United States. It is almost Impossible to enum erate the various kinds of insects, but of them all there are only two which are considered beneficial to humanity, namely the silk worm and It produces over two hundred million dollars worth of silk annu ally; next is the honey bee whien produces better than twenty mil lion dollars worth of honey each year in the United States alone. Mrs. B*-1k Tynli-il Bxsmp’e 01 Woman Who l.ivcd In Shoe. tyntonvillo N. C.—fINSV-Mi Amanda Belk, 70, near hero, 1- n Hying example of the woman ihrt lived in n shoe end had no many children she didn’t, know what to do. Mrs. Belk boast* of having T.’.'l descendant*all of them living, She has 11 children HO gvand rbUdrcn, and lG.’l great grand eh’Mrcn. The" agtMl woman admitted that she didn’t know them nil—rot iquite. But many an afternoon, she says, she reaps a lot of pleasure in going over the Hat to find out Just how many she really is ac 4P«.lnted with. Mrs. Belk had a total of 10 children, and all of them grew to maturity except one. There wjr< eight boy* and eight girls. Practically all of Mrs. Balk’s de scendants live in Mecklenburg and adjoining counties. Mrs. Belk spends her time with various children, several of which live here. FRENCH CHILD. AC ED 2 SPEAKS FOUR TONGL’EH fBy International News Service.) Lyons, France.— W i n ni fried Tierney, aged two, of Lillie, is claimed to be the youngest child to speak four languages. Recently she whs put through • tfttt. and answered questions in French, English, German, ’ and ■iodera Creek. Both her parents arc able to •peak ten languages. MEN SITS ON 36 EGGS, THEN HATCHES 35 CHICKS Cbestor.—Urs. J. Foster Carter, who lives in Armenia section of Chester county, has an unusual ken, and one that many believe ip • record breaker, in hatching a large number of eggs. The hen Stole her nest in an obscure place gnd when discovered was sitting on 86 eggs. Out of this number she botched 35 chicks. It’s too late to reform after the undertaker 1» called. ¥ * Hit I I I Vhen Baby Was Christened By H. IRVING KING MrilVIN JONES. mitllniisty*. went to ii balrdre-serV to liav" bis hair cut. Having been operated upon for the hair lie thought he would go to 'i|f’ extrav agance of having Ills n.iiia mani cured. “Aliys Camberwell." said t'neman <i geresx will vou of the manicure room, please attend lo this gen tleman?” The name of the young woman ! who wax assigned to him gave old Mjirvln a mental jolt, lie looked at her keenly across the little table while she prosecuted her profes i itintint ministrations and tried to keep up mechanically, the patter all manicure girls are supposed to reel off. "What part of the country are you from?'' he asked abruptly. “New England," she replied -and named a small manufacturing town in that section. “Any relation of Roger ('amber well?'" asked Marvin. ■lie was my father,” replied the young woman, looking tit the old man with iiniulritig eyes. "Did you know him':'' “Hum-! Yes, slightly,” hesitat ed the millionaire. ' He's dead, I believe?' ■ “Yes, sir," said Miss Camberwell, “he died five years ago.” .Marvin asked -further, questions; tin* opera Hon went on in silence— and the millionaire paid his ticket and went off. leaving no Up and not even saying good-by." All the wily to his gorgeous pal ace of a house on Fifth avenue, when- the childless widower lived alone with n spinster sister, the man of millions was in deep thought. So that was what Roger Camberwell's daughter had come to, was it? Well, lie did not wonder. Roger never was n busi ness man. If he had been well. If he had been, perhaps Murvln Jones would not have had us much money us h ■ hud now. Ho look up his library telephone, and half tin hour litter u young man reported lo him for orders. It was the young man's business to llnd out things for people who could pay. The next evening the young man made Ids report: "Rerthu Camberwell, manicurist. Small sal ary. I,Ives In Ii cl map hoarding house. is twenty four years old. Engaged to Uoscoe Rainier, aged ! twenty six, formerly In office of the Murqunrd Canning company. Now util of a Job because .of disso lution of firm. Too poor lo get mini-led." i "1 don’t know why l Teei mis way, ; about Unit Kil l," thought Mur\in. J “As to my eheutlng her father,] that's nonsense, True, l might; Imve kept our firm going; lull j Hotter would always have been u drag. Never made a sureess with j him In the game. Wlvat could 1 j do l»ut sipieere him out? l'oimdn-i tlon of my fortunes? Yea; iutt It couldn't lie helped, linger was hope j less." A few days later J’.orthn recalved a letter from Mufvln, hrtitally di rect and offering her monetary us sUlHiiee ns "n friend of her fam ily." She sent hack an Indignant refusal of Marvin's assistance. She would “accept no help from the infill who had ruined her father." Old Marvin * Ire rose. >"She's got about ns much money souse as her father," In* stormed. "Ain I going to he defied hy a silly girl?" To her surprise when ltertlm told Itoscoe of her refusal of the mil lionaire’s offer he did not show the enthusiasm she had expected. I "Perhaps you did right," said he "but 1 do hate to see you working; the way you do. And I can’t seem j to get a Jiih anywhere." A week later Itoscoe blew In like! an eluleil whirlwind, "Out the best |i,|> | ever had In inv life," he an-j nounced. “Cotitldentlnl man for j Houghton, I'yrslsdrs & Go. Sent] fur me! Said they hud heard of! the good work I did with the can-j njng eompany. Got a three years’! contract. Glad you rejected old nmn Jones' offer, lie and his money can go to Jericho. You re-1 sign your position the first thingi tomorrow morning. And now name! the day. old girl.” And ltertlm named the day. Itoscoe had been In the employi of Houghton, f'nrstalrs & Go. for n year, and there was a little; stranger In the cradle at home, be fore he found out that the hacker of the firm—the man who, secretly, furnished the funds for Its stje eessful operation — was Murvln ■Tones. This exciting Ids suspicions, In* mn mi god to worm out of one of the partners that It was owing to Murvln that he had been taken into the firm's employ. "So the old geez er had Ids way about helping Iter thn after £Hll,’’ thought he. When he went home that night he told ltertlm. ttertha thought deeply for a minute and then looking at the sleeping baby, said: "I.et us for give him- for baby’s sake, ltosslf. If he eonld only see babv now !" And Mu' next day he wrote n note to Mttfvln stating he hnd Just become aware of the fact that he owed his position to the said Mr. .Tone#—and thanking him for thm interest tie had taken In ids wel fare. Also he extended the thanks of Mrs. Itoscoe—and “mentioned the baby! Old Marvin chuckled. .'"Didn’t Ret the best of me, did she?” he laughed. And then he went tn see ttie baity and started a bank account for that. Infantile wonder. He Insisted, however, on choosing one of the names tty which' the baity was clirlstenfd—and that t* why the son of itoscoe and Ttertha was hattllsecd ns itoscoe Peace maker Palmer. The 7 year old daughter of Mrs. Russell Price dashed through fames and saved two younger "h'ldron from an upper bedroom when her home burned at Belle ville, Ont. Dental Leaders To Study ‘Trench Mouth’ For Check < By International New# Service,) Boston.—So rapid has been the increase in the number of ca.-.es of the so-called "trench mouth” dis ease in this section of the country that dental authorities are making extensive investigations and ef forts to check the spread. Evidently a back-wash' of the war period, where conditions in the fighting areas aided materially in the spread of this disease, its presence was not unusually notice able until recently. With reported outbreaks of the disease at Smith and Amherst colleges intensive in vestigations were undertaken. The Tufts College dental school undertook a study of the disease and examined more than 1,100 mouths. Their investigations found that the number of cases wars in creasing with alarming rapidity. The college report revealed that "trench mouth” seems to exist mostly among business men, stu dents and housewives, between the age of 20 and 30 years. It is an infectious disease, contracted by personal contact. The more com mon ways of contracting are kiss ing, and eating and drinking from i|ten#ils used by infected indivi duals. Some cases are known to have been contracted merely us ing public telephones. Cost Of Airships Drops 90 Percent With New Invention (By Charles A. I'mith, INS Staff Correspondent.) London;—-Nine-tenths of the costs of a*rship construction are eliminated, it is claimed, with a new type of airship, based on re volutionary lighter-than-air nrin- , eiples, which is now being built in England by a small private com pany with the approval of experts of the British Air Ministry. The development of a new de sign for the internal rigging, with out loss of strength or rigidity, has made cheapness of construction possible. While it is not claimed that the ship now being built vies in size or weight lifting capacity with the two luxury shipt now . under construction for the British ; government, the proportionate ini-1 tial cost is said to he astonishing.: The shift is the invention of three men. It will carry twenty men. including crew and naviga tor, in addition to its load of fuel, and is designed to bo easily man ageable in all weathers. Motive power to four air screws, is pro vided by four seventy-five horse power Cirrus engines. The speed will be approximately 70 miles per hour. Raleigh Sportsmen Will Attempt to Traverse North Carolina by Motor Between Suns. Raleigh.—North Carolinians are not being outdone entirely by New York to Paris and around the world airplane endurance tests- - two Capital city sportsmen hav* figured out a unique endurance test on the Tar Heel road system. “From the Atlantic to the Ten nessee border by daylight," is their slogan. They are planning the trip by automobile over the longest route, from Currituck to Tennes see line west of Murphy, in Chero kee county. The distance, roughly, is wo miles. The pull is uphill by taking it from east to west, but the sports men have figured that more is to be gained by going west and gaining the advantage of more than r.n hour’s additional daylight than tak ing it downhill and working it against the sun. "Forty miles an hour, on an av erage will do it,’’ they declared, after looking up road conditions and mileages, adding that of Course on the good stretches it would be necessary to turn up high speeds in orde-r to make up for enforced stops and slow progress through cities. The men have announced the make of the car they will use on the trip hut not the date for the at tempt, but they have tentatively selected the latter part of June on account of the length of the days then. Initial nlans called for a straight run up Route 10 from Morehead City to Murphy—about 40 miles j nearer and better roads, as a whole j but it was decided to attempt the J more difficult of spanning state, at its extreme dimensions. ' Routings are still incomplete but i the layout at present calls for de parture from Currituck Sound raj soon as it is light enough to pick I the way toward Elizabeth Citv, and | from there to travel routes No. 34, 30, 00 and 1£> in as nearly a direct, route as possible. Changes may have to be made at both ends, they snid, depending onj possible use of a ferry across Albe marle Sound, and the conditions of j the road from Murphy to the Ten-! nessee line. i Michigan Merchants Study Ford Stores In Effort To Learn Business Method (By International News Service.) Detroit.—An accounting firm re presenting the Michigan Retail Merchants association is studying the books of the comm insane of the Ford Motor company’ to learn the merchandising methods of the Ford general food stores. The Ford company has discon tinued selling to the general public employes and members , ot their families being identified by n special checking system linked with their factory badge numbers. The general public was barred from the Ford stores after the Michigan Retail Merchants assoc iation protested that Ford stores were cutting into their sales. On a $12,000,000 business in 1026 the Ford stores showed a $400,000 profit, it is claimed. The retailers say this is gross profit, not net profit, and that with their overhead they are lucky to make three percent. They point out that Ford, in addition to his large buy ing power, has not the same over head to cope with. The Ford company replied that there was something “radically wrong” in the buying methods used by the merchants and invited an investigation of the Ford way. Results of the investigation will be published. Indianapolis Real Estate Men Appraise ‘Air Space’ At Half The Value of Ground (By International News Service.) Indianapolis.-—Air eighteen feet above the ground is worth one-half of the ground beneath it for build ing construction, the Indianapolis Real Estate board has estimated. In appraisal of the air in , con nection with the petition of the L. S. Ayres department store, one of the largest in this city, for per mission to span Pearl street in extending their building, the es timate for the 3,000 square feet of air space £ver tho thoroughfare was $62,500 or $20.83 a square foot. The board, in preparing the es timate, considered the ground valuation at the same place as $41.66 a square foot. The store owners must pay the city the $62,500 for their over head floor space. The appraisal was the first estimate of air rights ever undertaken in Indianapolis. Vassar College Girl Athlete Put Ban On Cigarette* In Training For Sport* (By International Now,'. Service.) Poughkeepsie. N. Y.—L a d y Nicotine and lady athletes may not fraternize on the campus of Vassar College, the Vnssar Athle tic association has just ruled. Dur ing the period of training and col lege athletic activity the jade cig aret holder, the trick mechanical lighter and all of the other para phernalia that. goes to make up milady’s genteel smoking set, must be put away in moth balls while the lady athlete inhales noth in? more pungent than pure air. “No girl who goes in for a major sport may smoke during the time, from one week prior to the first game until the end of the season.’’ the rule says. “In case of track the prohibition covers the entire period of training.” Members of the athletic board explained that the ruling was modelled on similar rules in men’s colleges. Orifl Of Porillation From Farm To City Causes Concern To Country’s Economists (Dy International News Service.) Washington.—The drift of r>'>n ulaiion from the farms to the cities that has been causing deep con cern to economists in recent years as to the future agriculture in the United States, broke all records in 1926, according to the department of agriculture. Statistics compiled by the - de partment’s bureau of economies, show a decretive of 6th.000 in the country’s farm nopt:*a*ion losi year, reducing the total of 27, 892 090, a net, loss of 2.3 p°r cent. It is -estimated that 2,155,000 persons moved from farms to cities and 1.135,000 from ei. ies to | farms, a net shift of 1,020,000 away from the farms. To lh'- is added 287.000 farm deaths, offset, by 655,000 births, leaving the net; farm loss at 659,0f0. The drift away from the farm j was not confined to any one sec-; tion, the loss ranging from 1.4 perj cent.,to, 3 per cent in every geo-, graphic division of the country. Denver Boy, 13, Preaches.‘Straight Gosoel’ To School Mates In Back Yard Pulpit (By International News Service) Denver.—Pennies of Denver school children will be pooled to purchase the one-time Denver home of Eugene Field, beloved American children’s poet and newspaperman, if* the plans of Mrs. J. J. Brown, prominent Den ver, New York and Newport soc iety matron, are carried out. Field, who worked for a time on the old Denver Tribune, occupied a modest home near Denver’s civic center. Mrs. Brown has taken an option on the house, and is em ploying landscape gardeners and interior decorators to renovate the ■ place. She plans to hold entertain ments in the public schools to finance the purchase of the home,1 and has secured the cooperation of Katherine Craig, state superin tendent (jf public instruction. Relics of Field’s occupancy will be assembled and placed in the house May 1, whon a “house-; warming” will be held. If enough, gifts are forthcoming, the house' will be made a shrine for Field relics. ! U. S. Admits 216,454 Immigrants In Eight Months; Quotas All Full (Bv International News Service.) Washington.—Three-fourths of. the immigrants now coming to the United States are in the prime of' life—16 to 44 years of age—ac cording to the immigration bureau of the department of labor. During the first eight months of the current fiscal year there were admitted 162,874 within these age limits. Children under 16 number ed 34, 152 or about 16 per cent of the total, while 19.455 or 9 per cent were 45 or over. The ratio of males and females was approximately 5 to 4. Of the 216,454 immigrants re ceived, Europe contributed 108.196 and North and South America 104,781. The other 3,477 being from other scattered parts of the world. Canada Sends Most Canada, with 59,29, and Mexico \ with 37,675, led in numbers of im migrants. None of the countries ; on the American continent are un der quota restriction as are the countries of Europe. The Euro , pcan countries as a whole have consumed right up to the limit of; their monthly quota allotments, Laborers topped the list for the eight months with 31,564. Servants ranged next with 20,558. Farm lab orers, numbering, 14,280 were! third. Classed as skilled workers ■were 39707, of which 12.336 were clerks and accountants. In the building trades were 5,820. Iron, steel and other metal workers numbered 5, 264. In the textile apparel groups were 4.055. The professional classes totalled 8,073, teachers leading with 1,943. There were 1655 professional en- i gineers, 940 electricians 719; clergymen, 421 musicians. 346 physicians, 295 architects 255 lit erary and scientific persons. 116! actors, 115 sculptors and artists, 1 and 125 lawyers. Commercial groups included 2.- j 'S33 merchants, 1,276 agents, 134 manufacturers 108 hotel keepers afld 86 bankers. Many Women and Children Women and children without occupation numbered 83.979. Farm ers other than farm laborers totall ed 6,981. Fishermen numbered, 741. There also were 58.489 classed as non-immigrants, including 22 temporary visitors for pleasure, 14.3Q4 temporary visitors on busi ness, 16,935 ir, transit through the United States. ,3,652 government officials, their families and at tendantes and 8189 here to carry on trade, under existing treaties. New York continues to attract and hold the great bulks of the immigrant one out of every four admitted settling in that state, the total for the eight months be ing 56,231. Texas drew 23,149, chiefly Mexicans. Other states re ceiving 10,000 or more were Massachusetts, New Jersey, Mich igan. Pennsylvania, Illinois and California. ITALY’S SOLDIERS RELIEVED OF’HEAVY ARMY PACKS (By International News Service.) Rome.—- Out-of-breath soldiers. [ will be unknown in the Italian army henceforth. Announcement is made inat the j Italian Ministry of’War has decid-1 ed to abolish the pack carried by infantrymen, the change being; made in the interests of mobility, i The Italian soldier of the future I will carry only a rifle, sidearms, t ami the necessary equipment. ' | The change does not apply to i artillerymen and Alpine troops. Co-Eds in St. Louis University Laugh As Bachelor Club Members Desert (By International News Service.) St. Louis.—The Bachelor club of St. Louis University is tottering and the co-eds of the school are laughing up their sleeves, if ever theyy wear those old-fashioned things. Twenty members of the club have been “fired," and this num ber represents half the member ship. Most of those dropped from the roster were found loitering too frequently in the hallways with fair'sex. Others were found guilty of violating the rule against hav ing more than two ‘dates” a month with the same girl. At one time, the club mourns, they were members in good stand ing. Doctors Took Out Man’s Appendix; Sewed Safety Pin And Tube Inside Auburn, Ind.—-After carrying around a safety pin and five-inch drain pipe for 2 1-2 years sewed up in his abdomen following an operation for appendicitis at La fayette, Ind,, in 1924, Lloyd Deutsch, of Collins, Ind., now is recovering from a second opera tion which relieved him of the ex cess baggage. Physicians here marvel that ihe man is alive. He complained con stantly since his first operation of never feeling well, but an X-ray examination revealed nothing. About six weeks ago Deutsch took a job hauling freight at the Pennsylvania freight depot here. A few weeks ago his side became black extending around to the small of his back and including the front of his abdomen. Finally a swelling like a boil developed on his right side. A local physician made an in cision. As the skin parted, the doc tor got a pair of pliers arid began to pul! at something in the swelling. In the words of Dcutsch > he thought the doctor was pulbng his whole side out," The physician pulled out a safety pin und a rub ber drainage tube. Dcutsch immediately began to feel better and is now on the road to complete recovery. A Colorado psychologist says | that each kiss shortens the lives ! of the kissed amtf kissee three i minutes, in which case some folk? haven’t much of a future. I Science goes on saving life, dig ging into the earth’s secrets; in , creasing ihe chance of !if“ and im | proving health, while Ignorance 1 looks on and seers. Science goes forward, while Ignorance. like Lot’s wife, looks backward.. Television Ghosts^ In Waves Of Ether Worry Scientist (By International News Service New York.—Both scient -u - spiritualists have been g;Veti new line of study a > sujt‘ the development of televisor cause of the insistar.ee of •e-r, to tread the ether wa\ only honest television photom™ are supposed to walk. ost who The first unorothdo:; api*araac of the “ghosts” was noted in tj| Bell Telephone company ja^r tories here while pictures being received in experiment) tests from Station 3-X.N at pany, N. J. Although the photo grahs of only one individual wet being transmitted from the send ing station, extra images. ,ome times two ai d three, apja.ared 01 the receiving screen. 1 h<-y less distinct than the true image and had many characteristics -2 “spirit photographs.” Scientists and radio engineer! have advanced the the. .r;, that tfci “ghosts” were caused by the radio signals taking as many a four ot five different paths ugh thi air. 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