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New Memorial Operating Table •
A splendid new and thoroughly up-
to-date operating table has (been pres-
tented to the Goderich' hospital by' Mr.
'T. T. Ehnimerson, of Pete 1boro, in
meal cry of his brother, the late Dr.
Emmerson. The ceremony of pres-
/,entation 'too'k place quietly on Mon-
day evening at the. hospital, Dr. W.
'G. Callow m'a'king the presentation on
behalf of the donor and the splendid
gift was received iby the •president of
the 'hospital, 'Mr. G. L. Parsons, who
'expressed the gratitude of the beard,
and by Dr. Martin, who expressed
the gratitude of the medical men of
the town. The new table periirits of
ranch greater variety of position of
the patient than the old one and on
that account has advantages the old
one did not possess. The 'old tabic,
when it was presented many years
ago, was the gift of the late Dr.
Alex. Taylor. It will be retained and
both tables will be available for use.
an addition to the medical 'm'en o£
town, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Emvmersor
of Peter'boro ,were tpresenf.---•IGoderich
Star.
Unemployment Over
Col. H. B. and Mrs. Combe return-
ed last week from an eight-hundred-
xn'ile motor trip, including a ,trip to
North bay, Sudbury, a visit to Mani-
toulin •Island and home by Tober-
irnory. While in Sudbury they were
guests of Col. Ham•mlond Smith, their
daughter, Miss Barry, going up to
visit Cole Smith's daughter, an old
school friend. Col. •Snrith, who serv-
ed with Wolseley in the first Reil Re-
bellion, is still active and interested
in various mining projects in the
north. He informed Col. Combe that
last winter Sudbury fed 1,100 Unem-
ployed, 1,700 are now employed and
they are advertising for more men,
so it looks as if the unemployment
problem is Over as far as that sec-
tion is concerned. Col. Combe says
that the mining town of Sudbury is a
busy place and the huge srruokestack-
of the town can be seen for eighteen
nniles.—Clinton News -Record.
Thursday Storm Did Much Good
After six weeks of hot, dry wee -
ether, the storm of last Thursday ev-
ening could be classed as a million -
dollar rain, and the cloudy weather
of Friday gave the rain a good chance
to soak into the ground. The storm.
accompanied by wind and hail, did
little damage except in 'Turnberry
which part apparently bore the brunt
of the storm. The 19th line seemed to
be hardest hit. At Jim Porter's the
top was blown off his silo and 12
apple trees blown down; at iMitehe4's
several trees were blown down and
many windows broken by flying
Sticks and hail; at Charlie James'
farm there was considerable window
.damage, the windmill was blown down
and a portion of the back kitchen
blown off; at' Jim Linklater's a par-
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tion of the •steel roof was torn front
his barn and ?many trees hi the bush
blown 'down. °Theme also was consid-
erable damage at Jlack Baird's and at
Will 'Campbell's. The hail in this dis-
triot was real heavy and practically
all crops were damaged to some ex-
tent. Very little dandage was reported.
(besides the aibove. .A portion of the
town- lights• were off for 'some time
but with no serious results.—Wing-
ham
esults: Wi"ng-
ham Advance -Times.
)horse Run away, Driver Injured
1Qn, (Saturday 'while Jack Nicholson,
eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. William
Nicholson, east boundary near Blue -
vale,: was drawing a barrel of water
on tht; stone boat, the team he was
driving becamle frightened and ran
away. Jack was thrown to the ground
and knocked unconscious. He sus-
tained a •broken collar !lone, also a
(broken rib and was (badly out and
bruised about the head and face.
Wlhile he will not be able to do much
work for a time his injuries are not
considered ofa serious nature.—
Wingha'm Advance -Times.
The Late John Walden
There passed \peacefully away on
Thrirsday, July 20th, at the home of
his son, in Hullett, a 'most respected
resident in 'the person of John Wal-
den, in his 8.9th year,.'.For same time
it was known that life's tenture was
short owing to his advanced age and
his death was expected for some
days. Born in Nbrfolk Coiinty, Eng-
land, he carne to Canada about 57
years ago, settling in East Wawan-
osh for nearly 25 years and in 1904
moved. to his ,),ate residence, Conces-
sion 14, Hullett. 'Hie was united in
marriage to Susanna Stapleton, who
predeceased hint nine years ago.
Those left to mourn' the loss of a
l.-dnd and loving father are four sons
and two daughters: Robert, of Mani-
toba; Jesse; of Saskatchewan; Wil-
lie;, of Wies•tfield, and Percy, at
homey; ' Mrs. Rachel Thompson, of
Hullett, and Mrs.• John 'Caldv0•ell, of
East eWawanosh. The funeral took
place on Saturday from his late resi-
lance,ser'v'ice 'being condul-°ted boy'
Rev, Dr. .Mortimore, of Auburn Unit -
:d Church; of which deceased was a
member. Interment was made in the
Union cemetery. The 'pallbearers
were 'Messrs. George and Henry
Yungblut, Wallace King, J. C. Stoltz,
E. Phillips and S. •Ball.--Bly th Stan-
dard.
Haws - Watts
The parsonage of 'North Street
United Church was the scene of a
pretty wedding at high noon on
Thursday, July 27th, when Ella Cor-
r'epa, elder daughter of Rev. Geo. 'T.
and Mrs. Watts, was united in mare
riags to Lester L. Haws, B.A., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Horace,, Haws, of Du-
luth, 'Minn. The ceremony was per-
formed by the bride's father in the
presence of the .immediate families.
Given in marriage by her uncle, Mr.
S. T. Dutiful, of Toronto, the :bride was
charmingly attired in blue lace and
carried a bouquet of Briardiffe roses
and sweet peas. The bridesmiaia was
Miss Alice Johnson, of London, who
wore a pretty dress of pink net. Her
bouquet was of. Johanna Hill roses
and "sweat peas.. Little Hazel Watts,
sister of the bride, was flower -girl.
She wore a dainty frock of yellow or-
gandie and carried an Irish -basket
of sweet peas. The groom was attend-
ed by Mr. Clayton Watts, brother of
the 'bride."Mr. Raymond F. Player,
organist of North Street Unite.
Church played the"wedding music and
during the signing of the register,
Miss Mary Purdy, of Landon, sang "0
Perfect Love." After the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Haws left on a honey-
moon trip w'hi'c.h will be 'spent at
Eastern points. For going away Mrs.
Haws chose a becoming costume in
beige with matching' accessories. Af-
ter Septesrlber 1st they will take up
residence at Flanders, Long Island,
N, Y.where Mr. Haws has been ap-
pointe,d pastor of th,e 'Methodist Ep-
iscopal Church. Guests were present
from Duluth, Minneapolis, Toronto,
Hamilton and London. — Goderich
Signal.
FF COLOUR ?
HQW IS , YOUR..::: (VER ?
Wake up your Liver Bile
—Without Calomel
Your liver's a very small organ, but it ser.. ,,
taiuly� eau put your digestive mad eliminative
organa out of kilter,by refusing to- pour out
dally two pounds oliquid bile into your bowels
You won't completely eorreet such a !septillion
by taking salts, oil, mineral water, laxative candy
or chewing gum, or roughage. When they've
moved your bowels they re through—and you
need a liver stimulant.
Carter's Little Liver P111, will soon bring back
the sunshine into your hfe. They're purely vege-
table. Safe. Sure. Aske for them by mune. ueurro
eubstitutea. 2&c at aII druggirts. ts
to him. What, he asks, is he pay
-
knows? . By the time he has climbed
from eortioration to corporation up
the coalmen badder that ,leads to the
distant apex of the financial pyra-
mid, the ordinary man is utterly lost.
Yet he thinks he is paying too much
for electricity, and tends to look up-
on gover;nmlent operation as a sanc-
tuary.
'The Merge Johnsons can stand on
their hills in the vast drainage bas-
ins of which the Tennessee Valley is
the hub and scan the whole horizon.
In every, direction lies the power of
potential wealth in timber, iron, coal,
potash, asphalt, bauxite, sulphur, as-
bestos, graphite, gas. And he is try-
ing to farm land a crow wouldn't fly
over witheut carrying his mon lunch.
'The Roosevelt plan for developing
this area is beautifully natural. It
will require 15 years to take form. It
has to do with an empire, a domain
that envelops all or parts of sixteen
States ---Tennessee, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri,
Illinois, Kentueky, Indiana, Ohio, the
Virginias, the Carolinas, Georgia and
Florida. The least each may expect
in 'benefits is flood control. The Ten-
nessee basin itself is but a patch of
land in the whole scheme: 14,0000,000
acres out of a total of 409,000,000
acres.
The plan. seeks, too, to take men
aiway fromrinpossible tasks .that tra-
dition has tied them to and put them
to work where. they will thrive. Merce"
Johnson is half starved; he hasn't had
ten dollars to spend in two years.
Well, get him out of that. Make him
a forester. Or nut him down on good
bottom land. Give him' light, heat
and health. t The thousand rushing
torrerts that feed the rivers are
howling with them.
The heart of the ambitious plan is,
of course, Wilson Dam and the two
gloomy nitrate plants built by the
Federal gotlernment back in 1917 and
1918 to produce nitrates for explos-
ives. The nitrate plants, which
could be making highly concentrated
fertilizsis, are now as idle as the
dogs; that snooze on the river banks.
Twice the government has tried to
induce private capital to take over
these dormant plants and manufac-
ture fertilizers. Now, under the Nor-
ris bill, the United States willtry it
alone.
To furnish cheaper power for these
plants, Wilson Dane was conceived.
Fully equipped, it might ,produce 612,-
)00 horsepower, more than all the
power used in the states of Tennes-
see, Kentueky, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Louisiana in the thriving year of
1927. -
You really should get out a map
to comprehend the rest of it ---the
whole project as seen by the engin-
eers. Trace the Tennessee from its
beginning at the confluence" of the
Clinch and 'Holston rivers and follow
it down until it empties into the Ohio
at Paducah, Kentucky. Pay particu-
lar attention to the intricate network
of its feeders and sub -feeders to the
east and north of 'Muscle Shoals.
With the dams and flood -water
catchment basins the engineers
would (build an this skein of creeks
and streams, somewhere between 4,-
000,000 and 6,000,000 horsepower
could be developed by a chain of
power plants. That represents en-
ough power to fill to -day's demands
of a territory one-fifth the area of
the U. S.
The Promised Land
(Merce Johnson is a poor Tennessee
farmer. At night he may stand on
his starveling land behind his decay-
ing cabin and behold the lights of
Wilson Dam at•'Musele Shoals; he can
hear the steady moan of the embat-
tled waters Charging through the
spillways.
All around 'Merce Johnson there is
power. The massive dam, 100 feet
high, flings its arms a mile wide and
holds back the Tennessee River. Beat.
ing upon its back is Wilson Lake,
surging for release, ready to furnish
unlimited power, Yet by the glow'
of a kerosene lamp Merce -Johnson
beds down his solitary mule. He won-
ders if the energy of Muscle Shoals
will ever light his evenings, cook his
meals, enrich his ..thin acres.
:Merce Johnson hears a great deal
of talk these days—talk that no man
can understand. He bears that the
government is going to keep the 'Ten-
nessee fromaolv7erfiowing in the spring
and make it possible to farm the rich
bottom land. He hears that they are
going to move him to that' bottom.
land, and turn his present farm into
timber land.And he hears that the
government will sell him cheap tele-
tricity. But he doesn't believe all this
talk. Didn't that lawyer man from
Birmingham comic along and tell him,
that the government doesn't know
anything shout' selling electricity ?
And are the local power people going
to tolerate any such crazy notions?
The average voter in the ntearby
Alabama towns is also baffled by the
arguments fol and against the.sale of
electricity by the 'novel- m nt. Wiry,
he wonder, ehoirld the individual con-
sumer. in the towns closes to Wilson
Dam be paying the Alabama Power
Ootnpany 8 cents a kilowatt-hour for
electricity that is purchased from the
•governnne t for 2,9 mills and manu-
factured y the government) even
Cheaper ? He gets an intricate legal
'answer having to do with distribution
costal la
capital outlays and such co-
+ntae'rent1 gibberish that nrledns tl'bthi rg
Time .1IrOtitettIte
tit Dem'ato e..
(CtsoUlenBed ix= The, Ri ort...
view in Magazine' (Digest)
'Germany to -day -is a seething, dan-
gerous volcano, a 'grand free-for-all,
where three nen strive' for a throne,
where 'a demagogue ruthlessly stum-
bles on in a mad quest ,for Trower, and
Where three women pulled the strings
in one of the most ai -Hazing (bits. of
intrigue the, modern world has known.
Behind the scenes in G&ermany is a
situation that might furnish the set-
ting for a comic opera, if the posse':
bilities of "disaster were not so great.
The three men battling for the
throne are the old Kaiser; his son the
Crown Prince Friedrich 'Wilhelm, and
the latter% son, the twenty-six year
old �Wilhelrn, who is said to be the
best of the lot.. Some months back
one •of them would have been given
the imperial scepter, were it not for
the rivalry between the Kaiser sad
his son and for the fact that both
were united against the young prince
whose ascnendancy would mean the
end of their dreams:
(While these three decorative' figures
occupy the back of the stage, in the
front of it is Hitler, the ex -house
painter, who struts nobly so long as
he is supported by the strong man of
Germany, former 'Chancellor Franz
von Papen, whom scarcely anybody
outside the monarchist circles sus-
pects of being the man of the future,
of haling the clearest mind in Ger-
man officialdom.
'Some day Hitler will very likely
attempt to soar alone. When that
happens he will crash with very dis-
astrous results for himself. For it
was von Papen who realry placed at
the service of. Hitler all the forces in
the country capable of helping it lfise
from its war ruins.
But this drama or comedy of Hit-
ler and Germany is chiefly a story of
women, of their longing for pomp
and titles; also it is a .'story of ro-
mance. The three women involved are
Crown Princess Gecilie, • the Princess
,Marie- Adelaide zu Lippe, and Frau
Winnifred Wagner, widow of the
famous composer's son and the rul-
ing spirit of Bayreuth after Cosima's
death. 'This trio lifted Hitler -front
ridicule and put him over, each with
a definite object in view.
'Marie . Adelaide of Lippe-Detmald
is a 'beautiful and romantic princess
although 'no longer young looking.
She isa strange, restless per°son, very
clever and a bit too enthusiastic. in
March, 1920, she .married one of the
princess of the ancient dynasty of
Reuss. Eight months later ,she divorc-
ed him and arnarried his brother,
whom she divsced in 1923. In 1927
she married a commoner by the
name of 'Hienno Kampell, who tuned
out to be a friend of Hitler's, biz aha
divorced him,, too, in 11130.'
'Once a very wealthy woman. she
has spent nearly all her fortune en
the Hitler movement and live:, now
very modestly., Her father was the
sovereign of one of the smallest but
oldest •German states and she knew a
deep bitterness and humiliation at
the loss of prestige and privileges
that had belonged to her and her
family. • '
After her second divorce she mov-
ed to Berlin, a young and pretty wo-
man, smitten with what might be
called the romance mania. There she
soon struck up a great friendship
with the former Crown Prince Cecilie,
who had been living very quietly since
the revolution, dividing her, time be-
tween her house at Potsdam and her
castle in Silesia. •
Ever since the Hohonzollerns lost
their empire •Cecilie firmly believed.
that their dark days .would cc ire to
pass. In her way she is a fine," cl'ee-
er woman, invbued with the idea 'that
Germian royality is specially sent
from Heaven to look after the welfare
.of the nation, which simply cannot
endure without them. In this spirit
she trained 'her children and prepar-
ed her eldest son Wilhelm for the job
of Emperor .of Germany, but realiz-
ing that times had changed and that
there would be no more posinga as
demigods in future, she brought theme
up democratically and sent them to
public schools. ,
Then she • herself deliberately set
out to win the masses and did it very
successfully. The most important
move she made was that of writing
a book of her memoirs, so simple, so
naive, so innoeent that the effect was
marvelous. The good housewife of
all -Germany read it eagerly and be-
came her staunch :supporters. This
book helped the monarchist cause
more than anything else. '
But even an ex -Crown Princess can
be lonely. Cecilie needed a friend of
her own rank, with the' same ambi-
tions as herself, and Marie Adelaide
of 'Lippe.4Detmold filled the bill.
'Two other things had to happen
before Hitler could be pushed into
the real spotlight. The one who real-
ly discovered him was Frau Wagner,
for her sharp intelligence foresaw
events as they were hound to happen
in Germany. Like the others she ,had
her own aims in view. She longed
for a title, for a "Von" in front of
her name. The only way she could
hope to get it was through a restora-
tion of the monarchy.
As soon as Hitler got out of jail
after his ridiculous coup at .Munich
in 1923, Frau Wagner enrolled under
his !banner. She recognized tlhat, he
was only a weakling, but she appreci-
ated his fiery eloquence„ She realiz-
ed, however, that it would be dif-
ficult for Hitler to get on with the
meager financial' resources then at
his disposal.
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P
' IBut destiny wall shaping the game.
Frau Wagner managed to introduce
Hitler to Princess Marie -Adelaide who
at once became wildly enthusiastic
The initial expense of such a plan
ve'ould be great. But rniake up your
mind to this: sooner or later the
dams will be built. Unless the ter-
rible Mississippi and its roaring trib-
utaries are to be allowed to go right
on overflowing their banks twice a•
year, washing 'away millions of dol-
lars in life and property, the source
s'tream's must be caught and held by
surplus, water lakes. And such is
the trend of the tines, these un-
measured forces will be mode to gen-
erate electric power whether private
capital favors it or not.
To -day the Ohio River, the Ten-
nessee, the Mississippi, overflow
their banks. Five thousand Merce
Johnsons are washed off their lands
and 50,000 men and women who live
in the villages and towns along the
flooded sides are inundated. The
government, year after year, ' must'
appropriate money to save the sur-
vivors from the inevitable ills of these
calamities. Nobody seems to have
estimated how much public money has
been expended in this way. But many
have ventured the opinion• that if it
were all available in a lump sum it
would imamediately finance the Roose-
velt plan.
'Almost from the beginning the re-
forestation part of the whole plan
will be self-liquidating. Within 15
years some of the timber can be cut.
Similarly, 'but over a longer period
of time, flood control will more than
pay for -itself in the protection from
yearly damage. Low-cost fertilizers
from truscle Shoals will more • than
pry for th'ems'elves in 'benefits to the
users. The hardest 'problem will be
the •distrilbuilion -of eleetriiic power.
But there is no reason why the gov-
ernment cannot 'manufacture and sell
it efficiently.
'Whether the development of the
Tennessee watershed begins this year
or next, its inevitability remains. Af-
ter that, similar developments of the
Columbia and the Ohio.
The scheme is so huge ,that it can
afford sanctuary for established priv-
ate power companies and -other indus-
tries in Which the public has invested.
Nothing of the dimensions of the
'Tennessee besain idea, with its en-
' orim'ous promise of general benefac-
tion, can be shunted aside by' propa-
gand'is'ts or professional financiers.
Their salvation it ingetting aboard.
I't Will be fatal to got in the•way:'
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St. John, N. B.—"It's almost unbe-
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ble tha7t had been pulsing me down
for eight years," recently declared
Mrs. May Kelley, 94 Protection.
Street. "Why, I livers almost entirely
on milk and crackers for a long
time, but now 1 can eat anything I
Want without a sign of trouble. I've
also been entirely freed of constipa-
tion by Sargon Pills, The didn't
have tivgirktestAntailpea t."
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over him. Here was a man after her
own heart, ready to arouse Germany
from its apathy. Her money`was hie. •
for, the asking. She offered the fiery
little demagogue the use of a fine
villa she owned at. Detmold, which
from that`date became the center of
the 'Hiitler agitation and the head-
quarters of the Brown Shirts. She
devoted herself with all her energy
to furthering the sehemes of the
Austrian wham she was literally to
lift into the Chancellorship of Ger-
many.
At about this time another woman
entered the scene: •Princess Hermine,
the second wife of the Kaiser, an ex-
ceedingly clever and the
woman.
After she ;married the 'Kaiser, she
contrives to return to Germany sev-
eral times each year, 'pretending that
she had to look after the business
interests of her children from her
first marriage with the Prince Car-
olath. While in Germany she made
a great many devoted friends and met
Hitler. Perhaps some day a story
will he told of Hitler's fast motor
trip to Doorn in Princess Hermine's
car.
Hitler's banner was advancing
steadily under the enthusiasm, of
these women who had taken an inter-
est in 'him each from her own ends.
Marie Adelaide's money organized
his propaganda. The Crown Pfiiicess
canvassed her friends for his move-
ment, Frau Wagner did her share
for hiss popularity. •
Tire mon among the aristocratic
and wealthy German faneilies were
not so r• ady to fall into •line with
Hitler, but their women were, When
they leatieed that the Crown Princess
was favorable to him. These noble
ladies resented the••overthrow of the
monarchy which had deprived them
of their former privileged positions.
They resented that there was no long-
er any court where they could appear
for the great social functions and ex-
hibit their magnificent family jewels.
They wanted glamor, therefore, they
wanted monarchy again and they
pestered their men to back Hitler.
Soon the proudest and the lesser ones
among the German aristocrats ral-
lied to the •Hitler 'banner, especially
as the Crown Prince himself was
back Of him.
This explains the growth of the
Hitler m'ovem'ent and where, the
money came from to pay all his bills.
Most of the nren were bedeviled by
their wives and daughters into sup-
porting hirru.
The women who put Hitler over
did an excellent job of it; but every-
body, including the men who deliber-
ately aided them in their plan, re-
alize now that he is fax froth being
a Mussolini.
World Production and'
Distribution of Hemp
'leanada and the United Kingdom
are the two sulbstantial importers of
both manila and sisal hemp. The
Emipire produces •practically no man-
ila, and although sisal production in
British 'East Afriea has increased
considerably, it is not yet sufficient
to make up' the deficiency. Indeed,
says the Empire Marketing Board.
even with the addition of Indier.
hemp, New Zealand phormium fibre
and the smaller exports of hemp from
Mauritius, St. Helena, and the West
Indies, the Empire is still a net im
porter; although the import balance
has tended to diminish during •the
-
past few years. •
True hemp, which is the oldest
m"embbr of the class of fibres used it
the manufacture of cordage and now
generally grouped under the name of
hemp, is grown chiefly in Russia and,
Italy. Production of !Russian hemp
is still greater than that of any • var-
iety of hemp in, any other country,
although it now plays bust a small
part, in the world trade. On the
other hand, the true bemip grown in
Italy, which is of high quality, con-•
tinues to hold its own in world mar-
kets. Manila hemp, of which the
great bulk of marine ropes and cord-
age is made, is still mainly grown in
the Philippine Islands. Sisal hemp,
of which Mexico originally had t h e
monopoly, is now grown upon an in-
creasing scale in British East Africa
and the Dutch East Indies. Sunn
hemp' grown chiefly in India, has
latel-vi played a diminishing part "in
world trade. New 2ealand produces a
fibre known as phormium tenox, but
the industry has suffered severely
from low prices in recent years -
Mauritius also has a special hemp of
its own, the production of which
though small, has been steady for
many years.
Canada, the United Kingdom and
the United States, together take ap-
preciably more than half of the ex-
ports of manila hemp from the Phil-
ippine Islands, and the United States
takes most of the sisal from Mexico
and the Dutch East Indies. The sisal
grown in British East Africa, and al-
so Indian hemp, are largely consign-
ed in the first instance to Belgium,
where storage is cheap, but the
greater part is diverted during the
voyage an•d sold 'afterwards to other
countries. No statistics of its final
destination are available.
The Colorado beetle is causing very
serious damage to potatoes in the Ot-
tawa clistridt.
Antsin Houses
S
Ants are reported from many dis-
tricts in the Dominion to be particu-
larly aleundatrt in dwelling houses
this 'season. Although the majority
of the Canadian species ,of ants live
in ool'onies or nests outdoors they fre-
quently cause annoyance by invading
kitchens and 'pantries in search of
food. One of the most common and
troublesome species, known as the red
er Pharaoh's ant, says the Dominion
Ettomologist, confines itself entirely
to heated buildings, such as bakeries,
restaurants, hous'es, etc. This tiny,
reddish-yellow ant..had its origin in
the tropics. Another species, the
common large 'blade carpenter ant,
althoti.gh normally on outdoor species
nestjng priibcipally in decaying wood,
frequently ocours in dwellings, par-
tieularly frame houses and summer
cottages., and may cause injury to
woodwork as well as annoyance by
its ,presence. A third common species.
is the small ylellowish-brown lawn
ant, which nests in lawns and gar-
dens, often entering houses in search."'
of food.
Ants are social in their habits and
'ive together in colonies. The major-
'ty of the ants in a colony, and the
ones most commonly seen, are wing-
less undeveloped female workers
which are incapable of reproducing
their kind. Each colonyalso posses-
ses one or more true females or
"queens" Which are responsible for
the generation of xi" individuals.
The white, helpless larvae and pupae.
which develop from eggs laid by the
"queen" are eared for by the workers
which may be seen transporting them
to a place of safety when the nett is
threatened with danger. Ants which•
enter dwelling will •feed on n'rany
kinds of foodstuffs, but are particu-
larly fond of sweet and fatty sub-
stances:
The nitost satisfactory material so
far discovered for destroying ants is
sodium fluoride, sold by druggists in
the form of fine white powder. This
pavvcler should be scattered lightly in
elaces frequented by ants and left
undisturbed until the insects have 'dis-
appeared. As sodium fluoride is
somewhat poisonous; care should be
taken to prevent children or pets
from gaining access to it. Ants may
he discouraged from entering houses
by keeping. shelves, tables and floors
in kitchens and ,pantries as free as
possible from crumbs and other food
fragments, and by storing foodstuffs
in ant -proof containers. In addition,
openings in floors and walls through
which ants may gain entrance should
he.ca refully plugged.
When it is possible to find the ants'
nest in the ground outside, the whole
ant colony may be •destroyed sly pane -
hiring the surface with holes and
pouring in several tablespoonfuls of
carhon .bisulphide. Heavy gas is giv-
en off by this liquid, and its effect
may be strengthened by coMering the
neat with an old coat or sacking.
However. great care should be tak-
en not to expose carbon bisulphide
near fire or' flame 'because it is very
i Tie amrnahl e.
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