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WHERE UNCLE SAM `
A WARNING TO FARMERS
AGAINST TRAP -LANTERNS.
oondltion a4ppeer.
(lore ft real ptnishment upon
them, nlG/ough He declared " All
earth f
tee shall he filled with the
glory of he Lord," giver( us an
idea ttf how linlehtl to Him Is the
Pt of unbetlet. "ail front twenty
years old and upward," except t'nh•h
n lid 41ooh11tt, perlahel In the wiider-
1100e.
'rlu•ee prat -etre! lessons. Go 1 helps
those who help themselves. He
brintgllt his people out of Egypt,
"with it strong hand," yet every -
1 'dug depended am their acqu'eticbng
In the dlv')te lendlt2. They were or-
dered to "go forward" before the
way was open through the kat `tea.
The priests' feet were wet lu Jor-
dan before the waters rolled hack.
Calmar was theirs by promise, but
they must " pommel it." God fought
their battles, but they must eel the
battle in array. The Christian who
expect added grace without effort
will always be dloappoluled.
Catch Friends as Well as Enemies.
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Department of Agriculture, Ot- is oa nide of killing a'\erel injurious
tawa, Aug. 16. 11)02.—Trap lanterns hisu,ts, the pr0sprct of capturing so
air destroyers of tuseet pt'sts have oriny beneficial insects becomes a ser -
been recently much discussed in the loue rector In considering the whin..
northern and .western portion" of nbtlity of noting trop -lanterns. 1t In
Canada, as ,well as In tee fatted not NO much n question of how many
Btnte., and py the moat persistent ltteeetaair of )hat kind of insects will
and often unscrupulous advertising a be captured,
certain "moth catcher' haw been
forced into undue pronitnence, so
that thousands of fault -growers and
farmers have been induced to buy- to
unite of the protest of those who
have thoroughly and eel enllflcally
tested such devices. Si Important
has this matter become that the
entomological division of Cornell Uni-
versity 1108 lasuaf the result of ex-
perheente carried on with trap -lan-
terns during three years, containing
In substance the following points:
Many kinds of inflects are most
active at night and are then often
attracted to any light, but there
are Mete of Inaeete that fly mostly
in the daytime. Moot of the graso-
hoppers, many of the true bugs (like
the equok stink ling), all of the but-
terflies (like the very destructive
cabbage butterfly), many of the
Moths (like the peach tree borer
moth), many of the heetlee (like the
Colorado potato beetle), most of lite
(Iles (like the house fly), and many
of the hymenoptera (like the saw
flies), are day flier,/ or are nut at-
tracted to lightt'; and thee/ Include
a large proportion of our common
insect peete.
While a trap lantern or "moth
Web*" may attract and kill ten or
twenty thousand Insrets In a season,
most of the household petite, most of
the frult-growere' inflect enemies,
and nearly alt the eertous peets of the
g ardener or grower of general field
crops will fall to be trapped. Only
winced adult inerate are caught, the
mor• deetructive nympha and larvae
ate never taken. Feually moths will
eenetitete about half of tho Ineecte
caught In trap tenter*, and moat of
*ere are not pests, only ten per cent.
At those that are Injurious are fe-
lonies, and these have nearly all laid
their eggs. Olten as teeny friends as
!hey among the beetles *via be taken.
Nearly one-third of all the ',tercel
oaugftt In three months In two "moth-
eateltere," run in Canada, were bene-
ficial, and nearly as many friends as
foes we.re naught In the trap-lanterne.
As sae of these parieltio Insect friends
Stmday Scloole
it41 JRNATIONAL LESSON NO. tell
AUGUST 24, 1902.
Itgtert of the Sebes.-Num. 13:1-3; and 13:
33 to 1t:1.
Oommeatary. — t uplanatery. "Ev-
e rytlting was now ready for tak ng
ponesiton of Canaan, provided the
people had the necessary faith and
courage. According y, Moaee 'cow-
maadad them in the name of Jeho-
vah (Dent. l 20, 21) to go up and
take possession of the land. Tltey
Only needed to trust in God and go
forward, and in less than two years
from leaving Egypt the land would
have been thetrs. The God who had
de'dvered them with a mighty hand,
who had made a path through the
sea, who had riveted bread from hea-
ven, and brought water from a rock,
and spoken from Weal and entered
tato covenant with them, and was
leading them with Ills visible pres-
ence—this Clod bade them go up and
take f1.oeseeston of the land of prom-
ise. They should have trusted and
obeyed.'
2. Send thou men. -The people were
afraid to go forward and had asked
Moses to send spies to search out
the land. Deet. 1. 22. Although it
woaki have been better for them to
,have had faith to God and to have
at once entered upon their promised
pc aseadous, yet In order to rattly
the people the Lord ordered /foe*
to send the spies. Of every tribe...
• map --Mores se:ectad twelve lead -
hag men, "everyone a prince,' in or-
der that the beet possible moults
attrght be realised.—Petoubet.
4-24—In verses 4-15 we hate the
names of the epees. In verses 17-20
Mose" gives them special directions.
25. Keturned......alter forty days—
Forty days were sufficient for a jour-
ney of 250 melee and the return. The
irptea could reel six Sabbaths and
travel 600 miles, Rohl at the rate of
Ise. Then fifteen miles a day. It le not
EVatwble that they went In a body,
:testy or by [woe.-eSteele.
2110b Kadesh—Kadesh means holy.
Showed them the fruit—They had
brought back grapes, pomegranates
and liss. Mho bunch of gra was
very law. By careful culture bunches
welghing nearly 'twenty pounds have
been pan Steele.
2?.bT we with intik and hone.y—
Tlds 111 a poetical description of a
dbitntry tee„') 1n pasturage and pro-
duoe.num Lir the repels of the rodeo
agree. !ttney all commend the richnese
and trultfulneer of the soli.
28. Nevertheless --The report wrte
given publicly rand It wan artfully ar-
ranged to begin with commendation.,
In order that their eabsequent elan -
dere pmlght receive credit.—J., F. & 11,
We word introduces the godless ma-
jority report ; there 1n in it no refer-
ence to Jehovah. It is an tnfldet dam-
stmt.—Steele. Strong—Large and
trained to war—Cities aro wallee—
Well fortified. The Inreelltes had no
Manna of warfare by which they cou'd
be taken. Children of Auak—"Long-
c oked, home giants, dercendnnto
tram Arlie, founder of thetity of He-
bron. The eptes were terrlliei at sight
of three"
20 Thr Ant 1 k ;fir rtc—Thesepeo-
ple
It -Jr ttnck"d the Israel-
S:xp.r:enoe shows an orchardists or
a grower of small fruits has 00 use
for n trop lantern or a "moth catch-
er," braauso they will not catch
enough of the, more tnjurloue fruit
pests to pay one-tenth of the trouble
and expense of running them. Tent -
caterpillar moths are the only rout -
mob frust lnatote that are caught In
ccouontle numbers. and nine -tenths of
these wilt be mien. Codling -moths
are not attracted by lights, and only
rarely one aoe:dentttlly Palle a victim.
The highest recce,' to the. Cornell ex-
prquents thee Inc hair been eight
calllmg-nolle In fifteen ntghte.
The winglems 10111111e ennker-
we.rm motile will not crawl
Into "not')-otttetters," nod the ltghte
do not attract the two keels of ate
pie -hover beetles. the peach -borer
moth, plum curculioe or the saw-fllee
of the currant -worst or pear sing.
AN trap lanterns can have no effect
upon fungous dtaerleP., they can
herr: take the place of the Iprey
pump alai boteletnt mixture. Expert -
PDC(' ,tae ehown that several trap-
Ictnterne, set very near every tree
In an orchard, will not uottceahly
reciuee the crop of wormy apples,
or diminish the number of hungry
caterpillars feeding on the buds
and leer*.
There a -re inetanees In which trap -
lanterns may prove useful, such ae
where some Itght 1ovt.ng Insect le -
coulee a pelt to greenhouses, or In
the euee of Tomo local pest whose
mine of flight 1s sharply defined
anti of short duration. But no one
has yet conclusively demonstrated
that any inflect pent cannot be much
more effectively and cheaply com-
b/Mei in Rome other wny than by
the IMP of "moth-entceers" or trap -
lanterns(
The outcome of all the experiments
made everywhere renders it doubt-
ful If these aids help enough in our
insect warfare to pay for the trou-
ble and expense of tieing them, wells
they certainly do not warrant any-
one in recommenditer their uee, or
even )alRdtvefy permltttng it, with -
me protese
ltea cmee..J?x. xvll. 5-16. The Hittites
wee a strong, warlike people. The
,Jebuelten held the region about Jeru-
steam The Amorttee were mountain.
sere,
30. ('pleb—The spy.
from the tribe
of Judah. He begine the minority
repart with an unwavering trust in
Clod. Joehua also joi
tie. 6, 80. Stilled the
ter wail of despair weir going up from
the vavt throng of
go up at once—Geautn
n preeent God and an instantaneous
Iailvatlou. There Is n
for fear than action,
31. We be not able
been asserted before.
are Mere/thing In thel
32, Ertl report en
tnbelbef groove. At fly
a suggestion lye. 25, 2
came an assertion (v
assumed the form of
port."
83. Sons of Anak—.nak
signified long necked.
Annk wrro a rttr.)
strength. it seems be a feet
-
nod will, him.
people—A bit -
people. Let ie
o faith grasp)
o better cure
—T to had not
The ten spies
r oppoeitioti
tette 1p—How
et !t was only
0), then It be -
31), then It
an
"evil re-
tItteralty
The Rona of
of giants Id
to
that In primitive Omen there were
turn of great Stature. As graeehop-
eere. etc: _"Thr retire of the unbe-
lieving' Oleo megntttel their lora"
1. M1 the rongregatton — There -
were a few noble exceptions, how- i
ever. Wept that night—These loud'
wailinge, resounding by nlgkt from
tent to tent and from tribe to tribe,
spread the eoniagloue despondency
through the whole camp. -
2: 3. Better to return, — They
murmured against Moshe and Aaron
and wished to return to their !Gr-
iner life of servitude. "In their
dread of the evils before them they
overlooked the greater cutis behind
them"
4. Make a captain—They repudi-
ated Mope and :toren and Jehovah
According to Nehemiah 0, 17 they ac-
tually appointed a eaptaln to lead
them back to the taskmaster'e leek
to Egypt.
TEACHING& — We should be very
careful about following the advice
of those who do not have faith in
God. It 1s possible for God's people
to eater the Cancan of perfect wet
rent at once.
PRACTICAL SURVEY.
The Incident of sending out the
spies to
view the
promised land,
thoughtltedl0a.trousoutcomewan
known to God, la only another etrik-
htg illustration of the kindly- deal -
Inge of our merciful heaveniy Father
with ht. wayward cruel ungrateful
etdildnent
Explirlt instruction were given
the einem as to the facto they were
to learn, namely, "Nee the land, what
it Is, and the people that dwelleth
therein, whether they be strong or
weak, few or many ; and what the
land is that they land in, wketber
it he good or had.
The report WAS not unanimous In
all pm -Oculars. There were, in fact,
two reports; a majority report
and a minority report.
TJne majority report, as might
naturally be expected, was ae-
eepie:l by the people. With their
eyes lanai to all that God had
dour for them in the recent past
and with their hearts full ref unbe-
lief, et, won:ler "the people wept
SHADOWED A BANK TELLER.
The Gratifying ate alt ot a tileutb's
Invest 'mitten et Queer Doings.
" I have had all sorts of expert-
Nicee,' mild a deteethe, "hut last
night 1 1wd an entirely new ova.
Two days ago the president of a
backtug house sent for me and eel l
that he feared there was something
wrong with his assistant teller, who
appeared to be ltborlug under some
excitement, and who showed signs of
late hours and dieelpttlon. I was
asked to shadow how, and to look out
for absence of irregularities.
" It was then noun, and 1 started
at once by following my man to a
cheap restaurant. f supposed that
he was going fur his luncheon, but
he went Into a telephone both and
dowel the door. It was twp,selble
for me to hear with whom lie was
talking, so I went to the proprietor
of the place and matte some inquiries,
and learned that my man telephoned
every day et that time, and seldom
bought more then a eanthvirh.
"That day he paid the telephone
toll, but bought nothing. Ae I fol-
lowed him Into the etreet I made up
m, tnlnd that he was le communica-
tion with a stock broker, and that
financial trouble was the cause of We
strange ardente That was nothing
new 1t1 Illy experience.
"When he left lite bank that :Ger-
noon he was in a great hurry, and
I followed him toward his home in the
car behind the one he was In ; but by
Romp menus ho gave mo the slip, Inc
he didn't get oft at the corner near-
est tits hem, or seeled bloke after-
ward, an far as I saw. I went 'to
hie apartment to welt for him, and,
mer ling a little girl just entering the
Rtreet door, I inquired If she knew
Idm.
'"He le my papa,' elle answered,
and will be home In a few mhmtee.
Be always *tope to sea the donor
after he leave@ the bank, because
mamma is very 111, and we are atrial
she will die. Tho doctor come* every
nogg and telephone,/ to papa and
thein he stops there on his way (tome.
If you will come In you won't have
long to welt, or you ran caH again,
for he never leaven mamma after he
romee home, and site up all night
with her.'
"I said 'int I might roll again,
but 'nettled I went to the home of
the bank president and made my re-
port. Thte morning that teller got
a letter from the bank granting him
two weekie vacation and telling him
that Ile salary WAR increased $20 a
mopth.' --fit. Louie Republic.
A Possible ltxperlment In Meat.
INew York Werke)
• In the window of +one closed•up
. meat market away uptown on the
east elle title notice 1e posted:
"This market will be reopened
when the price of meat goes down."
What if the example here net should
be at all generally followed la all
large cities? Nothing le more abed•
lutely within the power of citizens,
either individually or collectively,
than a change of dict.
It is springtime, when authorities
on health agree In Raying that It
is wise to eat meat sparingly. There
is a long list of palatable and nutri-
tion: substitutes for beef, mutton
and pork, and the procession of the
fruits—the natural min -cooked food of
man—le about to start.
What U the people, or even a half
of them, should Just take a notion to
make the epeng experiment of drop-
ping meat out ot their diet for only
a ehar•t time—mav for a fortnight?
The Beef Trustee loos on spoiled
stock would be reckoned in tnIlllone.
A reduction of one -batt in retail meat
sates in all our large cities kept
up for a month would utterly crush
the combine and give the people meat
at t11e falr prices of an unmonopo-
Ilzat market.
GOT HiS WATER CURE
A Revival of the Old Torture Chambers
of Spain, ;
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0111111' Ontario.' AR they were toultiplletit he went to
The Iitzcd uu1'hl was e'ceu.ly an earthen ,Terre etnndlne 1u11 of
shucked by the etaeotrro el the hor- water, a little beneath my head ;
rid cruelty practised le the Amere from whetter carrying n lett Lull of
eau soldiers on l'lliplu., prtsuuere In av4t1Or. In the bottom whereof there
order to fere them to 11 ulg(' lu- W41114 n Incised hole, which being etoltd
fora (ton cairerueag their cone by Ile thump till it came to my
pttriote In the Held, by tyle use of a ptouthehen ltd power.' it In my belie',
torture which clime to le called the the meadure being a Spanish sombre,
"water cure.' The unfortunate plc- which le an English Patio. The first
tens were strapptd to the ground rind sycond services I g)nd)y recele-
and water poured Into their imitator ed, teuo(t tens the soerching *trout') of
till they were'Utuost strangled. This my tormenting payee, and likewise I
repeated at intervals Inflietcd ter- had drunk none for three Jaye before.
Able swfering upon the claim,. But afterward, at the third charge,
American ingenuity was given the perceiving these measures of water
"credit" of 'meutng a new uuttbud to be tmfeoted upon me ,ort tortures,
of torture. The American people 0 etreenling torturer( 1 I cloned my
would probably regard the practice lips, galne-otandtug that eager
hJlultely more Cu the discrudlt of crudel)ty.
their nation If they knew that their Whereat the Alodide, Inraging, set
ern officlaim had been guilty of int- ntv teeth /minder with a payrr) of
Jesting a method of torture prartleed Iron cadges, detayning them there,
fu the days of the Spanish Itlqulml- a( every nevem' tune, both malnely
lion, the barbarous nature of which and manually, where)( upon my
has peer tot's) tanked apart aro haling
reit hungerelunged Wile waxing great,
chel the acme lit human cruelty.
In the pctseemalon of Mr. E. H. grew Drum -tike )mbot.ierod, for It
Farrow, local manager of the Bell
Telephone. ('oudoay's bistttess, is a
very old and unique volume, which,
bt'aides many other etrunge and In-
tertwUng Incidents, gltus Zhu writer's
experttn.:e with this Identical "wat-
er cure," although It area not known
by that name. The book, which is
a family heirloom and very'a�able
In the eyes of an antiquary, was
printed at London in 16.1e by icl-
olae Oaken. It glees an accomlt of
the writer's iravele in foreign coun-
tries 1q the early yoare of the sev-
enteenth couture, in the reign of
King Jame* 1., under the title of
"The Total' Dia'orret, of the Rare
Adventures and painful! peregrine-
tlone of long nueteene Tears Trav-
nyJt , flout 4cotland to the wont
Futnour Kingdomes in Europe, Asia
and Affrtuu,etc., by William Lltlt-
gow, who ded10/11.08 it in the quaint
language of the times to 'the then
reigning sovereign, the martyred
Kt,g Charles. felhgow visited Ma-
laga, In Spain, where he was thrown
Into prison. by the officers of the In-
quisition, nu u spy of king James,
whom they declared a 'heretIcke
King and arch -enemy of the ably
Cattolaeke Church," He was forced to
undergo horrible tortures, and the body looweel.
following (0 Lin demsrtption of the Trite it Is, It paweth the capacity
"water cure" three hundred years 011 mac, either sensibly to conceive
ego: ter 1 patian:tly to express the In -
Then by oommand of the Justice, totterable anxiety of mind and af-
wus my treniblaog body laid above, flletlon of. body in that dreadful time
and upon the pact of the Racke, with I eustatned.
my head downwtai'l, incanted within It is In'tereeting to reflect upon
a circled hole, my belly upmost and the eingalar eolncldenee that the
my heels upward toward the top form of torture inflicted upon their
of the Racke; my lege and arms be- feet by Spaobaede In the benighted
Ing drawn asunder, were fastened days of the sevettteetrth century has
with planes and Cords, to both tildes been repeated by the Americans in
of the outward plankes, for now wan this enlightened twentieth century
I to receive my amain torments. on what was until recently Spanish
Bold and upon fprmer subjects of
•
being a. auftorating payee, in re-
gard to nye head hanging duwee-
ward; and the water retngorging It
wife In my throat with a 'Wrigg-
ling force; It strangled and swal-
lowed up n1,v breath tem yowling
and groaning.
And now to prevent my renewing
grlefe (for presently my heart fay -
loth and foreaketh me) I will only
briefly avouch, that between eaoh
one of there seven circular charges
I was aye re-examined, each exam-
tnntton contlnutng hallo an houre:
each half houre a hell of infernal!
ptlne, and betweene each torment,
a long dtgtanoe of lite quelling time.
Thus I lay size houre upon the
Recite, between foure a ctocke af-
ternane and ten a elocke at
night, having had Inflicted upon me
three score seven torments. Never-
theless they notrtinued me a large
Latta houre (after all my tortures)
at the fell binding ; where my body
beteg all honored with blood, and
cul through In every part, to the
crushed acct brutoed bones, I plttl-
fully reveal:mei, etll roaring, howling,
foaming, bellowing and gnashing my
teetlt with Insupportable cryee, be-
fore the pieties were undone and The
Now what a lottn'o or Racke le
(tor It stood by the wail declining Spain.
downewarcf), it 1s made of three
phtnine of timber, the utmost end
whereof le larger than a full stride;
the lower end being narrow, and the
three plank Jolchte together are
made comfortable to a Man's shoul-
der; la the dowieuoat end of the
middle ptauko there was a hole,
wherein my head was laid; in lentth
et in longer than a man, being inter-
laced with Sala 11 cords from planke
10 Menke, which decided my sup-
ported tbl'thee from the middle
plank ; through the melee of which
exterior planks there were three der
tont hole. to every one of them; the
use wlterefor you will presently
beam.
Now the Alcald.e giving commission,
the executors layd fire[ a cord over
the oalte of my thigh, and( the third
cord over the great of my arms ;
whch was veverally done, on both
tides of my body rroeivt» g' the ends
of the coedit, from these sixo several
piaoee through thee holes made to the
outward planks, wh'oh were fastened
to pplanes, and the planes made fast
with; a device ; tor he was to charge
on the out side of the platnk, with
all many planes, as there were holes
and cords; the cordo being lint layd
meet to my akin. Ana on every one
of these aiee etre, of my body, I was
to receive seven several torturee;
each torture consisting of three
winding tttrowe of every plane;
which amounted to twenty-one
tilrowee In every one of these mlee
parte,
Then the Tormentor paving charg-
ed the firri plumage about my body
(making fast by a device each torture
Little Moo.
Our little Florence, on being pre -
eared for ceuroh one Sunday mora-
les, regarded her bonnet with much
eatlrfaotlon, and said:
"I gum' my bonnet is the fashion -
eat bonnet they pa I"
One day, when she saw some un-
cles hanging to the window, she said:
"0h, mamma, dear, come and see
the sticks of rain 1"
Amy is a little many of O. Oneday
she asked her mamma if people al-
ways knocked when they went to
Ood'e house. Her mamma, wares-
ly noticing what she said, replied: '
"Yee, darling."
A abort time after It began to
thunder, And Amy ezolaimed:
"There! Somebody's got to God's
house—I hear them knocking."
aoward'e mother was gotng away
to be absent for some tune, but, pro-
mised to return on a certain day.
He said:
"I know you will come, mamma,
for you're a real truther."
Little. Emily asked a great many
question(' the answers to which were
sometimes very uneatlsfaptory. One
day, after pondering a long time
on what had been told her, ole axe
claimed:
"Oh, I do wish I had a certain*
Wilde of me I"—Lealle'e Monthly.
evere Pains in the Back
Kidney Disease and Stomach Troubles --More Evidence of the Efficiency of
Dr. Chase's Kidney -Liver Pills.
Kidney disease and stomach and
liver dlaordere are almost always
found together, and for thin reason
Dr. Chaee's Kidney -Liver P111s, on
account of their direct and continued
action on these several organa, are
wonderfully effective In curing such
comptleatlons.
Mr. James -Keeley, caretaker of
the Primary School and Presbyterian
Church, Newmarket, Ont., etatee: "I
tend that Dr. Chase's Kidney -
Liver Palle are the beet medicine I
ever need. I was troubled for some
time with kidney dteeaee, pains in
the back and etomnoh disorders. At
times I ®offered very severely from
backache, but slice using Dr.
Chime's Kidney -Liver Pills I am all
right again.
It !e my belief that they, are the
most effective medicine a person can
arse for kidney dloease and etomaoh
troubles."
Mrs. Roes, 100 Manitoba street, St.
Thomas, Ont., state.: "I had a
very weak back, and at ttmeo suf-
fered very much from severe pain)
acmes the small of my baek. believ-
ing these to be caused by derange-
ments of the kidneys, I began the
owe M Dr. Chime's Kidney -Elver Pula
This treatment •oeemeed to be ex-
actly what I required, for it way not
long before the pains entirely left
me, and I wart quite strong and
well again. We have also used Dr.
Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Tur-
pentine for the children when they
had coughs and colds, and I never
knew it tot fail to relieva the tremble
at once."
There 1e no quicker or more cer-
tain way of curing bank pains ase
kidney dieter/le than by the use al
Dr. Chase') Kldsey - Liver PHIL
ttcores of 'thousands have proved
this, and many have sent tfftatee
menta atmtter to the above. One pip
a dose, 26 its, a box, at all dealerle
or idmaneon, Batoe A Co., 'POrentO,