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Show Catching Butterflies bu the Tor, , I , of HE caterpillar the "nuo" rooth , hat wroiii?ht recently An N: $60,000,000 X:'t? lu- ''TA w- zt--7 near) - Vf-r-; - among - i srvwr from $45 Profit Inventive German fuh UnA mif. Tree tered from destructive work of the moths and who had noticed how strongly' ttkpy wore attracted by the rays of an electric arc Ight, recently devised a spectacular method of capturing and killing the pests on a wholesale scale. (On the tower of the city hall In Zlttau, Saxony, "whioh city is entirely surrounded by great fir for- ests, he set up an electric searchlight of great candle , power. Immediately below the light he installed ft . suction fan. Then, on a dark night, he turned the . searchlight into the depths of the forest Out of "the thick woods came hundreds of thousands of the destructive moths, flying in an unbroken procession along the path of light which led them to the toi of the city hall tower. There, as they approached ctosely to the source of illumination, they were caught by the suction fan and drawn in to deatruc-- " Uon. On one occasion more than 400,000 "nun" moths were thus destroyed In an eveuing. Th came Ingenious process Is to be adopted wherever forests or orchards are greatly damaged by night-flyininsects. pXl'ySyi i Thrs Green great fir foreata of Germany, many hundreds of acres rulnnt hpfnv by tht - V If M W -- . ihf- - wavfiOjgs .. This j5 T rs i - v,--.,.- JS ' ( I ' ' vaaa-"-j.va vw v ffiySgfcSi This Tinu Wasp Desirous the K tv.-wt- &SP$ C5isSeS ' 1'"!."-- ?4&tf& I "n I - , wedding day the work ol excavating for the new house was begun. Mora than 60 men of various trades toiled at high speed all day and at seven o'clock the Job was entirely finished. This house contains foul rooms, a bathroom, a reception hall, a front porch and a back stoop, and Is certainly the only building of its pretensions which was ever built from the ground up in 24 hours. Green Bua g FROM the Irrigated lands of the great northwest stories of profit from a single acre of land which may well make the average owner of gold mine stock envious. More than once the annual crop an from of apples irrigated orchard has averaged aooe $1,000 an acre. Tears have netted double thia amount. Cherries grown on such trees as the one shown above bring, in good years, $1,200 an ;acre. Last May, K. C. Carter, living near Spokane .aold cherries from a single tree, such as Is pictured for $48 'EL V. Martin f Wenatchee. sold 2,800 boxes of tomatoes from ne acre, making a net profit of $700. Though It takes hard work, good judgment and good luck to get a thousand dollars an acre from a single season's crop, people everywhere should be Interested In the fact that by modern, intensive methods of farming, more money can be made from a suburban lot than from many an old time quarter section. shown enlarged in the Illustration, last year THE tinythe wasp farmers of Kansas and the southwest something like f 50,000,000. The favorite breeding place of this wasp g the body of the microscopic green bug, which In 1900 and 1907 did terrific damage to the wheat crop In Kansas and adjacent states. Prof. S. J. Hunter of the Kansas State Agricultural college, discovered that the little wasp was the green bug's mom determined and destructive enemy. He collected millions of eggs and sent them out all over the state to farmers who applied for help when the green bug pest appeared. As a result the green Earth Beings Cannot Live in Climate of Mars By Ccpt. Ellis D. Morson NE thing only Is undisputed about the climate of Mars, and it is that if we were transported there we should Instantly die. How fur this Incontrovertible fact is compatible with forms of Intelligent life such as we know nothing of is a matter on w hich Prof. Lowell Is not iu agreement with the larger number of astronomers who iiave had opportunities of observing Mars. Let us, how-avebefore inquiring where the observer of Flagstaff observatory, Arizona, differs from those, astronomers whom he has called the "gifted objectors who have not seen the canals." set down points on which the larger number of astronomers are in agreement. In the first markplace there are distinct markings on Mars. These and have a for known been very time; long have ings ibecn mapped by many observers since Schlaparelll, the Italian astronomer, announced certain peculiarities about them 30 years nuo. A point of which lxwull makes a coincide very closely great deal is that these mops all the lines on Mars In setting down the places where and lir tracing the directions which these lines take! It is hnrdly necessary to say that the lines appear to nenrly all observers as straight lines. A new question, however, now arises: The question of one imagines an the trustwoithlnOHS of "seeing." If the quuntlty of about not exacting very OHtronoincr e ing support-setthis up for oxygen necessary to we hall have on Mara to point at the earth, much. Our. dense see not would very ho that allow with tho singular watery envelope that It is upV.tcd of possessing at great beauts, would reflect r, . - tele-ncop- CV': I X Waslina Gas Enouah to Run All New York House HUNDRED MIL cubic feet ol Built in One Dau , natural gas a day are , g0ing to waste in the Caddo gas and oil fields near Shreveport. La. gas enough to furnish light, heat and power tor all the homes and great business enterprises of Chicago, St Louis and New Orleans. The Illustration shows the largest well In this field. It crater covers an area of two acres and the gas rushes up from the depths of the earth In such force and volume, that It has been found utterly Impossible to control it For months the gas has been burning, the flames leaping more than a hundred feet in the air. Sometimes when the pressure I at its greatest, birds flying over at a great height are killed by the rising fumes and on several occasions the glow In the sky has been visible from a distance of 60 miles. There Is Bald to be a standft ing offer of $15,000 for any one who can successfully put well. on this cap 0' LION i Will Turn Deserts Into Gold. Mines bugs were practically destroyed and a full wheat crop was dereaped. The year before this destruction the green bug ' stroyed wheat to the estimated value of $00,000,000. : somewhat complicated piece of machinery above Is going THE create a revolution In the gold mining Industry. Heretofore it has been Impossible to work many promising placer depi8lj8 because of the fact that no water was available. The new machine gets the gold out of mine waste, sand and gravel, without the aid of a drop of water. With tt In use, dirt running as low as 50 cents a yard can be handled with a good profit It will help to dot the dry deserts of the southwest with mining camps. whims of a bride should, of course, always be respected. when on the day before her bridal morn, a young woman of East St. Ixiuls announced that she would not be married unless sho could move directly Into a brand new home of her own. the problem seemed a difficult one. Fortunately her pros- - THE so much of the sunlight fulling on us; the masses of clouds of the "wiue darkr sens" would add so much to the dazzling impression, that bardly In the course of a ' long life would the Martlun astronomer be able to glimpse every part of the earth. It is otherwise with Mars. Just as It is said that every nation has the newspapers It deserves, so every planet has the atmosphere it ran hold. In oxygen, In nitrogen, In hydrogen, In every gas, the particles, the molecules of the gas are ever striving to fly away Into space at speeds of thousands of miles a second. The lighter the gas the greater the speed; and the only thing that keeps an atmosphere Inclosing a planet is the pull which the planet's weight or gravity exerts. It Is because the moon Is so light in weight that It falls to hold any perceptible atmosphere at all. The planet Mars la in many ways midway In characteristics between the moon and the earth; but it resembles the moon more than the earth In its falling grip on its gnses. Its atmosphere is, therefore, very thin. One consequence of this is that we see Mars very clearly, nut we do not see It as clearly as we see the moon. Its atmosphere does not refract light to a very dazzling extent; and most astronomers believe that no clouds are ever seen floating on it. There are dusky veilings on Its dUc, that cross It like flying shadows; s but these are great raised by tempests such as would eclipse tho wildest tornado which ever raged on our modest planet; and there are apparitions which Lowell has Identified as snowstorms such as sweep over a polar continent. In short, in spite of the clearness and lightness of the Martian atmosphere, "seeing Mars" has been described by an observer at Swell's own oliserva-toras "like looking at a Swiss landscape from a high Alp, with the summer clouds sweeping about one. Now the mist rolls away, revealing a bit of the valley, and shuts In again In a moment, while in some other spot the clouds break away and disclose ft Jagged summit or a portion of a sblelng gliulerj- - It requires, therefore, dust-storm- y 1 .W7 r- i Cheap Ice Maker for Everu Kitchen pectlve husband was a man of resource. He purchased a lot over night, called tn an enterprising con- tractor and at seven o'clock of the cut illustrates a newly Invented English ice THE bottom worked by hand and requires so little power is It rethat a child can easily operate it. The machine is sold at an hour half than more In little and $50, than less for tail sufficient Ice can be frozen to serve the purposes of the average are running In family. Once people realize the danger they are often full of which and lakes, cut from ponds Ice uslns will doubtdisease contamination, the household ice machine less prove popular. fCopyrlKht. speclul astronomical antltude both to see and to map the Martian "canals," and we need not be surprised that many astronomers criticise Lowell's estimate of the number of the canals as 426 and or the "oases" they Join as 1S6. stiff-necke- by Josoph B. Bowles.) earth, when, by the insensible nigni oi ine your own a w a tininunnaK r vnn mill -i m t Miiaa w inn gases VI l"v fiimvciiv, will remain but arid deserts will leave you,' and nothing Thence alone and the wintry Arctic and Antarctic. will you be able to derive moisture for the sustenance of the vegetation, which, In Its turn, will sustain a more ethereal, wasted race of men; and, like the Martians, you. too, will have to build canals hundreds of thousands of miles long, employing all the resources of your engineering skill thus to keep your pallid. life within you." It may be so, and tn thirst the world ma perish. But the theory is artificial, as Lowell would have us believe the canals, We cannot now examine all the objections to the superstructure of the theory; and we will only suy this: That In theories of worlds as In theories of life It Is inadvisable to seek other than the simplest On the surface of the earth and on the explanations. surface of the moon there has been volcanlo action. On all planets, Mars included, there is a probab'llty amounting to certainty that volcanic action has taken place or Is taking place, and on Mars volcanic action would probably be more marked than on the earth. Volcanic cracks such as we know exist in the moon, though geologic time has obliterated most of them on the earth, probtbly exist on Mars, and the lines we see there are merely cracks In the surface, from which steam exudes and ere- ates nn annual darkening' crop of vegetation In . tha spring time. On a smaller scale similar canals and similar growth have been noticed even In the airless moon. In the island of Hawaii there are craters which by their slow welling action furnish ua with the closest parallel that is known of the forms of craters In the moon. The volcanoes of the moon wore not eruptive like Iltna und Vesuvius, but wore pits, in which, as In the volcano at Klluiiea, tho lava welled up. In the moon there are long crucks, known as rills, of which one, the Aria-deu- s rill, Is some hundreds ot miles tn length. In the plains about the Hawaiian volcanoes ore similar cracks on a small scale, up which steum rushes. - , What are these lines and spots are they canals? Prof. Lowell and bis assistants. Mr. Lampland and Mr. Slipher, express no doubt on the question; and up to a certain point they hove very doughtily met objection after objection to their theory. It must be understood that no responsible person now denies that there are markings on Mars. What astronomers dispute is whether these markings are as numerous as Flagstaff observatory declares, and whether they are artificial In character. We may cede their number. Are they artificial? One argument In favor of their having been made by intelligent beings is that some of the lines appear to run parallel for hundreds of miles. Tho renllty of this appearance was doubted. Mr. Lampland has photographed Mars, and there, real beyond doubt, on some of the tiny photographs no bigger than a pea, appear now and again double canals. Then there was the question of water. Was there water on Mars at all? Mr. Slipher baa shown, by means of the spectroscope, that there is water In the Martian atmosphere. It there Is water in the atmosphere then Mars may be less cold than Lowell's opponents have declared, and the atmosphere Itself more dense. It that be true then there may be water In these long lines which Lowell calls canals, and these canals may have been built by reasoning beings, who thus sought to irrigate their scorched and drying planet with water flowing from the polar snows. That Is the belief which Prof. Lowell once again asserts In "Mars as the Abode of Life," and he comes to his declaration with ft vigor like the renewal be claim for the Martian spring. More than that, bo threatens "Look at this generation of unbelievers. will see future of "and the be you pictured says, Mars," 1909. ' ' |