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Show Mighty Mitei Termites cause $1,000,000 worth of damage In Illinois every year, according accord-ing to a bulletin of the American Institute In-stitute of Architects. . . . They are second cousins of the ant family, and formerly lived almost entirely In the woods ... destruction of the foresls Is driving them to the cities, where they get into fireproof steel and masonry vaults and destroy valuable valu-able pnpers. . . . The wood pills of buildings are their favorite dish, and after they have held a few banquets ban-quets in a sill- nothing is loft but a shell. ... It may collapse, carrying carry-ing the house with it. |