undred dozen--is now here all orning. ed 'g ne : 6¢. each Waistings ses to be one of the most favored anticipation of just this fact we on assortment composed chiefly of the ality, in medium and fine weaves 1, in widths varying from 36 to 40 | on' examination to be the equal merit. chon Laces glish Torchan Laces so suitable for 'has lately arrived. Composed of in new and pleasing patterns. Lace lowest Surpassing Beauty And High Quality ~ ht evening dresses at its very p handsome White Underskirts ality was the great essential r White Wear and our Under- in this regard. As to style and will ask you to come and judge ench bands and trimmed in yith white flounces of beautful s of tucks, etc. Many prices d $3.95 White Indi a Silk One of the popular ndateria now for evening dresses, se ate Qaists, s ip waists and skirts, is the pure India Silk It washes extremely well and on account of its superior make and finish is not easily crushed A present leader with us th in pure white and Ivory white, full 28 inches wide, sells at per yard only ns 40c. Genuine Habutai Silk at 65 White China Silks at 25c., 3% and 49¢c, h aw & Son 5.4 3 born--those grand old elms planted 36 Pairs of These Dorothy Dodd Fine single sole patent kid and Vici kid lace boots. Leather Fench heel, "one that will wear. $s , $3.75 for $2.90 THE DRESSIEST OF DRESS SHOES - . T he Ravages of the Gypy and WINTER WEBS OF THE Brown -tail[Boths " SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1906. cemmasasany a 3 Brow ~-TAIL MOTH ON. LL By Franklin H. Wentworth. That the cn glory of the old § ers were by their fathers' hands--should ae tually have their existence threaten- ed by a vulgar insect; this is too much for the equanimity of New England. The thought that in a few years the beautiful interlacing branches which cover the streets in which tney play- ed as children shall be swept away with their grand old supporting boles, and the streets themselves become as bare and unbeautiful. as those of a boom town -= this inspires a kind ut irenzy. Yet for forty years the "gypsy" moth has been laying her eggs, her caterpillars in¢reasing until the legis- lature declared the gypsy moth a public nuisance." But the moth does not mind legislation and Ras been joined im its work of devasta- tion by the "hrewn-tail" moth. Patch- es of woodland -are so stripped of foliage by the end of June that they look like November. Orchards are eaten clean and even the white pine is fed upon by these 'pests until it withers and stands blackened as by a blast of lightning. Only people of the West who remember the years a cloud of grasshoppers darkened the sky and passed, leaving not a spear iran' to harvest have any parallel y which to imagine the destruction that New England faces. : The gypsy moth caterpillar at- tacks all trees, though it prefers ap- ple, oak and elm. It will devour y every useful crop that grows. ! ughout infested portions of AassachuSetts it drags its - loath- some length along the walk, . upon the houses and verandas. and daes dot leave the interior of dwellings It 1s usually conceded that the nat- uralist S a superior person. The nat- oh list who introduced the BYpsy noth from Europe is remembered only for the harm he has done. ns far as records exist, the gypsy Motly Jay Been a pest in the Old orld, at times increasing disas- 1 1sly, for other periods decreasing. Row Lis most. numerous in Southern i Ha . Up to 1868 it was unknown a € w estern hemisphere. In: that {Rar Je insect was brought from \ Tope by an experimenter living in Ardiord, Mass. Its propogafion in N erica was. distinctly successful. Nom] ers of moths escaped from cap- is, and Spread ito Eastern Mass- achusetts, and became by 1890, so crious a pest that the state began exterminative work. iis was continued for ten years the propogation of the pest so ered that peaple relaxed vigil % $50 pias Xk) and hind, CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED With LOCAL APPLICATIONS vo 4 : _ the scat of the" disease er die is a'blood or comstitutional ry and in order to cure it you Chtarri 'Jnternal remedies. Hall's ark Sure in = ly - and Has To he love and mucous surfaces. medic atarri Cure is not a quack Medicine; It was presc by one of bref, a 8 in this country for - a Tgular prescription, It combing of. best tonics known, the best blood purifiers, ing directly on the mucous surfaces. ENGLISH QAK No sooner had the state ceas- than the ance. ed systematic operations moth began to gain headway, and today it occurs in enormous num bers over a vastly larger territory than when it first attacked the state. The gypsy moth.exists under four different forms during the year. The cages of the moth are laid in July and August in a yellowish, hair-covered mass, averaging about one and one- half inches long and three-quarters of an inch wide. The egg mass re- sembles a small, tightly stuffed, oval, buff-colored cushion, but during the winter the color fades to a dingy, white. In this mass the eggs, to the number of about 500, are packed with yellowish hair from the body of the female 'moth. An individual egg is scarcely as large as a pinhead, sal- mon-colored when first laid, but turning dark in a few weeks. The eggs hatch about May 1, and each "cluster" yields a swarm of small -caterpillars, which become grown by midsumnter. Gvnsv moth caterpillars ob any age are hairy. Their heads are feta in proportion to their bodies. When mature they lave a sooty colorgd body. Along the back from the head, which is marked with yellow, is a double row of blue spots, followed by a double row of red. The double row of spots may be. seen distinctly on a gypsy oth caterpillar which "has attained a length of an inch and a half or more. There are fivespmrs of -blue spots and six pairs of red. No other New England larva has this double row of red and blue spots. Until the cat- erpillar grows to the length of an inch and a half, it does not always show these spots very distinctly. When fully grown, the caterpillar spins a few thréads of silk a8 a sup- porting frame work, casts its skin and changes inte a pups, or, as it is sontetimes called, a chrysalis. The pupa is dark reddish or chocolate in color and sprinkled with reddish hairs. Unfortunately, it resembles closely the pupae of certain othet hioths found in New England, and cannot be identified at a glance. From July 15th to August 15th the winged inoths einerge, the daté varymg ac: cording to the season and the periof of pupation, The male moth i$ brownish yellow, varying to greens De le arodien of the, two in- such wonder- ful rectly in Guring Catarrh. Send for Fo, ' toda 0 EY & CO., Props. To Sold hy " 3 Drugeists. price 75¢. pat Hall's - Pamily Pills for consti- ish im-color, He is slender and ex- pands abewt 'one and one-half inches and flies actively by day with a zig- zag flight. The female moth is near ly white, with numerous black mark- ings.. She is heavy-bodied and slug* gish. The female does not fly; other- wise the spread of the pest over the entire country would be inevitable. After mating, the moths live but a short time. They take no food; all damage is done by caterpillars. The female dies after depositing her egg mass. While they do not crawl far from the place in which they hatch, except when there 1s a scarcity of food, they spin down from-trees, and falling on vehicles are carried from place to place. It is for this reason that the state in its initial warfare de- voted its energies chiefly to trees and woadlots and orchards adjoining highways. The egg clusters them- selves may also be transported by any of the numerous objects upon which they are laid. Freight cars that have stood upon sidings near in- fested foliage for a period long én- ough for the laying of eggs in ther crevices may even transport the pest over long distances. From August to May the egg mass- es may be found in places near where the. moth emerged from the pupa case. In laying, the female moth chooses free trunks, under sides 'of limbs, sheltered ctotches and holes in trees. The egg clusters are also found on shrubbery, buildings, scat- tered and heaped rubbish, barrels; boxes and similar objects standing out of doors, woedpiles, stonepiles, fences, walls, boulders and the like. 'The tendency is to deposit the eggs on the lower or inner surface of the object, but when the moths swarm in ane place, they disregard alt rules, and egg masses may be found in plain sight. : From May to August the caterpil- lars may be found ih various stages of growth, diminishing rapid} \n numbers after the middle of July: in the spring the small ones appear on the foliage, feeding on the upper side of thie Teal. As the caterpillars gain size their instinet leads them to be- gin to feed at night and during the ay seek shelter in any accessible place affording shelter from discov ery. This habit has suggested means of extermination. especially in orchards and upon shade trees. All one has to do is to furnish a good piace in-which they may hide, and slagghter them in the day, when théy may be seen by uncovering their refuge. A good way is to tie a short skirt of burlap upon the lcle of the tree, and on some of the larger limbs. When daylight comes the caterpillars crawl to the trunk of the .tree in pre Finding the burlap, they ¢ | it, until their enemy, man, lifts: the skirt and scrapes them off into a pan for burning But to dress all the trees in the in- fested district with burlap skirts and attend to them daily would require half the population of New England That is merely to protect certain trees after the eggs have been hatch ed. There are acreages of brush and sprout land in which the pest also breeds. When such a plot becomes infested there is bat one thing to do --clear it and burn it. But the burn- ing must be well dose. As eggs with stand the New England winter, so are they resistant to fire. An mtense heat applied directly to the clusters is required to kill. . Whete low cost woodland and tPacts of brush are infested, and it is not desired to save any saplings, it is thought wise to burn the ground over with oil after the brush is cleared, to destroy egus scattered in cutting. If it is desired to save the saplings they require to be earefully gone ov- er, after the brush is cleaned out and burned, the cgg clusters searched out and destroyed by painting with a mixture of creosote. Then the trees must be sprayed in the spring with-a solution of arsenabe of lead and har lapped to kill those which escape the spraying. ¥ The "brown-tail'" moth, although differing in its habits from its gom- panion, is as destructive, and in some {ocalities has been more so. Somer- ville; Mass., let 100se this pest. In Europe it is called the "commen cat- erpillar." In America it began feed- ing upon fruit trees, but it has adapt- ed to virions forest trees, notably GaRA, « . CSSIONs which may be handled with impuni. ty, when the caterpillar of the brown- tail moth comes in contact with hu< man flesh there is produced a most painful rettling. This is due appar- ently not t0 any poisonous secretion in the hairs, but rather to the finely barbed and brittle hairs themselves, which enter and break off in the flesh. Many Massachusetts people have been made ill by it. The egg thass of the brown-tail re sembles that of the gypsy, but is seldom laid anywhere save on the underside Of a leaf. It is smaller and more clongated than the gypsy clus- ter, and of a brighter reddish-brown color. The eggs do not hatch till Au- gust They cause but little damage the year they are born. When they first hatch they feed on the unner sur- face of the leaves, but soon commence spinning winter webs. In making the web a number of leaves are drawn together, and a tenacious silken thread woven about them, The web is grayish in color, composed of dead leaves and silk, and very hard to tear. Each web contains about 2 caternillars. With the cold weather the caterpillars enter and close the exit holes Then 1s demonstrated the strange phenomenon of a caterpillar "winter- ing over." They enierge carly in April--eat first buds, then the blos- ---------------------- ---------- The men who look as if tliey had good, red blood in their bodies--and know. what the joy of living means--are men who take a morning glass of Assrv's SALT. There's a. moral in this for You. AY Unlike other caterpiliars, most of | [ex | hi | | | I HTELING THE EGGS own caterpillar is about two inches in length, with a broken white stripe on either side and two spicuous red dots on the back near the pos- terior ead. nit > The moths are pure white on the wings, The +4 slender-bodied, while the female has a bunch of brown hair at the tip of the abdomen, whence the name "brown-tail', Both ed and females fly by night and are attracted to lights, All the destruct: ive w is done by, its caterpillar, Which feeds by dav.' It travels ex: tensively by way of moving vehicles, The Drown-tail is most accessible in the caterpillar web. The winter webs may be sought put and removed by the use of pole shears or long handled pruners, and then burned, When a Fht snow, is on the ground the work of web destruction can be best carried on, brown tail The female winged moth, like the male, is a Strong, swift Mier and can carry her eggs long distatices before depositing them. For this reason the brown. tail has spread much farther from its point of introduction in Massachu- setts than has the gypsy. In its flight it is often aided by strong winds, and is also transported on steamboats and in electric and steam cars. to which it is attracted at night by the lights The brown-tail is already knowa to have spread at least as far northeast as Eastport, Maine, and as far south as Cape Cod. To the west it has been found at Amherst, Mass. The east- ern portion of Massachusetts front north to south is now quite solids in- fested, although less so south of Bos- ton. The extermination br suppres: sion of these pests can never be suc- cessfully accomplished by leaving the matter to individrals. Unless a par- asite can be found to prey upon and destroy the eggs of these moth and the state of Massachusetts is al- ready experimenting with a tiny fy which ft 1s hoped may perforant this useful service--it will require the per- sisfent action of the people as i state as well as individually to make head- way against the wholesale devasta- tion. 1f the mania of the small boy for the collection of birds' eggs be diverted into as ardent a liking for the discovery of the nests of the gyp- sy and brown:-tail moths, 'the New England Jads could render a distinct and wholesome service. a ----------__ CHERRY SELLER WINS £80,000 Litcky Workmen Share First Prize of £240,000, where the first prize of the Christmas state lottery, worth £240,000, has been won. a The lucky ticket was No, b288, and waa divided into ten . Seven of these were held the firm of Java and Blanch for ir es, who will thus have £188,000 to am ong thes Another white wh von a Sabmonger, one a 0 kedper, Jus by a wollen merchant, who cach rn £1,000. As yet sotond . prize of £120,000 is unclaimed] but the third of £80,000 has been won by a eliérry seller and some friends of his who subscribed for a ticket and prurchased No. 15,554, Among other price-winners are a number of Spain's. most, prominent liv: erary men, incloding Aurelio Varélla, and Joaquin Dicenta, the dramatist. Tt is noteworthy that not one of the four winning numbers contains the gure soron. nor does the total of anv one 'number. This, to so superstitions =a rate as the Spaniards, iv a remark: able occurrence. Six other prizewinners dre natives of the town. Twenty prises fol to tie kets sold in Madrid, aviong them be: soms and attack the foliage. 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