The Ogden standard. [volume], July 04, 1914, Holiday Edition, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 18

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I Monsters AWM
Around UsJ
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J We are surrounded by a world of
Ii little monsters, but we cannot see
their hideousneess lecause our eyes
1 are not built, for seeins them. We
are too big, but if they were big
;! In proportion as we art bigger than
J a fly they would be a constant nicn
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ii Tsl the spider for example. He
has eight eyes. Two are for seeing
A by day and six are for seeing by
night. Every instant of his life he
i 1 planning to destroy or is actually
t destroying othe. insects around
$ There is no friendship between
I man and the fly but the hostility
I between the spider and the fly is
t even greeater and the fear of the
S fly for the spider is constant. The
j fly does not have any instinctive
-t fear of the fly swatter. When the
i swatter descends upon him he gets
out of the way or tries to get out of
a the way because the shadow of the
-8 swatter warns him there is danger
J approaching. The spider, however.
Is always present and something
J the fly can study with greater de
ll liberation.
The remarkable muscular dev. 1-
& opment of the spider makes It a ter-
m ror to all other insects. The jump-
3, Ing spider is one of the most ter-
I rible of insect monsters. The jump-
y jm ing spider can spring many times
I -'m Ita own length. If it were as big as
a horse it could Jump a quarter of
I " a m''e- If It were as big as a horse
ar,d should be turned loose on a
I "t-jM oi,y street it would be able to jump
'jVas! several city blocks in its quest of
.'SaLf Prey, It would keep the human
; '' :-afl race In a constant state of ten or.
j iaVJ Man would never have reached
H' the high state of civilization he now
;n-1H holds had this world been filled with
tK such horriblo monster as fill the
world of the spider. Small houses
rJSM could be ruthlessly knocked down
kAB by the spider as big as a horse,
-fjfl Mans time would le occupied in
rjH. running from place to place and
TgSH hiding from ihe monster. Man
"flH would hays to live in rocks and
j,. 'flB' caves. Should a spider as big as a
I iiM horse suddenly descend on the land
j&iflfl now, man could annihilate him with
ySB oannon and other lighting ma-
chines of civilization but had the
'B Bpldfer landed when man was in his
j&jH infancy he would not have had
&&jH time to have developed wonderful
agility. L'nllke some of the other
spiders the Jumping spider cannot
ra!f'B sfC at night. Four of his eyes are
jrffcM front and four in 'he rear so he
raj! can see coming and going.
twBfl No one can flip up hehlnd the
csjMfl jumping spider and stick him in thp
ml ''a' k. All lights of the spider must
HfcaM he in the open. The jumping spider
wHH can sit on a branch and throw out,
SsH: an elastic line strong enough to
IhH bear its weight anri Mi. Spider can
nB traverse that lino with ease.
EHs The spider's claws are of polished
SBB chltln and in- sharp as word
HflH points. Each has an aperture lead
KH . to a sack filled with deadly poi-
HB son. Were the spider as big as a
HH horse and as agile as it now Is it
EH would strike terror to anyone meet-
HB in? It alone. Us array pit eyes of
HH different z. its mottled hairy
H -kin covered with hollow sensitive
HK bristles would strike terror to any
animal me eting it.
CQUEJ) MAKE MW s
H STRUGGLE TERRIBLE.
HB Primitive doubtless had
H many hardships to contend with.
BH He doubtless fled in time without
HH number t.. ili cavern s where he
HH hid himself In terror and fear Re-
HpH mains of the monsters of the time
BH of early man show they must have
H been terrible to contend with, but
H they were nothing compared with
the monster? which today iiursue
H the
B Insects have to be alert every in-
B Btajlt of their existence. Insects
H which are not on th watch every
second fail to live. They are killed
without warning. Their deaths are
H horrible ones too. spiders seem to
take keen delight in corturlng their
prey. Thev are the Indians of th
B Insect world Th?y never kill their
B Prey outright. Thev love to poison
B the insects they wish to kill and af
B ter poisoning them let them die a
A Flow and horrible death.
The wolf spider Is the mpat ter
lible of nil. He Is the one with day
H and night eyea. Around his eyes
B are rows of poison fangs so he is al-
mot invulnerable from attack. Be-
hind the fanss and hiblcn in their
shadow is the spider's mouth. The
mouth is toothless nd Is for suck
ing only. The wolf spider lives .
mostly by sinking thp liquid part
of its prey, corresponding to the
blood of higher animals
Should the wolf .-q.;.;.:r live amone
ds and be as lug ris a wolf it would
leave our mangled bodies lie while
it would suck only our blood It
would leave our bodies distorted
from the effects of the poison. I he
wolf spider doe? not spin a web. it
live In a silk lined hole six or eizht
inches deep which it digs in thf
ground and around the entrance to
which, out of sticks and grass and
earth It builds a turret or watch
tower. From the tower it can
watch its prey and inflict the mnt
terrible wounds with a bound and
thrust of its prdon. fangs. When
It has eaten all it wishes it can
raw I back into its den again and
sleep in the silk lined dungeon.
The spider, however hostile It
may be to other of its associates in
considered as a friend of man. The
spider kills flics and cockroaches
Mikh are Inimical to the welfare
of man.
Recent agitation against the fly
has been so vigorous that all know
of that insert's danger. The fly
lives in filth and is a carrier of dis
ease which flourishes in filth In
former days we considered flies an
no; ing. Today we know thoy are
destructive. The fly Is now blamed
for iirrylng typhoid germs. Ty
phoid doubtless Is. carried through
other agencies but the fact that the
fly can carry it Is responsible for
the great hostility of man against
the fly.
The fly also is a carrier of In
fantile parahsls.
The cockroach lias been blamed
for carrying cancer There are
several kinds of cockroai hes The
jumping spider needs but to sting
the cockroach and it will roll on its
back with its heels In the air.
The cockroach is distinguished by
Its long flat bqdy and thread-like
antennae rwl shiny leathery cover
ing which takes the place of our
skin. The cockroach Is mostly
nocturnal creature When a light
is suddenly switched on in a room
where there are many cockroaches
they will be seen scurrying in all
directions. They love the dark and
fear the light. It is in the light
that the day time spiders kill them
best. The spiders which can see
both by day and by night do their
destroying all thp time and the
"i k roaches cannot defend them
selves from them. Rut the day
light spiders are the most numer-
.. ous.
PEAR OF SPIDERS
CAUSE OF DE&Tfy.
Fear of spiders by human bcinrr
is the cause of the spiders death.
They look so bad that they spread
terror wherever they appear and
cause men and women to -,.- them.
If they were allowed to live they
would doubtless do more good than
harm, even though many of the
spiders are venomous. There will
be no spiders where there are no
Insects. The spider la a carnivorous
PHOTOS AIRriUI.D TO 1'SKH IV JITS RuuK nF MNSTEHS '''j
animal and annot live without
QieS, cockroaches and other insects.
The cockroaches are hated much
because of their habit of getting
Into The food ot human beings. Tin y
love nothing better than to get in
the sideboard or pantry H dc
they hide in cracks In the boards
or walls If there were no walls in
which the cockroac lies could hide
there would be no cockroaches. Old
brush heaps and tin can piles make
excellent breeding places for them.
Tho young cockroaches are white
Iho female carries the larae in a
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Terrible Aspect of Tiny Insects
at Our Feet Discovered by
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TTPPtiR right, a Gockrbachi
T; From upper left to
lower right, three types of
spiders. Lower left, a flea.
pouch. There are sixteen born at
a time. When the little cock
roaches begin their career as lar
vae they hide in the dark. When
they come forth as full Hedged
Putting Them Under
Powerful Microscopes ,
Wonderful Muscu- t
lar Development.
cockroaches they immediately begin
to eat They have voracious appe
tites. They cast the skin six times
before they become mature, but
they eat oraclously all the time.
The Weaji Lnd'es cockroach Is th
most disagreeable of all Like all
, other species it emits a disagree
able odor It Is two inches long
when fully grown and cats as ora-
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO HAVE SUICIDE CLUB
i nree miu,i, nts in the University
of Pennsylvania recently committed
suicide within eight days. Each one
chose a different method of ending
bis life. This seeming epidemic ot
self-destruction at the university
has given rise to the belief that
there is n aull Ida club among t)i
undents. This suggestion has been
vigorously denied b the authorities
of the school and by the leaders of
the various student organizations
It Is said that none of the three men
wag acquainted With the other, and
that the existence of a suicide pact
was impossible.
In each case, however, there was
no pparent cause. Disappointment
In love, failure in studlce. despond
ency and ill health have been ad
vanced as the reasons, but there la
no proof of any of these. Mental
suggestion has been given as the
cause of the last suicide. Th Other
two deaths within a week had
caused intense excitement among
the atudtnts. and it ) believed by
some that thla Influenced the third
man to end his life.
The first of these tragic events In
the extraordinary chain wn3 When
Addison Hartley ftfcCulJouKh of
Pittsburg was drowned in the Dela
ware River. There were circum
Staneeb which indicated that his
death might have been accidental,
but It Is generally believed that he
committed BUiQlde.
Five days after McCullough's
death. War del I T. Towneley shot
himself while under a tree on a
lonely road In the suburbs of Phil
adelphia. I'mlfr his body lay a re
volver which he had bought only a
few days before. One chamber was
empty: in th.- others were bullets
which bad been sharpened to tine
points Evidently Towneley had
meditated on death and had planned
It with that exc ess of care which is
peculiar to scholars who tako their
own lives.
Some students declared tht
Townelejy killed himself on account
of the loss of McCulIough. his Inti
mate friend. But Townelcy's fra
ternity brothers assert that he never
knew McCullough- Still other stu
dents said that Towneley had been
behind in his studies and was de
spondent because of the possibility
of his flailing In his examinations.
This w.is contradicted by the report
that he was a brilliant student and
that his mind mui.u have given way
under the strain of keeping UP this
fine record. FSut It was learned at
the university that he was a pood
student, though not a brilliant one;
so both of these statements np
peered to have no foundation.
The news of Tow nelcj' s death Im
mediately brought theories of a sui
cide pact between him and BfcCtil
b"ish. According t.p these reports
MaQpjlopgh had quarreled with his
sweetheart, a young irirl living n-ar
the university He had determined
to go to icurope. believing thai new
scenes, new associations and new
xperien-.s would enable him to
forpei. He h?.d sid Towneley. hi
friend, to accompany him and
Towneley had consented. The two
had obtained peroilsslon from the
university to make the trip and had
arranged to sail from New York
But, according to this story, Mc
Cullough told Towneley the trip
must be abandoned he had been
unable to obtain the necessary mon
ey McCullOUgh attended i dupe
the next night. Leaving there he
went to the Snyder Avenue Pier and
plunged into the river. Whether his
drowning was by accident or design
Is npt known. This story of a love
affair, however, was not circulated
until the fuiicide of Towneley. It
had not been given as a reason for
MoOulloughta death.
A not was found on a desk In
Towneley's rooms, addressed to his
father. It was as follows-
"Good-bye. 1 am tired of living.
I am going to kill myself. Plea-e
forgive me.. WARD."
M mbers of Townelev's fraternity
declared that the rtOry of Towncby. 'a
havinc agreed to go to Kurnne with
McCulloug-h was falae. but they had
no theories or motives to offer and
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little to say of Towneley's actions
In the weeks preceding his suicide
'He never knew McCullough "
said one of the members "They
went to different schools of ip,. uni
versity. They belonged to different
fraternities. The, had llOthlng to do
with each other."
Three days after Townelev's
doh Raymond Francis Feldman
was found dad in hl room He
was sitting in an arm chair with a
blanket wrapped around h.m be
tween his teeth was a tube vvhih
was connected with a gas let The
cracks around the door h,rJ ,
carefully stuffed with cloth- T vm
on his tablewaa a letter from' his
Deh.- B'1Cn'S CVSay n
Feldman was morose ruid tae,urn
it Is said. He never Joined a club
of any kind and avoided the s tv
m0h.fiCr Sl"a"nt5- Hv W3 SS
In his second yr In th law hool
and was In danger of failing ..gain
temptation to go after treacle any
where. It will jump into the water
and drown.
The bait ean be placed after the
lights are all out. As long as the
treacle remains the cockroaches
will touch nothing else according
to men who have studied the habita
of the cockroa h.
Another harmful inse t the BPb"
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on ''f rm sn
fining troqghs. It is something like
Z. 2C molasses and is desired above
JnrCCL everything else by the c'ockrbach
The cockroach cannot
der loves to destroy Is the flea. It I
is believed the Ilea Is responsible i
for the bubonic plague. At least it
has been proven that fleas exist
where bubonic plague exists. The 1
flea also lives in hidden places and 1
shuns the light. 4
One stfng of the spider is suffl- J
1 cient to send the flea to the flea 2
aite:r world j
Rircl are too slow to catch fleas. i
The fie. 1 can jump so many thou- 1
sand t ines his own length and .lump 1
bo quickly they can get away from 1
such a big awkward cluinsy thing
as a bird The ta. however, can-
t " -j noiii me eiuicle ac- f
lion of the spider. The flea and the
spider are a match for each other. 1
The spider, however, does not car
SO mum about catching fleas as '
coekroaches. ,
The cockroa. -h is a bigger anl- t
tnal and makes a better feed The "
cockroach is well equipped for dis-
corning the approach of the spider
When the cOCkroach senses the sol- '
der it uses Its long splndlj leg to
hie Itself . ,.,,,., ,, lho- nea;
hole The spider was the dominant t
creature of carboniferous times. H
I crawled over the gi;int fern5f
club mosses which composed the
u dergrowth of that period r.
rhe animal of ida, ls a f p
" '," M has adapted Jaol? to E
and can irve n b
, . ,a ' h ind wor,d" pro-
Jg . head tucked un- T
head' that Bnd carries
fo, J? when Poking for
IIS whip like antennae are i
, " to detect at h.ng a,
toF&lilJST? anything edl-
ur anything hostile. j(