The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1901, Page 11

THE SUNDAY CALL. 11 (Najor General Frthur MacBethur and His Staft { ROUND-FACED man, with g i ith that shuts as of it meant business, g pair of keen, of- twinkling eyes that look the keener and the move twinkling for e glasses they peer throu MacA By his r a lawy " thur. cr, @ ge professor, rather er gen- we all shown in the pic- g sirapping fighters and , inkers, and all of n that the stars and st-ipes Some are wawve over. s and some are young ng with the newness of SEa'er g. and they are all our boys en able to hold ht spirit. He has His experience ! war—ithen e ¢ woon him rank, and vow wrage but his skill in g of is called into ition in the Philip- mer Arthur is a native of ke wniry f Wis 1 lie entered the as a cifizen He tenan! of rth Wisconsin In- md filled the posi ) that regiment he slid gracefully on brevet colonel, tc titles of major, J lieutenant 05 he was honorably mus first hit in 1863 / ed the colors of /m/rg— tical and moment captured works f ' Ly ¥ N Missionary Ridge t Jus progress went on rate. ) he was commissioned a lweutenant in the regulars, s promotions again were rapid. On to captain, on to major, have Crowder, the one 1 He is er's head ry, the man on to lieutenant colonel—then when the war with S pain broke out he had his chance. He was made brigadier general of the volunteers and later. a major general. Among the men on his staff who Colonel s the thin neck. ma a mark are 1 only to the military h the fight= F commissary. governor. Woodru ’}. wi 1d is the on bre chief of staff. &Sxplanaiory Liagram of the Picture. Beginning on t er's left, and the as follows on the read- like manner, FIBRST ROW. 1-Lt. Col. Ernest A. Garlington. 2—Col. Charles R. Greenleaf. Gen. G Davis. 4—Mej. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, 5—Brig Gen. Thomas H. Barry 6—Col. Charles A. Woodruff. T=—Lt. Col. Enoch H. Crowder, ROW TWO. 8—Lt. William L. Kinley, A.D.C. 9—-Lt. Douglass Fotts. 10—Lt. Col. Albert 8. Towar. 11—Lt. George C. Stewart. 12~Capt. William G. Haan 13—Maj. Croshy P. Miller. 14—Lt. Floyd V. Harris, A.D.C. ROW THRER. 15—~Lt. Jaomes H. Blount Jr. 16—Lt. William E, Twight. 17—Lt. Col. Joseph T. Dickman, 18—Lt. Col. John R. McGinniss. 19—Maj. James T. Korr, 20—Lt. Henry M. Morrow. 21—Capt! Burg. James M. Eennedy. ROW FOUR. 22—Maj. William L. Kneodler. 23—Maj. Stephen C. Mills. 24—Maj. Leonard A. Lovering. 26~—Lt. Col. Samuel D. Sturgis. 26-—Maj. George P. Scriven. 27.~Maj. Stephen W. Groesbeck. ROW FIVE 28—Capt. Harry Bell. 29—Maj. Daniel A. Frederfck. 30—Capt. John R. M. Taylor. 81—Lt. Lawson W. Fuller. 32—Capt. Thomas Franklin, 33—Lt. Malin Oraig. 84—Maj. Dennis E. Nolan. © M M e En o R M W hm M e e P R R M P T R R P R Re PR TR M M M M e M R e M w R R R R R P e R M R fen P R P Rem e P P R P R R e P P P Rmo R Rm R Ru Rw M R R Rn R Ru R R mm RO Impossible to Account for Wonpderful Biggest Grasshopper Hunpt Ever Heard of Is to Take Place ip Nebraska. 77 N Nebraska the farmers and scientists grand grasshopper < e first time that f the kind on so large a has been attempted. It is mot in- ied that on state s the neighbors encircle a given territory, and, ppers before them into rowing area, beat them the wolf hunt of old. This fic experiment. wrence Bruner, who is re- reatest authority on grass world, and was employed ne republic some years ago try of devastating locusts, cader of the huut, and he is rs explaining his the t circula: de of attack There are twenty species of grasshop- pers iIn the United States, and Nebraska is ‘affiicted with nine of these. Bach be- longs to a breed that muitiplies exceed- ingly and does great damage to Vegeota- o tion. The four most numerous species are the two-lined, the differential, the red- legged and the lesser migratory. The two when full grown, an inch m forehead to tip of wing, rs only a trifie more than an in proportion. all done in the earth One female will lay 100 n. Usually only a single insects is ralsed in a ilated that under favora- number is has happened in Western tern Nebraska, in the alfalfa r farmer is content un. rops a year of that for- hoppers are overrunning them. The sclen- increase in the t that several sea- t very dry in that region, ssens the liability of the hopper i at the same time kills off hat look upon hopper meat he unusu: ue to the a does upon possum. The s have tried several old remedic they haven't worked well. Insect-destr g fungi halted the hop- pers f but they seem to have tidote for some of these v death-dealing fungus botanists as Empusa to causes an epidemic when- propagated. tacked the hopper climbs some weed or other plant the stem of securely attaches itself by tightly hugging the h its front and mid- Jegs. In this position it dies. A few s after Geath the body opens at the Joints and the dust-like spots carry the increased | 1 the farmers have begged | | cks a favorable spot and | | poiscn on the wind to be deposited where some other hopper g a meal on vegetation. The most popular method of fighting the grasshopper has been to harrow or disk the land in which grasshopper egg is m have been deposited. This stirring of the soil not only destroys many s, but also ex- poses the remainder to the sun or the birds and parasites. It is also a good thing for the alfalfa crop. Cross disking generally ends the grasshopper, but it is necessary to go not only over cultivated land, but also along irrigating ditches, old roads and deserted breakings. The various remedies have been tried, but still the & hopper flourishes and threatens the crops. And so the grand Bunt is to take place. There will be no firearms, no clubs. It will be a hunt by machinery. The machine is called the hopper-dozer and can be operated by hand or horse. It stove > {ron by tum is made of ing up the 1nd ends of the sheet about four inches in depth. This is mounted on run- ners varying in height according to re- quirements, On a f back of the pan is stretched a piece of cloth to/prevent the insects from jumping over the pan. When ready for work the pan is partly filled with water and then some coal oil is added. If the ground is level no cress pleces are necessary, but if the pan is te be used on sloping ground it should he made with little partitions every six or eight inches to prevent the oil and water running to one end, The height of the runners varies from two to ten inches, de- pending upon the crop to be protected and the age of the insects to be captured, The results are surprising. The hoppars are simply mowed down. They come leap- Ing toward the strange smelling lquid; then they want to leap out again, but the oll kills them. When the dozer gets full GRERT MOR OoF NEW ZERLAND. ==HE meost wonderful and by far the largest bird that ever existed is the T It belongs to order as the ostrich, the cassowary and perhaps the dodo. Moa seems 1o b generic name for a large bird among Polynesians. The moa at one time existed in very great numbers in the north and middle islands of New Zea- land, its favorite haunts being the ex- tensive, well-grassed plains of Canterbury and Otago, in the interior of which latter province immense quantities of its bones have been discovered. moa of New Zealand. the same In 1839 a part of the thighbone of a moa was brought to England, and from that tragment Professor Richarq Owen, the great naturalist, reconstructed the whole bird. The conclusions reached were so surprising that Professor Owen’s friends tried to suppress his paper on the bird, believing that it would seriously damage his reputation as a man of science. But fossil remains of moas afterward sent to England by settlers in New Zealand made it certain that as many as fourteen va- rieties of wingless birds had at one time existed in New Zealand. Of the bones found in the colony at va- rious times the largest belong to a bird to which naturalists have given the name Dinornis Maximus. The museums of New Zealand contain many fine skeletons of the dinornis. The one shown in the pho- tograph is in the museum of Christchurch, AR SEREsRS ™ WO AR DoTo BY T UHKELER AN Sony, CHRISTCRUREN N2+ the dead insects are shoveled out, a little more of! added and the mach: arted again, Bushels of hoppers c be de- stroyed in a single day. It is with these hoppers that the hunt is to be conducted. The grasshopper has all seasons for hatching, but most of the eggs are laid in an the fall. Some live over winter in the form of larvae, others hibernate as full- grown Insects, but most kinds pass the winter months in the egg state. The young work their way from the eggs in the sod to the surface of the ground by a twisting or writhing motion. Almost immediately after attaining the surface the little hoppers shed a covering envelop and set free the antennae, mouth parts and limbs. In a short time they become somewhat hardened and begin to hop about in quest of food, When first hatched they are nearly white, but soon become dark colored. The heat of midsummer brings out the grasshopper crop, and then it 1s that the big hunt with the honper-dozer is to be- gin. A number of these are now being made at the agricultural experiment sta- tion in Lincoln for shipment to farmers. e e e In the last sixty years the speed of ocean steamers hes increased from eight and a half to twenty-two and a half knots an hour. ‘/ e ‘Trieks Done by This Indian Fakgr. cles are over should go to India, s a retired officer of the British army, when, if they ‘are lucky enough to meet a faker of the hills, they will not only have reason to modify their opinion but I ¢ guarantee that they will see things which will make them doubt even the evidence of their own eyes. But 1 will describe one of the things T myself witnessed some twenty years ago, and which you will confess is the most amazing experience of which you have ever heard. I do not profess to account for it in any way; I only describe it ex- actly as I and my companions, any one of whom will corroborate me to the small- est detail, saw it. It was during a shooting expedition in 1880, when\I and three brother officers had spent a long, tiring day tracking a man- eating tiger among the hills of the cen- Tnoss who say that the days of mir- . T SKELETON or me FORYY - tral provinces, about two days’ journey from Leoni. We were smoking our cigars outside our tent preparatory to turning in for the night, for we were all dead-beat, when we saw two dusky figures approach- ing us, salaaming lower and lower as they came nearer to us. One of them was a dirty, unkempt, gray-headed man, clad In a turban and loin cloth, who was unmistakably one of the fakers who haunt these hills and way- lay tourists and sportsmen with a view to backeheesh; and the other was a small, equally dirty and slightly clothed boy of about 12 years of age. As we knew their business we affected to ignore them and aited developments, which socn came. While the boy flung himself on the ground the faker put down a bag he was carrying and took from it a small ball of twine, such as grocers use. Taking the free end of the twine between hi#% fingers, he tossed the ball up MARGEST RIRD | THAT EVER EXISTED. | and by its side, for p son, is placed a leton of a native | Maori, or nativ Zealand. On the left of the photograph is shown the dinor- | nis as restored by the side of the gig: rposes of compari- | Hochstetter, and by ie b is shown the | little kiwi, which b s to the same re- | markeble family of wingless bird which is stiil fourd in large n certain parts of the New Zeala | The largest member of the moa family— | the dinornis—was fram twelve to fifteen | feet high, so that If it had wings it might easily have carried a man up into the alr; | but it did not possess the power of flight. It had legs as long and strong as those | of a camel, the bones ing more | than a yard in length and a foot around. In fact, they were supposed at first to be | those of some very large quadruped. It } | measu would naturaily be supposed that the gait of so huge a bird would have been very | rapid, but the dinorpis is sald to have | been sluggish in its movements, though it could kick with terrific force. Its feet and toes were very strong and | well adapted to uproot ferns, its principal article of food. It swallowed pebbles to | aid its digestion and laid greenish-white | eggs to perpetvate its species. A nearly perfect egg has been found; it is nine inches in diameter, twenty-seven inches in circumference and a foot long. It$ con- tents would Lave made an omelet for about a hundred people. ARTHUR INKERSLEY. from his bag he gripped | with quivering | and T need not |it at al in the alr. Higher and higher it mounted until the eye could follow it no farther, as it vanished seemingly into thin air. The faKer then released the free end and, to our amazement, the string remained vertically suspended in the air as far as the eye could follow it. The old man then began to tug violently at the string as if to recover the vanished ball, ‘but it refused to yleld an inch; and in affected rage he spoke a few words to the boy, who rose from the ground and, seizing the twine with both hands, began to climb up it. Up and up he bed, growing grad- ually smaller and smaller until he was a scarcely discernible speck, apparently hundreds of feet from the ground. Then be, too, vanished completely the ball had dome. After a few moments” waiting for the boy’s return the faker called loudly to him to come down, coming frantic with rage at his refus to obey. Then taking a huge curved it between h teeth and with murderous intent began climb up the string after the van Higher and highe be went until turn was lost to as be- he and we gazed each other the thin line of string, the only mate: g left to our vision with dumb am Then a @ hri2k of pain and he broke on our ears with startling effect and a round, black thing came rus through th at our ¢ looked at it in stupetactio w, head of the boy severed from the body, muscles and flowing s no figment ing down hd fell et. to prove that it wa of fancy. A moment later one severed and bleed- arm fell from the sky, and then an- other; and > were followed by two legs as neatly dismembered as if cut off by the knife of a skillful surgeon. And then, while we were gazing with horror at this grisly speects the faker himseif reappeared climbing down the string and holding the knife petween his teeth Calmly collecting the head and limbs Le placd them in his bag, threw it over bis shoulder and began to walk away. He had not before aw a movement in The faker placed it on the astonishment, we saw om it, smiling and as sound in body a A mcment later the tw back toward us rewarded for t How do I account for ,as I have said, I d rofess to understand and e what we saw. Some say we were all hypnotized and saw just what the faker wished us to see. All I know is that it was the most astounding and mysterious thing I have ever seen— and I've seen some strange sights. .