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«yes of even the most casual observer 

 when, on a starry night, he looks to- 

 ward those calm sentinels of the dark. 

 Consider the marvelous facts of the 

 universe; how this star shines three 

 hundred trillion miles away, how that 

 •one is five thousand times more bril- 

 liant than our sun, how another is so 

 large that it could not pass between 

 the sun and our small planet, and how 

 a single ray of another's light requires 

 a half century to reach us. Think of 

 the infinite realms of space, of the 

 •enormous size of the heavenly bodies, 

 the tremendous speed of the planets, 

 and the uncounted millions of stars. Is 

 not the glory of God thus declared to 



man in no uncertain terms? Are not 

 these things inspiring? Is it not a sub- 

 lime consideration that man is an im- 

 portant factor in a universe so mar- 

 velous, and that he alone in all this 

 glorious creation is endowed with the 

 God-given power to interpret the works 

 of his Creator, so that he may come to 

 realize that the perfect system of things 

 celestial, the infinite care with which 

 the universal routine is set and timed, 

 are but manifestations of the divine in- 

 telligence that directs his own sphere. 

 Nature speaks in many tongues, but 

 in none of them is the wisdom of the 

 Almighty more eloquently proclaimed 

 than in the language of the stars. 



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More Than Sixteen Million Flies. 



[From "The Worcester (Massachusetts) Tel- 

 egram."] 



The accompanying illustration shows 

 the result of the greatest fly-extermi- 

 nating campaign since the days of 

 Pharoah. 



In the pile and bags shown in the 

 photograph are 16,217,088 dead, dry, 

 shriveled and shrunk flies. When they 

 were caught in The Telegram's $650 fly 

 contest, there were enough to fill ten 

 rum barrels, but after lying in state in 

 Dr Clifton F. Hodge's barn on May 

 Street six months, thev became less in 

 bulk. 



The pyramid is four feet high and 

 thirty-four feet in circumference. In 

 the picture are shown Dr. Hodge and 

 Dr. Edward F. Bigelow of Connecti- 

 cut, who is also interested in the move- 

 ment, looking for the extermination of 

 the fly pest. 



When The Telegram announced. 



June 20, that it would buy all the flies 

 in Worcester, and offered one hundred 

 and fifty -three prizes amounting to 

 $650, the biological department of 

 Clark University made a request fot 

 the dead flies. Each day, as the bright 

 boys and girls brought their catches 

 to Truth's Temple, the flies were 

 turned over to the custody of a repre- 

 sentative of the university, and, after 

 they had been disinfected, were stored 

 in the biological laboratory. As the 

 contest went on, and flies came in by 

 the million, it was found that if the 

 laboratory were given over to the 

 storage of the flies The Telegram boys 

 and girls were killing, there would be 

 no room for the pursuit of various 

 other branches of the educational work- 

 there. So the flies w r ere carted to Dr. 

 Hodge's barn, and were stored there. 



Even Dr. I lodge, expert of flies, did 

 not know what to do with so many 

 flies, until he came to the conclusion 



