A SEPTEMBER MOTH. 
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admire the blossoms and at the same time to watch for such 
insects as might visit them. A specimen or two for later ex¬ 
amination would have been all he would have cared to carry 
away. Before he reached the spot, he was met by a party whose 
carriage was literally filled with the flowers. He went forward 
to find, as he expected, that the despoilers had done their work 
thoroughly, and Cvpripedium acaule is now unknown in that 
locality. The same ruthless treatment is accorded to the Arbu¬ 
tus, the Columbine, the Laurel, the Rhododendron, and, indeed 
every wild flower whose beauty offers any temptation to the 
thoughtless passer-by. 
There is a moral aspect to this matter of destruction of the 
wild flowers which was recently presented in a lecture at Cha- 
tauqua. The lecturer called attention to the new and higher 
aim of education that has come with the better understanding 
on the part of teachers in regard to what education really is 
This, the speaker said, was especially evident in what is called 
the study of nature. He explained : 
“ The old idea that it is a beautiful sight to see children gath¬ 
ering large bunches of wild flowers because they loved the * 
flowers was based on an immoral principle. It is surely false 
training to teach a child that because he loves a thing he there¬ 
fore has a right to destroy its life. If I train my boy when 
young that he should pull the flower and sacrifice its life and 
beauty to his flower love, I am doing all I can to put into his 
life the feeling that he has a right to sacrifice to his own per¬ 
sonal gratification the things he loves.” 
A September Moth. 
BV WILLIAM H. HUSE. 
On September 15, or thereabouts, there will crawl from brown 
chrysalids lying on or near the surface of the ground, about the 
latest as well as the prettiest of our season’s moths. The circle 
of existence began a year ago, when the females deposited their 
eggs in rings around the stems of certain lowland shrubs about 
eight inches from the ground. The bush almost invariably 
