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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1900-5-24, Page 6e, higher. paths ia literature, but ---but i take& a 1n4n to make a man," she says, z 1 iteessaty is e stern master and one re ) 0 a n'ichoeoctiori,:s.otill.n1 Itatioe l4e pT,olaybrow, :: \(;)%1,1113a I, t,,iya ty oitth et:lett:tin rt' sstItisciiioullin irl-e. - E was not soliciting charity'," town tbat she was an haveterate man tie "Nee' was 1 offering it," 'answers latter," It aftims utterly incongruous to see Colonel Dar ta gravely ; "the fact is, a "and a good reason sne has for it e etaid, atiddle-aged maid-sertarit (Men SUM, 01. Meney IS Coining into nay hands too, if she does hate them!" answere eletave massive doors and to go up .the just now, which, although honestly Tabitaa, tartly, and then, fearteel that broad, eoStly-carpeted stairs and iato earned, cannot honestly be used by me, she may have intrimed somethine by 'the Ittrae draeyingaroom without a L ehould be glad to thiale that it bad words, she leaves the room as quickly aomphus announcement from some saved setae ooe from want—perhees as elle can, thu.s avoiding any teatime Ciettratei footman. The room itself, too, despair,' questioning. . as essetatielly feminine ; embroidery The other looked. bewildered for a But at last Colonel Dare sees the mo- festened, on to fremee, half finished ena t ther of his pupil again. The boy had come. iDto the library about three o'clock and at half -peat five was still 11).111%1:ea lathy:3 a nicitret,allodenstgleedageiinlyCoinlonliejal sheill ohildish treble. ' Preseatly a low tap is heard at the door, and the next moment Lady Leigh stands on the threshold. The child jumps down and drags her forward to tate fire, "Mother, mother, come and listen to the 'pretty stories I" be erieS, meg- erly ; and Colonel Dare places a clieur for her with a low, respectful bow. She takes it half rnechanieally, strok- ing the boy's soft curls with gentie, nervous fingers; and for a few min- utes there is silence. Then she notice tliat the tutor is still standing. "Sit down, pray," she says, kindly; "I did not mean to disturb you; but I was wondering where Rollo wee, and tben I got anxious--" • She stops and sighs. Only she her- self ean tell bow unstrung her nerves have become in her long solitude, and how often the •silence bas assaraed each terrors for her that she has been oblig- ed to seek- out Tabitha and from her gather strength to go on with the life that has become her fate. CHAPTER III.-,a(Continued.) 11.14Siv' WIN() brOade "Thee you dont share Lady Leigh's "Wilt you let me assist you?" disiike to our sex?" drawings on easels, and books of art, atia lighteee literature scattered in- alleeehainately about. Two or three eages a britliant-plumageci lards are iatuaging in the windows, and. on a rug his nearer approach. fore the fire a couple of Persian "Say notaing. Do me the honor to eats elaueber peacefally. Only for au, instant ao his eyes reel, tee the objects in the room; a soft frau,- irou disturbs his reverie, white be- anweied fiagers part a pair of heevy hag a bankuobe from it in thean nas velvet curtains at tale further end of 'laze room and. he is uo longer alone. „Cr- Crosse -Brereton was not wrong an his surmise that Lady Leigh must. afe lovely still; she is most lovely. The tastes and hair alone would have render- ed even eoro.monplace features beauti- ful, and. she has the profile of an an - facet Greek statue. aler faultless fig - are is draped in soft Surat silk falling ita plain folds to her feet, a trying gashion—or want of fashion—which would, not have suited a less perfect terse. ta, boy about six years old is cling- ing to her skirts, his face hidden by Cone flaxen curls as he turns shyly away. Colonel Dare can only bow eneehanicaLly, all set speeches being ,arivven, away by her presence. "3:Cin have come in answer to my edvertisement 1" 'Ye*" Erave you been in a similar situa- "Whet, can I say'?" he begins, doubt - rutty, afraid to trest his ears, yet hoping filet the promised. bounty may not prove fairy gold, melting away at accept this, and se thug as 1 receive it the same amount sheet be forwarded to you every month," answers Colapel Dare, drawing out his nurse end plac- -Sion. before aNtte he truth comas out involuntarily. Ai exams earnest impossible to go on with a jest neceesitating so much un- truth while those istea,dfast eyes are pziag into his.But the next moment be i* recalled to himself by her evident "Then you have no experience in nation?" "None," he confesses, humbly, and ex- eeet.s an immediate indignant dismis- eel; but Lady Leigh hesitates before abe replies. She is taken by his plain, unpreten- done manner and by his appearance. A man of his age cannot well be with - oat some experience, and, though num- hers have answered her advertisement, he has found them all either too young el.es in other respects not suited Tor the responsible position of sole einsstaanien and mentor to her son. "After all, ranch experience is not ;required to teach so young a child," she says aloud, thoughtfully. 'I woad try my best," he begins, with boyish eagerness, having in his excitement forgotten that it is only a pert he is playing, and feeling for the moment as though his bread, nay, ing to dispute my seat in Parliament '? oven nis life, depended on his getting questioned Mr. Crosse -Brereton, gay - situation. Then remembering, he le. y "I am afraid it would cost you stops short. rather Inose than the amount of your 'What made you think of coming to modeat bet" Then, having noted clown his address, and not wailing to listeu to the torreet of grateful thanks with which he ie threatened te be overwhelmed, he hur- ries off, and at last reaches his own abode. He has inissed his friends, and is glad of it, as he haa sundry arrangements to make and a portmanteau to pack of suitable outside appearance and he - ward centents. He has resolved on no account to confide in them, lest the story should get about and prove pre- judicial to Lady Leigh's fair fame. Be- sides, it is so wild a, freak that he is ashamed of his share in it. "I might be a by of twenty, instead of a veteran of thirty-three," he mut- ters to himself, in comical contempt for the weakness he is displaying, and just as he is putting the finishing touch to his preparations his three fellow -conspirators come in. "We waited at the club all the after- noon for you," begins the Heathen Chinee, in an injured. tone. "And, after all, you need not have been so ashamed of Jour failure. I was rejected, too," °billies in Captain Venere. Colonel Dare breathes more freely, only too glad. that the supposition they have adopted saves him a large amount of explanatory fiction. "I did not see you anywhere, so con- cluded you had grown tired of wait- ing," he answers, apologetically, omit- ting to mention the fact that it had. not entered his head to look for them. "We met the lucky man corning out of the gates. No mistaking him! Nev- er Saw a man look so delighted 1" says Mr. Croeee-Brereton. • "Well, you have won your bet, Dare." Captain Venere counts out the money and lays it on the table rather sulkily, and Colonel Dare puts it into his pocket with a mental resolution to return it in some way at no very distant date, or else give it to some deserving char- ity. "It will tame in nicely to pay my expenses," he says, coolly. "What expenses? You are not go - ale, having never been anywhere be - he asked, presently, thinking st strange that a man should take to teaching so late in life. Ilia head sinks, and only by coining lb few steps nearer ean she hear the eingle word. he utters; "Distress," Sifter aR, there is other trouble be - aide poverty, and even poverty does not always mean want of money. Hun- ger of the heart, too, is as common a complaint as bodily appetite without the wherewithal to satisfy it. At least, ne has not spoken untruly in saying Vest. With gentle delicacy, she forbears to question him further; and at that ?moment the boy, who until now has neele standing so quietly at her side, turns the already wavering balance. Me steals across the space between them and slips his little hand into that on the tall, awkward -looking man, whose voice alone retains the charm eft bas eilways had for old and young 'Colonel Dare stoops, and, lifting him in his arms, kissed. him. ''Pear little fellow! he has been MI" fie ejaculates, pitifully. "Be is never very strong, and wants eeteh tender care," says Lady Leigh. "No, no—not so ambitious. I am go- ing awa.y for a time, that is all." "In that suit ,of clothes?" asks the Honorable Graver Meade, quizzically. After all, though less shrewd than either of his friends, he is the only one who has a suspieion of tbe truth. The M. P. is too raetter of fact to dream of such a thing, and Captain Venere is too self -engrossed. Colonel Dare pulls out his watch and consults it in some confusion. "I must ask you to excuse rne now. I have to change, and, there are several things to see to before I start. Dare say I shall see you all again soon at the club, "Then you are not going far ?" "No, 'not far." 'All the way back to the town the Heathen Chines keeps up such a suc- cession of delighted chuokles that his companions are in some dread lest he should. lose the little sense he has lett, and they are in utter darkness as to the cause a his merriment. Mr. Meade is not very bright, as he himself would be the first to admit, but one thing, he does know, and that is how to keep a secrete CHAPTEne sT•rast him to me I"' exclaims Colonel It is already growing dark when Liana impulsively; and even in speak- oriel Dare reaches Leigh Park, por- tag be is astonished at his own words. ftli will," she answers, earnestly, put- tin,g out her hand. But, remembering bis position there. Fie way bows gravely, and, blushing verfaasoz, she withdraws her hand, as- k:weed of the emotion she has shown. To histie her confusion, she moves across ales roam to ring the bell. and only Team the door opens to admit a ser- vant does she turn toward him. again. "Yon would like me to send for your Iaiggage g" she asks, coldly. "lai your ladyship will permit me, I woad prefer to go myself," he answers, nesome dismay. "Aad you will return to -night ?" "Meat I will return to -night." With. this promise still echoing in ite" eavS, he goes slowly down the stairs and out of the house. A wild resolution it. doubtless is; but, man what may, he is determined that teething ball prevent hini from seeing aratetaver deceit or danger it may en - testa Before he reaches the park gates, itarefeetrer, something occurs to make hiin waver in his decision. A man, meets him who is himself arhat he pretends to be—a needy gen- 'man driven to apply for this situa- tion. aa a last resource, more renauneraa Ave employment being out ot his ;reach. Colette' Dare stops and addressee Jaime "'Who are you f" he asks sharply. "I am come in answer to an adver- tieement in yesterday's paper. Am I too late—is the situation already fill - ea IT" is the anxious inquiry. "Yea, but, after all, it was a poor ,Afwg and unworthy your attention," azowere Colonel Dare, consolingly. "It mrs,ma,n's work, teaching an infant area to read and write." Th5s he says, not from Jack of feel- aag, but because he thinks he has no „eight to keep the money Lady Leigh in giving from one who really needs Some sort OS salve to his consci- fame he must have. "Woman's work or not, it was my "eat chance," retiirne the other, dog- gedly. "r have tried so often atal Sailed." , The colonel looks at hint keenly, "I should scarcely have thought tmanteau in hand. The same grim ser- vant maid opens the door and. ushers him into the rooms which have evident- ly been set apart for his use—a large bandsomely-furnislied sitting room and a bed and dressing -room adjoining it. She moves about briskly, stirring the fire and making the place as comfort- able as possible, but offering no in- formation meanwhile, nor attempting to gain any news from aim. "'What is your name?" asks Colonel Dare, at last. He would not have felt surprised had she answered, "Cerberus," so well does she act up to her character of watch- dog. "Tabitha," she returns, shortly. "Have you been here long?" ' "Ever since my lady came." "And that is some years ago now?' .,liumat, Titers is evidently, he thinks, not much chance of hearing anything of Lady Leigh's inner life froni this stanch servitor; and as the days go by, and still he has not c,anaht even a glimpse of the woman for whom he is masquerading thus, Colonel Dare be- gins to think that, after all, he is no neiaer to her than he was in the town itself. For two dr three hears eaeh morn- ing the little boy Comes to stady with him and sometimes in the afternoon he steals softly in and begs a story Seein his indulgent tutor. Indeed, no one could well have been harsh with ben, he is such a lovable little fel- low, and so delicate tlea.t often those who love him best fear with reason that he will never attain to manhood arid live to reign where his father had so sadly misruled. Prom the first he had contracted a violent attachment to Colonel Dare, and it does not decrease with a better knowledge of him. The tutor's pa- tience is un.wearying and his gentle - nese so unchangeable,. that it is not surprising the child shoulci adore him and look itution him with an almost re- verent awe, as a symbol of everything that is good and great. Tabitba notes the affeetion with quiet satisfaction, evbich she signifies in words ae soon as she has overcome her first instinctive distrust of the eleat iastructing the young was your stranger. 7:4ttliaanniOntelifIleli.• "I &mays told my lady tb.ere were a'd Wired to broader, too marlY women about the boy. It She looks E3o fair and fragile sitting there, the firelight flickering on her sweet, pale face, that Colonel Dare's kteart beats in such sympathy as lee never before accorded to any lis - 'g woman. • Surely, he thinks, Lord Jigh must have been a worse man ven than rumor has made him to have .11 treated her. She looks so young, too—scarcely three -and -twenty, though in the Peerage her age is pat down as twenty-seven and she must have been a mere child when she became a wife. Little Rollo is coiled up in her lap now, having faithlessly deserted his new friend; and raother and. son make a pioture which any paiuter, however spoiled by fame, might be proud portray. 'Have I interrupted you?" she asks, Presently. "You were telling aolle some stories. Won't you go on with them?' For a moment be feels aggrieved, that, like Othello, he cannot strive to win this other Desdernona, with stories of his prowess. He has been the hero of rnany a warlike anecdote and not for nothing was the V. C. awarded him when the mutiny was at an end. "Tell us about India," says the boy, fortably. eagerly, edging closer to his mother, and compesin.g bimself to listen cora- "India! Have you ever been in In dia, Mr.—" - She stops in some confusion, remem- bering that he has been: in her, house a week, and yet 5138 does notknow his name. "My name is Dare," he puts in quickly, 'trying to evade the question, and. not noticing until he has spoken that in the hurry of the momeat he has • forgotten to gime the false name he bad invented for the occasion. However, the subject is suacessfully "You will think me sadly unbusi- nesslike," she begins, with a half smile, "but—" - "But ladies are never expected to be amateur detectives," he finishes for her. "Deteetives1" she ectmes, -WIth tle startled ery. . "Lawyers, if you like the term bet ter. It is tbe same thing." • "Oh, no. Lawyers transact business detectives discover fraud." It is his turn to start now. and turn pale, and she, noticing it, adds, quickly: It was your word, not mine. I (lid not mean anything by it," , "Would you like to write to an ad- dress I can gime you, and ask for! are- ferenee ?" She shakes her head, with a little sweet, sad smile, "1 may have been wrong in not doing so at first, but there is noi loager any occasian. I have heard and seen en- ough to trust you thoroughly. as they begin to feed some of the • The tutor's eyes droop, and he feels! plants should be dusted with an ar- more abashed at the conficlence she has I expressed than he would have done had she discovered all and overwhelmed him -with reproaches, "Mother, ask him to tell the story," persisted little Rollo. Lady Leigh, however, shakes her head, and does not urge the request. Perhaps she feels that she has condes- cended sufficiently for once in coming there at all, and does not wish to awak- en the familiarity that breeds con- tempt. Or perhaps she, too, is thinking cif Desdemona and Othello, and knows to what such story telling might lead. And yet this tall, thin, professor - looking man is surely old and ugly en- ough for there to be an utter immunity from danger. Half -laughing at the fears that had arisen, she litts Rollo from her lap and rises to her feet. "It is getting late, and Rollo, it will be your bedtime soon." The boy pouts, and would rebel, but Colonel Dare, whose first lesson to his pupil had—military-like—been obedi- ence is tbere, so he only looks his dis- content. " My boy, tlebse who have been taught to obey learn soonest hosv to command," is the grave admonition he receives, and then the speaker stoops and kisses the child, so that all sternness is taken out of the rebuke. Lady Leigh holds out her hand im- pulsively, • “If I could believe there was good. THE CUCUMBER BEETLE. 'rite Early Insect 'rhat catches the Cueurbits. The striped cucumber beetle is the first iusect to attack cucurbits iu the riming. Hardly have the seedliugs pushed, through the soil before tbese small yellow and black striped beetles begin feeding oa the leaves and succu- lent stems. In the grub or Mime" stage the iusect is usually oveelooked. It is a slender, wirewormlike creature with black head and tail. The adults pass CUCUMBER BEETLE—LARVA AND Meurer. the winter in the ground. They come out during warm spring weather and attack various kinds of foliage with ravenous appetite. They eat dirty, tough and even poisonous foliage with avidity. After a few days' feeding, their hunger being appeased, their food is confined to tender parts of plants, and it is difficult to induce them to eat foliage coated with foreign substances such as the arsenites. • A. L: Quiatance of the Georgia station, wao has made a study of these cucurbit pests, says no one line of treatment or one insecti- I cide seems satisfactory and best re- sults are probably from the conjunc- tion of several remedies. Direct application of poisons to fo- liage has not proved satisfactory, ac- cording to Mr. Quintance, because when the arsenites are 'sufficiently strong to kill the beetles burning of foliage is almost sure to result. Vari- ous kinds of Covers have been recom- mended for covering the plants as they are pushing through the soil and later. Most commonly used are ordinary boxes with top and bottom open, the top being covered with cheesecloth. A domelike covering may be easily made by crossing two halves of a bar- rel hoop and putting on a cover. Cloth or paper wire covers are used by game growers. Planting an excess of seed is advis- able, as the injury becomes more dis- tributed, and after the beetles have satisfied their hunger the plants should be thinned out to the proper stand. Early planting also will frequently al- low the plants to get well started be- fore the beetles make their appear- ance, and their effects on the plants will not be so severe. The value of squash plants as trap crops in early spring for the striped cucumber beetle has recently been de- monstrated. Professor Shaine of New York has found that if squasb are planted around the margins of fields, four or five days in advance of plant- ing the main crop of melons or cu- cumbers and again four or five days later, the beetles will to a considerable extend feed on the scmash. If neces- sary, a third planting of squash can be made after four or five days. As soon as the main crop begins to come up it should be sprayed with bordeaux mixture to render the plants distaste- ful to the beetles and to let the beetles breed on the squash plants, but as soon in any man, I should believe it of you," she says, .quickly. Then, asbareed of her words, she turns to I ea,ve the room, But the tutor so far forgets himself as to follow her and take hold of the handle of, tin door. "Believe that there is good in every man," be says gently, " arid that only in some the evil predominates," "Prove your words. Train my boy so that in the future I may never have cause to blueh for him, and T will blese and pray for you as long ee I live she exclaims, excitedly. To be Continued, n eel nreeity„ ne----,Tnel;ey Jackson wants to give our boy a Inc terrier pup. She—He doee, does he'? Well, then send his little girl our old eat and six joutnal. senite, as peels green, and many bee- tles will be killed. It is not advisable to dust all of the trap plants with the poison at first. Every few days More of the trap plants should be dusted with poison, and it should be done thoroughly. The applications of poison to the trap crops and the spraying of bordeaux mixture on the main crop should be continued as needed. , rine Wax BOOMS. Among fine wax snap beans for home use a leading place is claimed for the saddle back wax. The pods are ten - FARMYANDS. . w. watieh, of the Vermont A4;tieultura ExPerildexi, SLatiOlt, o;t Thotr Ofa- 1ittkO—(iOzU Principle, A farmhouse ought to be compara- tvely remote from the road, The distaiwe will vary according to the height of the house, the slope of the land, the taste oi the builder, arid' other circumstances; but the, distance ought not to be less than three time the height of tee apes°, or more if the ground slopes upward front the street. 11 the Ionise is put 'some dis- tance back into the grounds, as„iS sometimes very desirable, and has an approach of its own, the tuaiu vieW of the house might still to he given at a distalwe something greater than threeetimes 'tin) height of the house. A f'e rinya Let • wi Le out 50103 large shade trees is a very uosatiefactory Tials needs hardly to be men- tioned. The More common evil is au an over -indulgence of this cravens for shade trees; and tacre are inanY houses badly shadowed and seat in and many yards cramped mid crowd- ed by twice the number ot 'large, trees \\Mich the place aught to support. The remedy is, indeed, very hard to imOly to trees whieh have become old Iriends, but Um inaprovernent will be worth all the sorrow which comes with it. The best Way of all is to make such tbinnings. very inuca earli- er in the development of the grounds, and then there is likely to be much less grief in the family. To produce the rural, naturalistic effect here recommended, there should be a liberal use of shrubs. And for the most part, the common native shrubs of the woods and fields are much superior to the finest exotics. 'Phose things which are so common as to be slightingly passed by are of- ten the very best. Duck -berries, SADDLE BA.Og. WAX BRANS. der and stringless, round, smooth and fleshy., • The meat is solidly joined be- tween the beans. It is recommended not to plant tlecin until nights are warm, as they are snore tender than green podded varie- ties, though the plants are vigorous and prolific. when an Orchard Needs Stitnulatittg. As to the indications When a bearing orchard needs stimulating the eminent poniologist Dr. Warder once said, "Wiwi) the growth of the terminal branches fails to melte an annual ex- teneion of at least one foot in length, the tree should be stimulated by ma- neueng the land and giving it thorough ti v ;enema SUGGESTION FOR A FARMYARD, a a a, Sugar maples; b b, sb.rubbeirY; c, climbers an porch; d, hawteern; e, elms: f basswood or horse chestnut; e g, sycamores. enow-berries, alders, elders, dog- woods, wild roses, the flowering raspberry, and many others which are always ready to the hand, should be planted • in profusion. If they prove to, be too thick., they may be, thinned out as they grow; but it is very seldom that such a necessity arises. Of course, many of the nur- seryman's saruba are well worth having, and may be added, as occa- sion requires and means permit. In connection with shrubs, a great many hardy perennials may be used to ,advantage. Annual flowering planes are not very useful or appro- priate in the ordinary front yard, though they may be grown in any quantity in the side borders if de- sired. Such Eowering plants are us- ually grown for the blossoms them - 'selves rather than for anything they contribute to the general affect; and their end is then best served if they can be cultivated in a separate gar- den plot. behind the house or at one side, inclosed somewhere, or in con- eection with the kitchen garden. In this latter situation they are likely to receive better culture, and more fertilizer, and to give corresponding- ly larger crops of finer blossoms. A fence a.bout the farmyard is fre- quently a firm necessity, but it need not be a WhiteWaSlied picket ..fence. The less conspicuous it be, the bet- ter, and seine sort of aedge, of arbor vitae, aolly, privet or similar ina- terials, is much to be preferred. The plan shown in the accompanying sketch for a farmyard is offered mere- ly as a suggestion, and need not be copied. The chief features to which attention should be directed are the °pee Space in front of the house, the limited tuber of large trees, and the shrubbery at the sides. A WOMAN DESPERADO, fiebbed the Ilielt and Spent tit* Money In Charitable Werkso. Mary Glenn., noted burglar aild high- way woman, is dead. Her lire of. wild and daring exploits is over. Two work- men a few days ago found her body In a hovel near 'Redwood, Tex, ' elven her last cent to charity' and to the poor arouud her and doubt- less too 111 to commit another depreda- tion, she died iu waut—nay, almost from starvation and with scarcely enough raiment to hide her nakedness. Mare, Glenn was a Philadelphian by birth. It is doubtful if the Quaker City ever brougla faith another human being, male or tamale, who bas given so many chapters of daring to the eonil- try's criminal book. It was the stony hardness of a rich man's heart nett transformed Mary Glenn from a demure, tender bearted and innoceut Quaker girl to a reckless, calculating and desperate breaker of the laws of God and man. Her first btuglary was for charity's sake. The majority of her other depre- dations against society were commit ted for a like cause. "I cannot see my brothers and sisters suffer in want," she said. "The rich are hard hearted and will not give vol untarily. 'IMerefore I make them give what they sbould bestow freely." Until she was 16 years of age Mary Glenn was surrounded by her parents, and her every want was ministered to. Then her parents died, ancl the ine.x- perieuced and petted and tender hea.rt- ed girl was thrown upon the mercies of the world and her owu resources. Bravely facing the situation, the young girl went about seeking employ - metre One day while thus occupied she noticed a ragged, hungry child shivering on a street corner. Her heart was touched; her eyes filled with tears. Then she followed the starving waif to her home in the slums. Once there, and for the first time learning of the deep poverty that can exist in this world, a sudden resolve came to her to labor among these miserable poor. She had found employment. For many months she toiled on faith- fully, earnestly. She even did some work in the east side of New York, but finally returned to the familiar scenes of poverty in Philadelphia. And then came her first temptation— and her first sin. Finding a family in dire need of food and medical assist- ance, she hastily, earnestly, pathetical- ly begged a multimillionaire for a small sum of money to relieve the inotaer's distress, to clothe a newborn babe, to fight starvation back from its prey of six half emaciated children. But the opulent man refused her aid and drove her from his office. That night three times the amount asked of him by Mary Glenn was sto- len from his palatial home. But the money was secured too late, for the mother and the newborn child died as alary was returning with her booty. Mary w -as only 18 years of age, but the death bf these two aroused a bit- . terness in her heart for the ric.h, mad she vowed henceforth to rob the rich for the poor. And she did. And with every theft she grew bolder, yet she was never suspected. During the last few months of her stay in Pbiladelphia she committed small robberies frequently, and for Adulterated ied From information derived from various sources and' from the analy- sis of the few satnples, sent by corres- pondents it is believed many car- loads of seriously a,clulteritted by- products of wheat have been, sold in Maine during the past six months, says Charles D. Woods of the Maine experiment station. These goods for the most part claim to be winter bran, winter wheat mixed feed, etc. Such goods should carry about 16 per centprotein; the samples exam- ined carry from 9.6 per cent. to 12 per cent. The adulterants are the refuse from brooui GOrt1 factories, corncobs and similar materials. The jobbers handling these goods must know that they are not pure goods. .Flow far these goods have been sold knowingly and how far dealers have been imposed upon there is no means of knowing, That the consumers have been imposed upon goes without, saying,. Dealers who are not handl- iug them are desirous that their sale be stopped. Some large houses out- side of the state have sent circulars to the leading jobbers in this state ceiling their attention to these fraud-' 16001 feeds. Value opf reedit, The toad, as a rule, feeas eoritin- ually throughout the night„ consum- ing in 24 hours an amount of food equal to about four times the stom- ach capacity, says a bulletin el the itgrictlIttiral department. It is esti- mated that e single tOaci destroys in a year insects which, if they had liv- edmight liave deniaged crop2 to the extent Of ahbut $20. $uurri or l'aittare. ' An Ilinglieh writer tells us that in an experiment macle there one acre of rich, pasture rilede a gain of 500 pounds of beef 071 steers fed there for six In on th e, 01, eal,a0 of sa um age and neztele same size, stall fed, it toek 8,500 pounas of clover hoe", 1,- 000 eounds corn and ott meal and 10,000 pounds of Swede turnips to make the saline gain. RODEING A SAFE, three different offenses she attended the hearings and heard three men sen- tenced for that which she alone was guilty—looting three houses. Growing restless in Philadelphia, she tried her luck In New York and Chica- go and many other places, finally set- tling in Dallas. At every place she robbed the rich to succor the poor. After helping herself to the gold of the wealthy until the Dallas police and detectives were fully aroused she swept out farther into the state. She was married once, but her hus- band died; and she resumed her wild ways. She was heard front In many sections. She dropped her husband' name and adopted thin of Buckman and a half dozen other rtliases. Then She took up her old life and for years gave Tetetis and Arizona it lively time and chase. In 1887 a reward of $1,1500 Was of- fered for the body of the noted despere ado Dick 'Maraliam, aline "Mustang Dick," eta Mary Glenn trailed him down around the border Of AieXiCO, and, with the aid 02 11 Mexican wbom she pSessed into service during the last hoer, she brotight the desperade to the sheriff and received the motley. She also ran down ever) other criminals and captured rewards.