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??1^???????????^?? ? Lr^ ^ISST^Sp^Kair-WKBCIKI-^^ ^ ~ l. x. ORIST'S sons, Pobiuhor.. J & ^amilg gtmatager: jar th< |romolion of th< |oliUcaI, Social. SflricnUnial and (gontnttijtial gntorwts of th< gtojlj. PE??^5?Pr."iSis??LVAN,:K t ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 8. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1909. ZTTZIZ NO. 21. ~ . i ? - " ? 11 * *AA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA J BREWS 1 -Wilt 3 BY GEORGE BARF ^ J {RICHARD < A Copyright, 1904, By Herbert S. Stone & C CAR AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA AAA i CHAPTER XXXIII. I ^ Everything seemed like a dream to 1 Brewster as he rushed off through the 1 night to the office of Grant & Ripley. 1 * * kor/?hr mnrn J He was aazea, Dewuui-icu, uwuv than half . conscious. A bitter smile > crept about his lips as hi Jrew away from the street car track almost as his 1 hand touched the rail of a car he had i signaled. He remembered that ho did ] not have money enough to pay hi3 fare. It was six or seven blocks to the office i of the lawyers, and he was actually running before he stopped at the entrance of the big building. < Never had an elevator traveled more i slowly than the one which shot him to ? the seventh floor. A light shone < through the transom above the attor- i nays' door, and he entered without so ( much as a rap on the panel. Grant, 1 who was pacing the floor, came to a t . standstill and faced his visitor. 1 ? "Close the door, please," came in < steady tones from Ripley. Mr. Grant 1 dropped into a chair, and Brewster i mechanically slammed the door. < "Is it true?" he demanded hoarsely, s v his hand still on the knob. ' "Sit down, Brewster, and control 1 yourself," said Ripley. t "Good God. man, can't you see I am t calm," cried Monty. "Go on; tell me t all about it. What do you know? What t have you heard?" I "He cannot be found, that's all," an- 1 nounced Ripley, with deadly Intent- t I ness. "I don't know what It means. There Is no explanation. The whole thing is inconceivable. Sit down, and ^ I will tell you everything as quickly as 4 possible." t "There isn't much to tell," said Grant r mechanically. t "I can take it better standing," de- 1 clared Brewster, shutting his jaws 1 tightly. "Jones was last seen In Butte on the I 3d of this month," said Ripley. "We c sent several telegrams to him after 1 that day, asking when he expected to t leave for New York. They never were ] claimed, and the telegraph company c reported that he could not be found. { We thought he might have gone off to t look after some of his property and t were not uneasy. Finally we began to wonder why he had not wired us on ] leaving for the east. I telegraphed again and got no answer, n aawneu upon us that this was something unI usual. We wired his secretary and received a response from the chief of police. He asked in turn if we could tell him anything about the whereabouts of Jones. This naturally alarmed us, and yesterday we kept the wires hot. The result of our inquiries is ter^ rible, Mr. Brewster. "Why didn't you tell me?" asked Brewster. "There can be no doubt that Jones has fled, accompanied by his secretary. The belief in Butte is that the secreta- ? ry has murdered him." 1 Rinlev moistened his Hds and went s on. "We have dispatches here from the police, the banks, the trust companies and from a half dozen mine managers. You may read them if you like, but I can tell you what they say. About the 1st of this month Jones began to turn various securities into money. It is now tfnown that they were once the property of James T. Sedgwick, held in trust for you. The safety deposit ) vaults were afterward visited, and Inspection shows that he removed every scrap of stock, every bond, everything of value that he could lay his hands upon. His own papers and effects were not disturbed. Yours alone have t disappeared. It is this fact that convinces the authorities that the secretary has made away with the old man and has fled with the property. The bank people say that Jones drew out t every dollar of the Sedgwick money, and the police say that he realized tremendous sums on the convertible securities. The strange part of It is that he sold your mines and your real est tate. the purchaser being a man named Golden. Brewster, it?it looks very much as if he had disappeared with everything." Brewster did not take his eyes from Ripley's face throughout the terrible speech. He did not move a fraction of an inch from the rigid position assumed at the beginning. "Is anything being done?" he asked mechanically. "The police are investigating. He is known to have started off into the mountains with this secretary on the 3d of September. Neither has been oln/*a tKot rlovr ca r o? onv nnp fCCU Oliiw mui uuj kw it** uo ** ? j v**v 2 knows. The earth seems to have swal- ( lowed them. The authorities are searching the mountains and are mak- j ing every effort to find Jones or his , body. He Is known to be eccentric, and ? | at first not much Importance was at- i tached to his actions. That is all we t can tell you at present. There may be ] developments tomorrow. It looks bad i ?terribly bad. We?we had the ut- i most confidence in Jones. I wish I i could help you, my boy." "I don't blame you, gentlemen." said f Brewster bravely. "It's Just my luck, that's all. Something told me all along that?that it wouldn't turn out right. I 1 wasn't looking for this kind of end, < though. My only fear was that?Jones wouldn't consider me worthy to receive s 9 the fortune. It never occurred to me 1 that he might prove to be the?the un- j worthy one." 1 "I will takp von a little farther into 11 our confidence, Brewster," said Grant slowly. "Mr. Jones notified us in the i beginning that he would be governed largely in his decision by our opinion < of your conduct. That is why we felt i no hesitation in advising you to con- i tinue as you were going. While you I were off at sea we had many letters from him, all in that sarcastic vein of < his, but in none of them did he offer a 3 word of criticism. He seemed thor^ oughly satisfied with your methods. Tn 1 fact, he once said he'd give a million of F his own money if it would purchase 1 your ability to spend one-fourth of It." ^ "Well, he can have my experience < kHA HAH AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA ITER'S { !0*s- i I M'CUTCHEON ? 3REAVESJ f ompany. J kHA HAH AHA HAH AHA HAH AHA free of charge. A beggar can't be a chooser, you know," said Brewster bitterly: His color was gradually coming back. "What do they know about the secretary?" he asked suddenly, intent and alive. "He was a new one, I understand, who came to Jones less than a year ago. Jones Is said to have had lm plicit faith in him," said Kipiey. "And he disappeared at the same :ime?" "They were last seen together." "Then he has put an end to Jones!" :ried Monty excitedly. "It is as plain is day to me. Don't you see that he ixerted some sort of influence over the >ld man, inducing him to get all this money together on some pretext or )ther solely for the purpose of robbing lim of the whole amount? Was ever mything more diabolical?" He began mcing the floor like an animal, nerv)usly clasping and unclasping his mnds. "We must catch that secretary! I don't believe Jones was dishonsst. He has been duped by a clever icoundrel." "The strangest circumstance of all, 14 r. Brewster, is that no such person ts Golden, the purchaser of your propsrties, can be found. He Is supposed ;o reside in Omaha, and it is known hat he paid nearly 93,000,000 for the >roperty that now stands in his name. 3e paid it to Mr. Jones in cash, too, md he paid every cent that the prop;rty is worth." "But he must be in existence somevhere," cried Brewster in perplexity. 'How could he pay the money if he loesn't exist?" "I only know that no trace of the nan can be found. They know nothng of him in Omaha," said Grant helpessly. "So it has Anally happened," said 3rewster, but his excitement had Iropped. "Well," he added, throwing limself into a deep chair, "it was alvays much too strange to be true. Sven at the beginning it seemed like a iream, and now?well, now I am just iwake, like the little boy after the airy tale. I seem like a fool to have aken it so seriously." "There was no other way," protested 3ir.iatr "Vnn tt-erp ouite rilfht." .v? *S?W " w "Well, after all," continued Brewiter, and the voice was as of one In a Iream, "perhaps It's as well to have >een in Wonderland, even If you have o come down afterward to the ordirnry world. I am foolish, perhaps, but >ven now I would not give it up." Then the thought of Peggy clutched lim by the throat, and he stopped, ^fter a moment he gathered himself ogether and rose. "Gentlemen," he said sharply, and his voice had changsd," I have had my fun, and this is he end of it. Down underneath I am lesperately tired' of the whole thing, ind I give you my word that you will ind me a different man tomorrow. I im going to buckle down to the real hlng. I am going to prove that my J fa in m P And I ,i anuiaiiici o uiuvu ?0 _ iha.ll come out on top." Ripley was obviously moved as he eplied: "I don't question it for a monent. You are made of the right stuff. [ saw that long ago. You may count >n us tomorrow for any amount you leed." Grant indorsed the opinion. "I like four spirit. Brewster," he said. "There ire not many men who would have aken this as well. It's pretty hard on fou. too, and it's a miserable wedding rift for your bride." "We may have important news from 3utte In the morning," said Ripley lopefully. "At any rate, more of the letails. The newspapers will have tensatlonal stories no doubt, and we lave asked for the latest particulars lirect from the authorities. We'll see hat things are properly Investigated. 3o home now, my boy, and go to bed. Fou will begin tomorrow with good uck at your side, and you may be lappy all your life In spite of tonight's lonrpsslnn " "I'm sure to be happy," said Brewster simply. "The ceremony takes ?lace at 7 o'clock, gentlemen. I was :oming to your office at 9 on a little natter of business, but I fancy It won't ifter all be necessary' for me to hurry. [*11 drop in before noon, however, and jet that money. By the way, here ire the receipts for the money I spent onight. Will you put them away with :he others? I intend to live up to my jart of the contract, and it will save ne the trouble of presenting them regarly in the morning. Good night, jentlemen. I am sorry you were oblig" otf nn on Into on mV flPPOlint " :u IU UJ/ ow I?vv v.. t.v He left them bravely enough, but he iad more than one moment of weakless before he could meet his friends. The world seemed unreal and himself he most unreal thing In It. But the light air acted as a stimulant and lelped him to call back his courage. tVhen he entered the studio at 1 o'clock le was prepared to redeem his promise to be "the jolliest fellow of them all." CHAPTER XXXIV. "I'll tell you about it later, dear," ivas all that Peggy, pleading, could I raw from him. At midnight" Mrs. Dan had remonstrated with her. "You must go home, Peggy, dear," she said. "It is disgraceful for you to stay up so late. I vent to bed at 8 o'clock the night before I was married." "And fell asleep at 4 In the morning,' smiled Peggy. "You are quite mistaken, my dear. I lid not ran asieep ai an. rsui i nun i illow you to stop a minute longer. It auts rings under the eyes, and someimes they're red the morning after." "Oh. you dear sweet philosopher," nied Peggy, "how wise you are! Do k'ou think I need a beauty sleep?" "I don't want you to be a sleepy jeautv. that's all." retorted Mrs. Dan. Upon Monty's return from his trying lour with the lawyers he had been besieged with ciuestions. but he was clev>rlv evasive. Peggy alone was insist ent. She had curbed her curiosity until they were on the way home, and then she implored him to tell her what had happened. The misery he had endured was as nothing to this reckoning with the woman who had the right to expect fair treatment. His duty was clear, but the strain had been heavy, and it was not easy to meet it. "Peggy, something terrible has happened," he faltered, uncertain of his course. "Tell me everything, Monty. You can trust me to be brave." "When I asked you to marry me," he continued gravely, "it was with the thought that I could give you everything tomorrow. I looked for a fortune. I never meant that you should O nonnpr " luaw/ a puu^/v.. "I don't understand. You tried to test my love for you?" "No, child, not that. But I was pledged not to speak of the money I expected, and I wanted you so much before it came." "And it has failed you?" she answered. "I can't see that it changes things. I expected to marry a pauper, as you call it. Do you think this could make a difference?' "But you don't understand, Peggy. I haven't a penny in the world." "You hadn't a penny when I accepted you," she replied. "I am not afraid. I believe in you, and if you love me I shall not give you up." "Dearest!" And the carriage was at the door before another word was uttered. But Monty called to the coachman to drive just once around the block. """?J ?Hoi-llncr " hp SflJd trwu 1115 ui| IIIJ u?k * 01 >.? ? ? when they reached home. "Sleep till 8 o'clock If you like. There Is nothing now in the way of having the wedding at 9 Instead of at 7. In fact, I have a reason for wanting my whole fortune to come to me then. You will be all that I have In the world, child, but I am the happiest man alive." In his room the strain was relaxed, and Brewster faced the bitter reality. Without undressing he threw himself upon the lounge and wondered what the world held for him. It held Peggy at least, he thought, and she was enough. But had he been fair to her? Was he right in exacting a sacrifice? His tired brain whirled in the effort to decide. Only one thing was clear? that he could not give her up. The future grew black at the very thought of It. With her, he could make things go, but alone it was another matter. He could take the plunge, and he would Justify it. His mind went traveling back over the graceless year, and he suddenly realized that he had forfeited the confidence of men who were worth while. His course In profligacy would not be considered me best training for business. The thought nerved him to action. He must make good. Peggy had faith In him. She came to him when everything was -against him, and?he -would slave for her, he would starve, he would do anything to prove that she was not mistaken in him. She at least should know him for a man. Looking toward the window, he saw the black, uneasy night give way to the coming day. Haggard and faint, he arose from the couch to watch the approach of the sun that 18 indifferent to wealth and poverty, to gayety and dejection. From far off in the gray light there came the sound of a 5 o'clock bell. A little later the shrieks of factory whistles were borne to his ears, muffled by distance, but pregnant with the importance of a new dpy of toil. They were calling him, with all poor men, to the sweatshop and the forge, to the great mill of life. The new era had begun, dawning bright and clear to disperse the gloom in his D??i Tannine aeainst the casement and wondering where he could earn the first dollar for the Peggy Brewster that was Peggy Gray, he rose to meet It with a fine, unflinching fearlessness. Before 7 o'clock he was downstairs and waiting. Joe Bragdon joined him a bit later, followed by Gardner and the minister. The DeMilles appeared without an Invitation, but they were not denied. Mrs. Dan sagely shook her head when told that Peggy was still asleep and that the ceremony was off till 9 o'clock. "Monty, are you going away?" asked Dan, drawing him into a corner. "Just a week in the hills," answered Monty, suddenly remembering the generosity of his attorneys. "Come In and see me as soon as you return, old man," said DeMille, and Monty knew that a position would be open to him. To Mrs. Dan fell the honor of helping Peggy dress. By the time she had had coffee and was ready to go down she was pink with excitement and had quite forgotten the anxiety which had made the night an age. She had never been prettier than on her wedding morning. Her color was rich, her eyes as clear as stars, her woman's body the picture of grace and health. Monty's heart leaped high with love of her. "The prettiest girl in New York, by Jove!" gasped Dan DeMille, clutching Bragdon by the arm. "And look at Monty! He's become a new man in the last five minutes," added Joe. "Look at the glow in his cheeks! He's beginning to look as he did a year ago." A clock chimed the hour of 9. *? "The man who was here yesterday is in the hall to see Mr. Brewster," said the maid a few minutes after the minister had uttered the words that gave Peggy a new name. There was a moment of silence, almost of dread. "You mean the fellow with the beard?" asked Monty uneasily. "Yes, sir. He sent in this letter, begging you to read It at once." "Shall I send him away, Monty?" demanded Bragdon defiantly. "What does he mean by coming Here at mis time?" "I'll read the letter first, Joe." Every eye was on Brewster as he tore open the envelope. His face was expressive. There was wonder in it, then incredulity, then joy. He threw the letter to Bragdon, clasped Peggy in his arms spasmodically and then, releasing her, dashed for the hall like one bereft of reason. "It's Nopper Harrison!" he cried, and a moment later the tall visitor was dragged into the circle, Nopper was quite overcome by the heartiness of his welcome. "You are an angel, Nopper. God bless you?" said Monty, with convincing emphasis. "Joe, read that letter aloud and then advertise for the return of those Boston terriers!" Bragdon's .lands trembled and his voice was not sure as he translated the scrawl, Nopper Harrison standing behind him for the gleeful purpose of prompting him when the writing was beyond the range of human intelligence: Holland House, Sept. 23, 19?. Mr. Montgomery Brewster: My Dear Boy?So you thought I had given you the slip, eh? Didn't think I'd show up here and do my part? Well, I don't blame you. 1 suppose I've acted like an idiot, but so long as it turns out O. K. there's no harm done. The wolf won't gnaw very much of a hole in your door, I reckon. This letter introduces my secretary, Mr. Oliver Harrison. He came to me last June out in Butte with the prospectus of a claim he had staked out up in the mountains. What he wanted was backing, and he had such a good show to win out that I went into cahoots with him. He's got a mine up there that is dead sure to yield minions. Seems as though he has to give you half of the yield, though. Says you grubstaked him. Good fellow, this Harrison. Needed a secretary, and man of affairs, so took him into my office. Tou can see that he did not take me up into the mountains to murder me, as the papers say this morning. All rot. Nobody's business but my own If I concluded to come east without telling everybody in Butte about it. I am here, and so is the money. Got in last night. Harrison came from Chicago a day ahead of me. I went to office of G. & R. at 8 this morning. Found them in a stew. Thought I'd skipped out or been murdered; money all gone; everything gone to smash. That's what they thought. Don't blame 'em much. You see, it was this way: 1 I concluded to follow out the terms of the will and deliver the goods in person. I got together all of Jim Sedgwick's stuff and did a lot of other fool things, I suppose, and hiked off to New York. You'll find about J7,000,000 worth of stuff to your credit when you indorse the certified checks down at Grant & Ripley's, my boy. It's all here and in the banks. It's a mighty decent sort of wedding gift, I reckon. The lawyers told me all about you? told me all about last night and that you were going to be married this irwirnliiir Ru thl? limn vrrn'ro onmnflr atlvely happy with the bride, I guess. I looked over your report and took a few peeps at the receipts. They're all right. I'm satisfied. The money Is yours. Then I got to thinking that at 9 o'clock, especially as you are Just recovering from the Joy of being married, so I settled with the lawyers, and they'll settle with you. If you have nothing in particular to do this afternoon about 2 o'clock I'd suggest that you come to the hotel, and we'll dispose of a few formalities that the law requires of us. And you can give me some lessons in spending money. I've got a little I'd like to miss some morning. As for your ability as a business man, I have this to say: Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to show for it don't need a recommendation from anybody. He's in a class by himself, and it's a business that no one else can give him a pointer about. I'm sorry you've been worried about all this. Tou have gone through a good deal in a year, and you have been roasted by everybody. Now It's A T+ tlf <11 yuur luni iu lau^u, n mu oui^noc them to read the "extras" today. I've done my duty to you in more ways than one. I've got myself tnteiviewed : by the newspapers, and today they'll print the whole truth about Montgomery Brewster and his millions. They've 1 got the Sedgwick will and my story, ? and the old town will boil with excite- , ment. I guess you'll be squared before , the world all right. You'd better stay ' indoors for awhile, though, if you want I to have a quiet honeymoon. ] I don't like New York; never did. i Am going back to Butte tonight. Out there we have real skyscrapers, and 1 they are not built of brick. They are 1 two or three miles high, and they have i gold in 'em. There is real grass in the lowlands, and we have valleys that make Central park look like a half an 1 inch of nothing. Probably you and 1 Mrs. Brewster were going to take a , wedding trip, so why not go west with me in my car? We start at 7.45 p. m? 1 and I won't bother you. Then you can 1 take it anywhere you like. Sincerely i yours, . Swearengen Jones. P. S.?I forgot to say that there is ' no such man as Golden. I bought 1 your mines and ranches with my own money. You may buy them back at the same figures. I'd advise you to do 1 it. They'll be worth twice as much in ' a year. I hope you'll forgive the whims ( of an old man who has liked you from . the start. THE END. 1 WOMEN IN SLAVERY. At Least So Opines One of Them From India. "We are in slavery," said Mme. ' Bhikhalji Rustom Cama, a Parsee 1 lady from East India, to a Washing- ' ton Herald reporter, "and I am In ' America for the sole purpose of giving ' a thorough expose of the British op- 1 pression, which is little understood so ' rar away, ana to interest tne warm hearted citizens of this great republic In our enfranchisement." ' Mme. Rustom and her husband are 1 among the recognized leaders of the < movement In India to throw off the British yoke, Mme. Rustom being es- 1 peclally radical. She makes no secret I of her desire for India's Independence and her efforts In behalf of a free In- ' dia. i "England drains our country of Its i money. Thirty million pounds ster- : ling go out of India every year with- < out any return. We have famines and die off by the thousands in con- i sequence of this, and subsist partly on ! American charity. < "We want to educate our people In ( the practical western way. We have 1 culture. Oh, yes, our commonest, 1 poorest peasants have stored in their memories all of the great spiritual < truths of the Mahabarata and the Ramayana. They recite songs which inspire them with a devotion and zeal similar to that engendered In the French by the 'Marseillaise.' Education or rather the desire for it in the fullest, richest sense, is the bond of unity holding together Indians of every caste today. It Is a passion with us. "Popular education like that in America is now our ideal. We know that your civilization has its faults. We are horrified at the rush and bustle and nervous strain, but we desire progress in every legitimate way. We do feel, however, that it is inconsistent to force Christianity upon a harmless and deeply spiritual people at the point of a bayonet, and we believe that we can work out our modern problems ourselves, as has Japan, from within. "No one conceives how we are persecuted. I could not return to India, I am sure. Only recently two cultivated men were arrested anfl deported without trial for speaking the truth about our country's condition. Now they are locked up in Burma. Talk about Siberia and its injustices! The most hopeful thing is the enthusiasm that is spreading over our entire people. Starved and uneducated, as many of us are, the past few years have shown an increase of millions of patriots. We shall have liberty, fraternity and equality some day. We hope for freedom within ten years." | Home Course Ii | Mod( | ' By C. V. G | tr X.?Some If Agricultural Division, Z Copyright, 1908, by Amei Among .the enemies which the far-11 mer has to combat perhaps none are r more trouplesome than Insects. Nothing Is mofe aggravating than to have a promising crop of fruit or grain attacked by 4 horde of "bugs" and greatly lnjured^lf not entirely ruined. Insects, -like weeds are very difficult to deal with if you go at them one at a time, brtt if properly managed they can be easily held in check. From th? standpoint of the damage they do, insects may be divided into two classes?those which attack field crops and those (which are injurious to fruit and gardefi crops. There are a number of insects which attack corn. While these are seldom present in large enough numbers to destroy any considerable part of the entire crop, the money value of th<? damage thfey inflict on the corn grown on p quarter section each year amounts to no small sum. One of the most important of these pests is the corn root worm. The eggs, which are laid in the cornfield during August or September, hatch during thei next June or July. The worms whbn.full grown are about one-| f 11- w //i l IA I I a . J s third of an Inch long and as big around as a pin."" 'They bore up Inside the ^ roots, injuring them so badly that the growth of the plant is seriously checked. Often, too, the roots are so weakened that the corn blows down badlySome time during August the worm goes through a transformation called pupation, which changes It into a small, light green beetle. This beetle feeds on the silks and tips of ears and lays eggs for the next year's crop of worms. Another insect which lives on the I roots of corn is the root louse. These lice are very small and helpless. They ire kept through the winter in the eggs stage in ant hills. In the spring after j, they hatch they are placed on the corn fc roots by the ants. The ants are very 0 fond of a sweet fluid which is secreted j by the lice, and they take care of then} I 'nr tViia nnrnnflft | f Other insects which do more or less damage to the corn crop are the stalk c borer, wireworm, white grub, bill bug,, |, cutworm, etc. These Insects live and a multiply in grass land and from there e find their way Into the adjoining corn- t fields. They do the greatest damage, j, however, when the grass land is plow- v ed up and put into corn. c The damage from nearly all Insects v affecting corn, small grain or grass can j, be readily prevented by a good system p cf rotation. This is especially true if F clover is used, since such insects as n cutworms and grubs do not work to b any extent on clover. The frequent g plowing of the ground and change of b crops where a rotation is followed are e fatal to most insects. Damage from these pests will be still further re- 0 auced if the soil is kept so well sup- e plied with plant food that the plants ^ can get a quick start in the spring. Treated in this way. they are more c vigorous and better able to withstand 0 Insect attacks. t These remedies, with the exception of c the last, cannot be applied to orchard e ind garden crops, since these must be g ?rown on the same land year after v pear. For the Insects affecting these q crops spraying is the best remedy. p The principal insect that attacks the u ipple is the codling moth. These in- |] sects pass tne winter in a ball of silk, a cr cocoon, which they spin around themselves. These cocoons are hidden beneath the bark and under rubbish. Such as happen to escape the hungry search of woodpeckers and other birds change to the pupa stage In the spring. ^ [n this stage changes take place Inside the body of the worm which so transform it that early in June it comes out ij cf the cocoon as a small brown moth. 1 These moths lay great numbers of ? eggs, which hatch into small worms. These worms eat their way Into the b ipple through the blossom end. The w xpples thus affected usually fall off, ^ xnd in a short time the worms crawl ^ iui ana again opm uuwuiu ?, themselves. The life cycle is lived P iver again, and a second brood of the ? moths appears about the middle of n July. It is this brood which does the most damage. It is the worms which p hatch from the eggs laid by them that y ire so often found in fall and winter p ipples. ' s Many poisons, of which paris green Is the one most commonly used, are w affective in destroying the codling e moth. Paris green is usually used in connection with bordeaux mixture, 0 which is a remedy for the various fun- fi ?ous diseases which affect the leaves v ind fruits. To make this mixture dissolve five n pounds of copper sulphate and five a pounds of lime separately in twentyfive gallons of water each. When they t| ire thoroughly dissolved mix the two t( solutions and add four ounces of paris n freen. The lime In this solution Is ldded to prevent the chemicals from n IT)4<ir>KN>l<V)>l<K>?0 I jj ;rn Agriculture, j REGORY, i isecf Pests. Iowa State College. ^ rlcan Press Association. lyrcKyrcJO-rdtyrtioitH njurlng the leaves and to make the nlxture stick better. Three sprayings are sufficient for the :odllng moth. The first should be giv>n Immediately after the blossoms all, the second from ten to twenty lays later and the third about the last if July. One of the chief Insect enemies of he plum and one which also attacks nany of the other fruits Is the curculo. The curculio beetle lays its eggs n the young fruit shortly after It sets, n doing so It leaves a half moon shaped scar, which Is Its trademark. One if the surest ways of getting rid of his Insect is to Jar the beetles from he tree at this time. Spraying Is also an effective remedy. [*he bordeaux-paris green mixture nay be used, but arsenate of lead Is letter, since It Is less liable to injure he leaves. It Is applied at the rate if three pounds to fifty gallons of waer. The spray should be applied just lefore the blossoms open, Just after hey fall and again about fifteen days ater. Poisonous sprays should never \o annlioA In fniit Irani) whllp thev are n blossom. It is not necessary In orler to destroy the insects and will kill nany of the honeybees, upon which he blossoms are so dependent for poli nation. The insects that have been mentoned so far live by eating the leaves ind fruit and in doing so take up inough of the poison to put an end to heir destructive work. There is another class of insects, however, for vhich such remedies are not effective. Chese are the sucking insects, of which >lant lice are the most common examdes. Insects of this kind feed by trilling through the outer layer of the eaf or bark and sucking the plant uices. They thus escape damage from iny poison which may be on the surace. To get rid of sucking insects some iubstance which will kill by coming In UllUtt'l Willi II1CIII IIIUDI UC UOCU. There Is nothing' better for this pur>ose than kerosene emulsion. This is nade by dissolving half a pound of oap in a gallon of boiling rainwater. This mixture is then taken from the tove and tw gallons of kerosene add>d. The compound should be churned dolently f6r a few moments by pumpFIO. XX? 8PKA7XB AT WOBK ng it up with the spray pump and ack into the pail. This causes the ill to mix thoroughly with the water, lefore using, this original mixture Is llluted with six to ten parts of waer. A common insect affecting garden rops and one that is hard to handle s the striped cucumber beetle This Is , serious enemy of cucumbers, squash8, melons and other plants of Mke naure. Spraying: does little good and s liable to injure the tender plants as rell. Where but a few hills are raised, overing them for the first two feeks with a small box with mosquito iar stretched across the top is a good ireventlve measure. Another effective lan is to go over the patch in the norning while the dew Is on and the ieetles cannot fly, knock them to the xound by giving the plant a slight ilow and put a drop of kerosene on ach one. wnere any or rnese crops are raisea n a large scale the most effective remdy Is the use of "trap plants." Plant he field to squashes a week or ten lays before time to plant the main rop. The beetles are especially fond f squash plants and will gather on hem In large numbers as soon as they nrr?A 11 n Tiiat ohnnf thA HmA thp oth r plants begin to peep through the round the squashes can be sprayed /1th very strong kerosene emulsion, 'his will destroy both the squash lants and the beetles. There will sually not be enough of the latter left n the neighborhood to do much damse. To be Continued HIGHER RATES. ixpress of Belief That Railroad Tariffs Will Increase. "It would not surprise me In the ;ast," remarked B. L. Winchester, a iwyer, of Cleveland, O., to a New York 'elegram reporter, "to see prices, lnluding railroad rates, go higher wlthi the next few months. "At the same time I do not believe a oostlng of prices would Injure the .'orklngman or the country at large, 'rior to the election several big ralload men said, for publication, that If hey were not permitted to Improve he revenues of their roads their emloyes would have to help them pay xpenses, which In a few words means hat wages would be cut If rates relalned as they are. "Now, we know that no railway cororatlon Is going to try and cut wages t this stage of the business situation, et many business men tell us that rices must go up If the present wage eale Is to be maintained. "We all know the cost of living is reater than It was a few years ago, hile few men are earning more mony than they did a few years ago. We lust not overlook the fact, either, that ivestors are not realizing the same roflts from their legitimate Industrial ivestments that they realized a few ears ago. Can we ever expect the lnestor to consent to the raising of rages unless they can first raise the rlnn q nn thft onmmnHIHAQ whlph thPV re marketing? "The railroads are giving a costly ?rvice and thev are paying well for all tiev get, and they have not a chance i Increase their revenues unless the eonle who travel are willing to pay lore for this service. I sav let them 'l?e their rates and let them pay their len more money." THE MURDER OF CARMACK. Progress of the Trial ot the Coopers and Sharpe. LAWYERS HAKE FALSEHOOD CHARGES. On On* Sid* Attempt to Justify the Killing; On the Other to 8how It a Deliberate Murder?Effort to Make Capital of 8oldi*r Record of Defendant?Audience Manifests Themendour Interest In Arguments. Nashville, Tenn., March 9.?The unwritten law was extended today to cover editors who attack private or public men, by General Meeks, of counsel for the defense in the Coopersharpe trial for the murder of United slates senator Edward w. carmack. The sensation was sprung during General Meeks' speech to the jury. Previously he had expressly disclaimed the belief that any editorial attack justified killing the writer. But when warmed up to his subject, with a burst of eloquence, said: "You talk of the liberty of the press. Why, gentlemen, no man lives who believes more firmly in the liberty of the press than I do. But when a man in an editorial position turns the liberty of the press into license and undertakes to defame and defile you and your family, what are you going to do? The prosecution will tell you you have your recourse in the courts. Yes and you b'ct a judgment for $25,000 against a man not worth the price of a plug of tobacco. Is that satisfaction? "Oh, gentlemen, I tell you that the streets of this, our city, have run red before with the blood of men who improperly used other men's names in public prints." General Meeks devoted five hours to the speech. Be pictured the defendants as the finest types of southern aristocracy and breeding, declared no crime had been committed when Senator." Carmack was shot to death and clojed with a dramatic appeal to the Jury to "turn loose this gallant old soldier," Colonel Cooper. So great was the throng which tried to crowd into the court room this morning, that the architect of the building appealed to the judge and declared that there was danger of a serious accident Judge Hart hurriedly sent deputies into the corridors and soon cleared them entirely. General Meeks began by saying that Col. Cooper was shamefully ireoted by Captain Fltshugh yesterday. "He accused him," said Meeks, "of not paying his debts. They tried to make you believe that he embezzled funds as clerk and master of chancery. What has that to do with the killing of Carmack? "The state has charged," said General Meeks, "that the defendants knew the route that Senator Carmack daily followed and the time that he left for his apartments. Now how could the defendants know this time or route? Senator Carmack's own stenographer said she did not know where Senator Carmack lived." As to the Carmack editorials General Meeks said: "When a man sits as Carmack did, behind the editorial counter of a pa per and writes, day after day, editorials that attack and assault a man who is not himself in an editorial position, he becomes insulting and there is no greater insult possible." The attorney next went into the incident of the pistol scabbard found in Senator Carmack's overcoat pocket and denounced the state's attorney for Insinuating that the counsel for the defense "planted" the scabbard there. He said the state knew that Major Vertrees loaned Senator Carmack the revolver with the scabbard on it. "We have proven," he went on, "that the meeting of the parties was purely and undoubtedly an accidental encounter. We hold that the guilt or Innocence of the defendants must rest upon the state of mind they were In at the time the meeting took place." Counsel described the note which Cooper indicted to Carmack but did not send, and said: "That note was to be the declaration of war and until that note was sent by Cooper and received by Senator Carmack, Cooper understood and Carmack understood that there was to be no trouble, and that note was never sent. "You are not trying common thieves or murderers now, gentlemen. You are trying men who come from as fine stock as ever human flesh was made of, the best people of the south. "Why did they put Miss Daisy Lee, Jim Bradford's stenographer, on the stand?" Meeks continued. "I do not say Miss Lee lied. I would not say that about any woman. But I do say that she was mistaken. "Miss Lee alone says that Colonel Cooper was not called back. Now, even if it were material, we have four ' 1 ?+V.O + witnesses against n?r, who aw cm uwi he was recalled?General Brown, Governor Patterson, James Bradford and Robin Cooper. Yesterday Captain Fltzhugh arraigned this old whitehaired soldier for using vile language In Miss Lee's presence. Miss Lee herself said that Colonel Cooper was In another office when he used that language." General Meeks took John Sharpe's case. He asked the Jury if they were going to hang a man because he said Carmack "should have been dead and in hell twenty years ago." He declared there was no evidence against Sharpe to connect him with the killing. "The state declares," said the general, "that these defendants must have known that Senator Carmack would pass at the point at which they met 1 him. Well, why didn't tney prove iw Senator Carmack stopped at the drug store, stopped to help Mrs. Williams on a car, stopped to talk to Jordan Stokes. Are these all conspirators? For If he had not stopped he would never have met the Coopers. The (conspiracy case, gentlemen, Is foolish, unreasonable and Impossible." General Meeks argued that Colonel Cooper, having decided not to press his demands upon Carmack, walked over to talk the matter over peaceably; that having failed to send the note which he knew and Carmack knew was to be the declaration of war, he had no Idea of trouble. ~v "And he never even drew his run when he saw his own son engaged in a revolver duel with his deadly enemy. How do I know It? Prom the state's star witness, Mrs. Eastman, who never told anything favorable to the defense and told everything she knew against the accused. But she says when she turned around that she saw Colonel standing with hands extended, empty. "There Is nothing in any one's testimony?except Colonel Cooper's? that Colonel Cooper ever drew a gun. He said he did, after the shooting stopped, ana as*ea wny, ne repuea; "To kill Carmack If he killed my eon." He declared Mrs. Eastman was frightened and hysterical and could not remember all that occurred. He then went to the defense of Binning, the witness arrested on a perjury charge and asserted with vigor that every word testified to by Binning was true. He described Binning as an old farmer, illiterate and poor, but who told the truth. "We say," said General Meeka, "that Colonel Cooper went over to Carmack with his hands open as he had a right to do; that he committed no overt act; that Carmack met him with drawn revolver, belching flame and bullets. We claim that when Robin saw the deadly weapon he Jumped In front of his father and took the two bullets aimed at the latter. We claim that then, and not until then, did Robin open fire and kill Carmack as the latter was trying to shoot again." General Meeks quoted at length from authorities as to the doctrine of self-defense and what constitutes an overt act and concluded with an appeal to the Jury to study the evidence carefully. "We regret the death of any one. But In our regret for the dead we should not do the living an Injustice. "I ask you, gentlemen, to bring In a verdict of not guilty against these defendants. Turn the old man loose and i?t him once rfiore meet upon the streets the remnants of that old band that went with him in the early sixties. Turn him loose and let him meet and shake the hand of that gallant graycoated crew. Gentlemen, I thank you." Court adjourned until 9 o'clock tomorrow morning when General Garner will address the Jury. Wednesday's Speeches. Nashville, Tenn., March 10.?Two ^ things stand out In today's developments In the Cooper-Sharpe trial for the murder of former United States Senator E. W. Carmack. One is the theory of the state as to the wounding of Robin Cooper. The other is the defense's defense. The state announced through Attorney General Garner that it would contend that Colonel Duncan B. Cooper flred the shot which wounded his son and that Senator Carmack. if he flred at all, flred wildly. General Garner first declared that it would be % physi cal impossibility for carmaca 10 i?t? shot Robin as the Coopers swear be did. Next ho declared that the reasonable solution of the problem was that Colonel Cooper opened flre on Carmack as Mrs. Eastman believes he did and that, a bullet from his pistol struck the telephone post, was deflected and entered Robin's shoulder. He contended that this theory Is corroborated by the course of the bullet, which penetrated the flesh only an inch and a half and failed to strike a bone. A 38-calibre bullet flred point blank at a range of three or four feet, Garner contends, would have gone deeper in the flesh than an inch and a half. General Garner made a brilliant and logical argument and it was with difficulty that a demonstration was prevented. The court officers, however, were aided in this by the sudden fainting of Mrs. Carmack. The audience's attention was instantly diverted to the widow of the murdered man and quiet was maintained. It became evident from the argument of General Washington, of the defense, who followed General Garner before the Jury, that the defense proposes to rely very strongly upon a plea of justification as well as upon the plea of self-defense. General Meeks paved the way for it in his argument yesterday when he came out boldly In favor of the application of the unwritten law to editors and declared that the murder of Carmack by the Coopers was not the first time that a Nashville editor had been slain for criticising some one. General Washington did not take such a decided stand but he devoted the entire two hours of his argument this afternoon to a denunciation of Carmack, "the man with the poison of scorpion in his pen, the sting of a wasp in his words and the venom of the rattlesnake under his tongue." He Interpreted Carmack's words and editorials as he said they were meant and as Colonel Cooper interpreted them and declared that the colonel had no recourse in the world. He had not finished his argument when court adjourned and he will conclude it tomorrow. Judge Anderson, also of the defense, will follow him and then Attorney General McCarn will close the case for the state. Attorney Garner declared that the defense has heaped slanders upon Carmack during this trial. "And I appeal to you." he said, "to bear me out when I say that M. H. Meeks falsified the record when he told you that Senator Carmack called Colonel Cooper a divekeeper." Referring to what he said was the defendants' claim that Carmack's editorial upon the Cox-Patterson reconciliation was a justification for murder Garned asked, "What in the name of God should be the punishment meted out to John Sharpe and Robin Cooper for the vile epithets applied to Senator Carmack? You heard the witnesses repeat what these two defendants said of the dead man." General Garner followed Cooper to the first conference In Bradford's office the morning of the killing. "We find him still cursing and swearing and applying in the presence of a lady the vilest epithets to Senator Car macK. General Garner then referred to the efforts of the defense to Impeach Miss Lee's testimony that Colonel Cooper was at Bradford's office about noon. "They say she Is contradicted by our own witness. Miss Braxtor, You, gentlemen, know that is false. Miss Braxtor swore Colonel Cooper was at his daughter's home between 9 and 10 a. [Continued on Second Pace.]