Sifting Through the Sands of Time

Tent Caterpillars

E. P. Felt, state entomologist, sends us this timely note in the interests of our readers:

“Many remember the abundance and voracity of those caterpillars last season, and it is feared that in some localities they will be equally destructive this year.

“Some difficulty was experienced last season in killing the pests with

Poison, after they had become nearly full grown, and many trees were stripped in spite of the spraying.

“The caterpillars are hatching rapidly, and now, while the pests are small, more easily killed, and have caused but little or no damage, is the time to spray all trees showing their presence.

“Use Paris green or London purple, 1 lb. to 150 gallons of water, to which has been added 1 lb. of lime, and keep the mixture well agitated while spraying is in progress.

“Other arsenical poisons may be used in a similar manner.

“These measures are advisable only for orchards and the valuable shade trees, and are not recommended for sugar bush or forests.” A Pawling Story

Fugitive Wife Strikes a Rather Strange Bargain with her Husband.

A dispatch from Danbury, Conn., said Mrs. Harrison Cyphore, the young and pretty wife of an elderly and prosperous farmer, disappeared from her home near Pawling, N.Y., on Monday, taking with her their eleven months-old child. She was unable to endure the loneliness of life on a farm.

Her husband discovered her absence and then found that a wallet, in which he had accumulated several hundred dollars in bank notes for the purpose of paying off a mortgage on his farm, was filled with brown paper instead of bank notes.

Half distracted he traced her to this place. She was in a boarding house in a quiet portion of the town. Mrs. Cyphore discovered his approach and, taking her child, hurried from the house, but her hiding place, in the dark recess between two buildings adjoining the house, was betrayed by the crying of the child. She feared that Cyphore had come to separate her from her child.

She refused to return to the farm with him, but offered to return the money she had taken if he would leave her in Danbury. He consented to do so, and she handed him a roll of bank bills. Cyphore returned to Pawling yesterday afternoon. His wife is still here.