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Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23

Boston women have renewed the
crusade against the anti-theatre hat
ordinace with vigor. They have petit
toned. the board of aldermen for its
modification, on the grbund that the law
is unnecessarily harsh. 1t applies to
any covering for the head, whether it
is actually an obstruction to spectators
or not. There is no doubt that the
broadness of the law has in some cases
led to vexatious annoyances. The petit
ton is rather formidable, signed, as it
is, by Mrs. Jack" Gardner and more
than hundred of the most prominent
women of the city. In the midst of the
Lowells Lawrences, Fennos, Codmans,
Endicotts, Armorys, Bigelows, etc, oc-
ours the name Of Mrs. Edward L. Davis.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23
NEW ELEcTRlcs COMING.
Ten New Open Cars Ordered for the
IN Summer Business.

The Consolidated Street Railway Com
pany has recently ordered ten new open
cars from the Jones mandatory at Troy,
N. Y. They are to be Of the nine seat pat
tern, CAPABLE of seating 45 persons, and
middle of May.
The company is installing at its power
plant at New Worcester new engine,
which, VIII nearly double the capacity of
generator, will be ready for service some
time next month With new power and
additional cars. the company expects to be
Offer Last year 1t was handicapped in
getting crowds to and from the lake when
there were special attractions down there.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23
TELEPHONES.

Editorial rooms. s....................... 80
Business office. .............. 1852
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23

Contemporaneous war scares and
Moody revivals in New York have con-
vinced Rev. Dr., A C. Morehouse that
this poor world is on it's last legs, so
to speak. Possibly it may last another
century, but, in the opinion of the rever-
end doctor, the chances are against it.
Apparently, he thinks the United States
is destined not only to free Cuba and
punish Spain, but to lead the march of
the world toward the dies irae.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23
WORCESTER.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH ga. 1895.

Keep away from Klondiker' is the
advice given to young men Of the east
by Cambridge man who has just re-
turned from the Alaska gold fields
Doubtless the advice is good, but good
advice is just what nobody wants to
take when embarking in risky finan-
cial venture,
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23
LADIES LOYAL LEGION SOCIAL.

The Ladies' Loyal Legion held pleas
ant social in Loyal Legion Hall, Day
block, Tuesday evening. Edgerton's
Orchestra furnished music, and refresh
ments were served. Capt. Ella Davis
had the arrangements in charge.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-03-23
COURT HARMONY DELEGATES.

Court Harmony No. II, F. of A., elect
ed these delegates to the grand court
convention. Brockton, in May: John P.
Morrissey and B. F. Donovan; attn
mates, John Luskin and Michael Sha-
grO
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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-11-26

man had to handle the crop, if such a
thing were possible, how long would
it take him?
Suppose the field was one mile wide
and 40 miles long, and the one man
had a double gang plough cutting
furrow "a inches wide. He would start
at a corner of the field in San Fran
cisco and plough south toward San
Jose, distance of 40 miles. Then he
would come back and cut another fur
row to San Francisco, making 80
miles for the round trip.
This amount of work would only be
tiny scratch four feet wide along
one side of the 40.mile field, and the
process would have to be repeated at
least 13, 900 times, making a total dis
tance of about 105, 900 p,iles.
Suppose that the ploughman worked
at the rate of 20 miles day. To get
over the 10000 miles would take
$3.50 days. To plant would take
about the same time, making a total of
10000 days, nearly 80 years. 1t
would be like spending a lifetime, and
the distance travelled would be equiv
alent to going around the world four
times. And all in one California wheat
field.
To accomplish the necessary amount
of work within the time at his disposal,
the owner of the Clovis wheat field
has to employ over 200 men, over
1000 horses, and several tons of big
machinery. The men are working
early and late now, and if the whole
acreage is planted by January and a
sufficient quantity of rain falls there
will be such q crop of wheat as has
never been heard of, for the land is
good land and the seed is good seed.
Then will the bread eaters of the world
give thanks for the existence of the
largest wheat field in California.
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Or, for see vour eyes roaming long
ingly toward my old fashioned we'll.
would you like draft of water fresh
from the bucket?''
I assured him did not drink wine,
at which / thought his eyes frightened,
but that neither did indulge in water
when in heat, as at present, at which
he looked disappointed and came some
what reluctantly back to the buggy.
He frightened up, however, the mo-
ment he was again at my side.
"Now for the woods" said he, with
what was undoubtedly forced laugh.
I thought the opportunity one I ought
not to slight.
"Do you think" said I, THAT it is
in those woods the disappearances take
place that Miss Knollys has told me
about?"
He showed the same hesitanoy to talk
had seen in him before.
II think the less you let your mind
dwell on them the better" said he
"that is, if you are going to remain
long in this lane I do not expend any
more thought upon them than is barely
necessary, or should have to leave my
roses and my fruits. And that-Miss
Butterworth, they are all that keep me
in this neighborhood. wonder-par-
don me the indiscretion-that you could
bring yourself to enter it. You must be
q very brave woman"
II thought l had duty"-I began.
"Althea Knollys was my friend, and I
felt l owed duty toward her children.
Besides. Should tell Mr.. Trohm
my real errand in this place? Mr.. Gryoe
had intimated that he was in the con-
fidence of the police, and if so his as
sistance in case of necessity might be OF
inestimable value to me. Yet if no such
necessity should arise would I want
this man to know that Amelia Butter
worth No, would not take him into
my confdence-not yet. I would only
try to get at his idea Of where the blame
lay-that is, if he had any.
"Besides''- He smiled after wait
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LOST MANS LANE.
By ANNA KATHARINE GREEN.
Copyright, 1897, by Anna X. Rohlfs.

COpyIlRuL, 1Ocfs Oy <Ahho ~ AsNAAAS'
SYNOPSIS OF PREVIOUS INsTALLMENTs.
In order that new readers of THE En-
oU1RER may begin with the following in
stallment of this story, and understand it
lust the same as though they had read it
all from the beginning, we here give a
SYNOPSIS of that portion of it which has
already been published:
Amelia Butterworth, who has done
clever detective work, is called upon by
Mr.. Gryce, professional detectlVe, I'd
take up an interesting case. He tells her
that in a certain village several persons
have suddenly disappeared. In this place
lives family of the name of Knollys, the
children of former friend of Miss
Butterworth. Mr.. Gryce desires Miss
Butterworth to enter this family for detec-
tive work. Miss Butterworth goes to
visit the Knollys' home, finding there
Misses Lucetta and Loreen Knollys and
their brother William. She dimes with
the family and is taken to her room. She
remains awake during the night, and,
hearing strange noises, goes into the hall
and calls Lucetta, who gives unsatisfacto-
ry reasons for the disturbance. MIR.
Trohm, a neighbor visits the. knollys.
Lucetta is terrified at seeing him ana
taipts. Miss Butterworth receives let
ter from Mr.. Gryce telling her that if she
is i'm danger to blow upon whistle ne
sends her. An old crone called Mother
Jane appears. Miss Butterworth gives
her a quarter, whereupon Mother Jane
repeats curious combination OF numbers;
Miss Bntterworth leaves the house and
hears of a young girl formerly leaving
the Knollys house in carriage and beihg
married before her mother could over
take her. Since then phantom carriage
is said to 60 through Lost Mans lane at
midnight, suggesting that the carriage
may carry away the persons mysteriously
disappearing.
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WHEATFIRLD OF $4,000 ACRES.
It Would Take One Man Thirty Years
Plough and Plant 1t.

It Would Take One Man Thirty Years to
Plough and Plant 1t.
From the San Francisco Call.
What is said to be the largest single
wheat field in California is now being
planted to the grain that makes the
staff of life. 1t covers over 25, 900 acres
or 40 square miles.
This enormous field of grain is To-
Gated on the banks of the San Joaquin
river, near the town of Clovis, in Made
ra county. The field is part in Fres,
no county and part in MADEIRA county.
Clovis Cole is the man who is putting
in this vast acreage, and he has un-
dertaken one of the largest jobs that
any man has yet done in California.
While it is true that larger acreages
of wheat have been planted by certain
ranchers in the state, there seems to
be no record of an exact parallel to
the present case. On the Miller and
Lux ranch, in Kern county, 30, 900 acres
were planted one year but the fields
were scattered about in different places.
They were really a series of fields, loca'
ted wherever there was fertile spot.
Few of the fields were 1000 acres,
and in many instances there would be
half a mile of bare land between them.
The acreage planted could not be call
ed a wheat field of $4,000 acres any
more than all the wheat fields in the
state could be classed under one head.
The Clovis field, however, is an ideal
wheat field. 1t is almost as Hat as
floor, with gentle slope towards the
river. The outer lines of the field
make it almost a perfect square. Each
side is little over six miles, and if the
day is clear every part of the field can
be seen from any other part. 1t will
be a beautiful sight worth seeing when
all the grain is up and waves gently in
the breeze of sprlngtime.
There are no roads through the
Clovis wheat field. 1t is TO be one
solid stretch of grain, and every square
foot of land is to be utilized.
Ploughing and planting began in the
big wheat field about the middle OF
last July and will hardly be completed
for the next two months at least. But
the grain will all mature at about the
same time. Then will come the her
culean task of harvesting it.
To get an idea of the enormous size
of this great wheat field, let US imagine
that it is close to San Francisco. If
one end of it one mile wide touched on
Market street, the rest of the field
would stretch one mile wide almost to
San Jose. This same wheat field is
over four times the size of the i'm
proved portion of San Francisco. The
whole city and county of San Francis
co, including all the outlying districts,
is about the same size.
With the big improved machinery
it does not look as though there was
much work spent on planting and bar
vesting the field. But suppose one
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but did not express It lest I should

but did not express It lest I should
frighten his condolences away.
II thought there was something"
said. "Lucetta acted almost afraid Of
you this morning. 1 should think she
would be glad Of the friendship Of 80
good a neighbor.
His face took on very somber look.
"She is afraid Of me-" he admitted,
"afraid Of what I may see or have seen
of their poverty" he added, with an
odd emphasis. I scarcely think he ex-
pected to deceive me.
1 did not push the subject an inch
further. I saw it had gone as far as he
would allow it at this time.
We were by this time in the heart Of
the forest and rapidly approaching the
Knollys house. AS the tops Of its great
chimneys rose above the foliage I saw
his aspect suddenly change.
II don't know why" said he, "but
I hate teunaccountably to leave you here. I"
I thought the prospect somewhat un-
inviting myself after the pleasant ride
1 had had and the glimpse which had
been given me Of really CHEEKY home
and pleasant surroundings.
"This morning I looked upon you as
q somewhat daring woman, the progress
of whose stay here would be watched
by me with interest, but after the COM
panionship of the last half hour am
conscious of an anxiety in your regard
which makes me doubly wish that Miss
Knollys had not shut me out from her
home. Are you sure you wish to enter
this house again, MADAME"
Twas surprised really surprised-at
the feeling he showed. II my well dis
ciplined heart had known how to fut-
ter, it would probably have fluttered
then, but happily the restraint of years
did not fail me in this emergency. TAX
ing advantage Of the emotion which had
betrayed him into an acknowledgment
of his real feelings regarding the dan
gers lurking in this home, despite the
check he had endeavored to put upon
his lips, said. with an attempt at ma
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serve, mixed with q strange and Iinger-
ing tenderness for this girl whom he
evidently loved, without fully under
standing her, was every minute win
ming more and more Of my admiration,
had meanwhile raised her trembling
hand to his lips in what was, as we all
could see, last farewell
In another moment he was walking
by US, giving me as he passed q low
bow that for all its grace did not sue
ceed in hiding from me the deep and
heartfelt disappointment with which he
quilted this house. AS his figure passed
through the door, hiding for one mo-
ment the sunshine, felt an oppression
such as has not often visited my healthy
nature and when it passed and disap-
peared something like the good spirit Of
the place seemed to 90 with it, leaving
behind doubt, gloom and morbid ap-
prehension Of that something which had
in Lucetta's s eyes rendered his dismissal
a necessity.
where's Saracen? I declare I'm
nothing but fool without that dog. "
shouted William. IF he has to be tied
up another day. But even he has
some sense Of shame in his breast, for
at Lucetta's reproachful William ~
he dropped his head sheepishly on his
breast and strobe out, muttering some
words I was fain to accept as an apology.
had expected to encounter wreck
in Lucetta. AS this episode in her life
closed she turned toward me. But did
not yet know this girl whose frailty
seemed to lie mostly in her physique.
Though she was suffering far more than
her defense Of me to her brother would
seem to denote. there was spirit in her
approach and a steady look in her dark
eye which assured me that I could not
calculate upon any loss in Lucetta g
keenness in case we came to an issue
over the mystery that was eating into
the happiness as we'll as the honor Of
this household. And this in a measure
was gratifying to me- I should hate to
take advantage Of her despair to discover
secret she would have been able to
keep in her better moments.
~ am glad to see you, were her un-
expected words 1.-THE gentleman who
has just gone out was lover Of mine |;
at least he once professed to care for me
very much, and I should have been glad
to have married him, but there were
reasons which once though ut were very
good why this seemed anything but ex-
pedient, and so sent him away. Today
he came without warning to ask me to
20 away with him now, after the hasti.
est Of ceremonies, to South America,
where splendid prospect has suddenly
opened for him. You see, don't you,
that could not do that; that it would
be the height Of selflshness in me to
leave Loreen-to leave William"-
"Who seems only too anxious to be
left, I put in as her voice trailed off In
the first evidence Of embarrassment she
had shown since she first faced me.
william is a difficult man to under
stand" was her firm but quiet retort.
"From his talk you would judge him to
be morose if not positively unkind, but
in action''- She did not tell me how
he was in action. Perhaps her truthful
ness got the better of her, or perhaps she
saw it would be hard work to prejudice
me now in his favor.
To RE coNTINUED
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Ing minute or two for me to continue.
"Did say besides?" was my innocent
rejoinGer. II think I meant that after
seeing them my sense of the Importance
of thai duty had increased. William es-
pecially seems to be young man Of
very doubtful amiability."
Immediately the noncommittal look
returned to Mr.. Trohm's face
II have no fault to find with Will
liam," said he. "He's not the most
agreeable companion in the world per-
haps, but he has pretty fancy for fruit
"a very pretty fancy
Zone can hardly wonder at that in a
aeighbor of Mr. Trohm, said I, watch
ing his look, which was fixed somewhat
gloomily upon the forest of trees now
rapidly closing in around US.
"Perhaps not, perhaps not, madam.
The sight of full bunch of honeysuckle
hanging from an arbor such as runs
along my south walls is great stimu-
liant to ones taste, madam, I'll not de-
ny that. "
"But, William" I repeated, deter
mined not to let the subject 90, "have
you never thought he was little indif-
ferent to his sisters?"
ga little, madam"
"And a trife rough to everything but
his dogs?"
"A trifle. madam"
"The girls"-I was almost angry
ION the contrary, seem devoted to him!''
"Women have that weakness. F"
"And act as if they would do-what
would they not do for him?"
"Miss Butterworth, have never seen
more amiable woman than yourself.
Will you promise me one thing?"
His manner was respect itself, his
smile genial and highly contagious. 1
could not help responding to it in the
way he expected.
"Do not talk to me about the Knollys
1t is painful subject to me. Lucetta-
you know the girl, and l shall not be
able to prejudice you against her-has
conceived the idea that / encourage
William in an intimacy of which she
does not approve She does not want
him to talk to me. William has a loose
tongue in his head and sometimes drops
unguarded words about their doings up
there, which if any but William spoke
But there, I am forgetting one of the
most important rules of my own life,
which is to keep my mouth from bab-
bling and my tongue from guile 1nfiu-
ence of a congenial companion, madam
it is irresistible sometimes, especially
to a man living so much alone as my
self. ,"
I thought his fault very pardonable,
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ivete only to be excused by the exigen-
cies of the occasion:
"Why, thought you considered this
iomicile as being perfectly harmless
You like the girls and have no fault to
find with William. Can it be that this
great building has another occupant? l
do not allude to ghosts. Of them neither
you nor I can think it worth while to
talk"
"Miss Butterworth, you have me in
a corner. l do not know Of any other
occupant which the house can hold save
the three young people you have men
toned. If I seem to feel any doubt OF
them-but 1 don't feel any doubt.
only dread any place for you which is
not watched over by some one interested
in your defense. The danger threatening
the inhabitants of this lane is such
yelled one. If we knew where it lurked,
we would no longer call it danger.
Sometimes I think the ghosts you al
lude to are not as innocent as mere spec
ters usually are. But don't let me
frighten you. Don't All, William,
have brought back your guest, you see
I couldn't let her sit out the noon hour
in old Carter's parlor. That would be
too much for even so amiable person
as Miss Butterworth to endure"
1 had hardly realized we were so near
the gate and certainly was surprised tc
find William anywhere within hearing.
That his appearance at this moment was
anything but welcome, at least to me,
must be evident to any one. The sen.
tence which it interrupted might have
contained the most important advice OF
at the least warning l would be the
better prepared for having. But destiny,
which was against me, said no, and be-
ing one who accepts the inevitable with
good grace 1 prepared myself to alight,
with Mr.. Trohm's assistance.
The bunch of heliotrope held was q
little in my way or should have man
aged the jump with confidence and dig
nified agility. AS it was, tripped
slightly, which brought out chuckle
from William that at the moment
seemed more wicked to me than any
crime. Meanwhile he had not let mat.
ters proceed thus far without putting
more than one question.
"And where's Simsbury? And why
did Miss Butterworth think she had got
to sit in Carter's parlor?''
"Mr. Simsbury," said as soon as
could recover from the mingled exertion
and embarrassment Of my descent tc
terra firma, "felt it necessary to take
the horse to the shoer's That is hall
days work, as you know, and knew
that he and especially you would be
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glad to have me accept any means for
escaping so dreary a waiting"
The grunt he uttered was eloquent OF
anything but satisfaction.
"I'll 90 tell the girls" he said. But
he didn't go till he had seen Mr.. Trohm
enter his buggy and drive slowly off.
That this did not add to my liking
for William goes without saying.
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p% "Here, you young rascal, give
an account of yourself. Where have
you been ?" "After the girls, father"
"Did you ever know me to do so when
was boy?" "No sir; but mother did,"
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TO BE CONTINUED.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1898-12-23

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Judge Wilcox then put some
questions to Dee. Among thes Q
was one relating to the lease OF
the place where the game of faro
had been carried on. Defendant
replied that he was part lessee of
the place.
Judge Wilcox held forth as
follows: "The prosecution seems
to have a tendency to let you
down easy Mr.. Dee. 1 am not in
their confidence and know nothing
of what they are doing. L will
have to Judge this case from what
has been brought before me. l
think a fine of 500 will be about
proper"
Attorney Robertson immediate
ly noted an appeal for mitiga-
ton.
Dee's case finished, Gardner
the doorkeeper, appeared on the
charge of taking part in the game
of faro. A nolle prosequi wa'
asked for the prosecution ant
granted.