The National tribune., 1907-10-17

East's mystic message of peace. Mrs
Besant has had most remarkable ca
reer. A bright handsome, highly edu-
Gated and remarkably gifted girl, with
the blood of Irish Kings in her veins
and the warmth and wit of the race in
her heart and head, she married at 20
the Rev Frank Besant, narrowmind-
ed severe, precise, methodical man,
easily angered and with difficulty ap-
peased He had firmly established no
ffons of a husbands authority and
wife's submission. and it is easy to see
how the proud. impulsive. hot-tempered
girl who up to the time of her mar
riage had led perfectly free life. failed
utterly to be happy with him, and to
understand how she was filled at first
With incredulous wonder then with m
dignation and finally with proud, de-
fiant resistance. When she began 10
write. needing the money for herself
and little daughter she was shocked to
find that the English law gave her nus
band, the rights to her earnings: f1iled
with a sense of her wrongs, and with
that true Irish spirit ever spelling for
fight which was a law of her being.
Annie Besant united herself with the
most desperate of causes, the reform OF
the popular and established religious
ideas of the day, and the most unpopu-
lar public man in England, Charles
Bradlaugh the atheist. 1t was while
she was yet in her 20's that she was a
storm center in England, going from
her aggressive warfare on religion INTO
the dangerous realm of Socialism. There
+, is no doubt of the sincerity Of Mrs. Be
SAINTS efforts to right some of the
wrongs from which humanity was suf-
fering. but her methods were often
questionable, and she was Obliged 10
e face a storm of obloquy fierce enough
to wither even braver spirit than hers.
.lA rant in
laugh for years, the notorious pair max
ing themselves odiouS to almost every
class of English society, parting COM
pany with him only when he finally
broke into Parliament, and when even
he became too conservative for her free.
untrammeled spirit Finally, after 10
years of stress and storm, fate threw
across her path Helene p. Blavatsky, a
Russian. and a noted Theosophist. An
ME Besant became her enthusiastic pu-
pill. throwing herself into the study OF
Theosophy with her characteristic aban-
donment. and upon the death of Nine
Blavatsky, few years ago, the mantle
of the well-known Russian fell upon
the shoulders of Mrs. Resant.
Cassie Chadwick is dead. She died
without friend or kindred at her bed
side, surrounded only by the prison doc
tor and attendants. She was woman,
and one searches for something in her
sremarkable career to warrant dropping
:. tear of sympathy over her grave. But
It is difficult to find anything in her
whole life worthy of praise She is even
said to have hastened her death by
9over-inGulgence in rich food, which she
had sent to her daily from a fashion
able restaurant. She must have had a
great many depressing hours during her
sojourn in the grim, forbidding build
ing. filled with memories of poor Mr.
Beckwith, whom she really kil1e6, and
: of Spear. whom she sent to prison. For
; nearly 90 years Mrs. Chadwick fooled
the public more or less successfully. She
began her life of swindling by fortune
telling, and ended II by forging and
3 borrowing money under false pretenses.
1t is estimated that millions of dollars
Z were obtained by her thru these meth
DDS and yet at the time of her arrest
she was almost without funds. She
seems 10 have been a woman whose one
idea was TO get money, no matter how
dishonesty. This being so, she richly
: deserved her fate. She leaves a son,
now about % years old.
Massachusetts is nothing if not thoro.
= Awakening TO the fact that the invading
3 foe, the gypsy moth, was destroying all
her. beautiful trees. she armed herself
: sand went into the fray. For number
sof. years it was almost losing fight,
DQt now DN tndt eleTildI
is the price of liberty the pests are be-
ing slowly exterminated. Each town in
the State has its Town Warden, whose
duty il is to go around examining the
trees of the town. If the owner of a
place does not keep his trees clean, the
Warden orders them attended to by MS
men, and the bill for this service is sent
the property owner The most success
full method found of treating the gypsy
moth is to cover the nests with crecSotc.
which kills the worms, and then to ban3
the tree with tanglefoOt to prevent 9th
ers from crawling up. Wherever one
rides In the State trees banded with this
tanglefoot meet the eye. The white oak
seems TO be their preference, and so far
reaching has been the work of destruc-
tion that the entire landscape in some
parts of the State is changed. In riding
over the country one is constantly sur
prised to find new and unexpected views
and old, familiar ones gone. 1t is said
that in the hight of their work of de-
struction, when almost every tree in the
State was covered with the worms they
could be distinctly heard at night when
eating the leaves. One reason why the
work of determination has been so slow
is that the men employed by the State
to clean the trees would purposely, tc
keep themselves in work, leave somt
worms on the tree, and not only this,
but unscrupulous men so employed have
been known to carry off nests and de-
liberately throw them into clumps OF
bushes. The State spent $4,000 last
year in getting rid of the pests, and al
together is $4,000, 900 To the bad on ac-
count of Mr.. Leopold Trouvelots little
experiment in silk-worm culture.
Whatever criticism is made on the
character of Henry II. Rogers, Standard
Oils master spirit, by the world at large
in his little native town of Fairhaven
Mass. he is unquestionably a prophe
with honor. Every man, woman ant
child in the place knows him and Loves
him. 1t is impossible for stranger u
visit the town and ask single question
without the name of Mr.. Rogers, IL
patron saint. being brought into thu
reply. You go into one of the stores 4
buy a spool of thread. and somehor
before you have paid for il you hav
been told something about Mr.. Rogers
Fairhaven is Mr.. Rogers's special pc,
Where other men have scattered thei
surplus wealth his beneficence has ha
but one object. He has fairly smoth
cred the place with his beautiful gifts
When he was boy and went to schoo
in the little old school house in Fair
haven, where the benches were so 10,
that his legs became numb from thei
cramped position, he determined tina