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FEDERAL PROTECTION OF BIRDS By WILLIAM!. HORNADAY Director of th New (The bird portraits with this article are mm in A immkn naiuru ninur. Copyright, MM, by William T. Hornaday, art reproduced here by th permission of jut publishers, Charles Boribnere Bona. HE United States de. partment of agricul ture ti responsible for the start, line lUtement that. In the year 1904, In- sect petti coat thli country no less than 1420,100,000. Here are the figures of government experts: Percentage Amount of Loss, of Loss. ..... 10 1200,000,000 Product Cereals Hay M Cottoo 10 Tobacco , M Truck crops 10 Sugars 10 Frulta W Farm forasta v... 10 Miscellaneous crops 10 U.000,000 60.000,000 I, 100.000 II, 000,000 1,000,000 17.000,000 . li.ooo.ooo 1.(00.000 Total ...$420,100,000 Keeping In mind this enormous loss, consider also the following tacts: (1) That Insectivorous birds do more than all other agencies com bined, to keep down Insect pests; (1) That . such birds undoubtedly re rapidly decreasing In number: and that, therefore, (S) Destructive Insects are. In all probability, Increasing very rapidly, Th Robin. Highly Valuable as an Insect and Grub Destroyer, But Murdered by tha Tbouaanda for Pot-Pies In the South. with the result that the damage they do Is mounting up, year by year. It Is perfectly apparent that here Is a situation which demands Immedi ate action, and that this action should bring,about the vigilant protection for all time, and In all parts of the coun try, of all Insectivorous birds. Many of the most useful of these birds are already on the tobogganslide to ward extermination, as the result of stupid state legislation, or the lax en forcement of such laws as have been enacted. To be explicit: There are seven states in which the robin is being legally killed by the tens of thousands annually as "game"! These states are Louisiana, Mississip pi, Florida, South Carolina, North Car olina, Tennessee and Maryland. The black bird Is legalized "game," and suffers the same fate In four states Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee and Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia besides. Doves are slaughtered by the whole sale In 26 states,' much to the loss of the farmers, for this bird Is a great eater of weed seeds. Cranes, which are also very useful birds, are much hunted for food and for "sport" In Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota and Oklahoma, Of the sixty-odd species of shore birds (1. e., snipe, curlews, plover, sandpiper and the like), at least 30 feed on noxious insects; yet all of these birds are rapidly disappearing. . According to Mr. W. L. McAtee of the Golden-Winged Woodpecker. Great Tree-Protector, and Champion Ant-Destroyer Whloh Is Being Ex- tarmlnted by Pot-Huntera. bureau of biological survey (United States department of agriculture) : - "The black-bellied plover, or beetle bead, which occurred along the Atlan tic coast in great numbers years ago. Is now seen only as a straggler. The golden plover, once exceedingly abun dant east of the Great Plains, is now rare.,.. The Eskimo curlew with in the last decade has probably been Episcopal Cure for Rheumatism. Rev. Joshua KImber, In his Interest ing reminiscences, which have been running through the Living Church (Milwaukee), tells the following anec dote of the late Bishop Horatio Pot ter: , - ' ' ' He 1 -1 tn Journeying up the east ' iH 9 I ' "a river, storping for ;, i. f 'i (' y at a ' Jr'T '!. Y it i ...! I i 1 i H l : 1 i i ' t ; ; t c-t "- -i be k te rv, 1 a .1 $ Ml- b .,m..Tr.,f York Zoological Prk y'Ti -W'v tit - .rjJ The Jacksnipe. A Useful Bird Which Is Rapidly Becom ing Extinct exterminated, and other curlews .great ly reduced. ... So adverse to the shoreblrds are present conditions that the wonder Is that any escape.' In both fall and spring they are shot along the whole- route' of their migra tion north and south. The accompanying Illustrations pre sent portraits of a group of birds, most of which the average person probably knows by sight, though I fear that only a small minority have a clear Idea ' of their very great economic worth. The Jacksnlpe (or Wilson's snipe) is one of the shoreblrds (referred to by Mr. McAtee), which, as a family, are being rapidly exterminated. It de stroys large numbers of worms and larvae, for which" It probes with Its long bill in the soft earth of corn and potato fields thereby doing the farm er a great service as well a along the shores of ponds, lakes and streams. It also feeds on grasshoppers and other Injurious Insects. It should be carefully protected, especially dur ing the breeding season. The klldeer plover Is another valu able and beautiful shoreblrd which is being hunted to death. It frequents meadows and pasture lands, as well as shores, and devours great quanti ties of mosquitoes, crane files, grass hoppers, army worms, . cut worms, caterpillars, cotton-boll weevils, clover leaf weevils, rice weevils, marine worms, wire worms and crayfish. Doubtless everybody knows the rob in, perhaps the most democratic of our birds, beloved In the northern states . .... if-' . km '-in.v.-.v.w:'"- .- " .a-" . V 2L 2aia V '' The Klldeer Plover. Another Valuable BhoreWrd Which De . atroya Great Quantities of Worms " and insects. HAREMS OUT OF Only the Sultan Adheres to the Old Style Oriental Institution Mod ern Turk Resorts to Divorce. The domestlo arrangements of. the aultan are entirely different from those of his subjects. Most Turks have one wife; the sultan has no recognized sultana. Turks of high rank marry Into their own class; the sultan forms unions with women of slave origin. The ordinary man may not look upon an unveiled woman ex cept she be bis relation or servant; the sultan has the rlgfit to talk with any woman "In the land face to face. : Turks of position model their house holds more or less on the European ... tinnaahnM la nriAn- taL -; That does not mean that in the Im perial palace you, would find women sipping sherbet or smoking narghllehs or clad in baggy trousers. On the contrary, you would find them smok ing nothing more oriental than a cigarette, sitting on a European chair and, yes, wearing corsets! But the code of morals Is entirely different, says the New York Sun. J, The Imperial harem Is founded on the old court system of the Byzantine emperors and has an etiquette and law of its own. The first fact one must grasp is that the wives or favorites of the sultan have . no Im portance at all They are nobodies. The daughter of a Circassian peasant may be honored by. the sultan's favor aud even bear him a child, but yet be distinguished by no other tltle than the commonplace "Kadln Effen dl." Only the mother of the eldest son receives .the royal designation of "sultan." her whole title being "Kha rekl sultan." V ; -- Her dignity only results from her being the mother of a possible heir to the .throne; that is. In the event that the sultan has no brothers, for the brothers have the right of prece- somewhat familiar with. He was also certain that she had been con firmed within the week at another place. The bishop whispered to ber to remain after service, and said. "My dear madam, what do you mean by coming for confirmation T- I am sure I confirmed you on Monday at such a place. Did I notr She said, "You certainly did. I have been fol lowlrf yi op t?ie river end have ! i t i t" J f V ' V I . . : h "' - 7 - '3 -1 V 1 t V " V . . a '... r-, . i ..." siV for bis cheerful sons; and his band some appearance, glad everywhere to be the companion and the friend of man when be Is well treated, and high ly ysluabl as a destroyer of harmful grubs, worms and Insects. Yet this bird is murdered literally by the thou sands for pot-pies by negroes and poor whites In tb southern states above mentioned, and Is more or less hunted In other states. Mr. E. A. Mcllbenny, who lives on Avery Island, La., says that during the ten days or two weeks of the "robin season" (in January when the berries are ripe) at least 10,000 of these useful and beau tiful birds are slaughtered daily for the pot "Every negro man and boy who can raise a gun Is after them," says Mr. Mcllbenny. Although this bird causes some loss to small fruit growers, It certainly does vastly more good than harm. It Is constantly at work on lawns and fields hunting for destructive Insects, which it Is exceedingly difficult to keep in control. It devours many caterpillars, Including hairy species, which Infest the orchard, woodland and shade trees. Forty per cent of Its. food Is Insects, and 43 per cent wild fruit It would pay the farmer well to go some expense In order to keep the robins away from bis fruit trees and berry bushes rather than shoot these birds which are so useful to him in many ways. To mur der them for pot-pies) is, of course, nothing short of barbarous. The purple martin is also fond of tho society of man, and when not molested by the villainous English sparrows and still ' more villainous men by whom It is shot for food, chiefly In the south It Is glad to breed In blrdhouseiy near human habi tations. It ma'.es a charming neigh- The Purple Martin.. An Industrious Hunter of Mosquitoes and Other Dangeroua Insects. Which Itself Is Being Hunted to Death as Food. - bor and a very useful one, for It Is re markably swift and graceful on the wingand Is expert and persistent In catching rose beetles, May beetles, cucumber beetles, mosquitoes, house flies and files that trouble horses and cattle. One observer records that 32 parent martins made 3,275 vis Its to their young In one Ja, each visit "meaning, probably, anywhere from one to half a dozen Insects. The nlghthawk (also called "bull bat") 1 probably one of the most useful of birds. It feeds exclusively on. insects, and ranks next to the golden-winged woodpecker (flicker) as a feathered destroyer of ants, which it takes when they are in the winged stage. Potato beetles, cucumber bee tles, leaf hoppers, bugs of various kinds and enormous quantities of gnats and mosquitoes are found In their stom achs. They are entirely harmless, for they never feed on fruit, grain, grass or vegetables. Tet they are being hunted for sport and are being exter minated. The loggerhead (or southern) shrike is a champion pest destroyer, a largje j DATE IN TURKEY dence as the elder male descendants. And the royal favorite of the moment will have transitory Importance on account of the influence which she may exercise over the sultan. Royal princesses are considered In ferior to the mother of the sultan, who Is the real queen of the little wbrld of the harem, has absolute authority, a large staff of officials and the su preme title of "Vallde sultan." Thus It happens that ' a woman of slave birth may, If she be the mother of an heir to the throne, eventually become the highest woman of the land. Every royal princess has her dalra, or' separate apartments, slaves, ser vants and so on, the management of the household being given over to her kalfas, or ladles In waiting that Is to say, Turkish women of good birth who have remained unmarried. Royal princesses rarely take a hus band of their own rank. They are generally married by the sultan to the sons of men of wealth and posi tion, such as pashas, officers of state, high civil officials and the like, a policy , which Is founded on a very practical reason, namely, that the ar rangement makes the existence of a herlditary aristocracy Impossible. , One of the paradoxes In Turkey Is that the jxorer a ' Turkish woman Is the greater ber freedom. -The rich woman canont move a step .unaccom panied. She sees Constantinople only from the windows of ber closed brougham : or through a vefl thick enough to act aa a mask. She may dress as exquTsitetly as a mannequin In a Paris dressmakers showroom. but she must not display so much as an Inch' of embroidery In public. When ber husband wants to take a second wife, or grows tired of ber and wishes to divorce her, he has both the opportunity and the means If he Is a rich man. " It Is not chic among Turks of any education to take a second wife; but , divorce Is re- cause I heard it was good for rheuma tism," . .v w V vvv. '., .-.( : ,i i t Recipes for Longevity. . - The late John Bigelow, the patri arch of diplomats and authors, and the no less distinguished physician and author, Dr. 8. Weir Mitchell, wero to gether several years ago at West Point Dr. Bigelow was then ninety two and Dr. Mitchell e'shty. . The cenvr!'no turned to the Sub 1 t c f "I ?";'., try rrry J Ir. I.,. "to C.a t.U The Nlghthawk. One of the Most Useful of Insectivorous Bird Which Is Being Hunted for "Sport" and Exterminated. percentage of Its food being harm ful rodents and destructive Insects, the latter Including grasshoppers, crickets and moths, which It frequent ly impales upon thorns or sharp twigs. It sometimes catches young birds (though this Is more characteristic of the northern shrike, or butcher bird.) but us diet Is chiefly Insects and small rodents. It Is, therefore, very valu able to the farmer. The golden-winged woodpecker (also called "flicker." "hlghhole." etc.) is an Industrious tree protector, and the most efficient of all feathered ant eaters. It Is also feeds freely upon bee tles, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpil lars, and other harmful Insects, as well as on weed seds. Yet It Is rapidly growing rare because it is much hunted for food. It should be pro tected everywhere and at all times. In view of the decrease already ac complished In 'he general volume of bird life In America, in view of the enormous losses annually Inflicted up on the people of this country by the ravages of Insects, and In view of the destruction of wild life which is now furiously proceeding throughout Amer ica, the McLean bill, which is now be fore congress, to provide for the fed eral protection of all migratory birds, becomes the most Important wild life mea'iire that ever came before that body. In view of the annual economic loss that will, continue as long as a federal migratory bird bill fails to pass, it is impossible for anyone to put forth one good reason unless It be on purely .technical grounds against that measure. The Weeks bill, before the lower house of congress, is precisely like the McLean bill, and it matters not which one passes first Unless the people of this country wish to shut tbeir eyes t their own Interests, and pay out millions of dol lars annually in the form of Increased cost of living due to the losses caused by Insect pests which would be destroyed By the birds, they should demand that a federal migratory bird bill be at once enacted Into a law. It is Senate Bill No. 6437, and on the senate calendar It Is No. 606. We can not afford to wait until 1914 or 1915, and congress has full power to act this winter. - The Loggerhead Shrike. Fifty-nine Per Cent, of Its Food Is In sects, and TwJMtylght Per Cent. , la Harmful Kodenta. placing polygamy a simple repudia tlon by the husband of his wife, pro vided he is well enough off to pay the nekyah or marriage settlement which he is legally bound to hand over to ber. The woman of the poorest classes can go out alone. Custom does not oblige her to wear her veil down. Should her husband. In a fit of anger. wish to divorce her, he must first of all produce the Nekyah, the dowry, in ready money, not an easy matter for a poor man. The real danger to domestic happi ness in the great mass of Turkish homes is the growing tendency of di vorce, and a divorce wholly favorable to the man as against the woman. : ' The payment of i the modest nekyah arranged at the time of his marriage Is a simple affair, and It Is seldom enough to keep the divorced wife for the rest of her days. She Is forced to take refage with ber parents or to find shelter with some of ber friends. J Day on Which Women Rule. Candlemas day Is not celebrated in Holland much more than in England, but Its place Is taken by a festival un known In this country. Slipper day In the Netherlands is the one day In the year in which the Dutch woman claims superiority over her husband. On that day she rules him to her heart's content, and he generally obeys good humoredly enough. That Is, unless she Is one of those ladles not unknown In Holland or In any other country who aspire to complete rule over their unhappy partner throughout the year. Phlladephla In quirer. , ' . :V.;: Jumped, Killed; Stayed, Safe. : Ernest Woods; fireman, Jumped and was killed, while ' Fred Lebush, en gineer, stayed at his post and escaped death when the train from St. Albans, which they were driving, collided with an engine in the Grand Trunk yards at Montreal. Woods had barely leaped from the engine when the baggage car toppled over upon him. that t have been most abstemious. I have eaten sparingly, and have not used tobacco, and have taken little exercise."- . It is Just the reverse In my case," explained Dr. Mitchell. "I have eaten Just as much as I wished. If I could get It: I have always used tobacco, immod erately at times; and I have always taken a great deal of exercise." With that Ninety-Two Years shook his bead at Eighty Year and said, "Well, y-i wr,l never live to be an old iiinv!" Lloutacolt's. MEN WHO THREATENED W00DR0W WILSON . n j These are the three New Jersey mountaineers who threatened to thoot" Woodrow Wilson unless he paid them $5,000. From left to right Jacob Dunn, Seeley Davenport and Warren Dunn. They live near the vil lage of Wharton, N. J., where the neighbors speak of them as law-abiding citizens. ODD CIVIC SHOWS Queer English Election Cere monies Seldom Heard Of. VVater Is Drunk to the Memory of Sir Francis Draks Perquisites of London's Mayor One 8herlft Fined 50 Pounds for Insult London. There are several towns In the united kingdom which boast an annual show day. London's lord mayor's show, so far as the proces sion is concerned, has no rival; but nevertheless, the election of mayors of provincial towns Is attended with functions both Interesting and curi ous. For instance, the annual election pf the mayor of High Wycombe Is not considered complete unless his wor ship is "weighed in." The mayor, as well as each member of the corpora tion, takes a seat on a pair of gigantic scales, and the result is entered in a big book kept at the town ball for the purpose. It is declared that the cuBtom dates back to the reign of Edward L When a man reaches the mayorship of Plymouth he Is supposed, accord ing to an ancient custom, to pay at least one visit during his reign of office to the Lake of Burrator. When this function takes place the whole corporation turns out in all Its finery, and, led by the mayor, Journeys to the lake. Arriving there, two lines are formed, and a' couple of ancient golden gob lets, filled with water taken from the lake, are passed round from mouth to mouth. The mayor and corpora tion drink to, the memory of Sir Francis Drake, who, when mayor b? Plymouth, brought water to the town by means of a canal more than twenty miles in length. When the water placed In the goblets Is consumed the vessels are filled with wine, and the mayor, holding one at arm's length, exclaims: "May the descendants of him who gave us water never want wine!" The visit to Burrator lake concludes with a feast the first dish served be ing a sucking pig. The mayor of Peterborough's show Is held every October, and his worship and the members of the corporation make their way to Bridge Fair, and de clare it open from the bridge spanning the river. The bridge unites two coun-, tios Northamptonshire and Hunting donshireand the mayor, after adjur ing all visitors to the fair to conduct themselves soberly and civilly, goes on to declare that "the fair may be held as well In Northamptonshire as In Huntingdonshire today, tomorrow and the day afterward." A very ancient custom Is the pre senting to London's mayor and may oress every year a selection, of pears, apples and grapes by the master of the Fruiterers' company and the gen eral purposes committee of the city of London. It Is Interesting to . know that In earlier times the lord mayor of Lon don was entitled to a proportion of every consignment of fruit arriving in the metropolis by. ship. . The ex action of this due caused a good deal of disagreement In days gone by, and It was finally arranged that a yearly presentation of fruit should be ac cepted In Its place. Ever since the days of William the Conqueror, the chief magistrate of the cit hai received four bucks from the Royal forests, vwhlle each sheriff has received three bucks, and the recorder, the common sergeant, the chamber lain and other city officials one each. Since the title of lord mayor was bestowed on Sir Thomas Legge by Edward III.. In 1354. the high office has carried with it all manner of titles and dignities. In early days he some times used his power to the disadvan tage of those in office under him. For instance, Harrison, referring to the lord mayor for the year 1479, says: "This year Thomas Byfleld, one of the WINS BY WALKING SIX YEARS Peddles Patent Kitchen Utensil to , Pay Hla Way as He Travels . the Country Over. Memphis. Walking to cheat death, Robert E. Hillman, thirty years old, arrived In Memphis, covering the last lap of probably the strangest Journey In the history of the country. . 81x years ago physicians told Hill mas In Waterville, Me that within a month or two be would be dead, a sheriffs of London, was fined 50 by the court of alderman for affronting the lord mayor, which arose from no other cause than his kneeling too near the mayor during prayers at St Paul's cathedral." DECRIES UNCLE TOM'S CABIN Man Declares Work Is Caricature and Has Done More Harm Than Any Other Volume. Camden, N. J. In an address at the Camden high school, F. Hopklnson Smith, writer and artist, said that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had done more barm than any other book ever writ ten. He added that the general condi tion of the negro had not Improved since the Civil war, and that the ne groes of the south were happier, bet ter cared for and more content in the days of slavery than they were now. Mr. Smith's criticism of Uncle Tom's Cabin" was based on bis belief that the book gave the world an erroneous conception .of the negroes' life and condition before the war. He said the chief, incidents in Mrs. Stowe's work were such as never could have happened In the south. ' He attributed much of the bl'erness that prevailed in the south years before the war to "misinformation conveyed broadcast" by "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Mrs. Stowe, he said, was to be blamed only for making such use of (incidents that came to her knowledge at second hand. "Uncle Tom's Cab lr," as a whole, he Insisted, was a highly colored caricature that did not reflect real life In the south. Death Betrays Ex-Convict Denton, Tex. The death of John El lis, for 35 years a resident of this city, resulted in the revelation that Ellis was really Joseph O. Addison, who was convicted of voluntary manslaugh ter In Buchanan county, Oa., in 1S73, and escaped after serving three years of a 15-year sentence. Five years ago Ellis told his story to a friend with the request that it be given to the world after his death. FIGHTS AGAINST HER BABIES Children, Two, Three and Four Years Old, Are Kept at Cradle Age by Mother. .Cleveland, Ohio. In a little kitchen at her home, Mrs. Mood Thol has bat tled with nature for years secretly In an effort to keep time from touching her babies. Around her. feet crept three chil dren, two, three and. four years old. Victims of a strange : code her In genuity devised to prevent them ad vancing beyond the cradle, . they laughed, kicked their feet and waved their hands as she crooned over them. The eldest boy did not creep faster or with greater ease than the younger ones. He mumbled Incoherently, and tugged at his mothers dress and slob bered over a little bib, when she tick led him beneath the chin. He is barely larger than a child of two years and apparently has not advanced In tellectually beyond the cradle. To further defeat their development, the mother hat never fed them any thing except baby food. What lay be yond the door, through which a stran ger never passed, the had no Idea. Neighbors say the woman never took her children away from home. : Occa sionally in the hot summer, they say, she would wheel tbem away in the darkness, but always guarding them closely from the gaze of any persons. "She has a strange desire to always keqp them babies," Deputy Sheriff Sobczak said. "The four-year-old boy cannot talk or walk. He Is not as large as an ordinary youngster of eighteen months old." , ? , Several days ago William James, victim of tha white plague. A friend advised Hillman to "get plenty of fresh air; get out and walk, eat vege tables, drink' plenty ot water and fresh milk." . And so Hillman started to walk and tramped all but 400 miles of the way to San Francisco, Hillman arrived in Memphis from Texarkana.' He walked from Dallas to that city. Physicians declare blm a well man. and he will go back to bis old home town on a train. In the six years tat si - 'e enoi money from Us sie ct t t i'u' a 5iyOEIITIilI5 cue Member of Entomological Sta9 Tells of Expedition. Sma'l Beetle-LIk Insects Are Never I Known to Venture From Crevices l During Daylight Rare Specie' , ..' Are Worth 925. , f..vy' Washington. Housewives who wage . Incessant war on cockroaches and other vermin are cautioned by en- . tomologlsts to stay their hands and inquire carefully Into the antecedents of any black beeltelike bug which , peers around a corner of the kitchen sink. For the visitor may be none other than one of the amblychila baronl clclndelidae, the most aristo cratic family In bugdom, whose mem- ,k bers retail at as much as 125 apiece, provided they are delivered with limbs . and feelers Intact former student of the University of Chicago, who Is now on the en tomological staff of the department of agriculture at Washington, a few days ago described bis expedition Into the native haunts of the amblychila, which be explored long enough to gather in considerable pin money by i the sale of whole families. "When I learned the baronl had been seen in an obscure part of Ari zona only about halt a dozen bugs were known to entomologists," aald the Investigator. "One of these was in the Leconte and Horn collection in Philadelphia. Most of the others were In the River collection In San Fran cisco. . ... . ' ; "The first had been caught near Globe, Arts. A naturalist named ' Schaeffer also located a few south erst ' of Nogales, Ariz. I was familiar with the characteristic of the creatures through my studies under Curator Snow of the University of Kansas, now deceased, and when be Invited me to Join a party Into the moun tains of Arizona to hunt the ambly chila I was glad to go as if there had been buried treasure at the end of the Journey. "We found conditions favorable at Peach Springs, near Asbford, Aria. From there we went Into the moun tains. There were no amblychila tb be seen, but we acted on the general supposition that they were In this neighborhood. We spent several days moving about In the mountains and ' finally selected a favorable spot for the bug to appear. . "Now, the amblychila baronl family' Is most exclusive and has never been known to come forth in broad day light Twilight and an hours before7 , dawn are supposed to be the times when they appear. We tried several twilights and several dawns without result One night a light rain fell and we agreed that the dampness might invite the bugs out, although It made it decidedly uncomfortable for us. "That night we scattered over the hills and kept watch near crevices In 1 the rocks. I lay with my head resting on my elbow watching Innumerable Insects and bugs crawl by In the shady light Finally I saw the long, ' v black feelers of what might be one ot ' ' the amblychila appear, and then an- , :' other. I waited until they got well out of the crevice, for they are de- ' cidedly cautioua creatures, then scooped the two up in my hand. By their struggles I knew that I had the right species. No bug struggles as 1 hard as the baronl. Then I stuck them into a small par ot cyandVv of potassium which I carried. The fumes killed them quickly. ' ,.. I sold a number of my amblychila bronl for $25 r.nd some for 115 and . $10. Our expedition multiplied the ' number of know specimens consider ably and the price went down a little. I don't know how many specimens our entire party captured, but altogther the expedition was a success from a monetary as well aa an tentomologlcal . standpoint" clerk of the probate court, dlscovereo the plight of the children and Investi gated. He continued the Investigation until he made sure the children were not imbeciles. r James and Sobczak went to the house, arrested the woman and took her to the City hospital. The children , will be placed In r.n Infant Institution. GIRL ROBS IN MALE ATTIRE Young Woman Arrested as Burglai Says Man Induced Her to ' Commit Crime. ' t Danbury, . Conn. Disguised in mala attire, Amy T ravers, a pretty 22-year-old girl, entered the apartments ol Oeoroge Trumbley shortly after mid night and stole $22 from the pocket of Mr. Trumbley, who was asleep in the room. . The girl, who had never been ar-' rested before, accused George Smith of having induced her to commit the crime. Smith has a criminal record In Connecticut cities. The girl said she retained only $4 of the stolen money, giving the remainder to Smith. The man denied this, but the police found the money in his shoes. ' Miss T ravers was released on bonds furnished by a relative. She will be arraigned In the police court Monday. Detectives who have been investigat ing a series ot burglaries arrested the girl at ber borne this afternoon. - She said Smith furnished her with the clothing she wore when she visit-, ed Trumbley'g apartments. . She de nied having participated In any other burglaries. i : utensils to more than buy transporta tion." ' Girl Had Never 8een Train. Great Barrington, Me. Lela F1;'S Hps, a 13-year-old girl, arra?rned on s charge of being a doUnqueiit c!;!' ! told the Judge she had never s railroad train or a t- " y r - had seen only one i j life. 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