GLADDEN, Wastrucomox, b. Penn., 1836; graduated at Williams college in 1859. He has been pastor of Congregational churches in Brooklyn and Morrisania, N. Y., and North Adams, Mass. • and was an editor of the Independent, in New York, and the Sunday Afternoon, afterwards named Good Company, in Springfield, Mass. He is now pastor of the North Congregational church in Springfield. He has been also a popular and successful lecturer, and a frequent contributor to periodicals, He has published From the Hub to the Hudson, Plain Talks on the Art of _Living, and Workingmen and their Employers.
a kind of net used for the capture of birds in the glades of forests. is much used both in England and in some parts of the continent of Europe for the capture of woodcocks. It is made of a breadth suitable to the glade in which it is to lie suspended, through which the birds are known to be accustomed to pass; and is made of fine thread-netting, edged with cords, having weights attached to it below, so that when the rope by which it is held up. is let go, it falls' at once to the ground; a
rope from the upper part of it passing over a pulley in a tree, and being held by the hand of the fowler. When the net is ready, the neighboring parts of the wood are beaten, to disturb the woodcocks; and when they approach it, it is let down, or drawn up, as may be necessary. In England, the use of the glade-net is common chiefly among poachers and gamekeepers, who, without the knowledge of their employers, but tempted by the high price of woodcocks, resort to this method of obtaining money. Other birds, and sometimes hares, are also caught in the glade-net. In Siberia, the glade-net is employed for the capture of wPdlowl, and glades are opened, iu order to its use, between one lake and another, or between a lake and a river near together,