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the Cldfashioned fire. To steam heat the cities aspire As they shiver and shake in the cold; But give me the old-fashioned fire The round, rosy backlog of old! The warmth and the light Of its flame, leaping bright The drowsy-heads huddled around it at night! In the darkness the winter wind sighing Made the flame take a ruddier glow; The sparks up the- broad chimney fly ing Like witch-eyes that gleamed in the snow! Oh, the warmth and the light Of those red flames so bright. And the, comfort and joy of the wild winter night! Far better that friendly old fire Than buildings of simmering steam, With never a flame to admire. And never a beautiful dream! i Oh, the love and the light Where those flames danced so bright, And the old-fashioned joy of .the -ld- fashioned night. Atlanta Constitution. X HIS RARE SKILL. .tt. i. 1. .t..t"M-'i't-t-t' l"l 1 1 1 i !' ACK GREEN was a reporter on II a Liondon paper, and in that ca pacity he solved the riddle of the celebrated Sykes robbery case. The story was printed from one end of the country to the other, and it mado a hero of Green, especially as he received a slight wound from a stray bullet in . the fracas that took place when Sykes and his confederates were arrested. His injury won him a month's vaca tion, which he resolved to spend at his hnmp in TCont Ashfnrfl wn n not n vprv lively place In the winter, but Green was not looking for recreation. He wanted to see Ethel Watson, who in his opinion, was the sweetest and smartest girl in the world. On the afternoon of his seventh day in Ashford Green drove up to the. Wat son house to take Ethel for a drive. There had been a fine fall of snow the night before. Ethel was standing by the gate talking to Joe Sawyer, Mho also was in love with her, but didn't dare to say so openly. Joe was a law yer, and the only one in Ashford who had any practice. "Hello, Sherlock Holmes!" said the lawyer. "Have you heard the news?" "No," answered Green, sourly. ' "I'm really surprised," said Sawyer. ' "You should have deducted it from the Rtfl TA T fltmncnhora anil lt i t? rc of potatoes." - "I haven't," responded Green. "Justice Hawkins' house has been robbed," said Ethel, "and I think it's positively providential that you're here." Green looked at Ethel and he saw that she expected him to' perform great miracles. . He looked at Sawyer and saw something quite different. "Get In here, both of yon," said Green, "and we'll . see what we can do." , . They drove to the justice's house. , The robbery had been discovered by old Mrs. Gubbins, a lifelong dependent ot tne judge's family, who - went through the house three or four times a week to see that all was well, but did not live there. She had reported the case to the local police a day and a night watchman and these function aries, were present, with a dozen of the neighbors, when Green and his com panions arrived. v Green consulted his watch, and then he slowly walked into the hall, where the old-fashioned safe built into the wail gaped emptily. He glanced around with " listless eye, while everybody watched him. Then he walked into the parlor and stood for half a minute by the mantelpiece. From this room he passed . through all the others in the house, a slow pro cession following him. Finally he led them to the startinsr noint. the hrn.irl hall, and there he sat down npon the stairs and looked at his watch, which he had consulted occasionally in the course of his stroll. "Nineteen minutes and a half," said Green. "Mr. Jones, I believe you are a deputy sheriff of this county as well as a constable of the village. I will make my report to you, sir. This robbery was committed by two ' men . who do not live in Ashford, and who are not here at present. Where they- are we will consider later. "One of them is about six feet tall and rather slender. He has red hair, but is bald on the front part of his cranium. He wore a long black over coat and heavy rubber overshoes. The little finger of hfs right hand has been broken and .is bent almost double. "It may interest you to know how I discovered this. The thief Is tall be cause he bumped his head on the swinging lamp in the parlor, and that is about six feet from the floor. He left upon it a small portion of his scalp and one red hair. If he had not been bald in front he would have left more hair and less scalp. . "The prints of his overshoes show in the, dust on 'the floor of the kitchen closet. The print of his little finger is in the dust on top of that table, or was before Joe Sawyer sat down on it." "There wasn't any dust here not a speck!" exclaimed Sawyer, jumping off the table. "It depends on the eye," responded Green, calmly.' "To continue: The other robber was short, thick-set and dark. He wore a pea Jacket and a fur cap. He had a heavy black beard., which may, how ever, be false. I cannot tell from the single hair which I found upon a piece of bread in the kitchen until I have examined it with a microscope. He was an Irishman." "Great Scott r' exclaimed the con stable. "How- do you know that?" "From his method of knocking out the ashes from his pipe," replied Green, x "Irishmen have a peculiar way of doing it. I have not time to expiain in detail." "The tall man walked on this side," said. Gre'en. "Mark the longer stride and the prints of the overshoes. With out doubt they walked across the mea dows tOiChartham.and took the 7:10 train for London." "Why not the 6:50 for Dover?" ask ed Sawyer. "Thieves with plunder always strike ITALIAN ALPHABET O.Y O.T This quaint and interesting alphabet was selected and adapted from Italian Mss. of the sixteenth century. The letters are well adapted for use on table-linen, using this size for napkins and enlarging, any one .of the letters for table cloths. Embroider in white cotton, making the solid parts in satin stitch; and the light lines in cording stitch or outline them. The monograms are suitable for towels, etc.. using blue embroidery cotton on blue bordered towels and red embroidery cotton on red ones. for the big cities," said Green. "Mr. Jones, if you telegraph to London, giv ing a description of the men and their plunder, I think the police can catch them for you before to-morrow morn ing. Now, Ethel, if you're ready, we'll go for a drive." At 9 o'clock the next morning Jones received this message from Scotland Yard: "Have your men. Description per fect. Most of goods recovered. Will send men in charge of Detective Cuff, 10 o'clock train." "I'll give it up," said Joe Sawyer. And he gnawed his knuckles till they bled. Green walked away from the station with Ethel, and a cheering mob followed. He got her into her own house ps soon as he could, and there in the par lor he faced her, red with shame. "Ethel," said he, "I love you, and" "And I love you," 6he answered, "but I'm only a silly girl, and I'll never be anything else. I haven't the mind your wife should have " "Don't! Don't!" he groaned. "Ethel, I can't act this lie before you. I have only been a lucky idiot in this affair, as in that other in London" . "Luck!" she cried. "Could luck tell you that the robber carried a black bag instead of a brown one " "Child! . Child! I saw it!" moaned Green. "I was sitting on a rock just at the back of the judge's house when those two thieves came out through the yard. I heard one of them say that they had time to walk to Chart ham and catch the 7:10 train to Lon don." "Jack," she cried, "you're a bigger man than I thought you were. You're a wonder!" and she flung her arms around his neck. Indianapolis Sun.' marconi's wireless station, Where the Inventor Haa Been Con ducting Experiments. The wireless telegraph station at Table Head, Glace Bay, near Sidney, N. S., where Mr. Marconi has been con ducting experiments with a view to proving the possibility of sending mes sages across the Atlantic, is altogether different from those originally erected for his first tests. At Signal Hill, New foundland, where Marconi succeeded in obtaining faint signals sent across the ocean from the station at Poldhu, Corn wall, the messages were received by- means of a single wire sustained by a kite, whose unsteadiness made it diffi cult to obtain uniform results. One or two balloons which he tried for the same purpose escaped. Before the close of 1901 a station was erected at Cape Cod, Mass., consisting essentially of a great circle ?f poles which were to sustain the vertical wires but thejeon struction was Inadequate and the poles soon blew down. At Poldhu there was also a circle of poles originally, but this too met with a mishap. The sta tions at Polhu and Cape Cod were therefore remodelled, and the one at Glace Bay has been constructed on the same line, so that a description of one will fit all three. ' As shown in the - illustration, the structure consisted of four square wooden towers, which stand about 21i feet high. Each one is cross braced with steel wire rope, and all four-are connected with each other by diagonal stays. Finally, to render the structure still more rigid and wind-proof, stout cables are run up over the tops of each pair of towers on all sides, and secured to anchorages in' the earth. - From each ofvthe four horizontal bridges which connect the tops of the towers are suspended fifty copper ca bles. The cables are composed of seven MABCONI STATION AT GLACE BAY. AND MONOGRAM. e.A. N T. strands, an eighth of an inch in diam eter, tightly twisted together. Out wardly these cables look like single wires at a short distance, but In real ity there are three hundred and fifty wires on a side, or fourteen hundred In all. - . The fifty cables of each of he four groups converge as they go downward and terminate in the operating room of the station. WAYS OF WOMEN. No Limit to Tyranny Some Will Stand from Milliners. There does not seem to be a limit to. the tyranny which some women will stand from milliners, modistes, beautiflers, and other . autocrats of that ilk. It is related of a very grande dame who had just returned from abroad to her New York home that she visited her milliner in a day or two wearing a creation in headgear for which Bhe had paid a fabulous sum in Paris. The milliner saw the situation in a moment, and, being a quick-witted person," resolved on in stant action. "Take off that hat and never put it on again,"v she said im periously to her visitor, a woman whose social power is almost without I limit, "wnydo you say that?" she asked, with a weak-kneed attempt to assert ner dignity. "I met Mrs. Blank this morning and she told me this ' hat was very becoming." Quick .to seize a point, the milliner answered calm ly: "Just so. Mrs. Blank is no friend of yours and would gladly see you wear that hat" This was an idea that had not occurred to madam, but it took root at once, just as the milliner was sure it would. The upshot was that the hat was left to be made over, madam taking a new one home, and the milliner had still more firmly riv eted the chain which bound her patron. The professional beautifier-is about equally autocratic. For instance, a noted complexion specialist who is said to have "made over" Mrs. Fred erick Vanderbilt accompanied that wealthy woman to Florida last winfer and kept her "under repair" there for six weeks. It is understood that Mrs. Vanderbilt saw no necessity for such close attention, but the beautifier thought otherwise and charged $10, 000 for her services. Another special ist, by way of a vacation last summer, sauntered through a few1 watering places and picked up $6,000 before re turning to her "studio" in New York. Chicago Chronicle. - Pigmy Camels of Persia. The western part of Persia Is inhab ited by a species of camel which is the pigmy of its kind. These camels are snow white, and are on that account almost worshipped by the people. The Shah presented the municipality of Berlin with two of these , little won ders. The . larger - Is twenty-seven inches - high and weighs sixty-one pounds.' The other is four inches less, but the weight is not given. Difference in Figures. 'You say he's a mathematician?" "Yes." "What kind?" - "What kind! What do you mean by that?" ' . "Well, there are mathematical ma thematicians and political mathemati cians, and there is a great difference. 1 I want to know whether I can rely on his figures." New York Times. Examinations of the Air. j Regular examinations of the air In New York City are to be made to de- ' termine the- presence of bacteria, and when dangerous germs are found to ' be prevalent the public will be warned and steps will be .taken to head off the disease. ' . German Postal Stations. The multiplication of railways has not diminished the number of postal stages In Germany. On the contrary, the number of stage drivers rose from 5,176 to 1896 to 5,314 in 1900. - Shortest Name Known. G. Uz of Sargent, Mo., has possibly the shortest surname on record. Most bachelors idea of misery Is be ing alone with a noisy baby. BEStJME OF THE YEAH 1 902'S RECORD OF PROSPERITY AND DISASTER. There Have Been Volcanic Eruptions, Wars, Conflagrations and Explo . aiona Large Death Lists And Still Times Have Been Good. Though most of the civilized world has enjoyed a continuance of the reign of mu tual prosperity which began in 1001, it is undeniable that the year 1902 has made a woful record in the way of dis aster and destruction of human life. The eruption of Mount - Pelee, Martinique, May 8, may be given pre-eminence us the most disastrous occurrence of several decades, and its destructive work was supplemented by many costly conflagra tions, especially during the early months of the year,, and a number of deadly ex plosions. Many noted persons have passed into the beyond since Jan. 1, 1902, among them being Cecil Rhodes, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, Gen. Wade Hampton, Frank It. Stockton, J, Sterling Morton, Sol Smith Russell, Bret Harte, Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, Lord Pauncefote, 'Jen. Franz Sigel, Edward Eggleaton, Justice Horace Gray, Marie Heuriette, Queen of Belgium; Emile Zola, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Herr Krupp, Thomas B. Reed and Mrs. U. S. Grant. The year has seen Edward VII. crown ed King of England, after a delay of sev eral weeks beyond the date originally r.p pointed, on account of a necessary sur gical operation upon tlje royal person; has witnessed the ending of the Boer war in South Africa, and the beginning of an international disagreement . in which Venezuela, South Africa, is the storm center; during its last month that great engineering work, the Nile dam at Assouan, has been opened; it has given Cuba its first President under the new regime; and will be remembered also as the year during which occurred the ex tensive labor troubles in the Pennsylva nia anthracite regions, from the conse quences of which we are not yet relieved. Events nf the Year. JANUARY. L Thomas Estrada Palma elected Presi dent of Cuba.... President Roosevelt holds brilliant reception. 2. Passenger steamer Walla Walla sunk off Cape Mendocino by unknown bark; 27 lives lost. 3. - White House ball on occasion of Miss Alice Roosevelt's debut. 4. Nineteen men lost In marine collision off Avelro, Portugal. 16. Congress reassembles. 7. . Seventeen men killed by cave-in in mine at Negaunee, Mich. -I 8. Tunnel accident to New York Central i train in New York City causes 15 deaths. ju. i allure- of Euclid Avenue Trust and Savings Co. of Cleveland. 12. .Seven lives lost in fire in Buffalo, . . x. I 14. Second failure ot George H. Phillips, . formerly called the Chicago "corn king." ...j. Jts. f orater elected Senator from Ohio, Arthur P. Gorman from Maryland and J. B. MeCreary from Kentucky. 16. A. B. Cummins inaugurated Govern or of Iowa.... Earthquake kills 300 people at Chilpaneingo, Mexico. 18. Death of Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett. . English political leader. I 19. Four buildings collapse In Detroit's business center. -. " . I 20. Columbian insurgents win battle In Panama harbor. .. .Death of Camilla Crso, viollnlste. I 24. Treaty ceding Danish West Indies to' United States signed. .. .Dust explosion kills 29 miners at' Lost Creek, Iowa. I 28. Peace proposals made to England In Boers' behalf- by Holland. 29. Ten lives lost In tenement house fire In Boston. - FEBRUARY. I. ' Dust explosion in Hondo, Mexico, mines; 87 men die. - 3. $2,500,000 fire In Waterbury, Conn Gale on Atlantic coast does considerable damage. . J - - 4. Keeley liquor cure plant at Dwlght, 111., burns.. ..Six firemen killed by falling walls in St. Louis. - . -8. $10,000,000 fire in Paterson, N. J . Smaller fires in Jeraey City, Brooklyn and Chicago Eleven lives lost in lodging house fire In St. Louis. 10. Twelve manufacturing plants burned at Springfield, O. ' II. Death of Marquis of Dufferin. 17. House passes war tax reduction bill. 18. Miss Ellen Stone's ransom paid to Bulgarian brigands. 19. President Roosevelt's decision ' on Schley appeal given out. 20. . Revolutionary riots In Barcelona, Spain. 22. Park Avenue Hotel and 71st Regi ment Armory In New York burned; $1,000,- 000 loss and 60 lives destroyed Senators Tillman and McLauren of South Carolina fight In Senate. 23. Miss Ellen Stone released by Bul garian bandits. 24. Philippine bill passed by Senate. 27. McKialey memorial services in Con gress. 28. Fourteen miners killed by snowsllde at Tellurlde, Col. MARCH. I 2-4. Prince Henry of Prussia visits Chi cago and other western cities. 7. Wreck on Southern Pacific railway In . Texas; 15 persons killed and 30 Injured.... Gen. Methuen captured by Boers. 16. Secretary of Treasury Long resigns; W. L. Moody of Massachusetts appointed his successor. 12. Death of Former Governor JohnP. Altgeld of Illinois Packet overturned in Mississippi River and 22 persons drowned ..'..Boers release Gen. Methuen. 18. Strike of Boston teamsters ends 16. Severe blizzard over Canadian North west, the Dakotas and Lake States. 17. Ship subsidy bill passes Senate. 18. Hoboken docks burn, with large ves sels; loss, $1,000,000 and two lives.- 24. Neely,. Rathbone and Reeves convict ed of postal frauds at Havana. 25. Order Issued for evacuation of Cuba May 20. i 26. Death of Cecil Rhodes. 29-SO. Storm and . flood cause damage East and South. I 8L Mine explosion at Dayton, Tenn., kills 21 men. APRIL. I. Death of Thos. Dunn English. 8. $1,000,000 fire at Atlantic City, N. J. 6. - Many persons killed and Injured Jy falling grandstand at Glasgow, Scotland. II. Boers accept terms of peace. .. .Death of Gen. Wade Hampton. 12. Death of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage. 15. Russian Minister of the Interior, M. Siplaguine, slain by student. - 18. House passes Cuban reciprocity bill ....Great ocean steamship lines merged. 20. Sixty lives lost In burning of steamer City of Pittsburg on Ohio River Frank R. Stockton, novelist, dies. ' 23. Severe windstorm In Missouri Val ley. - 27. Death of ex-Secretary of Agriculture 3. Sterling Morton. 28. Death of Sol Smith Russell. ---''-.'"' " MAY. 1. Tornado destroyed over 400 lives around Dacca, British India Wm. H. Moody becomes Secretary of Navy. 4. Death of Potter Palmer of Chicago. 5. Death of Archbishop Corrigan. .. .Bret Harte dies In London. 6. Death of Kear-Admlral , William T. Sampson. 8. Town of St. Pierre, Martinique, de stroyed by volcano Paul Leicester Ford, author, slain by brother, Malcolm Ford, who then kills himself. 9. Strike ordered in anthracite coal re gion. 11. Death of Lieutenant Governor Stone of Wisconsin. 12. Maria Christina resigns regenoy of Spain. .. .Twenty-five persons killed by oil explosion near Pittsburg. 17. Alfonso XIII crowjied king of Spain. 18. Hurricane devastated Texas gulf coast, blotting out town of Goliad. 19. Explosion In coal mine at Coal Creek, Tenn., kills 1S4 miners. 20. Cuba becomes an Independent nation . . . Waterspout . at Cincinnati and suburbs kills six persons and destroys property val ued at $2,000,000. -. 21. Decorah, ' Iowa, overwhelmed .by cloudburst. 23. Explosion In mine at Fernie, B. C, kills 109 miners. 24. Death of British Ambassador, Lord Paunceforte. 81. Boer leaders sign article of sur render; .. .Retalbulen, Guatemala, .over whelmed by volcano. 1,000 lives lost. ' - JUNE. 2. Teamsters' strike causes riots In Chi cago..,. Death of Rev. Dr. J. H. Barrows at Oberlin, O. . Strike riots In Chicago, RECORD te's-SSfcs? 2Bimft i 'i mmsBism UNCLE SAM eluded a panic V COLOSSAL COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS. AS the accounts are cast up for 1902, It Is seen that this has been the most prosperous year in all the history of the great republic. Looking back over the last five years it may be safely said that never did the American people see before such a quinquin nate. The figures that tell of the nation's prosperity and industrial and commercial growth are so stupendous as to be Inconceivable. So far from having developed its re sources the United States seems to be only beginning- to use them. The decade between 1880 and 1890 was the era of tremendous railway extension, and it was then thought that all the natural resources and riches of the country had been tapped, but the building of the railway lines was. merely precedent to the magnificent development of the country which . began in the last five years of the decade ending with this year. The figures given in this article present some idea of the immense wealth and industrial activity of the United States. The dispatches complain of the Inability to get men to do the work that waits to be done. In Chicago alone the railways require 20,000 men in addition to their pres ent forces. Other dispatches tell of new industrial projects in every section of the country. Going beyond our na tional boundaries, every dally paper plans or achievements of American wealth and American brains and skill. In Canada, in Mexico, in South America, in England, in China, in Korea, in the Philippines, Ameri cans are reaching out to' get possession and to utilize the wealth that nature has stored. The accumulations of capital and wealth In the United States, the increase In the number of men of enterprise, energy and resourcefulness and the vast accessions to the ranks of skilled workmen have put the country into a posi tion to set the pace for the rest of the world for some dec ades to come. By far the larger part of these accumula tions have been in the Northern States. . These, did not suffer from the Civil War as the South did. But the im pression that the United States is no longer a country of virgin resources is not a correct one. The South alone has untold treasures waiting for utilization, to say nothing of what remains in the West and in vast Alaska. If times remain good the next ten years will be among the most In spiring in American history. The South will make tre mendous strides upward toward the industrial level of the rest of the country; Besides furnishing the capital and in part the men for this work, the fruitful North will have an Immense surplus for application to the development of all other parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico and other countries. Currents of Americanization will set throughout the world, but outside our own boundaries it will be especially in Canada and Mexico that American money and American men will work wonders in the next few .years. - Even the older parts of the United States have not been utilized as they can and will be. Our whole territory was fully occupied ten .years ago, but since that time' we have added 1,000,000 new farms. Two-fifths of our national do 4, Teamsters' strike In Chicago settled. 5 Street car riots In Providence, R. I. 6 Tornado and cloudbursts In Iowa, Ne braska, Kansas, Illinois, South Dakota. 0 St Luke's Sanitarium - In Chicago burns, 10 lives being lost. 10. Tornado causes damage and death In Illinois. Iowa and Minnesota. 13 President sends to Congress special message on Cuban reciprocity. " 19 Senate passes Panama canal bill.... Death of King Albert of Saxony 2L Wyeth wins American Derby In Chi caeo .Town Marshal of Jefferson, Iowa, killed" by half-witted man, who is then slain by mob. , 22 $500,000 fire In Portland. Ore. 23 St. James Hotel collapses at Dallas. T24aS"Klng Edward VII submits to opera tion'for pcrltyphilitls Coronation is post- P30ed Senator Bailey of Texas makes vio lent" attack on Senator Beverldge of Iudl ana In Senate. ' JULY. ': - 1 Adjournment of Congress. 8 President issues peace and amnesty proclamation for Philippines. ... Rock Isl and fast train held up near Dupont, 111. 4. Trolley wreck near Gloversvllle, N. Y., kills 15 persons. 5. Swift's market In Chicago stockyards burned chlcago freight handlers strike. 9. Storms and floods In Iowa and the Vest. 10. Explosion In mine at Johnstown, Pa., kills 125 miners. ' 11. Lord Salisbury resigns as premier of England; succeeded by Mr. Arthur Balfour. 12. Death of Archbishop Feehan of Chl- C13?' Sir Liang Cheng appointed Chinese Minister to United States to succeed Mr. Wn. 14. Express train held up and robbed near Marshall's Pass, Colorado. 15. Cyclone destroys Emeraldo and Thompson, N. D., and Borup, Minn. 16. End "of freight handlers' strike In Chicago.... Fifty killed In mine explosion at Park City, Utah. .. .General Jacob H. Smith retired with censure. SO. Murder of Minnie Mitchell In Chi cago. 31. Earthquake In Santa Barbara Coun ty, Cal. . AUGUST. 6. Burlington express train robbed near Savanna, 111. 6. Train wreck near Collins, Iowa, kills 13 people and Injures 30. 9. Coronation of King Edward of Eng land.... Body of Mrs. Ann Bartholin found In Chicago. 10. Death of Senator McMillan of Michi gan.... Seven persons burned to death In hotel fire at San Apgelo, Texas. 16. Cullacan, Mexico,, swept by tidal wave. . . .$28,000 express robbery at , Ford vllle, Ky. - 20. Autumn naval maneuvers begin off Massachusetts coast. - 20. Death of General Frans Sigel. ' 21. President Roosevelt on trip through New England. 22. Earthquakes in East Turkestan kill 1,000 persons. . 26. Death of ex -Governor George Hoad lev of Ohio. - " 80. Eruption of Mont Pelee destroys Morne Rouge, with 200 lives. , SEPTEMBER. i 1. Thirty killed and 70 wounded In train wreck near Berry, Ala. 8. President Roosevelt hurt In trolley accident near Pittsfleld, Mass.... Death of Edward Eggleston, novelist. .. .Third great 4. .Body of Wm. J. Bartholin found near THAT ASTOUNDS FOREIGNERS. Well, gentlemen, lsnt that a pretty good brings us news of the Lowther, Iowa.' 7. Haytlan gunboat Crete-a-Plerrot sunk by German gunboat Panther. 11. Battleship Wisconsin and cruiser Cin "lunati ordered to Panama. 12. Great tire in Beaumont, Texas, oil .".elds Killing frost in Northwest Mrs. Senator Stewart of Nevada killed in auto mobile accident. 15. Death of ex-Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray. 18. Peary Arctic expedition returns. ' 19. Panie in negro Baptist convention at Birmingham, Ala., causes death of 80 per- ons and injury of 100. . . TTJeath of Marie Heuriette, queen of the Belgians. 23. Operation for abscess on President iloosevelt's leg at Indianapolis. 26. Four hundred persons killed by cy clone and waterspout in Eastern Slcility. 28. Second operation on President Roose velt's leg.. ..Tidal wave on coast of Japan. 29. Death of Emile Zola. OCTOBER. 3. Conference of coal operators and min ers at White House In Washington. 4. Great fire at Amoy, China. 6. Governor Stone of Pennsylvania orders State Militia to coal fields. .11. Burlington train held up near Lin coln, Neb. 12. Street railway strike In New Orleans ends. 13. Coal -operators ask President to end strike. 16. President appoints commission to ar bitrate coal strike. 21. Anthracite workers vote to accept ar bitration. 23. Work In anthracite coal mines re sumed. 24. Earthquakes In Italy. 26. Death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. ' 29. "Mitchell" day in anthracite regions. NOVEMBER. I. St. Pierre, Mlquelon, destroyed by fire. 4. General election Fire works explo sion In New York kills 12 persons and In jures SO. 10. Fire does great damage on new East River bridge In New York. II. Roland Mollneux acquitted In New York. 16. Armour & Co.'s packing plant In Sioux City burns.... Death of G. A. Henty. 20. James Moore, colored, hanged by mob near Sullivan, Ind. 21. Rock Island train held up by express robbers at Davenport, Iowa. 22. Death of Frledrich Krupp, German, gunmaker.. .Big ore dock at Ashland, Wis., burns. 23. Death of Sep. Winner, composer. 25. Death of Colonel Thos. P. Ochiltree. 29. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion In Chicago stockyards. ...Several vessels and 29 lives lost In gale on Great Lakes. ' ' DECEMBER". tr Congress convenes for short session. 4. " Fourteen lives lost in fire In Lincoln Hotel, Chicago Naval maneuvers In Ca ribbean Sea begin. 6. Cleveland's great water tunnel com pleted. 7. Death of Thomas B. Reed In Washing ton.... Cartoonist Thomas Nast dies at Guayaquil, Ecuador. . 8. Great Nile' dam at Assouan opened. 9. German and English fleets seize Ven ezuelan warship In harbor of La Guaira. 11. President Castro of Venezuela Issues appeal to arms... Cuban Reciprocity Treaty signed in Havana. 13. $1,000,000 fire In steel plant at Canal Dover, Ohio.... English and German war ships reduce defenses of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. 14. Death of Mrs. U. S. Grant.: 15. 1,000 killed by earthquake at An dljan, Asiatic Russia. 18. Venezuela asks for arbitration. showing for a decade that In- main are still beyond the reach of the plow. No man can say how much of them will yet be fruitful So far, great as has been our Increase In population, our agricultural productivity has outstripped it, and while our population doubles every thirty years, our production of food doubles In a period of from twelve to fifteen years. So the proba bilities are that for many years to come we shall go on being the granary of the world in an Increasing proportion. These are only a few of the figures that might be cited to show how rapidly and imposingly the United States is still forging ahead In the race for commercial and Industrial supremacy. The New York Commercial Advertiser has compiled some figures that must enthuse every American as he reads in them the tremendous superiority of his country in ma terial resources and prosperity to every other nation in the world. Take the item of railway extension. The last ten years have not been considered remarkable for the new mileage,, but there are 25,000 miles more of railway under operation now than ten years ago; that is, 6,000 miles more than the entire railway mileage of Canada yet Canada Is getting very cocky over its development. The present population of the United States proper Is estimated at 79,000,000, an increase of 14,000,000 almost the total population of Spain and nearly three times that of Canada in ten years. The national wealth to-day amounts to $94,300,000,000, whereas in 1892 it was ?65,037,091,O00. The deposits in bank and trust companies have increased $4,684,703,756 in the decade and there Is in circulation to-day $648,043,304 more than there was in 1892. "The gold in the United States Treasury has increased by $333,724,345. The value of manufactured products is $3,606,842,283 greater than ten years ago and of farm products $1,304,070,252. Our experts have increased in value in ten years to the amount of $648, 709,067. The commercial failures of 1S01 were 11,002, as compared with 10,344 in 1892, an amazingly small Inereifse, wnile tne liabilities in tnese failures, were $9ol,791 less than the liabilities of the failures of 1892. There has been an Increase in the wages paid to factory. empldyes,amount ing to $452,214,319, but it is a circumstance upon ' which Capital cannot pride itself that this is $S83,048,415 less than the increase in wages between 1882 and 1892, when the in crease In national wealth, was only $22,395,091,000 and the increase In bank deposits was less than $2,000,000,000. It is apparent, therefore, that the reward of labor has not kept pace with the harvest of capital. ; It Is a striking picture which the cartoonist presents. Uncle Sam is represented as a storekeeper, with produce and materials of all kinds piled around him. , In the store are three fellows who often come to make purchases of him; indeed, they are among his best patrons. They are John Bull, Che corpulent and contented old chap from the Fatherland and the, Russian. Uncle Sam is proudly point ing to his business record of the past ten" years, upon which they look with astonishment WINTER WHEAT PERFECT. Acreajf s 34,000,000 Acres for Crop of 1902-Gain 5.1 Per Ceut. Thestatistician of the Department of Agriculture estimates the newly seeded area of winter wheat at about 34,000, 000 acres, an increase of 5.1 per cent up on the area estimated to have been sown in the fall of 1901. The condition of winter wheat Dec. 1 was 99.7, compared with 86.7 in 1901, 97.1 in 1900 and a nine-year average of 91.4. The following table shows for each of the principal States, the percentage of acreage sown to winter wheat this fall as. compared with last year, the averages of condition on Dec. 1 of the present year, the corre sponding averages for 1901 and 1900 and the mean of the December averages of the last nine years: Acreage com pared with This 9-year aver- last year. year. 1901. 1900. age. Kansas . , Missouri . California Indiana . Ohio . .. JUHnois . .108 .111 95 92 86 96 86 75 88 103 85 86 82 89 83 104 91 92 05 89 88 91 90 95 97 86 90 88 101 100 99 98 101 97 07 107 92 108 103 102 102 94 86 93 102 96 105 80 97 84 ,.101 ..104 ,. 00 ..108 'hiebraska .125 Pennsylvania .101 Oklahoma ..'..114 Michigan ..... 90 Texas ........113 Tennessee ....100 The newly seeded area of winter rye is provisionally estimated at 90.3 per cent of the area sown in the fall of 1901. The condition Dec. 1 was 98.1, compared with 89.9 Dec. 1, 1901, 99.1 Dec. 1, 1900, and 95.7 the mean of the averages for the last nine years. . The following table shows for each of the principal States the percentage of acreage sown to win ter rye this fall as compared with that sown last year, the averages of condi tions on Dec. 1 of the present year, the corresponding average's for 1901 and 1900 and the mean of the December averages of the last nine years: Acreage com pared with This last year. year. 1901. Pennsylvania .101 . 96 88 New York 103 96 97 Michigan 92 . 97 92 Kansas 03 98 94 9-year - aver 1900. age. 98 06 98 - 99 98 93 104 99 England Fara Yankee Cattle, y The prevalence of foot and mouth dis ease in Massachusetts and other New England States has caused the Secretary of Agriculture to prohibit the exportation of cattle from Boston and to establish a quarantine of cattle, sheep and swine in New England. The British Board of Agriculture has also taken action in the matter and has closed the ports of the , United. Kingdom against the importation ' of animals from the six New England States. i This interdiction will prove costly t I the cattle interests of New England. li is estimated' that a suspension of traftW for two ot three weeks will cost th steamship companies 0.