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A Political By WELDON CHAPTER XX (Continued.) n- raised liis manacled wrist, and grit tins his teeth, shook the chain till it landed, luit flt once relapsed into the (unused nnd defiant nnd over-confident master of an Inexplicable situation "Sit down." lie invited next, with liis 1 ;pnrNl foot slightly moving a i-liair to wards the intrinlei'. No!" flared out Hope. "I " "P. reasonable," equably retorted Kane "it will nnv vou, believe me. You aro r urprised, groping in the dark, at sea; better let me be you pilot, for a spell at least." "Listen to me!" snarled Hope fiercely, frridicg up to the man and seizing one shoulder in his biting grasp until he winced wilih a cowering shudder "1 dis lovesed you by accident, but fortune voull seiner or later have led me to our lair !" "Lair;" derided Kane loudly "don't jn'i see it "I eauic demand of is ratlier a prism.' " huskily pursm-d Hope, "to jour wife." "Vii"i'!i is coo ereant. l'IiV" mocked the tnis- "And just ! Yoil defy ine "No! so; at (he lirsi to you." "That woman .'" hotly step 1 show her cried Hope. "M v wife exaetlv." "No!" "Mrs. Percy Kane " "A lie!" "Elita !" This name Kane called in a clear, quick tone. , Gideon Hope started. Its mention li roused some hint, some vague memory of the past. It was an unusual name; where had he heard it before? under what circum stances connected with a dark chapter in the hhfk life of this man of plots nnd cruelty '! , P.efore his perturbed mind could focus end connect the loose ends of the dim chain of retrosiwrt. a silken swish again swept Ihe atmosphere . A shadow crossed the draperies, they puted. The woman of the tragie face and fathomless eyes Hood in their presence, statuesque and im pressive as before. rucompromising sternness was in the glance she bestowed on Kane. He es sayed n familiarity tliat was uneasy de spite his audacity. "This gentleman." he said slurringly with a light gesture towards Hope, '"dis putes my statement that you are my wife." "lie need not." coldly returned the vomau. "Proof. Klita?" She reached wifhin her corsage, pro duced a folded paper, unfolded it, and in an nutomatic way held it before him. Hope's quick eyes read the words traced across it. In due form of legality and indisputable genuineness it evidenced that n duly appointed officer of rlie law had joined in holy wedlock this man, Fercy V. Kane, with this woman, Elita darsden. UKn a certain night; Uoii a night, in fact, succeeding to the consum mation of that lolitical vendetta which liad seen the extinguishment of the sfix'k swindler's social and commercial career. "I know now!" involuntarily cried (Jideon IIoie and quick as lightning. That is, he knew who this woman was. he "rememU'red," the name "Marsden" supplied the missing link this woman was the daughter of that unfortunate man. (Jabriel Marsden, who intruding up on Kane at the acme of his greatness with Threatening fierceness, had been sent to jail on a trumped up charge, and. for all Kane kto-w, laiiL'nished there now. or was ft wanderer, a fugitive, with a broken life arid blasted energies. And this woman Klita was the fair, Innocent girl Kane had wedded in a dis tant Ohio town. d-ser:ed. placed in an Insane asylum, and then, securing a di vorce by fraudulent means, forgot her, until the fateful day when her father brought him word to have a care for him self, for she had escaped and was "on his trail !" A Nemesis, truly ! -dimly, hut with a half-suspicion that she was Kane's gaoler, Hope bezan to read between the liues. "Is that all?" fe'l from the woman's lips in hard, metallic tones. "Yes," liowed Kane simply, and she de jarted with the same uncanny tread that had signalized her appearance at his hail. Hope drew a perplexed hand across liis clammy forehead. He almost unconsci ously dropped to the chair that bail been proffered by Kane. Voidly he gized at the schemer who always seemed to have some strong frump ir in reserve. "Explain !' he said in cracked, dry t Otl"S. Kane laughed jarringly. On the table in ar by was a skein of silk, lying beside some fancy embroidery work, carelessly left there, it seemed, by some feminine worker of the household. With his deft, nervous fingers. Kane seized it. twirled, twi.sted, disarranged it. A hopeless mass of mingled threads, he cast it into Hope's lap. "A tangle a riddle!" lie spiffed "as soon hope to solve the enigma to which I alone can furnish the key." "A challenge?" cried Hope urathlly. "You for.-t : I have found you ! I have t-cn;. d. defeating your kind intentions for my welfare. I have but to proceed on my way, n;ijiie the police, and" "Slop llnre," directed Kane insinuat ingly, leaning forward and fixing his glance significantly ujxin his visa-vis "you forget." "Forget what?" roughly demanded Hope. Claire!" Hoie shivered from the shock. True! it was Claire now, Claire only: any thing and everything for Claire! "We have arrived," pronounced Kane bluntly, "at a vita!, a final stage of the game. P.ut I know jour hoi your tCiought the woman! Well, then, move without me, move against me, and you pit; win. But she will be lost." Vendetta J. COBB The dire threat struck a chill to Gid eon Hold's staunch heart. "I am reckless because I am a beaten man," continued Kane "I am, too, n desperate one. Put it, is not you who have circumvented me. You made n great pln.v a stake and a trust for the stake. Hut 1 had the reserve that money. Even o:' half of that you robbed me Che severed hank notes. Well, you had cut my claws, for without money I was at the law's mercy. Still, I proved myself a resource ful man. There was Claire the peerless Claire whom you fairly drove into my arms." CIIAITEU XXI. Hope gnashed his teeth, but he tried to content himself for the sake of the facts Kane might divulge. "I am going to tell you a little history," proceeded Kane, "because I have a point to gain because 1 have a compact, a bar gain, to mike with you." "No!" declared Hope, uncompromising ly. "Put yes. For her sake, for Claire's sake, you know !' 11om was shaken. He paled. He dis cerned the precipice towards which he was hastening was being hastened by the sheer villainous force of this man's cool and calculating finesse. He had Hilled this man down, and now he could at his will send him to the gal lows, he believed. His sworn holy duty had been to run down this man. .He had been bathed, circumvented. Now at the final ending he was diverted from his ori ginal purpose for a woman's sake! "Speak!" he said mandatorily. "Very well," answered Kane, somewhat more seriously. "I determined to abandon the field when you secured the half of the bank notes, though I was not entirely penniless, and as I vaunted there was Claire. While you were resting on your oars in fancied security I had hastened to my pretty secretary. My will seemed to be her law I only knew later your hideous plot in which hatred and revenge alone actuated her. I placed her in the hands of n trusted friend while I hastened my arrangements to wed her and tly the country and vou. 1 had not heeded mad old (Jabriel Marsden's threat. You might say at the very altar Klita. the woman you just saw, confronted me. She was my Nemesis. She bad learned of thp (ire carious position I was in she was armed. It was exposure, betrayal, death or I must wed her. Worse than that, she had liafrled me concerning Claire. She had lured her away to an isolated place, had put her in charge of an accomplice, a wo man knitted to her by ties of unwavering fidelity. Thus was I baffled. She brought me here I dared not defy her and I knew she had proofs that is, the disposi tion to doom me by the law if I resisted her commands. Thus far she combined with me: to have you imprisoned, in hopes of securing the half of the severed bank notes that you had secured posses sion of. I promised to go with her to some' foreign country if she succeeded. But she she did not trust me. She has made me a continual captive, as you see." "And Claire?" eagerly insisted Hope, with lustrous eyes of anxiety and love. Kane shrugged his shoulders. "Well." he said, annoyedly gnawing the ends of his moustauhe, conscious of being a baffled, beaten man, "she has the per severance and fierceness of a tigress in fact, she has kept Claire, too. a prisoner." "Where?" Kane smiled provokingly at the ingenu ous eagerness of the other. "Io you suppose I would tell you that?" he inquired sardonically. "After all the wrongs yon have done me " "Cull quits, then !" hoarsely, suddenly spoke Kane, dropping his tones to a whis per, "fyct up on me for a crime you can never fully prove." "I have sworn " "Pah! Is not she, Claire, all in all, now ?" It was true. (Jideon Hope lowered his head in humiliation. Truly, he was pal tering with this enemy, for he surmised the daring proposition that was coming. Hut he was only human, and he loved Claire Tremaine. "(Jo on!" he said, without lifting hi head. "I will make a bargain with you fair exchange: Hid me of this woman who has me in chains, that is, give me the chance to fly. She has not. and I have secreted the half of the severed bank notes. Se cure my freedom, as I say. and give me your worthless half of the money, a start of twenty-four hours against pursuit, and I will tell you what this woman will never tell while I am on the same conti nent with the being she (hems her rival the wherealiouts of Claire Tremaine." The tempting bait allured, but only for a moment did it dazzle. Then there was a sudden revulsion of feeling with (Jideon Hope. lie abruptly., arose to his feet. His head came en-ct. his eyes were stern, duty, resolve, shone from his soul. "No!" he said once and defiantly. "No?" echoed Kane, thunderstruck. "I shall find Claire Tremaine without your help. As to you heavens !' Gideon Hope started as if from a vio lent electric sho.-k. He had resolved not to palter with this man, and he now determined to free him from that hampering chain and drag him to the nearest jail for the sanctity of his vow to his dead brother' memory he must do this ! If the woman Klita interfered, so much the worse for her. Hut, about to advance upon his enemy and carry Into execution this design, as has been said, Gideon Hope was suddenly electrified. The life currents of Ids being checked their flow and his heart stood still. He had wasted, was wasting, precious moments was sacrificing duty, and men aced humanity appealed for tha fulfill- uient of another equally sacred more r cut vow. "The dynamite!" he gasped. CHAPTER XXII. Yes, the dynamite! He had pledged his word to the imprisoned agent of the Vulcan Company to hasten to Murryville on wings of speed, and here he was dal lying ! It had been a solemn compact between Warren and himself, that if he, Hope, escaped he was to hasten to the Vandyke House at that town, and remove, sink, diffuse, obliterate the death-dealing ex plosive ere it had ripened to the full point if spontaneous combustion the next morn ing. lie had been on his way to fulfill his iledge when, applying at this house for a horse and vehicle, he had so strangely discovered his enemy. He hnd lost valuable time two whole hours in this house ! Would he be too late? Iespite his interest in Kane, his har rowing anxiety concerning Claire! Hope felt the spur of action like a sudden dag ger thrust. The unsuspected agent of destruction reposed, according to the dynamite agent, in a closet in a room at the Vandyke House at Murryville, now about ten miles distant, and when it exploded scores a hundred lives might be blotted out! The urgency, the horror of the aftair consumed Hope he unceremoniously dashed from the room, leaving Kane amaz ed at the motive of his sudden evanish ment. He heard Kane call out sharply to the woman : "Klita it is Hope, that man. ' House your friends. He knows all!" And a minute later, as he sped by the window outside. Hope shot a glance past its waving curtains to see the woman roused to excitement and rushing into the apartment occupied by her husband to learn more of his meaning. "If thev have accomplices in reach, I shall be pursued." reasoned Hope. So be did not pursue the open road, but striking through the dense brusti esti mated the precise direction in which Mur rvville lav, and amid the vigor of intense excitement anil resolution uisuaiueu u obstacles that lay in his way. A strange, new sense of exultation pos sessed his soul as he dashed madly on coherent, clear-cut purposes were out lined in his thoughts, of tactical, logical , 1 ... t!. sequences. Tlius. ne seeuieo io mc work of a forward twelve hours all mark ed out and executed through time and en divor he would secure, dispose of the fearful explosive out of harm's way. Ihen a bold, uncompromising descent on the lonelv haunt of the strangely mated hus band and wife. And then Claire ! There was the star of hope at the end of the long venture. It inspired mm. ne ght not locate her at once, tint love would find a way to trace her mysteri ous whereabouts, although tnese new uis- coveries might be but the prelude to a w series of complications. ihe end . 0 ....... tl.nn fliilnnn was nearer, tragically ueuni, ie" v. Hope fancied. It was an uncanny hour wnen, torn oy briers and mud bespattered and bruised from frequent falls, he entered the silent town of Murryville. t the hotel, a light burned only in the office, where half slumbered the tired night clerk. Wnrren. Crideon's fellow captive in me private madhouse, had fully equipped him for the contingency of having to proceed alone for the satchel of dynamite. (To be continued.) A Thoimhtfnl Condnetor. Ignorance often saves much dis quietude Many have nearu me suojr of the woman whose first experience in n railwav train ended with an acci dent. Thrown from her seat and shaken up generally, she nevertheless retained her equanimity. When asked ir sue were frightened, she replied, "Fright ened! No. 1 didn't know but that was the way they always stopped." It Is to be hoped that the trolley passenger in Mr. IIowclls' anecdote, introduced into 'Confessions of a Summer Colo nist." was possessed of the same trust in the event. The conductor, nt least, preserved his presence of mind. Says Mr. Ilowells: I had long expected to see some one thrown out of the open trolley ear at some of the short curves. One day a woman was actually hurled from her scat into the road. Luckily, she alight ed on her feet, and stood looking alxnit as if In a daze. "Oh! oh!" exclaimed a passenger. "She's left her umbrella !" The conductor promptly threw It out. "Why. did that lady wish to get out?" I asked. The conductor pondered a moment before he answered : 'Well, she'll want her umbrella, any way." I'.iul of Ihe Konte. One cold, wintry morning, says a writer In the Argonaut, a man of tall and angular build was walking down n steep hill nt n brisk pace. A piece of Ice under the snow caused him to slip ami lose control of his feet. He began to slide, and was unable to stop. At a crossing half way down he en countered n large, heavy woman. The meeting was sudden, and before either realized It a collision ensued, and both were sliding down hill, the thin man underneath, the fat woman on top. When the bottom of the hill was reached, and the woman was trying to recover lier breath and her feet, these faint words wore borne to her ear: "Pardon inc. madam, but you will have to g't off here. This is as far as I g-" Now York City Is growing rapidly In its population of millionaires. There are about 2.0 of them now, while there were only thirty a quarter of a century ago. A wire contrivance to hold a spoon in the neck of a medicine bottle Is a Cali fornia Invention of value In the sick room. WHY EGGS ARE HIGH. Some Ways This Expensive Necessity May Be Turned to Profit. Uy Junes Drydon, Foultryman Oreiron Agricul tural College, Curvullis. Eggs are 50 cents a dozen, because the liens don't lay. The main reason why they don't lay is because this is not the natural laying season. In a state of nature fowls lay and breed in the spring season, and they haven't got quite away from that habit. Old hab its die hard with hens as with men. This explains why with little care the hen will lay in the spring and with much care in the fall and winter she wont lay, or very seldom will. Hut through centuries of training and irecding the hen is gradually getting away from her old habit of laying a few eggs in the spring and hatching them, and- it is possible now, with the proper skill in handling, to make her lay in winter whether she will or no. But the first thing we have to learn is that to get eggs in winter means a light against nature, against the old lien na ture. Winter is not the natural laying season. When a pullet has reached maturity, no matter at what season of the year, if she le maintained in good health and vigor and gets the proper kind and quantity of food, she will lay eggs if slie lias t lie hiving capacity. Let us analyze that sentence a little. The first point raised is a question of maturity. The pullet must be mature before she lays. If a pullet lays in Oc tober she must be hatched early enough in the spring so that she will reach ma turity in October. A Plymouth Rock hatched the first of April should lay the middle of October or first of No vember. If they are to lay a month earlier they should be hatched a month earlier. The Leghorns should lay the first of October if hatched the first of April. The next point refers to health and vigor. The pullet must come to ma turity with good health and vigor. She must have had proper care during the brooding and growing period. A stunt nl chick, a chick hatched from an egg laid ny a lien out ot condition, a cluck that has had to battle with insect pests, or a chick that has not had proper food and exercise, will not he a profitable layer in any season. How to maintain the health and vigor of the (lock is the biggest problem in poultry keeping. To get esigs in winter the hens must have constitutional vigor. The third point is that to get eggs the hens must have the proper kind and quantity of food. The hen requites more kinds of food than a cow or a hog. The cow needs no animal food ; the hen does. The hen gives more con sideration to cleanliness of the product than the cow. She seals it up in a shell of lime to keep it clean, and she therefore must have a liberal supply of mineral matter. All footls furnish a certain amount of mineral matter, but not enough to supply all the shell ma terial when hens are laying heavily. What foods should they be fed? They should have grain, but grain alone won't do. What will happen if the hen eats nothing but wheat? Remem bering that she puts nothing into an egg that she does not eat, that an egg contains about one-fifth ounce of fat and that if she ate nothing but wheat she would get enough far for three or four eggs a day and about enough protein for half an egg a day, the thing that will happen will be that she will re fuse to make eggs. The hen docs not adulterate her product, otherwise she could fill up the egg with surplus fat, like some people make butter, out of spurious oil or beef fat. She will make an honest article or none at all. The point is that the hen should have s.tch foods as will furnish the necessary food elements in proper proportions; in other words, she should have a balanced ration. There are different ways of balancing the ration. For instance, if the hen has access to wheat, to clover or kale and to grasshoppers, angle wotms and grit, she will balance her own ration. She will eat a little wheat, a little clover and a few grasshoppers or angleworms and eat enough of each to furnish the egg-making elements in right proportion. An occasional feed of corn or oats in place of wheat would improve the ration. This much for the food. How shall it be fed? Again you must take ac count of the nature of the hen. She is a busy creature naturally; that is part of her life, and you must keep her busy or let her be busy. If she has free range on the farm she will keep herself busy and her muscle and digestion in good order, but when you shut her up in yards you ar.' imposing artificial conditions and you must provide exer cise for her. I have kept hens for a year on a bare board floor in a small pen and fed them well. They laid about three dozen eggs each during the year, and at the end of the vear with this sort of luxury and case they had lost their constitution and their usefulness; while other hens fed in the same way, but with a ground floor and deep litter to scratch in and yards to run in, laid over twelve dozen eggs each, and at the end of the year were still in the business. The hen needs exercise. The demand for animal food may be sup plied in different ways. Skim milk, milk curds and buttermilk will take the place of meat if enough of it can be fed. Skim milk is largely water, and a heavy-laying hen can scarcely drink enough of it to get the necessary amount of animal food. There is nothing bet ter than fresh-cut lean meat and bones, the danger from uncooked meat scraps, however, being that they arc liable to contain disease germs, and unless it is known to be free from disease it is better to cook it. The commercial ar ticle of beef scraps put up by Ihe large packing houses are largely used : some of the stuff sold for poultry food is only ft for fertilizer, however. During llxplirrr; Ice. Boll four rupfuls of water and one and a half cnpfuls of sugar twenty minutes. Cool, add two cnpfuls of rasp berry Juice ami two tablespoonfuls lemon Juice. Strain and freeze, using three parts finely crushed Ice to one part rock a!t To obtain the rasp berry Juice wash the berries and atrr'n through double cheesecloth. The men who can give satlsfactorj explanations of their failures are tlx onea who become loafers. seasons of the vear when insects and worms are plentiful and the fowls have the liberty of the farm, little animal food may be fed. Another point about feeding grain: Should it be ground or fed whole? .It is known that a certain proportion of the food of fowls is used to produce energy to grind the food, and from this point of view it is cheaper to have the food ground at the mill. But it has been found by experiment that fowls do not do well when fed altogether on ground food. The final point in this discussion is the laying capacity of the hen. If all the three things mentioned above be properly attended to. there will still be ! a scarcity of ctrtrs unless the fowls have ( the lavintr canacitv. and it is no fault of the hen if she hasn't; the trouble goes back to her ancestor. COMMERCIAL POTATO GROWING Some Good Points on One of the Most Profitable of Crops. By A. G. Cra'nr, Assistant Horticulturist, State Collese of Wa-shinifton, Pullman. Potato land should be plowed in the fall and allowed to lie rough during the winter. This favors the catching of winter moisture, and allows the sub surface soil to settle and the surface can be worked earlier in the spring. If the fall plowing is impossible, the land should be disced in the fall so that the surface may be rough and open through the winter. Deep plowing usually gives better results than shal low. The plowed land should be well harrowed early in the spring, and if not immediately planted, it should be frequently harrowed in order to con serve moisture and kill the weeds which start after the first harrowing. Spring plowed land should be harrowed immediately after the plow, to pre vent loss of moisture, In the dryer sections, some form of subsurface packer should follow the -plow, and this should immediaetly be followed by the harrow to work up a surface mulch. If the soil plows up cloddy, a plank clod masher may be used quite profitably. The time of planting should be gov erned largely by the climate and the purposes for which the potatoes are grown. The potato plant needs ample moisture when the tubers are setting; hence, the grower should endeavor to have the plants reach that stage of de velopment at the time when the moist ure supply is likely to be favorable For early new potatoes, the seed should be plar. jd as early in the spring as the soil will permit, on light, warm soil. For late potatoes they may be planted as late as the middle of June, provided the moisture supply is ample and con tinuous; but where summer rains can not be depended upon, the earier the potatoes are planted the better, if the danger from frost is guarded against The distance between rows and be tween hills in the row is an important point in the potato culture. Varieties that tend to produce very large tubers should be planted close. Soil will ad mit of close planting in direct propor tion to its fertility and moisture con tent, and the care given the crop. In high priced land, intensive culture should be practiced and the rows and hills planted as closely as the fertility of the land will permit. Increasing the size of the "seed pieces will ac complish the same results as close planting, but the danger of sunburned tubers is apt to be increased. No farmer who grows six or more acres of potatoes each year can afford to do without a horse planter. Of the several methods of hand planting, the following is the most satisfactory ; After the soil is well prepared, open up furrows to the proper depth with a single shovel plow. After the seed is dropped, cover with the plow an.1 har row thoroughly. The depth of the planting should depend upon the text ure of the soil, and upon whether early or late potatoes are desired. Five inches is not too deep for late potatoes, on light, mellow soils, but three to four inches is better for an early crop, or on very heavy, or very wet soil. The amount of seed to use varies from three to ten sacks per acre, and depends upon the variety of the soil. Varieties which tend to produce very large tubers should have a large quan tity of seed. Rich land should receive more seed than poor land. If the seed pieces are not too large, the number of eyes to each piece makes no difference. It is more important that the size of the pieces sohuld be uniform than that there should be the same number of eyes in each piece. Frequently only a part of the pota toes which are planted come up. This may be clue to one or more of several causess, all of which should be guarded against. Cut seed potatoes should never be allowed to remain in piles un til they heat, and are thereby seriously injured. Seed potatoes that have been exposed to too low temperature will seldom give a uniform stand. All de cayed tubers and those which have brown or black spots through the flesh should not be planted as there are two diseases which are found in this state which are sure to result in an unsatis factory stand if seed infected with them is planted. Cut seed should never be planted deeply in the cold wet soil, or unsatis factory germination is sure to result. Finally, in the dryer sections, potatoes should be planted to uniform depth be low the dry surface mulch in order to becure a uniform stand. Shirt SaKgratlona. All lard to fry fritters and doughnuts must be sizzling hot before putting In the batter. Candles will burn slowly and steadily through the evening if they ar kept on lee all day. To keep mold from pickles, in the top of each Jar or bottle place a layer or horse-radish roots, sllcef thin. If you are unable to satisfy your Belf and you cannot how can you oope to satisfy others? I : ligjljj 1502 Columbus entered the bnrbor which he called I'orto Pello. IfkSft Sir Francis Drake returned from his voyage round the world. 1018 Sir Walter Ualeigli beheaded In London. 1020 The Plymouth company was or ganized. 1701 The first constitution of Pennsyl vania was adopted. 173," (Ion. Oglethorpe ro-embnrked for America, accompanied by John Wes ley and other missionaries. 17."D England declared war against Spain. 1705 The "Pennsylvania Onzette" ap peared In mourning for the passage of the Stamp Act. 1774 The first American Congress, hav ing finished Its deliberations, ad journed. 1777 John Hancock resigned ns Presi dent of tho American Congress. 17S.'! Continental army dishnnded and returned to their homes. . . .Treaty of peace between Creat P.ritnin and the I'nited States proclaimed. 1 70,'i Execution of the (Jirondists during Ihe French revolution. ISO,? John Penh, one of the signers ofj the Declaration of Independence from North Carolina, died. 1807 Russia declared war Against Great P.ritain. 1S10 Mexican revolutionists defeated the Spanish at battle of Lou CrucoH. 181.1 Moravian Town, on the River Thames, destroyed by the Americans under (Jen. Harrison. 1818 Convention signed at Ixmdon reg ulating the privileges of the United Stfites In the liritish North American fisheries. 1825 Final completion of the Erie ennal celebrated nt Albany .... First boat on the Erie canal arrived at Uuffalo from Albany. 1811 Santa Anna entered the City of Mexico. 1845 The United States navbl academy was formally opened. IS47 Jprome Honaparte returned to France after an exile of thirty-two yen rs. 1S40 A remarkable meteoric stone fell near Charlotte, X. C. 1850 The Xorthwest Passage discovered by Capt. MeClure of the Investiga tor. 1851 Southern cotton planters met at Macon to devise , plan to prevent fluctuation in the price of the staple. 1852 Fire destroyed a large section of the city of Sacramento, Cal. 1801 Gen. Hunter superseded John C. Fremont in command of the weRtern department of the army. 1802 Confederate cavalry under Gen. Stuart entered Cha nihersburg, Pa. 180-i Maryland proclaimed a free Stata by Gov. Bradford. 1808 Gen. Ulysses R. Grant elected President of the United Slates. 1871 Episcopal conference in session In New York adopted a resolution op posing ritualism in the church ser vice. 18.SO James A. Garfield of Ohio elected President of the United Stntps. 188.1 Henry Irving made his American debut in New York City. 1880 Partholdi's Statue of Liberty, In New York harbor, dedicated by Pres ident Cleveland. 18.88 The first Legislature of the North West Territories opened at Reglna. 1801 The Provincial act abolishing sep arate schools in Manitoba declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada. 1S!)1 An electric ear went through a draw at Portland, Ore., and twenty persons were killed .... Steamer City of Alexandria, from Havana for New York, burned at sea ; thirty lives lost. 1R0-1 David H. Hill", for the third time, accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. ISjy-, The trial of H. II. Holmes for murder began in Philadelphia. 1800 First contingent of Canadian troops for South Africa sailed from Quebec. 10OO The statue of Queen Vietorln was unveiled at Montreal Census bu reau announced the population of the United Slates to be 70.205,220, an Increase of over 13,000,000 in ten years. 1001 The ship Perseverance, with four teen men, lost in the Arctic region. 1002 Canadian-Australian cable com pleted from Vancouver to Fanning island, a distance of .1,155 miles. 10O.1 New Irish land act went into op eration. 1005 President Roosevelt sent Secre tary Metcalf to San Francisco to in vestigate the anti-Japanese sentiment on the Pacific coast. No Spender. Blnggs How have you spent th Piimmer, Jinngs? Jlnngs Haven't spent It; my wife nnd the girls have looked after all the epondin this se ison. Toledo Blade.