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Prisoners and Csip5ves By II. s. chapter x. O'vid Tjjm walked through tlio nar row strce:, westward. wJ;ho-.it noticea ble haste. 1 1 ik pill was neither lliat of the buv city merchant nor the easy lounge of the sailor out of work. Pres ently he seemed to retMgnire some famil iar mntiTtt.irk. ll tnrneii n.i teniv up a narrow passage nod. pushing nivn a swing glass ..r, eliml-ed n flight of lead covered s'ep. On the seco:: I nor ho .topped lcf.re k door lovirl-ie on n sins'l bra- plate i lio name, "M. M. Easton." Without knocking ho opened iho il.xir, n! on hi ni'rntiiv mi elderly man roo from hi seat nt a low table, ami, aftor a quirk glance, lowered hit colorless eyes, bow big gravely. Tyars returned tho m! utation with a aliort no.!. Tho elderly man t lion tiirnod to go Into a room beyond Iho small, bar office. When ho turned hi back, this city clork no longer rl.Ierly. Ilia bur that of a young man. Addressing him self to nm uneen in-ron in tho innor room, he uttered two word only the name of tho visitor waiting in tho ontor office without prefix or comment. "Come in, Tyar '." callo.1 out a rhevr f'.il tenor voiv, immediately ; anil tho clork, t uming into r.n old man ngiiin. tepiod aMo to lot tho visitor pass through tho il.wirwny. Tho in .in who rose to greet Tyar. hold Ing out a thin hand across tho table at which ho had boon seated, wa singularly light. Hi narrow shoulders sloped at a lger angle from tho lino of his ain ewy nock than I usually to be found in men of tho Anglo-Saxon rare. Tho hand hcid out w.i unsteady, very white and long. The face w narrow and extreme ly small; at school Matthew Mirk Ess ton hud boon nicknamed "Monkey" Eas ton. Despite hi youthful appearance it ' anmo year since ho had left school, and indeed men of his year at Harvard were mostly married and elderly, while Easton still retained hi youth. In add! tlon to this enviable possession there was "till noticeable in his a)nrance that alight resemblance to a monkey by which be had acquired a nickname singularly appropriate. It was not only in the small, intelligent face, tho keen, anxious eyes and thin lip, that this resemblance made Itself discernible, but in quickness of glance ar;d movement, in that refined and nervous tension of habit, which is only found in monkeys and all tho lower ani mals. Ity way of greeting this man whistled two or three bars of "See the Conquering Hero Comes" softly through his teeth, and pointed to a chair. - "Smith," he said, raising his voice, "you may as well go to the bank now with those checks." There came no answer to this sngges tion. but presently the door of the outer office closed quietly. "I call him Smith," continued Easton In a thin and pleasant voice spiced by a oistinct American accent, "because his name is Pavloki. That unfortunately luxuriant crop of gray hair standing straight up gives him a foreign appear ance, which the name of Pavloski would seem to confirm. Besides, It take such a Jong time to aay Pavloski." While he waa shaking Enston's face had remained quite grave, and, conse quently, very gad. There was a ahort si lence. Hoth had much to aay, and they apieared to be thinking and aearching for a suitable beginning. Easton spoke first. "I see," be said, "that you are trim and taut, and ready as usual. The ex ecutive keeps up to the murk." "Yes," replied Tyars, "my department Is In working order. The ship is getting on well, and I huve found my first offi cer." The alight, delicate man looked at hi companion's large limbs and half sup pressed a sigh. His wistful little face contracted into a grave smile, and be nodded his head. "I dislike you," he said. In his peculiar ly humorous way, "when you talk like that. It seems to Imply an evil sense jf exultation in your physical suiwrior Ity, which, after all, is fleeting. You ire only dust, you know. Hut but it Is rather poor fun staying ut home and pull ing strings feebly." "It has its advantages," said Tyars, In in unconsciously thoughtful tone, which brought the restless eyes to bis face at nce. "Ittnides," he added, more lightly, "you do not pull feebly. The tugs are pretty strong, and the strings, you must remember, reach a good distance." "Ye-es!" Mathew Mark Easton had a lingular habit of elongating the little n-ord Into several syllables, as if in order to gain time for thought. "Ye-es! I sup pose It has. Hut," he said, rousing hiin lelf, "I have not been Idle. That Is to lay, Smith Pavloski Smith, you know. He baa been working terrifically hard. Poor fellow 1 His wife Is out there at Kara." "Yes, I know. You told me," Inter rupted Tyars, and bis manner ancon iclously implied that a fact once Impart ed to him was never forgotten. "Has he keard from or of her yet?" "No, not for two years. Ha believes the Is alive still, and a report came from Klga that she bad been sent to Kara." The Englishman listened without com ment. His strong, bearded face was not pleasant to look upon just then, for the massive juw was thrust forward, and there was a peculiar dull glow In his placid eyes. "There was a child, you know," con tinued the American, watching the ef fect of his words, "to be born In prison In a Siberian prison, where the attend tnts are the riffraff of the Russian army more brutes than men. That would probably be a year ago." He paused, bis tbln voice lowering to ward the end of the sentence Jn a way hat rendered his American accent singu larly Impressive In Its simple narrative. "I wonder," be continued, "what baa seoouie of that refined lady and that belp rss Infant now. It brings the thing More oue, Tyars, In rather a bright Ight, to think that that man Bin Pav foskt, who comes here at half-past nine sery morning, goes out to lunch In a miall eating house next door, and goes ome to bis lodging at five o'clock that Viat man has a wife In a Siberian prison. wife a woman whom he has lived with Very day day after day whose every lone, every little geture, every thought, kerriman i3 is familiar to Mm. I surmise that It must 1 worse than being In a Slberiau prison one's o!f I" U is easy lo sot down the words, but to render the slight twang, the wonder ful oer of expressing pathos that lay lii !. I. n in this man's tongue, I a tak he jond any pen. Tyam stopped him with s quick gisturv of tho head, a If to Inti mate that all this was no news to htm. "Why," ho asked, curtly, "atv you showering all this upon me? IV you think that I atn tho sort of fellow to turn back V" "Oh, no!" answered Easton In an alter ed tone. Then ho turned In hi chair and, m.Kx-king a drawer in tho podcutnt of hi writing table, bo drew forth Sev ern! !oatiier-!xun.l books, which he set uin the table in front of him. "Oh, no. he said, turning tho pages. "tnly you seemed to N of opinion Just now that the pastime of staying at homo, and pull ing strings had its advantages." "So It has." was the ol rvply ; "but that In no way alters tho case as far ns I am concerned." "Then I apologUe," said Easton, rais ing his eye without moving his head. "I thought, perhnp well, never mind!" "What do you think?" "I had a eort of notion that some other interoxt had sprung up that you wer getting i-ick of all this long preparation." "And wished to back out?" suggested Tyars in his high-bred In.lifferenov. As he sjHike he looked up and their eyes mot. A strong contrast thee two p ir of eyes. The one, large, placid: tho other quick, keen and rest Ion. Although Easton's gaxe did not lower oK flinch, his eyes were not still; they seemed to search from corner to corner of the large glance that met his own. "I am afraid." he said, ignoring tho luestlan, "that I am getting a trifle skep tical. I have bad more than ono dis appointment. Our d.tctor Phlllppl. you know has boon appointed sanitary In spoctor of tho town of I.llle. or something equally exciting. He has Intimated that while fully sympathising with our noble scheme, he can only help us now with his purse and hi prayers. I do not Imagine that his purse will assist you materially to steer through the Ice on a dark nlht in the Sea of Kara." "It comes, no doubt." said Tyars, half apologizing for the French doctor's treachery, "from his failure to reallre tho whole thing. Tho nation took tip the 1 11 t' n of the slave trade without a moment s hesitation, and that was one upon which there were undoubtedly argu ments upon both sidft of equal weight. We are not sure now that the compara tively small proportion of the human race victimized by the slave trade has really benefited. The state of Russia and her system of government Is a disgrace to the whole world yet the whole world closes lta eyes to the fact. The Siberian exiles. In my estimation, call for more sympathy than those thick-skinned, dense brained negroes." Easton said nothing. His father bad been a slave owner, but he fact was unknown to Tyars, and he did not think it necessary to mention it. Had the slave trade never been suppressed, Matthew Mark Easton would have been one of the richest men in America. As it waa, he sat daily in this little office In the city of London conducting to all outward a piu ranees a small and struggling com mission agent's business. It was some what characteristic of the man and hi country that Claud Tyars should be al lowed to remain In ignorance of these matters. Easton now turned to the leather-bound books, and the two men sat far Into the day discussing questions strictly technical and strictly confined to the fitting out of the small vessel lying in the London dock for an expedition to the Arctic seas. Even in the discussion of these details each man retained his characteristic man ner of treatin? outward things. Kasttn was irresponsible, gay and light, while beneath the airy touch there lurked a truer, firmer grasp of detail than Is pos sessed by the majority of men. His queer little face was never quite grave even while speaking of the most serious matters. His manner was, throughout, suggestive of the forced attention of a schoolboy, ready to be led aside at the slightest interruption, while the relation of hard facts and the detailing of long statistics ran from bis glib tongue with out the leiist sign of effort. CHAPTER XI. More conspiracies have fulled from lm pecunioiiHlty than from treachery. If a man has money in sufficient quantity, se crecy is easily purchased. Even if he has enough money to buy a respectable coat, he is already on the high road to success. If the conspirators assemble In swallow tall coats and white ties, they are almost free from danger. Suspicion fixes herself upon the Impecunious, the unfortunate, the low In station. She haunts the area steps, and flies at the luxurious sound of carriage wheels. She never enters the front door, but if she wishes to reach the upper floor, creejeth up the back stairs. Under the respectable shade of a silk hat, gloved and washed, any of us may trespass where be with but a shabby coat and forlorn boots will call down Ignominy on bis bead. Well dressed, wo may steal horses ; shabbily clad, we must not even look over walls. There was In the temperament of Mat thew Mark Easton that small seed of ag gressive courage which makes conspira tors, agitators and rebels of sensible men. Under the Influence of such men at Claud Tyars and Pavloski, be was capable of developing great energy, and there Is little doubt that these two, unconsciously working together, forced the American to assume a gradually Increasing weight of responsibility, to the dimensions of which he remained partially Ignorant. In persuading Tyars to espouse a cause of which the particulars will be hereafter narrated, Easton had, some year previously, unwittingly cast hit own lot with that cause to a greater and fuller extent than his easy going nature would ever knowingly have allowed. He had set the torch to a brand of which the flames soon enveloped him. Meeting Ty art at an International aquatlo compe tition, a friendship had sprung up he tweon (Tien, both being lonely men with no sister r cousin to admire their prowes. Those slight retrogressive explanations will servo, per hip, to innko clear the po sition of Matthew Mark Kiton with ro gird to Clan! Tyar; in the event that follow. To some extent tho outromo of thoo pnst Incident vu a .tiimep i.APtt ! given by the American ono Novonilor evening. Of those assembled some ar living to this day, but others, though young, are now dead, leaving to the sur- f v Ivors the memory of a brave example, the unanswered question of a useless life, I llvvd and lost. j There was nothing singular or remark i able about tho fare provided. It was. In fact, supplied "all hot" by a neighboring ; con feci loner, but tho guest formed as unique a collection of fcastcr as could I well be found wn In tho metropolis of ! England. Among the first to arrive was Smith P. Smith." as Easton playfully called him. The old young clerk of the little otlW In the city. Pavloski Smith, was drcod In Irreproachable swallow tall coat and white tie. He shook bands with Easton, bowing hi gray head In a tx cullar jerky manner, a if they had not parted at tho ottlco two hours before. After him came at Interval three men ; the first elderly and stout, the oth er two younger, but all alike had that loculiar repose of manner which was espe cially notl.vnhlc In tho man railed Pav loskl. They were evidently foreigners. They spoke English remarkably well, ami made few mistakes In grammar. Easton received them with a few words of W"l come. "Tyars," be said to each In turn, "ha found a gentleiimii whojwill serve as first otlicer. He brings him to-night. "Is," Inquired the stout man, who was of a somewhat ceremonious habit, "I Mr. Tyars well?" "Quite well, thanks; at least, I sur mise so," was the answer. The two younger men heard tho news without comment. Without awaiting an Invitation Pavloski drew n chair for ward to the hearth rug and sat directly In front of the fire, holding his two hands out toward the warmth. In this position it became evident that he was a contem porary of the two younger men, who presently moved toward tho fire and stood talking together In their peculiar Eng lish, while Easton and the stout gentle man exchanged meaningless platitudes. The three younger men bad thus grouped themselves together, ami when t lneed in proximity there was some sut tle ;xint of resemblance N-tween them which could not at first sight be defined. It lay only In the eyes, for In build and complexion there was no striking llko nees. Each of these three men. had a singularly slow glance. Thi'y raised their oyts to one's face rather after the man ner of a wh;pied dog. and when looking up there was noticeable a droop of the lower lid which left a space of white be low the pupil of the eye. It may b.i wen In men and women who have passed through great hardship or an unspeak able sorrow. Such eyes as these seak for themselves. One can tell at once that thty have at one time or other looked uiwn something very unpleasant. Finally Tyars entered the room, closely followed by Oswln Grace. There were thus seven partakers of the gtxxi things provided by a neighboring confectioner four Russians, two Eng lishmen and an American. There had been no secrecy about their coining; no mystery taps at the door, no strange sounding passwords. Moreover, the con versation was of a simple, straightfor ward nature, without dramatic relief in the way of ambiguous and irrelevant re marks respecting the length of some alle gorical night and the approach of a sym bolic dawn. (To tx enntlnned.t THE CACTUS CHEESE. Can Any Good Come Oat of Ibe Thorur 1'lant ' Desert f A new table (lt llcncy Iiiih come out of Mexico, uml a (nrrcHiMjwlciit of tlo New York Evening Poet Buys that It can be produced with ciual facility tiiid In unlimited (juuntltleH on the hitherto practbiilly barren plains of the Southwest. The Mexicans cull It "y,ueo de tuna," which, U-Iiik Inter preted, means cactus cheese. The cac tus plant Is covered with Hharp Kpluex, which protect It from cattle und other uiilmals which would devour and ex terminate it If It were not ho guarded by nature. It grows ko abundantly on the plains of Mexico and our own Southwest that for two or three years Kclentlllc experts have been trying to discover Rome use for It, being con vinced that nature would not have made so much of anything that was Kood for nothing. Their efforts have been rewarded. From the cactus, despised und rejected of men and beauts, to the cactus cheese, guaranteed to delight epicures who have learned to like It, is but n htep. The corre Hiiondent Intimates that fondness for this cheette, like that for some other brands, must be be ncqulred, but once acquired Its indulgence will Us a Joy forever. One learns thut the fruit of the cac tus "looks for all the world like a fine grade of chocolate." It Is put lip In packages atxut the size of a iouiid of butter, und, when wrupiied In tinfoil, Is sufe from deterioration. Another use to which the plant Is put Is tho manufacture of syrup, and a sort of Jelly can bo produced which is said to resemble Scotch marmalade In the ease with which It lends Itself to pleasing combination with bread or crackers. Since the discovery that the cactus could bo made to minister to human needs, the Department of Agriculture has been exierlmeiitliig with a view to learning whether It might bo treated so as to provide fodder for cattle. It Is found that If tho plants are cut and left to "soak In their own Juice" for half a day, the spines become harm less, and cattle are very fond of the cactus In this state. An attempt Is being made to develop n smooth type of cactus, and while It Is possible that, without care, a harmless plant so rel ished by several animals besides cattle might become extinct, It Is believed take It easy until they become amis that a variety without spines might tomed to work and then you can "push b cultivated with profit. 1,1 v -r 1 'I- ' KtTeolle Trap Nest. A very simple trap mwt thtu de scribed by Oraugo Jndd Farmer: One side and part of the top on one com partment Is removed to show the Inte rior construction. Each compartment should be 13 Inches wide', lo Inches high and HO Inches deep, w hile the nest 1hx Is 12 Inches .uaio mid 11 Inches deep. Every poultry raiser knows the value of a trap nest, fco It I" not nec essary to enter Into Its utility. Any number of them tuny be constructed side by side, nud nil cijuIihmI In the same manner. Tho doorway at the front Is 10 Inches wide and 12 Inches bUh, the door Is 12 luetics sijunre and I caught ut one corner with n screw. When It Is set the doorway Is open, but sr.Hvn EAiitJC tuap wrsT. when tho hen has sprung It tho door falls ntid the opiolte end to the screw Ditches In an Iron staple which pre vents It from being moved by the cap tive hen. The top of the nests nre provided with a few slats at the forward end for light and ventilation, and each compartment has a trapdoor hinged ut tho top so the hen can Is' removed from tho nest. The net !x 1 provided with two screws at each side Just for ward from the middle. These rest on blocks with u V-Mhaed top- The nest 1.1 balanced so the weight jf n ben when she Heps on the front edge will lip It down, thereby releas ing the wire end that holds the door and allows it to full. Two pievs of wire nre used. One Is made fast to a screw eyp driven In the front edge of the box and extends up nearly to the under Ide of the top, where a piece of Old Is tied to It. The cord pusses through it screw eye nnd toward the front of tht Ixii. v. here, four Inches from the eye, It Is tied to tho longer piece of wire that extonds to the door. The wire and string are adjusted so the front end of the wire pnssiug through a hole In the board will pro ject a quarter of un Inch and supiwirt the door. When the hen stejm on the box and drugs the wire down thot pulli the long wire In and the door drops. P.y opening tho trnp door nt tho top It Is easy to set tho dont agnln. I'se (iood Tools In Spraying; Those who do sprnylng on a consider able scale fully reull.o the lmjiortaiice of the very lsst outfits for the puritose. Thoso who have but little spraying to do will find smaller Implements which will answer the purjsise, but will no tice that there Is u great difference In the prices for tho saino capacity Imple ment Tills difference represents the difference !etween something valuable and something made to sell, the only vuluo such latter implements have Is for. use In the small ugrden where but a few trees or bushes are to Imj sprayed. Potter pay double- the price nuked for tho cheap sprayer and get something that may be depended uixni to do the work properly and effectively and which will not be worthless the first time the metal comes In contact with tho chemicals. llotv to Throw a Steer. Hero Is a very simple but sure way to throw a large or small, steer. Use rope, three-quarter Inch, about 23 feet FOB THBOWIIfO THf 8TEEB. long, Is best passing one end of the rope around the steer, and tying In o hard knot; pass the rope back and around the body agufin In front of the hips, passing the end of the rope under the rojo, so as to form a draw, extend ing the end of the roo straight behind the steer. IJy pulling 100 pounds on the end of tho rope, a 1,000 pound steer can bo thrown with ease. Farm Notes. He slow to condemn an old sow that does good work. More money Is lost by feeding hogs too long than by soiling too early. For making good grafting wax melt together four parts resin (by weight) ; two parts beeswax i one part tallow. If you desire to bit the bull's eye aim high and In doing so load so as to obtain more bushels from fewer acres. In the spring the muscles of a horso are soft and they tire easily. Let them I on the lines." When obncr fields nre Infected with the i-""t borer, allowing I hem to stand but two years will help to subjugate the pest In any locality, Every farmer should have hi scd corn testing patch, on which competing . lection from his own Holds und va rieties secured elsewhere may be sub Joctcd to n careful Held test under his own eye. II resit nil a slnll HleUrr. The chronic stable kicker, aside from being n nuisance, causes much damage and often Injures other unl mills. To break him of the habit, till a grain sack half Tnll of sand and swing from celling with rope, so sack will bang where heels or horse will have g I play uh.ii It. Tie him tlrmly In the stall with a heavy, stout rope. At tl... tlr.t kl.k t in bag win swum owiiy. often n high as the celling. If kicked s.juarely. It will then return and give him as good as be sent. Thin will lead to II general inlxup between the horse nnd sandbag, nnd the of sand will hold Its own. returning mi hi) sends, with isiuldenible Interest, lie will soon find that lie I up ngalnt n losing proposition, and, learning this, will Ikj thoroughly cowed. Leave the sack Isdilnd blin for n week or more and then remove. If he should nt nny time show nny tendency to return to his old habit of kicking, arrange the sack ns before and the cure will te final. Successful Fa ruling. Itun't Nculret the stMes. Many dairymen who are Inclined to lo exceedingly cleanly nUuit the sta bles during the winter give them lit tle cure during the summer when the cows are largely milked In the pasture, n plan of milking many follow. There are days nud nights during the summer when the cows must be boused und the milking done In the stable, hence If they hove boon neglected the milk Is surely to absorb nny undesirable ixlor that tuny exist. We find It nil excellent plan to clean the stables thoroughly Jut ns soon ns the cows nre turned out to grass, nnd this thoroughness consist In washing the walls with n strong solution of car bolic mid, then going over them t Ii. r ughly with whitewash. In this man ner nil germs mid odors nre destroyed. This Is by no means nil. for each week the stable nro thoroughly purlilisl, so that there will l no possible odor to spoil the milk.--Exchange. flaitifr Steps for Harness ll. Old buggy steps make g I harness hooks one gets at the stores, writes souks one gets ut the stores, writes GOOD IIAU.VENS HOOKS. an Indlnnu fanner. Cut off the step nt the dottel line A, nnd nail the hook part up as shown In It. Hank of Sheep Industry. Sheep and wool nre the seventh lar gest Industry In the I'nlted States. The numlx-r of sheep In the world Is esti mated nt hn),sm).sm) ; of this number otic third fire classed incline. s. The Eelcestir breed of sheep was founded 111 1S02 by Iird Polwurth, of M,.r. toun. The Spanish merinos were tlrst Imported Into England by (Jeorgo III In 17'Jl. It Is suld that woolen goods were manufactured In Asia 2.hk years before the Christian era. The domes t leu tod sheep were first Introduced In to America by the Spaniards about the year 1.1'H). The Robert Taylor clip of Montana, rM),(MH) pounds, Is the lur gist clip In the I'nlted States raised by one grower. Summer I se of (rains. The feeding problem, in some sec tions, Is ipilte us formidable In the summer as In the winter, und this Is particularly the case where the feeding Is largely done in tho barn, which, by the wuy, Is becoming more popular every year among dairymen. What grains one shall use depends largely tiKii the methods which Individual feeders hare found most profitable In the past, but corn, In tho summer ra tion, must bo spurlngly used. The stock foods or the concentrated grains, purchased nlrendy mixed, ought also to lie hnndlod carefully and particu larly so when llttlo or no pasture Is given the animals. The Farm Garden. Do not plow the garden when tho soil Is so wet as to be lumpy or It will bother nil the first part of the season. Harrow very thoroughly and lay off the space In as long rows us jiosslhle, planting In these all vegetables except lettuce, rudlshes, etc. Hows should not bo less than three feet upnrt so thut the horse cultivator can be used. If tho space Is limited It Is, of course, better to use tho hand w heel hoe and garden-drill machine, und plant more closely, but on tho farm there Is usual ly plenty of space tint could bo used to advantage In the labor saving plan of wide rows. lien Manure and (Junno, Never apply unadulterated hen drop plugs, or any other pure guano, direct ly ou seeds or plants; applied pure It will destroy the germ on most plants. Troperly prepared fowl manure may he applied with benefit to any crop, field or garden, broadcast or harrowed In, but Is more economically employed In tne mil or arm. as goou a plan as snv. nrobablv. Is to gather tho rtroiL. I pings as often as twice a week, and mix with about twice their bulk of dry rth pTHEVEEEQLY HISTORIAN I ::k I Kk'.'V nvii-kijjw'-;, ,'tritiit tTT,id" '1 I 1 v ! tim t.,tu tnk.-n by llenry IV 12 Pope John XXI. killed by fall of a biiil'ling. Treaty of Troyes l(in Eng land, I'm n. e nud lliirgund), H'.tH Vnaco ite (nun Innied nt Cnll'-iit, lir: Indiitii port llle. by EuroM'sn erl. I.'.'til (Jenrge loc)li, English state. man, beheaded. 1.H2 Paul III. summoned Council i,f Trent, hut a compelled to prorogue It. J.V. S.ege of M.ilta commenced by the Tuiks. lO) .Mnnjtil of Montrose banged nt IM i ii 1 1 1 1 r t; ti. Pl'.SI Fort nt Cisco, Me., destroyed by I ho I i 1 1 t 1 1 a . 17.V1 (treat Mrltnln declared war nguinit France, 17l'i Siege of IJiehec raised by the French. 17l2 - Peace declared between Prussia, nnd Sweden, 1771 Meeting lii Providence. It. I., fir.t to iIki'uk subject of n general con gress. l's'J Ion. Wnjim defeated near Ssvan tin Ii , . . . Washington refund to he King of the American ncn u hv . . , . Collcei,i to IreUlli ill rod .'d id llrltish Parliament by n. 17l ltrlti!i defeated by the French at battle of Toiirnny. 17'.i." Mungo Park sailed from Englnnd on his lirst eipc.litiou to explore Af rica. lwl Napoleon I. proclaimed Emperor. lM'.l P.i pnl slate mmevd to France. 1-SII I'. S. fng.itn I'resl.l.nt raptured Hritlsh !..,.p Eittl,. I'.elt. 1S1.1 Itr.tish attacked S.tckctu ll.irl.or. 1S1I Norway declared her Independ ence. l.SI'.l Sleainshlp Savnunnh, first to cross Atlantic by steam, left S.ivaif Ii all for I,oiidoii. 1H22 -Itiirbido declared Emperor of Mei I ro. 1S.II) - -Prince Iop,,;d declined the crown of tireeee. . . .lirent eruption of Mt. Aetna; H village destroyed. IH.T.I -Treaty concluded with the Semi nole. 111 Yucatan declared a republic. 1K1.1-Seivmiloii of Free Church, Scot land. 1IH Revolutionists forced Emperor of Austria to the from Vienna. 1S.H1 - Charles Sumner assaulted In ths Senate chaniler, Wash,ngt..n. 1H.")! -First stage coach of the Overland Mail nrriie.l In lemer. lHll Whole Federal line repulsed from Vicksliiirg. lM'.l -First express train between Now York nnd 1 luff n hi. 1HH7 - Nap.. Iron and King William of Prussia signed the l.iuemhurg treaty. 1K71-Column of Place Vendome, Paris, pulled down by Communist. 1S72--TI10 Amnesty bill passed Con gress. 1M71 Prince Mettcrnich nnd Count of Molitehello fought a duel near Ver sailles Miss Nellie (Jrant ami A. O. F. Sartoris married n,,, White House.... Itursflng of dam of Ash held reservoir, Williamsburg. Mass.: 1 live f. ' lS77--ltoiiiiianift made proclamation of lndeM'niince. 1S7I) -Capital punishment revived by vote of the peophi f Switzerland. ISSI-Kevlsed New Testament published by Oxford nnd Cambridge universi ties. .. .Conkllng and Piatt of New York resigned their seats In the Sen ate. 1KS2 Eddystonn lighthouse opened by Duke of Edinbtirg. 1883-Ianlel Curley. Phoenix prk mur- dersr, hanged at Dublin. lKat-Thn Alert sailed from St. John, " ln ,Har- r the (Jroely party. ....Husjienslon bridge across Ohio river at Portsmouth fell. lS8.1-De.tructlo of Managua, Central America, by earthuuako. 1RS7-Flye prominent nihilist, executed in St. Putersburg. 18M)-I)r. Cronin1. body found in Chi cago sower, eighteen day. f,or ul, murder. 1800 McKinley tariff bill House, 102 to 112. 1801 Twenty-two block. Muskegon, Mich. passed the burned la 180.1 Infanta Euhilft rived at New York nd party ar- '"nSfffiiK." - 1805 Ten thousand In line waiting for opening of Klckapoo reservation 1808-Crulscr Charleston sailed from Ban Francisco to re-enforce Dewey. Amerloan Lumber In 1005 The national forest service ha.'g.ih. ered and compiled statistics of the him. ber cut during Hm, based upon ,,, T port, of 11,040 lumber firm.. ' Fro t, u It a linear, that the Nii nr. . . itn'11 fir"t' w,th over S.OM.Ooo (MX) feet! , ,lJ? production wa. in yell 1 P'"6' U boin nearly 80 nor cent i, YvZ total. por cent of the I yw