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IN THE LONG AGO. Whan tha St. Lnnla tlpanlarda Marched Afulnit tha Mlohtfaa EoglUb. A Spanish army cauie to Chicago lu the long ago. The minor details of it and the fiuor statecraft reasons of it are iiWtu in the catacomb of the Esou U1 along with tons of other doeu tutmts that will never tee the light gain, lint we know that those men of war marched over the Illinois prairies, jitl that they were sent to increase the dominions of their sovereigns. By the treaty of Paris, signed in 1763, France ceded to Spain all of that vast territory known as Louisiana, which etretched from the month of the Missis sippi to the Canadian lino. In 1781 t.reut Britain was at war with tho United States, Spain, Holland and franco. St. Louis was a Spanish town, and English officers attacked it at the bead of 1,600 Indiana. They were de feated with little trouble and retreated. In revenge the Spanish commander t St Louis, which his people called 6on Luis de Illinois," planned a raid gainst tho British post of St. Joseph. It was a fort or outpost, located at a point two miles from the present city of lieu ton Harbor, Mich., and 60 miles northwest of Chicago, across the lake. Tho force began its long, difficult and dangerous journey on Jan. 2, 1781. They estimated the distance at 830 leagues, or 6G0 miles, and subsequent smrvoys have proved that they wore re markably good guessers. It was officer cd by Captain Eugenio Purre, command ing, and Lieutenant Carlos Tayon. The interpreter was Luis Chevalier. Chiefs Electurno and Kequigen led the 60 In dians of the Fox and Pottawatomie trilea. There were 65 Spanish volun teers, in all 130 men, selected with special reference to their ability to with stand the arduous journey. They inarched up the Mississippi riv er to the mouth of the Illinois and thence along the track of the French explorers and voyagers. The route took them up the Illinois river past Fort Crt-ve Coeur (Peoria) to old Fort St Louis (Starved Rock). Here they plant ed the blood stained banner of Aragon and Castile. A century before from that t rocky eminence La Salle had unfurled the tleur-de-lis of France. Subsequently the British flag had waved over it Ivow Old Glory waves there in peace awl beauty. Purre 'a force toiled in snow and ice to the junction of the Kankakee and IVsplaines rivers. They followed the LV.-piaiuos to a point west of what is Bow South Chicago and came to the lake at its southern edga They found it a desolate region of swamps and sand dunes. Thence they marched to thiir deputation. The bniall garrison of St. Joseph fled to Detroit at the news of their approach, and all of the stores fell into the bands of the invaders. They proclaimed the sovereignty of Spain over this section smd divided the stores. After resting some days they began their return march ever the former route. They reached St Louis in safety after a midwinter march of nearly 1,400 miles through a hostile country. They had few casualties and gathered much plunder. Chicago Chronicle. Atlantfco Currant. It is an interesting fact in the records of scientific progress that the United .Stab s navy ban for a long time past been dropping bottles overboard in the Atlantic ocean at the Azores, in deep water along the coast of Spain and from the Madeira and the Canaries south ward along the coast of Africa. The fact that all these bottles that bare been recovered have been found on the coast of Soutn America, on the Antil les, and some of them as far west as the mouth of the Rio Grande, suggests tho inference that every buoyant object which has been dropped into the ocean -during the present geological epoch by prehistoric or historic Spaniards, Por tuguese or Africans has found its way to America and been stranded some where between the tenth parallel south and the thirtieth parallel north. In the northern part of the Atlantio ocean the currents run the other way, and tho mails have been delivered from Ameri ca to Europe. In the Pacific ocean the daily mails delivered on the west coast of America from Mount St Elias south ward have proceeded from about the twentieth parallel north, in the vicini ty of the Malay peninsula and arcbipel .ago, thence have traveled through the China sea and the Japanese sea to pick xrp matters designed for the western hemisphere. Earrka Gaa. The name of Eureka gas is given to a new illuininant, expected to rival acety lena This gas, as described in Inven tion and originated by M. Hector de Favi of Monteiiascone, Italy, is obtained as follows: Lime as pure as possible is employed as a base, colophony and cal cium carbide being added 1,000 parts of the mixture ready for use consisting of 900 of quicklime, 60 of colophony and 60 of calcium carbide and there is aaid to be no liability of explosion by mixing with air. No heating of water and no special burner is needed. One thousand parts of the mixture give 60 liters of gas at a pressure of 85 milli meters of water, and the photometric intensity of the flame is stated to be 92.4 candle hours, while the same amount of calcium carbide employed singly would give only 18 candle hours. Thns, it is asserted, the new gas is CO per cent cheaper than acetylene, or that at equal cost it will give half as much snore light An Unerring Barometer, The advertising columns of legitimate newspapers are now regarded by the mere intelligent and thrifty portion of the publio as an unerring barometer of the character, energy and success of business men, and those who fail to ap preciate the now universally accepted method of reaching the people must fall behind in tho race for business profit! r Philadelphia Timet. A Motnant of ParlL ' When the Ironsides, commanded ly Captain afterward Admiral Danl grcn, was off Morris island, South Caro lina, while removing ooal from her buukers, it was discovered that the ves sel had sustaiuod a serious injury from a Confederate torpedo It beoamo nec essary to know to what extent the hull had been affected externally under the water. .: , The diver's boat was brought along tide and the diver descended. It was low water and the instant was seized when the tide ceased to ebb. The diver went carefully over the part of the bot tom at the damaged portion, and then reaching the keel concluded to pass un der it and look at the other side. He bad accomplished this and was on the other side, when he peroeivod that the ship was swinging to the newly flowing tide. He had found just space between the bottom and the keel to pass j under, and uow saw that the vossel, in swinging, wonld pass close to a shoal ridge of the sandy bottom, and even grind into it This must inevitably cnt off the slender and delicate tube which conveyed air to him and also sever the lines by which, in case of accident, he was to be drawn up. Fasteuod dowu by I his heavy weights, it would be instant suffocation. With all the speed that his incum brances DPrmitted ha omleavored tn reach the keel and pass under it before it was too late. The ship was coming round rapidly He passed his bead and body, but began to feel the pressure of the keel against the soft ooze. With great effort he succeed ed in dragging his limbs and tubes dear, and the water became a little deeper, but one arm was so painfully crashed that it was some days before it was in a con dition to use. Youth's Companion. Our Man sera. The courtesy of the London shopkeep er charms me today precisely as it did years ago Perhapt he says "sir" too often, and perhaps he is too profuse in his general politeness, but he is better than the American clerk who will sell me an ounce of tooth powder as though he were conferring upon me an especial favor. The English tradesman may think himself quite your equal, but be doesn't thrust upon yon this article of belief. The American tradesman not only thinksso, but makes his conviction patent It all comes to this, one has manners and the other has not "Man ners are not idle, " a great poet has said, but we of the west, masses and classes alike, persist in ignoring them. Our classes ignore them our male classes, 1 now mean to a degree that is woeful Let any gentleman in New York searchingly ask himself how many other gentlemen he knows whose manners are really gentlemanlike. Nearly every man of good manners whom 1 have met in America is more or less unpopular. If be is suave of speech, gracious and high bred of deportment, be is at once pro nounced "stuck up," "airy," "affect ed. " If he dislikes listening at his club to a certain style of story, he is called "stiffy" and "chump. " If hit mode of speech is refined, his language choice and thoroughly grammatical, yon will bear somebody say of him behind his back, "Oh, that feller bores me out of my boots I" Edgar Fawcett Moora'a Apology. Senator George F. Hoar possesses the original of a letter written by Thomas Moore in 1816 to the editor of the Phil adelphia Portfolio It is as follows: "This life is just long enough to com mit errors in, but too short to allow ns time to repair them, and there are few of my errors 1 regTet more sincerely than the rashness 1 was guilty of in publishing those crude and boyish ti rades against tho Americans. My senti ments, both with respect to their na tional and individual character, are much changed since then, and 1 should blush, as a lover of liberty, if 1 allowed the hasty prejudice of my youth to blind me now to the bright promise which America affords of a better aud happier order of things than the world has ever yet witnessed. If yon but continue to be good republicans, as we of Europe seemed determined to be good royalists, the new and the old world need soon have no other distinction than the hem isphere of freedom and the hemisphere of slaves. " New York Tribuna Tha Two Hundred Gaines Fee. When railroads had become general throughout the country, it was felt by some of the leading physicians and snr geons of the metropolis that an easier, less tedious and less expensive mode of traveling ought in fairness to the publio to be met by some reduction in the rate of remuneration, and after a full con sideration of all the circumstances it was concluded in sequel to a conference between Dr. Paris and Sir Benjamin Brodie, on the part respectively of the College of Physicians and of the Col lege of Surgeons, that a reduction of one-third wonld be fair to all parties and meet all the requirements of the case, and thus that a physician s jour ney of 800 miles would imply a fee of 200 guineas in the place of 800, as it had previously dona "Life of Sir Henry Halford. ' , A Snow Image. "Michael Angelo, to gratify the whim of a capricious patron, carved a figure of snow, expending on this perhaps as much pains as upon his immortal Moses or the imperishable dome of St Peter's. The sculptor and the architect the painter and the poet live in their works, which endure after them; the actor's work dies when he dies. He carves bis image in snow. " So wrote Lawrence Barrett Iron Shipi Lighter Than Wooden Veaaela. An iron ship weighs about 20 per cent less than a wooden ship of the same dimension a Its walls are thinner, and it will carry about 10 per cent more cargo on less draft of water. New York Sun. WmEN I GET TIME. Whan 1 gt tlma, I know whs 1 1 ahull do. I'll out tha 1ivm of all my books And road thorn through and through. Whan 1 tt time, I'll wrlla aoma lattara than That I hava owad for waaka and waaks To mauj, many nisa. Whan 1 got tlma, I'll par thuaa bllla I owa. And with thuaa bill, thoaa eountlaat bill. I will not ba ao alow. Whan I got tlma, I'll roguiato my Ufa In auoh a way that I may tat Aoquatntad with mj wife. Whan I got tlma Oh, glurioua draara of bUaat A month, jraar, ton jroara from nowl But 1 can't tlntah thla I hava no lima. Vogue. A PIANO FULL OF WASPS. Tha Kept Quirt I ntil tho Profeaaor Struck tha Loud Notaa. The pimio was an old grand. It had not beeu used for months. The compa ny had arrived iu towu but a short time before tho porfornmuce begun; heuco there had lxeii no time to test the instrument Nevertheless, the profess or boldly opened wido tho lids of tho loug unused grand and then sat down to the keys. Tho first touch couviuced him that the notes were still clear and strong, and that whatever defects in tune there might be would be very slight, so he began the soul inspiriug selection. Now, it happened that in all the months in which the piano had reiuaiu ed unused a colony of yellow Jacket wasps had industriously built them selves a home in the shape of a nest as large as a good gizod saucer. The soft pianissimo prelude to tho sclectiou gen tly woke the wasps from their sweet dreams. But when the soft pedal was released aud the notes grew vigorous and the piano began to reverberate to tho heavier passages the disturbed wasps suspected danger. They curled their backs and stretched and shook their gauzy wings viciously. The profess or, unheedful of tho fact that the mu sic, far from soothing the savage breast of the vicious wasps ambushed within. that piano, was rousing their ire, play ed on. From pianissimo to piano and from piano with one bound to fortissi mo the composition ran. All tho while the wasps fluttered their wings wicked ly, viciously, and all the while the pro fessor played. Now came the climax; now he was throwing together vast bondfuls of notes in the basso profundo region of the instrument Just as the grand was belching forth from its inner most soul the musical thunder of that great Wagnerian opera tho vengeance banting army of yellow jacket wo-ips swept out of the instrument, with a buzzing war song, down the hallway and upon the audience. Suddenly soul rending shrieks resounded through the halL Men and women were striking about their beads, benches were upset, and a general stampede for wiudows and doors ensued. Over the terrible up roar a shrill, piping voice could be heard shrieking: "Shorlie, come mitl Ach, Sharlie, come mitl" Long before the outraged burghers of Kerrville were up a little baud of men with baggage galore wended their way ont of the town aud sat down on the railroad track. They were the stereopti-co-musicai aggregation of San Antonio, and their faces, as they recounted the horrors through which they bad passed, were the image of that of Napoleou on the night of Waterloo. They flagged the south bound passenger train and took passago for San Antonio. Their wisdom in slipping out of town under cover of night has never been question ed. San Antonio Express. Tha liuai Way. There are some society girls who like to marshal together all the trophies of a season, in the shape of euchre prizes, german favors and invitations galore to all sorts of functions, where they may be seen of men and bring green eyed glances of jealousy into tho eyes of other girls not favored quite so much, but the queerest effort of this kind that ever came under the notice of tho writ er was a pyramid of empty candy boxes stacked up from floor to ceiling in a cor ner of the parlor. The largest was, of course, at tbo base, and there was every make and style, gradually diminishing to the top. This dashing girl, with the immense capacity for destroying candy, excepted every male visitor to add to the number as she started a plant in each of the other comers of the room. Of course a tremendous rivalry went on among her visitors and admirers to get the finest and most unique native and imported boxes. Strange to say, she married a man who had never added a lone box to the pile, but ho helped to destroy some of thn most toothsome offerings of other follows. New Or leans Times-Democrat A Woman1! Movement. The presidents of the 28 literary clubs which compose the Federation of Wom en's Clubs in Kentucky at a recent tueeting which they held for the pur pose of interchanging ideas upon club work decided among other things to en deavor to establish a bird day in the publio schools of the different cities of the state. This will be one effort in a movement to preserve the birds. The presidents will also nse their infinence to have literature upon the subject dis seminated, as they believe women are ignorant of the vast destruction of birds caused by thoir feather trimmod hats. An English writer asserts that there never was any Grub street in London, the name having been invented by Pope. Hungry authors became identi fied with that street because they were always trying to find it In Mexico the school children who have done best are allowed to smoke cigars while pursuing their lessons. FARM NOTES. If plowshares are btlght when put away tliey will coma out shining when needed aiialn. Milk the cowt clean, be good to thorn, give them good rations and they should milk right through to calvimt. which la tli hotter lor them. Is your land rough or stony or grown up with underbrush T Get sheen on it! they will at least pay interest and taxes and give you all the fresh meat you need. No doubt it will be necessary to use the blue vltrol and lime to keen tha " brown rot" from spreading where It destroyed considerable fruit this year, but an important preventive for decaying crops and to insure liealthfulness of the trees is that of well drained orchard oils. For those who are nlantlmr fruit trees in sections where the soil la dolklcnt in lime it would lie a good plan to scatter fieshly sucked lime, Irom two to four quarts, for three or four feet around each tree after the tree haa been planted. or mix with tho soil when planting the trees. The mixing of fowls is better adapted to individuals of limited means than any other industry. With a good arrange ment of lots and houaos. even on a small city lot, HtX) to ;t00 can bo cleared an nually without detriment to the owner' regular business. To obtain the best results hatch the chickens as early as possible so they can be put on the market when prices are highest. To accom plish this an Incubator Is necessary. Begin In December and have tha chick ens ready for the March market, when they often sell for a very high price. The best time to mulch the strawber ries Is as soon as the ground Is frozen. Take coarse strawy manure and scatter evenly over the plants, just thick enough to shade the ground to keep it Iroin thawing. Applied in this way it can be left to protect the fruit from dirt and is as effective as if put on thickly in winter and raked oil in spring besides saving much labor and time. To protect trees against canker worm pieces of cotton batting six inchea wide can be fastened about the trunk of each tree, say three feet from the irrouml. This should leave no cavities under neath, through which the wingless female can ascend to lay eggs upon the tree. Cover this cotton batting with a strip of stout paper and on this apply with a paint brush a good coating of printer's ink which thould lie often enough repeated to remain fresh so as to hold any Insect which attempt! to creep across it. Agriculture is the backbone of nearly every country, and from the character o that industry anything which tends to strengthen or develop the agricultural interests is of value and inportance to every section of the community. Every acre of land added to the area under cul- tivaton, or any addition made to the quantity of produce raised on an acre, it a matter of interest to every Individual, implying as it does larger suonliesof agricultural produce and a cheapening in the price of them. In packing apples for market it navs best in the long run to pay particular attention to the grading. Those who pack in a haphazard manner, putting in everything as it comes, are ones who lower the prices and the reputation of the Oregon fruit, l'ut the largest and best fruit in the first grade and the poor est can be sold at a less price. It will be found that the average will tie higher than if all fold together, and prove much more satisfactory to bojli grower aim consumer. If the potatoes are put into tho cellar while yet moist or with moist lumps of earth adhering to them, the dampness will cause these pores to germinate, and the potato will In due time show signs of rot. An affected tuber may commun icate the disease to a sound one with which it is in contact. It is desirable therefore, that they be stored in crates or in shallow bins, so that they can he more surely kept dry and more easily examined and any affected ones that appear be quickly taken out. Moisture is the friend of the rot, dryness its enemy. THE DREADED CONSUMP TION CAN BE CURED. T. A. Hlocam. M. C, tha (J rent Clmmlut and Helen tint, Will Bend, Free, Three Bottles of llii Newly Cltcovered Ucmedles to Sufferers. Editor Kntbhi-rise: I have discov ered a reliable cure for consumption and allbrochial, throat and lung diseases, general decline, Iocs of flesh and all con ditions of wasting away. By its timely use thousands of apparently hopeless cases have been cured. So proof-positive am I of its power to cure, that to make its merits known, I will send, free, to any afflicted reader of your paper, three bottles of my newly discovered remedies upon receipt of express and post office address, T. A. 8LOCUM, M. C, 08 Pine Street, New York. When writing the doctor, please men tion this paper. MOTT'S PENNYROYAL PILLS Tin j orernome WekrttM, Irrffrq lai My and oijiU!oh,incrttftlPftr and bun I all m Ii-im f nini'tm lion." Thajrai-a "Mfe Nuvrra" toirlrUat wnnianhootl. aidlnif do Yirpmint of organ anil body. No known rfmrdr for women cijuali A thm. Cannot do hnrm life br .roniwi a plffinir. Ill r box w r hy tniill. Mold hy amvcvtutm, V Vlhi .itfa.v MGXI CHEMICAL CO .,llma.4,U For sole by 0. G. Huntley. mm Efl)WAI2I) STORY. , Practical Horsesr; jocr Track anil Road Work a Specially. Any style shoes forged in Iron or steet. Wagon work and repairing. Satisfaction guaranteed, Shop on Seventh alravt, ntxt door to Nobltll'i italile. S4s Tee! Woll." 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