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-The JL The W hited Tale of Sepulchre Pelee By Will Levington Comfort Copyrleht. W. bp Will T-flrlntrtn. Copjrhht. 1907. br J. H. LtrpiNCorT Co Mr ax v. All rlehts rrstrred 111J.1L II -Mil. ..in lr OHAPTRIt III. (Continue.!.) They hnd reached the hichwnv. Con stable wns thinking that he would hnve Journeyed across the world to studv lnborins monster, like Pelee in his pros ent stress, but the idea of the girl being in the shadow of .danger took nil the relish from the work. "I should prefer to hear you discuss the treachery of volcanoes outside of the fire tone," she said, shivering. "It's like listening to ghost stories In n haunted bouse." "I'll tell you the best way out of It,' he declared. "I don't say that Telee is nbout to rise and rend Saint Pierre, but I want to take you all out to sea for n few days. The Madame will behave her prettiest with you on board." "I enn't Imagine anything finer, but you know mother is not a graceful sail or." "Unfortunately, any effort of mine to prevail upon her might spoil matters,' Constable said. "Oh, I don't think that,' she replied "but it will be something of a conquest for any one to shake her trust iu Pelee. Still. I'll do what I can." " .nu 1 ii negin work to-night upon Uncle Joey. By the way. Miss Stnns bury," he ndded in a lowered voice, "don't , you think that if I chose to stay here in Saint Pierre, your mother might consent more willingly to try a few days on tho Madame? ion know Pelee is more than ever interesting to me now." "That would be entirely unthinkable,' she replied hastily. Pelee rumbled again, nnd the girl's fin gers tightened upon his arm. The heavy wooden shutters of the plantation house rattled in the windless night; the ground upon which they stood seemed to wince at the monster's pain. The man was con ecious of the fragrance of roses and mag nolia blooms above the acrid taint of the air. It was as if, through some strange freak of the atmosphere, a pressure was exerted upon the flowers, forcing a sud den expulsion of perfume. The young moon was a ellow, formless blotch in the fouled sky. A sigh like the whimpering of a sick child was nudiblc from the ser vants' cabins behind the big house. lou 11 plead with your mother to night?" he whispered, as' they walked back. Mrs. Stansbury was on the porch. Her nicely modulated voice, as she spoke to her daughter, struck Constable with r cold force. The women went indoors Breen and Uncle Joey we're in conversa" tioh. Constable drew his chair to the north end of " the porch, nnd faced the mountain a vast black beast couchant nnder the dim stars. Since he had. gazed in that direction from the ship the night before, the whole purpose of his life had changed. Then be had asked no sweeter favor of the Fates than to be permitted to observe the giant's struggle to contain therffury of his fluids. Now his thoughts were magnetized by a new substance. the substance of fear. Self, the tribune of all his reckonings heretofore, had been lifted from his Drain, as a familiar vol ume is lifted from its case. "I 'knew it," he muttered. ! "I knew it five years ago that I should come back here .some dayr look upon that girl, and become a rnver.like other men. To think that-1 could stay away from her a year t a time!" " He regarded the double chain of lights out in the harbor the Madame pulling at her moorings among the lesser craft. like a lustrous empress in the midst of dusky maid-servants. Between the black mountain and the illumined ship stretched a battle. It was his own particular .bat tle. His name was called from the lists. To win was to run away. The old mas tering complication was his at last. Yea terday a splendid contribution to the im erfect records of seismology, such as was now within his grasp, was identified with his highest ambition. To-day the Bafety of the woman towered above it, as the dome of St. Peter's above the head of a tourist, ne was afraid of Pe lee. Breen drew over to him and sat down upon the railing. "What's on your mind, Peter?" "A mountain," said Constable. Haln did not fall in the night, and Constable was abroad with the dawn, regarding the white world and the source of the phenomenon, with the sketchy tints of earliest morning upon the huge eastern slope. He had slept little, and that with his face turned to the north. He would scarcely close his eyes before a cortege of volcanoes would pass before him. as in a dream ail the destroyers of history, each witli a vivid individuality,' like the types of faces of all nations the story of each, and the smear it had node of mon and the works of men. Most of them had given warning. Pe lee was warning now. His warning wns written upon the veins of every leaf, painted upon the curve of every blade of grass, sheeted evenly white upon the tiles of every roof. Gray dust blown by steam from the bursting quarries of the moun tain, clogging the gutters of the city, and the throats of men! It was a moving white cloud in the rivers, a chalky shad ing that marked the highest reach of the harbor tide. It settled in the hair of the children, nnd complicated the toil of the bees In the nectar-cups of the roses. With league-long cerements, and in a voice that caused to tremble his dwarfed cohorts, the hills and mornes, great Pelee had proclaimed his warning in the night. Constnblo wns standing In the garden. "Good old Vulcan, to wait for her!" ho murmured. "Sit tight for another day, and keop a stiff bridle-arm for one more day !" "It isn't really ash, you know," he found hlmsolf saying at breakfast, "but rock ground as fine ns neat and shot out by steam through Polee's vnives. ...r l. 1.. ...... .1.1.. I" lr ! HOW JIUUIIUUIJ k'Ul""1-' bury obsorved. "It'n a graphic morning," said Breen, "and Petor U virile from a night of medi tation. I believe ho has made a covenant with the mountain." Mrs. Stnns- Constable hnd met the eyes of tho daughter, nnd found no hopo there. Ho had taken his uncle apart nnd charged him to labor for tho causo of flight. "Ursula," the planter began gravely, ad dressing Mrs. Stansbury, "Peter has ask ed us to spend n few days with him iu the Caribbean, on board tho Madame. I confess that I don't llko tho way Pelee is acting, nnd the heat is telling on us nil. The prospect of a refreshing breath of the Trades Is n mighty pleasant one to me. Doesn't It sound so to you?" "As a specialist in volcanoes, I should think Mr. , Constable would find It Im possible to Icavo at such a time," tho elder woman answered smoothly. "Tho mountain needs his doctor moro than ever now." "I have not yet attained unto such a scientific passion that I can forget my friends entirely," Constable said earnestly. "For my part," the girl hastened to say, "Mr. Constnble's Invitation Is im mensely alluring." Mrs. Stnnsbury's eyelids contracted ever so little, and she lingered upon the words of her ultimatum, as if there were a tang of pleasure in the utterance. "The Panther nrrives day after to-morrow morning, with the New York mail. I would not under nny condition think of leaving Saint Pierre before receiving Mr., Stansbury's letters." Constable stared at the face ot tho daughter, ne read there terror of the mountain, and pity for himself. He arose, not daring to trust himself to speak again. Breen found him in his room a few min utes Inter. "Peter," he said softly, "has it ever occurred to you that the map of Europe and the history of France might greatly have been altered if our beloved Joseph ine had been gifted with a will like that?" CHAPTER IV. In the Rue de Rivoli there was a little stone fruit shop. The street was short, narrow, crooked and ill paved a cleft In Saint Pierre's terrace work. Just across from the vault-like entrance to the shop, the white, scarred cliff arose to another flight of the city. Between the shop nnd the living rooms behind there wns a little court, shaded by mango-trees. Dwarfed banana shrubs flourished in the shade of the mangoes, and singing birds were cag ed in the lower foliage. Since the sun could find no entrance, the shop was dark as a cave, and as cool. One window, if an-aperture like the clean wound of a thirteen-inch gun could be called a win dow, opened to the north; and from it. by the grace of a crook in the Rue de Rivoli, might be seen the mighty caliber- ed cone of Pelee. Pere Rabcaut's fruit was very good, and some of It was very cheap. The ser vice was much as you made It, for If you were known you were permitted to help yourself. In this world there was no one of station too lofty to go to Pierre Rabeaut's ; you would meet no one there to whom it was not a privilege to say "Bon jour." "Come and see ray birds," the crafty Rabeaut would say, If he approved of you. "Where do you live?" you might ask, being a stranger. . "In the coolest hovel of Saint Pierre," was the Invariable answer! And presently! if you were truly alive, you would find yourself In, the, little stone shop, listening to the birds. In due course Soronia would appear in the shad owy doorway and it would seem that the bird songs were hushed as she 'crossed the court. If the little stone shop were transplant ed in New lotk, artists would find it and have difficulty in getting in nnd out, for the crowd o' nights. Thither Con stable and Breen made their way on this burnin- morning which Mrs. Stansbury dark ' with her decision. The pair sat down the cherished coolness, Constable at the little window, so that ho could look at the mountain. "Breen, I dare not leave them here for forty-eight hours, until the Panther comes," Constable said. "Do you really think Pelee can't now out that long?" Constalo shook his head Impatiently. "I'm not a .monomaniac at least, not yet, Breen." he said, and his voice suggested the world of pent savagery in his brain. "The ways of volcanoes are past tho pre visions of men. I do not say that I'elee will blow his head off this week, or this millennium. I say ' I'm afraid for this girl. I say there are vaults or explo sives in that monster, tho smallest of which could make this city look like a lenor's corpse upon the beach. I say that the Internal fires are burning high; that they arc already fingering tho vital cap; tliat reice sprung n mm mm K"i. and that the same force which lifted this cheerful archipelago from tho depths of the sea is pressing against the leaic nt this instant. I say that Vesuvius warned "before he broke; that Krakaton warned and then struck ; that down the ages these safety valves scattered over tho face ot earth have trembled before giving way. Pelee is trembling now, and there is a woman here whoso safety Is Important to me. She Is two miles uwny this mo ment, and I am as powerless as a man in a street fight, with his lady's arms about him. What shall I do?" "Petor, there is a short cut," Breen said. "Tell me !" Constable urged. "Are you zealous and strong-souled?" "Try me." At this Juncture Soronia entered the shop from tho littlo court of the song birds, filling tho eyes of tho Americans. t. nlliirliiir face: flesh like dull Hfild, made wonderful by the faintest tints It ripe fruit ; eyes tnnt couiu men nnd burn and laugh: a fragile flguro, but radiantly abloom, nnd as worthily draped as a young palm in a vino richly blossom ing. Such, vaguely, was Soronia. She made one think of a strange, regal flower, an exierlmcnt of Nature, wrought In the most sumptuous shadow of a tropic gar den. She wns gone. Breen's fnco bore n urained look. "An orchid?" ho whinnered. "Will tin visitation be repented? Do I wake or sleep t" "Old Pcro Hnbenut married n French woman." Constable observed. "Somo Daphno of the Islands, she must have been, since Pero Rabenut does not seem designed to father n sunrise." It rppn added, his eyes lost In the shndows of the court, from whence the bird sonirs rnme. Pore Rabenut wns n worthy soldier ot i' ranee, i hnve henrd," snld Constnble. "I unvo never seen tho mother, but everv yenr I hnve seen Soronln for n moment like this. Sho wns but a child when I camo first five years Ago but a rndlmit child even then." "Five years ngo," Breen mused. "Five years ngo I hnd not ceased to paint. I should hnvo put her on canvas." Thcro wns n moment of nllpnrp. Mipii Constable snid In a low voice, "I must go oncK. -loll mo tho shorter wny." "Peter, you nro n man. nnd she n worn an. Forgive mo, but I know what has sprung Into your henrt in the nnst twentv four hours from tho seeds that hnve been there five yenrs. Tell her tell her nil about those fivo yenrs nnd the ono day whnt they have mennt to you. and your dream of the future. If you tell her mightily enough, she will follow you to tho Madame, and cast no longing look be hind 1 Ishall stay hero for nn hour or two." Constnblo left tho shon. He wns vcm miserable, full of undirected wrath. Nev er In his life before hnd there been n time when a stiff shoulder, dollars, nn nth letlc mind, or nil three, hnd failed entirely to move an obstaclo In his wny. Here ho was ground by Impotence absolute. Tho suggestion of Breen entailed such a deep and vital thing that he dared not think of it, hero in tho glaring day, with tho pant ing crowd about him. It was against tho very structure of his mind to act preclpi tately in this, of all matters, most deli cate. It is true that he meant now to win Lara Stansbury, If such a stntely citadel lay within range of a man of his caliber; but he had vouchsafed to strike only after a flawless Investment were laid. Breen did not return for luncheon, and the name of Pclco was not henrd. In his room, nfterwnrd, Constnblo fell asleep, with his face to the north. He awoke out of a horrid dream, in which black fingers were tightening, like a gnrrote, upon his throat. It was the ash and sulphur fumes again. Peleo was obscur ed by the fresh fog. Instnntly, upon awakening, the old thoughts and dreads resumed their hnteful swing in his brain The sight of the Madame, lying out in tho harbor, her needle-boom pointed like a black, fleshless finger across the smoky sunset, whipped him ngnin to the sense of nctlon which hnd no means of expres sion. Thoughts of the night the locked doors, the still hnlls, tho wall of chll dren from the native cabins, sleeplessness without hope, vigilance without meaning, and this new master-romance shining far and bright nnd nlonc, like a brave star above wind-hurled clouds out of these were moulded thoughts of little mercy, as the shadows grew long upon the whiten ing lawn. ' Pelce's- moods were variable that after noon. The twilight brought ease again, and with the old freshness of evening came a glad hour of reaction. There wns a rippling wave of merriment frjin the darky quartets, and' a Bcore of chtl.li-en went blithely forth tobatho In the sea. Never before was the volatile tropic eoul so imperiously. evldcneed-rsimplo hearts which clow nt little things, whose swift tragedies come and 'go like blighting winds, which slay but leave no wound. Constnblo was ashamed for the mo ment. Throughout the- day his eyesr.had fixed in stubborn gloom upon a cataclysm. Up tho stairway, afrlly as laughter, curae a bright melody from the plnno, 'lie was thrilled, nnd held, and his mind was stir red with tenderness. She was like hVr island people, quick to enter the groves of serenity when the binck clou J had blown by. Could Breen be- light? lie thought. The suggestion appealed to him now in a new high-light. Were there not some words which had never jet found tho ears of woman front the Hps of man some key to Instant supremacy In the undiscovered country of a lovely woman's nature? ' (To be continued.) 3Ien! MnltlM. "Men's maids, yew," wild nn employ ment agent. "There are moro of them than of men'H men or valets. Visit tho fuHliionable hotels of California, Flor ida, the Riviera. Egypt, and as you pass open bedroom doors of a morning or mi afternoon, what do you see? Maids changing the studs In evening fihlrtu, pressing trousers with patent alcohol Irons, brushing coats and put ting fresh laces In bootB. Tho average well-to-do couple the couple that can afford the best winter and sumjner re sorts travel with a maid, but not with a maid and a valet, for, after all, a vnlet is very expensive, and his duties occupy only a few hours a day, and a nmld can get through all of them Just as well ns not.. So the average lady's maid Is a mnn's mnid as well maid to the wife, valet to tho husband. She likes her latter duties. They nrc, you see, simple and easy, and they draw forth tho most generous tips." New York Press. Uxe No Hook. Yon mnniy breast, O maid, on which yo.. leaij, Though It may harbor nothing baso 01 mean, Ah, lean upon it lightly, for who knpwa What frail cigars may nestlo there un seen. Puck. AiiiI'Ikuoiiw, "I would llko to sco moro moving verso from your pen," paid tho ad mlrcr. "Do you mean something pathetic," asked tho poet, "or somotlilng aliout springtime moves?" Kansas City Times. ' I"or I Very- Own. There's ono thing that seems to mo funny, When tJio state of a bank becomes runny, You'ro supposed to go back And sit down. It's a fact Tliey get mad If you ask for your money f-Ldppincott's. To Mnko Poor Fnrm Hloli. "The progressive farmer rotates his crops. He tile-drains his Innd. no keeps dairy cows or mutton sheep or both. IIo breeds draft horses and does farm work with brood mares and grow Ing colts. Ho Improves tho power of tho soil by growing legumes." James Wilson, secretary of agrlcul ture, In the nbove words sums up tho vital nrlnclnles of cood farming. IIo declares that the peoplo of the United States have wasted their Inheritance of land and wood, and the productiveness of tho Boll near the great centers of population litis steadily decreased. Wo havo been a nation of soli robbers, but thcro is nt last an awakening alow but sure. Fanners of all sections are wanting to know how to stop tho lenks and In crease tho dejwslts of their business and tho government Is helping them In ninny ways. There are over 0,000 persons employed In tho Department of Agrl culturo nnd 2,000 of these are scientists, all working Intelligently toward help ing tho farmer solve tho probloms which confronts him. Thcro nro sixty fivo land grant colleges with 10,000 stu dents In agriculture. These boys nro learning that rotation of crops is neces sary, that live stock must be raised to muko manure, of which thcro is never onougli. They aro finding out that young grasses nnd legumes nro nature's per feet ration for domestic animals. Milk nnd ment and work nro hnd more :heaply from tho pasture than from other sources. Pasture land Increases hb farm hcln becomes scarce. Mutton sheep are suggested when Inbor Is dear. Cultivated crops reduce organic matter In tlie soil nnd render It unfit for profit able growing. Pasturing replaces or canlc inntter. When cood crops of grain or roots aro wanted tho pasturo, Plowed and reduced in Beason, Is tho best place to get them. Western fann ers In tho corn belt get their heavy crops from pasturo land. With the help of improved mnchlnery tho progressive individual farmer Is producing much moro thnn the a vertigo farmer did a generation ngo and men of :hls class are keeping up tho productive lualltes of their farmB. The neglected lands of tho eastern and middle states can bo brought back to their primitive frultfulness through tho aid of scientific farming. Secre tary Wilson says they are tho cheapest land In tho country nnd people wanting homes who have saved n littlo capital from their earnings or young men of nienns nnd tastes for the Independent life of the country will find rich oppor tunities In- these lands for profit and usefulness. , llomovlnB Snjllnn nnd Slump. In uprooting young trees a team of horses or even a single horse with a chain can do effective work. Best re sults can bo obtained where the growth consists of saplings two to rour Inches In diameter and where tho root system Is lateral. Tho plan Is to fasten one end of tho chain to tho. trunk ns high above tho ground ns tho flexibility of STUMP WITH LATEHAI. ItOOTS. Ul'BOOTINO A BAl'UMO. tho treo will permit. While tho horses aro pulling nt the tree a man should sever tho roots ut the babe. Stumps of modcrato slzo may also bo pulled with chains and horses. Ono end of tfio chain should bo fastened around a large root as shown In tho illustration. By Placing tho chain across tho top of tho stump a loverago can bo secured to fako full ndyantago of tho strength of tho horses. nellevc In Mixed Farmluir, I firmly bellovo lu mixed farming, but oven then wo must specialize on somo certain lino of stock feeding and rota tion of crops If wo mako a decided suc cess of tho business. Cull It general farming, but let's not call It mlxod farming. As grandfather used to say, "Bo something. If you cannot bo a long- tailed rat, bo a mouse." Havo somo hobby, somo kind of a crop or somo kind of live stock and speclallzo on that and mako your other farming subservi ent to that ono special crop or kind of Jlvo stock feeding. Wo havo too many common mixed farmers. John O. Barnes, Indiana. rnm Pout RxeiiBt An annual fenco post bill of mora than $1,250,000 Is one Jtem in tho ox nonso nccount of iho fanners of a hIii glo agricultural State. It Is estimated that tho farmers of Iowa use posts nav Ing a value exceeding tills enormous sum ench yenr to maintain Iho fences on tho 25,000,000 acres of Improved Intiil Iu the State, Iu milking theso estlmntes, II. P. Baker, professor of forestry In Iowa Stato Agricultural College, figured that the farms of Iowa required 78,000,000 posts for fences, or 2,000 to tho squaro mile. Placing tho value of tho posts at 15 cents each, tho cost of renowals ov ery eight or nltio years, which Is tho life of tho post, Is $11,718,000, malting an annual bill for renewals of $1,-105, 000. Like many other farming States, Iowa hns a lack of fence post material, but there Is littlo excuso for this con dltlon, according to tho foresters who have mndu studies lu tho State. A prop erly managed forest plantation will produce, when tho trees havo reached post slzo, .1,500 posts three to fivo Inches In diameter per acre; thus, It would take 22.350 acres nbout every ten years to grow tho necessary posts to supply tho State. Iowa Is said to have 200, 000 acres of planted timber, and yet tho fence post supply Is Insulllclent. If projerly cared for, many of theso plnn tntlons can bo made to produce moro timber, and tints lustiro tho futuro post supply. Theso 200,000 acres aro not at prosont furnishing tho posts which It Is est! mnted can actually bo grown on 22,350 acres of properly handled forest land KfTooU ot Itural Delivery, There Is a veritable network of rural routes out of nearly all of the towns lu this section of tho State, and seldom does one find a farmer who Is not placed In a position to take advantago of one. With present conditions exist ing, tho mail on tho farm has tho op portunity to take his dally paper as tho ono lu town, and gets his mall some times earlier than many of tho resi dents of tho cities. Thcro aro rural mall carriers and rural mall carriers each one hns his striking characteris tic. Tho majority are favorites In their particular field, nnd as a rule the patrotiB of his route would not trndo him for any other man on tut' other. Tho carrier -and tho farmer learn to know eacli other, and tho coun try visitor on hearing them greet each other would sny they wuro both "good fellows." Tho man that carries tho mall should havo a whole lot of credit He Is obliged to mako tho trip lu nil kinds of weather and tho best of pro tections will not make tho Job'un en joyable one. Some time when he Is not busy, let tho reader talk n few min utes to a rural mall carrier and ho will find that he Is In touch with ov- cryono on tho route. Bloomlugton (111.) Paiitagraph. Cnttlo Have Hitlilc. Following tho attack of n mad dog on his stock, LouIb Klein, a fanner near Pralrletown, has had to kill three head of cattle and four hogs which had become Infected with rabies. The mem bers of the family noticed that tho dog acted peculiarly, hut did not suspect that It was mad until too late. After the dog had bitten tho stock It was killed by Klein, who feared that It would attack the members of his fam ily. St. Inils Globe-Democrat. Kliclitlfitr tho I'oluto Hcnh. Potato scab Is a fungus growth. It may be In tho soli or It may bo In tho seed. Plant seed that Is free from scab on soil where no scabby potatoes havo been grown for years. A preventive Is to soak the seed In a solution of corro sive sublimate and water, two ounces of the corrosive sublimate to fifty gal lons of water. Soak the seed one and one-half hours. Do not leave scabby potatoes lying on tho ground or put them In the cellar. Salt I'urlflcntlon, Salt Is purified by melting In tho now nnd rnpld English process. Tho crude rock salt Is fed automatically to ti tnblo contained In a largo furnaco, Is then fused and runs Into trougliB, from which It is drawn at ono side of tho furnaco Into largo caldrons. Air Is forced Into tho molten mass nnd llmo Is added. Tho Impurities sink to tho bottom, and the upper portion Is irround and screened while tho lowor part Is used for chemical manure. (irlnd tliu Corn for tho Ilornua, Com and oats should bo eromifi in. getlier for horses. Many good horse. mon never recti whole corn. Somo horses cannot digest It projierly, but when It Is ground with oats tho mix ture makes ono-of tho best rations for a work team, especially when dolnc heavy work. Nearly all tho largo trans portation companies In tho cltlea novcr feed whole corn. A Hopuruior for ISIulu vutva. A correspondent asked If It would pay to buy a separator for n hord of eight cows. Yes, by all means. It will not only pay for Itself every year lit tho amount of cream savod, hut tho milk Is bettor when fed wann from tho senarator. to tho young animals. Tho man who doos not uso a cream senarator is sufferlnc- n largo loss overy month, Murder Ovor w Lino Konoo, In a quarrel over a lino fenco non Broken Bow. Nob., Stewart Lantormnn killed II. F, Hoffman nnd bin noil George, by cracking thoir skulls with n npekyoko. It Is possible that moro mur ders havo boon committed nvnr linn fenco disputes than over any other thou. Die that arises botween farmers, mmm. i i i ii ii i nun ii i i mi i in IMS-Earl of Dougln, killed and Mi oSir:n W lC2t-CortM retook tll0 City ot M.,t "TOSS? 1087 Prince Clmrles of t., 1768-Tlio ;Nor London BmtBU. t published nt New Umlon, CJ' 1778 Fort lloonmboronth Idtc'I CanndlAM ntu! Indiam fleet dispersed In a nt Island. 1782 British evacuated SaTunnib. .' 1787 First bMiop appointed la Si Scotln, 17lW-Poles defeated the Vtwku battle of Wllna.,..Ikttieof H gnrde, Iwtwecn tho French ud w Isli. v 180.1 Agra token by the IlrltliJ. 1800 Mlrnn.Ia abandoned hli coon on tho SpanM Main and wIW t Artiba. 1807 Trial trip of Kulton'i tftufaj "Clermont" wns made. , 1811 Tho British took jxaseMlonolk tavln nnd n jiart of Java. , 1812 The United States troop, J Oen. Hull evacuated Canadi tl a tered Detroit.... United Butt, nto Kksux captured the Alert, titbit vessel taken from the Hrittia h A War of 1812.... Gen. Eroding nt Ainlicnitburg to oppoit tie Irl Ion of On, Hull. ! 1814 First meetlnu of the Drltlil J tho American commwloatn Ghent, to trent for peace. 1820 Bltan Bonaparte, alster of XtJ loon, died 1822 An earthquake devastated i lirj part of Syria, 1820 Tho CVntcnnlnl of Ilaltlnmcti brntcd. , . . ItojnlliU came latopoi in Franco. 1831 Bnrbndocs wcpt by a tlolmtl rlcnne. 1810 The Smlthnonlan Iaitltst! founded nt Waalilncton, D. C. 1851 Litchfield, Conn., ctlebritrf 200th anniversary. 1800 Tho Prince of Wales vUIted CtJ lottetown, P. E. I. 1801 flcti. Lyon killed at ttrt bank Wilson's Creek, Mo. 1801 Twelve persons killed b; ta J plonlou on tho steamer "Racial" I Lake Krlo. . . .Fort (Jalnei at Mobj bay, surrendered to arrar fimnfpr. ono Tf...i.'. ti,,Um! Kttrtni Ut 1 imt u, ...... .tntn In (tin pflnltol at WuhlliriOtL iot n...in dnnrtlnttd (Ci AOIV tuainuiu iimm rr' m ... ... L . tnnnder-ln-clilet pi me ttMm In llm tvnr with Prtiuift. 1 1887 Hnwnll ndoptod a new com! tion. I 18SS William C. Van Home Sir Oeorge Stephens as prww rn,,.llnn Pnrlfic nllffif Speaker of tlie iiouse m 189i-Congres passed die Brlce-Gorsl tnrlff bill. I 18D7 Hon. Wilfrid Laurltr, Ci premier, roccivea is - - j LeBlon of Honor from the ftt 1808 Spanish surrendered Manila ' ABrtain...vli-BS hostilities between wo v nnu mmm. 1800 Second court martial cl W W fun begun at Itennes. J 1007-OpcnlnK of tho MM pornntoConKnatCan.Wf.e,B i Unvom nerso MS 1 explosion of nitro glycerine f town of 1-i.sex Center, un- Tho "urenu of L.r of heJ coverii.K " "fronfl Illl'Ilt of a report coverii.K .Jm to 1007 spite of lnat six most lines t two on.. , : . From tins u t'i"" - .1 j the financial dep'l t warn M'f. H nioiuns, i"-" vMm . m the close of the Jtm nt tho berinnlng. TViM nil commodities decrease ,j over ono point for Wyri snlo prlco nvernRO reached a per com. if- - ' nA for I""1 1 food. 5.0 for clothing, for notnlH, 4J 'Vlf anil o tor me n"- - " "" .J7w A Powderloss 0 '"'. The latest sensation m mM mechanical invention or a nowi' , mnu' Klin, wnivii ' - of tit' m vcntiou of William, P A j It is urea oy 7 v;. ff(j, cr-i is to It Is a M J ' jeaH it. tl.o inventor fiettlni? tl jtju a biff Ay wl,cel UU nd then Ml gin to pour out In 0 0,,u ti
