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The Pirate of RUPERTSARGENT l&StaiF HOLLAND Author of "The Count at Harvard, etc. Copyrlcht, 1008, by J. D. Lipplncott Company. All rlshts reserved. 6 OIIAPTEU V. , Three days passed before anything fur ther happened to disturb my equanimity of mind, and I was petting back to my accustomed serene outlook on the beach when at dinner I found a tiny note lying at my plate. Charles frequently stopped at the Penguin Club on his way from marketing, to see if by chance any mall had lodged there for me. This time he had discovered the diminutive missive aforesaid tucked into the bos that was reserved for me, and which usually con taiued only the dally papers. The en velope was square and of a delicate shade between violet and gray, and my name was written on It in a fine, bold band. Inside was a silicic sheet. "My Dear Mr, Pirate or Hermit (which ever you are) : "I shall visit the Ship Friday after noon when the tide is low." There was no name, not even a bare initial. I looked at my calendar I was apt to forget the days of the week and found that It was already Friday. I folded up the note and put It in my pocket, Hardly knowing whether to be vexed or pleased. The truth of the matter is that I fjttni :rlWg Miss Graham's last visit disconcerting, It seemed absurd, but she had in some strange manner changed the tone of the beach. Instead of being a place for calm, solitary musing, it had assumed the as pect of a spot made for company. 1 uau never before felt the need of pointing out tho pink shades of the sands and the golden crests of the rolling combers, nor of requiring another's admiration of the circling gulls. Now 1 did, and the result was that the more beautiful the beach, the more restless was I, and this did not suit me at all. I was not so dull as to miss the cause of this change, and that was the reason why the note both vexed and pleased me. I was vexed that I should be glad, and yet glad that I was in the way of being further vexed. I looked at the barometer after din ner: it was falling. I glanced at the sky: it was still a deep, dome-like blue, but there were clouds stealing across it that betokened storm. The wind was veering into the northeast; we might have bad weather at 'a moment's notice. At the appointed time I went up the beach and clambered aboard the ship. There was no one on board. I descend ed into the cabin: that was empty. I climbed the stairs, and, coming again on deck, saw Miss Graham starting across the causeway. It was low tide, and the path was above water, covered with shells and barnacles. I threw 07er a rope-ladder that I had made and hung at the side, and helped her on boarJ. She had on a soft, white lace hat that drop ped at the edges and looked delightfully , summery. Her gown was white; indeed, the only color she wore was a sold chain and locket that hung low about her neck. She pointed proudly to her stout tan walking-shoes. "I am wiser to-day," she said; "much more of a sea-woman." I had thought once before that I hal tasteS fully the sense of exploration of the Ship, but now I found that I had not. Like two inquisitive children play ing at being explorers, we ransacked very corner of the cabin, thumping the boards for secret hiding-places, peering Into the dim recesses of the bunks. She opened the brass-bound chest. "There was nothing found in it?" she asked. "Nothing." "It seems a shame. How are we ever to find the clue if not In the chest?" "We must look for it out of doors," I said. "Perhaps if we wish hard enough, the spirits of the old rovers will come back." So I took cushions that lay with my painting things and made her a seat on deck, and 1 lighted my pipe, and told her all I bad dreamed about the Ship, and how I was sure, if we only had sufficient faith, that a man would come out of the sea to sail her again and bring her as fine adventures as any she bad known. "How different you are from most of the men I have met I" she said. "Now, you seem quite in your setting. ' It al most makes me doubt that I'm only six hours from town." "You're not, you're a thousand miles from town, In another world, In another ephere. We dou't talk the language of town out here on the Ship; we talk a different tongue." She shifted so that she could look over the, sea, her chin still propped in her hand. "Talk that tongue," she said In that little tone of command peculiar to her, I talked of the sea and ships, of treas ures hidden under the waves, of derelicts that floated for years without being sighted, of the Ancient Mariner and the Flying Dutchman and all the thousand and one legends of ghost ships and their crews. Meanwhile I watched her, took In the dreamy lustre of her eyes gray that shaded to blue the soft brown color of ber cheeks and brow, the curling gold of her hair beneath her big white hat, and the delicate little hand that pillowed her chin. I noted the locket, oval and flat, with her iultials B. G. Jntertwined, and the heavy gold links of the chain that softly stirred with her even breaths. She was a child listening to world-old stories, but I knew she was also a woman who had come to chango Alostalr. I stopped, and for a time we both sat silent, while the benediction of that glo rious afternoon rested upon our spirits. There seemed no limitation to the world. The sea strotched out far past tho Shift ing Sboal and melted into the sky, and that in turn rose immeasurably high. Only the white clouds flecked the deep blue, casting patches of shade, silver tipped, upon the waves, and that gars us the lure of contrast. . jkrbari' looked up I think It was then that t first called her Barbara to myself and over at me. "The world Itself is so much more wonderful than anything It contains, and tho beauty of it all so much greater than any single beauty. Isn't It?" I could not agree, looking Into her deep, serious eyes, so I heTd my peace. "Why is it, I wonder, that we only think these things, Only really live, so rarely?" There was something in her words that made me hope; they seemed to say that sho had often felt thus. "One exists so much, but lives so lit tie," I said; "but I could imagine circum stances when one would be always liv ing." Her eyes changed, the depths In them vanished, there lay only the surface light that mocked me. "One?" she echoed. "Two," I answered. The moment of thought was over; sho had changed ns swiftly as the shadow of one of those clouds flying beneath the sun. "You are a great dreamer," she said. Are you-also a man of action, I won der?" "Give me the chance." "Give you the chance? Men of action don't wait for the chance; they make it. "If I were Canute, I would order the tide to come in." The red blood flushed her cheeks, her eyelids dropped. I forget everything but the picture that she made the loveliest picture that I had ever seen or dreamed, Next moment she sprang up. "But the tide is still out," she said, "and all your wishes will not bring it In. I must be going home." I was up and standing besldeher, lean ing on the bulwark. "But you will come again? You'll come again to the Ship and take tea with me, or take supper on the Ship? When will it be?" "Walt; not for a day or two." She crossed the deck, and, drawing out a small handkerchief, held it to the breeze. "The wind Is from the northeast," she said. "That means a storm. We may have to wait many days." "Several, not many," I answered. She gave a little cry; the handkerchief had blown from her hand and over to the shore. "Get it for me," she said. The inland sea was low; I recovered the handkerchief and came back, to find her half way across the causeway. "Thank you. This is the second way you devised of leaving the ship on foot." "But it's not the best way,"I answered. I went with her to the great gate of the club and said good-night. "Oh !" said she. "We forgot and left the cushions lying on the deck. It may rain. A good sailor should make things tight." "I will," I assured her. A storm was certainly coming; It sang in the boughs of the pines as I hurried through them, It grew in the gathering clouds that bid the beach, it roared in the loud waves that threw themselves on the shore. I crossed the mussel-backed path, and climbed on the ship. As I picked up the cushions something slid from them on to the deck. It was a locket, the locket she had worn on the chain about her .neck, and it lay open, face upward, looking nt me. I saw a small, round photograph of Rodney Islip. CHAPTER VI. There was no mistaking those fea tures; they belonged as unquestionably to the man In tweeds as did the locket to Barbara Graham. Moreover, the photo graph did him justice, and showed an ex tremely preposessing, slightly smiling face, and that I considered added insult to the Injury. I snapped tho locket together and put It in my breast pocket; then I hurled the cushions down the cabin-steps, pulled over the hatches, and left the Ship. I was in a very different humor from that of an hour before. All the way down the beach I pondered the matter. How came the locket to have dropped from the chain, how came it to have fallen open when the catch seemed so strong? But these were petty, trivial questions, the merest Introductions to the great, all-absorbing question how came Rodney Isllp's picture there? Alas, there seemed only one plausible explanation, and I remembered the slight air of proprietorship, the amused smile 'as though at some hidden joke, that had struck me when Islip had come upon us drinking tea. So they were in all like lihood to be married, and I a poor joke that had been batted back and forth like a shuttlecock between them, I tried to laugh as one should who sees a clown, head in air, stumblo over a broomstick, but the laugh was not even a passable Imitation. The storm was coming, and I was glad of It. I wanted no more of this fine weather when a man was led to lapse into rose-colored dreams and fancy himself a prince with the world as his realm. The rain began to spin against my face. The storm was coming fast, mid the waves barked angrily at my feet, like hounds yelping. But I would not run, I would not even turn up my coat-collar to keep off the wet; I would walk stolidly and let myself be soaked, for the poor-muddle-brained idiot that I was. But what of her? Barbara Graham looked to me like a consummate flirt, playing with me when she was a trifle weary of the company of her accredited admirer. I knew that women sometimes did such things; I did not consider that she was the worst of her sex, but merely a striking instance of the sex's Insincerity. Yet she had looked like a child, as guile less as a maid In short skirts and braid ed hair, when he had watched the- sea, and then I remembered those sadden flashing changes witch 'the imp of s'Sbtlo nitschlofjrflmd danced In her blue-gray eyes. 'Tshe was Just a bundle of mlschlef.v to whom n now man wna simply so ratifHfU Bport. act I envied inilp witn nil strength of my henrt, which shows how: . , i . ivl... ' T Hiruugi'iy iiiconsisicuc i mm f;rinvi. Charles had foreseen the storm and had made things tight nbout the cottajo; moreover, he had built a firo in tho living-room, which was also the dining-room, to take tho chill out of the rapidly damp ening air. Ordinarily, I would havo been glnd to got in and change into dry clothes and stnnd In front of the firo, snug and comfortable,. but now I was ns much out of sorts as though the cottage had been a house of cards and had suddenly turn bled down about my head. Poor Charles 1 no was soon to feel tho rawness of my temper. I had no sooner closed the door thnn I called to him to get Into his oilskins and go to McCullom's with an order to him to havo .my horso at tho back door by 8. "Yes. Mr. Felix," said Charles. "It's going to be a bad night, sir, asking your pardon." "I'm going to the Penguin Club, Charles," I answered, "and I don't caro If the heavens fall on tho way. "Yes, sir, very good, sir;" and Charles departed, wondering, doubtless, at tho stranco new master he had found. He knew what I thought of tho Penguin. I changed into my storm clothes heavy riding breeches, with a leather jacket that buttoned up to my chin. put the locket in a little pasteboard box and placed it In an inside pocket. Doubt less Miss Graham valued that small gold oval trinket with her monogram woven on the outsldo and her lover ensconced inside, and she should not have to wait until the storm passed to learn that she had not lost It. It would do no harm for her to bo disturbed for a few hours: then I would end it. Charles came back and said that Nero would be around at 8. I had supper in silent state, nnd then sank into gloomy thoucht before the fire. Confound mo for being such a simple, gullible fool, I who had scarcely laid eyes on a woman before nt Alastair! That was the trou ble with the affair. In town I should have been prejwred, properly gyved and breast-plated, but here she had' como up on mo in my own natural wilderness, on my own simple beach, In my Ship of day dreams, where everything was s free and open as the sea. Charles eyed mo -askance as I pulled my oilskin hat about my ears nnd vault ed upon Nero Even the poor beast must havo looked at me suspiciously, for this was no night for ridin? on any simple errand. I must be the bearer of tidings, a figure stepped out of a rough-and-tum ble story. Had I only known how that night was to carry me far afield, and how that ride be the first swift gallop in to a strange and swirling enterprise! The pines shot their water Into my face as I galloped along the narrow road. Tho sandy footing gave now and again, and I had to let Nero's instinct save us fiom foundering in the bogs which tho heavy rain wns making of tho country. The night was black ns pitch; the wind, risen to a hurricane, screeched through the forest In a thousand varied voices, each more harsh and ominous than the last. Several times, riding out from tho middle of the road, wet branches driven by the gale flung themselves against mo and nlmost thudded me from my horse. I crouched low, bending forward for safe ty and that I might peer Into the murky blackness of the road. Several times Nero stumbled and I almost pitched over his head. fhp lii-htd nt the crate of the club were out; they were evidently not expecting visitors. I rode iSero to the stables, left him with n groom, and strode into tho club's main hall. I must have presented a sorry spectacle; ray tight-buttoned leather jacket, my riding-breeches and boots, all soaked nnd running with water, my hair and face dripping when I took off my oilskin hat that buckled under my chin. "Take my name to Miss Graham,' I said to the 'clerk at the desk, nnd he rec ognized me and sent a buttons to find her. "Miss Graham is in the sun-pnrlor on the porch to the right of thq main-door," reported the buttons, "and says she will see you there." (To be continued.) Not the Salary hut the Opportunity. "If the laborer' gets no more thun the wnges his employer offers him, he la cheated; he clients himself." It Is said that Bismarck really founded the German Empire when working for n smnll salary ns secre tary to the German legation in Russia ; for in that position he absorbed tho secrets of strategy and diplomacy which Inter were uhm! so effectively for his country. He worked so assiduous ly, so efficiently, that Germany prized his services more ttian those or tne ambassador himself. If Bismarck had earned only his salary, he might have remained a perpetual clerk and Ger many a tangle of petty states. I have nover known nn employe to rise rapidly, or even to get beyond me diocrity, whoso pay envelope was hla goal, who could not see Infinitely more In his work than what he found In the envelope on Saturday night. That Js a mere Incident, a necessity, but tho larger part of Jhe, real pay of a man's work Is outside of the pay envelope. One part of this outside salary Is tho opportunity of the employe to ab sorb the secrets of his employer's sue- cess, nnd to learn from his mistakes, while he Js being paid for learning his trade or profession. The other part, and the best of all, Is tho opportunity for growth, for development, for men tal expansion; the opportunity to be- como a larger, broader, moro efllclont man. Orison Swett Harden, In Sue. cess Magazine, The Lust "Word, She And do you bellevo that a wom an always turns to tho last page first when she picks up a hook7 Ho Well, havo no reason to doubt It. I know It Is the nature of tho fair sex to want the last work. PlckiMe-UD. Hoof on IMank Frnme. Tho sort of frame hero pictured Is called tho plank system and 1b a hip roof braced from tho sill nnd plates without post. Tho Bkotch explains it self, but to mako certain that no mis tako will occur a key to tho numbers Is given. No. 1 Is tho main Bldo post buodt of two pieces of 2 in. x 8 In.; No. 2, purllno post built of two pieces 2 In. x 8 in.; No. 3, purllno roof sup port, ono pleco 2 in. x 8 in. 10 In.; No. 4, main tie. ono piece, 2 In. x 8 In.; No. 5, sub-support, ono piece, 2 In. x C In.; No. G, stay, two pieces, 2 ft. x 4 In.; No. 7. tie. 2 In. x 8 In., or 2 In. x G In.; No. 8, strut, 2 In. x G Id.; No. 9, sill or main cross tie, two pieces, 2 In. x 8 In.; No. 10, lino showing pitch of roof; No. 11, main plate, two pieces top pleco, ono piece 2 In. x 10 In., and side piece, 2 In. x 8 In.; No. 12, purllno plate, two pieces, 2 In. x 8 In.; No. 13, collar tie, 2 In. x 10 In., or 12 in. Dry I'otatoea for Food. CohbuI Frank S. Hannah sends a re port to tho Department of Commerce and Labor relative to some recent ex periments In tho drying of potatoes under tho auspices of tho German Im perial Interior Department, which may offer a now field for farmers. The potatoes are reduced by this proc ess to about one-quarter of their orig inal weight, and can bo kept In a good condition in this compressed form for an indefinite length of time. Tho military authorities havo made thorough experiments with this prod uct and have become convinced that Its nutritious value Is fully equal to that of corn, and that the dried pota toes can take tho place of one-third of the former ration of oats. Tho fact that the potatoes are reduced to one fourth of their original weight brings about a corresponding reduction in the price of freight, so that It will pay to grow more potatoes than has former ly been tho case. Michigan Farmer. The I'lnln Farmer, Speaking of farmers' Institutes, ono man says: "I would like to know what Is in tho mind of the working farmer in felt boots, who sits in the back seat." Ho adds: "A few people who are good talkers praise tho work, but what about the silent ones who listen and say nothing?" Tho Rural New Yorker, comment ing on these statements, says: "The. Institute speakers can not do any wiser thing than to learn how to en courage and keep just this class of farmers. The retired farmers and suc cessful men who make up a good share of the nudlenco aro well ablo to take caro of themselves. It Is pleas ant to entertain them, and their praiso gives a man a thrill of satis faction. It Is a truer service" to the State, however, to gain tho confidence of the plain farmer and help him." 1Ave Stock ami I'roperlty. Live stock Is the chief element of agricultural prosperity. It Is tho foun dation upon which both the pretent and future profits are established. Wo boast of our great wheat and corn crops, and wo havo a reason for so doing, but if we depend upon them alone we rob ourselves and our chil dren by selling off the fertility of tho soil with each yearns crop. For many years the soil will continue to yield their crops, but they will get poorer and finally fall unless they aro fed. How much bettor to mako your farm richer Instead of poorer; to get the benefits of tho Increased crops during your own lifetime and then leavo a rich and valuable farm to your chil dren after you havo done with It. Live stock will do it as nothing else can. Kansas Farmer. Tho Work Home In Hummer, Working horses from grass has nover been our way, although a great many do It and keep their teams In very good fix. When there Is only light work for a few days, our horses have tho run of good pasture when, not in the harness, but most of tho time they are in tho barn, whore they get grain and bright hay throe times a day, It seems to ua they are bettor able to stand hot weather when on a hay ration, with grain, than whon they get grain and green grass for their roughness, It probably does no moro harm to a horse to sweat than It does a person. It Is usually certain that when a horse is sweating freoly he Is taking no hurt, but a "grass sweat" tan be avoided by feeding hay lnaUi. Twentieth Century Fumor PLANK SYSTEM FRAME. rumirra Must Wnoh the Crosu In ordor to dotormlno what elements nf nlnnt food ard deficient In a soil. It Is necessary to carefully study tho growing crop. Many farmorB Boom to bo of tho opinion that a chemical hiialvsls of tho soil will show tho nmMint nf nlnnt food contained thoro In. This, howovor, Is a mistaken Idea. Tho chomlBt can only dotornyno ap proximately tho amount of nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash In n soil, without specifically showing what pro nortlon of tkeso olomontB can bo takon up by tho growing plant. A largo per centage of those olemonts is not avail able to plant food. Honco tho neces sity for them In an avallablo form. Wo must turn, thon, to tho crop, and hv wntrditntr It clOBOlv (luring ltfl growth and by a careful examination when matured, soo whothor tho soil Is doflclont In plant food and what ele ments are lacking. r-... nt HiiiHnix Kens Whon sitting tho hens In ordor to itonn the llco from bothoring tnom, tmnrt ntnn In to fill tho nCSt bOXOfl with wood shavings, profornbly thoso that havo somo odor about mora, l-o-dnr shavings aro cxcollont and so aro twlca. mid tho hens will appro- clato tho nest of such materials. Llco nro a groat drawback to a hen whon sho Is on tho neat, and many times they compel tho sitter to -leavo her nest whon sho doos not ucsiro, anu ir thoro Is anything tho poultryman can do to keep tho sitting hen comfortablo ho will bo amply repaid for It In the end. Tho shavings aro Inexpensive and aro easily dostroyed. Thoy do not pack hard In tho boxes rid nro qulto comfortablo for tho hen. Try somo of them whon sitting a hon nnd soo how usoful thoy really aro. Rural World. - A Olery Hvrar. Celery blight can bo 'controlled by spraying with nmmonlcal carbonato or conner. To mako this, dissolve 3 ounces copper carbonato In a pint of ammonia, and add 25 gallons of water. To mako copper carbonato, djssolvo 5 pounds copper sulphato (blue vltrol) In 5 gallons of wator, also 0 pounds carbonato of soda In G gallons of wator. Mix tho two solutions slowly, stirring well. Lot the mlxturo stand until next day to settle, after which Dour off tho liquid. Pour on 10 gal lons of wator, let stand until next dnv and repeat tho operation, after which strain and dry tt.o blue powder? which 1b tho copper carbonato. The Flavor of Mutter. It has been a generally accoptod theory among teachers and writers on dairy subjects that tho production of good butter necessitates tho develop ment of a certain amount of acid In tho cream, for two reasons to de velop a desirable flavor and to Jm provo tho keeping quality. Recent In vestigations by tho United States De partment of Agriculture Indicate, how ovor, that butter made from pnsteur Ized sweet cream has better keeping qualities nnd remains frco from ob jcctlonablo flavors for a longor time than butter made from sour cream, Dry Fnrnilnir Fruit. Dry farm fruit promises to yield an abundant crop this year In Colorado, according to B. II. Parsons, of Parkor, Colo., ono of the most successful dry farmers In that State. Mr. Parsons created much Interest in tho subject of fruit growing on non-Irrigated land when ho described his orchard In an address at tho third dry farming con gress at Choyenno, nnd has promised to send an exhibit of his dry farm horticultural products to tho Inter national exposition of dry farm prod ucts when th dry farming congress holds Its fourth session nt Billings, Mont, October 26, 27 and 28 noxt. Front in Sheep. Thero Is one thing tho farmer can not afford to overlook in. sheep rais ing, nnd that la thrift. Thrift means health, gain in quality, quantity and productiveness, tho olemonts out of which tho profits nro dorlvcd. It must bo the first object of tho owner to keep his sheep in thriving condition. Tho quality of tho wool, as well as the quantity, and the general product iveness of tho flock make this require ment imperative. Have Neuvo of Direction. Bees return to their hives In a di rect lino when they havo been carried away and liberated, up to two mllos. This has been supposed to bo duo either to tho sense of sight or of smell, but tho experiments of Gaston Donnicr havo proven that nolthcr sight nor smell can Korvo tho purpose and that bees have' a spcclnl "tjenso of direc tion." This sense Is not in tho anten nae. "When to Cut Orn for Hoy. OoodJiay can only bo made by cut ting tho grass as soon ns It Heads out, and clover ns soon ns tho heads nro In full bloom, It Is n mlstako to wait until tho heads turn brown. There Is nothing In tho theory that sunshine alone makes hay. Air Is as much a factor ns sunshine. Curing mainly In tho wlnrows and hay cocks Is now practiced by many of our best hay spo-, clallstB. . Hplceil Currants. Spiced currants mako nn excellent relish to sorvo with moatd. Allow to each ppund of tho fruit a pound of sugar, Make tho syrup in the pro portion of one pint of vinegar to each four pounds of sugar, two toaspoonfula each of mnco, cinnamon and allspice, a teaspoonful each of cloves nnd salt. When boiling add tho currant cook twenty minutes and put up In glasses tho samt at jelly, 4 ' My. leoH-Foundlng of the city of Qu.s by Samuel do Chamn L Qu'bi 1009-IIudson, on his first voya . j rived off thn .t,. 1 land. m "Woundl 1076-Now Jersey divided Into eJ nnd West Joraoy. 1 1091-Boston visited by It, sixth greal 1775-Wllllam Ewcn became pro.Idenl nf nj.ni-n.ln 1W--1 . . ""'Utnl V'"" """"Won arrive! m, AZ V. . . M """nana wsw wuiiwwuuuii army, 1 TTl St. ! i vu.mncmni congress adoptei Loos resolution of Independent and it was proclaimed two day 1777 TIIll.l. . .... ..t.o ,u,wu under iiurgoynob6l . uw iiivt-nimcnt or Tlconderoi 1807 President Jefferson I.,,. proclamation forbidding nil inter tuul wiui unusn thing of war 1812Amorlcan frigate Ksaex taliJ from New York on a cruise amir. J tlio Jrltlsh. 1011 i ..,.. i.. ,i. . . . au.u , nautili miiuia uefMtfH tk British In battlo nt Craney Island in vuesapcaKo Hay. 1829 -Slllstrin surrendered to the Busj Biaiis. 18.; -Boston and Uuffalo wers con naciou uy loietrraph. 188 Convention at Utlca nominate! jvinrtin Vnn Huron for President tno united States, 1851 Large section of San Franchcl ucstroyou by fire. 185C Tho . :lslaturo of Kansas md nt Fnwnco and organised. I860 M. Llondln first dossed Nlararl Fails on n llRlit rope. 18C2 The Union Pacific Hallroad than tored by Congress, 18C3 Beginning of tho three days' bad tie of Gettysburg.... Qen. Bchend proclaimed mnrtlnl law In Daltlj more.... Second day of th battll of Gettysburg. 1864 Tho Federals were repulsed ll attacks upon tho wcldon rallro. In Virginiu. 1873PrInco Kdwnrd Island enterei tho Dominion of Canada, wltl Junius Colledgo Pope as the firs premier. 1881 President Garfield fatally shot) Charles J. Gultcuu. 1S8G Tho Indian chief Big Dear can tured In Canada. 1889 Nineteen persons killed In aeel dent on tho Norfolk and Westerf Railroad. 1893 British warship Victoria sunk! tho Camperdoi-n In collision Tripoli, with loss of 4SJ lives. , J The South Carolina liquor dlipeij sury law went Into effect. 1894 Opening of tho Tower Brtd ucross tho niver Thames at Loj don. 1895 Stntuo of Gen. James Buford si veiled at Gettysburg. 1897 Colobrntlon of Queen Victor! diamond jubilee. 1898 Spnr.lards made an unsuccesifj attempt to rotnko San Juan wl ....American troops ueiesicu m Knnnluh In hftttlO at ftl CfUiey.' American squadron destroyed tM Snanlsh fleet off Santiago. mnnniiHslan Imnerlnl ukass puUli od, abolishing In a large law-i banishment to Hiuena. 1904 Victor H. Metcalfo of CatlfornJ became sccrotnry of commen.. j 1908-MlllIon-dollar flro eJ3 houses nt Three Kiven, ....William If, Taft resigned Secretary of War. BODY PERFECTLY PETRI Not a Feature Changed n Buried irony von A frn. A. .rotnu murknblo cane ot 1-1.. t.na IllSt cone I tlon o light , BUCK ng . ". When known i men oi i,em. - j two months ago. hUM nbout I wna Hint 1110 ,,0"y.u.1. " P,!de b! bo exhumed ,med nnu w - - , Sevorai mays nB u.7" v,ars ti tosori, rt, burieu in dlBlntorrcd, was rcu' """"dtbattl of tho o conin n t was vi been petrWed. body had saw tho nbsoluto body were as to m p . lirollKClie- v. - - 0, . - . a fT I 1 1 D ' 1 a feature Una net-. " Vim dlsl years torred ago the body o - - J from m the ely pert found to havo been ,' ' u Iar ml find. It to thougnt i"-r MBttli oportloa ,g of tno w UUU l'l"v" 1 ttfA tho petrifactions. . "nTES. Tho proposed road from it. j Duluth Is M ft8SUrU J Veined i Tho St. St. Paul ronu by v into Yellowstone IJ W of the Yellowstone Paul roafl ? to- trance Park Railway, railway, reorganization . .nllrofl ns cm 'Phw lnt on " . .14 Croat WeBtorn UOUBiy pushed i. w ia,v.rhs w will be out 41.-1. tUU 111UW f th rclver lino