the Cldfashioned fire.
To steam heat the cities aspire
As they shiver and shake in the cold;
But give me the old-fashioned fire
The round, rosy backlog of old!
The warmth and the light
Of its flame, leaping bright
The drowsy-heads huddled around it at
night!
In the darkness the winter wind sighing
Made the flame take a ruddier glow;
The sparks up the- broad chimney fly
ing Like witch-eyes that gleamed in the
snow!
Oh, the warmth and the light
Of those red flames so bright.
And the, comfort and joy of the wild
winter night!
Far better that friendly old fire
Than buildings of simmering steam,
With never a flame to admire.
And never a beautiful dream!
i Oh, the love and the light
Where those flames danced so
bright,
And the old-fashioned joy of .the -ld-
fashioned night.
Atlanta Constitution.
X HIS RARE SKILL.
.tt. i. 1. .t..t"M-'i't-t-t' l"l 1 1 1 i !'
ACK GREEN was a reporter on
II a Liondon paper, and in that ca
pacity he solved the riddle of the
celebrated Sykes robbery case. The
story was printed from one end of the
country to the other, and it mado a
hero of Green, especially as he received
a slight wound from a stray bullet in
. the fracas that took place when Sykes
and his confederates were arrested.
His injury won him a month's vaca
tion, which he resolved to spend at his
hnmp in TCont Ashfnrfl wn n not n vprv
lively place In the winter, but Green
was not looking for recreation.
He wanted to see Ethel Watson, who
in his opinion, was the sweetest and
smartest girl in the world.
On the afternoon of his seventh day
in Ashford Green drove up to the. Wat
son house to take Ethel for a drive.
There had been a fine fall of snow the
night before. Ethel was standing by
the gate talking to Joe Sawyer, Mho
also was in love with her, but didn't
dare to say so openly. Joe was a law
yer, and the only one in Ashford who
had any practice.
"Hello, Sherlock Holmes!" said the
lawyer. "Have you heard the news?"
"No," answered Green, sourly.
' "I'm really surprised," said Sawyer.
' "You should have deducted it from the
Rtfl TA T fltmncnhora anil lt i t? rc
of potatoes." -
"I haven't," responded Green.
"Justice Hawkins' house has been
robbed," said Ethel, "and I think it's
positively providential that you're
here."
Green looked at Ethel and he saw
that she expected him to' perform great
miracles. . He looked at Sawyer and
saw something quite different.
"Get In here, both of yon," said
Green, "and we'll . see what we can
do." , .
They drove to the justice's house.
, The robbery had been discovered by
old Mrs. Gubbins, a lifelong dependent
ot tne judge's family, who - went
through the house three or four times
a week to see that all was well, but did
not live there. She had reported the
case to the local police a day and a
night watchman and these function
aries, were present, with a dozen of the
neighbors, when Green and his com
panions arrived. v
Green consulted his watch, and then
he slowly walked into the hall, where
the old-fashioned safe built into the
wail gaped emptily. He glanced around
with " listless eye, while everybody
watched him. Then he walked into the
parlor and stood for half a minute by
the mantelpiece.
From this room he passed . through
all the others in the house, a slow pro
cession following him. Finally he led
them to the startinsr noint. the hrn.irl
hall, and there he sat down npon the
stairs and looked at his watch, which
he had consulted occasionally in the
course of his stroll.
"Nineteen minutes and a half," said
Green. "Mr. Jones, I believe you are a
deputy sheriff of this county as well as
a constable of the village. I will make
my report to you, sir. This robbery
was committed by two ' men . who do
not live in Ashford, and who are not
here at present. Where they- are
we will consider later.
"One of them is about six feet tall
and rather slender. He has red hair,
but is bald on the front part of his
cranium. He wore a long black over
coat and heavy rubber overshoes. The
little finger of hfs right hand has been
broken and .is bent almost double.
"It may interest you to know how I
discovered this. The thief Is tall be
cause he bumped his head on the
swinging lamp in the parlor, and that
is about six feet from the floor. He
left upon it a small portion of his scalp
and one red hair. If he had not been
bald in front he would have left more
hair and less scalp. .
"The prints of his overshoes show in
the, dust on 'the floor of the kitchen
closet. The print of his little finger is
in the dust on top of that table, or was
before Joe Sawyer sat down on it."
"There wasn't any dust here not a
speck!" exclaimed Sawyer, jumping off
the table.
"It depends on the eye," responded
Green, calmly.'
"To continue: The other robber was
short, thick-set and dark. He wore a
pea Jacket and a fur cap. He had a
heavy black beard., which may, how
ever, be false. I cannot tell from the
single hair which I found upon a piece
of bread in the kitchen until I have
examined it with a microscope. He
was an Irishman."
"Great Scott r' exclaimed the con
stable. "How- do you know that?"
"From his method of knocking out
the ashes from his pipe," replied
Green, x "Irishmen have a peculiar way
of doing it. I have not time to expiain
in detail."
"The tall man walked on this side,"
said. Gre'en. "Mark the longer stride
and the prints of the overshoes. With
out doubt they walked across the mea
dows tOiChartham.and took the 7:10
train for London."
"Why not the 6:50 for Dover?" ask
ed Sawyer.
"Thieves with plunder always strike
ITALIAN ALPHABET
O.Y O.T
This quaint and interesting alphabet was selected and adapted from
Italian Mss. of the sixteenth century. The letters are well adapted for use
on table-linen, using this size for napkins and enlarging, any one .of the
letters for table cloths. Embroider in white cotton, making the solid parts
in satin stitch; and the light lines in cording stitch or outline them. The
monograms are suitable for towels, etc.. using blue embroidery cotton on blue
bordered towels and red embroidery cotton on red ones.
for the big cities," said Green. "Mr.
Jones, if you telegraph to London, giv
ing a description of the men and their
plunder, I think the police can catch
them for you before to-morrow morn
ing. Now, Ethel, if you're ready, we'll
go for a drive."
At 9 o'clock the next morning Jones
received this message from Scotland
Yard:
"Have your men. Description per
fect. Most of goods recovered. Will
send men in charge of Detective Cuff,
10 o'clock train."
"I'll give it up," said Joe Sawyer.
And he gnawed his knuckles till they
bled. Green walked away from the
station with Ethel, and a cheering mob
followed.
He got her into her own house ps
soon as he could, and there in the par
lor he faced her, red with shame.
"Ethel," said he, "I love you, and"
"And I love you," 6he answered,
"but I'm only a silly girl, and I'll never
be anything else. I haven't the mind
your wife should have "
"Don't! Don't!" he groaned. "Ethel,
I can't act this lie before you. I have
only been a lucky idiot in this affair,
as in that other in London" .
"Luck!" she cried. "Could luck tell
you that the robber carried a black bag
instead of a brown one "
"Child! . Child! I saw it!" moaned
Green. "I was sitting on a rock just
at the back of the judge's house when
those two thieves came out through
the yard. I heard one of them say
that they had time to walk to Chart
ham and catch the 7:10 train to Lon
don." "Jack," she cried, "you're a bigger
man than I thought you were. You're
a wonder!" and she flung her arms
around his neck. Indianapolis Sun.'
marconi's wireless station,
Where the Inventor Haa Been Con
ducting Experiments.
The wireless telegraph station at
Table Head, Glace Bay, near Sidney,
N. S., where Mr. Marconi has been con
ducting experiments with a view to
proving the possibility of sending mes
sages across the Atlantic, is altogether
different from those originally erected
for his first tests. At Signal Hill, New
foundland, where Marconi succeeded in
obtaining faint signals sent across the
ocean from the station at Poldhu, Corn
wall, the messages were received by-
means of a single wire sustained by
a kite, whose unsteadiness made it diffi
cult to obtain uniform results. One or
two balloons which he tried for the
same purpose escaped. Before the close
of 1901 a station was erected at Cape
Cod, Mass., consisting essentially of
a great circle ?f poles which were to
sustain the vertical wires but thejeon
struction was Inadequate and the poles
soon blew down. At Poldhu there was
also a circle of poles originally, but
this too met with a mishap. The sta
tions at Polhu and Cape Cod were
therefore remodelled, and the one at
Glace Bay has been constructed on the
same line, so that a description of one
will fit all three. '
As shown in the - illustration, the
structure consisted of four square
wooden towers, which stand about 21i
feet high. Each one is cross braced
with steel wire rope, and all four-are
connected with each other by diagonal
stays. Finally, to render the structure
still more rigid and wind-proof, stout
cables are run up over the tops of each
pair of towers on all sides, and secured
to anchorages in' the earth. -
From each ofvthe four horizontal
bridges which connect the tops of the
towers are suspended fifty copper ca
bles. The cables are composed of seven
MABCONI STATION AT GLACE BAY.
AND MONOGRAM.
e.A. N T.
strands, an eighth of an inch in diam
eter, tightly twisted together. Out
wardly these cables look like single
wires at a short distance, but In real
ity there are three hundred and fifty
wires on a side, or fourteen hundred In
all. - .
The fifty cables of each of he four
groups converge as they go downward
and terminate in the operating room
of the station.
WAYS OF WOMEN.
No Limit to Tyranny Some Will Stand
from Milliners.
There does not seem to be a limit
to. the tyranny which some women
will stand from milliners, modistes,
beautiflers, and other . autocrats of
that ilk. It is related of a very
grande dame who had just returned
from abroad to her New York home
that she visited her milliner in a day
or two wearing a creation in headgear
for which Bhe had paid a fabulous
sum in Paris. The milliner saw the
situation in a moment, and, being a
quick-witted person," resolved on in
stant action. "Take off that hat and
never put it on again,"v she said im
periously to her visitor, a woman
whose social power is almost without
I limit, "wnydo you say that?" she
asked, with a weak-kneed attempt to
assert ner dignity. "I met Mrs. Blank
this morning and she told me this ' hat
was very becoming." Quick .to seize
a point, the milliner answered calm
ly: "Just so. Mrs. Blank is no friend
of yours and would gladly see you
wear that hat" This was an idea that
had not occurred to madam, but it
took root at once, just as the milliner
was sure it would. The upshot was
that the hat was left to be made over,
madam taking a new one home, and
the milliner had still more firmly riv
eted the chain which bound her
patron.
The professional beautifier-is about
equally autocratic. For instance, a
noted complexion specialist who is
said to have "made over" Mrs. Fred
erick Vanderbilt accompanied that
wealthy woman to Florida last winfer
and kept her "under repair" there for
six weeks. It is understood that Mrs.
Vanderbilt saw no necessity for such
close attention, but the beautifier
thought otherwise and charged $10,
000 for her services. Another special
ist, by way of a vacation last summer,
sauntered through a few1 watering
places and picked up $6,000 before re
turning to her "studio" in New York.
Chicago Chronicle. -
Pigmy Camels of Persia.
The western part of Persia Is inhab
ited by a species of camel which is the
pigmy of its kind. These camels are
snow white, and are on that account
almost worshipped by the people. The
Shah presented the municipality of
Berlin with two of these , little won
ders. The . larger - Is twenty-seven
inches - high and weighs sixty-one
pounds.' The other is four inches less,
but the weight is not given.
Difference in Figures.
'You say he's a mathematician?"
"Yes."
"What kind?" -
"What kind! What do you mean by
that?" ' .
"Well, there are mathematical ma
thematicians and political mathemati
cians, and there is a great difference. 1
I want to know whether I can rely on
his figures." New York Times.
Examinations of the Air. j
Regular examinations of the air In
New York City are to be made to de- '
termine the- presence of bacteria, and
when dangerous germs are found to '
be prevalent the public will be warned
and steps will be .taken to head off the
disease. ' .
German Postal Stations.
The multiplication of railways has
not diminished the number of postal
stages In Germany. On the contrary,
the number of stage drivers rose from
5,176 to 1896 to 5,314 in 1900. -
Shortest Name Known.
G. Uz of Sargent, Mo., has possibly
the shortest surname on record.
Most bachelors idea of misery Is be
ing alone with a noisy baby.
BEStJME OF THE YEAH
1 902'S RECORD OF PROSPERITY
AND DISASTER.
There Have Been Volcanic Eruptions,
Wars, Conflagrations and Explo
. aiona Large Death Lists And Still
Times Have Been Good.
Though most of the civilized world has
enjoyed a continuance of the reign of mu
tual prosperity which began in 1001, it
is undeniable that the year 1902 has
made a woful record in the way of dis
aster and destruction of human life. The
eruption of Mount - Pelee, Martinique,
May 8, may be given pre-eminence us
the most disastrous occurrence of several
decades, and its destructive work was
supplemented by many costly conflagra
tions, especially during the early months
of the year,, and a number of deadly ex
plosions. Many noted persons have passed into
the beyond since Jan. 1, 1902, among
them being Cecil Rhodes, Rev. T. DeWitt
Talmage, Gen. Wade Hampton, Frank
It. Stockton, J, Sterling Morton, Sol
Smith Russell, Bret Harte, Rear Admiral
William T. Sampson, Lord Pauncefote,
'Jen. Franz Sigel, Edward Eggleaton,
Justice Horace Gray, Marie Heuriette,
Queen of Belgium; Emile Zola, Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Herr Krupp, Thomas B.
Reed and Mrs. U. S. Grant.
The year has seen Edward VII. crown
ed King of England, after a delay of sev
eral weeks beyond the date originally r.p
pointed, on account of a necessary sur
gical operation upon tlje royal person;
has witnessed the ending of the Boer
war in South Africa, and the beginning
of an international disagreement . in
which Venezuela, South Africa, is the
storm center; during its last month that
great engineering work, the Nile dam
at Assouan, has been opened; it has given
Cuba its first President under the new
regime; and will be remembered also as
the year during which occurred the ex
tensive labor troubles in the Pennsylva
nia anthracite regions, from the conse
quences of which we are not yet relieved.
Events nf the Year.
JANUARY.
L Thomas Estrada Palma elected Presi
dent of Cuba.... President Roosevelt holds
brilliant reception.
2. Passenger steamer Walla Walla sunk
off Cape Mendocino by unknown bark; 27
lives lost.
3. - White House ball on occasion of Miss
Alice Roosevelt's debut.
4. Nineteen men lost In marine collision
off Avelro, Portugal.
16. Congress reassembles.
7. . Seventeen men killed by cave-in in
mine at Negaunee, Mich. -I
8. Tunnel accident to New York Central
i train in New York City causes 15 deaths.
ju. i allure- of Euclid Avenue Trust and
Savings Co. of Cleveland.
12. .Seven lives lost in fire in Buffalo,
. . x.
I 14. Second failure ot George H. Phillips,
. formerly called the Chicago "corn king."
...j. Jts. f orater elected Senator from Ohio,
Arthur P. Gorman from Maryland and J. B.
MeCreary from Kentucky.
16. A. B. Cummins inaugurated Govern
or of Iowa.... Earthquake kills 300 people
at Chilpaneingo, Mexico.
18. Death of Sir Ellis Ashmead Bartlett.
. English political leader.
I 19. Four buildings collapse In Detroit's
business center. -. " .
I 20. Columbian insurgents win battle In
Panama harbor. .. .Death of Camilla Crso,
viollnlste.
I 24. Treaty ceding Danish West Indies to'
United States signed. .. .Dust explosion kills
29 miners at' Lost Creek, Iowa.
I 28. Peace proposals made to England In
Boers' behalf- by Holland.
29. Ten lives lost In tenement house fire
In Boston.
- FEBRUARY.
I. ' Dust explosion in Hondo, Mexico,
mines; 87 men die.
- 3. $2,500,000 fire In Waterbury, Conn
Gale on Atlantic coast does considerable
damage. . J - -
4. Keeley liquor cure plant at Dwlght,
111., burns.. ..Six firemen killed by falling
walls in St. Louis. - .
-8. $10,000,000 fire in Paterson, N. J .
Smaller fires in Jeraey City, Brooklyn and
Chicago Eleven lives lost in lodging
house fire In St. Louis.
10. Twelve manufacturing plants burned
at Springfield, O. '
II. Death of Marquis of Dufferin.
17. House passes war tax reduction bill.
18. Miss Ellen Stone's ransom paid to
Bulgarian brigands.
19. President Roosevelt's decision ' on
Schley appeal given out.
20. . Revolutionary riots In Barcelona,
Spain.
22. Park Avenue Hotel and 71st Regi
ment Armory In New York burned; $1,000,-
000 loss and 60 lives destroyed Senators
Tillman and McLauren of South Carolina
fight In Senate.
23. Miss Ellen Stone released by Bul
garian bandits.
24. Philippine bill passed by Senate.
27. McKialey memorial services in Con
gress. 28. Fourteen miners killed by snowsllde
at Tellurlde, Col.
MARCH.
I 2-4. Prince Henry of Prussia visits Chi
cago and other western cities.
7. Wreck on Southern Pacific railway In
. Texas; 15 persons killed and 30 Injured....
Gen. Methuen captured by Boers.
16. Secretary of Treasury Long resigns;
W. L. Moody of Massachusetts appointed
his successor.
12. Death of Former Governor JohnP.
Altgeld of Illinois Packet overturned in
Mississippi River and 22 persons drowned
..'..Boers release Gen. Methuen.
18. Strike of Boston teamsters ends
16. Severe blizzard over Canadian North
west, the Dakotas and Lake States.
17. Ship subsidy bill passes Senate.
18. Hoboken docks burn, with large ves
sels; loss, $1,000,000 and two lives.-
24. Neely,. Rathbone and Reeves convict
ed of postal frauds at Havana.
25. Order Issued for evacuation of Cuba
May 20. i
26. Death of Cecil Rhodes.
29-SO. Storm and . flood cause damage
East and South.
I 8L Mine explosion at Dayton, Tenn., kills
21 men.
APRIL.
I. Death of Thos. Dunn English.
8. $1,000,000 fire at Atlantic City, N. J.
6. - Many persons killed and Injured Jy
falling grandstand at Glasgow, Scotland.
II. Boers accept terms of peace. .. .Death
of Gen. Wade Hampton.
12. Death of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage.
15. Russian Minister of the Interior, M.
Siplaguine, slain by student.
- 18. House passes Cuban reciprocity bill
....Great ocean steamship lines merged.
20. Sixty lives lost In burning of steamer
City of Pittsburg on Ohio River Frank
R. Stockton, novelist, dies. '
23. Severe windstorm In Missouri Val
ley. -
27. Death of ex-Secretary of Agriculture
3. Sterling Morton.
28. Death of Sol Smith Russell.
---''-.'"' " MAY.
1. Tornado destroyed over 400 lives
around Dacca, British India Wm. H.
Moody becomes Secretary of Navy.
4. Death of Potter Palmer of Chicago.
5. Death of Archbishop Corrigan. .. .Bret
Harte dies In London.
6. Death of Kear-Admlral , William T.
Sampson.
8. Town of St. Pierre, Martinique, de
stroyed by volcano Paul Leicester Ford,
author, slain by brother, Malcolm Ford,
who then kills himself.
9. Strike ordered in anthracite coal re
gion. 11. Death of Lieutenant Governor Stone
of Wisconsin.
12. Maria Christina resigns regenoy of
Spain. .. .Twenty-five persons killed by oil
explosion near Pittsburg.
17. Alfonso XIII crowjied king of Spain.
18. Hurricane devastated Texas gulf
coast, blotting out town of Goliad.
19. Explosion In coal mine at Coal Creek,
Tenn., kills 1S4 miners.
20. Cuba becomes an Independent nation
. . . Waterspout . at Cincinnati and suburbs
kills six persons and destroys property val
ued at $2,000,000. -.
21. Decorah, ' Iowa, overwhelmed .by
cloudburst.
23. Explosion In mine at Fernie, B. C,
kills 109 miners.
24. Death of British Ambassador, Lord
Paunceforte.
81. Boer leaders sign article of sur
render; .. .Retalbulen, Guatemala, .over
whelmed by volcano. 1,000 lives lost.
' - JUNE.
2. Teamsters' strike causes riots In Chi
cago..,. Death of Rev. Dr. J. H. Barrows
at Oberlin, O.
. Strike riots In Chicago,
RECORD
te's-SSfcs? 2Bimft i 'i mmsBism
UNCLE SAM
eluded a panic V
COLOSSAL COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS.
AS the accounts are cast up for 1902, It Is seen that
this has been the most prosperous year in all the
history of the great republic. Looking back over
the last five years it may be safely said that never
did the American people see before such a quinquin
nate. The figures that tell of the nation's prosperity and
industrial and commercial growth are so stupendous as to
be Inconceivable. So far from having developed its re
sources the United States seems to be only beginning- to
use them. The decade between 1880 and 1890 was the era
of tremendous railway extension, and it was then thought
that all the natural resources and riches of the country had
been tapped, but the building of the railway lines was.
merely precedent to the magnificent development of the
country which . began in the last five years of the decade
ending with this year.
The figures given in this article present some idea of the
immense wealth and industrial activity of the United
States. The dispatches complain of the Inability to get
men to do the work that waits to be done. In Chicago alone
the railways require 20,000 men in addition to their pres
ent forces. Other dispatches tell of new industrial projects
in every section of the country. Going beyond our na
tional boundaries, every dally paper
plans or achievements of American wealth and American
brains and skill. In Canada, in Mexico, in South America,
in England, in China, in Korea, in the Philippines, Ameri
cans are reaching out to' get possession and to utilize the
wealth that nature has stored.
The accumulations of capital and wealth In the United
States, the increase In the number of men of enterprise,
energy and resourcefulness and the vast accessions to the
ranks of skilled workmen have put the country into a posi
tion to set the pace for the rest of the world for some dec
ades to come. By far the larger part of these accumula
tions have been in the Northern States. . These, did not
suffer from the Civil War as the South did. But the im
pression that the United States is no longer a country of
virgin resources is not a correct one. The South alone has
untold treasures waiting for utilization, to say nothing of
what remains in the West and in vast Alaska. If times
remain good the next ten years will be among the most In
spiring in American history. The South will make tre
mendous strides upward toward the industrial level of the
rest of the country; Besides furnishing the capital and in
part the men for this work, the fruitful North will have
an Immense surplus for application to the development of
all other parts of the United States, Canada and Mexico
and other countries. Currents of Americanization will set
throughout the world, but outside our own boundaries it
will be especially in Canada and Mexico that American
money and American men will work wonders in the next
few .years. -
Even the older parts of the United States have not been
utilized as they can and will be. Our whole territory was
fully occupied ten .years ago, but since that time' we have
added 1,000,000 new farms. Two-fifths of our national do
4, Teamsters' strike In Chicago settled.
5 Street car riots In Providence, R. I.
6 Tornado and cloudbursts In Iowa, Ne
braska, Kansas, Illinois, South Dakota.
0 St Luke's Sanitarium - In Chicago
burns, 10 lives being lost.
10. Tornado causes damage and death In
Illinois. Iowa and Minnesota.
13 President sends to Congress special
message on Cuban reciprocity. "
19 Senate passes Panama canal bill....
Death of King Albert of Saxony
2L Wyeth wins American Derby In Chi
caeo .Town Marshal of Jefferson, Iowa,
killed" by half-witted man, who is then
slain by mob. ,
22 $500,000 fire In Portland. Ore.
23 St. James Hotel collapses at Dallas.
T24aS"Klng Edward VII submits to opera
tion'for pcrltyphilitls Coronation is post-
P30ed Senator Bailey of Texas makes vio
lent" attack on Senator Beverldge of Iudl
ana In Senate. '
JULY. ': -
1 Adjournment of Congress.
8 President issues peace and amnesty
proclamation for Philippines. ... Rock Isl
and fast train held up near Dupont, 111.
4. Trolley wreck near Gloversvllle, N. Y.,
kills 15 persons.
5. Swift's market In Chicago stockyards
burned chlcago freight handlers strike.
9. Storms and floods In Iowa and the
Vest.
10. Explosion In mine at Johnstown, Pa.,
kills 125 miners. '
11. Lord Salisbury resigns as premier of
England; succeeded by Mr. Arthur Balfour.
12. Death of Archbishop Feehan of Chl-
C13?' Sir Liang Cheng appointed Chinese
Minister to United States to succeed Mr.
Wn.
14. Express train held up and robbed
near Marshall's Pass, Colorado.
15. Cyclone destroys Emeraldo and
Thompson, N. D., and Borup, Minn.
16. End "of freight handlers' strike In
Chicago.... Fifty killed In mine explosion
at Park City, Utah. .. .General Jacob H.
Smith retired with censure.
SO. Murder of Minnie Mitchell In Chi
cago. 31. Earthquake In Santa Barbara Coun
ty, Cal. .
AUGUST.
6. Burlington express train robbed near
Savanna, 111.
6. Train wreck near Collins, Iowa, kills
13 people and Injures 30.
9. Coronation of King Edward of Eng
land.... Body of Mrs. Ann Bartholin found
In Chicago.
10. Death of Senator McMillan of Michi
gan.... Seven persons burned to death In
hotel fire at San Apgelo, Texas.
16. Cullacan, Mexico,, swept by tidal
wave. . . .$28,000 express robbery at , Ford
vllle, Ky. -
20. Autumn naval maneuvers begin off
Massachusetts coast. -
20. Death of General Frans Sigel.
' 21. President Roosevelt on trip through
New England.
22. Earthquakes in East Turkestan kill
1,000 persons.
. 26. Death of ex -Governor George Hoad
lev of Ohio. - "
80. Eruption of Mont Pelee destroys
Morne Rouge, with 200 lives.
, SEPTEMBER. i
1. Thirty killed and 70 wounded In train
wreck near Berry, Ala.
8. President Roosevelt hurt In trolley
accident near Pittsfleld, Mass.... Death of
Edward Eggleston, novelist. .. .Third great
4. .Body of Wm. J. Bartholin found near
THAT ASTOUNDS FOREIGNERS.
Well, gentlemen, lsnt that a pretty good
brings us news of the
Lowther, Iowa.'
7. Haytlan gunboat Crete-a-Plerrot sunk
by German gunboat Panther.
11. Battleship Wisconsin and cruiser Cin
"lunati ordered to Panama.
12. Great tire in Beaumont, Texas, oil
.".elds Killing frost in Northwest Mrs.
Senator Stewart of Nevada killed in auto
mobile accident.
15. Death of ex-Supreme Court Justice
Horace Gray.
18. Peary Arctic expedition returns.
' 19. Panie in negro Baptist convention at
Birmingham, Ala., causes death of 80 per-
ons and injury of 100. . . TTJeath of Marie
Heuriette, queen of the Belgians.
23. Operation for abscess on President
iloosevelt's leg at Indianapolis.
26. Four hundred persons killed by cy
clone and waterspout in Eastern Slcility.
28. Second operation on President Roose
velt's leg.. ..Tidal wave on coast of Japan.
29. Death of Emile Zola.
OCTOBER.
3. Conference of coal operators and min
ers at White House In Washington.
4. Great fire at Amoy, China.
6. Governor Stone of Pennsylvania orders
State Militia to coal fields.
.11. Burlington train held up near Lin
coln, Neb.
12. Street railway strike In New Orleans
ends.
13. Coal -operators ask President to end
strike.
16. President appoints commission to ar
bitrate coal strike.
21. Anthracite workers vote to accept ar
bitration. 23. Work In anthracite coal mines re
sumed. 24. Earthquakes In Italy.
26. Death of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. '
29. "Mitchell" day in anthracite regions.
NOVEMBER.
I. St. Pierre, Mlquelon, destroyed by
fire.
4. General election Fire works explo
sion In New York kills 12 persons and In
jures SO.
10. Fire does great damage on new East
River bridge In New York.
II. Roland Mollneux acquitted In New
York.
16. Armour & Co.'s packing plant In
Sioux City burns.... Death of G. A. Henty.
20. James Moore, colored, hanged by mob
near Sullivan, Ind.
21. Rock Island train held up by express
robbers at Davenport, Iowa.
22. Death of Frledrich Krupp, German,
gunmaker.. .Big ore dock at Ashland, Wis.,
burns.
23. Death of Sep. Winner, composer.
25. Death of Colonel Thos. P. Ochiltree.
29. Fourteen killed by boiler explosion
In Chicago stockyards. ...Several vessels
and 29 lives lost In gale on Great Lakes.
' ' DECEMBER".
tr Congress convenes for short session.
4. " Fourteen lives lost in fire In Lincoln
Hotel, Chicago Naval maneuvers In Ca
ribbean Sea begin.
6. Cleveland's great water tunnel com
pleted. 7. Death of Thomas B. Reed In Washing
ton.... Cartoonist Thomas Nast dies at
Guayaquil, Ecuador. .
8. Great Nile' dam at Assouan opened.
9. German and English fleets seize Ven
ezuelan warship In harbor of La Guaira.
11. President Castro of Venezuela Issues
appeal to arms... Cuban Reciprocity Treaty
signed in Havana.
13. $1,000,000 fire In steel plant at Canal
Dover, Ohio.... English and German war
ships reduce defenses of Puerto Cabello,
Venezuela.
14. Death of Mrs. U. S. Grant.:
15. 1,000 killed by earthquake at An
dljan, Asiatic Russia.
18. Venezuela asks for arbitration.
showing for a decade that In-
main are still beyond the reach of the plow. No man can
say how much of them will yet be fruitful So far, great
as has been our Increase In population, our agricultural
productivity has outstripped it, and while our population
doubles every thirty years, our production of food doubles
In a period of from twelve to fifteen years. So the proba
bilities are that for many years to come we shall go on
being the granary of the world in an Increasing proportion.
These are only a few of the figures that might be cited
to show how rapidly and imposingly the United States is
still forging ahead In the race for commercial and Industrial
supremacy.
The New York Commercial Advertiser has compiled
some figures that must enthuse every American as he reads
in them the tremendous superiority of his country in ma
terial resources and prosperity to every other nation in the
world. Take the item of railway extension. The last ten
years have not been considered remarkable for the new
mileage,, but there are 25,000 miles more of railway under
operation now than ten years ago; that is, 6,000 miles more
than the entire railway mileage of Canada yet Canada Is
getting very cocky over its development.
The present population of the United States proper Is
estimated at 79,000,000, an increase of 14,000,000 almost
the total population of Spain and nearly three times that
of Canada in ten years.
The national wealth to-day amounts to $94,300,000,000,
whereas in 1892 it was ?65,037,091,O00. The deposits in
bank and trust companies have increased $4,684,703,756 in
the decade and there Is in circulation to-day $648,043,304
more than there was in 1892. "The gold in the United
States Treasury has increased by $333,724,345. The value
of manufactured products is $3,606,842,283 greater than ten
years ago and of farm products $1,304,070,252. Our experts
have increased in value in ten years to the amount of $648,
709,067. The commercial failures of 1S01 were 11,002, as
compared with 10,344 in 1892, an amazingly small Inereifse,
wnile tne liabilities in tnese failures, were $9ol,791 less
than the liabilities of the failures of 1892. There has been
an Increase in the wages paid to factory. empldyes,amount
ing to $452,214,319, but it is a circumstance upon ' which
Capital cannot pride itself that this is $S83,048,415 less than
the increase in wages between 1882 and 1892, when the in
crease In national wealth, was only $22,395,091,000 and the
increase In bank deposits was less than $2,000,000,000. It
is apparent, therefore, that the reward of labor has not kept
pace with the harvest of capital. ;
It Is a striking picture which the cartoonist presents.
Uncle Sam is represented as a storekeeper, with produce
and materials of all kinds piled around him. , In the store
are three fellows who often come to make purchases of
him; indeed, they are among his best patrons. They are
John Bull, Che corpulent and contented old chap from the
Fatherland and the, Russian. Uncle Sam is proudly point
ing to his business record of the past ten" years, upon which
they look with astonishment
WINTER WHEAT PERFECT.
Acreajf s 34,000,000 Acres for Crop of
1902-Gain 5.1 Per Ceut.
Thestatistician of the Department of
Agriculture estimates the newly seeded
area of winter wheat at about 34,000,
000 acres, an increase of 5.1 per cent up
on the area estimated to have been sown
in the fall of 1901. The condition of
winter wheat Dec. 1 was 99.7, compared
with 86.7 in 1901, 97.1 in 1900 and a
nine-year average of 91.4. The following
table shows for each of the principal
States, the percentage of acreage sown
to winter wheat this fall as. compared
with last year, the averages of condition
on Dec. 1 of the present year, the corre
sponding averages for 1901 and 1900 and
the mean of the December averages of
the last nine years:
Acreage com
pared with This
9-year
aver-
last year. year.
1901.
1900. age.
Kansas . ,
Missouri .
California
Indiana .
Ohio . ..
JUHnois .
.108
.111
95
92
86
96
86
75
88
103
85
86
82
89
83
104
91
92
05
89
88
91
90
95
97
86
90
88
101
100
99
98
101
97
07
107
92
108
103
102
102
94
86
93
102
96
105
80
97
84
,.101
..104
,. 00
..108
'hiebraska
.125
Pennsylvania .101
Oklahoma ..'..114
Michigan ..... 90
Texas ........113
Tennessee ....100
The newly seeded area of winter rye is
provisionally estimated at 90.3 per cent
of the area sown in the fall of 1901. The
condition Dec. 1 was 98.1, compared with
89.9 Dec. 1, 1901, 99.1 Dec. 1, 1900, and
95.7 the mean of the averages for the
last nine years. . The following table
shows for each of the principal States
the percentage of acreage sown to win
ter rye this fall as compared with that
sown last year, the averages of condi
tions on Dec. 1 of the present year, the
corresponding average's for 1901 and 1900
and the mean of the December averages
of the last nine years:
Acreage com
pared with This
last year. year. 1901.
Pennsylvania .101 . 96 88
New York 103 96 97
Michigan 92 . 97 92
Kansas 03 98 94
9-year
- aver
1900. age.
98 06
98 - 99
98 93
104 99
England Fara Yankee Cattle,
y The prevalence of foot and mouth dis
ease in Massachusetts and other New
England States has caused the Secretary
of Agriculture to prohibit the exportation
of cattle from Boston and to establish
a quarantine of cattle, sheep and swine in
New England. The British Board of
Agriculture has also taken action in the
matter and has closed the ports of the
, United. Kingdom against the importation
' of animals from the six New England
States.
i This interdiction will prove costly t
I the cattle interests of New England. li
is estimated' that a suspension of traftW
for two ot three weeks will cost th
steamship companies 0.