HKENSIBE
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES
Aatltsr f "Don OrM," "Tk Enfllrt 0rliii." "noiMli Ikt mililes." "Ini BItw,"
"Meadowkreok," "Teapot sd Saashlne." "Cassis Muidc," etc
CHAPTER XV. (Continued.)
A party, a big party, such as Maddy
had never in her life attended! How her
.res sparkl (Mi from more anticipation as
the looked appealingly to her grandfath
rr. rho, though classing parties with the
!mp and vanities from which he would
shield his cMld, still remembered that he
once was young, that fifty years ago he,
too, like Maddy. wauted "to see the folly
of it," and not take the mere word of old
rr people that in every festive scene there
was a pitfall, strewn over so thickly with
roses that it was ofttinies hard to tell
Junt where its boundary line commenced,
besides that, grandpa had faith In Guy,
mid bo his consent was granted, and
Maddy was soon on her way to Aikenside,
which presented a gayer, busier appear
ance than she had ever known before.
Jessie was wild with delight, dragging
forth at once the pink dress which she
was to wear, and whispering to Maddy
that Guy had bought a dark blue silk
for her, and that Sarah Joups was at
that moiueut fashioning it after a dress
left there by Maddy the previous summer.
"Mother said plain white muslin was
More appropriate for a young girl, but
Brother Guy said no; the blue silk would
be useful after the party; it was what
you needed, and so he bought it and paid
a dollar and three-quarters a yard, but
it'a a secret until you are called to try
it on. Isn't Guy splendid?"
He was indeed splendid, Maddy
thought, wondering why he was so kind
to her, and if it would be so when Iucy
came. The dress fitted admirably. When
Maddy was dressing for the party, there
was sent up to her room a small round
box, scarcely large enough to hold an ap
jde, much leas a small scarf. The present
proved to be a pair of plain, but heavy
bracelets, and a most exquisitely wrought
chain of gold, to which was appended a
beautiful pearl cross, the whole accom
panied with the words, "From Gay."
Jessie was in ecstasies. Clasping the
ornaments on Maddy's neck and arms, she
danced around her, declaring there never
was anything more beautiful or anybody
as pretty as Maddy was in her rich party
dress. Maddy was fond of jewelry as
what young girl is not? and felt a flush
of gratified pride, or vanity, or satisfac
tion, whichever one chooses to call it.
as she glanced at herself in the mirror
and remembered the time when, riding
with the doctor, she had met Mrs. Agnes,
with golden bracelets flashing on her
arms, and wished she might one day wear
something like them. The day had come
sooner than she then anticipated, but
Maddy was not as happy in possession of
the coveted ornaments os she had thought
she should be. Somehow, it seemed to
her that Guy ought not to have given
them to her, that it was improper for her
to keep them, and that both Mrs. Noah
and Agnes thought so, too. She wished
she knew exactly what was right, and
then, remembering that Guy had said the
doctor was expected early, she decided to
ask his opinion on the subject and abide
by it.
I At first Agnes had cared but little
about the party, affecting to despise the
people in their immediate neighborhood ;
but when Guy gave her permission to in
vite from the adjoining towns, and even
from Worcester if she liked, her spirits
rose ; and when her toilet was completed,
she shooe resplendent in lace and dia
monds and curls, managing to retain
through all a certain simplicity of dress
appropriate to the hostess. Hut beautiful
as Agnes was, she felt in her jealous
heart that there was about Maddy Clyde
an attraction she did not possess. Guy
saw it. too, and while complimenting his
Iretty mother-in-law, kept his eyes fixed
admiringly on Maddy, who started him
Into certain unpleasant remembrances by
asking if the doctor had come yet.
"Xo yes there he was now," and
Guy looked into the hall, where the doe
tor's voice wa-s heard inquiring for him.
"I want to see him a minute, alone,
please. There's something I want to ask
him." And, unmindful of Agnes' dark
ening frown, or Guy's look of wonder,
Maddy darted from the room, and ran
hastily down the hall to where the doc
tor stood, waiting for Guy, not for her,
He had uot expected to meet her thus,
or to see her thus, and the sight of her,
grown so tall, so womanly, ko stylish, and
t-i beautiful, almost took his breath away.
And yet, as he stood with her soft hand
in bit, and surveyed her from head to
foot, he felt that he would rather have
her as she was when a dainty frill shaded
her pale, wasted face, when the snowy
ruffle was fastened high about her throat,
and the cotton bands were buttoned about
her wrists, where gold ones now were
Khining. The doctor had never forgotten
Maddy as she was then, the very embodi
mentbe thought, of helpless purity. The
little sick girl, so dear to him then, was
growing away from him now; and these
adornings which marked the budding wo
man seemed to remove her from him and
place her nearer to Guy, whose bride
hould wear jewels, just as Maddy did.
She was very glad to see him, she said,
asking in the same breath why he had not
been to the cottage, if she had not grown
tall, and if he thought her improved with
iving in a cltj.
"One question at a time, if you please,"
be aaid, drawing her a little more Into
the shadow of the hall, where they would
b less observed by anyone passing
h rough.
Maddy did not wait for him to an
swer, so eager was she to unburden her
mind' and know If she ought to keep the
costly present, at which she knew he
wns looking.
"If he remembers his unpaid bill, he
muBt consider ms mighty mean." she
thought; and then, with her usual frank
ness, she told him of the perplexity and
sked his opinion.
"It would displease Mr. Gay very much
If I were to give them back," she Raid;
"but it hardly is right for me to accept
them, is it?
Tha doctor did not aay she ought not
, Mr the ornaments, though he longed
throw them anywhere, he eared not
where, so they freed her wholly from
Guy.
They were very becoming said. She
would not look as well without them ; so
she had better wear them to-night, and
to-mor;ow, if she would ee him, be would
talk with her further.
It was a brilliant scene which Alken
side presented that night, and amid it all
Agnes bore herself like a queen ; while
Jessie, with her sunny face and golden
hair, came in for a full share of attention.
But amid the gay throng there was none
so fair or so beautiful as Maddy, who de
ported herself with as much ease and grace
as If she had all her lifelong been ac
customed to just such occasions as this.
At a distance the doctor watched her, tell
ing several, who she was, and once resent
ing by both look and manner a remark
made by Maria Cutler to the effect that
she was nobody but Mrs. Remington's
governess, a poor girl whom Guy had tak
en a fancy to educate out of charity.
Breakfast over the next morning, the
two young men repaired to the library.
The doctor fidgeted for a time, and then
broke out abruptly :
"I say, Guy, have you said anything
to her about well, about me, you know?"
"Why, no, I've hardly had a chance ;
and then, again, I concluded it better for
each one to speak for himself," and Guy
leaned baeJt in his chair.
"Guy, if you were not engaged, I should
be tempted to think you wanted Maddy
Clyde yourself," the doctor suddenly ex
claimed, confronting Guy, who answered
with the most provoking coolness, "You
should?"
"Yes, I should; and I am not certain
but you do, as it is. Guy," and the doc
tor grew very earnest In his manner, "if
you do care for Maddy Clyde, and she for
you, pray tell me so before I make a fool
of myself."
"Doctor," returned Guy, folding his
hands on his head, "you desire that I be
frank, and I will. I like Maddy Clyde
very much more, indeed, than any girl
I ever met except Lucy. Had I never
seen her Lucy. I mean I cannot tell
how I should feel toward Maddy. The
chances are, however, that much as I
admire her, I should not make her my
wife, even if she were willing. But I
have seen Lucy. I am engaged to be
married. I shall keep that engagement,
and if you have feared me at all as a
rival, you may fear me no longer. I do
not stand between you and Maddy Clyde."
Guy believed that he was saying the
truth, notwithstanding that his heart
beat faster than its wont, and his voice
was a little thick. It was doubtful wheth
er he would marry Maddy Clyde, if he
could. By nature and education he was
very proud, and the inuiates of the red
cottage would have been an obstacle to be
surmounted by his pride.
"I hear her now I'll call her," he
said; and, on opening the door, he spoke
to Maddy, just passing through the hall.
"Ir. Holbrook wishes to see you," he
said, as Maddy came up to him ; and hold
ing the door for her to enter, he saw
her take the seat he had just vacated.
Then closing it upon them, he walked
away, thinking that last night's party,
or something, had produced a bad effect
on him, making him blue and wretched,
just as he should suppose a criminal
would feel when about to be executed.
CHAPTER XVI.
Now that they were alone, the doctor's
courage forsook him and he could only
stammer out some commonplace remarks
about the party, asking how Maddy had
enjoyed it. He was not getting on at all,
and it was impossible for him to say any
thing as he had meant to say it. Why
couldn't she help him. instead of looking
so unsuspiciously at him with those large,
bright eyes?
At last she came to his aid by saying,
"You promised to tell me about the brace
lets and necklace, whether I ought to keep
them."
"Yes, oh, yes, he believed he did." And
getting up from his chair, the doctor be
gan to walk the floor, the better to hide
his confusion. "Yes, the bracelets. You
looked very pretty in them, Maddy, very ;
but you are always pretty ahem yes.
If you were engaged to Guy I should
sav it was proper; but if not, why, I
don't know ; the fact is, Maddy, I am not
quite certain what I am saying, so you
must excuse me. I almost hated you that
day you sent the note, telling me you
were coming to be examined ; but I had
not seen you then. I did not know how,
after a while a very little while I
should in all probability well, I did ; I
changed my mind, and I I guess you
have not the slightest idea what I mean.
And stopping suddenly, he confronted the
astonished Maddy, who replied :
"Not unless you are going crazy."
She could in no other way account for
his Btrange conduct, and she sat staring
at him while he continued : "I told you
once that when I wanted my bill I'd let
you know. I'd ask for pay. I want it
now. I present my bill."
With a scared, miserable feeling, Mad
dy listened to him, wondering where she
should get the money, if it were possible
for her grandfather to raise it, and how
much her entire wardrobe would bring,
suppose she should sell it. With a half
stifled sob she began to speak, but he si
lenced her by a gesture, and sitting down
beside her. Bald, in a voice more natural
than the one with which he had at first
addressed her :
"Maddy, I know you have no money.
It ia not that I want, Maddy ; I want I
want you."
He bent down over her now, for her
face was hidden in her hands, all sense of
sight shut out, all sense of hearing, too,
save the words he was pouring into her
ear words which burned their way into
her heart, making it throb for a single
moment with gratified pride, and then
growing heavy as Jead as she knew how
impossible It was for ber to pay the debt
as be desired.
"I can't, doctor: oh. I can't!" she sob
bed. "I never dreamed of this; never
1 fcnifowed you could want me for yonr
wife. I'm only a little girl- only sis
teen last October but I'm so sorry for
rou, who have been so kind. If I only
ould love you as you deserve ! I do lova
you, too ; but not the way you mean. I
cannot be Maddy Holbrook; no, doctor, I
cannot."
She was sobbing pjteously, and in his
concern for her the 'doctor forgot some
what the stunning blow he had received.
"Don't. Maddy, darling t" he said,
drawing her trembling form closely to
him. "Don't bo so distresed. I did not
much think you'd tell me yes, and I was
a fool to ask you. I am too old; but
Maddy, Guy is as old as I am."
The doctor did not know why he said
this, unless in the first keenness of his
disappointment there was a satisfaction
in telling her that the objection to hia
age would apply also to Guy. But it
did not affect Maddy one whit, or givo her
the slightest inkling of his meaning. He
saw it did not. and the pain was less
hard to bear. Still, he would know cer
tainly if he had a rival, , and so he said:
"Io you love someone else, Mdddy? Is
another preferred before me, and is that
the reason why you cannot love me?"
"No," Maddy answered, through her
tears. "There Is no one else. Whom
should I love, unless it were you? I
know nobody but Guy."
That name touched a Sore. . aching
chord in the doctor's heart, but he gave
no sign of the jealousy which had trou
bled him, and for a moment there was
silence in the room; then, as the doctor ;
began faintly to realize that Maddy had
refused him, there awoke within him a ,
more intense desire to win her than he
had ever felt before. He would not give
her up without another effort, and lay
ing her unresisting head upon his bosom,
he pleaded again for her love, going over
all the past, and telling of the interest
wakened when first she came to him that
April afternoon, almost two years ago.
There was a great lump in aiaaay a
throat as she tried to speak, but it cleared
away, and she said very sadly, but very
earnestly :
"Dr. Holbrook, would you like me to
say yes with my lips, when all the time
there was something at my heart tugging
to answer no?"
This was not at all what Maddy meant
frn an v. hut the words were born of her
extreme truthfulness, and the doctor thua
learned the nature of the struggle whicn
he saw plainly was going on.
"No, Maddy, I would not have you say
yes unless your heart was in it," hi an
swered, while he tried to smile upon the
tearful face looking up so sorrowfully at
him.
But the smile was a forlorn one, and
there came insiead a tear as he thought
how dear was the fair creature who never
would be his. Maddy saw the tear, and
as if she were a child, wiped it from hia
cheek; then, in tones which never fal
tered, she told him it might be in time
st.eM lenrn to love him. She would try
so hard, she'd think of him always as
her promised husband, ana Dy mat means
shnnlrl learn at last not to shrink from
taking him for such. It might be ever so
long, and perhaps she should De twenty
or more, but some time in the future she
should feel differently. Was he satisfied,
and would he wait?
Her little hand was resting on hh.
shoulder, but he did not mind its soft
pressure or know that it was there, so
strong was the temptation to accept that
half-made promise. But the doctor was
too noble, too unselfish to bind Maddy to
himcelf unless she were wholly willing.
and he said to her that if she did not love ,
. , ..1 A Ohm, 1
him now she proDamy never wumu.
could not make a love. She need not try,
as it would only result in her own un
happiness. They would be friends just
as they always had been, and none need
know of what had passed between them,
none but Guy. "I must tell him," the
doctor said, "because he knows that I
was going to ask you."
(To be continued.)
UNFAMILIAR FACTS.
Th .Tnrmnese lover, instead of an en
gagement ring, may give his futura
bride a piece of beautiful sine to d
worn ns a sash.
Quick-growing vegetation is a grea
trouble on railway companies in South
Australia. Some $80,000 a year is paid
for removing weeds from the roadway.
One of the most remarkable railway
bridges in the world Is that which con
nects Venice with the mainland. Built
on 223 arches, it Is 12,050 feet long.
The attempt to work up Interest lu
the project to build a tunnel across tha
English Channel has failed again. This
scheme Is brought up every few years,
and the prosiiects of Its success were
greater on the last occasion than ever.
A Cleveland skyscraper, twenty sto
ries high, will be topped by a Goddess
of Liberty holding a torch, from which
a leaping flame of gas will be burning
at all times. The exact hour )f the
day and night will be Indicated by
causing the flame to shoot high into
the nir during the minute preceding
each hour.
Some medical societies nre hewing to
the line pretty close In their endeavor
to uphold ethics, says a Western med
ical Journal. The society at Peoria,
111., hauled one of its members over
the coals recently for driving a piebald
home, on the ground that it was a bid
for public attention.
w Iam o Cost 4,000,000.
The Standley dam, named after a
Denver banker, who projected the en
terprise, to 1" located nine miles abovn
Ieiver which will confine the flow of
flvt years, Is one of the great projects
of tie age.
It w ill be a mile and a quarter long,
150 feet high and will iniMund 10,
iOjlXiO,(i0 cubic feet of water. For
Its construction 5,000,000 cubic feet of
material will le used. It will cost $4,
OdOXiO and will be completed In 1910.
The Standley will not be as long as
the Assouan in Egypt, nor as high as
some, but It will irrigate more laud
than any other 100,000 acres.
The meteorites which hurl them
selves at this sphere add about 1,000
tons to Its weight r ry three years,
YEAR 1907 LEAVES A
RECORD OF DISASTER
Natural Phenomena and Direful
Accident Furnish Long Lists
of Dead.
EPITOME OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Eecent Financial Disturbance Okla
homa a State Tine and Gift
of Millions.
The chronicler who scans the record
f 1907 that he may write of It finds
himself confronted by an exhibit of
destruction and disaster that he had
not fully appreciated before. Since the
opening day of the year the great ca
tastrophes that hav.e been accompan
ied by large loss of life have numbered
20, an average of slightly more than
two for each month. Several of these
have been great convulsions of nature.
There was the earthquake that destroy
ed Kingston, Jamaica, out of. which
came the disagreeable Swettenham in
cident; subsequently occurred other
earthquakes and volcanic eruptions In
Mexico, Chile and China. An earth
quake and mountain slide that de
stroyed the town of Karatagh, Russian
Turkestan, snuffed out 15,000 lives, and
a frightful typhoon at Hongkong,
China, killed unknown hundreds of the
Inhabitants. A hurricane In the Caro
line Islands wiped out 200 lives; a
great flood In Japan caused COO deaths.
Among the catastrophes originating In
the operations and enterprises of hu
manity there have been explosions
several of them In mines, others In
blast furnaces and on shipboard col
lisions of ships and of railway trains,
the collapse of the great uncompleted
bridge over the St Lawrence river
near Quebec, and the blowing up of
the Du Pont powder works In Fonta
nel Ind. All these produced long cas
ualty lists.
The roll of eminent dead Is also an
extensive one. .Sweden has lately been
called upon to mourn the decease of its
beloved king, Oscar II., and his son
and successor has assumed the reins
of government In Persia, also, the
old Shah has died and a new one rules.
Not death, but abdication has also
changed the governmental head In
Korea. Politics, art, science, letters,
and the platform have each paid Its
toll to death In the loss of some fore
most representatives. Among the names
may be recorded those of former Pres
ident M. Caslmlr Perler of France,
Senators Morgan, Pettus and Alger,
Galusha A, Grow, James II. Eckels,
Maurice Grau, Richard Mansfield, Jo
seph Joachim, Edvard Grieg, James
McGranahan, Col. Will S. Hayes, Prof.
Alexander S. Herschel, Thomas Bailey
Aldrlch, Dr. John Watson (Ian Mac
laren), Theodore Tllton, Mrs. Mary J.
Holmes, Francis Murphy and Mrs.
Helen M. Gougar. Mrs. Wm. MeKln
ley and John Alexander Dowie are also
In the lift of the well-known dead.
A financial disturbance of widespread
Influence lias made Itself felt during
the last three months of 1907.
The number of States In the Union
has been Increased to 4G by the ad
mission of Oklahoma.
That modern minds nre not appalled
by large amounts Is shown by two of
the year's transactions. The Standard
Oil Company has been fined $29,000,
000 by a Chicago Judge, and John D.
Rockefeller has made donations of $32,
000,000 to educational projects.
Two great expositions have been
held. That at Jamestown, Va., did not
receive the. patronage expected and Is
In the hands of a receiver. The other
was In Greater Louisville, Ky.
A public work of vast magnlture was
begun when Mayor McClellan of New
York broke ground for the construc
tion of the great Catskill aqueduct
which In a few years Is to convey to
the metropolis an Inexhaustible supply
of pure water.
The Harry Thaw trial In New York
and the. general strike of telegraphers
the country over were' subjects of much
Interest to the public while they con
tinued. The principal happenings of 1907 are
briefly given below :
JANUARY.
2 Wreck on Hock Island near Vol
land, Kansas, kills 35 persons. .. .Chas.
M. Floyd, Republican, elected Governor
of New Hampshire by Legislature.
5 Bomb thrown in Fourth Street Na
tional bank, Philadelphia.
8 Death of Shah of Persia.
9 James Cullen lynched In Charles
City, Iowa.... Gen. Vladimir Pavloff as
sassinated in St. Petersburg. . . .30 miners
killed by explosion in Pittsburg blast fur
nace. 10 Typhoon In Philippines kills 100
persons.
11 Fire near Strassburg. Germany,
causes 20 deaths. .. .$1,000,000 fire in
Lancaster, Pa.
14 Earthquake destroys Kingston, Ja
maica. 10 Sixty lives lost in two Big Four
railroad wrecks in Indiana. .. .Moham
med All Mirza crowned Shah of Persia
....Admiral Davis and American squad
ron sent away from Kingston, Jamaica,
by Gov. Swettenham.
20 Death of Joslah Flynt Willard,
tramp and author. .. .England apologizes
for Swettenham incident.
23 Twenty miners killed by explosion
near rrimero, Colo.... Thaw trial begins
in New York.
24 Death of Senator R, A. Alger of
Michigan.
28 explosions la mlna star Saar-
brueck, Prussia, kill 800 persons. ., .100
lives lost by typhoon in Hongkong har
bor. 29 Ninety miners killed by mine explo
siou near Thurmond, W. Va.
FEBRUARY.
7 John D. Rockefeller makes $32,000,
000 gift to educational work.
. 12200 lives lost by sinking of Joy
line steamer Larchmont off Block Island,
U I Death of ex-Gov. Frank W. Hig-
gins of New York.
10 25 persons killed and 100 injured
in train wreck on New York Central in
New York City.
20 $173,000 stolen from U. 8. sub
treasury in Chicago.
21 English steamer Berlin goes down
off coast of Holland; 180 lives lost....
Cornelius J. Shea and associates acquit
ted of conspiracy in Chicago. .. .Mrs.
Dora McDonald shoots and kills Webster
S. Guerin in Chicago.
22 Pennsylvania railroad's 18-hour
flyer wrecked near Johnstown, Pa....
Missouri Legislature adjourned by small
pox scare.
MARCH.
4 Fifty-ninth Congress adjourns sine
die.... Three changes in President's cab
inet take effect.
7 Strother brothers In Culpepper, Va.,
acquitted of murder under "unwritten
law."
9 Death of John Alexander Dowie...
Will J. Davis freed of responsibility for
Iroquois theater disaster by Judge Kim
brough of Danville, 111.
12 Death of M. Casimlr Perler, for
mer president of France. . . .Magazines on
French battleship Jena explode at Toulon,
killing 80 and injuring 500 persons.
14 Death of Maurice Grau, Impres
sarlo. 10 Burning of Helicon Hall, Upton
Sinclair's colony, near Englewood, N. J.
18 Greater Louisville exposition open
ed. 19 Death of Thomas Bailey Aldrlch.
22 Many persons killed in riots in
Moldavia.
25 Death of Alexander Beaubien, first
white male born in Chicago.
31 Death of Galusha A. Grow, former
Congressman from Pennsylvania.
APRIL.
2 Chicago elects Fred A, Busse,
Republican, Mayor and approves new
traction ordinance by majority of 33,126.
4 Hotel fire in San Francisco kills 17
persons. .. .Lunacy commission declares
Harry K. Thaw sane.
9 Howard Nicholas and Leonard Leo
pold convicted of murder of Mrs. Mar
garet Leslie in Chicago.
11 Lord Cromer, British ruler' In
Egypt, resigns.
13 Standard Oil Company convicted
In Illinois court of rebating.
14 Death of James II. Eckels of Chi
cago. .. .Earthquakes at Chilapa and
Chilpancingo. Mexico.
15 Great Northern's Oriental Limited
derailed by wreckers at Bartlett, N. D.
. 16-19 Volcanic eruptions in Chile.
20 Great fire in native quarter of
Manila.
26 Opening of Jamestown (Va.) Ex
position. 30 Hurricane in Caroline Islands kills
COO people.
MAY.
2 Great loss of life from explosion In
Canton, China.
3 Sir Alexander Swettenham retires
as Governor of Jamaica.
C Dr. John Watson (Ian Maclaren)
dies in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. .. .Tornado
wipes out towns of Birthright and Ridge
way, Texas.
10 Son born to King Alfonso of
Spain.
11 Mystic Shriner special wrecked at
Honda, Cal., and 31 lives lost.
12 Mine fire at Velardena, Mexico,
kills 90 men. .. .Earthquake in China
kills 4,000 persons.
17 Isaac Stephenson elected United
States Senator from Wisconsin.
25 Death of Theodore Tilton in Paris.
26 Death of Mrs. William MeKinley.
Jl'SB.
5 Oscar II. resumes reign as King of
Sweden.
0 Sudden death of Mrs. Helen M.
Gougar.
7 Fatal and destructive tornado in
Kentucky and southern Illinois and In
diana. 9 Death of Julia Magruder, novelist.
10 Great strike against government in
wine growing regions of France. .. .500
lives lost in burning of Chinese theater
in Hongkong.
11 Death of Senator John T. Morgan
of Alabama.
12 200 lives lost in hurricane on Caro
line Islands.
13 Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
convicted of extortion.
14 Olympic Theater burns in Chicago.
l(j Czar dissolves the Duma.
18 Death of Prof. Alexander S. Her
schel, English astronomer.
20 Mayor McClellan of New York
breaks first sod for construction of great
Catskill aqueduct.
2(5 Fire destroys block of buildings ad
joining Jamestown exposition.
SO Death of Francis Murphy, temper
ance evangelist.
JULY.
3 Fatal windstorm sweeps western
Wisconsin.
6 John D. Rockefeller appears as wit
ness in court in Chicago.
7 Tornado damages Long Pine, Neb.
8 Death of James McGranahan, gos
pel song writer.
14 Assassination of President Fal
lleres attempted in Paris.
15 Powder explosion on battleship
Georgia kills 8 seamen and Injures 13.
18 Emperor of Korea abdicates.
20 SO killed in Pere Marquette wreck
near Salem, Mich.
21 Steamer and freight boat collide
off California coast and 150 lives are lost.
23 Death of Col. Will S. Hays, ballad
writer.
27 Death of Senator E. W. Pettus of
Alabama.
28 Jury In Boise. Idaho, acquits Wil
liam D. Haywood of murder of Gov.
Steunenburg. . . .Big fire at Coney Island,
N. Y.
AUGUST.
1 Standard Oil Co. fined $29,000,000
for accepting railroad rebates by Judge
K. M. Iandis of Chicago.
8 Beginning of telegraphers' general
strike.
12 Death of Robert A. Pinkerton.
15 Joseph Joachim, violinist, dies In
Berlin.
19 Prince Wllhelm of Sweden at
Jamestown exposition.
20 Great fire In Hakodate, Japan,
27 Nelson Morris, Chicago packer,
dies.
2!) Great bridge over St. Lawrenco
river, near Quebec, collapses, carrying 84
workmen to death.
80 Death of Richard Mansfield.
SEPTEMBER.
4 Death of Edvard Grieg, Norwegian
composer.
7 Anti-Japanese outbreak in Vancou
ver, B. 0.
, 0 Japanese battleship Kashlma Wows
up at Kure with loss of 40 lives.
15 25 lives lost in wreck of excursion
train near Canaan, N. H.
17 First election in Oklahoma. .. .Chi
cago defeats new charter.
21 Frank J. Constantine convicted or
murder of Mrs. Louise Gentry in Chicago
....Grandstand blown down in Ilegins,
Pa., and 50 people hurt.
25 Flood in Japan drowns 600 per
sons. 28 Eight lives lost in B. & O. wreck
at Bellaire, Ohio.
SO MeKinley mausoleum dedicated la
Canton, Ohio.
OCTOBER.
6 Death of Mrs. Mary J. Ilolmefc,
authoress.
10 Steamship Lusltania crosses At
lantic ocean in four days twenty hoars. . .
Death of Mrs. Cassie Chadwick In Co
lumbus (Ohio) penitentiary.
12 Steamship Cypress wrecked on
Lake Superior and 22 lives lost.
14 Town of San Jose del Cabo, Lower
California, destroyed by cloudburst.
15 Du Pont powder works near Fon
tanet, Ind., explodes, killing 50 people.
10 Wall street flurry causes great
slump in copper stocks.
22 23 Panic in New York and tha
Eust marked by suspension of Knicker
bocker Trust Company and of various
financial concerns, appointment of receiv
ers for Westlnghouse Electric and Manu
facturing Company, and wild scenes on
Stock Exchange.
23 Germans win balloon race frosa St
Louis with France second.
27New $20,000,000 Union statlo
opened in Washington.
30 Earthquake and mountain slide de
stroys town of Karatagh, Russian Tur
kestan, and causes 15,000 deaths.
NOVEMBER.
lGreat railway strike in Great Bri
ain called.
5 End of telegraphers' strike. .. .Eleo
tions in many States.
llrath of Dexter M. Ferry, seeds
man, of Detroit.
15 Death of Moncure D. Conway,
American author Fire destroys town
of Cleary, Alaska.
10 Oklahoma admitted to statehood.
24 Jury in Steve Adams case in Rath
drum, Idaho, disagrees.
25 Thirteen lives lost in New York
tenement house fire.
2Death of Gen. B. D. Pritchard of
Allegan, Mich., whose regiment captured
Jefferson Davis.
DECEMBER.
1 Explosion in mine at Fayette City,
Pa., kills 40 miners.
2 Sixtieth Congress opens.
4 Kin Oscar of Sweden resigns gov
ernment into hands of Crown Prince aa
regent.
0 Explosion entombs 400 miners at
Monongah, W. Va.
8j)eath of King Oscar II. of Sweden
and accession of his son as Gustaf y.
11 president Roosevelt reiterates bis
declaration that he will not again be a
candidate for chief executive.
Id i)Ust explosion kills 75 men is
mine at Yolande, Ala.... Great war fleet
sails from Hampton Roads for Pacific.
17Death of Lord Kelvin, English
scientist
Tno Kind of Tuberculosis.
Reports from London state that the re
sults of the careful investigations and ex
periments of the Royal Commission on
Tuberculosis indicate that there are two
kiuds of consumption. When the bacilli
of these diseases were administered to
animals those from one group caused rap
idly fatal general tuberculosis, while the
germs of the other group, though given
in far larger doses, had only a slight local
effect, and the disease tended to undergo
a spontaneous cure, but the investigations
have not yet reached a point where it is
practicable to determine with certainty
from which type of disease ..he patient
is suffering. One of the results of the
experiments made seems to be to discredit
Koch's view that bovine and human tu
berculosis are different diseases.
ltnhlea a Real niie.
Chief Melvin of the Bureau of Animal
Industry of the Agricultural Department
says that many experiments conducted
by the bureau now demonstrate that hy
drophobia is a real germ-generated and in
fectious disease. This disease, he says,
can be communicated from beasts to men
as well as from beast to beast. There art
two types of hydrophobia, dumb and furi
ous. In the earlier stages of the former
kind a dog is dangerous, but in the late
stages it is not, as it sustains paralysis
of the jaws: but a dog with the furious
type of hydrophobia is very dangerous,
yelping and running about with frothini
mouth and without any sign ot jaw par
alysis. Dr. Melvin insists that as yel
there is no cure for rabies known to medV
ical science.
Nvr Principle f Structural Work.
A new principle In engineering prac
tice is described by the Scientific Ameri
can in the case of a lookout tower buill
by Alexander Graham Bell, in which the
structure is composed of tetrahedrons,
and is said to be the first iron structure
built on this principle. Each tetrahedral
cell, which is the unit of construction,
is made of one-half inch iron piping, and
measures exactly 48 inches from tip to
tip. Two hundred and sixty of thest
cell were employed in the tower, which
rises 70 feet above the ground. .Some ol
the advantages claimed for this method
of construction are lightness, great rigid
ity, rapidity and ease of construction,
very little false work being required, an
the facility with which any part may b
renewed.
America Leads In Coal.
Tables prepared by the London Boar
of Trade show that the United States now
mines more coal than any other country,
the total being 370.000,000 tons in the
United Kingdom and 135,000,0(10 tons ia
Germany. But the production per head
is still higher In England. America also
consumes tha most ooaL
U Ur tfcau Iron hex anus ajtd aack and