The Firm of
Girdlestone
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A. CON AN DOYLE
chatter xv.
When supper was over the crone, who
as addressed by Girdlestone as Jorroeks,
l.'.l the way upstairs and showed Kate
to her room. If the furniture of the din
ing room had been Spartan in its simplic
ity, this was even more so, for there was
nothing in it save a small iron bedstead,
i. inch rusted from want of use, and a lush
wooden box on which stood the simplest
toilet requisites. In spite of the poverty
i f the apartment Kate had never been
i lore glad to enter her luxurious chamber
:ii home. The little carpet loss room was
:i haven of n-st where she would be left,
f ir one night at least, to her own
thoughts. As she lay in bed, however, she
i I 1 hoar far away the subdued murmur
of (iinllestoue's voice and the shrill tones
if the old woman. They were in deep
mi. I animated converse. Though they were
i'i far distant for her to distinguish a
uord, something told her that their talk
whs about herself, and the same instinct
ssMired her that it boded her little good.
When Kate awoke in the morning it
was some little time before she could re
alize where she was, or recall the events
which had made such a sudden change in
her life. The small window of her apart
ment was covered by a dirty muslin blind.
She rose, and, drawing it aside, looked
eagerly out. From what she had seen
the night before she had hoped that this
prison to which she had been conveyed
might make amends for its loneliness by
some degree of natural beauty. The scene
which now met her eyes soon dispelled
arii expectations of the sort. The avenue
with its trees lay on the other side of the
house. From her window nothing was
visible but a dreary expanse of bogland
and mudbanks, stretching down to the sea.
At high tide this enormous waste of
dreariness and filth v, as covered by the
water, but at present it lay before her in
all its naked hideousuesss. the very type
of dullness and of desolation. Here and
there a few scattered reeds, or an un
healthy greenish scum upon the mud, gave
a touch of color to the scene, but for the
most part the great plain was all of the
same somber mud tint, with its monot
ony broken only by the white Hecks where
th swarms of gulls and kittiewakes had
settled in the hope of picking up what
ever had been left by the receding tide.
Away across the broad surface a line of
sparkling foam marked the fringe of the
ocisau, which stretched away to the hori
ton. A mile or two to the eastward of her
Kate saw some sign of houses, and a blue
anoke which flickered up into the air.
This she guessed to be the fishing village
of Lea Clftxton, which the driver had
mentioned the night before. She felt
aj she gazed at the little hamlet, and the
masts of the boats in front of it, that she
was not alone in the world, and that even
in this strange and desolate place there
were honest hearts to whom as a last re
source she could appeal.
She was still standing at the window
nhen there came a knocking at the door,
and she heard the voice of the old woman
n-skins if she were awake. "P.reakfast
is ready," she said, "and the master is a
wondering why you bean't down."
On this summons Kate hastened her
toilet and made her way down the old
winding stair to the room in which they
1 ad supped the night before. Surely Gir
d'.estone must have had a heart of flint
not to be melted by the sight of that fair,
fresh face. His features set as hard as
adamant as she entered the room, and he
looked at her with eyes which were puck
ered and angry.
"You are late," he s.iid coldly. "You
must remember that you are not in Eoele
ston square. You are here to be disci
plined, and disciplined you shall be."
"I am sorry," she answered. "I think
I must have been tired by our journey."
The vast room looked even more mm
foitless and bleak than on the preceding
evening. On the table was a plate of ham
and eggs. John Girdlestone served out a
jiortion, and pushed it in her direction.
She sat down on one of the rough wooden
chairs and ate listlessly, wondering how
ll this was going to end.
After breakfast Girdlestone ordered the
old woman out of the room, and, standing
in front of the fire with his long les
apart and his hands .behind his back, he
told her in harsh concise language what
Vis intentions were.
'I had long determined," he said, "that
fi you ran counter to my wishes, and per
uMed in your infatuated affection for that
s. ai's:race, I should remove you to some
secluded spot where you might reconsider
your conduct and form better resolutions
fi- the future. This country house an
swered the purjwse admirably, and as an
old servant of mine. Mrs. Jorroeks, chano-e-l
to reside in the neighborhood, I had
warned her that at opy time I might come
down and should expect to find thinjis
ready. Your rs.sh and heartless conduct
has, however, precipitated matters, and
we have arrived before her preparations
were complete. Our future arrangements
will therefore be le.ss primitive than they
are at present. Here you shall remain,
young lady, until you show siirns of re
pentance, and of a willingness to undo
the harm you have done."
"If you nwan until I consent to marry
your son, then I shall live and die here,"
the girl said bravely.
"That rests with yourself. A I said
Ix-fore, you are under discipline hero, and
jon may not Grid existence such a bed of
es a it was In Kerleston spiare."
"t'-nn I have my maid';" Kate asked. "I
ran hard! efay here with no one but the
ld woman in the house."
"Rebecca is coming down. I had a tele
irM from Err a to that effect, and La will j
week
"Ezra here!" Kate cried In horror. Her
chief consolation through all her trou
bles hud been that there seemed to be
some chance of getting rid of nor terrible
Boitor.
"And why not?" the old man asked an
grily. "Are you so bitter against the lad
as to grudge him the society of his own
father?"
Kate was saved from further reproaches
by the entrance of the old woman to clean
the table. The last item of intelligence,
however, had given her a terrible shock
and at the same time had filled her with
astonishment. What could the fast-living,
comfort-seeking man about town want in
this dreary abode? She knew Ezra well,
and was sure that he was not a man to
alter his ways of life or suffer discomfort
of any kind without some very definite ob
ject. It seemed to her that this was a
new mesh in the net which was being
drawn round her.
When her guardian had left the room
Kate asked Mrs. Jorroeks for a sheet of
nnner. The crone shook her head and
wagged her pendulous lip in derision
"Mister Girdlestone thought as you
would be after that." she said. "There
ain't no paper here, nor pens, neither, nor
ink, neither."
"What, none! Pear Mrs. Jorroeks, do
have pity on me, and get nie a sheet, how
eier old and soiled. See, here is some
silver ! You are very welcome to it if
you will give me the materials for writing
one letter."
Mrs. Jorroeks looked longingly with
he- bleared eyes at the few shillings which
the girl held out to her, but she shook her
head. "I dursn't do it." she said. "It's
as much as my place is worth."
"Then 1 shall walk down to Bedsworth
inj self," said Kate angrily. "1 have no
doubt that the people in the postoffiee will
!ei nie sit there and write it."
The old hag laughed hoarsely to her
self until the scraggy sinews of her with
ered neck stood out like whipcord. She
was still chuckling and coughing when the
merchant came back into the room.
"What then?" he asked sternly, looking
frcm one to the other. He was himself
constitutionally averse to merriment, and
h was irritated by it in others. "Why
are you laughinz, Mrs. Jorroeks?" .
"I was a-laughing at her," the woman
wheezed, pointing with tremulous fingers.
"She was askin' me for paper, and sayin'
a she would go and write a letter at the
Bedsworth postoffiee."
"You must understand once for all,"
Girdlestone roared, turning savagely upon
the girl, "that you are cut off entirely
Trom the outer world. I shall give you no
loophole which you may utilize to con
tinue your iutinia.-y with undesirable peo
ple. I have given orders that you should
not be provided with either paper or ink."
I'oor Kale's last hope seemed to be fad
ing away. Her heart sank within her,
but she kept a brave face, for she did not
wish him to see how his words had strick
en her. She had a desperate plan in her
head, which would be more likely to be
successful could she but put him off his
gt.ard.
She spent the morning in her own little
room. About one o'clock she heard the
clatter of hoofs and the sound of wheels
on the drive. Going down she found that
it was a cart which had come from Beds
worth with furniture. There were car
pets, a chest of drawers, tables, and sev
eral other articles, which the driver pro
ceeded to carry upstairs, helped by John
Girdlestone, The old woman was in the
upter room. It seemed to Kate that she
might never again have such an opportu
nity of carrying out the resolve which she
had formed. She put on her bonnet and
began to stroll listlessly about in front
of the door, picking a few straggling
leaves from the neglected lawn. Gradually
she sauntered away in this manner to the
head of the avenue, and then taking one
swift, timid glance around, she slipped in
among the trees, and made the best of her
way, half-walking, half-running, down ttie
dark winding drive.
Oh. the jov of the moment when the
great white house which had already be
come so hateful to her was obscured
among the trees behind her! She had
some idea of the road which she had trav
ersed the ninht before. Behind her were
all her troubles. In front the avenue
gate, Bedsworth and freedom. She would
send both a telegram and a letter to Dr.
Dimsdale, and explain to him her exact
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situation. If tne Kinci-nearrea ami ener
getic physician once knew of it, he would
take care that no harm befell her. She
could return then, and face with a light
heart the worst which her guardian could
do to her. Here was the avenue en
trance now, the high lichen-eaten stone
pillars, with the battered device upon the
top. The iron gate between was open.
With a glad cry she quickened her pace,
and in another moment would have been
in the high road, when
"Now then, where are you a-comin'
to?" cried a gruff voice from among the
bushes which flanked the gate.
The girl stopped all in a tremble. In
the shadow of the trees there was a camp
stool, and on the camp stool sat a sav
age 'looking man. dressed in a dark cor
duroy suit, with a blackened clay pipe
"stuck in the corner of his mouth. His
w iither-bcnten mahogany face was plen
tifully covered with smallpox marks, and
one of his eyes was sightless and white
from the effects of the same disease. lie
rose now, and interposed himself between
her and the gate.
"My good man," she said in a trembling
voice, for his appearance was far from
reassuring, "I wish to go past nnd to get
to Bedsworth. Here is a shilling, "nf I
be? that you will not detain me."
Her companion stretched on a very
ditty hand, took the coin, spun it up
in the nir, caught it, bit it, and finally
plunged it into the depths of his trouser
pockets. "No road this way. missy," he
said. "I've given my word to the guv'
tior. and I can't go back from it."
"You have no right to detain me," Kate
cried angrily. "I have good friends in
London who will make you suffer for
this."
She was only a dozen yards from the
lane which led to freedom, so she made
a quick little feminine rush in the hope
of avoiding this dreadful sentinel which
barred her passage. He caught her round
the waist, however, and hurled her back
with such violence that she staggered
a ross the path and would have fallen had
she not slruck violently against a tree.
Kate turned nnd retrac-ed her steps
slowly and sadly up the avenue. A she
(lanced back the mw a gaunt, hard-fea
tured woman trud'iirg up the lane wltn a
tin can in her hnnd. Lonely and forlorn,
but not yet quite destitute of hope, she
turned to the right uiuong the trees, and
pushed her way through bushes und bram
bles to the boundary of the I'riory
grounds. It wns a lofty wall, nt least
nim feet in height, with a coping that
bristled with jagged pieces of glass. Kate
w diked along the base o it. her fair sum
all torn and bleeding with scratches from
the briars, until she satisfied herself that
there was no break in it. There was
one small wooden door on the side which
wi skirted by the railway line, but it
was locked and impassable, The only
opening through which a human being
could pass was that which was guarded
in the manner she had seen. The sicken
iug conviction took possession of her mind
that without wings it was an utter iinpos
sibility either to get away or to give the
least information to any one in the world
as to where she was or what might be
fall her.
When she came back to the house, tired
and disheveled after her journey of ex
ploration, Girdlestone was standing by
the door to receive her with a sardonic
smile upon his thin lips. "How do you
likt the grounds, then?" he asked, with
the nearest approach to hilarity which she
had ever heard from him. "And the or
namental fencing? and the lodge keeper?
How did you like them all?" Kate tried
for a moment to make some brave retort,
but it was a useless attempt. Her lips
tivmbled, her eyes filled, and with a cry
of grief and despair which might have
moved a wild beast, she fled to her room,
and, throwing herself upon her bed, burst
into such scalding (ears as few women
are ever called upon to shed
CHAPTER XVI.
It would be impossible to describe the
suspense in which loin Uimsuale lived
during these weeks. In vain he tried in
every manner to find some way of tracing
flit fiiTif! una 11a unn ilnrtnl o i ml nul v
about London from one in.piiry office to
another, telling his story and appealing
for assistance. He advertised in papers
and cross-questioned every one who might
know anything of the matter. Therf
were none, however, who could help him.
or throw any light upon the mystery. No
one at the office knew anything of the
movements of the senior partner. To all
inquiries Ezra replied that he had been
ordered by the doctors to seek eoinpletf
repose in the country.
His father became seriously anxious
about the young fellow's health. He ate
nothing, and his sleep was much broken.
Both the old people tried to inculcate pa
tience and moderation.
"That fellow, Ezra Girdlestone, knows
where they are,' Tom would cry, striding
wildly up and down the room with un-
ktmpt hair and clenched hands. "I will
have his secret, if I have to tear it out
of him."
Steady, lad, steady !" the doctor re
plied to one of these outbursts. "There
ia nothing to be gained by violence. They
are on the right side of the law at pres
ent and you will be on the wrong if you
do anything rash. The girl could have
written if she were uncomfortable."
Ah. so she could. She must have for
gotten us. How could she, after all that j
has passed?"
Let us hope for the best, let us hope !
for the best," the doctor would say sooth-
inifly. Yet it must be confessed that he
which things had taken. He had seen so
much of the world in his professional ca
pacity that he had become a very reliable
judge of character. All his instincts told
him that Kate Hartson was a true-heart
ed and well-principled girl. It was not in
her nature to leave IiOiulon and never to
send a single line to her friends to tell
them where or why Rhe had gone. There
must, he was sure, be some good reason
fot her silence, and this reason resolved
itself into one of two things either she
was ill and unable to hold a pen, or she
had lost her freedom and was restrained
from writing to them. The last suppo
sition seemed to the doctor to be the more
serious of the two.
Had he known the instability of th
Girdlestone firm, nnd the necessity they
were under of getting ready money, he
would at once have held the key to the
eniema. He had no idea of that, but in
spite of his ignorance he was deeply (lis- j
trustful of both father and son. He knew j
and had often deplored the clause in John '
Harston's will by which the ward's money
reverted to the guardian. Forty thousand
pounds was a bait which might tempt
even a wealthy man into crooked paths.
(To be continued.)
PnliHlilnic tlaMNware.
You have heard of many valuable
ways to clean glassware and give to
tbe plows a desirable brilliancy, yet
here is a method which is a "secret"
and certain to give the best results.
Wash tbe glass pieces and drain until
dry, then coat each piece with a mix
ture of half water and ammonia. When
dry brush the pieces with a soft bris
tle brush. Be sure and use only the
bristle brush or the iKilish will not ajn
pear. This is excellent for glassware
of any kind and makes old pieces look
like new.
'lonnne Tied Tnlkrrs.
How many educated people there are
who have no nmrc than a peasant's
vocabulary. They do not use the
words that a peasant uses, but they
do not improve upon them. They still
go m saying. "Ilnw amusing!" "How
lovely!" "How nice!" to the end of the
chapter. Nobody can be interesting
who is always working a limited vo
cabulary. British Weekly.
Innocent Tommy.
"Here is some complexion powder,
auntie."' said little Tommy Toddles. "I
bought this llltle box for mamma and
the great big Iwix for you.' f
"But why did you think I needed
such a large box?" asked the visiting
aunt In surprise.
"Oh. because I beard papa say you
were two-faced."
I.Klr.
"Did you take your girl's mother to
tbe game with you?
"No; we left her at home. What la
home without a mother?" Yale Reo
ord.
MaklnK Dutler on the Farm.
There are two prime essentials In
making butter on the farm a profitable
business. In the first place, one must
have plenty of pure, cold water, and
then a good enough grade must be
I turned out to make nnd hold custom
; ers. The trouble with nine out of every
ton farm homes la they are not equipped
to take care of milk and cream. When
one goes Into this work to make
money, better put up a milk room,
where pure water may be bad from
pumping or from a spring. Concrete
floor and walls may now be built as
cheaply as with lumber, nnd It Is a
groat deal better than lumber. Don't
stop here. A barrel churn and a butter
maker will be necessary In turning out
a uniform product. It looks easy
simply separating the cream, churning
1111 the butter conip8- salting, and
the trick Is done. That Is where so
mnny fall. The cream must be churned
at the right temperature; It must be
neither too sweet nor too sour. Work
ing and salting butter to secure uni
form color and flavor Is a very nice art
Don't try to learn to do It Infallibly
in two or three weeks, but by all means
don't practice on your customers. That
means loss. It Is better to wait two or
oerore you sock custom-
j era- Anl. before you ship, find out
how your commission man or private
: customers prefer to have their butter
put up. Sometimes the package means
a difference of two or three cents a
pound.
An Attractive Gateway.
This rustic gateway, which was built
at a small cost, may be worth imitating,
modified, of course, to fit the surround
ings. This one Is
between two cedar
trees, and from lt
a winding path
leads to a pretty
rustic cottage.
Such a gate would
lie entirely out of
place at the en
trance to a stately
or formal building.
The cuts give an
BUSTIC GATE.
idea as to how the gate Is made. The
two uprights and the cross-piece on tbo
top are of locust. All the rest Is of
cedar. Parts of the smaller branches
have been left on the pieces that go to
flIj np the gate A gatewaT Iike this
would not prove effective against pigs
or chloke.na. hut would turn lartrer nnl-
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so iierfectly In harmony with Its sur
roundings. B. E. Miller, In Farm and
Home.
Color of Fkk an A "net.
One of the most potent factors, per
haps, that should be considered when
selecting a breed for producing eggs
for market Is the demand of the mar
ket at which the eggs are to be dis
posed of, says The Outing Magazine.
Some markets, notably New York City
and cities Immediately adjacent, pre
fer white-shelled eggs, and the best
trade In these markets will accept none
other. Boston prefers brown eggs, and
pays a substantial premium for them ;
and, taking the country over, the pref
erence Is for brown eggs by a large
majority. However, In many markets
no preference at all Is expressed ; In
fact, those Just mentioned are practic
ally the only markets In which the
color of the egg receives attention to
the extent of Influencing prices. Where
there Is a preference, and whichever
the preference Is, one should keep a va
riety of fowls that lay eggs of the pre
ferred color.
Meaxnrlnar Land .by Weight.
The area of any piece of land, no
matter how Irregular the boundary
lines, may he accurately ascertained by
i means of a delicate balance as follows:
Make a drawing of the plat of ground
i on pasteboard to a given scale, say 4
square rods to 1 inch. Cut from some
part of the slund of pasteboard a piece
i exactly 1 Inch square, which repre
' sents one acre, or 4 square rods. Also
cut out the plat as drawn. Weigh the
square and the pint. The number of
times the weight of the square Is con
tained In the weight of the plat Indi
cates the area of the land. For exam
ple. If the square which represents one
acre weighs 20 grains, and the plat
j weighs 240 grains, then the plat con
tains twelve acres. Scientific Ameri
can.
The Cone of Wffdi,
It is for the conservation of moisture
that we keep up the initiation of the
crops In the summer, but the evapora
tion which can be checked by this
means is small when compared with
the amount of water taken up from tho
soil by an ordinary growth of weeds.
I We can hardly estimate the Import
er Kuuna toe weeast
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TWO CKDABS STAND GUARD.
Labor of the Horse.
Some one bns figured out that lt costs
on the average only one-half as much
to feed a horse as It does to foinl a
man ; and that the horse will do ten
times tbe amount of work that lt Is
possible for the man to do. If this
estimate is correct, then a dollar's
worth of food given the horse will pro
duce twenty times as much results as
the same amount of money will If ex
pended In feed for a man. Therefore,
when man domesticated the horse be
Immensely Increased his own power of
securing results. When much farm work
is to be done there should always be
enough horses to do it. Farmers try
to economize on the number of horses
nnd have to leave much work undone.
In the event of hired help being scarce,
lt Is sometimes possible to offset this
lack by increasing the number of horses
kept. In some parts of the West and
Northwest, declares the Farmers' Re
view, the scarcity of help has resulted
in more horses being used. Five are
hitched to a double plow, and one drlv-
or Is thus enabled to turn two furrows
at a time and practically double the
work that one man has to do. This is
.uc ,,i V1 lue cump.ee uiiimuuvu oi
horseflesh.
Guide for Drag; Sana,
A very simple method by which otib
man can manipulate a drag saw to cut
down trees has been devised by a west
ern timber man. In
using these saws
tvo m en have
heretofore been
necessary, one at
each end of tlio
saw.
According to tin;
new Invention,
there Is rested
against a trex;
rod from which Is
suspended a cord.
ONE-MAN SAW.
At the end of the cord Is an adjust
able clamp, to which one end of the
saw Is secured. At the other end of
the saw Is a handle. In operating thu
saw to cut the tree, the end opposite th.
handle, Is supported by the cord in the
same position as If operated by baud.
With the employment of this guide the
necessity of an extra man to manage
one end of the saw Is eliminated.
I.o of Fertility by I-eachlnn.
Land kept constantly as a garden
loses much of its fertility by leaching.
A clover rotation Is the best preventive
of this. There should be at least two
or three garden spots on each farm
kept rich enough so that one year's ex
tra manuring will bring it Into the
finest possible condition for garden
truck. If fanners could always plant
gardens on two-year clover sod they
would raise better crops and with less
stable manure and other fertilizers
than they now require. The clover
does much more than furnish green
manure to ferment In the soil. Its
roots reach down Into the subsoil, thus
not only saving and bringing to the
surface plant food that would other
wise be wasted, but also by enlivening
the subsoil, allowing the roots of crops
to go deeper. Clover sod to begin with.
If well enriched, Is best for such crops
ns cucumbers and melons, that are al
ways most likely to suffer from
drought. It Is quite Impossible to make
a good garden crop unless the land has
previously been enriched by a series of
heavy manurlngs. The fertility lost by
leaching must be constantly renewed.
A Feed Combine.
Feeding sheep and Iambs for the
market is very much of a lottery at
best. It is the purpose of the feeder
to buy thin stock and, after feeding lt
from sixty to ninety days, return it to
market at a profit. This is the hope
that Impels him to put in his time and
labor, else be would not do it. There
are three Important factors that enter
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into the operation. The cost of the
sheep or lambs on the market, the price
of tbe feed that is to make them fat,
and the condition of the market when
they nre returned for slaughter. The
first element Is a known quantity, but
the second and third are often a
chance. They have proved to be very
much of a chance this season. The
original cost of the feeders was the
greatest on record, feed was high and
market conditions have not panned out
as good as generally expected. Drov
ers' Journal.
Idaho Man Kln .New Wheat.
A new variety of wheat has been dis
covered by a farmer living near Jull
etla, Idaho. He says he found n few
kernels of the wheat growing wild in
Alaska, and being struck with their
plumpness, hardness and other appar
ent good qualities, ho brought home a
few kernels and planted them. From
thos few kernels he harvested enough
the first year to plant several square
rods of ground the second year, the
yield from this planting being at the
rate of more than 100 bushels per
acre, well-til led heads; the kernels nre
large, plump and hard and millers say
it makes good flour.
To C'anTan llama.
When hams are smoked, roll them In
stiff paper, cut your brown muslin to
fit them and sew It on with a large '
needle and twine; then make a starch
of flour and yellow ochre, and with a
small whitew ash brush cover them with
It Hang them np to dry.
Poultry Koten.
Clean the droppings from under the
roosts frequently.
Buckwheat Is excellent for both
young and old poultry.
m
A laying hen should hare constant
access to lime or gravel. I
Grit Is the hen's teeth. Provide her
with plenty of it, so that she may dl-
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test her food.
THEVEEKLY
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nople.
1578Willinrn discoverer the
, circulntion of the blood, born.
104.,MaisonnPUVe defeated the Iroqaoi.
of ,,, t.,... ... . t..,lt.i
178.1 Field Marshal Viscount Hardinge,
an early governor general of India
born in England.
1800 Joseph Bonaparte made King of
the Two Sicilies.
1814 Napoleon Bonaparte sent in exile
to islaiAl of Elba.
18,'" Treasury buildings at Washington
destroyed by lire.
1843 Sir Charles Metcalfe appointed
governor of Canada.
1847 Co vent Garden theater, London,
I opened for Italian opera.
18o4 Commercial treaty concluded with
Japan by Commodore I'erry of the
United States navy.
lS.vi Planet Circe discovered by 11.
Chacornac.
18o0 Treaty of I'aris, ending the
Crimean war.
18.Vt British force under Sir Hugh Roue
defeated the Indian mutiueers and
took the city of Jhansi.
1S(J2 Gen. Albert S. Johnston of the
Confederate army killed at Shiloh.
Born 1SCW.
18(15 Confederates evacuated Richmond.
....Federal troops occupied Rich
mond, Va... United States transport
General Lyon burned with great loss
of life.
18(3(1 First national encampment of the
G. A. R. met at Indianapolis. . . .
Spanish fleet bombarded Valparawto.
Chile.
18(57 I'nited States bought Alaska from
Russia for $7,200,000.
188 Uniform postage rate of 3 eenta
per letter adopted throughout Can
ada. 1S8T) Battleford. in Saskatchewan, be
sieged by Indians.
1891 Baron Fava, Italian minister to
the United States, recalled.
18!)S China leased Wei-IIai-Wei to
Great Britain.
190'J Large section of Atlantic City de
stroyed by fire.
lIKr Explosion in a cartridge factory at
Bridgeport, Conn., resulted in a
number of deaths. .. .Simplon tunnel
formally opened.
1907 Fred A. Basse, Republican, elected
Mayor of Chicago.
Supt. Maxwell of the New York City
Board of Education, in his annual reoorl
j Uiges the formation of a department ol
school hygiene. Such a department, h
thinks, should be under the direction ol
a medical man, who would rank us an
osso','te superintendent, and who should
, have a sufl"'i i(,nt nnniljer of physicians to
i e"u,,1ne " 1 ,ft'e ch,Wrcn ,n ,,,f llMi(
schools at least once a year, and a suffl-
dellt niHnber of nurrKp8 t(J Tisit ,h
homes of sick children and to care foi
1 slight ailments in school. He says that
! New York is the noisiest city in tin
world and that children lack a propel
amount of sleep. Owing to crowded
quarters in the tnements nnd in iom
of the public schools as well many chil
dren are crippled by lowered vitality, de
fective sight, defective teeth and othei
evils, many of which could be overcoma
The report says that there are l.")8,46
pupils in the schools over normal age; ia
other words, they are backward in Iheii
lessons because of physical defects.
The National Civic Federation hat
made arrangements to send 500 or mori
public schooi teachers next fall to Eng
land, Scotland. Ireland and the conti
nent to inspect the system of teaching and
school methods generally in foreign coun
tries. This idea was suggested by th
success of a similar expedition of En if
lish teachers to the United Slates in
V.MCi-t;. The teachers who make thii
trip will have an opportunity to exam
ine at first hand what is being done foi
children abroad, both in the common
schools and in the special school. Presi
dent Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum
bia university has been appointed chair
man of an advisory comniiltee to carrj
the plan through. In this connection il
may be noted that Mr. Butler has ac
cepted the invitation of the Universitj
of Copenhagen to deliver three leeturei
there next September, the subject niattel
of the lectures to
be "Some AsoecU nl
American Civilization
He will leav
tor nenmarK in August, returning ia
time for the opening of college next fall
Chancellor Hewitt C. Huntington ol
the Nebraska Wesleyan university at
Lincoln has tendered his resignation, and
it was accepted by the loard of trustee
with the understanding that Chancelloi
Huntington shall remain until the end ol
the school year.
At Chippewa Falls, Wis., Supt. Swart
ordered the members of the Greek lettei
fraternity Alpha Helta Omega to disband
the organization or suffer expulsion from
h. He tdw',arfd thn.tno gocrpt or
STJ'he nZ i" 7, t '0"'a,"1
the memben promised to heed the warn
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