The Qhauifeur
and the Jewels
Cerrrluht, I'Vfi. by J. B. Lipmnoott Company.
AU rights reserved.
CHAPTER VI. (Continued.)
Giving liis shoulders n resolute, fatal
istic shrug. Sarto tt fjioil out of his
stateroom nnil, luck in? the door behind
him, went jauntily down to dinner. In
the saloons through which he passed pco
pie were htill scattered about, notwith
standing the claims of table d'hote, and
more than one loiterer turned nrouiul or
glanced up over his newspaper at the
sight of the distinguished looking for
igner sauntering by.
"Pining saloon on the left. Your High
ness," an obsequious steward informed
our friend as ho turned into the main
ut ranee.
Alceste was an ally worth having!
With a sense of satisfaction that
amounted to positive elation, Sarto open
ed the door on his left. lie fore him glim
mered a river of lights, looked a river
of faces men and women of varying
types, plying their knives and forks as
siduously. l'erfectly conscious of the eyes that
followed him. the mock prince walked
slowly up the length of the room between
rows of waiters, his eyes well to the
front, where a chair had been already
drawn out for him, far up at the captain's
right.
It was as he sat down, with a bow
to his uniformed host, and let his glance
wander idly about him that Sarto expe
rienced his second shock that d.iy, and a
startling one indeed. For an instant the
sheer surprise of it staggered him com
pletely. Then, recovering himself with
supreme effort, he lifted his monocle and
looked steadily across the table.
Yes, there they were there was no
mistake the very last people he had
wished or expected to see Mrs. Richard
Waring, Annette Bancroft and Gerald
Buist, Englishman!
After all. why had he not thought of
this possibility? It was just like Gussie.
after laying her plans for a protracted
stay in London, suddenly to take passage
for home.
Raising his head, the chauffeur glanced
rapidly over the tables, his quick eye
picking out a keen-edged profile an an
gular back. Surrounded! Hemmed in
ou all sides! His lips twitched. The
situation was positively comic in its dire
fulness. Detective, robber, and robbed,
breaking bread together! What a justa
position !
"Game's up," Sarto told himself stoic
ally, and, fixing his eyes on his menu
card, he awaited the inevitable check
mate. But it was long in coining ! Over and
over the chauffeur conned that intermin
able list of dishes, his brain on the alert
for developments across the table ; yet
nothing happened, the tinkle of glasses
and the clatter of cutlery continuing un
broken. What did it mean?
At last the sound of a voice opposite
made him prick up his ears. "I told you
Blantoik was on board," came a familiar
British drawl. "See him over there, Gus
ie?" "Where?" Sarto experienced a faint
thrill at the clear-cut, well-known tones.
"Down there. That second table to
your left. Look ! Four seats from the
end."
But Gussie did not look ! Under his
lowered eye-lids the man opposite was
unpleasantly conscious that her gaze was
upon him curiously, interrogatively. She
had recognized him !
Taking a little gold pencil out of his
pocket, Sarto began, with perfect self
possession, to cross off an elaborate meal,
while he waited for her next move.
What would she do?
Gradually the eyes upon him shifted,
then they came back again. Gussie put
up hpr hand and litrhtly touched her hair,
the furtive, beringed fingers patting a
lock here, a coil there a characteristic
gesture, this of hers. Why, the bird was
actually pluming itself! For whose ben
efit? There was a moment's silence.
"If Mr. Blantock is really on board,"
Mrs. Waring remarked, in obviously cau
tious tones, "what do you suppose it
means?"
Gerald hesitated a moment. "Perhaps,"
he suggested significantly, "it means that
a friend of yours is on board too."
It was a tremendous moment.
Handing the card to the waiter, with
a low-toned direction. Sarto now raised
his head and looked deliberately across the
table, his eyes encountering those of the
woman opposite in a steely, impenetrable
stare. To his surprise, Mrs. Waring
looked away, blushing faintly, and set
down her wine g!ns with a little cliek.
"Well. I've quite finish. -d.'' she an
nounced. ghi!H-i"2 at h-r party; "how
about you? Shall w- go u; on der'k and
have co:Te-?"
The girl beside her acjuiesed. speak
ing for the t:rt tiir.e. mid. s'ill under
Lis lowered ;) id.. Sarto watched the
familiar procession pass out of the room,
G'tssii; takir.e the lead, as usual, the Eng
lishman bringing up the r-ar.
If they had recognized him. of which
the cli.TjiT'-ur made no doubt, then, he
told himself, there must have been a 11
tual silent derision avoid n scene in
the sa'oon. Probably ;ne arrest would
e made as son as he went out.
"After dlrnier. the dehj.-e !" juoth Sar
to. the philosopher, paraphrasing a fam
ous maxim, and. true to the tcachlnes of
Mine, de Pompadour, he set forth on his
consomme. It was some lime later t hat.
his eventful meal end -d, the ino'k prince
fctf-pix'd out of the saloon and. standing
in the lee of the outer door, placidly lit
a cigar. What a night of enchantment
It was!
Ixiw in the Leavens, over the luminous,
palpitating h-i-mi damzh-d the fu!l moon
a pref. cold, n -,,h, and from it, de
k -ciidiT the waves, a ladder of light hung
us;x-; iel, each rung girt with silver.
Not a breath of air i:ioed. the throbbing
of the screw alone Lreaking the mystic
stillness.
dancing about him cautiously, Sarto
took in one group after another uunter-
By
UJith Morgan Willett
'ng up and down the deck, and then drew
back with sudden swiftness into the door
shadow, his cigar bitten tight between his
eeth, his breath coming unevenly, as he
watched two familinr figures go by un
der the electric lights. Scarcely were
they past, a breath of violets following
the swish of Gussie's skirts, when the
man in the doorway sprang forward and
picked up something that whirled over
the deck in her wake.
What should he do with it?
Grasping the white lace thing, he star
ed after the couple, twisting his thin lips
uncertainly. Fate had thrown him Gus
sie's handkerchief, with some obvious end
in view. Why not run the chance now?
"It's always best to know the worst,"
Sarto told himself, with unconscious Irish
wit, and he set out along the decks, quick
ening his steps to catch up with the loit
ering pair.
"Pardon, madame !"
He saw them stop, and felt Gussie turn
her head inquiringly.
Then advancing, hat in hand, "I think
you dropped this." he said, speaking in
English and holding the handkerchief out
to her with a glance that was half ques
tion, half grim, daring defiance, for Gus
sie's eyes were full of recognition.
"Thank you very much," she said, tak
ing her possession without looking at it.
and, with a little hesitation, "Isn't this
the Prince del Pino? The captain told
me that he sat opposite to us at dinner."
Holding himself well in hand, Sarto
achieved a bow.
Mrs. Waring smiled. "I feel as if I
knew Your Highness already," she said,
"through my old friend Count Souravieff.
of the Russian Legation. I wonder if you
ever heard him speak of Mrs. Richard
Waring?"
With his self-possession miraculously
restored, Mrs. Waring's chauffeur bowed
over the hand so graciously outstretched
to him.
"I have heard your name, madame, a
hundred times," he said gallantly, "and
from many others beside Count Soura
vieff. Boris Souravieff!" He laughed,
with a keen recollection of his late pat
ron's boon companion. "Why, we were
motoring together only last autumn."
At this point another voice broke in.
"My name's Buist," said that individ
ual, introducing himself with his usual
nonchalance. "Glad . to meet you, I'm
sure."
"Charmed," declared the Prince del
Pino.
Clicking his heels together, he bowed
a,gain, searching the other's face warily ;
but Gerald's straightforward lineaments
were as open as the proverbial political
door. Not a shade of suspicion, not a sign
of doubt, lurked in that broad, clean
shaven expanse !
Behind his tilted monocle the eyes of
Ludovic Sarto, chauffeur, glistened with
satisfaction at his own amazing good for
tune. So these two people had accepted
him without reserve! Theirs be the risk,
then. He would play the part for all it
was worth.
"We were just about to join my cousin.
Miss Bancroft." Gussie explained, leading
the way around the deck. "Ah, here she
is!"
"Annette, this is the Prince del Pino."
She sat down next to the girl and smil
ingly motioned to a chair beside her.
"Won't Your Highness join us? You see,
Mr. Buist is evidently going to desert us
for a smoke. Perhaps you will take his
place?"
With a murmured word of thanks.
Sarto slipped into the low, easy chair, his
mind going back rapidly to a certain tea
party when he had first taken Mr. Buist's
place when the humble chauffeur had
been first allowed the honor of sitting by
Mrs. Waring.
What a turning of tables to-night !
With what subtle difference of texture the
Fates had woven in the old design!
And yet this exquisite situation had its
undoubted perils. It whs with a swift
realization of his own immediate danger
that, turning his head, the mock Prince
del Pino now met Gussie Waring's half
puzzled, interrogative gaze.
"Really," she apologized, "your face is
so absurdly familiar, you know, I've been
wondering, ever since I first saw you
across the dinner table, where I could
possibly have met you before or is it
that you remind me of some one I know?
Let me think" (she frowned absently).
"Who can it be?"
"Yes. who can it be?" echoed the man
beside her. He smiled a faint twinkle
in his inscrutable eye. "Not Souravieff, I
ope .'
Gussie took the bait. "Souravieff. I
should think not!" She laughed, remem
bering the diplomat's razor-like outlines.
Then, her thoughts swerving unconscious
ly into a new chrnnel, "Oh, by the way,
prince, we have another mutual friend I
haven't mentioned yet" this with a mis
chievous side-glance at Annette. "Perhaps
you haven't heard of my experience with
your i-hauffeur?"
"Ah. that miserable scclcrat!" ejacu
lated Ludovic Sarto. He bent towards
the womm he had robbed, his face posi
tively sphinx-like in its impenetrability,
his manner serious, deferential: and, re
lapsing unconsciously into French, "My
dear Mrs. Waring, I cannot tell you how
distressed absolutely apologetic I feel
about jour loss. To think of that fellow
of mine turning out such a rascal! It is
inconceivable."
He paused, hesitated, then, the humor
of the situation carrying him on irresist
ibly. "Why, I trusted Ludovic Sarto ns
I did myself, be declared, with infinite
pathos; "I was sincerely attached to
him!"
For the first time lie looked across de
liberately at the girl on his other side.
Annette Bancroft was leaning forward
also, taking in every word that he said,
her lips parted, her small face, in the all-revt-aling
electric lights, oddly tense and
eager.
"Ah! you too!" she exclaimed Impuls
ively, a ahe caught bis eye. "Wasn't it
a terrible disappointment that he should
turn out so? That poor ehaiiuVur !"
There was a little pause, then:
"How about my poor diamonds?" aske..
Gussie. "What do you think, prince?"
She turned to him, "Shall we ever get
hold of that man?"
"How can I tell?" asked Ludovic Sarto.
lie cleared his throat and spoke in business-like
English. "What steps are you
aking, if 1 may ask, madame? I sup
pose it is in the hands of the police
Yes?"
Mrs. Waring nodded her head. "I have
a very capable detective," she said confi
dentially, "who tracked the chauffeur all
the way from Southampton to Liverpool,
where, unfortunately, he gave him the
slip. Mr. Blantock's idea is that he was
trying to get over to America."
"That is very probable," agreed Sarto.
Turning slightly, he glanced again at
Annette, to find her eyes fixed on him
with an intensity that was almost painful.
"My experience of the man indeed," he
went on, choosing his words deliberately
and watching her face, "is that he sel
dom fails of his ends. Sarto, I think, will
elude you by every means in his power.
He is a shrewd fellow, I can tell you, and
if you are too many for him" lie shrug
ged his shoulders "ma foi ! I doubt me
if you will ever catch him alive."
With keen satisfaction he saw Annettt
wince. "Ah !" she said, in a low tone,
"what a grisly suggestion !" Then, rising
abruptly, "There's Mr. Buist." This with
evident relief. "I think I am going to
join him and walk up and down a bit,
if you and the prince will excuse mo,
Gussie."
Holding on to the rail, she made her
way off unsteadily. Watching the small
figure, Sarto was so absorbed in his own
speculations that it was with a start he
became conscious of a voice beside him.
"Don't you think," it asked, in languid,
rather bored accents, "that your chauffeur
and my diamonds have absorbed quite
enough of the conversation? It seems to
me that you and I. prince, have a thou
sand other things in common."
(To be continued.)
TEA FROM THE FLOWERS.
Nntnrally Sweet Ten of Western
( liiim Yuliie of Tea Dmt.
Tea, not from the leaves, but from
the flowers alone of the plant, Is rare
ly encountered in commerce. The
petals, stamens, etc., are sun-dried, and
the resulting tea is of a rich, deep
brown hue of peculiarly delicate odor,
and gives a pale amber colored infu
sion rather more astringent in taste
than that from the average fair grade
leaf. The taste for it is an acquired
one, and even if this tea could be made
commercially possible, It is doubtful if
it would ever become popular.
The American tea trade could advan
tageously take a suggestion from the
brick tea of the far east. In our coun
try, the tea dust, some of which is of
good quality, is not properly utilized.
In Europe it Is a regular article of
trade, and it is advertised and sold as
tea dust. In America it is sold to thou
sands of cheap restaurants, who make
from it the mixture of tannic acid,
sugar and boiled milk which they sell
as "tea." If, as in the Orient, this dust
were compressed into bricks, good tea
could be made from it, and the product
would find a ready market through the
multitude of uses for which it is adapt
ed. A beginning in this direction has
been made by the Pinehurst tea estate
In South Carolina, and In Europe sim
ilar advances have been inaugurated.
The virgin tea (biepjeki-chi), so
called from its use at Chinese wed
dings, is the sun-dried leaf intact, tied
up with three strands of colored silk.
After infusion, these fagotlike little
bundles are pickled in vinegar and used
as salad. This tea is sold in especially
handsome silk-covered and glass-topped
boxes. The rarest of till teas, and one
that has never been known to reach
this country, is a naturally sweet tea,
produced in western China on a very
limited scale. Its culture is centuries
old. and the secret has been jealously
guarded from aer.oration to generation.
The saccharinity is probably due to
grafting and years of patient study and
care, such as only the small Chinese
tea farmer is capable of bestowing.-
Scientific American.
Xew lied Clover I Found.
The Bureau of Plant Industry has
been experimenting with a new form
of rod clover which came from the
black soil region of Russia. The plant
is practically hairless and therefore
does not hold dust like the common red
clover.
.For this reason it is believed tha..
it will make a better forage plant for
horses, since it will bo much less like
ly to cause lieavis and will be cleaner
and more convenient to handle. P.loat-
. ...i . t ..I....... .1.,,. t ti.irf- !
Il'g HI CHI lie 1 H'I liaors Miic in
to the presence ,,f imirs on common
clover. If Hits be true the trouble
would bo obviated by fowling them the
new hairless Orel clover.
Another objection to Cue common reo.
clover is that it matuns much earlier
than timothy, with which it is usually j
sown. It is thus impossible to harvest !
the mixture at a ti when the full
value of both the clover ami timothy
ran be obtained.
The new Orel clover matures two
weeks later than the common red kind,
or at the same time with the timothy,
and at a season when the farmer's at
tention is not co Imperatively demanded
for his corn, and also at a time when
In most of the clover In It the weather
Is more favorable for harvesting the
crop without injury by rain.
I-:nrt of Heavy Cull Klrc.
The firing of a big gun causes hem
orrhages in the ears of eight out of
ninety-six soldiers.
Freckles may be hereditary. Cases
of freckles all over the body are men
tioned. Food Is not supiKsed to cause
them. Sun and wind make some face
freckle.
Cultivation of Corn.
Corn makes a rank growth both above
and below ground, and for that reason
requires treatment somewhat different
from what is given to wheat or oats.
Planting in rows Is necessary not only
to permit full development of the stalks,
but also to give plenty of feeding room
to the roots. Corn roots, If they have
a chance, will occupy every inch to the
depth of from three to live feet, and
the yield of the corn will depend on
the completeness of this occupation.
The feeding ground, or, In other words,
the corn root pasture, depends mainly
on the preparation and cultivation of
the soil. It may be limited In many
ways, so that the farmer, Instead of us
ing from three to live feet of his field
as soil, will use only a small portion of
it. If the land is not properly drained,
either naturally or artificially, the corn
roots cannot penetrate into the regions
saturated with water, for the water
shuts out the air. If hard pan comes
near the surface the corn roots cannot
reach Into that, and he may be culti
vating but six, eight or ten inches of the
field as soil. If the land be heavy and
ploughed wet, full of lumps on the sur
face or resting on the plough pan or
bottom of the furrow, the corn roots
cannot utilize these, and hence his soil
Is limited. If he has ploughed under,
In a dry time, coarse manure, so as to
shut off the supply of water from be
low, the corn roots are again limited.
It is, therefore, about as necessary for
the farmer to understand corn roots
and their habits and ways as It is for
the surgeon to understand the anatomy
of the system, where the bones lie, and
where the arteries, veins, nerves and
muscles are hidden under the skin.
The corn plant, It will be seen, has
no top-root. The first roots start out
from the seed grain and go down.
After this the roots are sent out in
whorls of from two to ten. As the plant
advances toward maturity, these whorls
rise closer to the surface. The first
roots thrown out Immediately above the
primary roots run sideways and occupy
ten or fifteen inches below tjie surface.
These lateral roofs throw out fibrous or
feeding roots, which run in every di
rection through the soil and occupy
every Inch within a radius of from two
to five feet. It is evident, therefore,
that if we plough corn immediately
after planting, or after it Is first up,
we can plough us deep as we like, and
generally the deeper the better. When,
however, the roots begin to rise and
occupy every square Inch of soil within
reach, it will not do to plough deep.
Our cultivation must, therefore, be lim
ited to the surface, and with the end in
view of killing the weeds and forming
the mulch of dry dirt which will shut
off surface evaporation, and spread out
the water which is continually rising
from below within reach of the roots.
The older ami larger the plant the
shallower should the cultivation be. In
fact, If the ground is well prepared,
ploughed deep when there is no dan
ger of cutting off the roots, the only
thing the farmer needs to do during
(lie latter period Is to maintain the
mulch of dry dirt on the surface.
I-'nrni Help I,- Kiprnalve,
Farm labor is cheaper than it was at
this time last year and is pretty sure
to continue so for the season. There
has been some curtailment in manufac
turing throughout the country, the re
sult being that a great many men are
out of work. With this condition farm
ers find that they can get he!) more
readily now than they have been able
to for scveni 1 years.
It Is asivrtained that where contracts
have been made in the Middle West and
Southwest for farm hands the rate of
wages averages about $.1 per month low
er than that prevailing a year ago.
A common rate of pay for farm hands
at this time Is $2."i per month, as against
$.'50 last season. Competent men with
experience In special departments of
farming will command more, hut not as
much as In l!Xx; and 1!KJ. Good live
stock hands receive $3." to $4.", hut
above this there are few men hired even
for fancy farming or the specialties who
are receiving more.
Youths and Inexperienced Immigrants
are offering their service for from $15
to (20 per month.
DISTIUBUTIOX OF CORN BOOTS IX SOIL.
Concrete Outdoor Cellm.
A simple method of constructing a
cool, outdoor cellar in localities whero
the common house cellars are too
warm for use during the summertime,
Is shown in the accompanying sketch.
It Is a cellar made under the pump,
so that the water pumped by the
windmill has a very cooling effect.
In places where it is difficult to obtain
Ice, it will prove indispensable to the
dairyman who keeps a few cows. An
other important item Is the fact that
a man docs not find It necessary to
pull up all of the pipes every time
that he finds It necessary to repair the
pipes and pump. It Is constructed of
concrete. The top Is re-enforced with
otit-half-Inch steel rods placed one foot
apart each way and the concrete is
about six Inches thick. The sides are
made by using a form and t.ie stairs
are also made of concrete and ara re
enforced by small steel rods. The cost,
OUTDOOR (HOLLAR.
Including the labor, amounted to about
!?r0 In the west and southwest it will
also answer the purpose of a storm
cave, which Is considered a fixture on
all farms. Farm and House.
A Sew Swindle on Fanner.
An entirely new but highly successful
scheme to separate farmers from their
money has been worked In South Da
kota during the past few months.
An oily grafter calls on a farmer and
makes a bid for his laud. The figures
are absurdly low at first, but by de
grees are raised as high as $00 an acre,
and the farmer consents.
Then the visitor explains that he is
only an agent, but that he can sell the
land at the price named if the owner
will agree to pay for advertising at the
rate of 50 cents an acre.
The "agent'' promises orally that the
advertising money will not be payable
until the land is sold, but this stipula
tion Is not contained In the contract
that the farmer signs.
In a few days he receives a copy of
an ad and not overcourteous demand
for money.
It is said that twenty-two agricul
turists were caught with this bait in
Brown County and that one of them
gave up $320.
Thornier and Milk.
To many persons the curdling of milk
in a thunderstorm Is a mysterious and
unintelligible phenomenon. Yet, ac
cording to scientists, the whole process
is simple and natural. Their claim is
that milk, like most other substances,
contains millions of bacteria. The
milk bacteria that In a day or two,
under natural conditions, would cause
the fluid to sour are peculiarly sus
ceptible to electricity. Electricity In
spires and invigorates them, as alco
hol, cocaine or strong tea affects men'.
Under the current's influence they fall
to work with amazing energy, and in
stead of taking a couple of days to
sour the milk they accomplish the task
completely in a half hour. With an
electric buttery it is easy on the same
principle to sour the freshest milk.
Improved Khuvrl Handle.
In a scoop-handle for shovels, spades
and similar articles recently patented,
an Illinois inventor claims that he lias
designed a device
for tools of this
kind by which the
weight of the load
can be more ef
fectually balanced
and the forward
hand of the opera
tor shifted In a
more convenient
manner to facili
tate the operation
of the tool in scoop
BALANCES LOAD.
ing and lifting. The operator Is also
relieved of the necessity of stooping so
low as he does in shovels of the or
dinary construction. Ho introduces a
supplemental handle, which is secured
to the handle of the shovel, the oppo
site end extending forward of the rear
end of the blade, being supported from
the latter by braces. The supplemen
tal handle is engaged by the forward
hand of the operator, the latter being
thus greatly relieved of weight. It
avoids the twisting strain of the body
caused by lifting a heavy load when
the forward hand is placed low down
upon the usual handle. The hand of
the operator can be readily slid back
and forth in the various manipulations
of the scoop, rendering it more con
venient and efficient in use, adapting
it to be used with decreased power and
strain.
The Codrilinic Moth.
About one-fifth of the first laying of
eggs by the coddling moth Is on the
fruit, the rest being on the leaves and
branches. The young larva that
hatches from the egg Is able to feed
on the foliage to some extent and may
come into maturity without entering
the fruit, although It rarely does so.
About SO per cent of the first brood
finds Its way Into the apples at the
calyx, while the rest eat In at other
points, principally at the stem. Only
about 28 jkt cent of the second brood
enters at the calyx, the others eating
in where the apples touch each other,
or a leaf at the stem end. The aver
age life of the adult Insect, or moth,
is about four days.
THEWEEKLY
110S- Death of Peter the Hermit, the
preanher of the first crusade.
13SG Swiss defeated the Austrians at
battle of Sempach.
1008 Chaniplain founded the city of
Quebec.
1709 Peter the Great of Russia decis
ively defeated Charles XII. of Swe
den at battle of Pultowa.
177o Washington took command of the
Continental army at Cambridge.
17S1 Engagement between British and
American troops at Kings Bridge,
X. Y.
1779 Fairfield, Conn., burned by the
British.
1792 City of Washington selected as
the capital of the United States. '
183!) First normal school in America
opened at Lexington, Mass.
184(5 Commodore Slout of the United
States navy bombarded and took pos
session of the city of Monterey.
ISIS Peace proclaimed between the
United States and Mexico.
lSoO Integrity of Denmark guaranteed
by England, France, Prussia and
Sweden.
1S51 Corner stone of the extension of
the capitol laid by President Filmore.
18."4 Turks defeated the Russians at
Giurgevo.
lS5o Lord Canning appointed Gov
ernor General of India.
T8C3 Surrender of Port Hudson, a Con
federate fortress on the Mississippi
river. .. .Last day of the battle of
Gettysburg.
ISOu Execution of Payne, Atzerott, Har
old and Mrs. Surratt, for complicity
in the assassination of President Lin
coln. 1800 Prussians defeated the Austrians
at Sadowa.
1SS7 The Ameer of Afghanistan, follow
ing a rising against taxation, pro
claimed peace, amnesty and a remis
sion of taxes for two years.
IS90 Idaho Territory became a State.
1893 Marriage of the Duke of York and
Princess May of Teck.
18!)."i A third daughter was Iwirn to the
President and Mrs. Cleveland at
Cray Gables Twenty persons
killed in a railroad wreck on the
Grand Trunk near Quebec.
1807 -Lisbon celebrated the 4Ht h anni
versary of the departure of Vasco da
Gama to discover the sea route to the
Indies.
1898 The island of Guam seized by the
Americans of the warship Charles
ton. 1900 Li Hung Chang made viceroy of
China.
190r 'i,rjst's College, Cambridge, cele
brated the 4UOih year of its founda
tion. 1907 Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
sentenced to five years' imprisonment
for extortion ... .Opening of the new
lift lock in the canal at Kirklield,
Out.
The bnccalaureate address of President
Woodrow Wilson of Princeton to the
senior class said that the fundamental
moral problem in the complex civilization
of to-day was "how to separate the in
dividual from the mass, to lift the indi
vidual soul out of the confusion and dis
traction of modern societies, unions,
brotherhoods, leagues, alliances, corpora
tions and trusts, into some clear place
of vision, where he may think and see
ajwrt, looking beyond the things of to
day to the things that abide." Standards,
he thought, had been confused by the at
tempt to confound morals with material
ambitions. Individual conscience and not
law would make reforms. But the ten
dency toward vast organizations of all
kinds had resulted in men's trying to st
arate their individual life from the life
of their organization, being meal in the
jne and immoral in the other, lie declared
I hat the tendency to be practical would
not conquer the tendency to be moral.
Gov. Warner has announced the ap
point ment of Chase S. Osborn. of Sault
Sle. Marie, Mich., as regent of the Uni
versity of Michigan, to succeed the late
Peter White, of Marquette. Mr. OsWn
was chairman of the Michigan delegation
at the Republican national convention.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota delivered,
the commencement address to the stu
dents of Kansas State university. His
subject was "landmarks of American
Ubcrty."
Ih Wu Ting-Fang, Chinese minister
to the United States, delivered the com
mencement address at Iowa University.
At the conclusion of his address Minis
ter Wu was given the honorary degree
of LL. D. In the afternoon Minister Wu
delivered an open-air address.
Theodore Koosevelt. Jr., son of the
President, ha taken his degree as bach
elor of arts, thus finisainj a four yars'
course in three years. The Joung man
has mod-! known his purose to begin hi
tireer ia the ranks of thj manual lalior
ers. and is said to have atpted a p ac
a a miner.