Heppner gazette., October 29, 1908, Image 6

A I'olitkai
WELDON
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Ho had sustained a shook, it was evi
dent. He tried 10 brace his nerves, but
his tones sinv.ilc ns ln turned his colorless
face to moot the w rote-hod, cruel ona of
his companion.
"Speak .'" ho said, almost hissingly "if
you know what tliis moans!"
"What it moans;" hysterically retorted
Worth ington "ruin '."
"Nonsense !"
Kan shrugged his shoulders. He had
pot tho mastery ovor momentary weaic
11 oss r.ow.
"You see"'" pursued tho other "a
drop."
"Of thirty points !"
"Which nie.-ns "
"Only two millions."
"Onlv two miilions !
yes but if this
poos 0:1 "
"It can't." confidently
i
insisted Kane. !
"I'cns? up, tr.an some rascally stodc-
' jol
its ,:u
lory
of competitors ! A on- '
na:.-d I;;
stoek. ;
morrow
"i'tir
Wo-::.!:
We are
market ;
-i frightened the holders of our j
here has been a stampede. To-j
onr turn will come." j
the cause- the cause?" persisted :
gton "for there was a causa ! j
too so'.'d to bo the football of the
then win-nee the break and 1
why':''
"Oo"-,e in !' swlic Kane gruffly, as a tap
Founded on the polished mahogany door,
find a messenger boy entered, handed him
a telegram, departed. Kane tore it open.
A queer click sounded in his throat. For
a second he breathed laboring!.?. lie
lhanded the mess;'. go to Worthington, the
latter in turn perused it.
"Great heavens!" !;o gasped. "Kane!
what is the meaning of this accumulating
disaster?'
The message was from a trusted agent
on the New York Sto-k Exchange and it
ran :
"Our stock is going to pieces. It his
dropped thirty points in two hours. Blen
nerhassett of the opposition syndicate has
announced that the company is four mill
ion in deficit on li-d assets, and our
bonds inflated and irdioated at two dif
ferent local banking concerns. How did
be ri :d out?"
How for it was true! Old, tarred
jwindler that he was. Percy V. Kane
shuddered as he realized what such a
revelation meant: First, in money loss,
next, in the eyes of the law.
"Something's wrong !" reiterated Wor
thington. getting up and pacing the floor
like a prodded animal. "There has been
leak. Put .how?"
"You and I only knew of the bolster
ing necessary to tide over the last divi
dend." said Kane thoughtfully.
" Un I ess except "
Worthington hesitated. He directed a
keen, though hesitating, glance at his
companion. The latter met the look stern-
'y.
"Well?" he demanded.
"Except your private secretary."
"She !"' burst forth Kane, a rapturous.
Instead of an incensed man. "Y'es, Wor
thington." be said softly and if there
Was one redeeming trait of gentleness in
his base nature it came to the front now
"she. indeed, knows with us the shifts,
the secret subterfuges requisite for the
accomplishment of a gigantic coup. Put."
and his voice grew even more tender, "she
is one of us."
"One of us?"
"Yes she is soon very soon to be
come mv wife."
"As far gonp as that !" muttered Wor
thington. genuinely astonis-hed.
"So." pursued Kane, "whence and how
the le.ik. look elsewhere. And ferret it
out, man ! for this is a serious, a critical
situation."
"You must act " .
"I shall act !"
The eyes of this versed Napoleon of
speculation flashed with determination
and confidence.
"Listen." he said, focusing his glance
upon his weak and frightened confrere,
his soul upon the theme in play ; "leave
me to myself for a time. I will think out
a way to checkmate Plennerhassett and
his crew. Meantime, you seek to loam
who is playing us false in this office. 1
shall telegraph the Chemical National to
sell all our securities on the quiet, and
have the funds applied towards bnying up
everything offered of our stock to-morrow."
"Will it check the tide?" waveringly
Insinuated the president.
"It will bluff our rivals."
"Put the local banks the gross defec
tion in assets "
"Leave that to mo; there is work to
do important, prompt. Why, man ! we
dare not be broken now. To-morrow's
flection places in our net seventy-three
Representatives and a Senator. Pefore
this election day is over we have the key
to the State treasury, a foothold in Con
gress, our hands tight-clasped on the
throat of justice! It is not a State, this
country, tiiat we own, then the world is
our free stamping ground!"
"Kane, you are a bold genius but I
trust you to get us out of this dilemma."
"You do not trust vainly!" declared
Kane.
Left to himself, he slowly, meditating
ly paced the apartment. He reflected
rapidly but deeply, and to the point.
"Something" was indeed "wrong!" a
hidden hand was groping for the vitals of
the great trust. Whose?"
Something was wrong! They stood
to lose two millions unless public confi
dence could lie restored, and the shadow of
perjury, dishonor, haunted their way un
less past crooked dealing in the manipula
tion of inflated and duplicated stocks
:ou!d be covered op.
Percy Kane "thought out a way!"
then his lips broke to a smile, and his
eyes grew tender.
lie was thinking now of tha lovely girl
who bad come into his life like a rev
elation of joy and delight, and for the mo
ment he forgot his business trouble and
bis political aspirations.
T7 W
Vendetta
By
J. COBB
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Again ho was internipted, again a rnp
at tho door irritated him. ,
''Coino in!" he said impatiently.
A meanly dressed creature crossed the
threshold. At a lirst careless glance Kane
took him to be one of the workmen from
thA mills.
"I want to show you something "
began the visitor.
"Oh ! go to tho superintendent,"
noyedly ordered Kane, believing the
an-
vis
itor had come with some complaint, or, as
he extended one ragged arm, intended to
disclose some injury received at work for
which he hoped to secure compensation.
lie waved the stranger away. The
latter sprang, strangely, quick and men
acing before him.
'Mr. Percy Kane," he said, squarely
confronting the other, and kicking close
shut the open door behind him, "I want
to show you this !"
Out from liis sleeve he snatched a
short, thick bar of steel.
"Stand where you are listen to me !"
ho grated hoarsely, "or with this, end
here, and now, I'll batter out your wicked
bruins ! Iook well at me !"
And in a tone of thunder, the dreadful
v.-eajKin uplifted, his eyes two angry
sparks of flame, the stranger sternly de
manded :
"Percy Kane, do you know me?"
CHAPTER VIII.
A singular shadow crossed the face of
the great arch-schemer, mingled dread, de
fiance and desperation.
Put Kane instantly grew calm as ice.
His glance unflickering, he steadily, rath
er sneeringly, regarded the intruder. Then
he said coldly :
"Yes, I know you."
"I thought you would !" hissed the oth
er, dangerously brandishing the steel bar,
his teeth grating, his glance murderous.
"I fancied you might recognize "
"The father "
"Of your wife!"
"Of the wife that was true, mv man;
what of it?"
His defiance and unconcern maddened
the intruder. His eyes grew lurid. It
seemed he would fling himself upon Kane.
He choked, ground his teeth in a violent
paroxysm of rage.
"Not yet not yet !" he hoarsely mut
tered. "I'll give you a chance, first a
last chance !"
"What to do, may I ask?" coolly pro
pounded Kane.
"I'll tell you !" hissed the Intruder.
"Go back six years in Ohio you. flash
ing your dazzling ways and your danger
ous cruel smile. You won my girl, my
only child, Elita. But you married her
well for you ! And then, tired of her,
you deserted her heartlessly. You know
what happened her gentle nature droop
ed, her heart broke. You sent her to
an insane asylum as the easiest way to
get rid of her. The blow crushed me. I
took to drink, I got in bad company, I
stole they sent me up for five years."
"Well," said Kane mockingly, "what
is that to me?"
"You shall see. For two years Elita
has been sane as sane as you or I."
"The asylum physicians say not."
"Yes," retorted the other, "for you
bribed them to say so. You were afraid
to have her free, and well you might be !
Man ! devil ! do you know that your per
fidy, her cruel, unjust imprisonment, have
changed all her gentle nature. Peware
oh, beware !"
"My friend," suggested Kane placidly,
"we will have it out, here and now, but
don't you ever venture to intrude on me
again. Your daughter is nothing to me.
I secured a divorce from her two years
ago. I am willing to provide reasonably
for her, but she must not trouble me.
Ikm't you !" added Kane pignifieantly. "I
will neither be intimidated, nor black
mailed." "Listen '."
Gabriel Marsden's voice rang out om
inously. "I am all attention!" mocked Kane.
"I have only a few words to say to you
heed them! Your wife, my daughter,
is free!"
"How you are saying this to annoy
me !" declared Kane, with a palpable
start.
"No, and to save you or rather, her
I came to you. If my appeal does not
avail, then better the gallows for me than
that she should imbrue her hands in your
blood !"
"You are tragic!" sneered Kane.
"My last word, then !" sternly intoned
the man, "remarry my daughter, quiet her
perverted mind by so doing, and I depart,
she can be placated. Pefuse, and "
"What then?"
"She will kill you! You jeer! Man!
You do not know what she is now, a cold,
relentless, determined woman, set upon
having her rights or your life!"
"The law will look to that. I fancy I
have the means and the power to squelch
you both."
"Useless"' shouted the man ferociously
"useless to temporize with you ! Then
you shall have it ; a trampled father's
vengeance !"
The climax impended, the culminating
morant had come he saw the folly of
trying to reach, to move, this man.
All the time Kane had been secretly
watching every move his visitor made.
The latter now sprang at him, the mur
derous bar uplifted.
CHAPTER IX.
Kane was. no coward besides that he
was an athlete. Quick as lightning his
arm riiot out. His sinewy fist landed
under the stranger's left Jaw. lie went
crashing into a corner. Before he could
gather himself up Kane had flashed to
a table, touched a button, and as, raring
like a madman and foaming at the mouth,
his adversary started up to renew tlie
assault, two men in answer to the sum
mons quietly but swiftly entered the room.
The had tbt man in their atronf grasp
before he could roach for and regain tha
bar.
Kane glided to the side of one of his
cnjrtors trusted detectives it) tho employ
of the company, men who knew how to
fuldll a i,!ssion given to the loiter.
He whispered a command they drag
ged (ho prisoner away to sure obscurity
and silence.
"You've downed me!" raved the man
"but wUien you come to deal with her
wltV Elita have a care of yourself
Percy Kane; you are doomed!"
Kane sank into a chair, left toJiimsolf.
'Hie double excitement of the hour had
slightly unnerved him.
It was not in his nature to be daunted,
however. Inside of five minutes he had
Hummed up tho situation complete, had
counted the possible results of the present
complication, believed he could handle it,
and coolly dismissed it from his mind.
His thoughts comiKised, fortified, he s.'t
at work to face the serious situation of
the comiMtny's concerns. Plan after plan
he turned over in his mind. He was a
past grand master at juggling finance
he fancied he saw his way clear before
him to offset the stock market stampede
of the day.
lie planned his campaign of procedure.
About to arise and set the same in mo
tion, he was disturbed by the entrance of
en usher. He presented a card; Kane
glanced at it. He read : "Dunstreet's."
"So soon !" he muttered so soon the
swarming of the harpies about the prey !
The great clearing house of commercial
information was on his track, already !
Kane was his blandest suave, politic,
ingenuous, as he met this representative
of the great agency.
Perhaps a thought thrilled his mind, a
memory of that other visit of a "Hun
street" man, when the rotten silver com
pany went to pieces !
The agency reporter had his say ; the
great trust was "open for rating;" that
is, information had been received at vari
ance with the last subscribed statement
of the company, and until the same was
explained, tha high commercial rating of
the corporation would stand at "blank."
To-morrow morning, said Kane to
the agency representative, "this company
will furnish you with a statement show
ing three dollars in tangible assets for
every dollar of indebtedness. I shall ex
pect you here at ten o'clock, and will
verify the statement with you at the local
banks."
The reporter withdrew. Kane's pose
was now that of the startled hare with
the hunters keen on the trail.
He hurried from room to room until
he found the president. He cornered him
in private. '
"There is just one thing to do," he
declared "we must shift the duplicate
securities and make up a solid three mill
ions within the next twelve hours, or go
under."
"You talk of impossibilities !" exclaim
ed the president.
"No whisper."
What words stole sinister and awe
some into the president's ear must have
been weighted with ominoups Import, for
he drew back with a sharp shiver.
"Oh, never !" he gasped. "Kane, you
can not mean it !"
"Yes, I do mean it," calmly, decisively,
retorted the other.
"To apply the trust funds left in out
charge sacredly man ! should they be
engulfed, then for you, for myself, it is
the convict garb, and prison bars !"
"It must be done there is no othet
way. We must turn back the storm of
distrust beating at our threshold,, at all
cost or risks !"
He prevailed upon his confrere at last.
They laid their plans for the morrow.
They spoke of the impending election
to-morrow the day that would see them
masters of the industrial world or pau
pers !
About two hours later Percy Kane en
tered his private office. He paused gent
ly ere he approached the trim, little figure
at a desk his private secretary.
He was the lover rapt, reverent as
he spoke softly to beautiful Claire Tre
maine of their approaching marriage. In
his ardor and joy at the near possession
of this rare treasure, he did not note how
chilling was her set, stony face, that she
shuddered every time her eyes met his
own.
He was buoyed up by love when h
left her. The future seemed golden, lie
felt he could overcome all obstacles, fur
with the morrow his grasp on fortune
and power would tighten must tighten !
And she this peerless being had con
sented to be his wife life bore a new
motive, a nevy-and mighty happiness!
Alone, Claire Tremaine stood like one
stricken, but borne irresistibly forward
by stern, somber fate.
She drew from a pocket a small photo
graph it was a secretly treasured por
trait of Gideon Hope.
She tore it across, once, twice, tears
falling upon the fragments. She dropped
them like sacred relics into the fireplace.
It was too late to draw back now, and
she had pledged her word to Percy Kane
that in two days she would become his
wifa !
(To be continued.)
Spirit Land .VlenHiinex.
Perhaps all the so-called messages
from the dead conic from living minds.
I mean the minds of those about us.
Dr. Reed, a friend of mine, unco ar
ranged to go with a patient to have a
test sitting with a very celebrated psy
chic who claimed to lie able to rend
sealed letters. Just before the ap
pointed day Reed's patient died sud
denly of heart disease, leaving a sealed
letter on his desk.
The doctor, fully alive to the singi;
lar opportunity, put the letter In hi.?
pocket and hastened to the medium.
The magician took It In his hand ami
pondered. At last he said: "This wag
written by a man now in the spirit
world. I cannot read It. There isn't
s medium in the world who can read
It, but if you will send it to any per
son anywhere on the planet ami have
it read and resealed I will tell you
what Is in It. I cannot get the words
unless some mind in the earth plajie
has absorliod them."
That would seem to prove a sort of
universal mind reservoir, wouldn't It?
Isn't that a staggering hypothesis?
Hamlin Garland In Everybody'! Maga-ale
A Lifting Jack.
When one is alone on a farm with
perhaps no help around it Is almost
Impossible to lift hay racks or grain
tanks off tho wagons.
With a device like tho cut,
one man can take off any
kind of a hay rack -with
ease. This lifting Jack Is
seven feet high. The two
uprights are 2x4 at the
base and 2x2 at the upper
end. They can be ripped
out of 2x0. Have the
wooden block out of
an old hay fork pulley,
bolted to the upier end of
the uprights with a half
Inch bolt for the rone to
LIFTING
JACK.
work on. Thirty Inches from the
ha so is an offset to which Is at
tached a spindle for the rope to wind
on. The need of the offset will easily
be seen in operating; the crank will
always be In the clear. The crank Is
11 Inches long. The spindle is one Inch
in diameter. A piece of good one inch
gas pipe makes a good one. The up
rights are spread 20 or 22 Inches at the
base. It also needs a few light wooden
braces to strengthen and stiffen It. It
should he made quite strong and light,
so that one man can carry it handily.
On the end of the three-quarter Inch
rope Is a five-eighths inch iron hook.
AMERICAN REAFER2 IN ASIA.
American farm machinery Is rapidly finding its way Into foreign coun
tries, but our American farmers would not know how to use the machines
that are sent over there. They are built to meet the demands of Asiatic
farmers, who are slow to grasp up-to-date methods.
shaped so as to draw itself Into the
wood and not slip off. This hook needs
one or two links. A hardwood peg is
placed in the upright back of the crank,
thus holding the load at any height.
To take the hay rack off the wagon
place the lifting Jack In an upright
position at one end as near the center
as possible. Place the hook beneath
some part of the rack, turn the crank,
and it will surprise you how light the
rack seems. When high enough so as
to clear the wheels, have a 4x4 or other
fairly strong timber to put under the
rack," the ends resting on two well se
cured posts. Raise the other end in
the same manner and you will have
your hay rack or grain tank where the
weeds will not grow over them and
without any lifting to speak of. Mon
treal Star. .
Farmer's Ponltry Honae.
Th'e accompanying illustration of a
poultry house is largely self-explanatory.
Both a window and curtain
front is provided. The window slides
back and in place of it a cotton screen
can be let down to fill the opening.
The pens are built 12 ft. x 13 ft. and
the coop is placed beneath the drdp-
ping board. Rough boards are used for
sheeting together with tar paper and
cheap shingles. The inside may Le
plastered.
Homemade Barometer.
Those who love experimentation may
try the following method of making a
cheap barometer, as . practiced in
France: Take 8 grams of pulverized
camphor, 4 grams of pulverized nitrate
of potassium, 2 grams of pulverized
nitrate of ammonia and dissolve In CO
grams of alcohol. Tut the whole In a
long, slender bottle, closed at the top
with a piece of bladder containing a
pinhole to admit the nlr. When rain Is
coming the solid particles will tend
gradually to mount, little star crystals
forming In the liquid, which otherwise
remains clear; if high winds are ap
proaching, the liquid will become thick
as if fermenting, while a film of solid
particles forms on the surface; during
fair weather the liquid will remain
clear and the solid particles will rest
at tha bottom.
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POULTRY HOUSE.
individuality of Covra,
While thei'o are slight indlvlrtunf
differences in digestive olllelouey
among cows, exteimivo experiments
have shown that these are lnmifllcleiit
to account for tho widely variable re
turns made by similar cows from like
quantities of the same kind of food
The results obtained in tests of this
kind ore emphatic. It has been
shown that, of two cows of apparently
the same merit, from superficial exam
Inatlon one may return three times as
much as the other from a given
amount of similar foods. They digest
ed their food equally well. It is a
well known fact that there are lndi
vldual likes and dislikes among cows,
which necessitates an intimate knowl
edge of each cow if best results are to
follow. Occasionally a cow will make
her best performance upon a ration
not suited to the other members of
the herd. These matters are of con
tinual Interest to the dairymen, who
should safeguard himself at all times
by keeping at least approximate rec
ords of food consumed and product
yielded by each Individual. Kansas
Farmer.
Profit From Dairy Products.
The Maryland Experiment Station
has been making tests 'as to profits
in selling dairy products, as milk, cream
and butter. This test shows that cream
is one of the most profitable forma of
sale, when 20 per cent cream can be
sold at 50 cents a gallon, nnd even at
this low price returns 23 Va cents per
pound for tiie butter In the milk, be
sides leaving the sklmmllk for use on
tho farm. Of course, cream can be us
ually sold, for more than 50 cents per
gallon. It appears that milk shipping
is ordinarily more profitable than but
ter. Thus 12 cents per gallon for 3Vi
per cent milk Is equal to '2,'Wz cents per
pound for butter, while at 15 cents per
gallon for 3.0 per cent milk the but
ter Is sold at 32 V cents per pound.
In selling cream at 70 cents per gal
lon the price obtained Is equal to 33
cents for the butter, but creameries
never pay this amount, and 110 home
made butter brings any such price ex
cept for a very few gilt-edge makes.
Detecting; Dlaeaae In Horsea.
An irregular pulse in a horse is a
strong symptom of grave disease. In
a healthy horse the pulse beats 32 to
38 per minute, but 48 per minute may
not denote disease in some horses. To
take tho pulse place the finger below
the jaws holding the watch In the left
hand, and count the beats. A rise of
temperature above 100 degros denotes
that something is wrong. To take the
temperature use a thermometer Insert
ed iu the rectum. P.y practice, a high
temperature can be easily detected by
inserting the hand in the mouth of the
animal. Cold legs and cold ears and
cold sweat are bad symptoms. Difficult
and quick breathing indicate lung
trouble, and "snoring" is caused by dis
ease of the brain. A rough coat is a
bad symptom, denoting indigestion.
Fever In a horse Is Indicated by dull
ness, a quick pulse, high temperature,
extended and Inflamed nostrils aud us
ually great desire for water.
' Dairying and Farming.
Butter has a market value of $50 a
ton, and It removes less than 50 cents'
worth 0 fertilizer from the soil. On
the other hand, a ton of wheat has a
market value of $22 ami removes $7.50
of fertilizer from the soil. Anyone can
see by this that dairying Is worth a
good deal more to a new country than
the growing of wheat if the value of
keeping up the fertility of the soil is
fully appreciated. Field and Farm.
White Spots on florae.
A white sjiot on the forehead of a
horse is called a "star." A white face
from eye to eye Is a "bald face." A
strip between the nostrils Is a "snipe."
A white eye Is a "glass eye." A horse
has pasterns, not ankles. White around
the top of the hoof Is a "white coro
net." White above the pasterns la a
"white leg."
Kanaaa Corn Crop.
In 1005 Kansas raised about an av
erage crop of corn, but the yield was
more than that of all 8outh America,
which, of course, includes the much
advertised Argentina ; was over 80,
000,000 bushels greater than the com
bined crops of Canada and Mexico, and
exceeded the aame year's crops of
Egypt, Italy, France, Bulgaria and
Russia proper together. F. D. Coburn.
1435 Treaty of Arras concluded between
the King of France and the Duka of
Burgundy.
1580 Henry IV. defeated the Leaguers
at Arques.
1G09 Hudson, the explorer, reached the
present site of the city of Albany.
1055 Fort Casimir, the Swedish settle
ment on the Delaware, surrendered
to the Dutch forces under Gov. Stuy
vesaiit.
1075 Duchesneau appointed Intendant
of New France.
1092 Two men and Reven women ex
ecuted at Salem for witchcraft.
1705 Jacques Francois de Prouillon,
governor of Acadia, died at sea.
1750 The French surrendered Quebec
to tho English.
72 First dismemberment of Poland.
1770 British made an unsuccessful at
tack 011 the Americans on Harlem
Heights.
1777 American force under Gen.
Wayne defeated by the British under
Gen. Grey Washington and' his
army crossed the Schuylkill, deter
mined to give battle to Gen. Howe's
troops.
17SS The Oneida Indians ceded all their
lands to the State of New York
1792 France declared a republic. ... Die
President issued a proclamation or
dering all persons to submit to the
excise law.
1800 The Concordat between Bona
parte and the Pope ratified.
1SCH The rice crop of South Carolina
completely destroyed by a great hur
ricane. .. .Mr. Dearborn, son of the
Secretary of War, left for Algiers
with presents for the ruler of that
country.
1S14 The British ship Forth destroyed
the American brig Regent .... I'nited
States troops defeated the English 10
battle at Fort Bowyer.
1822 Moses Rogers, captain of the first
steam vessel to cross the Atlantic,
died at Cheraw, S. O. Born in New
London, Conn., in 17KO.
1829 Slavery abolished In Mexico.
1833 The boundary line between New
York and New Jersey settled.
1S45 Americans defeated the Mexican
at battle of Monterey.
1802 United States troops defeated th
Indians at battle of Wood Lake.
1SG3 President Lincoln suspended the
habeas corpus act.
18(54 John C. Fremont withdrew as
candidate for President of the United
States The Federal forces were
victorious in the battle at Opequan,
Va....A McClellan meeting in the
Lindell hotel. St. Louis, broken up by
a party of Union soldiers.
1808 Outbreak of the Spanish revolu
tion .... Lieut. Beecher and Dr.
Moore killed in battle with 'Indians
near the Republican river.
1.S71 Lincoln's bodv was removed to its
final resting place at Springfield. 111.
1SS1 Bodv of President Garfield lay in
state in the capitol at Washington.
1S82 Arabi Pasha, the leader of thb
military insurrection In Egypt, sur
rendered after his defeat at Tol-el-Kehir.
1S84 A party of several hundred Cana
dian boatmen left Quebec to take part
In the Nile expedition for the relief
of Gen. Gordon. . .Earthquake shocks
were felt in Michigan, Ohio and In
diana. 1887 The centenary of the constitution
of the United States was celebrated
in Philadelphia.
1893 The Earl of Aberdeen assumed
office as governor general of Canada.
1S97 Five men accused of burglar)
lynched at Versailles, Ind.
1808 Statue of Samuel de Champlain
unveiled at Quebec by Iird Aberdeen.
1000 Much destruction caused by
heavy rains in Texas.
1901 The Duke and Duchess of Corn
wall and York welcomed in Montreal.
....The funeral of President McKin
ley was held at Canton, Ohio.
1902 Marie Henriette. Queen of the Bel
gians, died, aged 00 years.
1900 Fatal race riots in Atlaifta, Ga....
Rock Island train plunged into tha
Cimarron river in Oklahoma nnd a
number of lives were lost .... Secre
tary of War Taft and Acting Sec
retary of State Bacon left Washing
ton for Cuba.
190" Explosion on a Japanese battle
ship killed thirty-four officers and
men.... The new treaty between
France and Canada was signed at
Paris.
An Kxplanatlnn.
How long has this restaurant been
open?" asked the wonld-lte diner.
"Two years." said the proprietor.
"I am sorry I did not know It," said
the guest "I should tie better off If
I had come here then."
"Yes?" smiled the proprietor, very
much pleased. "How Is that?"
"I should probably have heen served
by this time if I had." said the guest,
anil the entente cordlale vanished.
Harper's Weekly.