A Political
By
WELDON
CHAPTER XX (Continued.)
n- raised liis manacled wrist, and grit
tins his teeth, shook the chain till it
landed, luit flt once relapsed into the
(unused nnd defiant nnd over-confident
master of an Inexplicable situation
"Sit down." lie invited next, with liis
1 ;pnrNl foot slightly moving a i-liair to
wards the intrinlei'.
No!" flared out Hope. "I "
"P. reasonable," equably retorted Kane
"it will nnv vou, believe me. You aro
r urprised, groping in the dark, at sea;
better let me be you pilot, for a spell at
least."
"Listen to me!" snarled Hope fiercely,
frridicg up to the man and seizing one
shoulder in his biting grasp until he
winced wilih a cowering shudder "1 dis
lovesed you by accident, but fortune
voull seiner or later have led me to
our lair !"
"Lair;" derided Kane loudly
"don't
jn'i see it
"I eauic
demand of
is ratlier a prism.'
" huskily pursm-d Hope, "to
jour wife."
"Vii"i'!i is coo
ereant.
l'IiV" mocked the tnis-
"And just !
Yoil defy ine
"No! so; at (he lirsi
to you."
"That woman .'" hotly
step 1 show her
cried Hope.
"M v wife exaetlv."
"No!"
"Mrs. Percy Kane "
"A lie!"
"Elita !"
This name Kane called in a clear, quick
tone. ,
Gideon Hope started. Its mention
li roused some hint, some vague memory
of the past.
It was an unusual name; where had
he heard it before? under what circum
stances connected with a dark chapter in
the hhfk life of this man of plots nnd
cruelty '!
, P.efore his perturbed mind could focus
end connect the loose ends of the dim
chain of retrosiwrt. a silken swish again
swept Ihe atmosphere . A shadow crossed
the draperies, they puted. The woman
of the tragie face and fathomless eyes
Hood in their presence, statuesque and im
pressive as before.
rucompromising sternness was in the
glance she bestowed on Kane. He es
sayed n familiarity tliat was uneasy de
spite his audacity.
"This gentleman." he said slurringly
with a light gesture towards Hope, '"dis
putes my statement that you are my
wife."
"lie need not." coldly returned the
vomau.
"Proof. Klita?"
She reached wifhin her corsage, pro
duced a folded paper, unfolded it, and in
an nutomatic way held it before him.
Hope's quick eyes read the words
traced across it. In due form of legality
and indisputable genuineness it evidenced
that n duly appointed officer of rlie law
had joined in holy wedlock this man,
Fercy V. Kane, with this woman, Elita
darsden. UKn a certain night; Uoii a
night, in fact, succeeding to the consum
mation of that lolitical vendetta which
liad seen the extinguishment of the sfix'k
swindler's social and commercial career.
"I know now!" involuntarily cried
(Jideon IIoie and quick as lightning.
That is, he knew who this woman was.
he "rememU'red," the name "Marsden"
supplied the missing link this woman
was the daughter of that unfortunate
man. (Jabriel Marsden, who intruding up
on Kane at the acme of his greatness with
Threatening fierceness, had been sent to
jail on a trumped up charge, and. for all
Kane kto-w, laiiL'nished there now. or was
ft wanderer, a fugitive, with a broken life
arid blasted energies.
And this woman Klita was the fair,
Innocent girl Kane had wedded in a dis
tant Ohio town. d-ser:ed. placed in an
Insane asylum, and then, securing a di
vorce by fraudulent means, forgot her,
until the fateful day when her father
brought him word to have a care for him
self, for she had escaped and was "on
his trail !"
A Nemesis, truly ! -dimly, hut with a
half-suspicion that she was Kane's gaoler,
Hope bezan to read between the liues.
"Is that all?" fe'l from the woman's
lips in hard, metallic tones.
"Yes," liowed Kane simply, and she de
jarted with the same uncanny tread that
had signalized her appearance at his hail.
Hope drew a perplexed hand across liis
clammy forehead. He almost unconsci
ously dropped to the chair that bail been
proffered by Kane. Voidly he gized at the
schemer who always seemed to have some
strong frump ir in reserve.
"Explain !' he said in cracked, dry
t Otl"S.
Kane laughed jarringly. On the table
in ar by was a skein of silk, lying beside
some fancy embroidery work, carelessly
left there, it seemed, by some feminine
worker of the household.
With his deft, nervous fingers. Kane
seized it. twirled, twi.sted, disarranged it.
A hopeless mass of mingled threads, he
cast it into Hope's lap.
"A tangle a riddle!" lie spiffed "as
soon hope to solve the enigma to which I
alone can furnish the key."
"A challenge?" cried Hope urathlly.
"You for.-t : I have found you ! I have
t-cn;. d. defeating your kind intentions for
my welfare. I have but to proceed on my
way, n;ijiie the police, and"
"Slop llnre," directed Kane insinuat
ingly, leaning forward and fixing his
glance significantly ujxin his visa-vis
"you forget."
"Forget what?" roughly demanded
Hope.
Claire!"
Hoie shivered from the shock. True!
it was Claire now, Claire only: any
thing and everything for Claire!
"We have arrived," pronounced Kane
bluntly, "at a vita!, a final stage of the
game. P.ut I know jour hoi your
tCiought the woman! Well, then, move
without me, move against me, and you
pit; win. But she will be lost."
Vendetta
J. COBB
The dire threat struck a chill to Gid
eon Hold's staunch heart.
"I am reckless because I am a beaten
man," continued Kane "I am, too, n
desperate one. Put it, is not you who have
circumvented me. You made n great pln.v
a stake and a trust for the stake. Hut
1 had the reserve that money. Even o:'
half of that you robbed me Che severed
hank notes. Well, you had cut my claws,
for without money I was at the law's
mercy. Still, I proved myself a resource
ful man. There was Claire the peerless
Claire whom you fairly drove into my
arms."
CIIAITEU XXI.
Hope gnashed his teeth, but he tried to
content himself for the sake of the facts
Kane might divulge.
"I am going to tell you a little history,"
proceeded Kane, "because I have a point
to gain because 1 have a compact, a bar
gain, to mike with you."
"No!" declared Hope, uncompromising
ly. "Put yes. For her sake, for Claire's
sake, you know !'
11om was shaken. He paled. He dis
cerned the precipice towards which he
was hastening was being hastened by the
sheer villainous force of this man's cool
and calculating finesse.
He had Hilled this man down, and now
he could at his will send him to the gal
lows, he believed. His sworn holy duty
had been to run down this man. .He had
been bathed, circumvented. Now at the
final ending he was diverted from his ori
ginal purpose for a woman's sake!
"Speak!" he said mandatorily.
"Very well," answered Kane, somewhat
more seriously. "I determined to abandon
the field when you secured the half of the
bank notes, though I was not entirely
penniless, and as I vaunted there was
Claire. While you were resting on your
oars in fancied security I had hastened
to my pretty secretary. My will seemed
to be her law I only knew later your
hideous plot in which hatred and revenge
alone actuated her. I placed her in the
hands of n trusted friend while I hastened
my arrangements to wed her and tly the
country and vou. 1 had not heeded mad
old (Jabriel Marsden's threat. You might
say at the very altar Klita. the woman
you just saw, confronted me. She was
my Nemesis. She bad learned of thp (ire
carious position I was in she was armed.
It was exposure, betrayal, death or I
must wed her. Worse than that, she had
liafrled me concerning Claire. She had
lured her away to an isolated place, had
put her in charge of an accomplice, a wo
man knitted to her by ties of unwavering
fidelity. Thus was I baffled. She brought
me here I dared not defy her and I
knew she had proofs that is, the disposi
tion to doom me by the law if I resisted
her commands. Thus far she combined
with me: to have you imprisoned, in
hopes of securing the half of the severed
bank notes that you had secured posses
sion of. I promised to go with her to some'
foreign country if she succeeded. But she
she did not trust me. She has made me
a continual captive, as you see."
"And Claire?" eagerly insisted Hope,
with lustrous eyes of anxiety and love.
Kane shrugged his shoulders.
"Well." he said, annoyedly gnawing the
ends of his moustauhe, conscious of being
a baffled, beaten man, "she has the per
severance and fierceness of a tigress in
fact, she has kept Claire, too. a prisoner."
"Where?"
Kane smiled provokingly at the ingenu
ous eagerness of the other.
"Io you suppose I would tell you
that?" he inquired sardonically.
"After all the wrongs yon have done
me "
"Cull quits, then !" hoarsely, suddenly
spoke Kane, dropping his tones to a whis
per, "fyct up on me for a crime you can
never fully prove."
"I have sworn "
"Pah! Is not she, Claire, all in all,
now ?"
It was true. (Jideon Hope lowered his
head in humiliation. Truly, he was pal
tering with this enemy, for he surmised
the daring proposition that was coming.
Hut he was only human, and he loved
Claire Tremaine.
"(Jo on!" he said, without lifting hi
head.
"I will make a bargain with you fair
exchange: Hid me of this woman who has
me in chains, that is, give me the chance
to fly. She has not. and I have secreted
the half of the severed bank notes. Se
cure my freedom, as I say. and give me
your worthless half of the money, a start
of twenty-four hours against pursuit, and
I will tell you what this woman will
never tell while I am on the same conti
nent with the being she (hems her rival
the wherealiouts of Claire Tremaine."
The tempting bait allured, but only for
a moment did it dazzle. Then there was
a sudden revulsion of feeling with (Jideon
Hope.
lie abruptly., arose to his feet. His
head came en-ct. his eyes were stern, duty,
resolve, shone from his soul.
"No!" he said once and defiantly.
"No?" echoed Kane, thunderstruck.
"I shall find Claire Tremaine without
your help. As to you heavens !'
Gideon Hope started as if from a vio
lent electric sho.-k.
He had resolved not to palter with this
man, and he now determined to free him
from that hampering chain and drag him
to the nearest jail for the sanctity of
his vow to his dead brother' memory he
must do this !
If the woman Klita interfered, so much
the worse for her.
Hut, about to advance upon his enemy
and carry Into execution this design, as
has been said, Gideon Hope was suddenly
electrified.
The life currents of Ids being checked
their flow and his heart stood still.
He had wasted, was wasting, precious
moments was sacrificing duty, and men
aced humanity appealed for tha fulfill-
uient of another equally sacred more r
cut vow.
"The dynamite!" he gasped.
CHAPTER XXII.
Yes, the dynamite! He had pledged
his word to the imprisoned agent of the
Vulcan Company to hasten to Murryville
on wings of speed, and here he was dal
lying !
It had been a solemn compact between
Warren and himself, that if he, Hope,
escaped he was to hasten to the Vandyke
House at that town, and remove, sink,
diffuse, obliterate the death-dealing ex
plosive ere it had ripened to the full point
if spontaneous combustion the next morn
ing. lie had been on his way to fulfill his
iledge when, applying at this house for a
horse and vehicle, he had so strangely
discovered his enemy.
He hnd lost valuable time two whole
hours in this house ! Would he be too
late?
Iespite his interest in Kane, his har
rowing anxiety concerning Claire! Hope
felt the spur of action like a sudden dag
ger thrust.
The unsuspected agent of destruction
reposed, according to the dynamite agent,
in a closet in a room at the Vandyke
House at Murryville, now about ten
miles distant, and when it exploded scores
a hundred lives might be blotted out!
The urgency, the horror of the aftair
consumed Hope he unceremoniously
dashed from the room, leaving Kane amaz
ed at the motive of his sudden evanish
ment. He heard Kane call out sharply to the
woman :
"Klita it is Hope, that man. ' House
your friends. He knows all!"
And a minute later, as he sped by the
window outside. Hope shot a glance past
its waving curtains to see the woman
roused to excitement and rushing into the
apartment occupied by her husband to
learn more of his meaning.
"If thev have accomplices in reach, I
shall be pursued." reasoned Hope.
So be did not pursue the open road,
but striking through the dense brusti esti
mated the precise direction in which Mur
rvville lav, and amid the vigor of intense
excitement anil resolution uisuaiueu u
obstacles that lay in his way.
A strange, new sense of exultation pos
sessed his soul as he dashed madly on
coherent, clear-cut purposes were out
lined in his thoughts, of tactical, logical
, 1 ... t!.
sequences. Tlius. ne seeuieo io mc
work of a forward twelve hours all mark
ed out and executed through time and en
divor he would secure, dispose of the
fearful explosive out of harm's way. Ihen
a bold, uncompromising descent on the
lonelv haunt of the strangely mated hus
band and wife.
And then Claire !
There was the star of hope at the end
of the long venture. It inspired mm. ne
ght not locate her at once, tint love
would find a way to trace her mysteri
ous whereabouts, although tnese new uis-
coveries might be but the prelude to a
w series of complications. ihe end
. 0 ....... tl.nn fliilnnn
was nearer, tragically ueuni, ie" v.
Hope fancied.
It was an uncanny hour wnen, torn oy
briers and mud bespattered and bruised
from frequent falls, he entered the silent
town of Murryville.
t the hotel, a light burned only in
the office, where half slumbered the tired
night clerk.
Wnrren. Crideon's fellow captive in me
private madhouse, had fully equipped him
for the contingency of having to proceed
alone for the satchel of dynamite.
(To be continued.)
A Thoimhtfnl Condnetor.
Ignorance often saves much dis
quietude Many have nearu me suojr
of the woman whose first experience
in n railwav train ended with an acci
dent. Thrown from her seat and shaken
up generally, she nevertheless retained
her equanimity. When asked ir sue
were frightened, she replied, "Fright
ened! No. 1 didn't know but that was
the way they always stopped." It Is
to be hoped that the trolley passenger
in Mr. IIowclls' anecdote, introduced
into 'Confessions of a Summer Colo
nist." was possessed of the same trust
in the event. The conductor, nt least,
preserved his presence of mind. Says
Mr. Ilowells:
I had long expected to see some one
thrown out of the open trolley ear at
some of the short curves. One day a
woman was actually hurled from her
scat into the road. Luckily, she alight
ed on her feet, and stood looking alxnit
as if In a daze.
"Oh! oh!" exclaimed a passenger.
"She's left her umbrella !"
The conductor promptly threw It out.
"Why. did that lady wish to get
out?" I asked.
The conductor pondered a moment
before he answered :
'Well, she'll want her umbrella, any
way." I'.iul of Ihe Konte.
One cold, wintry morning, says a
writer In the Argonaut, a man of tall
and angular build was walking down n
steep hill nt n brisk pace. A piece of
Ice under the snow caused him to slip
ami lose control of his feet. He began
to slide, and was unable to stop.
At a crossing half way down he en
countered n large, heavy woman. The
meeting was sudden, and before either
realized It a collision ensued, and both
were sliding down hill, the thin man
underneath, the fat woman on top.
When the bottom of the hill was
reached, and the woman was trying to
recover lier breath and her feet, these
faint words wore borne to her ear:
"Pardon inc. madam, but you will
have to g't off here. This is as far as
I g-"
Now York City Is growing rapidly In
its population of millionaires. There
are about 2.0 of them now, while
there were only thirty a quarter of a
century ago.
A wire contrivance to hold a spoon in
the neck of a medicine bottle Is a Cali
fornia Invention of value In the sick
room.
WHY EGGS ARE HIGH.
Some Ways This Expensive Necessity
May Be Turned to Profit.
Uy Junes Drydon, Foultryman Oreiron Agricul
tural College, Curvullis.
Eggs are 50 cents a dozen, because
the liens don't lay. The main reason
why they don't lay is because this is not
the natural laying season. In a state
of nature fowls lay and breed in the
spring season, and they haven't got
quite away from that habit. Old hab
its die hard with hens as with men.
This explains why with little care the
hen will lay in the spring and with
much care in the fall and winter she
wont lay, or very seldom will. Hut
through centuries of training and
irecding the hen is gradually getting
away from her old habit of laying a
few eggs in the spring and hatching
them, and- it is possible now, with the
proper skill in handling, to make her
lay in winter whether she will or no.
But the first thing we have to learn is
that to get eggs in winter means a light
against nature, against the old lien na
ture. Winter is not the natural laying
season.
When a pullet has reached maturity,
no matter at what season of the year,
if she le maintained in good health and
vigor and gets the proper kind and
quantity of food, she will lay eggs if
slie lias t lie hiving capacity. Let us
analyze that sentence a little.
The first point raised is a question of
maturity. The pullet must be mature
before she lays. If a pullet lays in Oc
tober she must be hatched early enough
in the spring so that she will reach ma
turity in October. A Plymouth Rock
hatched the first of April should lay
the middle of October or first of No
vember. If they are to lay a month
earlier they should be hatched a month
earlier. The Leghorns should lay the
first of October if hatched the first of
April.
The next point refers to health and
vigor. The pullet must come to ma
turity with good health and vigor. She
must have had proper care during the
brooding and growing period. A stunt
nl chick, a chick hatched from an egg
laid ny a lien out ot condition, a cluck
that has had to battle with insect pests,
or a chick that has not had proper food
and exercise, will not he a profitable
layer in any season. How to maintain
the health and vigor of the (lock is the
biggest problem in poultry keeping. To
get esigs in winter the hens must have
constitutional vigor.
The third point is that to get eggs
the hens must have the proper kind and
quantity of food. The hen requites
more kinds of food than a cow or a
hog. The cow needs no animal food ;
the hen does. The hen gives more con
sideration to cleanliness of the product
than the cow. She seals it up in a
shell of lime to keep it clean, and she
therefore must have a liberal supply of
mineral matter. All footls furnish a
certain amount of mineral matter, but
not enough to supply all the shell ma
terial when hens are laying heavily.
What foods should they be fed?
They should have grain, but grain alone
won't do. What will happen if the
hen eats nothing but wheat? Remem
bering that she puts nothing into an
egg that she does not eat, that an egg
contains about one-fifth ounce of fat and
that if she ate nothing but wheat she
would get enough far for three or four
eggs a day and about enough protein
for half an egg a day, the thing that
will happen will be that she will re
fuse to make eggs. The hen docs not
adulterate her product, otherwise she
could fill up the egg with surplus fat,
like some people make butter, out of
spurious oil or beef fat. She will make
an honest article or none at all. The
point is that the hen should have s.tch
foods as will furnish the necessary food
elements in proper proportions; in
other words, she should have a balanced
ration. There are different ways of
balancing the ration. For instance, if
the hen has access to wheat, to clover
or kale and to grasshoppers, angle
wotms and grit, she will balance her
own ration. She will eat a little wheat,
a little clover and a few grasshoppers
or angleworms and eat enough of each
to furnish the egg-making elements in
right proportion. An occasional feed of
corn or oats in place of wheat would
improve the ration.
This much for the food. How shall
it be fed? Again you must take ac
count of the nature of the hen. She is
a busy creature naturally; that is part
of her life, and you must keep her busy
or let her be busy. If she has free
range on the farm she will keep herself
busy and her muscle and digestion in
good order, but when you shut her up
in yards you ar.' imposing artificial
conditions and you must provide exer
cise for her. I have kept hens for a
year on a bare board floor in a small
pen and fed them well. They laid about
three dozen eggs each during the year,
and at the end of the vear with this sort
of luxury and case they had lost their
constitution and their usefulness; while
other hens fed in the same way, but
with a ground floor and deep litter to
scratch in and yards to run in, laid
over twelve dozen eggs each, and at
the end of the year were still in the
business. The hen needs exercise. The
demand for animal food may be sup
plied in different ways. Skim milk,
milk curds and buttermilk will take the
place of meat if enough of it can be
fed. Skim milk is largely water, and
a heavy-laying hen can scarcely drink
enough of it to get the necessary amount
of animal food. There is nothing bet
ter than fresh-cut lean meat and bones,
the danger from uncooked meat scraps,
however, being that they arc liable to
contain disease germs, and unless it is
known to be free from disease it is
better to cook it. The commercial ar
ticle of beef scraps put up by Ihe large
packing houses are largely used : some
of the stuff sold for poultry food is
only ft for fertilizer, however. During
llxplirrr; Ice.
Boll four rupfuls of water and one
and a half cnpfuls of sugar twenty
minutes. Cool, add two cnpfuls of rasp
berry Juice ami two tablespoonfuls
lemon Juice. Strain and freeze, using
three parts finely crushed Ice to one
part rock a!t To obtain the rasp
berry Juice wash the berries and atrr'n
through double cheesecloth.
The men who can give satlsfactorj
explanations of their failures are tlx
onea who become loafers.
seasons of the vear when insects and
worms are plentiful and the fowls have
the liberty of the farm, little animal
food may be fed.
Another point about feeding grain:
Should it be ground or fed whole? .It
is known that a certain proportion of
the food of fowls is used to produce
energy to grind the food, and from this
point of view it is cheaper to have the
food ground at the mill. But it has
been found by experiment that fowls do
not do well when fed altogether on
ground food.
The final point in this discussion is
the laying capacity of the hen. If all
the three things mentioned above be
properly attended to. there will still be
! a scarcity of ctrtrs unless the fowls have
( the lavintr canacitv. and it is no fault
of the hen if she hasn't; the trouble
goes back to her ancestor.
COMMERCIAL POTATO GROWING
Some Good Points on One of the
Most Profitable of Crops.
By A. G. Cra'nr, Assistant Horticulturist, State
Collese of Wa-shinifton, Pullman.
Potato land should be plowed in the
fall and allowed to lie rough during the
winter. This favors the catching of
winter moisture, and allows the sub
surface soil to settle and the surface
can be worked earlier in the spring.
If the fall plowing is impossible, the
land should be disced in the fall so that
the surface may be rough and open
through the winter. Deep plowing
usually gives better results than shal
low. The plowed land should be well
harrowed early in the spring, and if
not immediately planted, it should be
frequently harrowed in order to con
serve moisture and kill the weeds
which start after the first harrowing.
Spring plowed land should be harrowed
immediately after the plow, to pre
vent loss of moisture, In the dryer
sections, some form of subsurface
packer should follow the -plow, and
this should immediaetly be followed by
the harrow to work up a surface mulch.
If the soil plows up cloddy, a plank clod
masher may be used quite profitably.
The time of planting should be gov
erned largely by the climate and the
purposes for which the potatoes are
grown. The potato plant needs ample
moisture when the tubers are setting;
hence, the grower should endeavor to
have the plants reach that stage of de
velopment at the time when the moist
ure supply is likely to be favorable
For early new potatoes, the seed should
be plar. jd as early in the spring as the
soil will permit, on light, warm soil.
For late potatoes they may be planted
as late as the middle of June, provided
the moisture supply is ample and con
tinuous; but where summer rains can
not be depended upon, the earier the
potatoes are planted the better, if the
danger from frost is guarded against
The distance between rows and be
tween hills in the row is an important
point in the potato culture. Varieties
that tend to produce very large tubers
should be planted close. Soil will ad
mit of close planting in direct propor
tion to its fertility and moisture con
tent, and the care given the crop. In
high priced land, intensive culture
should be practiced and the rows and
hills planted as closely as the fertility
of the land will permit. Increasing
the size of the "seed pieces will ac
complish the same results as close
planting, but the danger of sunburned
tubers is apt to be increased.
No farmer who grows six or more
acres of potatoes each year can afford
to do without a horse planter. Of the
several methods of hand planting, the
following is the most satisfactory ;
After the soil is well prepared, open
up furrows to the proper depth with a
single shovel plow. After the seed is
dropped, cover with the plow an.1 har
row thoroughly. The depth of the
planting should depend upon the text
ure of the soil, and upon whether early
or late potatoes are desired. Five
inches is not too deep for late potatoes,
on light, mellow soils, but three to
four inches is better for an early crop,
or on very heavy, or very wet soil.
The amount of seed to use varies
from three to ten sacks per acre, and
depends upon the variety of the soil.
Varieties which tend to produce very
large tubers should have a large quan
tity of seed. Rich land should receive
more seed than poor land. If the seed
pieces are not too large, the number of
eyes to each piece makes no difference.
It is more important that the size of
the pieces sohuld be uniform than that
there should be the same number of
eyes in each piece.
Frequently only a part of the pota
toes which are planted come up. This
may be clue to one or more of several
causess, all of which should be guarded
against. Cut seed potatoes should
never be allowed to remain in piles un
til they heat, and are thereby seriously
injured. Seed potatoes that have been
exposed to too low temperature will
seldom give a uniform stand. All de
cayed tubers and those which have
brown or black spots through the flesh
should not be planted as there are two
diseases which are found in this state
which are sure to result in an unsatis
factory stand if seed infected with
them is planted.
Cut seed should never be planted
deeply in the cold wet soil, or unsatis
factory germination is sure to result.
Finally, in the dryer sections, potatoes
should be planted to uniform depth be
low the dry surface mulch in order to
becure a uniform stand.
Shirt SaKgratlona.
All lard to fry fritters and doughnuts
must be sizzling hot before putting In
the batter.
Candles will burn slowly and steadily
through the evening if they ar kept
on lee all day.
To keep mold from pickles, in the
top of each Jar or bottle place a layer
or horse-radish roots, sllcef thin.
If you are unable to satisfy your
Belf and you cannot how can you
oope to satisfy others?
I : ligjljj
1502 Columbus entered the bnrbor
which he called I'orto Pello.
IfkSft Sir Francis Drake returned from
his voyage round the world.
1018 Sir Walter Ualeigli beheaded In
London.
1020 The Plymouth company was or
ganized. 1701 The first constitution of Pennsyl
vania was adopted.
173," (Ion. Oglethorpe ro-embnrked for
America, accompanied by John Wes
ley and other missionaries.
17."D England declared war against
Spain.
1705 The "Pennsylvania Onzette" ap
peared In mourning for the passage
of the Stamp Act.
1774 The first American Congress, hav
ing finished Its deliberations, ad
journed. 1777 John Hancock resigned ns Presi
dent of tho American Congress.
17S.'! Continental army dishnnded and
returned to their homes. . . .Treaty of
peace between Creat P.ritnin and the
I'nited States proclaimed.
1 70,'i Execution of the (Jirondists during
Ihe French revolution.
ISO,? John Penh, one of the signers ofj
the Declaration of Independence from
North Carolina, died.
1807 Russia declared war Against Great
P.ritain.
1S10 Mexican revolutionists defeated
the Spanish at battle of Lou CrucoH.
181.1 Moravian Town, on the River
Thames, destroyed by the Americans
under (Jen. Harrison.
1818 Convention signed at Ixmdon reg
ulating the privileges of the United
Stfites In the liritish North American
fisheries.
1825 Final completion of the Erie ennal
celebrated nt Albany .... First boat
on the Erie canal arrived at Uuffalo
from Albany.
1811 Santa Anna entered the City of
Mexico.
1845 The United States navbl academy
was formally opened.
IS47 Jprome Honaparte returned to
France after an exile of thirty-two
yen rs.
1S40 A remarkable meteoric stone fell
near Charlotte, X. C.
1850 The Xorthwest Passage discovered
by Capt. MeClure of the Investiga
tor. 1851 Southern cotton planters met at
Macon to devise , plan to prevent
fluctuation in the price of the staple.
1852 Fire destroyed a large section of
the city of Sacramento, Cal.
1801 Gen. Hunter superseded John C.
Fremont in command of the weRtern
department of the army.
1802 Confederate cavalry under Gen.
Stuart entered Cha nihersburg, Pa.
180-i Maryland proclaimed a free Stata
by Gov. Bradford.
1808 Gen. Ulysses R. Grant elected
President of the United Slates.
1871 Episcopal conference in session In
New York adopted a resolution op
posing ritualism in the church ser
vice. 18.SO James A. Garfield of Ohio elected
President of the United Stntps.
188.1 Henry Irving made his American
debut in New York City.
1880 Partholdi's Statue of Liberty, In
New York harbor, dedicated by Pres
ident Cleveland.
18.88 The first Legislature of the North
West Territories opened at Reglna.
1801 The Provincial act abolishing sep
arate schools in Manitoba declared
unconstitutional by the Supreme
Court of Canada.
1S!)1 An electric ear went through a
draw at Portland, Ore., and twenty
persons were killed .... Steamer City
of Alexandria, from Havana for New
York, burned at sea ; thirty lives lost.
1R0-1 David H. Hill", for the third time,
accepted the Democratic nomination
for Governor of New York.
ISjy-, The trial of H. II. Holmes for
murder began in Philadelphia.
1800 First contingent of Canadian
troops for South Africa sailed from
Quebec.
10OO The statue of Queen Vietorln was
unveiled at Montreal Census bu
reau announced the population of the
United Slates to be 70.205,220, an
Increase of over 13,000,000 in ten
years.
1001 The ship Perseverance, with four
teen men, lost in the Arctic region.
1002 Canadian-Australian cable com
pleted from Vancouver to Fanning
island, a distance of .1,155 miles.
10O.1 New Irish land act went into op
eration. 1005 President Roosevelt sent Secre
tary Metcalf to San Francisco to in
vestigate the anti-Japanese sentiment
on the Pacific coast.
No Spender.
Blnggs How have you spent
th
Piimmer, Jinngs?
Jlnngs Haven't spent It; my wife
nnd the girls have looked after all the
epondin this se ison. Toledo Blade.