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The Lady the Sea. Author of " W"hn BUd9 Aro Out tnd Lova'l Afild,' "Worm witK th Ship,' "A Doctor of Philosophy," ' Th Soulhornort," eta. Copyright, 1Q05, by J. B. Lippincott Company. CIIAPTEU II. M'r. Smith's reveries worf interrupted. s the reveries of heroes upon ships are always interrupted, by the cry of "Sail-ho !" The keenest eyed on tht f risat were kept constantly on the royal yards on the Itiokout. If the St. I-awrenee did not catch anything, it would not he the fault of tier captain. So soon, therefore, as the approaching sail had been sighted, she van recognized as a small top-sail schoon er, just the size ami description of the Petrel. Inasmuch as it was highly improbable that any vessel of that size, save such an firmed vessel, would be in those waters in war time, especially one heading toward the open sea, it was more than likely that the sail sighted was the Petrel. Original ly the Petrel had been the revenue cutter Aiken, a very swift goer so swift that, although she was not a steamer, the Con federates had determined to risk her on a cruise. That the St. I-nvrence ,a heavy old lifty-gun frigate, could overhaul the light, dancing schooner was an impossi bility. Commodore Paulding, a resourceful old seaman, had been considering the matter eiuee he had received the (lag officer's no tice, and he had determined to elect by strategem what he could not hope to ac complish by any other means. Happen ing to be on deck when the sail was re ported, so soon as, through the officers whom he had sent aloft for the puriKise. he had verified the report that indicated that she was the Petrel he resolved to run away ! Feeling sure that his great ship must have been observed from the small schoon er, Commodore Paulding brought his frig ate to the wind on the jiort tack and truck off at a broad angle from his for mer course directly away from the schoon er, to the great astonishment of officers and crew. .The evolution was observed from the schooner, which immediately changed her course so as to keep directly In the wake of the frigate. "YVot's the old man up to?" growled old Bob Gantlin, chief boatswaiu's mate. "Here we air, arter two months out. an' not a shot o' prize money in our locker ! An' the fust time we raises a sailin' ves sel an' gits a chance, we ups with our 6taru an' runs away from her!" The commodore's mysterious move was presently elucidated, for the men were Rent to quarters, the guns were run in, loaded, and secured inboard, the port shut ters were dropped, the openings for the gun muzzles tightly closed; the men, save a few necessary hands, were sent below. The commodore and his aides on the poop deck removed their swords and uniforms, the yards were braced in and cock-billed lightly, and in a thousand little ways not intelligible to any but practiced, trained observers the great frigate was given the appearance of a lumbering old merchantman. Observing too that he was not being overhauled so rapidly as he wished, the captain got out drags astern, which materially decreased the speed of i his ship. lie told the helmsman not to keep too tight a luff on the frigate, but to let her go off to leeward gradually. Then everybody knew what was intended. The maneuver the ruse, rather was completely successful. The Pe.rel was not "manned by a body of experienced man-o'-warsmen, whom it might have been diffi cult to deceive, and seeing the old St. Lawrence lumbering away from them, ap parently making every effort to escape, her people long-shore, fresh-water sailors came to the conclusion that a rich, old fashioned merchantman some of the East India ships at that time carried single topsail yards was theirs for the 'taking. They cracked all sail on their littl" schooner, therefore, and drove recklessly after the flying frigate. There was a long twenty-founr pounder mouuted on the Petrel's forecastle and two smaller guns, six pounders, in broad side. Under the circumstances, the chase was neither a long nor a stern one. He fore evening the Petrel had drawn almost within range of the frigate. Not a gun could be seen on the St. Lawrence and but few men on her decks. Those aft were in their shirt sleeves and wore straw hats and sea boots, like merchantmen. Hanging along to widward of the chase, as the Petrel did. there was nothing to be seen of the main deck of the frigate, anyway, on account of her heavy keel ro starboard. Confident of their prey, the men on the Petrel cast loose and provide:! the long Tom forward quite after the manner of the old-time privateer, and sent a shot sharp across the forefoot of the supposed trader. No attention whatever was paid to this threat by the St. Lawrence, and when it was repeated, although the ball came per ilously near to hitting the bows of the ol 1 frigate, she still remained silent. By this time the Petrel was well abreast and slightly to windward of her supimsed prey. Her men must have been a very stupid lot, for at that distance it should have been impossible to escape the con clusion that they had a huge, old-fashioned man-of-war under their lee. Possibly they had so thoroughly absorbed the idea that they were chasing a merchantman In the ardor of their pursuit that their judgment was blinded. At any rate, the Petrel, confident of success, put up her helm and sweeped down towards the frig ate. The iorts of the latter were thrown ojien as by magic. Huge black guns thriwt tJieir uuzzles out over the sides, some of them speaking grimly and to a purpose. Two heavy bolts from long thirty-two of the main battery ripped through the hapless Confederate cruiser. An eight-inch shell from tie forward pivov erploded just as it struck the Petrel's side, tearing a hole in her big enough to drive a wagon through. The schooner was a total and absoute wreJi. She ca reened and sank in less than four min utes. The St. Lawrence stopped firing Immediately she saw the plight at the from BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY- All rights reserred privateer and put her boats over. They had barely reached the Petrel when she went down, carrying a number of wound ed with her. The rest were brought back to the frigate amid the loud guffaws of her officers and men. It was a huge sea joke, this, the capture of that saucy pri vateer in this way. Unfortunately, while the Petrel's men could not fail to see the point, the humor if it did not especially appeal to them. The discomfited Confederates who were passed over the side of the frigate were not the only prize, however. The only member of the St. Lawrence's crew who suffered any hardship in the battle was Lieutenant Thomas Beekinan Smith, who had got away in the first boat dispatched to succor the sinking Confederate priva teetstnen. Just as he reached the Pet rel one of her officers darted across the deck and threw something overboard. Smith could swim like a fish. As the object flew through the air past his head he saw that it was a mail bag. Too late to stop the man, he promptly dived for it, and by great good fortune caught it as it ai'k below the surface of the water. A dripping but triumphant figure, he hand ed it to Commodore Paulding at the gang way, then went below to the ward room to change his clothes. The mail bag was a treasure trove, in deed. Shortly afterwards Lieutent Smith was called to the cabin, where old Com modore Paulding sat in consultation with his secretary. There was an open letter spre.id out on the table before him. "Mr. Smith," he began formally, "your quickness of thought and promptness of action, which 1 desire to commend, have done us a great service." "Thank you, sir." "I have examined the letters taken from the mail bag. Most of them are per sonal and appear to be unimportant. This one, however, is of great interest. It appears that there is a new and formid able Confederate privateer being outfitted and prepared for cruising at Jones' Wharf, wherever that may be." "I know aloiit where it is, sir," volun teered Mr. Smith. "Hey,! what 1" exclaimed the Commo dore. "Have you been in these waters before, sir?" "No, sir, but it is on one of those estu aries opening off Pamlico sound between the Neuse and the Pamlico rivers, and is the private property of Major William Henry Jones, formerly of the United States army." "Exactly true." said the commodore, looking at the letter again. "That's the man, Do you know him?" "I did, sir, before the war. He was nhen a major of artillery and was station ed for some lime at Governor's Island. He " Smith hesitated. "Well, sir?" interrogated the commo dore impatiently. "He he had a daughter, sir." "Oh, I see," smiled the old man. "Well, he has a privateer now. What was his daughter's name?" "Ellen, sir." "That's the name of his privateer. I gather from this letter that she's all ready but her armament. This is to be brought to her from the Bahamas by the blockade-runner Grevhound. This schooner we have just sunk was to lie off the mouth of the inlet and pilot the Greyhound iu. This letter is one from Jones to her cap tain. It gives in detail the night and day signals by which the blockade-runner was to recognize the privateer and encloses a part of a chart." "What a pity." murmured Mr. Smith, "that we were so precipitate in sinking her." "Ay," said Commodore Paulding. "How ever, that can't be helped now. We must do the next lest thing. It seems from this letter that the blockade-runner is not expected for a week yet. I have decided to run up to Fortress Monroe and get a schooner, if I can, and rig her up to look like this privateer. Then I intend to put you aboard her in the hope that you can capture the Greyhound. After that you must go in with her and destroy the privateer." "Ay. ay. sir." said Smith, grinning with delight : "I'll do it." "How will you proceed?" asked the com inodore. "Why. sir, I'll lay off the mouth of the inlet and keep watch for the Greyhound. When I sight her I'll make the signals and go alioard her and take possession. Then I'll transship my crew to the Greyhound, take her through the inlet, cross the sound, go up the river, lay the blockade runner alongside the Ellen under pretense of bringing her the guns, and take her by boarding." "That's very well, indeed, so far as it goes," said the commodore, smiling at his eager subordinate, "but what will you do then?" "Bring out the privateer, sir." "lint if you cannot?" "Id-troy her, then." "How will you get back, then?" "I'll not be thinking of getting back in that case, sir," answered Mr. Smith grave ly. "Hut you must," said the commodore impressively. "It will be a touch and go at lesr, but I do not wish to throw away any men or lives if I can help it. Be sides, the more honor to you and to us all if you bring her out. I hardly sup pose you can break through, but certainly von must do your best to get back safely." "I shall, sir." "I sent for you thus early," continued the commodore, "that you might have ample time to mature your plans. We ought to fall In with the fleet day after to-morrow. The Greyhound isn't expect ed for a week. Our privateering captain evidently thought himself at liberty to cruise on his own hook for a few days before he attempted to deliver his message, and came to grief, luckily for us. That's all." "Deg pardon, sir," said Mr. Smith, "but inny T "have the letter?" i "Certainly" said Commodore Panldlnj, handing it to him with the half chart. I "Don't lose it. It's a valuable document." J Smith, with his pulses throbbing, his I heart beating, took the papers and walked ' out of the cabin. The Ellen ! And he i was going to capture her! The privateer, not the womnn. Well, it would go hard if ; in the melee he did not get a chance at the woman ns well as at the privateer. CIIAPTEU III. Fortune favored Smith. Fortune seems to have a weakness for the Smith family, paralleled only by a similar' feeling for the Jones family there are so many of both in the world, and playing great parts too! If fortune had not been kind to i them, they would have died out long .since, as other great families have be come extinct. The St. Lawrence fell in with the flag officer the day after she sank the Petrel The fleet was busy at its anchorage oft Old Point Comfort, getting ready for an expedition, presumably destined against the forts guarding Ilatteras Inlet, the first naval objective of the war. Among the vessels assembled there was a small schooner which had been a revenue cutter, the Upshur. This vessel happened to be an exact model of the Petrel. The flag officer entered heartily into the plans of Commodore Paulding. The Upshur was turned over to the St. Law rence, Smith was given command of her with fifty gallant tars from the old frig ate, with Midshipmen Hrown and Uohin son as his assistants, and old P.ob Gant lin. chief factotum, for a crew. It was a hard task to reject the three hundred and fifty-odd men, volunteers all, who begged to accompany the chosen fifty from the crew of the St. Lawrence. The flag officer did more than Commo dore Paulding suggested, or even desired. Paulding had determined to support the attack himself with his sailing frigate. Very dubious, in spite of the successful ruse by which the Petrel had been over come, as to the suitability of the old frig ate for such duty, and very desirous of apprehending the Greyhound, ruse or no ruse, the flag officer decided to assign to the duty the new and extremely fast gun boat Wamego. It was believed that noth ing on the ocean 'had the heels of the Wamego, fresh from the shipyard. She had shown marvelous speed on her trial trip, and it would be a greyhound indeed which could run away from her. Commodore Paulding was given com mand of the ill-assorted squadron, and the three vessels got away three days after the capture of the Petrel. Their uniforms had been taken from the surviving offi cers of the Confederate schooner and had been donned, so far as they went around, by the corresponding officers of the Up shur. Someone had been careful to secure the Confederate flag and the private sig nals from the sinking Petrel before she went down. Sailors' eyes are keen for details, and many had marked the way the privateer had been painted, so that it was easy to duplicate her outward ap pearance. It would need a very near in spection indeed to show that the Upshur was not what she appeared to be. The commodore disposed "his ships in the following manner : The St. Lawrence hull down to the northward of Ocraeoke Inlet, the Wamego hull down to the south ward, and the Upshur immediately off the entrance. There was nothing to do there after but wait. Two days after they ar rived at their appointed stations the look out who was kept constantly at the fore cross-trees on the Upshur sighted a steam er early in the morning. Referring to his letter, which, indeed, he had studied until he knew it by heart, Smith struck his light sails he would have to effect the capture by strategy, not by speed, if the approaching stranger proved to be the Greyhound, of course retaining just enough sail to give his vessel steerage way. and hoisted the agreed signals by which the Greyhound, if such she were, could recognize the Petrel. The St. Lawrence and Wamego were well out of sight in the misty morn ing. (To be continued.) The I.nnil of the Free, "There's eight nations represented In this ward of ours," said Mr. llallorati to his wife on his return from a politi cal meeting. He begun to count them off on his Angers. "There's Irish, Frinch, Eyetalians, Poles, Germans, Uoosians, Greeks an' " Mr. Hnlloran stopped, and began again : "There's Irish, Frinch, Eyetaltans, Poles. Germans, Uoosians, Greeks an' ain't It queer I disremember the other wan? There's Irish, Frinch " "Maybe 'twas Americans," suggested Mrs. Ilalloran. "Sure, that's It," said her husband. "I couldn't think." Youth's Compan ion. Doctor' Ilill. Who. having obtained an honest bill for the medicine, will wish to have par ticulars of the doctor's "professional services?" Imagine a bill made up with such nicety as this: "To counting pulse, sixpence; to viewing tongue, three pence; to asking four questions (three irrelevant), fourpence ; to telling pa tients to say, 'ninety-nine, eightpence; to medicine, is Od; to bottle, twopence; to label, 1 penny ; total, 3s (id." York shire Observer. Same Old Game. Little James has lx-en Imparting to the minister the Important and cheerful information that his father had got a new set of false teeth. "Indeed. James?" replied the min ister, indulgently. "And what will he do with the old set?" "Oh. I s'jMise." replied little James, "they'll cut 'em down and make me wear 'em." Illustrated P.its. The Tlrelen Pier, "You Americans don't take enough exercise:" said the foreign physician. "Groat Scott!" replied the young man with a sun-burned nose. "You ought to see us on the boardwalk at a summer resort." Washington Star. The good you do Is not lost though you forget It FieldlDg. SHEEP-RAISiNG ON IRRIGATED LANDS IDAHO R.NCffiR VEKY SUCCESSFUL D. C. Mullen, of Nampa, Tells How He Started Illustrates Many Interesting Points. The following article, by D. C. Mul len, of Nampa, Idaho, is one of three contributions to the Boise Capital News made by that gentleman, who is a rancher near Nampa: The editor of the Capital News hav ing kindly encouraged me to write a little more on the subject of sheen on the farm, I will try to give a few fig ures on what I lrive done in a small way. These articles are not written for entertainment, but are strictly for business. My sheep are lambing now, and I have but little for anything but business. ork on the farm at any time is anything but a lazy man's job, but winter finds us with the most spare time, and I like to have the lambs come early, so I can give them full attention. The one time that you must look after sheep is in lambing. If weather is cold they may chill to death; occa sionally a mother will not own her lamb, and in case of twins you must see t hey keep together at first. We have little pens to put them in, where there are twins or mothers are in- cliucfl to leave them. However, they are generally the best of mothers, and grieve over their dead lambs in a way to make your heart ache. On the nrnch there are none of the dreadtul cries of starving orphans that you hear one the range. My first sheep was one of these orphans. We made one visit to the lambing ground, and that was all I ever wanted. I can hear those cries yet. and the time will come when such tilings will not be tolerated. Ihere will be laws to cover this, just as there is for feeding and watering stock in shipping. 1 hese orphan losses in a financial way are also favorable to ranch sheep. We al ways have a few tor some unavoidable reason, but we raise them on cow's milk like a calf. Rangemen tell me it is better to have lambs some later, so thev will have green grass to eat, and that they do better. We do not find it so. The lambs will begin to nibble at the hay when three or four days old, and soon eat as well as their mothers. They a-re all started and care for themselves when spring work is on, when most farmers are worked to death. The rangemen forget that when they are lambing that is all they have to do, while a farmer has many other things to attend to. Conditions Differ. I find in nearly every way that sheep on the ranch and range arc en tirely different businesses. The range man, from a money point of view, just lets his orphans die, loses stray sheep in the brush without bothering about it, and the sick must get well them selves or die. Hut such methods on the ranch would be a disgrace. Wc will expect to keep a better grade, or even pure breds, and so cannot afford such losses. Here is where I suffered. When I started in on sheep, only one man that I knew of was handling them on the ranch, and I had no one to ask advice of when in trouble except the range man, and all he knew was to let them die. I could do that without any help, so just had to blunder along reading all I could find in papers on the subject and studying my own. I forgot to say how little I knew of stock, and of farm work except what I had read, until I came to the ranch here eight years ago. I scarcely knew a sheep when I saw one, so it is very evident if I could make it pay at all that any farmer raised to the business ought to make a big thing of it. Dis cussions on sheep in the papers have been a great help to me, and may we hope these lines on my mistakes may help some other farmer from going the same rough road. Let us consult together and profit by others' mis takes. Sheep Vary. Before I give my figures I would like to say that my sheep are the ordi nary scrub, range sheep, that I have picked up anywhere from one to half a dozen. They are all sizes, and coarse and fine wool of all grades. The one trouble in getting started on the ranch is that range men don't want to sell a hundred or two, so you have to pick them up wherever you can. So mine are in no way a selected lot. This simply emphasizes what I said above about my making any profit. Pure bred sheep or good grades, like any other stock, will pay better than scrubs, and I can say right here I don't intend to always have scrubs; but they proved both cheap and profit able, and are especially good to prac tice on, for a beginner is bound to lose more or less, and, in fact, any one in stock must expect someslosscs. I will only give my last three years' receipts: 190") Average fleece, 10 pounds, at 15ic $1.55. 1906 Average fleece, 7 pounds, at 20c, $1.40. 1907 Average fleece, Ci pounds, at 19c. $1.24. This is a bad showing, as every year my average was lower, but let me ex plain. In 1905 my sheep were all good ewes, only one old range sheep in ftje lot, and that sheared 4i pounds. They averaged just a trifle less than 10 pounds. The next year I made a bad breik buying some old range pelters. I figured that the wool and lamb would pay the bill and would not count the old sheep anything. P.ut it didn't pan out. 1 hey only sheared 4i and 4l pounds, and some died, more A inump. Tess Mr. Dumley's Just the mean est man. He told me last evening he'd teach me how to whistle If I'd pucker up my Hps jess Oh, that old scheme I Then be kissed you, eht Tess No, the stupid thing I He didn't kiss me at all- Philadelphia Press. The people always catch It; the poor man says "the people snub him"; the rich man says "ths people arc toadies." had no lambs, and what lambs there were did mt amount to anything. These old pelters evidently crime west in the 'litis, and it makes me swear like sixty when I think of them. It was a bad deal, and no farmer should buy one at any price. An old, worn-out range sheep is the nearest thing to nothing at all there is on earth. Result on Lambs. There were also a number of lambs about a year old or less. This brought my average down to seven pounds. The next year was the same, only lots more young lambs. My propor tion of very young and very old was away above the average, so it dropped to 0 pounds. This is just the aver nge sheep fleece in the United States, Idaho going a trifle better. I can say right here that good, fair, coarse-wool mutton sheep will shear close to 10 pounds. In 1905 and 1907 my wool was sold to a hide buyer, who made several cents a pound on it without doubt. In 1900 is was sold direct to a wool buyer. The lambs for these three years are as follows: 1905 Lambs $2.50, wool $1.55, $4.05. 1906 Lambs $2.75, wool $1.40, $4.15. 1907 Lambs $3.00, wool $1.24, $4.24. The lambs were sold to local butch ers in Nampa and Hoise, and weighed from 75 to 100 pounds. The average income for three years was $4.15, or call it $4 even up. This is counting lambs at 100 per cent increase; it will average close to that with care. This docs not count losses of ewes, of which there will be an occasional one. Now, we find wc can pasture 13 sheep on an acre, and one acre of al falfa, counting four tons of hay to acre, will winter 20 sheep, and this hny land will nlso furnish pasture in the spring while regular pasture is getting a start, and also in the fall. These two acres, one of hay and one of pasture, will keep an average of 16, or say 16, sheep the whole year, or eight to each acre, and an income of $4 each sheep makes $32 income per acre. Another thing, these sheep harvest their own crop on three out of every five acres. Now, every farmer knows it costs good money and lots of sweat to put hay in the stack." One of the strongest points in sheep raising is they are so little work or trouble most of the time. For about eight months they will run on pasture. You only have to keep a little water running and corral them at night. When evening comes nfine are all in or close by, and all there is to do is shut the gate and open it in the morn ing. Even this is not necessary if you have a coyote - tight fence, but we sleep better when they are corralled, and most of them like to go into their house. In winter a farmer has only to feed them hay, when they have to be fed, and only when lambing has he really to give them much work; but still they are alwavs under his eye to see that everything is going right. Revenue From Wool. People say sheep and wool have been away up and you can't make such returns very long. Well, let us see. I sold my last wool for 19 cents. This same farm wool in Ohio brought 30 cents. We shoull get the same, less freight, or 26 or 28 cents, instead of 19, and we will get it when enough farmers raise sheep so it will be worth while for wool buyers to look it up. As long as we have only a few hundred or thou sand pounds scattered all over the country, we will have to be content with the best range prices. The same holds true of lambs. My lambs, if I had enough to ship to Chicago, would have brought me from $4 to $6 net last year instead of $3. With plenty of sheep on the farms, buyers would be here every month, taking all the lambs ready to go, at prices away above local, or the farmers could pool and ship themselves and get full re turns. The more that go into it the better, so you see I am working for my own interests as well as neigh bors' in this discussion. If we can ship east, prices can drop 50 per cent and still we can make good money, or we can even cut the prices I got right in half and still make more money than selling hay at $4 in stack. I sell my hay to my own sheep at $S per ton and they gather three-fifths of the crop. Q. I saw a dynamite thawcr the otliei day consisting of a rack upon -which the sticks of dynamite were placed, and underneath the rack was a pan of water heated by candle flames; the steam given off by the water upon boiling served to thaw the powder. Is the above ap paratus a safe arrangement! A. io; more or less nitroglycerin ex udes from the cartridges when they are heated and this drops into the pan be neath. If, as may easily happen, the water boils away, the nitroglycerin in the bottom of the pan is subjected to the full heat of the candle flame and may easily explode. This type of thawcr wax the cause of an explosion in the Coeur d'Alene district, last Christmas time. V. S. Thomson, Wash ington State College, Pullman. Q. A couple of neighbors and myself intend to buy a bull, the dam of which I understand has been troubled with milk fever. Is it likely that tho progeny of this bull would be similarly troubled t Should we have the bull examined rela tive to his health before buying! L. N. A. T do not think that because the dam of the bull you expect to buy had the milk fever that his calves are lia ble to this disease, as we have not as vet recocrnized it as a transmissible disease. It is not safe to buy an ani mal unless it has been tested by a relia ble veterinarian and found to bo free from tuberculosis. Washington State College, Pullman. A Diplomat. Nice Old Gent My boy, don't you know It's wrong to smoke cigarettes? Small boy Yesslr. N. O. G. Then why do you persist in doing It? Small Boy I ain't perslstln'; mj pall feel so bad about It that he won't lick me fer goln' swlmmln' this after noon. Tol edo Bla de. The "man who is the true friend of the people Is never the one who spends tb most time telling them about It 1C20 The Pilgrims in the cabin of ths "Mayflower" signed the famous com pact. 1072 Island of Tobago taken from the Dutch by the English. 1734 Zenger, editor of a New York weekly journal, was imprisoned for defending government by the people. 1702 First school of anatomy in Ameri ca was opened in Philadelphia. 1780 North Carolina, the twelfth State, accepted the constitution. 1804 Gen. Armstrong, American Minis ter to France, presented his creden tials to Napoleon Bonaparte. 1800 Napoleon declared a blockade of the British Isles. 1S2D The city of Camden. S. C., almost destroyed by fire. ... President Guer rero of Mexico relinquished the ex traordinary powers granted him by Congress on account of the Spanish invasion ... .Gen. Bolivar's attempt to establish a monarchy frustrated by the Venezuelans. ... New England began the custom of celebrating the last Thursday in November as a day of Thanksgiving. 1S40 Dr. George Park man murdered in Boston by Prof. John Webster of the Harvard Medical College. 1801 Federal forces bombarded the Con federate fortifications at Pensneoln. ....Union forces defeated in skir mish at Hunter's Hill, Va. ... United States vessel San tee captured the pri vateer Boyal Yacht olT Galveston. IS02 All political State prisoners re leased. 1803 Prince of Sonderburg-Glucksburn proclaimed King of Denmark as Christian IX. 1804 Gen. Sherman began his march from Atlanta to the sea. ,. .Sarah Jane Smith, 1ft years old, a Confed erate spy, sentenced to death in St. Louis. 1807 Charles Dickens arrived in Boston. ....Committee of the House reported In favor of the inieachmcnt of Pres ident Andrew Johnson. 1808 New England Woman Suffrage As sociation organized, with Julia Ward Howe as president. ' 1870 Duke of Aosta elected King of S;ain. 1S73 "Boss" Tweed convicted ; of de frauding the city treasury of New York. 1874 Forty persons were drowned by the sinking of the packet Empire at the United States swept by a hurri cane. 187." Mary Anderson made her stage de but in Louisville. 1878 The Halifax award of $.",500,000 was paid to Canada. 1883 Standard time substituted for local time. 1884 Mme. Patti, in New York, cele brated the silver jubilee of her ap pearance there as a prima donna. 1880 Brazilian monarchy overthrown and republic established .... Alaska demanded representation in Congress. 1800 Battleship Maine launched at tho Brooklyn navy yard. 1802 International Monetary Congress met in Brussels. ... Sir John Thomp son succeeded John Abbott as Cana dian Prime Minister. .. .The great Homestead strike declared at an end. 1803 Twelve thousand lives lost by earthquake in Kuchan, Persia. 1800 Twenty thousand British troops gathered at Cape Town. 1000 Many lives lost by hurricane in Tennessee. 1001 The Privy Council of Englnnd de cided the Manitoba prohibition law to be constitutional. 1!K)." Prince Charles of Denmark chosen King of Norway ... .General strike renewed at St. Petersburg. 1000 Uev. Algernon Crapsey, who hf.d been charged with heresy, renounced ministry in the Protestant Episcopal church. 1007 Oklahoma admitted to the Union. FACTS FOR FARMERS. The demand for farm implements is again springing up and manufacturers ex pect a return to normal conditions next year. The American Society of Equity organ ized at Fargo the Tri-State Grain wrow ers' department for Minnesota and both Dakotas. In a speech to the National Grange, Clifford Pinchot. chief forester, urged the farmers to aid in saving the water power from monopoly by a few idg corporations. He said the farmers would soon be using electricity and would need this water power themselves. President Barrett told the delegates sf. tending the convention of the Farmers" Union at New Orleans that it was with it1 the power of the southern planters, by restricting their output to bring the pries of cotton back to last year's level and add $1.V.000,000 to their wealth. Ovr 1,000 delegates attended the convention. Ole Swanson, a big Swede, working on the Dolbcrtson farm, southwest of IaJcs City, Iowa, claims 4hat he can husk mor corn In eleven hours than any other man. He recently husked 141 biishelo in eleven hours and ten minutes, measurement bj wacon bos.
