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.