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Jack's feelings at that moment were
bot enviable, II had always looked
upon Iord Summers' commlssloa aa a di
rect proof of hia own ability. It waa
r decided damper to hi good opinion of
Imself to discover that it waa due to
fcU patron'a interest in Ethel Mallett.
"Aa you do not seem to haTe been
Vary glad to hear of the engagement,
rarhapa you will be better pleased to
ar that It la at an end."
Indeed!"
"Yen; and I think you ahonld know
that Miss Mallett took the Inltiativ In
breaking It off."
"I am aurprivedl I thought aha was
rry fond of you. But there la no ac
counting for women's action."
And then Lord Summers turned to his
Other neighbor and threw himself Into
a. discussion upon the drainage of land,
thus tacitly dismissing the other subject;
but Jack wns conscious that he was not
bald blameless In the matter nor In
ueed did he feel so.
One point in the conTersatlon had
rouaed his curiosity Lord Summers' re
mark as to the name of "Mallett" be
ing assumed. He would have liked to
pursue the subject, but as things were,
he had no right to feel curious.
Later in the erening Mis Mailing and
her guardians were chatting confiden
tially, and the subject of the mysterious
advertisement was introduced.
"IlaTe you any notion what they could
mean?" he asked.
"Not the amallest," she answered. "It
Is curious Sir Geoffrey never saw them."
"But he may hare, without our know
ing it."
"True. But don't you think that the
motive, whatever it was, must have af
fected the whole family, and that. If he
had been found, we should hive been
mixed up In It?"
"Possibly, but not necessarily. If I
had known where Geoffrey waa I should
certainly have insisted upon his sifting
the matter. Indeed, at one time I
thought of investigating it myself; but
your uncle was alwaya so touchy about
any one's interfering in his affairs that
I thought it better to let it alone."
For a moment there was a fixed look
Of fear on Pauline's face; but Lord Sum
mers was too much taken up with his
subject tojiotice It.
"Good-looking fellow, Dornton," he re
marked, carelessly, with a glance to
where Jack was carrying on the usual
war of words with Bertha Collins.
"Very," Pauline answered, shortly.
"Made quite a long stay with you.
Been here since the beginning of July.
Las he not?"
"I forget exactly when he came."
In apite of this apparent indifference.
Lord Summers felt satisfied that thlnga
were In an unsatisfactory state, and he
wished fervently that, in his anxiety to
benefit the future husband of his old
friend's daughter, he had been prompted
to do anything rather than send him
down to this particular neighborhood.
Sunday evening was rather a quiet
time at Mallingford, and the house was
wrapped in darkness earlier than usual.
But the lamps in Miss Mailing's boudoir
burned on steadily, for Jack and his
fiancee were having their last confiden
tial chat before their marriage. The next
morning Jack was to leave for London
to obtain the special license and see
after sundry small matters, and he would
cot return until late on Tuesday after
boon. "I suppose we must say good-by to
right, as I shall most likely start before
you are down," Jack said.
"Yes but not just yet! Don't be In
a hurry to leave-me, Jack," Pauline an
swered, with a touch of pleadlog in her
voice. She knelt on the thick white rug
at hia feet, and added, "I would get up
to give you a parting salute if I were
not afraid that Lord Summers would
hear of it."
"My dear, there is no need," Jack
aid, calmly. "At the same time, I don't
understand your dread of Summers.
Surely you may do aa you choose in so
mall a matter?"
"I don't think I understand It myself.
Jack; yet I feel it. My life Is full of
dread Just now."
CHAPTER XIX.
It was rather annoying to Pelling that
Just now, when be was anxious to make
the most of his chance with Ethel, her
father's absence prevented his carrying
out hi design. lie fretted and fumed
Impatiently over Mr. Mallett's letter
telling of his enforced absence for a
week when he first received it; and
then, seeing the uselessness of repining,
ha set about making plans for relieving
Ethel' loneliness.
He wrote her a letter, telling her he
regretted now more than ever that he
had neither mother nor sisters, not even
a stray aunt, as, if he bad, he would
press them Into play propriety, and carry
her off a prisoner to spend tha week at
the Wigwam. Then he made appoint
ments at the publisher's, always taking
care to arrive before her, and gener
ally, after putting her Into a cab, re
turning for a last ten minutes' chat with
Mr. Bramwell before starting himself.
Then there was usually either a letter
on business, of course or a novel by the
morning post; and later on In the day
would arrive a box of lovely loose blos
soms or a basket of late grapes and
peaches. So Ethel was always being
pleasantly reminded that her happiness
was tha chief object of one person' life,
and the knowledge comforted her exceed
ingly. Meanwhile Mr. Mallett was having
rather a hard time of it. Us arrived In
Pari on Sunday morning, and the wed
ding was to take place on tha following
Wednesday. Thl gara him but three
clear day to get to the obscure Spanish
town of which hs did not even know
tha whereabouts hunt up tha evidence
of his niece's death, and telegraph the
news In tlma to stop tha ceremony.
After a weary two days' struggle with
railway officials and tlma tables, ha
reached Madrid on Tuesday la the cool
The Wife's Sec1-6 J
OR A BITTER RECKONING t
CHARLOTTE! M. BRAEMB
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blush of the early morning, very fagged,
but determined to go on. lie had made
a friend of the guard, glad to find some
on who spoke French for his Spanish
was doubtful from long disuse and on
the arrival of the train they went off
together to the Inquiry office to find out
means to reach the obscure town of Villa
Silentio.
The station master, half asleep, and
wholly angry at being routed out of bed
at such an early hour in the morning, at
first denied all knowledge of a place of
that name; but. when the guard re
minded him that such things as reference
books of the railway routes were Issued
for his especial enlightenment, his man
ner changed, and he proceeded to do his
best on Mr. Mallett's behalf.
"It Is here, you sei." he said In Span
ish, putting his fat tin cor on a spot In
the map. "Senor cannot leave Madrid
uutil half past uine; he will then have
two hours' railway ride, and then an
hour and a half by coach over not the
very best of roads." '
Mr. Mallett looked at his watch. It
was a quarter to six; he would have time
for three hours' rest. Thanking the
friendly guard for his good services, he
tossed his small bag and rug on the near
est hack-carriage and drove off to a
hotel.
. At on o'clock Mr. Mallett, feeling as
If his sense had been shaken out of him
by the last hour over that never-to-be-forgotten
road, found himself standing In
the market place of Villa Silentio, with
the hot midday sun beating down on
him, feeling more completely alone and
helpless than he ever remembered to have
felt before.
"I am afraid I made a mistake In com
ing myself," he said to the market clock,
aa he stood in front of it "You see a
man of fifty-seven is not so quick and
apt In adapting himself to circumstances
aa a younger man would be."
For two or three minutes Mallett stood
listening to the distant rumbling of the
coach wheels, and, great as had been his
suffering during the drive, he almost
wished himself back again on the awful
machine, Instead of here in this dentu
like place.
He sh.xik off the dreamy feeling of un
reality that possessed him, and crossed
to a deserted looking house on the shady
side of the square, where a sign board
from which all vestige of paint had long
since passed away hung over the door,
seeming to denote a bouse of entertain
ment. He pushed open the door and it swung
to behind him without noise. He waa
in a large stone-flagged room which oc
cupied tha whole depth of the house, the
opposite end opening on to a crazy veran
da crumbling under the weight of luxuri
ant creepers, through which there were
glimpses of a weed-grown inclosura be
yond. He stamped up and down the
stone floor, and shouted until the stones
echoed his voice. At the end of ten
minutes a sallow face, surrounded by
turbulent masses of frizzy black hair,
leaned over the hand rail of the stairs
that led up to the next floor. In about
five minutes the sallow face and frizzy
hair reappeared, and the woman began
to apologize profusely.
Mr. Mallett stood politely silent, hat In
hand, until she seemed to have ended ber
speech, when he presented the envelope
given him by Babette, with the name
and address of the photographer of the
gravestone.
The talkative lady took it over to the
light and spelled it out laboriously, and
then turned again to Mr. Mallett, and
rattled off another little incomprehensi
ble speech, interspersed with numberless
ejaculations of astonishment. Seeing at
last that be did not understand a word
of what she was saying, she pointed to
the address In her hand, and said slowly
in Spanish:
"My father."
Mr. Mallett understood that, for point
ing in his turn to the envelope, he asked:
"Where?"
She smiled pleasantly, motioned to him
to reseat himself, and went upstairs look
ing once or twice over her shoulder to
nod and smile at him reassuringly. Could
it be that the man he was In search of
was here in this house? He could hear
an animated conversation going on some
where in the rooms above, and be recog
nized the voice of the woman and the
tones of a man.
Presently there came to him an elderly
Spaniard, with something of the dandy
still clinging to him In the shape of
waxed mustaches and perfumed hair.
Still, the signs of decay that abounded
throughout the place showed themselves
even here In the ancient fop's frayed
jacket and well-worn shoes. To Mr.
Mallett's surprise and relief he at once
opened the conversation In passable
French.
"Monsieur wishes to see me? He has
evidently come a long way for that pur
pose. I am charmed, flattered and abash
ed all at one time charmed and flat
tered to receive any one who comes a
distance to pay homage to art."
II put his hand on his heart and bow
ed with the air of a prince. His belief
that Mr. Mallett had come to visit and
compliment art In his person was so evi
dently genuine that the sensitive gentle
man felt almost unhappy to have to un
deceive him; but time was pressing. He
had none for the observance of unneces
sary politeness. He took the little photo
graph from his pocketbook and held It
toward Castellan.
"I believe you took that picture. Now,
I want you to tell me where the grave
of which this Is a picture is to be found,
how you came to take the photograph,
whom you took It for, and any other cir
cumstances you can remember In connec
tion with It."
The Spaniard leaned forward with his
bands on bis knee to look at the pho
tograph, but he did not attempt to touch
It. He stared at It earnestly while Mr.
Mallett was speaking, and, when he had
finished, he looked up with a scared face
aa he answered:
"I said aometblng was wrong about
that afftir at the time, and now my
word ar coming to pass. I did not Ilk
th Job, I can assure you; I hav an
antipathy to graven and coffins and all
that reminds on of death, and I would
not hav taken that picture for untold
gold, but that I was enslaved by th
beauty of the lady who asked m to do
It. Monsieur has not seen such another
tall, shapely, with eyes, hair and skin
perfect, and her voice soft and sweet like
a ailver bell. .ie coaxed me to do It
against my will, and I crept Into the vil
lage graveyard one morning at 3 o'clock
with my camera, before even the busy
sisters were out of their cells, and took
the picture for her. Yon may see how
Imperfect the picture Is. how many
blemishes It has, and you must not Judge
of my usual work by It, for my hand
shook with fear " The soul of th
artist was ousting the shade of the aris
tocrat. "Never mind the blemishes, Senor Cas
tellan." Interrupted Mr. Mallett. "Th
photograph Is good enough for my pur
pose. I want you now to tell me th
name of th lady who gave you th or
der, the name of the convent wher th
grave Is, with directions for getting
there."
Castellan's hands went up In dismay.
"You cannot get there! It would b
sacrilege. No man is permitted to en
ter the gates but on two days In th
week, for a couple of hours at visiting
time, you understand, when the holy
sisters are all shut In their cells at pray
ers." "Still I must get to see that grav
before sunset to-night, and I will give
two hundred francs to any one who will
help me."
"Two hundred francs! It is a larg
sum her iu Villa Silenti.t. There Is a
servant woman who does the errands
for the convent ladles, with whom I atu
acquainted, who might be Induced "
He paused thoughtfully.
"That ia settled theti. And now how
far la it, and how are we to get there?"
Mr. Mallett asked, rising briskly from
his chair.
Castellan motioned him back to bis
seat.
"You must leave this to me entirely,
monsieur. One ill-cousidered step might
balk your plan, aud rob the servaut and
me of our reward. It must be don
during vespers, if at all; and In the menu
time I must see this woman aud make
my plans. It is now two, and, if I might
advise refreshment and rest before we
start on our expedition, monsieur would
be more fitted for it."
"One moment." said Mr. Mallett, as
Castellan rose to call his daughter to
their guest. "Tell me the name of th
conveut before you go."
"It is called the t'ouvent of the Holy
Assumption, and it is but five minutes'
walk from here."
"And the name of the lady who or
dered that photograph?"
"Ah, that I never knew: My accom
plice managed all the business part of
the affair, as she will do now, and th
lady'a name wa never mentioned."
Senor Castellan went through the front
door into the market place, pausing on
the threshold, with his fingers on his
lips, to say:
"Until six and a quarter then, au r
volr." . .. (To be continued.)
THE SAVINgTmOTIVE.
American Young People' Method of
Kntertainlnic Are Saved by It.
The girls are missionaries' daugh
ters. Their parents are Americans,
but Helen and Belle w ere born In Asia,
and never visited the land of their
fathers and mothers until a year or so
ago. They have been attending school,
but they have seen a good deal of so
clal life, too, and now that they are
preparing to return to the East, their
friends have been curious to know
what Impressions they are taking
home.
"I wasn't plenned at first," says
Helen, the elder and more sedate. "The
first thing I noticed here was the ex
traordinary habit the young men have
of forcing food upon one. It seemed
that their Idea of entertaining a girl
was to buy her something to eat. Any
little outing at any time of day wa
made an excuse for luncheon, and If
you consented to lunch, you were ex
pected to eat enough for a full dinner.
"I puzzled over this until I happen
ed to recall the wicked old saying that
'The way to a man's heart Is through
his stomach,' and then I fancied I un
derstood. 'Nice things to eat are nil
they thluk about,' nald I to myself,
'and so they take It for granted that aa
elaborate meal will please a girl.' "
"Then Helen turned cynic," Belle In
terrupts, with a ripple of laughter.
"No, not Just then," Helen continues.
"But I began to notice what manner
of entertainment the girls offered their
friends, and I found thnt girls who
were popular (teemed to encourage
young men to talk about themselves.
Of course I reasoned backward then,
as I had In the other Instance. The
girls were egotists, I argued, else they
would not have ministered to the con
celt of persons they wished to please.
That did make me cynical."
"Since the young men were glutton
ous, and since the girls were egotistic,
Helen wanted to know what hope
there was for the United States!" Belle
explains.
"Exactly. I was very gloomy about
It for a while. Belle brought me to
my senses," Helen adds, with an affoc
tionate glance at her cousin. "She got
Impatient, I suspect. She asked me one
day how it was that these 'greedy'
young men were so anxious to spend
money for other people, and why these
'vain and conceited' girls were so will
ing to let their friends' affairs take
the conspicuous place.
"I couldn't answer that question
until at last It dawned upon me that
I had never been getting below the
surface. The underlying truth was that
the young man offered you luncheon
because be was a generous man; and
the girl who encouraged her friends
to talk about themselves was showing
herself large-minded and unselfish.
PosKlhly some of the talk seemed
pr . and perhaps the tribute of food
looked coarse; but the Important thing
was that the motive were sound and
sweet," Youth's Companion,
CIIItONOTiOG OF 190t).
BRIEF RECORD OF YEAR'S PRIN
CIPAL EVENTS.
Internal Dleinrbnne In Itneeln ana
lnuendenc In Norway floe
f Ik War In th Kaat Mnny
Ureal Nnnia In Mat of laa.
Most significant of the event of
liHtf, because It Indicates unmistak
ably th Inexorable advance of man
kind toward high Ideals of liberty,
justic and perfect civilization, Is th
political and couomle upheaval now
taking place In Kuasla. Wearying
under a load of taxation, ren
dered well nigh uubearabl by added
burdens Imposed by th prosecu
tion of a disastrous war, the
peasantry and common popl started
a revolt agalust th tyrannical aris
tocracy, and hav been abl to fore
from their unwilling ruler many con
cessions tending toward a free cltlien
shlp. Massacre aud rapine, In which
tho Jews wer the chief sufferers, are
part of th price paid for the advan
tage gained. Another Impressive proof
of civilization's advance Is the blood
less revolution by which Norway has
dissolved It political connection with
Swexlen and seated a king upon Its
long uutisuod throne. The recent ex
posure of graft and fraud In high
financial circles and last summer' la
bor troubles In Chicago aro ouly Inci
dents of the constant conflict being
waged for th establishment of jus
tice and fair treatment between man
and man.
The Husso-Japanea war, after a
brilliant series of land campaign,
during which on after another of th
strongholds of th Russians in Man
churia fell into the hands of their op
ponent, and a decisive battle on th!
Sea of Japan, that I said to hav been
one of the greatest naval contests of
all history, has been brought to a
close, ajid largely, w believe, by
American Influence.
The completion of the great Slmplon
tunnel was the accomplishment of an
other great engineering feat, and the
Lewis and Clark Exposition In Port
land, Ore., presented to the world a
record of achievement In all Hums.
(ireat disasters have been fewer
than usual, though tornadoes In Okla
homa and Kansas destroyed more
than Ave hundred lives, and earth
quake, fire and railway wreck hav
done their drend work.
The year' list of famous dead con
talus the mimes of many men and
women noted In the arts, statecraft,
philanthropy aud business.
The principal events of 1006 ar
briefly summarized below:
Jannnrr.
1 Surrender of fort Arthur.
8 Towboat IH-feuder blown up on Ohio
River; 20 Htm loat.
4 Death of Theodora Thomas, orcbaatra
leader.
5 Admiral Rojeetveneky's flagahlp Knlss
Bouvaroff aunk off Madagascar.
B-Death of Louis Michel, franca an
archist. 15 Corabi' ministry Id Franca raalgna.
18 Secretary Hay advises China to re
main neutral. .. .Earthquake at Shemakha,
Huanla, buries bnndrada of paopl.
18 End of textile atrlke to Fall River,
Mass.
10 Atte.npt to aeaaealnat Caar and Rue
slan royal family.
23 Massacre of worklngmen by Caar'a
troopa In St. Petersburg .
23 Revolt spraada through Ruaalan
cltlea.
25 Liberals defeated In Ontario general
electlona. .. .Csar luum proclamation prom
lalng reforma.
2tt Kouropatkln'a army driven back from
Bandepaa by Gen. Oku's forcea.
80 Cxar atgns document granting great
reforms to Russian people.
February.
1-2 Extreme cold war sweeps Northern
Btatea and Canada, lilendlvt, Mont., baa
temperature of M degreee below sero.
T Death of Joaeuh II. Mauler of Main.
. ...Benate paaaea Statehood bill.
ft Roosevelt and Falrbanke declared elect
ed after count of electoral votes In. Con
greaa. 0 Home paaaea Towuaend Each railway
rata bill.
10 Death of Hon. Cbas. II. Uackley of
Muskegon, Mich.
8 Reverent cold wave of winter.
15 Death of Uen. Uw Wallace.
10 Deatb of Jay Cooke, noted financier
IT Grand Duk Berglua killed by bomb
In Moscow. .. .Franree Wlllard statu dedi
cated In Btatuary Hall, Washington.
20 Kxplnalon In Vlrglula City coal mines,
near Westerner, Ala., entombs 162 miners.
....Fire destroys piers and sblp at Charles
town, Maaa.
24 Boring of Blmploa tunnel under tb
Alps I finished.
26 11,000.000 Are In Hot Springs, Ark.
....North Bea Commlealon announce de
cision against Russia.
2n Illlnola Central terminals In New Or
leans burn with loas of 13,000,000. .. .Tblrty
flve miners killed by explosion at Wllcoe,
W. Va.
27 Deatb of Geo. 8. Boutwell of Massa
chusetts. ... Judge flwayne of Florida ac
quitted by TJulted Rtatea Benata. ... Eleven
persons killed by collapse of cburcb floor
fu Brooklyn, N. T.
28 Deatb of Mrs. Leland Stanford Ic
Honolulu.
March.
8 Csar of Russia signs rescript giving
people a right to representation In law
making body ... .Thirty persons killed In
wreck of Inauguration special trains near
Flttaburg.
4 Itooaevelt Is Inaugurated. .. .End of
68tb Congress. .. .Will J. Davis and two
others Indicted as reeponslble for Iroquois
fire.... ('has. Thomas found guilty of Ma
bel Bcofleld murder.
T Big traction strike begins In New
Tork.
8 Japanse win bsttl of Mukden, after
eighteen days' fighting.
10 Mukden captured by Japanea.
11 Mrs. Cbsdwlck convicted of conspir
acy In Cleveland.
14 Nineteen lives lost In New Tork tene
ment bouse Are.
17 Deatb of Gen. Joseph R. Ilawlay of
Connecticut.
1819 Twenty-four miners killed by ex
plosion In mines near Thurmond. W. Va.
SO Explosion and Or In Brockton, Mass.,
shoe factory cauaes 108 deaths.
24 Death of Jules Verne.
April.
8 President Roosevelt leaves Washington
n vacation trip. .. .Explosion In Letter
mines at Zolgler, III., kills tblrty-nv men.
....Russian artillery depot In Harbin blown
op and ssventy-Ov men smea.
Botnntonl.
Wa must condon
Milady's fads,
And dumbly own
That Uly pads,
I rsliie'SP c2Hu?r indUs'troy'huld'redl'u?
i i
nChlcago teamster strlk la sympathy
with garment workers.
Villa a, Intnraa Ami narftntia
- , -
... .... i ..k.
luinueois I" niiroeu.
l- Hard front damages earl'
anlen truck In Ceulral and
fruit and
Huuthem
Htaica. . ,
17 -Four boya killed la panlo In Indian
apolla Masonic Temple.
a -Thirteen Uvea lost In burning of con
vent In Ht. Genevieve, Quebec.
V8- Death of Joseph JelTerann.
24 Frank U. Hlgelow, president of Mil
waukee First National Bank, ackuowle.Uea
himself a defaulter for 8l.MW.Uix of bank s
funds. ...Teatuater' strike In Chicago eup
posed to t ended... . Earthquakes near
Bombay, India, kill fitly persons.
US-Chicago teamatera' atrlke on again.
28-Death of Uen. Fltebugb I... .Hint
ing In Chicago. ...Tornad at Ird. Tea.,
kills aliteen persona. , ,
PW-Thlrteen miners hilled by ploaloa
near Wllburtou, Ok.
Mar.
I- On hundred persona killed la disturb
ances In Poland. A . .
2 4-erlous strlk riots Id straats of CM-
i-Pat Crow gives hlmaelf tip t authori
ties In Omaha, but disappears later.
- Tornado deetrnys thirty flv lives ana
much properly In Marquette, Kan.
10 l'reeldent Roosevelt entertained III
Chicago.. ..Tornado In Oklahoma hills (WO
person. . . .
II Fifty persons killed and 100 Injured
In railway accident at South llarrlaburg,
U-Nan Tattereon releaaed In New Tork.
14-Death of Jeeele Rartlett Davl.
in-Northern and Houthern Baptlaia meet
In Joint convention In Bt. I.oule. . . .. ear la
auee rescript granting aweeplng reforms I
Poland and Baltic provinces.
21 Death of Judge Albion W. Toorge 1
Bordeaux, France.
2ftDeath of Mre Mary A. I.lverraore.
2-Death f Baron Alpuouee de Kota
acblld. . .
2T Rueelan Baltic fleet under Rojeatven-
sky defeated In great batlla U Korean
Btralta by Japanese under Togo.
2S-American yadit Atlantic wins Kale
er'a cup In trana Atlantic race.
2U-Death of former Premier Francisco
Bllvela In Madrid, Mpalu. , ,
W-Borat thrown at carriage of Ring
Alphonao of Rualu and I'reeldeut Loubet of
France In Tarls.
Jan.
1 Opening of
Iwla and Clark Kapoel-
Hon In Portland Orenoti Earthquake In
Montenegro. .. .Two hundred drown In over
flow of reaervolrs at I'rlueetowii, Natal.
2-Japan ahaken by earthauakea
-Crown 1'rlnce Frederic William of Ger
many weda Prlnccaa Cecil of Mecklenburg
achwerln... .Norway deolaiea her Independ
enc of Sweden.
9 I'reeldeut Itooaevelt arrangea for peace
necotlatlona between Japan and Huaala.
IS Tbeodur Delyannls. Grecian premier,
fatally atahbed by gambler.
15-Marrlag of Trlnce Ouatevue Adol
pbua of Hweden and I'rlnceee Margaret or
i'onuaugbt. ,
17-Death of Cuban leader. Gen. Mailtno
domes. ... .. .
2.H Death of Judge Stephen Neat author
of Uth ameudtnent. In f ebanon, lnd
Bloody strike battles In t.ods. I'oland.
2.V I'JO.ixJO Ore lu retail dlatrlct of Naatt-
2H - Great mutiny snd rioting at Odeaaa,
Kuasla.
Jolf.
1-Death of John Hay, Secretary of Stat
I'aul Morton la eucceded as Secretary
of the Navy by Charlee J lloiiepert.
2 - I'loiidbitret In Guanajuato, Mesleo, oe
rtlanfl,
atroys l.OuO Uvea.
6 -Tornado in ,ni i" .
6-Ellhu Hoot appointed Secretary o
State to aucceed the lale John Hay.
11 Fir damp explosion In Welsh col
liery kills 12d miners.
id-Death of Gen. W. W. IMarkmer. O.
A. H. National Commander.
SO Btrlk of Chicago teamater U ended.
21 Boiler explosion on U. H. S. Benning
ton In San Diego harbor i mi" -'
and Injures oluety seven other.
23- Death of Denlel Damont.
3 Hwtea of jono) rani ivmwm pievu -vault
In Annapolta.
25-Vellow fever epidemic la New Or
leans.
AaaTaet.
8 Collape of ator In Albany, H. T.,
kills twelv persona.
0 Russian and Japaneee peac commis
sioners meet at Tortsinouth N. II.
10 Flats Zelglor expedition, reerued by
the ateamer Terra Nov, reacbe Honnlng
avaag, Norway.
13 Referendum In Norway favor separa
tion. 18 Reciprocity convention In Chicago.
17 Fifty paaeengers drown when ''
alon train ruua Into open draw near Nor-
f2l'-Earthquake felt to Illlnola. Mis
souri, kentu.ky, Indiana and Tennessee....
Death of Mary Ms pes Dodge.
2U-Rueslan snd Japaues envoys sgre
npon terms of peace.
Seplem bar.
1 Alberta becomea new Stat of Canada.
2 KIT million-dollar flra In Adiianopl,
T4-l?eath of Heaeklah Butterworth, his
torian. , .
6 -Treaty of peac between Ruaala and
Japan elgned In I'ortsmoutb, N. II
l'eace rlota In Toklo. ....
8 -Earthquake In Southern Italy deetroys
400 Uvea and twenty vlllagee
0-ltand powder factory, Falrchanc. Ps.,
. . . . i .t.i.
explodes. aeeiruiuK '"';
11 Mlkeea Admiral logos
burus and Uvea ar loat.
14 Death of Patrick Colllna,
llagablp,
Mayor of
Boston.
lI)ratb of Oeorg McDonald, novelist.
Grcst Ore In Butto, Mont.
I Manila swept by typhoon.
October.
4 Bli hundred thousand dollar Are In
Rblnelander, Wis.
18-Norweglan treaty adopted by Swadlah
Parliament Death of Hlr Henry Irving.
14 Close of I.wla and Clark Expoeltlon
In Portland. Ore Treaty between Ruaala
and Japan elgned by Caar and Mikado.
17 Fatal tornado at Horento, III.
II) 20-Btorm on Great Lakes destroys
shipping and coats several Uvea.
23 Death of Congressman Jerry Simpson
of Kaneas.
80 Csar grants representative govern
ment to Russians.
November.
1 Sweden unfurl ber new flag..
.Bloody
riots in itussian cum.
8 Enormous loaa of life In maaaacrea In
cities of Southern Russia.
4 ('car signs manifesto giving freedom
to Finland.
12 Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, prominent
Chicago Mi'thodlat, dies. .. .Trine Charles
of Dnnmark cboaen King of Norway.
14I'eopl of Isle of Pines declare free
dom from aoverelgnty of Cuba.
1 Torpedo boat aunk In German naval
maneuvers and thirty thre men drowned.
19 One hundred Uvea lost In wreck of
ateamer Hilda in English Channel. .. .Thlr-ty-nlu
men die In Glasgow lodging bouse
Are.
25 Stat ntry of King Haakon VII. and
Queen Maud Into Christiana.
2d Eighteen persons killed and twenty
five Injured In railway wreck near Lincoln,
Maes ....Fleet of allied powers aelxe Turk
lab lalatid of Mytllen.
27 Drunken Ruaalan soldier at Alexan-
drovak burn barracks and eighty political
prisoners.
iH Severe gal causes much damage te
property In Oreat Lakea dlatrlct.
December.
W-Cuban election a laudalld for moder
2 ron'mlU thrown through window of
President Roosevelt's special train In Phila
delphia. Fifty-ninth Congress meets. .. .Wiscon
sin legislature meets In special aeaaloa....
Balfour ministry In England resigns.
6 Lieut. Gen. Sakhsroff slain by woman
In province of S era toff, Ruasla.
8 Mr. Mary M. Rogers banged la Wind-
n iieath of Edward Atkinson, political
economist.
Odd and End
This being In lov takes p mors
tlma than aa aching tooth.
Wby do parants always boastlngly
glra th weight of what U stork
brings to ml
Conquest Great
American Desert
Tliaj development of Irrigation bring
with It a multlluile of problem which
lucres In variety and Importune as
1Iio land becomes settled and Hie) ca
paorty of tb water supply tnied to a
greater eitent. Many ' Pr)h
lems II at th very heart of practical
Irrigation. Tha relation between f arm
ors under Irrigation ara far closer and
mora Intimate than under the condi
tions of farming In the east, and th)
community of Interest Is necessarily
much more in evMence. One innii may
ruin his neighbor's laud by Improper
management of hi water, and the con
tinued waste of water prevent tha
bringing of new arena under cultiva
tion and tlma restricts settlement.
Ir. Mend's report (recently Issued)
calls special attention to the Increas
ing cost of water, which the farmer
must have whether the cost Is great or
small. IMirlng the pnat Ave years this
cost has risen enormously In nearly
every western Hint. Certain water
rights In Colorado, for exnmplc, which
were originally purchased for f5 an
acre now soil for fan. Where former
ly M cents mi acre foot tr water
would have been regarded as n prohibi
tive price, farmers last yenr paid $7 an
aero foot. Fully f.'o.iHHi.txxi was paid
by Irrigator last year for the water
they used. In many eases, from lack
of knowledge how to use tha water
economically, they wasted and misap
plied enormous quantities, thereby In
juring their crops and their hind and
Incidentally that of their neighbors
through seepage.
Poring the Investigations of the past
few years many Instance of overlrrl
gatlon have come under observation.
With the restricted supply In many lo
calities, the wasteful or unskillful us)
of water by one farmer often means
fliat the crop of some other farmer
must suffer because of It or Hint land
must remain uncultlvatotl. The area
farmed, tho yield of crops and the con
tinued productiveness of the soil all
depend on knowing how to use water
aright and on tho establishment of
laws and regulations to compel this
when men know and refuse to heed.
Iienvor Field ami Farm.
COUNT TOLSTOI.
Count Tolstoi, the noted Russian. Is
rjnlte optimistic. He says It Is neces
sary to get rid of the present govern
ment. Tho people are tired of a rula
which has hitherto rested upon force)
and wish It supplanted by one sup
ported by love, good will and Chris
tian acts. Count Tolstoi, a Itussian
novelist, social reformer and religious
mystic, waa born In lN'.'H. lie wns ed
ucated at tho Cnlverslty of Kazan aud
served In the Army of the Caucasus
and In the Crimean war, helm: nppolnt-
mi M Uiihlui.
id I 1 v 1 m I i Commiinder In May, lHo5.
lie was In the battles of Tchernnya
and Sehnstopol. He retired at the end
of the campaign. After the liberation,
of the serfs he lived on IiIm estates,
working with and relieving the peas
ants and also devoting himself to
study. He Is the author of a number
of books, chiefly novels, thnt made him
famous as a writer.
Rlnklnv n IHurT.
Nell That Miss Jonea, the typ
wrlter girl, says ahe was the envy of
all the other young women at the sou
ahoro. (irnce No wonder. While slio was
down there she got all the other girls
lu the ofliee to write letter to her and
sue ant on the porch and bluahed and
smiled when she read them. Philadel
phia Press.
C'lrnr Knouah.
Mrs. Hubbubs Mrs. Macklotz tells
me thut that Mrs. Newcombe, neit
door to ber, Is exceedingly cold and
unsympathetic, aud
Mr. Subbubs Ah, that simply
means thnt she doesn't gossip. Phlla.
delphla Ledger. - '
Common Mistake),
"Wiggins anys that when lie went
to school he wus one of the brightest
boys In bis class."
"Yes," answered the sporting manj
"that's where so many of us fall
downgetting out of our class."
Washington Star.
Tho women pay so much attention
lr their meetings to the evil In a men's
club, and not enough to the private
mall box.
It Is easier for a man to stop a ran
away horse than It Is for him to stop
a woman's tongue or a baby's tears.