Ptisonero
Cy M. S.
I'lIAPTKR NNY.
Mnii'nxv Milk K.-stori arrived in Sr.
!V'iT!Mir-i by ir.iin f iu l.ih.m. and 1 !
ili--i' i. the ll n.-l .1.' France, for
vlii. li In- paid 'i-n:.v j .i k Hi piss
jtot i xv.is in irf-rf-'i t order, although
ri".irvil tin -1 I :i in.-1 t n ! ! v by tin' clerk of
lln" I C ii - i . ii consulate li.i vised it in
I .iiii-l, m.
After breakfast he w and -red forth,
guidebook In hand, having refused thi'
nerviiv of n polyglot in-liviiln.il who pro
fed in t,. r.t tn-r-in l.ixv of the hall
porter. Tin1 landlord himself directed
Kaston to t!i Xewsit ,roiit. which
however, 'k tint considered interesting
until the afternoon. Xevertheless. he
wont tluit n-nv. ind ftpsllv found himself
on the Knglish nun v. lie crossed the
Ni'H. still in iln same tourist gait, anil
!; himself among tin- smaller commercial
streets of the Yaili Ostroff. Presently
liy tin- merest aivideiit In- found himself
opposite a small warehouse Itearing th
liHin" "I.. OgrofT' in j;i t n t letters above
th- Mini) window of what had unit'
I wen a shop. Hi- pushed oix-n th curtain
p-l door nnil. addressing himself to a
pleasant looking girl who was seated at
a counter adding up tin' columns of a
ledger, he uh-iiiioii.nI the name "Loris
Igroff
"Ye." anwered the girl, in perfect
Knglish. "In- is in. Who are you
"Matthew M.trk Kaston."
-Ah: Come in."
Sin- lil t h way into an inner room
which was lined with shelve containing
long wooden boxes like miniature coffins.
There were upon the table some rolls of
i-ornmorj doth.
"Mr. Ogroflf Is apparently a tailor."
hazarded Kasion iti a conversational
way.
"Yes." she answered, with a short
laugh, "a very cheap one."
"lie j upstair in the cutting-out
room." she continued, with a twinkle in
her childish eye. "I m1i:i II tell him."
Kaston tod looking at the curtained
d.tor after she had closed it. Then he
picked up a pi"-e of rough cloth and ex
amined it texture critically.
"I hid half inclined." he reflected
aloud, "to Ix-iimie a nihilist. There are
alleviations evi-n in the lot of .- tailor's
assistant of the establishment OgrofT."
In a few moments the d-wr op-ned
again, and a stout m.iii enti-red with a
how. lie shook han l without speaking,
and poitiP-d to a chair.
We hist saw this man in
rooms in I. union. His name
Ilie:itiol)i-.l thti. hec.nie there
much in a name for him. It
Kaston's
was not
was not
wits no'
(jrroff then, lie was not
Hcribed. U-cause a written
minutely il -description
i-s
not always of prent value. 1'or instance,
he was in London a clirk, crizzled man
wiih a heard: in hi ithop in the Vasili
Ontroff, St. 1'etersliurg, hu was a fair,
hairless man.
"Well'r" be aid, a.sthniatically, at
length.
"Not a word," replied I'astou ; "and
you 7"
The man shrilled his heavy shoulders.
"Not a word. I have written to you
all that I heard. I wrote on the fifth of
My; have you destroyed the letter?"
"Yea burned it."
"Well!" ejaculated the Russian, mis
uinjf the word. "I heard." he continued
"never mind how that they all got
away, in good health, at the proper time
that is, in the early numuier of the
year before lar. They were followed,
hut they dcHtroyed all the horses ami
loaU as they went, and the pursuit was
necessarily jriven up."
"Since that," inquired Huston; "not
a word V"
"Not a word."
"There has In-en no semi-official ac
count of the matter in the newspapers?"
"No; it has been hushed up. The of
ficial report is that certain exiles and
prisoner escaped; that they were pur
ttued by Cossacks, and that the chase
was only Km'" up when their death by
starvation was a moral certainty."
"And," unid K.istoii, "are they at ruck
out of the list?"
"Yes; they are struck out."
"I am coins to hxk for them," an
nounced Knston, after a pause.
Th Ilussian raised his flaxen eye
brows. "Ah! I understood that you were con
demned by the doctors."
"No, not condemned; they merely said.
'If you o, it will kill you.'"
"And still," naid the Russian, calmly,
"you ico."
"Some one must. You cannot you are
too fat. I am Koing by land," continued
the American. "I leave Petersburg to
morrow morning."
Ogroff rose from his chair.
"You must go now," he said. "You
have been here long enough; we are
watched, you know. Here in Petersburg
we. all watch each other."
The Russian held out a fat while hand.
"(iood-by, you brave American," he
uid.
"li'by !" returned Kaston. with a laugh.
CIIAPTKK XXVI.
"Well, at all events, we have tried it!"
These words were spoken by the mere
.etnnant of a man to a solitary compan
ion while lsth looked out peered through
the twilight on death, lie who spoke
crouched in a singular way on the hard
snow, supporting himself on one fur-chid
arm. lie could not stand, for he had
but one leg. The other had been cut oft'
Just above the knee a recent amputation,
rudely tied with rope, was stained a deep,
Miiggestive color. Ilis face was u horrid
night to look upon, for here and there
In the pasty yellow flesh were deep in
dentations of half healed sores, the re
Hiilt of frost bite. One eye was quite
closed by a swelling which deformed the
features and drew them all up. He spoke
in a mumbling way, as if his tongue were
swollen or diseased, and the language was
most dramatic of all tongues Russian.
His companion, a short, thick-set man,
stood beside him; but he stood weakly,
and the terribly sunken lines of his cheek
told a story only slightly less horrible
than thut depicted by the face and form
of the cripple. Roth faces alike bore
that ctrange dry look which tells unerr
ingly of starvation.
Witliin a few yard of the two men,
and Ccrsulves
MERHIMAN
it their l.nks.
1 lit. Illl.lt i i I'UH
:o.. a rude, ill shapen
and isn r ant !y of su-iw .
Its J. m il..ira f.nv.l
the north, and
ami t t i-e i;; i.iin ,r i;
.lis. vnuMe a number
i interior there were
of he ips, apparently
form.- ,,f , tattered fur i-lotliint
These v .-re dead men; the w. linen of
Sereins l'a!.iki's party had net lived to
sii the Arctic IVs-ati.
The m in ho stood eave a short heart
rending laugh as he looked out over the
frozen M-a. .
"Yes," he said, "we h.-tv tried It."
There was a pause, and then the crip
ple Sergius Pa l.kxki sMke again:
"Of Miirse." he said, almost unintel
ligibly, "we have fail.il; but still our
failure may teach others, and we hav
kept it sivref. Those who want to know
will never know. They will always lu
in im.iTtninty as to whether we have
escapul and are living hidden in America,
in Kurope, perhaps in Russia. We shall
ls more terrible, doctor, dend than alive."
"I hoe so."
"I. at all events, shall be, for you say
that I could not live a wvek in a warm
climate. This leg of mine Is less painful
to-day: perhaps it is healing."
"No. Pavloski; I have told you a doz
en times it is not healed, it is only frozen.
It can never heal. The moment it thaws
you will die."
A sickly smile passed across his un
sightly features, and there was silence
for a time the (l-tithly expectant silence
of the far Xorth. At length Pavloskl
raised his mittened hand and extended i:
outward like the needle of a compass.
"I wonder," he mumbled, "if Tyars 'a
out there.
"I wonder," said the doctor, "why you
intrusted this to an Knglishtnan."
"If I had the whole world to choose
from. I should not har selected another
man." said Pavloski ; "but there was no
choice in the matter."
I stipose." said the doctor, with an
ill-concealed sneer, "that he has turned
br.k."
1 will swear by St. Paul that he has
not done that !
'Then where is he?"
'Iad!" was the answer. "If Claud
Tyars had Iweu alive, he would have
come. He is not here, therefore he is
dead! Ouch'."
lb- stopped and fell back fainting with
pain. In his excitement he had moved,
and allowed some of his weight to rest
upon the raw stump of his leg. In a se-
ind the doctor was kneeling on the snow
be,i,e him, raising his head, touching his
lips with snow. It was a poor restora
tive, but there was nothing else at hand.
One cannot offer to a dvinic man even the
temlerest piece of an old sealskin mitten.
Without waiting for consciousness to
return, he attempted to lift the cripple,
intending to carry him witliin the little
snow hut, but the movement brought back
Pavloski's failing senses, and he shook
his head in token that he wished to be
ft where he lay.
"Xo," he said, after gasping twice for
breath; "I would rather die out here."
The diM-tor's bare hand crept within the
tattered sleeve toward the pulse. He aaid
nothing. There was nothing fo say.
"I do not want." continued Pavloski
brokenly, "to see their faces. I brought
them here. It is my fault. I supixwe
the good God will know how to revenge
all this. If they the Romanoffs the
Czar had twenty lives, and we could
take them all we might pay the debt;
but they hare only one life to take;
that would le too short a punishment.
Gol will know how to do It will He not,
loctur?"
Yes," said the sweet, deep voice
of
do
the doctor, "iod will know how to
it."
"Pray," said the dying man,
pray to
Him to do it well !"
Then his head fell back and
he
breathed regularly and soft I v. Rut this
was nut the end. Presently the blackened
lips began to move, and lie spoke in quite
lifferent voice so different as to startle
his listener. It was soft and even, as if
recounting a dream not long dispi-Ui-il.
"It is not yet a year ago," he said.
There were seven of us four Russians,
two Kiiglislimen, iind an American. Four
Russians, two Knglishmen and an Auieri-
aii what a strong combination ! The
Russians to go into action on land, the
Knglishmen on the sea, and the sharp
witted American to watch and plot and
heme. I rememls-r the last time we met
as at Kaston's house. Two of us are
lead, and I am nearly dead. Tyars and
Grace where can they be? They are
out there, doctor, in front of us to the
north. I I shall go ami meet them."
The lips closed with a sudden snap, and
the doctor leaned eagerly forward. Ser
gins Pavloski was dead. The survivor
rose to his feet. It had begun to snow
gently and in large flakes a snow that
would cover the ground to the depth of
twelve inches in half that number of
hours. As it fell it gradually covered the
lead man, even to his face and eyes,
which were already cold.
Presently the doctor moved a little, and.
turning slowly round, scanned the near
horizon, lie could not see the pack Ice
now, for tne snow was mowing in rrom
the north, wreathing and curling as it
a me.
Then this lone man moved toward the
snow nor, unu eutereu it on ins nanus
and knees. He took no notice of the.
lead one soon gets accustomed to them
but fumbled ill. out among the baggage
led up in one corner.
In a dull, stupid way he realized the.
rcKpon.sihilitiin of his position. He drug
ged two of the sledges out of the hut, and
witli a hatchet broke them up. Then he
look the two strongest pieces of each
the cross-bars and bound them securely
together, thus forming a rough pole. Thi
he erected on a little mound where the
snow was thin, building it up with such
debris a he could lay hand upon. It
stood up gauntly, almost the only object
within sight that was not white. It wa
a mere pole, the thickness or a mail
wrist, and yet it was probably visible ten
mile off against it gleaming surround
ings. It would be good," ha mumbled, "to
be warm once more Just once."
And he piled up the wood in a Hubs
heap. He crawled into the hut and pres
ently returned beurlug a good ched tiu
l-och; -I.-.! "Si-iritns." ITe poured th
on : nit s .. -! ; he i .1 an. I s I; a mat ch.
Im a mii"i ihe blue ll. ;inrs leaped il ;
and the miI cr.ii M-d. He crouched d wn
to ih leeward si.ie. o i lose thai his
clothes w ere singed llll l gav forth :
shu;i. a. -rid smell. lie withdrew his
mi: tens and he'. I bis bare,
I'ilIi: im'o the lll'lirs.
scarred hands
, "A !i !" lie iiiii r mi n r.-d i:i
vo ce, "that is u to. !"
I Hut it .I d net last I,. n e
gurgling
The wii't.i
was l:;!it and xery dry, mi l in live min
utes there xx a s nothing left but a few
smoldering ashes,
j The doctor r.w.. to his feet and looked
; long mid steadily out to the north over
the broken ice. Ilis cfes iugred over
each white mound and hillock not lovini
I ly, for it was horribly dismal, almost lo.t
dismal to be part of this world at all.
Si range to say. his eyes finished their
Inspection by looking up to heaven. The
great snoxv-elonds were rolling south,
Itearing in their hug.-, rounded tmsoms the
white pall to cover a continent for many
months to come. Rut this man seemed
to be linking beyond the clouds, seeking
to penetrate the dim ether. He was not
looking at the sky, but into heaven. At
last he gave a contemptuous little shrug
of the shoulders, full of a terrible mean
ing. The next moment he sought for
something in the inner mi ket of his fur
tunic. There was a gleam of dull, rusted
metal, and he raised his hand toward his
open mouth. At the same instant a sharp
report broke upon that echoless silence,
and a little puff of white smoke was bor
southward on the breeze,
(To i continued.)
EARTHQUAKES IN CARIBBEES.
Phenomena Alins Attrnilril by
lreil llttrilrrlnit on Terror.
To us the lands ami countries nbout
the Cnrlbltonti Sea tire of the greatest
interest ami Importance. Our jHiiple
will bo locating there with more ami
lucrrii.sliiK frtiinncy, utnl all the while
the ties of International co-operation
will Itecome stronger, says Francis C.
Nicholas In the Review of Reviews.
That eruptive and seismic disasters
have ntfllctesl places in those regions
will not deter us very inuxdi, for one
has abundant faith Unit it Is not going
to liiipH'ii to lit in. and n g.Mul many of
our mph are locating directly- in
range of the voleum', happy uuii pros-is-ring
along with the natives.
The region Is not very far iiwny. A
few days on the steamer hii1 one Is In
the tropics. That bit of yellow seaweed
picktil up at the shore last summer be
cause It was different from the others
was probably brought by the gulf
stream from the CaribU'iin regions and
carried to our shores by a southerly
wind. Surely It Is not a far-away coun
try that we are considering;, ami it is
very U-aiitilul sunshine ami tlowcrs.
Ki'eeti savannas it ml towering; moun
tains, torrential rivers, clear, splashing
brooks and deep blue seas.
Why should one think of " earth
quakes? My own exis-rlences with tbciu
have happily been free from scenes of
death; yet the coining of an earthquake
is sa sudden, so wildly terrible, that the
stoutest hearts must quail. Kveu wild
animals shrink with fear, and one is
always tilled with dread Isirderlnti on
terror. It N all so sudden. A sense
of some unknown, fear isTvades all na
ture, as if the spirit of the world had
caught its breath and held all life uti
instant in su.spou.se, while sounds seem
to beset one's nerves rather than to
assault the ears. Then comes a reel
ing, sickening, staggering motion, and
fear, and human crying; out, a fid then
quivering silence for the space of u
breath, followed jerliapa by crushing;
destruction, or, it may be, by a sound
like a great sighing and the earth set
tles back, that the pulsations of na
ture may Ix'gin again in harmony. Then
excited jssijile Hud their voices. lx
wildered faces gleam with Intelligence
and every one is talking, comparing ex
periences, wondering what It was,
where it bad come from and how it
had gone away. Such have been my
experiences with earthquake In the
Caribbean regions.
SlalUlnic Wild (ifoic
In n number of counties lying on lsth
sides of the Sacramento River, in the
central jHiitiou of California, the farm
ers are greatly harassed every winter
by the depredations of countless Hocks
of wild goose, which swarm over the
broad grain fields and destroy the
young, sprouting grain stalks. Indeed,
so serious has this annual Invasion be
come that nearly all the large farms
have employes who regularly patrol the
Holds, and do noticing else but keep the
feathered js'sts on the wing.
One of the most novel blinds or stalk
ers ever used in that section, or any
other, for the punsse of destroying the
geese, is that of a Colusa fanner who
lives on the bank of the Sacramento.
He has a big red steer which he linn
trained to stalk geese. The steer walks
round a Hock of geese In an ever de
creasing circle, his master, armed wltii
a repeating shotgun, walking Is-slde
him, but on the farther side from the
(lock.
The. geese have become so used to
seeing niilmals grazing near that they
pay no attention to them; so the fann
er Is enabled to get xvlllilu shotgun dis
tance and pour a broadside Into the
(lock while It is feeding on the ground,
and two more shots before the birds
are out of range when they rise.
This dumb hunter is held In great es
teem by Its owner and his family, It In
needless to slate, and receives the best
of everything.
Short.
"I hear some scientists are going to
try to make the north pole with an air
khl". ! they Intend to stay long?"
"Oh, no. They're only going to make
a flying trip." Detroit Free Press.
Trouble Is about the only thing that
you cau borrow that Is uot waited
back.
WIS
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V. .VSr
l.t.l XUihi-r, l.etrlrr mnd Vrmm
This clod m..,wr. leveler and lrnil
can also lie usetl for mashing down
cornstalks and weeds. Cut off a log
about twelve Inches In diameter that
I1I fspllt straight through the middle
nicely, take off the bark from both
pieces, that will leave one flat side and
one rounding hide to each piece ; get
some, old half Inch rod Irons, sit pieces
about fifteen Inches long, have taps on
one end and hook alstut txvxt Inches
Ion i. bent on the other end: lxre two
auger holes In each piece a foot from
each end; put the hooks "ltd taps
through holes. Oct two plen of old
h-g chains, with throe links eax-li. which
will fasten the two pieces of timber to
gether. Rore two more holes In one of
the pieces about two feet from each
end. ami take one long trace chain utnl
fasten to doubletree. letter A shows
kIihim. of the rutin. If you want to
s7
coon rtt:ii) con tri v a ncf.
make It heavier, drop a isih1 on the
chains between the logs. This will
make as line a drag, clod crusher. land
leveler, stalk and weed knocker as you
would wish to use.
CirntlliiK ( ream.
The establishment of creameries has
done much to put the dairy business
on a stable and protlt.ihlc basis, as well
as to provide consumers with a uni
form quality of good butter. The in
troductloii of the hand separator, by
enabling the farmer to feed skim tnllk
In prime condition and minimizing
transportation exHusc, has also d ne
much for the business. This has not
Ims-u without a drawback, however. In
that the separated cream Is not always
kept under projier conditions, nnd that
delivered to the creameries differs
greatly In quality. When all are paid
the same rate for butter fat there Is
no Incentive to careful preservation of
the cream. At the experiment station,
Manhattan, Kan., a system of grading
cream was adopted aliout two years
ago. the prices paid varying with the
quality of the cream. This has resulted
In great Improvement In the cream de
livered and' enables the butter maker
to do his part better. RuIIetln No. 1 ."..".
'trading Cream," treats of th'.s sub
ject, and can be obtained by addressing
the station as atsive.
The War to Make liens Moult.
One of the achievements of modern
jsitiltry keeping Is that of forcing a hen
to doff her old coat, and grow h new
one before the time when she would
do so naturally. Many liens shed their
feathers so late In the season, natural
ly, that cold weather overtakes them
before they get new stilts, consequently
they seldom begin laying before spring.
If the moult can 1m? hastened, so that
n new coat of feathers Is grown and
tile laying can be started before cold
weather, the prospect Is good for a
supply of eggs during fall and winter.
The result Is usually accomplished
by cutting off ull meat and mash foods,
putting the hens on short rations of
grain for a week or so to stop the lay
ing, then allow more liberty and feed a
full ration high In protein. This loosens
the old feathers, which drop off quickly
and starts a rapid growth of the new.
A liberal allowance of beef scrap Is
essential, and linseed meal Is an advan
tage. Sunflower seeds are also good
during the moult
Tape 'Worm In Turkey.
The presence of the tapeworm may
he recognized through the Indolent,
drowsy spirits of turkeys Infested by
if, a careful examination of voldlngs
will rveal its presence, as those in
fested will pass small portions of the
worm. Powdered male fern Is an ef
fective remedy, and may be adminis
tered In doses of from thirty groins
to one dram of the powder; or of the
liquid extract, fifteen to thirty drops.
This should be administered morning
and evening before feeding; the mini
mum dose to the younger, Increasing
the dose as they grow older. Oil of
turpentine Is an excellent remedy
against worms of all kinds which In
habit the digestive organs of poultry.
A coiiiinou remedy for the removal of
worms from fowls Is one drop of kero
sene oil night and morning. This
should not be administered to the very
young, but may be used with Impuni
ty after they art) a few weeks old.
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Ilniiuffoti lorii Test.
The cornslalk borer has Infested vo
rlons parts cf the county for many
years, but has not done great damage
In most purls of the corn Isdl. It has
begun to appear In Iowa and Kansas In
the last two or three years.
It Is a large, white, brown spoiled
caterpillar which bores Into a stalk of
young com. When fully grown It bur
rows down Into the taproot, and In
the spring transforms to a pupa, from
which the adult soon emerges and lays
Its eggs on the young corn near the Mi
lls. The young larvae hatching from them
bore Into the stalk and upward through
the pith. When fully grown they Ix.re
outwards to the surface, making a hole,
from which the moth escapes and trans
forms to pupa In the bufroxv. This In
sect Is two-broodtil, the second brood
feeding on the old stalks, generally be
tween the second Joint and the ground,
and becoming full grown about harvest
time, when they go into winter quar
ters. When corn was seriously Infested
hist year and the stalks left standing
a second Infestation may be oxoctc.
this year unless the farmer has raked
and burmil. a method which we have
always suggested when the cornstalks
were known to harbor any kind of In
sect ists. Corn Is too gcKxl to ls with
out Is full supply of enemies, which at
tack It from the very time It Is planted
In the ground until It Is lu the full
ear.
heap Fuel Alcohol.
Denaturled alcohol will probably be
come another great product of the
southern states. It Is claimed that cot
toiiscnl oil machinery Is orfeetly
adapted to making Industrial alcohol
from the is.tato. If this Is successfully
proven, the many mttoiisced oil mllla
of the south, which are Idle each sum
mer season for lin k of material, will be
able to operate all the time and keep
their employes together. Furthermore,
being already equipped with the ma
chinery, they will, no doubt, be able to
manufacture the alcohol very cheaply.
Farmers would also be bcuctllcd by the
Immense demand for potatoes that
would result. In Cuba alcohol Is pro
duced and sold from twelve to fifteen
cents a gallon, and it Is said to make
an excellent fuel for running engines.
It produces no soot or disagreeable
odors. When the law recently passed
by congress to dctiaturlze alcohol In
the I'nlted States becomes (qsTatlve It
is cXM'cted greatly to Increase the use
of the article both for fuel and other
purjsises.
Arranging I. arse Kettle,
This Illustration gives a plan to set
up a kettle lu butchering time which H
much better than the old way with
posts and pole. Take one ami one half
Inch old wagon tire to the blacksmith
shop and get a ring made the sl.e ol
your kettle, with three legs welded to
It. and you can move your kettle any
place where wanted, and nothing Is It
your way to go around It.
Catting Aafinratcns Slalka.
The right way In cutting asparagus
stalks, sifys an expert In answer to a
question, Is to cut everything clean ur,
to the end of the asparagus season, or
up to about the time that green peat
are Mt to gather. After that we let all
the stalks grow, but if we were to cut
any, we would remove the little one
rather than the big ones. This clean
cutting Is also the best remedy for the
asparagus beetle, which gives us, some
trouble here. As long ns all the stalki
are cut, the Insect Is given no chance to
bmnl, ami later on. when we stop cut
ting, we can spray the plants with the
Rordeaux mixture and arsenate of lead
combination which makes an end to the
beetle attacks for a while, and also
checks the rust If that gives trouble,
For ridding the stalks of slugs alone,
dusting with freshly slaked lime while I
the plants are still wet with dew will
answer.
Value of Dairy Products.
n'lialn U'l.ra lO 1 J T i( lA .V.O tt.ltiiild a
A lit I -J -" j '.'I. ,i .
milk and oHH.lHU, 471 pounds of cream
used lu 1U04 lu the manufacture of
r." 1,278,1 41 pounds of butter, 31:1,(185,.
!MJ pounds of cheese and t'K).'l,485,18J
IKJUiids of condensed milk. These fig
ures are part of the census of manufac
tures for 11M5. The total cost of the
materials used In tho Industry was
$142,020,277, while the value of the pro
ducts was $1C8,182,7HU, an Increase of
the former of 31.3 per cent, and of the
latter of 28.0 per cent. The number
of establishments dropped from 0,242
to 8,020, while the capital Increased 80
per cent to $47,255,550. There were
3,507 salaried officials and clerks and
17,557 engaged In the manufacture of
these articles. These received salaries
and mi nana amountlnsr to I9.7H!) O.tlL I
HOW TO KKT THE KKTTIK.
nrKEVJEEKlY
HISTORIAN
1 1.7.1 -Alphonso I. vanquished Moor at
hut tie of Aurique.
I'JiJI - Constantinople taken by Michael;
end of 1 .11 1 i 11 empire.
l.'HU Kagllsh, under P.dward II., cap
tured city of Caen, In Frutnv,
lil'.l Town hall of Prague laketl by lbs
1 1 ussiles ; Hussite war.
l.'ltl Thomas Croitii-ll, Karl f K's't,
belieilile.l oil I'.nxi r hill.
l.'.M Marriage of Philip of Spain nul
Mary of KiikIiiii.I.
l.Ml." -Mary. I'ucen of Scots, married
lord I i r ii ley.
lliM.'l - King James and his (ueen
crowned nt Westminster.
lt'iTd Rattle of Mrlilgrw trr, Mass.;
King Philip's witr.
17(Mi - legislative union of Kugland an. I
Sisntland sitiipleted.
17.7.) - Knglish look Fort Thiinderogt
froin the French .... Fort Niagara,
New York, surrendered to Sir Wil
liam Johnson,
17X11 Pittsburg tianffte, first tiewspajier
west of A Ih-gtif uics, appeared.
1 714 Robespierre and seventy tn other
guillotined iii Paris. ... Kud of t list
reign of terror in Paris.
lS'Jl Peru issued declaration of Ind't-
pell.leliee.
1K.'"J Charles X. of France suspend---!
liberty of the press .... War of tlei
barricades in Paris began.
1 S.",J Steamboat Henry I'liv wreckej
on Hudson rixi-r; 'l lues lost.
1VM Yelloxv f-xer become epidemic at
Next' I II li-illls,
is.'id Several lix.-s .isf mi, I many home
less by tire in It.iston.
1S.V Third attempt lo lay Atlantic c.i
hie commences in tiiiilixenu.
isr.l Ib-n. O.n.rge It. M-Cellan took
command of the Army of the Poto
mac. 1 Si',2 Ship (i.ilden Cafe lost on Mejicati
oust ; ''ll lives lost.
JMI'I - Surrender of Morgan, the guerilla
leader, at Nexv Lisbon, (lliio.
lHt'tl Cliambersburg, Pa., burned by
'ollfederates.
l,S;s -- Wyoming territory formed by act
of Congress. . . . Fourteenth amend
ment lo Const It ut Ion of 1'iiited State
declared in forcv Masks organ
ized as a territory.
1S71 Roiler explosion on ferryboat
West Held In Nexv York harlsir; oxi-r
lmi iH-rishcil.
1S7.7 Serious tire at Fori land. Oregon.
lH7t Many lives lost in IbssU at Pitts
burg, Pa.
1HSI Revolt In City of Me, hit to pre
vent Installation of Ceu. Coiotales at
president.
IMS Henry M. Stanley arrived n Kng
land from exploring tour in Africa.
1S!)1 War declarnl between China and
Japan. . . . Japanese victorious at bat
tle of Song -I I wan, Korea.
1S0H--Ponce, Porlo Rico, taken by Fnit-
ed Slates troops Vmbassador
Camboii opened negot ial ions for pein-s
between Spain ami Cnited Slates...
President McKinlcy transmitted
terms of peare to Spain.
imiO Heureaux. president of Santo
Homing", killed,
11)01 Rallleship Malno launched at
Philadelphia.
J'JOl - Nexvchw iing evacuated by Rus
sians. ... Von Plehve, Russian minis
ter of the interior, assassinated ... .
Kiiglaud demanded indemnity from
Russia.
Aliased I he WIil.
When the summer resident offered to
show his new automobile to I'm-I.i
Kphralm Dodge of Cyrusvllle. and hi.
plain all the workings of the machine.
his oner was promptly accepted.
The old man s face wore its most lot.
passive look as he listened to the ex
planatlons and descriptions of the vnri.
pus details; he felt of handles and lev
ers, wheels and boxes as he was r.
quested to do; lay Hat to Investlgato
the workings of mysteries under tint
vehicle; bent double and squinted at
half-hidden gearing, and put his foot
In several designated places.
At last the Inspection was over, and
tho owner, flushed and full of pride,
waited for Uncle Kphralm to speak.
"Colng to run that up here, be ye?"
Inquired the old man, after a silence.
"Yes, Indeed, these roads ure all right
for It," said the owner.
"Ihn-ni!" and Uncle Kphralm stroked
his beard reflectively. "Well, how dn
you pupiHise to git red o tint iu.v
that'll be on the back o' your wagon,
sir? Strikes me there's u consld'ubl
of a lack that way."
Hereditary Heaerablanca.
"Whut you chllluu been doln'?"
"We alu't been dotu' nuthlu'."
"DeaU niel You grow moah like)
youuh pa every day." IndlunapolU
News.
Ilecelved Merciful Treatment.
Poet I want you to know. sir. ihn
this poem cost nie a week's hard labor.
luntor l no Judge certainly' temper
d Justice with mercy. Ronton Traa.
icrlpt, .