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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1907)
t x k x v -v v x N N -y v, .. THE IRON PIRATE A Via in Talc of Strange Happenings on the Sea By MAX chaptbk ix. There were two cro.it ships abreast of each other, anil they were steaming with so great n pressure of steam that th dsrk preen water was cleaved into two huge waves of foam before their bow nil the snr.iv fill in tons upon their drs-ks. The more distant of the two ship was long in shape ami dirk in color; she had Iwo funnels painted white, but marked with the anchor which clearly set her down to be one of the famous Black An chnr fleet. Her decks were dirk with the figures of passengers and crew all crowd ing to the port side, wherefrom the other ship was approaching her. It was this other ship which drew our jnw. Almost of the same length as the passenger steamer, which she now ap proached obliquely, she rode the long swell with perfect grace, and many of her deck Ionises and part of her prow shone with the brightness of pure gold. Full the sun fell upon her in a sheen of shimmering splendor, throwing great retlv-ted lights which dazzled the eye. Kvery ornament on her seemed to be made of the precious metal, now glowing to exceeding brilliance in the full power of the sunlight. She was a very big ship, and she1 had nil the shape of a ship of war. while the turrets fore and aft of her capacious fun nel showed the muzzles of two big guns. I could see by my glass a whole wealrh of armament in the foretop of her short mast forward. There was a great deck erection, with a gallery anda bridge for navigation ; but no men showed upon the platform, and. for the matter of that, no soul trod her decks, so far as our observ ation went. Yet her seed was such as I do not believe any ship achieved before. Now rising majestically on the long roll of the swell, now falling into the concave of the sea. she rushed onward towards the steamer she was evidently pursuing as though driven by all the furies of the deep. As we watched her the gun in her fore most turret belched out flame and smoke. and we observed the rise and fall of a shell, which cut the water a cable's length ahead of the straining steamer. At that moment she ran up a flag upon her signal mast, and, as I read it with my glass, I saw that it was the flag of the Chilian republic. It was a matter of satisfaction to me that Mary still slept, and I looked for the appearance of Paolo with some ques tion. Rut he remained below through it 11. "The skipper was the first to speak. "That ship yonder." said he, jerking his rhumb to starboard, "is it any business of ours?" "None that I know of," I replied; "but It's a mighty fine sight, skipper, don't you think, a Chilian warship running after a liner in broad daylight? What's your opinion?" "It'a a fine sight enough, but I would g'.ve half I'm worth to be a hundred miles away from it; do you want me to get this boat into port again?" "Of course." Tben I'm going to put up the helm and sheer off. I'm not a man that loves fighting myself, and, with a ship and crew to look after, I've no business in any af fair of this sort." "Hold on a bit, skipper," said Roder ick, "as we are, if you please ; why, man, it's a sight I wouldn't miss for a for tune." I had my glass to my eye in a moment and the light was so full upon the vessel, which must have then been a mile and a half away from us. There was now some one moving upon the bridge, and could recognize the shape of a man. Throughout the strange scene, this ves sel of mystery never gave one sign that men worked at her furnaces below. No evidence of that terrible power which was then driving ber through the seas at auch fearful speed. But of the activity of her human crew we had speedily further sign ; for, there was some belching of flame from her turret, and this time the shell, crashed full upon the forepnrt of the great liner, and we heard the shout of terror which rose from those on the decks. Then men ap peared at the signal-mast of the pursuer, and rapidly made signals in the common code. Then there was activity on the deck of the nameless ship, and men were swinging off a launch, which dropped presently into the sea and with a crew of some half doz en men. Again I got glass full upon the man who walked the bridge; and I knew him. He was the man I had met at Paris, the one styled Captain Black by my friend Hall. The last link in the long chain was welded then. The whole truth of that weird document, so fantastical, so seem ingly wild, so fearful, was made manifest ; the dead man's words were vindicated. There on the great Atlantic waste, I had lived to see one of those terrible pictures which he had conceived in the midst of his long dreaming. "Mark," said Roderick, "it's time to go; we'll be the next when that ship's at the bottom. Remember we have Mary on board." Indeed, she stood by us as we spoke, very pale and quiet, looking where the two ships lay motionless, the boat from the one now at the very side of the black steamer, whose name, the Ocean King, we could plainly read. "Ion't you think you're better below, Mary?" asked Koderick. "Not until you go; and why should I make any difference? I overheard what you said. Am I to stand between you and those men's lives?" "I am for standing by to the end," said I ; "if we can save one soul." "(itfntleinen," said the skipper, "it's your yacht, and these are your men ; if you care to keep them afloat, keep thein. If it's your fancy to do the other thing, why, do it. It's a matter of Indifference to lue." '. v x . x . x : . X V PEMBERTON . V N oco- "Men," I said, "there's ugly work over there, work 1 can make no: li ins 11 f : but it's clear that an KnglUh ship is running from a foreigner, and may want help. Shall we leave her, or shitl we stand by'.'" They gave a great shout at this, and the skipper touched the bell, whictj stop ped our engine. (Jl.ivw were turned upon us from the decks of the yellow ship, and from the (Wan King, whose men were still busy with the signal lings, and this time, as v made out. in a direct re quest to us that we should stand by. I watched the captain of the steamer par leying with the men in the launch Mow him. While a tall man with fair hair my glass gave me the impression that he was the fellow known as "Roaring John" stood in the bows of the launch, and ap peared to be gesticulating wildly to the skipper of the Oev.in King, the nameless ship set up of a sudden a great shrieking with her dei-k whistle, which she blew throe times with terrihe power; and nt the third sound of it the launch, which had been ho'd.ng to the side of the steam er, let go, riming rapidly back to the arm ed vessel, where it was taken aboard again. The whole thing was done In so short a space of time that our men scarce had opportunity to express surprise when the launch was hanging at the davits again. The great activity that we had observed on the decks of the war vevsel ceased a mysteriously as it had begun. She bound ed past us at a speed the l:k- to which I had never seen Ujion the deep. So remarkable a face-about seemed to dumbfound our men. But the kev to the riddle was given, not by one of them. but by Paolo, whom I now found at my elbow. "Ha!" he cried, "she's American !" I saw what troubled him. There was great white steamer coming up at n high speed, and I knew the form of her at once, and of two others that followed her. She was one of the American navy. The secret of the flight was no longer in explicable: the yellow ship had fled from the trap into which she wild so nearly falling. "You have sharp eyes, Paolo." said I : "I imagine it's lucky for the pair of us." The nameless ship, of a sudden, ceased her flight, and came almost to a stand some half a mile away n our port bow. As she swung round to head the seas, I saw at once that another cruiser, long and white, and seemingly well armed, had come up upon that side, and now barred her passage. The nameless ship hau now hundreds of men about her decks, and these were at the machine guns and elsewhere active in preparation. The great hull swung round slowly and passed at a moderate sjieed past the bow of the other. When she was nearly clear, her two great guns were fired almost simultaneously, and, as the shells swept along the deck of the cruiser, they carried men and masts and deck houses with them, in one awful in fusion of wreckage and of death. The cruiser was utterly unprepared for the treachery, and lay reeling on the sea as her opponent treated ber to the hail of her machine guns. The battle could have ended but in one way, had not the other American war ships now come so close to us that they opened fire with their great guns. The huge shells hissed over our heads, and nil about us. The captain of the nameless ship fired twice from his turrets, and then healed off at prodigious speed. In five minutes he was out of gunshot ; in ten, the American vessels were taking men from their crippled cruiser, whose antago nists had almost disappeared on the hori zon ! Upon our own decks the noise and hub bub were almost deafening. We put out a boat with ease upon the still sea and hailed the passenger steamer after twenty minutes' stout rowing. She was yet a pit iful spectacle. When we got up on her main deck, Captain Ross, her commander, greeted us with great thanks. He to k us to his chart room, for he would have all particulars about ui "Twenty years," he said, with tears if anger in his eyes, "I have (Tossed the Atlantic, but this is the first time that I ever heard the like! It's piracy on the high seas; and thev shall swing, if there's only one rope in Europe. What does it mean? Are we at war? You saw the Chilian flag. Is there no treaty of Paris?" The first of the American ships enrne up with us, and the commander of her put out a boat, and having gone aboard the maimed cruiser, he came afterwards to the Black Anchor ship, and Joined us in the chart room. "It's an international question, I guess," he said ; "and if he doesn't fny with his neck for the twenty men dead on my cruiser, to say nothing of the twen ty thousand pounds or more of damage to her, I will why, we'll run him down in four-and-t wenty hours." I heard it agreed letween them that the second cruiser of the American fleet should start at once in pursuit, while the ironclads should accompany us to New York, so making a little convoy for safe ty's sake. With this arrangement we left the ship and regained the Celsis. Paolo stood at tne top of trie laoaer as 1 came on uecs, and listened, I thought, to our protesta tions that the danger was over with something of a sneer on his face. In deed, I thought that I heard him mutter, but I did not know then bow much the laugh was to be against us, and that we should leave the convoy long before we reached New York. CIIAPTKR X. For full five days we steamed with the other vessels, under no stress to keep the sea with them, since they made no more than twelve knots, for the sake of the f cruiser which had been so fearfully maim ed in the short action with the nameless ship. On the early morning of the Gftb day I found myself unable to shs'p and went alove nt daybreak, to see the whits hulls of the American war vessels a mile nvu , an,, ,,. lilacs. Anchor l-vit lew -i doing. Is Weil worthv of llitlti.tloll. T cntlo lengths ahead of I hem. Paolo was L'Jrr . -iA W r r f"s'l'i-i s' -r . . i ., r . .......... X .'! V OwT l IVy .At m-P II l'U are dosh a do on tic fa nil Is v."1 :nr-.. ri,r' "": ?",,f mvtA VAm w k ;...i..,.i,c ...... p,ki ,- im im- Kk.tiigiu, ne was noiuinn M V Vk 1 I ..tl e ' I I C forth with much tine phrase to Roderick' U XA t'CllHX- for ""W"' "ml ' f,,r 1 1"' ,M"' d-C. Belle. I called him to mc, and hud .Ai fXAf- -. it K',",,r,"7 ' l"'"' "' ',,,,K' it out wild him ih.,r., ii.i i),. ,,i I t -A.'SvA.N . .if A Am-' , nl, me or vvll'i ali.n'ia nml inllli Hot I' e.l, that you're preach. tig to the dog? Is there any more noiiscn-e amongst th men forward?" "There's n g.vod deal of talk maybe j more than there should tie." "And what do they talk about? Tell me straight. Han." "Hell, I've got nothing, for my part, to hide away, and I don't know as they slioiild tut e ; ! dead man's 1" : but on know this ship is "Who told you th.it stu'T?" "i ,.i . t , . , , .... . i.iiu i.-irus, .misiit .iiarK. is nest toil in i tie to casti,.. i feel nioiv like a father to you gentlemen than if 1 was uat'ral horn to it : and this I do sav what's this trip menu? what's in er papers and why ain't It the pleasure v.ge we struck Hag for? "Where's it coin to end 7" sajs the second male to the men: 'what is yer wanes fo. taKin' ver lives where they shouldn't be took'.' And what follows?- why, white-livered jawings, an I this man afeard to go here, and that man afeared to go there, and the Old One amongst 'em. so that half of 'em s.is. 'He was took false.' and the other half. 'Why not 'bout ship and home again?' No. and you ain't done with it, not by a long day, and von won't have done with it until you drop anchor in Yankee Ian I, if ever you do drop anchor there, which 1 tak b-ave to give no word upon." "It's a curious state of things. You mean to say, 1 suppose, that there's ter ror amongst them - plain terror, and noth ing else?" "Ay. sure!" "Then it remains for us to face them." i went to oe,i at in clock, and for an hour or two I slept with dis-p forgetful ness. At what hour Pan awoke me I cannot tell. He shook me twice in the effort, he said, nnd when I woull hive turned up the el 'Ctric light, he seizinl my hand roughly, muttering in a great whis per, "Hold steady." I knew then tint mischief was alios', Bnd asked him what to do. "Crawl nhove," he said, "and lie low n-deck ;" nnd he went up the companion ladder when I got my tl.inuels nnd rubber shod shoes upon me. But at the topmost step he stood awhile, and then he fell 11 it on his hands, and backed ngain down the stairway, so that he came nlmost on top of me; but I saw what prompted his ac tion, for. as he moved, there was a shadow thrown from the deck light down to where we lay; nnd then a man s rep ped upon the stair and descended slowly, his feet naked, but in his hand an iron bar; for he hid no other weapon. At the s.ght of him, we had backed to the foot of the stair way; and. ns the m m cr-'pt down, w lay still. Swiftly and silently he entered the place; and. going to my cabin il'or. he slipped a wedge under it. serving the oth er doors around the big cabin in the same way. The smvess seemed to please hitn; he chuckled softly, nnd came again to the ladder, where with a quick motion. Pan brought his pistol butt full upon the fellow's forehead, and he went down I ke a lend thir:g at the f.x t of the swinging table. There we left him, after we had hound his hands with my s -arf : and with a hur ried knock got Roderick from his berth. He, in turn, aroused his sister, and in five minutes we all stood in the big saloon and discussed our plan. Han's whispered tale wis this. The watch was Paolo's, who had persuaded four stokers nnd six of the forward hands to his opinion. These tnn, the dupes of the second officer, had determined on this much that the voyage to New Y'ork should be stopped abruptly. We, lieing locked in our cabins, w.-re to Have no n,nin , , K,vl thPm Kra B,.,)nri,ri, voii-e in the affair ; or, if waked then we , fn)m , of f(flJ an(, Rt (f should be knocked on the head, and so . .. ... .. . . , . . ' ferent times. Such method Is preferred quieted to renson. It was a des,e-rate endeavor, wrought hauw It saves labor, but the best re ef fear; but at that moment the true '!ts are obtained br mixing the ground hands of the fo'cjistle were battened down, grain with coarse food that has been and Pan, who had s-en the thing coming, pnwil through the feed cutter. Iicss escajx'd only by his foresight. I hat ti ght he hnd felt danger, nnd had wrnpped him self up in a tarpaulin, and lain concealed on deck. As it was, Paolo stood at the door of the skipper's room; there were three men guarding the fo'castle, nnd five at the foot of the hurricane d'ck. One man we hnd settled with; but we were three, nnd eight men stood between us and the true hands. (To be continued.) Hobby's Joke. thai) which deposit their eggs In the "Pa," said Bobby, us lit? leaned over nest of others, the progeny of both llv- tliif (l'k mil, "what kind of u Ismt Is lug js'iiccably together until maturity, that out on the InkeV" when they sopnmfe. Then there Is the "That," replied pa, ns lie raised his tailoring bee, which cuts leaves with glass, "is a sinter ship to the one wo tils silssor-llke Jaws and flis a snuj; are on." lining of the leaf material Into his cave Bobby watched the big funnels for a shnped nest. while mid then Huld: ( nra and ,n Meal for iior.e.. "Pii, I think that must be u brother Aa Illinois stockman who has hnd fihlp." niudj experience In feeding horses nnd "Why no, my fon?" entile kii.vh: "I consider oats and corn. "Because It smokes so lunch." with bran and oil meal, the bast farm KilliiuT Ihe Illume. Stern parent No, sir, I'll never tflve my consent to your marriiiKe with my daughter until you are able to Hiipjiort her. Young Man Oh, very well. If you want her to ilie an old maid 1 have nothing more to say. Ilia Journey. Beenawuy I-t me see! About No goodsou when I left he was going from bud to worse and Staidliome It subsequently (level- oped that ho had no return coupon. pox-. Ought to lie Huii"?, "Well, there's really nothing In the. world I like better than good, plain, old-fashioned cabbage." "Judging from the smell of the clgura you habitu.illy smoke you've gut cub huge to hum." Houston Post. Nurorlalnjc, Bachelor What brand of smokes does your wife like? Benedict My wife, sir! Bachelor Yes. Why, do you choose yu' own c,Sar "till ? Uf tiolt Fre. reus. w n a i f a n i 1 i i i a . .... LT .Yl ILMXW sVV JUL- T. J trt i m im.f tin i.w.i h. ,Im l.i i.iii'Miir 111 ri " i. L i. t-1. i miicli of the iiortliwcftt ifrii t nunol t'ltllalna lorn -tler. It Is desirable to utlllxe all the food value there I Iti the Corn fodder, though the usual way of feeding It to a 'be stock Is a very wasteful method. Where the dally supply of fodder Is thrown In the barnyard nt feeding tj,r- ,Ti,nt ,hr cattle do not eat Is triiinjilcsl down nnd destroyed, a,, far as the foiling vnluo Is concerned. Tin' , leaves ami the tops are nil stock will eat. From one third to one lm!f the length of the fodder Is readily eaten In racks without cutting. When tlio Ht iIKn are benrr i-oara nml tmril tin, inu.r half mar be mil for fed with ulnim ---- - . .... ,- broidax and henry block If but few cattle nre fed. For a larger herd wo hare adopted a large shearing knife, homemade, which soon shears en nigh for a day's feeding The cutting knife or shears Is tiesf made from an old blade of a crosscut .iv. After the liaud'irs have Nen re moved, get a stout piece of Iron i nbout eight Indies long ami one nml one quarter Inches thick. H.ne atniut Are Inches of this slit up to receive the back of the saw. Punch boles through linfh nnd rivet together. Near the end of this Iron hare n Imle drilled or turn nil eve on It to receive a strong bolt. Rivet a strong handle on the other end, as shown nt r, long enough to give n good leverage, say two and one half to three feet. (Jrlnd the blade il mn to a good, sharp cutting edge, attach the cutter nt ft to a strong post or upright o It will have plenty of swing. Put a heavy Hnututnt roassrAiK llttuk. block iindcrnenth. and It Is ready to cut or shear the bundle ns they un fed by a loy or man. - Farm uud Home. Sllna Scarce In Oklahoma. Most of my l'i0 acres under cultiva tion Is farmed by renters. Cotton Is my main crop. In addition to this, I grow oats and Kalllr corn, says an Oklahoma farmer. This year I have on my farm seven' ncres of cotton, twenty-five acres of oaK sixty ncres of Kaffir corn, Ave acres of cowpcaa nnd thirty ncres of weeds caused by coiitlmitl overflowing during the plant ing season. I do not practice nny sys tematic rotation of crops. I have no silo, nnd do not believe there Is one In the county. Most of the grain raised Is feed, but some Is sold. From my forty bend of grade Hereford stock cattle I rivnllze some profit. KeaHllnar Aalnaala. The common mode of feeding nnl- food will then tie required to obtain re sults, because th mixed food will l better digested and assimilated thnn when the substances ore given sepa rately. Man 7 Kinds at Raas. There tire alsiut .I.OfJO species of the wild bees, all with Interesting ways of their own. Among them Is a species whose females are veritable Amazons and carry more nnd better wi'iijmiiis feeds for horses and whole and ground corn, with bran and oil meal, the best for beef cuttle. I use silage and mixed feed twice a day, and do not shred corn fodder. I grow Relds' yellow I lent corn, which uverages about forty bushels per aero. I cut thirty-five acres each year and use the corn har vester. I have twenty-five Shirt horses nnd 100 Hereford cuttle." Testing- Cream. 1 Much dlsstttlMfuctlon Is often exper ienced by cream producers because of differences reported In the test of their cream, and though they have made no change In the cream screw. Bulletin No. 2,'I7 treats of a number of causes of these differences. The bulletin may he obtained by addressing the experi ment station, Manhattan. Kan. I'roper War to llreaa Capons. Iu dressing capons they should al ways he dry-picked, und the feathers left on the neck, wings; legs nnd rump, uud tlio tail and wing feathers should he left iu. Do not dress out any ca pons that weigh less than seven pounds each. Keep the small ones until they grow a little heavier. Purler n I'enl for Hun. Isnhllltv of feeding baric) mi lint il'l o ! matured, or Is a crop too uiicciliilu mid 1'Vpcnnlvn to be prsctlcnble. In such regions, barley U n reliable crop; mid If It can Is u lllr.ed generally for pig" a great ndvantiige to the liuliiHtry will liaie ln-eii secured. tin in rrk A chocolate, or broken candy pull, that can In bad for 10 cents nt nnv grocery store, makes an excellent egg currier when I rented In the following maimer: Take a sheet of the inrru- SAMTr FOU CARRIIR. gutcd brown pnper board tinml ns u nipping for breakable articles nttd line the sides and bottom of the pall, ns shown In the cut. Then cut circles from other pieces of the same material to use between each layer of eggs. Mimller circles for the bottom. Increas ing In size as the tup Is approached. Ilggs enn be gathered from the nests In such n pail nnd onrrled to market With reasonable assurance llisl f--r if liny, brenknges will occur. The cor niRiiNsl paper can be obtained In largo hhects from grocers, to u limn It lma come packed alsmt breakable goods. Pnsrf Vali nf Tarn la Silas. One acre of corn put In n silo will furnish three cows all the sllajie they will eat fur a erld of L'isi days, forty s)Utids a day each. Thus ten acres of corn so used will supply thirty iuvi for the same length of time. In addi tion to the silage ration, the cows will need a little go,Ml hay nnd a protein ration or bran nnd gluten fod. This Hort of ration will secure profitable re sults from any dairy of cows. ( arlaar Wlr f ata. Here Is some useful Information from a Hakota man. He says: "There are a great many remedies used but I Iinve found the following to be one of the lxst : Common machine oil nnd alum. Take alum and burn on stove till white and dry; pulverize fine. Sat urate wound with oil. tbeji cover the wound with nlum, dusted on with a dust spray. This may ls applied once or twice dally. I ffiUm ( arnita. Kx'icrlmeiits In the feeding of car rots, beets and small potatoes to cows show that in I Ik fever Is leis liable to occur when cows nre fed llla-mlly on risit crops thnn when they are confined to hay and grain. No corn should be given six weeks before calving. Un seed menl mny le allowed with the liny, which should le cut fine and tho linseed meal sprinkled over It. Simple Rafeaalon Ladder. I made a ladder extension by saw ing off seven feet from an old ladder nnd removing three of the rungs, as IIA.NDV I.vrE.NhfO.s 1.A0HKK, shown In the cut. Then place It on tlm outside of the ladder to be length ened, Isire two holes through each side piece, put a holt In each hole, and the ladder Is four feet longer. After using It can be changed to original size much pilcLer than If tied with ropes, ami It's safer. The top ends of the ladder should be cut out to receive tlm lower riuiL' of the exteiislon..Iohi. Colon i Farm Progress. Keep Fine I'oullrr aa llreetlera. A speclment lacking the shape of tho breed Is not typical of the breed and V?: llsi'iTs milium ioi kit iiuiiuuni iu me nreeiiiug I iiilus, proprietor or ihe siring of mod pen because of fancy points of color, 'i'n cheap restaurants; President Ralph comb or eye. The male bird should be Peters of the Bong Island railroad and true to type, perfect In shape, prowl ,,1h1'I,h Hurgess and Potter, and showy, nnd of ns gissl color nnd ... ' , , i,t ii Woman Invent A eriipln ne. markings as possible the more style Miss K. B. Todd of Washing.,,,.. ). O. and strut ho puts on the better. hnn ,.xliil.ii i..ri nt the (,.r Club's show I " model of a novel aeroplane, so designed (...rln Mn. I. Ho,.. , , ,,,,,,. ,,.,, ,t Mange In hogs Is not difficult to euro has a large wheel directly under the cen- nnd seldom causes death. It Is caused ter. for the purpose of sustaining the bul- by a parasite under the surface of tho ance. Miss Todd is the onl- woman ia skin, which produces Irritation nnd the world who Is actively engaged In solv later a scab. This Is contagious. The ,1P "''""'l1 problem. Many Hlisldpa best treatment Is to wash the pigs In ul"1 v'" oxhlhhjon. soft water and soap, then rub In dry Woriii'a renet (;n nam, sulphur. Repeat in a week. A third 'l '"' Kf atest gas plnnt In the world was treatment U seldom necessary. opened at Aslorin, Bong Island, by the I Consolidated (ins Com puny of Nw or)( I-'reah Kit mi. ' W"0, 'oinpleted there will he six huga There nre never too many eggs In the fH"kM' ''R,'n "eurly as high as the Flat- markets that nre strictly fresh, nnd the 7'UJMJL!'(u'-la,,,,l ,",v),1 ' ''M-n. lty . i in , , of 1."),MK),(M0 cubic feet of gas Fiich farmer who will take the management ,ank ,OKt $,(hk),.MK. An i.i, rens of his fowls from tho femalo inen.hera wges of 10 per cent a year to (l,ii ,,,. of tho family, keep largo flocks and ployes was unnounced at the same tinm seek his customers, will find poultry ' reason given being that men were more profitable than larger stock la '""vlng, nnd In order to keep them t,t proportion to capital invested. com jinny considered it good buslm-ss prin ciple to increase wages. ..1 1.1 ,..4 l.n n .1 ... I t ...1 . I . .,, . flfVEEKLY HtpRIAN t r i 1T03 Trial of I-oun XVI. of France. IS 1 1 H illisiu Plnckae; l Maryland b- csme Attorney lieuerst of I'liunl Ntstes. HI The Hartford contention was open ed .... Benjamin W. Crowiuiiiliield of MassclHi.-etl l-eiaine Secrelnrjr of the Nsrj .... British raptured a flotilla of American gunboats in Ijike Borfiie, 110 Alabama admitted to (he I nloii. 1MI2 l!en. Ranks superseded But ler at New Orleans ...Tbe I ni" Irnops occupied Baion Itoiige. I n . . . rrederi) isburg. Vl . Nunbatded by I'nlun troops, ujuler cover of hua they crossed liie Rappahanm k ... I 'onfederates victorious nt bullle of Fredern ksburg, X 1 Hr; Fort Me Uister captured b)r (oik, Slierins li s uriny. I Mir, I'fiiih occtipnl mn of Koine Irrnd nulcd. 1VC.7 I en in n etploklon nt ' 'In kcic ell. Is-"! tJrnnd I'uke .Metis of IIikhi rate S.'i.lNlo the poor of New ork I'ltr us a memento of his i-ot . . . ."Mum Tweed nrreMed on a ibsrc of fel ony and rnutitied in Ihe Mm lopolit an liolel, New York IVT'J Jn.t (loiild restored fi.iKi.is" worth of property to Krie Rnllio.nl Company for nke of police 1 ST t llmigrniit ship Cospnlruk burned lit srs , -ll'io lites bet ... Will, am Mnsher Slid Jo;h I'oirla-s. sup posed abductors of Charlie Hons, .hot nnd killed in New York. ISTs Cold mbl at pur in N"-r York, for (i rut lime since Jniinnrt, IVi)'.'. iv.s,-, r. S. Supreme Court ren'tir tie. I coiistit ut nuialily of law prohibit ing iol f nmy. 1.S.VII MnripilK de I'mil, llivnrred Iiiin hlind of Adehtis Pntti, died ill I'nris. l.V'M Prance broke off diplomatic rela tions with llnlgnria . . . . MnriiiN of I'lifferin appointed British n:n! nssn dor at Paris. IMC Prof. Henry P. Smiih of .mm Theological seminar, suspended for heresy. I Nil. President Cleveland sent to Con gress bis memorable message on Vcncriichi. 1WI7 Mother of President MiKmlry died nt Canton, I lino. 1V.IS Ucn. Unrein, the Cuban lender, 1 i ! in Washing-ion Sir Win. Vcrmm llarcourl resigned c'i,,.rloj of Liberal party in I .nhind l.S'.m President directed lien, liti to open Philippine ports to coiii'i.ercn .... Boers defeated the I'l itisliai t Im Tiigeln. Rmki IJ n Wilhrlminn of the Nether lands gave a dinner to Mr. Kruger ....Iord Roberts sailed from Ciijm Town for FnrJnnd, lifter close of Boer nar. . , . Bners epulsed British n battle of Nooltgemichi. USI'' Mrs. I'ljsses S. .Jrnnt d 'ed at Wiishinrton, P. ('... . Vencuchiti government appealed through I'niled Suites for arbitration of Furopean claims. ... British nnd Cermnii cries ers demolished Venezuelan fort at Puerto Cnbello. 10(l." Soltnn of Turkey niiIui llted to I lie demands of Ihe powers concerning Macedonia . . . . Miigngemeul of Miss Alice Roosevelt nnd Congressman Nicholas l.otigworlh announced I Hies for WnrMiiK Men. A movement patterned after the (Sir ilcn City Association of (ireat Britain, which is now building its liist group of model woiking lien's homes at l.eleh worth, is nbout to be started in this coun try under the leadership of Rev. ir. W. II. P. Bliss, who will resign the rector- ship of St. Mary's F.pis- opal church ut Vmltyville, I,. ., and become secretary of Ciarden Cities of America. Iir. Bliss ,"','n ""'I've socialist worker for J,'"rH "", iH n graduate of Amherst eol- " ' 1 "" ""J''''1 " association is I lie founding of cities where men of small means may have attractive homes wilh their own gardens nnd combined, as far lis possible, with nt t riicl ion of both city mid country. The association includes such wealthy New Yorkers us .lohu Ij. , . .