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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."
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"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.
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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
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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.
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flfVEEKLY
HtpRIAN
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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.
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