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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1907)
-v "S V S. S -v. y V X ' THE IRON PIRATE A Tlain Talc of Strange Happenings on 1bc Sea By MAX coo rilAPTKU X. (Continued.! "We must not now," said KoJcrick. "Im fore they mist their man. They've stopjxNl Iho engines, and wo shall drop behind the others. There's only one chan.v. ami that it to snrpr.se them, liet's rush it. and take tho o.Ms." "If I went." said Mary, "w-hst could fhoy do to mo? I'm Roin now; while I'm tiilkiiiR to thorn thoy won't Ih l.Hkins for you." Sht ran uj the companion-way, ttnn.l Inc at the top: whilo wo .M.-ko.l our pis tol ami crept after her. Then w lay tint to tho deck, at she ran noiselessly amid fhips. and into the very center of the live men. To our astonishment, tliey s:ive a prrat howl of terror at the siht of her -for she seemed hut a thin; of s'udow hov rinc upon iho ship ami ho!:.l heidlo'ii: forward: wh.le we ruslie.l in a !-.ly to the hurricane d.vk and faced raol.i. He turned very white. P in served him a t!ie o:her. and hit him with his pitol, so that lie roiled s'!i-'!.'s oT the narrow hrid-. nd wo heard the thud of his head ac. litis; tho iron of the en-'i:ie room hatch. He liad scaree fallen when Mary, with the laueh still upon her lips, reeled at the si-ht of him. and fell f.ii:it.ii in my arms. The skipier pot th- whole situation at the first lo.'k. lie catiu- io us with a coll ide of ritles. We were now all cruchin; together !v the wheel amidships, for Marv had t''-.uere.l. Uv the full moon w paw dark shadows acr.s the hitch. The men were behind tho galley. The skipper hailed them. "You. Karl. Williams are you oomim; out now, for me to Hoc you. or will you swini at New York? You've pot a couple of planks between you ami eternity. I'm goinjr to fire through that iralley." Ho raised his ritle at the word, and let fo straight at the corner of the lijht wood erection. A dull proan followed, and by the shadow on the de.-k 1 saw one man fall forward: his blood ran in a thick stream out to the top of the hatchway, and then ran ba k as tao ship heaved to thf spas. "There's one down nmonpst yon. said the skipper: "but that's the U-pinnii: of it; I'm poinp to blow that shanty to jiipeps. and you with it." He rais.Ml his ritle. but as ho did so one of them answered for the first time with his revolver, and tho bullet san; above our heads. The skipper's shot was quick in reply: and the wood of the shanty flew in splinters as the bullet shivered it. A sec ond man sprang to his feet with a shout, and then fell aeross the deck, lying full to be seen in the moonlight. "That's two of you," continued the skipper, as calm as ever he was in Tons illolith harbor ; "we'll make it three for luck." P.tit at the supgesticn they all made a run forward, and lay fl it right out by the cable. There we could hear them blubbering like children. They fired three shots as we rushed on them: but the butt omls of the two mus ltets did the rest. Three of them went down straight as felled jioplars. Tin others fell upon their knees and implore! mercy; and they pot it, but not until tic skip;xT. who now seemed r msi-d to all tic fury of great anger, set to kieking them lustily, and with no discrimination. We had the other hands up by thi They pot lliera below at the first break of dawn, and the d-ad they covered: while Paolo, who lay groaninp, we carried to a cabin in the saloon, and did for his broken head that which our elementary knowledge of surgery permitted us. As the day brought Kght upon the ris ing sea, I looked to the far horizon, but the rolling crestH of an empty waste met my gaze. Again we were alone. The right's work had lost us the welcome company. CIIAPTKK XI. It was near noon when we had buried the two stokers shot by the skiper. and more on in the afternoon before the d.-eks were made straight, and the traees of the ncuffle quite obliterated. Put Paolo lay all day in a delirium, '..ml Mary went in and out, bearing a perirle hand to the wounded, who alternately cried with the Iain of it. and begged grace for their in sanity. After th hour of lunch the skip per called It oderick and me into the cabin. "One thing is clear." he said; "you've brought me on more than a pleasure trip, and while I don't complain, it will be nec essary at New York for me to know some thing more or, maybe to leave this ship. Last night's work must be made plain, of course; and this second officer of yours must stand to his trial. The men I would willingly let go, for they're no more than lubberly fools whose heads have been turn ed. Put one thing I now make bold to olaim I take this yacht straight from here to Sandy Hook ; and we poke our Iioses into no business on the way." "That's quite right," I said ; "there'a no reason now why we shouldn't go straight on if we don't meet with anyone to ask questions on the way." We all went out on deck after we had agreed to let him have his will. We found the first officer on the bridge, looking away to the southeast, at the black hull of a steamer. I noticed that she steamed at a fearful speed, and ahe showed no smoke from her funnels. "Skipper," I said, "will you look at that hull? Isn't the boat making uncommon headway?" "You're right. She' going more than twenty knots, I've seen that ship be fore," ho said. "Where?" asked Roderick laconically. "Five daya ago, when she fired a shell Into the Ocean King." "In that case," said I, "there Isn't much doubt about her Intentions; she's chasing us!" "That may or may not be," he replied, as he raised bis glass again, "but she's the same ship, I'll wager my life. Look at the rake of her and the lubbers, they've left some of their bright metal nhowing amiddhijw J" s" V V 'S.N.N.XNNN.' 5 NX 3 PEMBERTON He indicated the dock h.v.isv hy the bridge, where my plast showvd me n shin ing tot in the cloak of black, for the sun fell upon the phuv, and reflected from it at from a mirror of gold. There wnt no longer any doubt ; we were pursued by the nameless ship. "What are you going to do. skipix'r?" ask.sl Kcleriek. as gloom fell upon the three of us; and w stood together, each man afraid to tell the others alt he thought. "What am I going to do?" said he. "I'm goitig to see the boats cleared, and nil hands in the stoke hole that have the right there;" and then he tang out, "Stand hy !" and the men swarmed up from Ivlow, and heard the order to clear the boats. They hid all the grit of the old tea .1 's in them. The thought of u brush-up put dash and daring into them ; they had the boats cleared, the water bane's tilled. and tho life -belts free, with an activity that was remarkable. Then they stood to watch the oncoming of the nameless ship: and when wo hoisted our ensign they burst again into a hou se roar of applause which rolled across the water waste, and mus; have sounded as a vaunting mockery to the men behind the walls of metal. Put they answered us in turn, running up an ensign, and a cry came from all of us as we saw its color, for it was ttie lme sahire on a white ground. "Pussian. or I'm blind," said the skip ;er, for the nameless ship, which five days ago showed her heels under the I'hilian mask, now made straight towards us in Pussian guise. 1 turned my eyes away to tho crimson arch which marked the bun's decline; I looked again to the east, whence black harbingers of night hung low upon the darkened sea ; I searched the hor.zon in every quarter, but it lay barren of ships, and soon the last light would leave us, and with the ebb of day there was no se curity against an enemy whose intentions were no longer disguised. I say no longer disguised. The skipt-r pointed to the mast on the nameless ship, where the Put s an ensign had hung ten minutes before. It was there no longer; the black (lag t.ok its place. "Pirates I" said the skipper; and then he whistled long and loud and shrilly at a man who has solved a sum. "Gentle men, I said I would resign this ship at New Y'ork : w ith your permission I will withdraw that. I will tail with you wherever you go." He shook our hands heartily, as though the discovery of our purioso had uncloud d his mind. Put we had no time for full r understanding, for at that moment the sir itself seemed torn apart by a great oncushion. and a shell burst in the water no more than fifty yards ahead of is. Old Han fired his gun into the air .vith a great shout. Yet we knew that ill this was the cheapest bravado; and when the skipjT touched the bell to stop ur engines, I was sure that he wit wis... The great vessel r.xb' still h;iip quarter of a mile away from us; but the glass showed mo the men ujMin her decks, and onspiotious amongst them I saw the form f Captain Plack standing by the steam -teering pear. S-xm their launch was naking for us. The boat came so near that I could see the faces in it : and thnt of the five I recognized, for I had seen hem in Paris. The man who was in com mand was the fellow "Koaring John ;" ind when he was within hail he stood and bawled : "What ship?" "My ship!" roanxl back the skipper, again looking at the mist-clouds, and my heart gave a bound when I read his pur pose; we were drifting into them. "And who may you be?" bawled the fel low again, growing more insolent with ev ery advance. "I'm one that'll give ynu the best hiding you ever had. if you'll step up here a minute !" yelled the skipper. "Y'ou're com ing alKiard, are you? And which of you shall I have the pleasure of kicking first?" "Oh, you're funny, ain't you, and pret ty with your jaw. Put it's me that you'll have the pleasing of speaking to, and right quick, my mate, oh, you bet !" said Koar ing John. "In that case," said the skipper, with his calmness well at zero; '"In that case you, Han! introduce yourself to t'ue gen tleman. Han's reply was instantaneous. He had up with his shot gun, and the long rutlian, who had reached forward with his boat hook, got the dose full in his face. At the same moment the skipper called "Fire!" and the heavy crack of the rifles and the sharp reiort of the pistols rang out together. The very launch itself seemed to reel under the volley. "Full steam ahead !" roared f!aptaln Y'ork, as the nameless ship replied with a shell that grazed our chart room. Then, Hhaking his fist to the warship, he almost screamed : "Pested for a parcel of cut throats !" There was no doubt about It at all. The moment the yacht answered to the screw the fog rolled round us like a sheet, in thick wet clouds, steaming damp on the de-k; and twenty yards ahead or astern of us you could not see the long waves themselves. Shot after shot hissed and splashed ahead of us, behind u ; now dull, heavy, yet penetrating, and we knew that the ship lay close on our track ; then farther off and deadened, and we hoped that she had lost us. When I left the bridge It was midnight. I was soaked to the skin and nigh frozen, and the water ran even from my hair; but a hot hand was put Into mine as I entered the cabin, and then a thousand questions rained upon me, "I'll tell you by-and by, Mary. Were you very much afraid?" "I was a bit afraid, Mark a a little bit! I oh, I nursed Paolo he'a dying." The man truly lay almost at. death' door; but hla delirium had passed; and he slept, mattering In his dream, "I can't go to tha city Black ; you know It let me pet nlsis.r.1. II mult off! 1 fold you thn Job was risk) ;" nml he and turned m n.l fell into troubled shnntsT. Ami I could not help a thought of sorrow, f rMf K J i" J f-V"V V MVjf1 .Ji--V-. for 1 fe.-intl that ho would hang If ever I 0 5jV lC? ;''. ' 1 ' !tvl:, f (5,,i,mi.." k.,.,-r i,.or. u vii-riOT '4' v..,, , v,.r t,. .i... u.,k: . AvyOv - :v3?j r - pleate heaven. Til you nil in Now If' rV V t - L - - " " York It-fore ih.ve days." N useless temp, to I ,. ... An. I he kop it word: for we sighted, ' "XZM 1 1 c ' . ... , .... , S.,,lv Hook and lo.rm had e to no 1L'-? -Tl ' . ' H.HI:ll.- H.Ml ll'IV ' 1 man that fought Iho iiu.xual light. niAPTFIJ XII. It wst about tl o'clock in the wen hut when we brought the t Visit through the Narrows. Then the greater hnrNr be fore the city itself rolled out upon our view: and at we steamed slowly Into It the ciittomt took possession of us, and made their search. It was n short basl nest, for we satisti.sl them that Paolo suffered from a malignant disease. For oursi'lvet wo went o T to dine at the Fifth Avenue lo;el. When dinner was done I suggested that po.lcri. k should I'llii. M .1 r- I tl I-...I..K fli, .ltf .ivt-litlrf nit.' I should cot back to tho feltit. there ' - ' that 1 should get back to the t oltis to secure what papers were left for me. and to arrange, after thought, what my next stop in tho followinf of Captain Plack should ln I wat driven to tho wharf very quickly, and got iilmard the yacht with no trou ble. There was a man keeping watch upon her docks. I went to my own cabin, getting my papers, my revolver ami other tilings that I might have n.-vd of ashore. At I wat rea.h to go back to the o! ti ers I looked in Paolo's cabin, and. tome what to my surprise, I saw that he wat dressed, and seemingly alsmt to quit the yacht. This d sc.oery set nio aglow with expectation. If iho man were going ashore, whther coul.l he g. except to hit atso ciatet? Was not that the very clue 1 had N'en hoping to get? This thought sent me forward into the fo'cnstle, where Han was. "Hist, Han!" said I, "give me a man's rig-out -a j.rsey ami some breoch'-s and a cap- quick." and. while the old fellow star.sl and whistled softly, I lielM-d to ransack his box ; and in a trice I had dtess.-d myself, putting my pistols, my papers, and my money in my new vlothet ; but leaving cverjth.ng els.' in a heap on the Moor. At 1 came on deck, I saw a shadow on the gangway. Tho man was leaving the ya 'lit ut that moment, and I followed him. Once out into the city, and having turn ed two or three times to satisfy himself that he had no one after him, Paolo struck for Proa.lway. and thetnv with staggering gait he m i.lo straight for the powery. At last, after a long walk, and when the man himself wat almost falling from the exertion of it, ho stopp.sl Iwfore an open door in the dirtiest of the streets through which we had come, nml disap peared instantly. I came up to the door almost as soon as he had passed through, and found myself before a steep (light of steps, at the bo'tom of which through a glass partition I could see men smoking and hear th-m bawling uncouth songs. j It was a fearful hole, civpcd by fear ful men ; all nations and all sorts of vil laint were represented there: low Eng lishmen. Frenchmen. Pussiant, even j Chinamen; yet into that hole must I go if I would foll"W- Paolo to the end. I j pulled my cap right over my face and passed through the swinging d.Kir. The r.H;n wis long nnd narrow; bank ed its whole length by hetioh.t that had once been covered with red velvet, but now showed torn patches and the pro truding wool of the stiitling. I passed quickly to a Iretch near the door, and tle-re sat wedged Hgiiust a fair-haired seaman, wli.we iook stampoi nim to no a Pussian. (To be continued.) Wasn't Mip lnif f "Ingenuity, thy name Is woman!" hollcl. sal.l the iiiiidui'tor, ns a plump wopinnj . boiled egg which Is done will dry' laden with packages alighted from his quickly on tin; shell when taken from cur. "Ho you know what she. illd? the kettle. Well, after she had stowed her pack-j F.ggs which have Ixfti packed In ages In her I:ip, she osMieil her bag, lni. i,)k stained and show the action dug down Into It, brought up her purse 0f the Hint' on the Hiirfmv. and gave me 10 cents. 'For two,' she if M)i egg Is clenn and golden In ap snhl. I thought she Intended paying jHuirance w lien held to the light It Is for the bundles nnd was about to toll , her that It was needless extravagance, when she said: 'I'd like two trans fers.' I grinned. 'Are you Hotting a transfer on jour parcels?' I asked, She replied In n very matter of fact way: dii, no; t.ur. jon see, a rnen.i , M)li(.,,r of , lepnrtment of ngrlcul- of mine Is going to meet me ut tlitlire t Washington, said the law ap- corner aim 1 want to p' tier rare, , but It'll be an awful nuisance for ino , to get my purse again with nil these bundles, ho I thought If you'd give mo two transfers I'd save nil that trou ble.' "I gave her two transfers. The com pnny won't lose anything 'Jy It, nnd If the friend doesn't happen to be wait ing fn the corner. It'll bo something In." New York Press. (nose of the Stoop. The Portrait Agont-One notice a great tunny stoop-shouldered men In this vicinity. Hue to hard work, I sup pose? The Storekisi'per Nutliln' else, b'goHli. Tot In nround the average crop ur whiskers peculiar to these here parts uin't uo ulnycure, I tell you I Puck. I'mnen tlonable. "Let in see," Bald she. "What Is It you rail these men who run automo biles?" "Pardon me," replied the gallant man, "I'm too much of a Kontleman to tell you what I cull them." Philadel phia Ledger. Fallacy Kiploded. "Talk Is cheap," remarked the man with the quotation habit "Not always," rejoined the practical man. "My wife talked me Into buying her a $50 gown this morning." In After Yeara. Mrs. Newed And will you love me Just ns much when I am old, darling? Newed More, I think. You probably won't be so silly then. If men were relatively as strong as beetles they could Juggle wlUi wulgbti at auveral toiu. Itntv l IIimI IVncltet. "For u bu.l.llug Knife take n com mon case knlt'c a broken one will do cut blade otT square about one Inch from baft, sharpen this etnl not very jtl.ln. but sharp. Keep tho normal c.lge as Keen as hss1io. Now, to use It I Set tho en. I e.luo squarely across the I u'.Mii. li, or Koo.lllng. where joii wish to set jour bil.l, ami with gentle pressure cut through the bulk to the mh t s- .... . t . . t . . . . I ... I .. !.... "''' ""' "''' noa,., jo-i below where vnil have iiiiide the cross w here j on have mini Incision mid cut through the bark as before, and before w Ith.lraw lug the k-ilfo give It n slight twist, which will th'vw the hark open for tho re.vpt Inn of the bud. The bud U cut from the scion of tho variety iloslro.l by start lug the knife In the scion nhont one four h of an Inch below the bod. nml cutting upward to the sumo distance above, taking oT tho bud with u shield lri;o, piece of bark Mini u snitill shav I'!.' of the w.s.,1 ,.f the sch.n. Insert this In the Incision nliva.lv niinlo In the stock an. I tie the barU to the s'ock down over It tlriulv, but not too tight tv. r txlug, anything nearly "HI d. I hue itsel corn busks when other ina ferial w as not ban ly." Mnklnii n llrooali r nl II unit . ll.te are the plans for u br.x.ler that can he easily made by anyone: Make n box . feet I Inches by .'t feet s Indies an. I o f.ft high, using '2. Inch p;c.vs for corner posts, ami in atchc.l hoards for si. Hug Inside mill s lips around tl Inches from litto:u to support the t!o ir, which should be nia.le of matched lumber and left so It cul l be taken out and cleaned. M ike door In eli.l level with tbx.r. nl glass In upper l.alf of eu h side for light. Top made to xlaut N'th ways and .'itxnit half of each side hinged on so as to iiinke fi'i'.llug and cleaning easy. Plait large plc.f of sheet Iron on underside of Moor with h.ilf Inch strips between Moor mi 1 Iron. Cut ilxr hi lower part of end ; plmv g.xd metal txiwl lamp under shift Iron; bore sev eral holes In floor over lump, putting tin can punched full of holes over this to kix'p out d'.rt. Place thermometer on Inside and you will have a br.HIor which will ,jlve tin' best of satisfac tion. l-tftic I'oluifrs. A stale egg will sink in water. Stale eggs are glassy nml siu.xith of shell. A fresii egg litis n llmellke surface to Its shell. The boiled eggs which adhere to the shell are fresh laid. Fggs packed III bran for u long time smell and taste musty. Thin shells are ciiuse.l by n lack of gravel nml lime among the lens laying eggs. After an egg has Is-en laid n day 'or inure the shell collies orr easily when KM ; If dark or spotted. It Is bad. Nrw Meal Us Worltlnn Well. In addressing thu convention of the New York State Proislcrs' Association upon the new meat Inspection law uud ita h.Mirliiir Mtwiii the iinxlnct loll nml ,, of mt.IltH, ,;(.,)rf,. P. MKh.be. llr(ll t worklnir well and was. .rvlnz as a guarantee of the hoalttl- I fulness, purity nnd wholesotnenetts of our live stock nun meats in ine mar kets of the world. lie declared that, to seenre the best results, hnsslers of eviry state should take up vigorously the question of Hie extension of mar kets nnd should back the department of agriculture In an Insistent demand for nn absolute clIMent, vigilant, fair and square meat Inspection. Iloinrmaft Hnvr Horse. The Illustration shows the best con trivance for holding slabs or other i" iii i ii nurf i - - - saf HANDY HAW HOUSE. refuse wood while sawing It for kin dling or fuel. Sure War With Moll Weevil. The best way to circumvent the Ik11 weevil Is to raise more corn and hogs, more alfalfa and mule colts, more buy and calves, more oats and chickens, more wheat and turkeys, and build more factories. With full crops of all these things, the boll weevil would have little terror for Texan. Ilonham (Tex.) News. Farm Notes. Farmers who tnnke money by skin ning the farm are like companies who pay dividends by watering their stock. The all around food for milk cows Is grass. Therefore look well to the pas tures and see that their quality Is Improved, Wmifiaifiiias ii i in a r v frost. Those that are uiilii.liire.l are best kept on shches In layers In a loci (I. .11 where tin' tempi-rat lire does not fall below in ilcgrees. lie careful that t hey are not kept too w Mi ni. Dried llerl nml Molilaar llil. Prlcf notes me gln-n on the prodiic II. .11 of two lee.lllig Mulls and fctl I'g experiments with cows are reported by the Wisconsin station. The ration Used fol" comparison consisted t live INUIlnls or hay, I lill ty -III e to lol ly linds of hllnge, mi. I about eight pounds ir a grain tn!liiie . o.isl -.t lug or wheat bran, distillers' grains, nml cottonseed meat III the proportion of J:-:l. I Mb-. I beet pulp or molasses beet plllp WHS Sllbst 1 1 II I C.I Tol' the wheat bran In the ratio or ;i :'J hy weight. Two tests were in i.b-, the lil'st Including llfteeti cows nil. I the second sl. When wheat bran was replaced by ill'le.l licet plllp hi the 1 1 ; . 1 1 h . I 1 1 . 1 1 III. II t ilted there whs Ho nppic Inlde I'Tfef once In the effect nf the two rations Molasses boot plllp Mihstltut -.1 lu Me tallic manner produced, however, about I. per cent more milk nml s per cent liu.re butter Tat. Poet pulp showed a tendency f.i decrease the fat isuifeiit of the milk. The results. I hen-fore. Indicate that when wheat bran Is val lied at $1S a (nn. ilrle.l beet plllp Is li..t worth over $IJ and inol.iss, I t pulp over $ PI a (on. m-tiorl nit l 'rn lol. Hero It a hiiii.ly way or iitichorln feint posts in draws or low places: In stead of hanging a stone to the p.ist, AN. ll'illIM, I'OMIS IN lill.tWS. take f r m a loiihle wire ami ust- It In tie- f a truss, ut Indicated In cut. The plan Is so simple that little descrip tion Is lust-ssary. If the cut Is very deep, one can use n longer post, or spike a I'X I until the Mist, and so put the truss win- yet higher, and hence that much more effective. Why tii ii iik Trrra Up lies I. These are the advantages ut planting young trees; Th.-y can be trained to the desired form better than older trees, says Farming. A 1' or :t year old trif It branched nod Iims had lis head already roruusl by the nurseryman; n yearling tr.t- i,f the apple, ear and swift cherry. Is usually iiiibranchcd. SouicMiiicn the nurseryman has headed the tree t-si high or has not Im-cii care ful enough about starting out the senf r..ld limbs, and it Is dllhYult to cor re, t the form of the head arter It has hi -n started. Tin-re Is an uumlstak Ilbie preference Tor low -headed trees, due chletly to the tiis-d of is-onoiny and elli.-h-ncy In spraying and harvesttng. The single disadvantage of low head ing Is greater Inconvenience In tillage. This Is much inure than offset by the nd vn nt ages. In the Judgment of most growers. Within ten years the height recommended for heading apple tnt-s In the Fast has lieon reduced at least two feet. The bearing of this tin the matter of yearling trees Is that the grower enn head a yearling trtsu where he pleases. lowprii fur Una;. Thow? living where they can success fully grow the (tiWS'il should utilize this valuable crop as a cheap ration for pigs. The pea Is rich In protein and furnishes the needed growth, and dm-s away with the necessity of inlllstuff. Hi'lll three or four M-.-ks of seed per acre the bitter part of May or the llrst part of June, and give the needed culti vation till the vines cover the ground enough to check wis-d growth. Turn the pigs Into the field when the pods begin to ripen, nnd they will do the harvesting, if the old hogs nre pas tured on pens, they need corn or some other carlKiiiaceous feed to give proMr balance, for they cannot utilize so much protein ns pigs. Try a patch of cow pea pasture this year, and get your hogs lu fine shape for the corn when It comes. Hard Montliei! Ilorsrs, Here Is something of practical rnluc to anyone driving a horse that pulls on the bit: Fasten n small ring to each side of the bridle and as near the brow band ns possible, pass the lines through the bit rings nnd snap them Into the rings at the brow band. This, with a common Jointed bit, will enable a child to hold a puller or hard mouth ed horse with ease under almost all circumstances. It can be used on a fust horse in double team or on both, as desired. It Is cheap and easily ap plied, and It won't make tho mouth sore. It Is better than any patent bit. Farm Press. Walrr for flutter Washing. Pulletln No. PW, on the " Effect of Hncterla Wash Water of Putter," de scribes a series of experiments show ing tho ImiHirtnnee of puro water for washing butter. Sterilized water Is shown to be practical, cheap and profit abli't Tho bulletin may be obtained free by addressing the experiment ata Hon, Manhattan, Kan. W --a,., -- TT. . THE WEEKLY HISFORIAH M liJP Iltllll Slllll i 'olcllllll. lei...eei nlld ll- i-oveiy, mailed fi.nii laiuliind lor ir tuna. l"'i Plymouth, Ma, founded li'.JI Publish I '.-no It lllllllie.l flftV il.illl lit ill- i II .noil Ii'iMI Sir IManiiid ndros rem bed Pot ion ii i;.oetiior of Nen l.ii.-l m l . . . H llllitm ..f l oil e enlii.d I. olid ill. 17111 I'll'l I ' Post. .li Ii l. lle 171. Pllll.e I 'I. nrlet P.lail.l. -oil of .1, mi.-. III of Fii -la. el. won bill I In al P. m il Ii i 1777 ii-.I,iii.-i.-ii l:..- l hi- troop l j a II. I oi MI7 N,i;..:.oli . III. ..!...! M li .le. I en . . . . I! i.,ii-. o I ii I by I .-i---. on lll.-l . .1 II "hips. ls:-, oii Niiua taken to Pie ltnti"li. IMI Ir.in of l II. eiil, I.Um-.ii Uieiit Pril l n and in-i e n ".'i. -l IS.'tS London II II. I I Jteell . I. Il lil'lwilV, (list hue in Loud-ill. o. .ell. d )sp; ',,. 1 1, no; hni. in .oii'icui.l of I IMI Mi-,. Ill ollllll eel let. -.lied foil e of M. 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II.. of murder of lot brother III I ll ru. IS'.il I'ollisioii on I In. Noii ltiver railroad lit Unstops. . Y, . II kill.-d Tin- (iitnui sinimshiji Alo-siii a burn ed al sea. S', l'llst Pllli-.ll I ll inois ele. led In l-oll'loll. I'.MI'J Wireless Ilii-K-ll'e sclil llerost lllll Atlantic. llMI.'t Last river bridge opened. P.MI.'i (heat Hlrike ill St. Petersburg. A merlrnn Slnmliirils Annlyvril. Justice P.rewer of I lie Friilol States Supreme 'mil t . ill an address on I hit larger and higher life of the mill. in. ut New Poclielle. N. Y ., paid us I he usual compliment of being a Hercules mining nations, saying facet iously thai if no didn't have a Hercules club, we lit least I oskciisi-iI n big Hi i. k at Washington, but this was not enough. Those responsible for the country's future must ask, "What are the ideals of the nation?" Are seeking only iiialerlnl developini-nl, or ari we striving for the higher life?" lie re ferred to our pride in a big navy mid thn ostentation of our ciiies over their build ings, houses, it r I galleries nnd libraries bought by the cubic yard. He believed the nn I ion was ruiiiiiu.: deeper Into debt each yenr. (.looting Washington's tare well address, In- mi, I In- was on.- who didn't rejoice in a great national d.-bt. Nevertheless he I hiillglil llllll the growth of ililellectual Kjiirit was 1,-MVellllig tha crudeliess of I he ne. A Nollil rioiillnic I'iMliiiliilloii. A writer lu the Technical World Mag azine tells of a new- engineering device, invented by William K. .Murray of Lot Angeles, ('nl., bv means of which il is possible lo build ill the open sea struc tures that usually re.piire solid rock foun dations, such lis lu eak waters, light houses, forts, bridges, etc, These will remain per fectly steady, no matter bow- liirbulent the sill face of the sea may be. This re sult is obtained by immersing the lloaling structures deep down in the still waters in such a way that the surfaif vibration rnniiot affect them. The simplest form Is n hollow upright cylinder of Iron, with a broad projecting flange. This base will act ns a lever to counteract tiny horizon tal pressure nt the top. In this way It Is hoped that torpedo stations limy bp pine isl fnr out to sen,, forming an luis-n-trable barrier to an attacking fleet. Again, l Is proposed to thus erect float ing wharves, which would rise and full with the tide. Mrs. Naifft'a l'nlvrraltr lft. Chancellor MaeCrai ken of tho Svw York university announces that .4rs. Hun sell Sage had transferred to the univer sity titlo to fifteen acres of laud adjoin ing thn university grounds, valued at $:t(Ml,(HK). This will increase the campus to thirty-seven ncres, and will enable t, chancellor to carry out his great project of grouping a number of colleges In a great quadrangle. Tlin summer school next year will bn enlarged. At present this university has iiMO Instructors and 2..V24 students.