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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1907)
THE GIRL WITH A MILLION By D. C. CHAPTKU I. I A lit llo dell in tlx heart of a wo.ni was ejcliclonsly dappled with leafy shadows. A loisely clad ni.i n. heard d and specta cled, nti'l a little on tin ri:1ii side of for;v, nat on a rump stool before n small field easel, and libeled ill.' landscape at liis case, pausing at his work now ami thru and drawing back his head to survey It w-iih nn nir of charmed appreciation. Nar him. on the snarled mink of a tree find in tlie shadow of a tn.ws grown nvk, nat a lad.v some ten or a ooj-mi years yonnr. leisurely torturing thread iuto late with a hooked needle. A little way Jwn the dell a boy was eismbrrins amon? the rocks, shrieking rry now and then with ecstatic news of a beetle or a "butterfly. He was a sturdy. Nir-eycd. golden haired little fellow of five-, the picture of health, and he was rfcing his limbs and chattering to all ani mate and inanimate nature a delightful boy. and all nVive from his golden head to li'm restless feet and tips of his brown little fingers. The mother snatched him to her .inns and covered him with kisses. Fn.il -nly she looked up. flushed, half pite ous. Viih a flash of tears in her eyes. -Austin. 1 feel afraid. Have 1 a right to be so luppy? Has any one a right to be so happy? Will it last?" -Who knows?" he answered. "Human affairs run in averages, but then the av erages are not individual. We have had almost trouble enough in our time to have raid for a little joy. Let us take it grate fully." "Sometimes," she said, "a shadow seems to fall upon it all the shadow of a fear." "The shadow of the past experience. The burned child dreads the tire. We are burned children, both of us. Five years' Illness and poverty out of seven years of married life is a large allowance. And. after all. our present happiness isn't phe nomenal, my dear, though it looks so. We have health, and we value it because we have each missed it in turn. We have a little money, and we think it a great deal because we have been so deadly poor. And then," he laughed and half blushed, "we have a little fame, and that is all the pleasanter because we were so long neglected. Sweet is pleasure after pain." "1 am dangerously happy," she answer ed. "Come, let us unpack the luncheon bas ket Cold chicken. Salad. Bread. Cheese. Milk. There we are. Fall to. S(t down by your mother, Cupid. Take a pull at the milk, old man, and then you'll have ait appetite. What a sudden abadow !" A cloud had floated between themselves and the sun, and a strange quiet had fall en with the shadow on the woods. "Austin." the wife whispered, "there is that dreadful man again. It seems as if lie had brought the darkness with him." A brown sloping path, covered still with the fir needles shed in the foregoing autumn, brcke the wal' of green which Iwunded the dell, and down this footway, "between the silver steps of the birches and the reddish stems of the firs, walked a gray-bearded man, with his head drooped 'forward and his hands clasped behind him. He looked neither to left nor right, but went by as if unconscious of their pres ence, and in a little while was lost be hind the thicker growth of trees. As he went out of sight the sun broke through the cloud, the leafage was inundated with life again and the birds renewed their aong. "Look." she whispered; "the shadow follows him." "What an odd mood this is to-day !" said ber husband, smiling at her. "And why is the poor old gentleman so dread ful r "But, Austin, do you know? Tou can't have beard. He is known to have batch ed plots against the Czar." . "Well, yes. It is known also that be has been wifeless and childless this twen ty years. His wife and bis two sons died in Siberia. They went there without trial, and people who know biin say that the loss of them in that horrible way turned his brain. Suppose anybody stole you and little Austin? Suppose be drove you on foot through hundreds of miles of ice and hiiow? Suppose that he made you herd with the human off-seouriugs of the world, and that you died after three or four long-drawn, hideous years? It might be wicked, but surely it would not be quite without provocation if I blew that man sky-high. I don't say that regicide Is a thing to be commended. I don't de feud the poor old gentleman's political opinions. But I do say that human na ture is human nature." Luncheon over, he returned to his painting, to find the lights all changed. He worked away, however, with great contentment for an hour or two, while the wife and the boy wandered beyond the limns of the dell. When they came back they found that he had packed up his traps and was lying at length on the idoss, with his face turned to the sky. . "I do this better than I paint," he said, corking an idle eye at his wife from be neath the soft white felt which rested on bis nose. "Shall we get back now?" "I rant to carry something, papa," en id the boy, iosHening himself of the camp stool. They sauntered on together tranquilly through the twinkling lights which dazzled from between the leaves, and their steps were noiseless on the dense car;iet of fir needles. The boy laid down his burden to chase a sulphur-colored butterfly. They had gone a hundred yards before they missed him, and when they turned to look for bira be waa seen at the far end of a wooded vista, seated on the camp stool. "Look at the little figure, Lucy," said the father. "Isn't there something lonely and almost pathetic In it? He looks as If be were waiting for somebody who would never come a figure of deserted childish patience." He hailed the child and turned away again. "He knows the road?" be asked. "There Is no danger of Lb losing himself?" "lie knows the way," she f answered. "We have been here twice a, 'da for a month past." So they marched on, well pleased, talk lag of Indifferent matters, and the Jltfle Murray follow sat on the rump stool behind them and held animated talk with mature. The gray-bearded man wandered through the wood with his chin sunk upon his breast aiid his eyes fixed uion the ground. lie was tall and gaunt and swar thy, and looked as if he had n considera ble strain of the Jew In him. His nose was like an eagle's beak and ascetleally fine. Ilia temples were hollowed like those of a death's head, and his eyes, which were large and brown and mourn ful to the verge of pathos, were the eyes of a born dreamer and a fanatic by na ture. It was already dusk when the old Ni hilist turned his footsteps into the wood, and having just remembered that he had not broken his fast for seven or eight hours, he had somewhat quickened bis usual thoughtful ace, when the sound of a sob reached his ear and be stopped suddenly to look about him. Within a yard or two sat the lost child on the camp stool, with bis back sgnirlst n broad tree trunk. The old man knelt on the grass nu. I looked at the sleeping boy. His straw bat bad fallen off aud lay beside him, his golden hair was tumbled and disordered, his long dark lashes were still wet, and his rosy cheeks were blurred and soiled with the traces of his tears. "Eh! Iji. la. la?" said the old fellow, in a pitying accent. "I,ost ! Pid we sleep in despair, dear little heart? In tears? in terror? And God sendeth a hind, ere yet it is night time. To the child, rescue, and to the old man teach ing." Then he took the child softly in his arms, and gathering up the hat and the camp stool, entered the wood. As he did so. a faint and distant cry reached his ears, and be stopped to listen. It was re peated once or twice, fnintly and more faintly, and then died away. He started anew almost at a run, but he was old. and the lad was unusually solid and well grown for his years, so that the burden soon told on him, and brought him to a walk again. It was a full mile, from the spot to which the child had wandered to the Cheval Blanc, and when the little hos'el was reached the bearer's back and arms were aching rarely. The landlady met him In the passage with a cry. . "Oh. the little Anglais! You have found him. monsieur? Jeanne, run to the wood and tell tbem that the child is found." "You know him?" asked Dobroski. "Who is he? Where does he live?" "He is the child of the English at the hotel des Postes," answered the wom an, standing on tiptoe to kiss the boy. "He has been lost this five hours." Io broski turned into the street, and the woman followed him talking all the way. "He is the only child of his parents, and their cherished. Imagine, then, the de spair of the mother, the inquetude of his father! They are rich. See how the child is dressed. There is nothing you might not ask for." The old man smiled at this, but said nothing. He surrendered bis charge at the hotel, where the boy was received with such noisy demonstrations of pleas ure that he awoke. Being awake, and recognizing his surroundings, he adapted himself to them with an immediate phil osophy, and demanded something to eat. A second messenger was dispatched to the wood to bring hack the party who had gone in search of him. His mother kissed him frantically and cried over him, but bis father set out for the Cheval Blanc to thank his res cuer. He found Dobroski seated in a lit tle room with a sanded floor, and began to stammer bis gratitude in broken and mutilated French. . "It was a piece of good fortune to find him," said Dobroski, speaking English, to the other's great relief. "I am de lighted that the pleasure was mine." "I don't know how to thank you," said the Englishman, a little awkward ly, lugging a purse from his trousers pocket. For a moment Dobroski fancied the stranger meant to offer bira money, but he merely produced a card, "That's my name," said the Englishman, blun deringly. "Austin Farley. Upon my word. I really don't know bow to thank you." "My good, good sir," returned Dobro ski, "what would you have had? What was I to do? He was sure to be found, and it was my good fortune to have found him." "You must let bis mother come and thank you, sir," said the Englishman. "Upon my word I really don't know what to say to tell you how grateful and oblig ed I am. His mother has been in the greatest anxiety. You must let ber come and thank you." "Well, well, Mr. Farley," the elder man answered, Ullliseii a lime nujr ai me uili-y er's concealed emotion. "If you will thing so mere an accident worth thanks to any body But pray let us say no more." CHAPTER II. There was a great crowd of people at the railway station at Namur, and the Luxembourg train bad no sooner steamed into the station than it was besieged by the mob, and all the carriages were taken by storm. One tourist, who had furnish ed himself with a first class ticket, and hod shouldered himself through the crowd to the buffet, was exceedingly wroth on bis return to find that the carriage he had occupied was filled by third-class excursionists. He spoke French with a fluency, and an inaccuracy In combination with It, which fairly took off bis mental feet the official to whom be appealed, and in a very passion and torrent of his ora tory rippled audibly the accent of Dub lin. He talked all over, arms and hands, finger tips, bead, shoulders, and body. He talked with all bis features and with all his muscles and with all his might, and at last the official seized bis meaning, and proceeded with Inexorable politeness to turn out all the third-class passengers. The triumphant tourist stood by, sudden ly smiling and unruffled. He bad a round, smooth face, with a touch of apple color on bis cheeks, a nose Inclining some what upward, and an expression of self satisfaction so complete that it aroused the Irony of one of the ejvted. "He is well introduced to himself, tbt fellow," said he, but the tourist did not I heir, or did not care if he heard. He I stood ltmnpiilly by, holding the handle of j tlu door, until the carriage was cleared, and was Jut about to ascend when a slow, quiet voice spoke behind. "(Jot tint through, old innn, eh?" The tourist turned auddc.i r. and stretched out a hand to the speaker. "What? Msskelyne, me boy. Deloyt ed. Where are you going?" "I am going to Jaiieiuie by rail." said the o;tier, nivcpting the protiereu iiatui with a hearty shake, once up and once down. -Ironi there 1 go on to a little place called lloufoy. to see some old friends mine I 'Tin going to Janenne nieself," said the Irishman. "Can't we ride together?" , "1 suppose we can." returned his 1 frieud. "Baggage is registered." He was just as calm as the Celt bad a min ute or two Itefore been eager, and bis voice was distinctly American. He was very precisely and neatly attired, his figure was tall and elegant : his face was handsome but melancholy, and curiously pale. The eye were the ImhsI feature black, soft and lustrous, but they looked as if h. had never smiled In bis life. "I say, Fraser," he said, in bis slow, talld voice, when they were both seated, "where did you pick up your Freuch? I never heard anything like It." "I've knocked about Paris a good deal." said Fraser. "1 speak Jorman with the same facility, though It's probably me Scotch extraction thst gives me that." Midwa ybetween Namur and Luxem bourg the two travelers changed trains for Janenne. The engine steamed lazily through a most lovely couutry, and the young American, looking continually out of window, seemed absorbed in contem plation of the landscape. But It could scarcely have bovu the landscai which half a dozen times called a dreamy smile to his soft eyes, and once a Mash to the sallow- (tailor of his cheek. When the train drew up In front of the little red brick station, a building planned like a child's toy house and not much bigger, the blush came .to his chevk again, and his hand trembled slightly as it caressed his black mustache. "Well, it's good-by for a time, old fel low," he said, shaking hands with Fra ser. "But I will see you, again to-morrow or next day, most likely, if you can find time to turn from affairs of state." "Are thoe your friends?" asked Fraser, looking through the window as the train crawled slowly along We platform. "An uncommonly pretty gyurl! The ould boy looks like an army man. He's waving his hand at ye." "Yes," said Maskelyne, with his soft drawl a little exaggerated. "That Is my man. Good day. Fraser. Tell O'ltourke I'm down here and that I'll run over and have a look at him." A minute later he was shaking hands with the young lndy who bad excited Mr. Fraser's admiration. "Welcome to the Ardennes, Mr. Maske lyne," said Angela, with frank good hu mor. "How are all our friends in New York?" "Thank you. Miss Butler," be answre- ea. loosing iuiu u-r grnj r, ..u smile which was all the brighter and the : 1 ' , "" ' " sweeter because of the usual melancholy j c m1 nstrucUon. lighter ma of his countenance: "I cannot undertake terlal can lie used. In th Northern to tell you how all your friends in New States ami Cnnudil the possibility of York may be. but the few scores of whom freezing must lie taken Into considers I have beard in one way or another since 'tlon. The sheltered side of the bnm I came to Europe are very well Jndeed. m afrrd some protection. Major Butler, I Urn charmed to see you j Tll0re should be a substantial mn looking so robust. I bad not hoped to ' ry foun,iaMon for all forms of wood you looking so well. . to brlnK lhe VOodwork every- "Dyspepsia." said the major. ben 1 , I wrote : you I was really ill. I am alltre at least 12 Inches above the right now. But I've been a good deal , The bottom of the alio may be worried, and when I'm worried I get , 3 feet or more below the feeding floor dyspepsia, and dyspepsia means despair. 'of the stable so that 4 to '1 feet of That your baggage? Got the ticket for stone, brick or concrete wall may be it?" I counted on. For a silo 30 feet deep a At this point Fraser came np with 1 fouujation wall of atoue should be 18 perfect sang froid raised his hat to the t(J o fwft th(,k girl and accosted Meie. , h "I say, ould man, tell me what s the! ? . best place to put up at here?" , of the silo, so that It will be solid "Hotel des Postes," said the major, and then cover with two or three Mr. Fraser raised bis bat to the major. Inches of good concrete. This Is ad- "Let me introduce you," said Mask3- vlsable becuuse clay soil will sjkhI tli. lyne. "Major Butler, this is Mr. Fraser, ' silage If permitted to test on It In a member of your British House of Com-lcage the wood imrtlou of the Alio rises mons. "Delighted to meet you !" said the ma jor, but he did not look as if this state ment could be accepted. (To be continued.) origin of the I'nlon Jack. The British union Jack, the king's colors, combine three crose-t!v cross of St, George. t?ie cross of Rt c.oss oi ni, n r,,.lU. Andrew and the cross of St. Patrick I miMitm " " ' -all on a blue field. The union of these three crosses occurred-In an In- j terestlng fashion. Primarily England's. flag displayed a red cross or, " white ' ground. me ime cro o, - 4 ,M(.h(.H unh(( the d,anwtep , . drew made Its appearance side by MeiM!d W) feeti )ut tl)ey 8l)oul(, be S(t a with that of St. George during the ; dose tosetlur ag one foot fr(m ct.nter reign of James I., the Scottish king who to wntr ThI numi,er of studs Is not ascended the throne of Englond. It rf.n,ir(.,i for gtreiiirth. but tbev ore was not until Inter, however, in 1"07, that the two crosws were combined on the one banner and the wnite em- blem 'of St Andrew rnn from comer to corner of the blue field and crossed the red emblem of St. George. Nearly a century later the red diag onal cross of St. Patrick found a place on the same flag. It was after the Irish parliament was united o the British that this change took place. In England It l stipulated that all colors, as flags are termed, shall be band made. At first they were the work of women memlers of regimen tal families, but later the privilege was given to contractors, who number less than naif a dozen, It Is said. If, bow ever, the wives and daughters of onV cers want to make colors for their regiments tbey art permitted to do so, but as a rule these regimental colors are submitted to the garter king at arms for bis approval before they are presented to the regiment for which, they bave boon made. Joablna Her. Mr. A. Going downtown to select ' your spring hat, tb? Well, you,better L.it ,,ntll night. Mrs. A. (In surprise) Nlght.GeorgeT resented In the Illustration, It Is ex Wuyj tremely Important that a good quality Mr. A. Didn't yoa ay It was going be used that will not decay and ! 1 to be a dream! Mi? llntldln a alio. in locating n silo It Is wall In re- n.m.r ti,t ,, Ceding ,Sf the silage , ovt.ry,,My ,,,, .imHig ti, w, winter uu.l spring. Other thing, bo- 1 " - f , . ",',1"1. n nc.rcsf available pla.v the ',!t. If the ground la dry out- 'do tlio bnm tin) silo liMy bo Mini aloiigsUle, providing for doors opening dlrvHIy Into the stable. In case silage la fed to milking cows, directly there Is a (lunger of Its slor tilling the sta ble to the detriment of the milk. Tills enn to some extent bo avoided by keep ing the eowa lit the oprs!te end of the stable nnd by proper ventilation. SIIoh may be built of wixmI. stone, brick or concrete, or partly of one and partly of another of these tiinterlaK Where lumber is chenp nnd stone high, H BOl'.tl) BtlX) ON 8TO.NIC rolWIIATIO II SHOWS METHOD Of SAWINO HO A til) FOB CONICAL BlKr. wooden Kilos are generally built. Where stone or brick cun bo obtained readily these tnnterluls will bnve the preference. Concrete silos are the most durable und all things considered may be the cheapest In the end If cement and gruvel or cobble stones are neur at band. Bound silos give the grentet eti- ,,, .i, nn,i i the 24 or more feet above the stone work, nnd the diameter Is more than 18 feet. It will bo best to stay the top of the wall In some way. If the woodwork rises from the outer edge of the wall, then building the wall up with cemetir so as to cover the kM will give the nIed trl. ecnuse the -woodwork w, ,act " tt r but f , " "'V? stands at the inner race of the wall , . If will l.a Itj.ur To lntr tiltw.na at ' " " " "'V; "." rod In the wall near the top to act as a hoop. Tje j,,,,, of tho fl.WOO(, roun(1 mt be Iarger thun , )ncheg by neetje(1 n or(or to bring tne two layers of lining very close together, so as to I)rP(S tntf pn,)(.r closely. When paper Is used to make the CORRECTION or WOODEN STONE WALL, past wrrn Joints between boards air tight, as rep. waierprooi. 1 Treating; "an J Meat Th" aggressive orcliardlst of Mary land are able to control the Sun Jose Kcnle. but In n number of localities Ibl pest lllTnnlN serious dltlleullle. Wher ever osnge ui'imgo hedges Ihcoiii' In fested the illlllciilly of eradicating tho San Jose scale Is increased. A number of experiments were tried by ttie Maryland Station with differ ent Insecticides In combating lhe s'Ht. Lime nnd sulphur mixtures were used containing from 1M to W pounds of lime nnd from IS to I'.l pounds of sul phur per o( gallons of water. The llme-ttiilphur-Hitlt mixture, tested by tho authors, was made aci-ordlng to tho formula IM-l.YlOfti. IJnio sulpbur raustlo soda preparations were also employed, as well hs a mixture con taining 13 pound of sulphur and I) IKiunds of caustic sot I a per Tm) gallons of water. In most oases the weaker lime sul phur preparations were nlsnit as ef fect I vo as the stronger, but In a few Instances an Incnwtscd effectiveness was noticed where .'1.1 pounds of Ihiw nnd 30 pounds of sulphur were used tier f0 gallons of water. Perfectly sat - isiitcttiry results were omnium iroui the use of lime sulphur salt, nnd lime- sulphur-caustic sda also proved fair ly effective. The sulphur-cnustle-noua mixture was not so satisfactory. Kcro- sent Ilniold did not prove to Ik n good substltnte for lime sulphur. Certain proprietary remedies wore tested and notes were given on the preparation of the various Insecticides which were usd. riahtlna Weeds. If the labor annually bestowed In the n.leuvor to eradicate weeds could be applied at the proper times not only would the nuisance U removed, but the tulsir IcNActicd. In the case of weeds the ftllglitctt amount of lalsir naved In omitting to kill them when It should be done entails greater lalstr nt other times. Nor Is all lalsir on weed lost. During the eradication or de-1 Mructloil of weeds the regular crop may be cultivated and the land put In better condition. One of tho greatest 1 mistakes Is In not destroying the wecdi when they first appear. It will repilrj less. Iatsr to destroy a hundred wimhU when they are young than to kill a single plniit after It has made ounsld- ersble growth, to say nothing of tho fact that every weed that reaches ma-, turlty nnd produces weds leaves great er work to be done afterwani. Al though farmers uro busiest In spring, j yet by properly preparing the land for the Intended crop they gain time. For a year or two the farmer may find tt dltlicult work combating weeds, but the time so devoted will 1 regained ! fourfold In after years. Weeds can lest be destroyed when rotation U j ocd. and the ground should I plowed for com early enough In the spring to nllow of the sprouting of weed west. This sprouting of the wid sels Is the lHNtJ Britain took possession of all Bur most Important port of the proivss, and ' ah, annexing It to India, the fanner should le willing to Ier- ! 1S11 Great damage caused by flood at form any amount of labor If he can' fprout them at a time when they will uot Interfere with a growing crop. Kprrtne with Manure Spreader. My exiMTlcucu with the manure spreader teaches me that tho modem method of applying uinuure to laud Is far In advancw of the old practice, sjiys a writer In Farm and Fireside. In a; plylng manure with the spreader It Is put ou uniformly, and all parts of the field are equally benefited. When tho manure was dumped In plies, It fre quently bupM-ued that tho work of Hpreadlng was jMstionvd for some time, aud the result was that much of the fertilizing vulue of the manure leached out or was lost through fer mentation. The manure spreader not only saves the plant food elements of tbt manure, but also saves time and labor, as the work Is all done nt one time. It does two very Important . a i.... ...iii .imr. im.R .. "'...7:: oughly fines the manure aud distrib utes It evenly, Managing lire. It Is always best to start with a full colony of bees, and one that Is In every respect In first-class condition. It ! true thut one can buy a part of a colony for less money, but It Is the dearest In the long run, and more li able to be a failure. A strong colony of bees In one seuxon Is capublo of stor ing 100 or 200 pounds of honey ; be sides, they may swarm and make from one to two colonies, lkt-s should al wuys bo In a condition to take care of themselves, and do not require such dlfllcult manipulation as that of a nu- cleus, or pounds, of bees, and a queen, phrase: "They want the new South, but etc., as full and strong colonies are the old darkey." Ho snld ho bnd the now sent In the ordinary hives used experience of being told that no north In the apiary, and are equipped with 'rner can understand tho negro as well the neceHsory fixtures to have every- i"0"0 wuo ,luVe llvc' '"h them all thing In working order the moment the t"'lr ,lv0"' an, U',,n of fin''ln- ","' , . , . .. .,., , these men rarely knew anyth ng about bees are located ana tne entrance open. beUef p,M- of negroes, those who " were In business or lu Independent occu- The Doll Woevll. ' patlons, and who owned their own The eo-oierat!on with tho Bureau of i10m q. the other hand, the best Entomology of the Crop Pest Cora- negroes did not know the higher class of mission of Louisiana a number of cul- the white poople In the South, and based turul experiments were carried out In their suspicion and hatred upon the acts different sections of tho cotton belt, of the "poor white trash." To this he during which It appeared that Triumph attributes the dungor of the present slt- cotton Is the best variety for use In XMtloa- 'm sections Infested with the boll weevil. An additional religious order Is now Northern-grown seed, In order to re- represented In the Milwaukee arehdlo- taln Its early maturing qualities, must cese. The Hev. Conrad Ebert, O. 8. It, be renewed from IU Northern sources Benedictine fathor from St. Vlncenfa at least every other year. The results wh abbey Beatty, Pa., having been ap- obtained from these experiment, con- JV firm previous work along this Hue, and . the author therefore recommends tbor-1 An effort Is to be made to erect a col- ough preparation of the soil, early lege building as a memorial to Bishop planting, the use of early varieties of McCabe on the grounds of the American cotton, abundant fertilizers, thorough university, Washington, 1). C, of which cultivation of the crop, and the de university he was chancellor at the time tructlon of cotton plant la tha fall. ot b, detth THEY7EEKIY 12(11 Fngllsh barons victorious at Lwes. 1401 Yorkists victorious at Hexham 1 (War of tint ltue). Iftm Ioills XII. defeated tlin Venetians Mt the battle of llivolln. l.VJ.V-Anabnptliia defeated at Frsnken- hnusen. 4 ltllO Assassination ef Henry IV. of France and accession of Iiouis XIII. HVI2 -Montreal founded by Mulson- neueve. 17HaH(. Jdm. N. B.. founded by I'. II loyalists. 17lU--I.ord Cnrnwallls routed the army of TipNo Saili. 171KV Alliance of Paris. 1"!U 'rt vaccination by Dr. Jeimer. imu-IwlM .ml t'lnrke started un th Missouri river on their trip of ex ploration. 1S4V1 Napoleon Biiiiaimrte proclaimed Einjieror of the French. lNi British took pHM-loa of the Island of Aiiliolt. LSI 1 Battle of Albuera, between French and British. 1S.'M Caroline Murat. sister of Na- poleou I. and ex ytie-u of Naples, dii-d. IRIO-Jnhn M. Nile of Connecticut be came Postmaster General of the C lilted Stntea. 1KII Fall of rok from Cape pinmutid, (JuaixK, killing '.'" people. l.KIH Insurrection In Vienna. ICmiM-ror lied to Innsbruck. 1 Win -First railway train left Toronto. 1H.V, -tjiiern Victoria distributed inednle to the wounded heroes of the Crimea. IStSrt Itrpublican i-oiiventioii at Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln nnd Hannibal Hamlin ISdl Adellna Psttl iiiftde her first ap pearance In London. 1S72 Prre Msruuettn and inrty started from Mlchllimai-kinnc to trace tie course of tlie Mississippi. 1KS.V Ixuls Biel, b-a-ler of the relielllon In Northwest Caimds. surrendered. Sioux City, Iowa. IK'.l.V Count Kalnoky. premier of Aus- tria-Hungary, resigned. 1R7 Turkey agreed to an armlatlca with Greece, ' 1SK8 Battleship Alabama launched at Chester. Pa. 1.8y. Edward Everett Hale resigned pastorate of South Congregational church, Boston, after forty-lhrea years of service. llHjO Gen. Buller occupied Dundee, South Africa. 1002 Coronatlou of King Alfonso XIII. at Mudrid. Mat of Korea! Heatraetlon. According to a bulletin issued by the forest service of the Agricultural De partment, every person in this country Is using over six times as much wood as the Individual consumption In Europe, ; and the country as a whole consumes ' over three times what the forests of the x'ni Ht", row dl,rln 1,10 y,,Br- 'nM ! consequence of this policy Is an Inevlt- 'able timber famine. It is pointed out that the Increased population since 1K.HO Is barely more than half the Increase in lumlsT cut, so that the Increase of for est destruction cannot be explained en tirely on the theory of increased popu lation. The Northeastern States hava passed their maximum production, nnd the Southern States are near their max imum, while the State of Washington now ranks first In the. volume of tlmlier cut. At present one-fifth of the total for est area Is owued by the government. The average age of trees felled for lum ber this year is not less than l.V) years. The Neirro and the New Mouth. Hay Stannard Baker, In the second of his series of articles for the American i Magazine, dealing with the negro prob i Icin. condenses his observations Into this