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C rop -B o un il for The Term of His Natural Life B y M A R C U S L H A P T E R X X V .—(Continued.) jell North End House!” cried pour |>Vade. In bewilderment. "W hv, the ngs by Grinling Gibbon« are the in the world.” .11 can't help that." laughed Mr. fh rd . “ I want cash, and cash I must , * * [” I f f|ken what do you propose doing. C L A R K B She interrupted him. “ Maurice. I wiah you would not uae such language. You know I dislike it.” She spoke coldly and sadly, as one who knows that remonstrance is vain, and Is yet con strained to remonstrate. “ Oh, dear! My Lady Proper! How refined we are getting!” “ There, I did not mean to annoy you.” said she. wearily. “ Don’t let us quarrel, Jo bjjy my mother's life interest as for goodness’ sake.” realize upon the property, sud The insubordination of which Rufus Da wes had been guilty was insignificant. Jjl,” said M r. Richard. Bon amaze me. Richard. You con- It was the custom of the newly fledged ;!d me. O f course you can do as you constables of Captain Frere to enter the j!ie. But so sudden a determination, wards at night, armed with cutlasses, it old house— scattered— vases— coins tramping about, and making a great [jbturea— I— really— W ell, it is your noise. The men In Dawes’ gang were .erty, of course— and— and— and I often searched more than once in a night, searched going to work, searched [ « you a very good morning!” f knock at the door made Richard at meals, searched going to prayers, K “ Come in! What's that? I.rt searched coming out, and thia iu the f'? Give them to me. H e began to roughest manner. his correspondence before his »er Now, Kufus Dawes, holding aloof, as was his custom, from the majority of his Yhen did this come?” asked Mr. companions, had made oue friend— if so ard, holding out a letter more than mindless and battered an old wreck could be called a friend— Blind Mooney. lly disfigured with stampings. One of the many ways in which Kufus JLars night, sir. It's bin to 'Amstead, as, | and suu come down directed with the Dawes had obtained the affection of the B iers.” The angry glare of the black old blind man was the gift of such frag m induced him hli to add, “ I 'ope there's ments of tobacco as he had himself from time to time secured. Troke knew this; im ing wrong, sir?” [|Nothing, you yo idiot!” burst out Mr. and on the evening in question hit upon Admitting himself Ihard, white with rage, “ except that an excellent plan. iuld have had this instantly. Can’t noiselessly into the boat shed, where the see it's marked urgent? Can you gang alept, he crept close to the sleeping ? Can you spell? There, that will Dawes, and counterfeiting Mooney's mumbling utterance, asked for “ some to No lies. Get out!” Kufua Dawes was but half ft to himself again, Mr. Richard bacco.” Iked hurriedly up and down the awake, and Troke felt something put mber, wiped his forehead and Anally into his hand. He grasped Dawes' arm, a down and re-read the letter. It and struck a light. He had got his man this time. Dawes had conveyed to his s short, but terribly to the purpose: fancied friend a piece of tobacco almost “ The George Hotel, Plymouth. M y Dear Jack— I have found you as big as the top joiut of his little fin you see. Never mind Just how at ger. One can understand the feelings of a lent. I know all about your proceed- and unless Mr. Richard Devine man entrapped by such base means. 1 yfeives his w ife with due propriety, Kufus Dawes no sooner saw the hated th E rll find himself in the custody of the face of Warder Troke peering over his Irellce. Telegraph, dear, to Mrs. Rich- hammock than he sprang out, and, ex Devine at above address. Yours as erting to the utmost his powerful mus cles, knocked Mr. Troke fairly off his r, Jack, S A R A H .” Phe blow was unexpected and severe, legs into the arms of the incoming con was hard, in the very high tide and stables. A desperate struggle took place, ¿ah of assured success, to be thus at the end of which the convict, over eked back Into the old bondage. De- powered by numbers, was borne sense Bite the affectionate tone of the letter, less to the cells, gagged and chained '•¿j knew the woman with whom he had to the ring bolt on the bare flags. While i, deal. For some furious minutes he In this condition he was savagely beaten t motionless, gazing at the letter. He by five or six constables. T o this maim >■ ar^J d not «peak— men seldom do under ed and manacled rebel was the com l llfr iflic h circumstances— but his thoughts mandant ushered by Troke the next *■ '¿sn In this fashion: “ Here is this wom- morning. “ H a! ha! my man,” said the com ' Jlp again! Just as I was congratulat- :a (J ig myself on my freedom. H ow did mandant. “ Here you are again, you see. ft is discover me? Small use asking that. H ow do you like thia sort of thing?” Dawes, glaring, makes no answer. Chat shall I do? I can do nothing. It “ You shall have fifty lashas, my man,” de-'.l i absurd to run away, for I shall be ?.aught. Besides, I've no money. My said Frere. “ W e’ll see how you’ll feel fl'cco u n t Is overdrawn two thousand then!” The fifty were duly administered, and fasJ*ounds. I f I bolt at all. I must bolt jfjJj'At once— within twenty-four hours. Rich the commandant called the next day. " if Is I am, I don't suppose I could raise The rebel was still mute. Frere gave m *|2.fiore than five thousand pounds In that him fifty more lashes, and sent him the thij(.im e. These things take a day or two, next day to grind cayenne pepper. This . i . a y forty-eight hours. In forty-eight was a punishment more dreaded by the lc G lo u r e I could raise twenty thousand convicts than any other. The pungent On*®’»ounds, but forty-eight hours is too dust filled their eyes and lungs, causing „ -*song. It ’s a bad job. However, she’s them the most excruciating torments. P lo t Inclined to be gratuitously disagree For a man with a raw back the work ing'jhble. H ow lucky I never married again! was one continued agony. Iu four days Dawes, emaciated, blistered, „ l f j bad better make terms and trust to Kufus fortune. A fte r nil. she's been a good blinded, broke down. “ Captalu Frere, kill me at once!” he ttlftbgfrlend to me. Poor Sally!— I might fjy v J ia v e rotted on Eaglehawk Neck, if it said. h a dn 't been for her. She is not a bad “ N q fear,” said the other, rejoiced at "IQ n o rt. Handsome woman, toq, I may this proof of his power. “ You’ve given B a . J nake It up with her. I shall hare lo in; that’ s all I wanted. Troke, take him ” T vf.ae » e l l off in d go away, after all. It might to the hospital.” ant ¿be worse. I dare say the property's The next day Frere visited him. com three hundred pounds. O n il W ires n u ll,II nil thousand m i,unn mi |,„i,i,u plimented him on his courage, and offer TO W worth J i 'Not bad for a start in America. And I ed to make him a constable. Dawes must turned his scarred back to his torturer, t may get rid of her yet. Yes. I mu A telegraph form and resolutely declined to answer. prt l >glve In. Smithers! S a f j . and a cab! Stay. Pack me a dressing “ I am afraid you have made an enemy * ' r bag; . ___ t I .1 ahall . & 11 have to go away for a day of the commandant,” said North the next I evf l or so. I ’d better see her myself.” day. “ Why not accept his offer?” Dawes cast on him a glance of quiet [«iffl -------- scorn. “ And betray my mates? I ’m | >j| C H A P T E R X X V I. * ill Time rolled on, and some years after not one of that sort.” kw I the escape of Rex, the office of com- North pityingly implored the stubborn n inandant at Norfolk Island became va- mind to have mercy on the lacerated J 3 , cant. It was offered to Maurice Frere, body, hut without effect. His own way who, much against the wishes of his ward heart gave him the key to read __w ife, accepted it. On hi« arrival he the cipher of this man’s life. “ A noble found Mr. North occupying the position nature ruined,” said he to himself. o f chaplain there, having been trans “ What is the secret of his history?” ferred from Port Arthur some time pre One day this bond was drawn so close vloualy. H e found also Itufua Dawes, as to tug at both their heart strings. who had been sent there by the authori The chaplain had a flower in his coat. ties as a last resource. Dawes eyed it with hungry looks, and. Though the house of the commandant as the clergyman was about to quit the was comfortable and well furnished, and room, said, “ Mr. North, will you give though, of necessity, all that was most me that rosebud?” North paused irres hideous In the "discipline” of the place olutely. and. finally, as if after a strug was hidden, the loathing with which Syl gle with himself, took it carefully from via had approaheed the last and most hla button hole and placed It in the pris sit, dreaded abiding place of the elaborate oner’« brown, acarred hand. In another [ convict system, under which it had been instant, Dawea believing himself alone, pressed the gift to his lips. North turn her misfortune to live, had not decrees G #l ed. The sights and sounds of pain and ed abruptly, and the eyes of the pair punishment surrounded her. She could met. Dawes flushed crimson, but North Neither spoke, not look out of her windows without a turned white as death but each was drawn closer to the other, shudder. ” 1 wish, Maurice, we h jfl never come since both had kisaed the rosebud pluek- here,” «he «aid, piteously "These un ed by Sylvia's fingers. Sine« the “ tobacco trick." Mooney and happy men will do you some frightful Dawes had been placed In the new Injury one of these day«." “ S t u ffr said her husband. "They've prlaon, together with a man named not the courage. I'd take the best man Bland, who had already twice failed to among them, and dare him to touch me kill himself. When old Mooney la Jenkins, I say!” The convict servant mented his hard case. Bland proposed entered. "W h ere is the charge book? that the three should put in practice a I'v e told you always to have it ready scheme in which two at least must suc for roe. W h y don't yon do as you are ceed. The scheme was a desperate one. told? G ive me the book.” Taking It and attempted only in the last extrem and running hla finger clown the leave's, ity. It was the custom of the “ ring,” he commented on the list of offenses to however, to swear each of its memtiers which he would be called upon in the to carry out to the best of his ability this last Invention of the convict disci morning to mete out Judgment. "M iles Byrne, not walking fast plined mind, should two other members enough— W e must enliven Mr. Byrne. crave hia assistance. The scheme waa simplicity Itself. That Thomas Twist, haxing a pipe and strik Ing a light. W. Barnea, not In place at evening, when the cell door waa secure muster; aaya he was ‘ washing h im self— ly locked, and the ahaence of a visiting I'll wash him! John Richards, missing jailer might he counted upon for an muster and Insolence. John Gateby, in hoar at leaat. Bland produced a straw, solence and Insubordination. James and held it out to hia companion«. Hopkins. Insolence. Rufus Dawes, gross Dawea took it. and tearing it into un Insolence, refusing to work. Ah ! we equal length«, handed tha fragments to must look after you. You are a parson's Mooney. "T h e longest i* the one." aaid tha man. are you? I ’ll break your spirit “ Come on, boys, and dip my man, or I'll— Sylvia! Your friend blind man. Dawes la doing credit to hia bringing in tha lucky bag.” It was evident that lots were to he ■P.’’ drawn to determina to whom fortune “ W hat do you mean?” “ T h at villain and reprobate. Da was.” would grant freedom. The mao draw la E I silence, and then Bland and Dawes looked at each other. The prize had been left in the bag. Mooney— fortu nate old fellow— retained the longest straw. Bland's hand shook as he com pared notes with his companions. Thera was a moment's pause, during which the blank eye-balls of the blind man fiercely searched the gloom, as if in that awful moment they could penetrate it. “ I hold the shortest,” said Dawes to Bland. “ 'T is you that must do it.” “ I ’m glad of that,” said Moouey. Bland, seemingly terrified at the dan ger which fate had decreed that he should run, tore the fatal lot into frag ments, and sat gnawing his knuckles in excess o f abject terror. Mooney stretched himself out upon his plank bed. “ Come on, mate,” he said. Bland extended a shaking hand, and caught Rufus Dawes by the sleeve. “ You have more nerve than I. You do it.” “ No, no,” said Dawes, almost as pale as his companion. “ I'v e ruu my chance fairly. 'Tw as your own proposal.” The coward who, confident in his owq luck, would seem to have fallen into the pit he had dug for others, sat rocking himself to and fro, holding his head in his hands. “ I can’t do it!” he whispered, lifting a white, wet face. "W h a t are you waiting for?" said for tunate Mooney. “ Come on; I'm ready.” " I — I — thought you might like to— to — pray a hit,” said Bland. The notion seemed to sober the senses o f the old man, exalted too fiercely by his good fortune. “ A y !” he said. "P r a y ! A good thought!” And he knelt down, and, shutting his blind eyes— 'twas as though he was dazzled by some strong light— unseen by his comrades, moved his lips silently. < It was quite dark now in the cell; but as Bland advanced his face was like a white mask floating upon the darkness. Dawes pressed his lucky comrade's hand, and withdrew to the furthest corner. When Troke came in the morning, he saw what had occurred at a glance, and hastened to remove the corpse of the strangled Mooney. “ W e drew lots,” said Rufus Dawes, pointing to Bland, who crouched in the corner furthest fro.m his victim, “ aud it fell upon him to do it- I'm the wit ness.” •Th ey’ ll hang you all for that,” said Troke. " I hope so,” said Rufus Dawes. The scheme of escape hit upon by the convict intellect was simply this; Three men being together, lots were drawn to determine who should be murdered, The drawer of the longest straw was the “ lucky” man. H e was killed. The drawer of the next longest straw was the murderer. H e was hanged. The unlucky one was the witness. He had, of course, an excellent chance of being hanged also, but his doom was not so certain, aud he therefore looked upon himself as unfortunate. I T . , lie oi»ntlnn*<1 » No T rou b le. The traveler stopped at the cabin and asked fo r a drink o f water. W h ile the old negro woman wus getting It he looked round the little cabin. The walls were covered with lithographs and pic tures from magazines. The most con spicuous objects were two large framed portraits, one o f Mr. Bryan, th i other o f President Roosevelt. The traveler smiled broadly. “ See here, aunty,” said he, when she had returned, "th is Is funny— a Demo crat on one side und a Republican on the other.” ‘W ell, sah. It's this w ay," she an sw ered “ My man's a Democrat. lie Jes' cahn't see nothing but what ain't Republican, sah. He's kind ob crazy about Democrats, snh—specially Mistah Bryan, sub." “ Then I suppose the other picture la yours?” "Y as, sah,” she said, smiling proud ly. "T h a t Is mine, sah.” "A n d don't you have any rows over these pictures?” “ Well, no, salt, 'cept round about 'lection time. Then Jim, e f he gets worked up. glnerally pulls down Mr. Roosevelt, sah, and stomps on him, aud busts him up, sah.” "Then I suppose there is trouble?" " M y ! No, sah. No trouble. There ain't any use oh having trouble. I waits till de nex' molmlng, an' I takes down Mr. Bryan and carries him into town and pawns him, and takes de money, sah, and buys n new Mr. Roose velt and gives Jim the pawn ticket, sah. " M y ! No, I wouldn't linve no trou ble, sah.” lle lf.In K Him. “ I wish," said the bashful suitor, desperately, “ I wish— that Is, I would like— I'd give a good deal to know—to find out whether— wnether you could care for me." "W e ll," said the weary maiden. with thinly veiled sarcasm. “ O f fr<e. there's only one person to go to r. » «le h Information -you must go to New York and consult a good clairvoyant."-— Cleveland I-eader. Su in d e n t He* «on. Hoogley— Yes. I'm mighty glad I ain't got no children. Pepprey— It's Just ns well. Hoogley— Sure It Is. l ’epprey— Yes. for In these days of free education they wouldn't be able to I esoal>o some knowledge o f grammar, I and they'd be forever correcting you.— ' Philadelphia Press. F o w ls. Every farm er Is fam iliar with what is called “ crop-bound” In fowls. 1 he ! crop becomes packed with food that j has ceased to pass into the gizzard | o f the bird. I f the contents of the crop consist o f grain ouly. the fow l should be kept from food for some days. In addition, the crop should he manipulated with the hands. This w ill tend to loosen the grain aud start Its '« S passage Into the gizzard. Sometimes the condition Is caused by feeding cut hay, dried a lfa lfa or clover, which have packed at the point where T h e F a rm la b o r Q u e s t !«»- the food should pass out o f the crop. Much is being «aid Just now about la One [Mjultry raiser in cases o f tills kind bor on the farm. The farmers complain pours sweet oil down the tliront o f the that labor is both scarce and inefficient, bird, and this loosens up the mass. In while the farm hands grumble about bad cases he opens the crop by cut poor pay aud long hours. As to the ting and removes the collected food, matter o f wages, I believe the hired afterward sewing up the crop. He says man is rig h t; while the farmer is often that this does appear to cause the bird correct as to the poor quality of the much pain. A fte r this is done the bird help to be had. The reasou for this is should tie fed only milk or other light not far to seek. Other occupations have food for some days. offered greater inducements to the man without capital, and the best men have F o r W e l K h l n a I.a m b s . left the farm and gone to them. There Mr. John Spears, o f British Colum Is, It must be confessed little Induce bia, sends to the Montreal Star a sketch ment for a strong, willing, euergtlc o f a contrivance for weighing live young man to work on a farm at $1- lambs. Farmers who have lambs to sell or $15 per mouth and board. He can are In need of some such method of usually do better elsewhere, and else ascertaining their w eight It consists where he goes. This is true of all grades of service; and not until the farm can offer the man of muscle and the man of brain as much for their services as they can get elsewhere can the farm hold them. Higher wages for farm hands are, to my mind, inevita ble ; and this means that many farmers will have to learn how to better handle their men. What Is needed is not cheap labor, and lots of It, but good labor and skillful management for I t While this Is true o f the labor problem as a whole, It Is equally true that the main ques tion Is that o f individuality. A farmer who treats his hired man as he would wish to be treated If he were the wage earner can usually get men, and the laborer who looks after his employer’s Interests as his own can always find employment. You can no more leave out the individuality In considering the "servant question.” What Is In great est demand Is mutual confidence and a mutual desire to do the best that can o f an ordinary w h ea f sack, having two be done. A difference in wages o f a suitable sticks attached to top and dollar or two a month Is a small thing bottom. A stout piece o f rope is at to the difference between a good man tached to the ends of each o f these and a poor one, or between a good sticks. The whole forms a sling. By place and a bad one.— E. E. Miller, In this method the lambs do not wriggle Agricultural Epltomist. and they can’t get out when once In, and It Is very quick, humane and e f P la n k - F r a m e B a rn . The evolution of the plank-frame fective. barn Is the natural result of the scar city o f timber for building. A con R e v i v i n g ; O ld F r a i l T r e e s . siderable saving in lumber und ease of A Maryland fruit grower has after building is effected in the plank several years of experimenting discov frame. Less time and fewer men are ered a way to revive old fru it trees required in the erection, and there is and keep them In bearing condition little or nothing sacrificed In strength long after their supposed stage o f use since the excellent method of bracing fulness has passed. As the cause of enables them to stand the pressure of decay In a tree Is its inability to carry hay and grain within or strong winds the sap to all of its branches, heading without. A solid frame foundation the tree lessens the area to be travers ed, the amount o f top to be removed, varying according to the farmer's judg ment. Bone-dust and ashes must then be administered as a fertilizer, the me ter in the autumn and the other in the spring. This treatment w ill revive old trees, the cutting off the branches, tend ing to increase the number of fruit buds formed, and the ashes and bone- dust tending to stimulate the tree E growth. it The F arm G a rd en . No farmer can afford to do without a good garden. It is not to be expected P L A N K -F R A M E BARN. that every one will be a fancy gar may be used or the entire structure dener, but every one should give suffi may be of plank. A good, firmly built cient attention to the subject so as to stone and cement foundation is advis produce all staple vegetables earlier able. W ith this to rest the plank upon than can be produced In the field. It the frame is raised. is not only essential to the health and No sills are used and the upright proper enjoyment o f the family, hut studs take the place o f posts. Tw o for it is actually a matter of profit Could each post are set on the foundation on your whole farm be made as smooth, each side. Between these the eross- dry, rich and as well cultivated as a plank is placed and spiked so that It good garden, the Increased product w ill extend the width o f the barn and would pay a large per cent o f profit tie the two sides together. The scant upon the outlay'. In the garden, or in lings on each side o f the barn floor, a separate compartment, may be culti forming center posts, are then raised vated strawberries, raspberries, black and spiked In place. Upon the outside berries, currants, grapes and d w arf o f each upright is spiked a plank of pears. They can all be lmd at a very the same size as and parallel with the small cost of money or labor, and will first cross plank. This gives three 2x8 add Immensely to the enjoyment of inches for cross sills through the cen the household. ter o f the barn, each Joint or bard be ing fixed In this way. End Joints, using T a rr e d P a p e r In ju r e . T re e s . In a newly set orchard the trees boards instead o f plank on outside, give the bedwork o f the barn. A t the sides, were wrapped with tarred building pa between uprights in place o f sill, a per as a protection ngainst the rabbits. plank is firmly spiked; this bolds the The paper was not removed early in uprights firmly in place and prevents the spring, and as the hot weather working sideways while the thorough came on the tar melted and adhered to ly spiked cross planks prevent all move the bark and destroyed the live bark ment In other directions. Throughout and cambium layer wherever It came In contact. As a result, many of the trees were entirely killed. However, a good grade o f coal tar is very efficient In preventing decay of exposed wood In recently trimmed trees. /j C o lla r and S a d d le G a lls . Galls on horses are due to several causes, but frequently to saddles and harness that press unevenly on the . body. The collar should fit the horse perfectly, and It cannot be too good. A loose girth to a saddle may allow it*to shift. When a gall is noticed there Is something wrong with the saddle or harness, and no remedy will be avail able until the cause o f the gall is re (BOSS-SECTION SH O W IN G BRACING, moved. An examination o f the harness there should be no sparing o f spike should be made whenever the horse is nalla, at these are an essential feature brought up from work at night, and it should be kept in good condition or the to ««cure aolldlty. horse w ill suffer. T w o q n m llitn i. " I 'v e got something Important to do,” said the practical young man. “ and I Just don't know bow to go about I t I ’d like you to help me." “ Yes?” replied Miss Pechls. "W h at Is It you pnqsise to do?" 'T h a t ’s not the question. It's ‘what W o rm y P in n a. Is It you do to p r o p o s e ? 'P h i l a d e l The plums that have been stung by Bean P o le «. phia Press. the curcullo, and tha wormy fruit of As soon at the lima beans start np Cats can swim if they only care to the early rummer, should he picked off. the pole, be sure to tie them up with exert themselves sufficiently. The an- I t Isn't much trouble, and It doesn't cost raffia. I f you are trying to use iM t j cient Egyptians used to fish with them any more to do It now than later. The year's white birch pole», you are going i on the Nile, serordlng to the repre fru it that brings high prices will grow to hare them rot off and fall down and sentations on walla, and so forth, that much larger I f these parasites are re cauee no end o f trouble. There la noth moved. , have come down to ua. ing better than cedar bean do lea. THE WEEKLY III! ■lithtl 1312— P iers Gaveston, favorite of Ed ward II., executed. 1381 — W a t T y le r entered seized the Tow er. London and 1429— T alb ot defeated by Joan of Arc at battle o f P atay, France. 1487— B a ttle o f Stoke; last great battle on English soil. 1033— Coronation o f Charles I. in So«, land. 1045— F in al defeat o f Charles the Firat, at Naseby, by Cromwell. 1662— S ir H enry Vane, once Governor o f Massachusetts, beheaded in Tower o f London. 1771— L a fa y e tte arrived in America. 1775— T itle of "T w e lv e C olon ies" adopted. 1776— Confederate Canada evacuated by Americans. 1777— N ation al flag, thirteen stars and stripes, adopted by American Con gress. 1794— B a ttle o f Ghent. 1797— Mission o f San Jose, Cal., found ed. 1802— -United Indians. States treaty with Creek 1S12— T h e United States declared war against G reat Britain. 1815— B a ttle o f Waterloo. 1819— Assent o f Massachusetts to the separation o f Maine. 1830— Eruption o f M t. Aetna. 1836— Arkansas admitted to the Union. 1838— Ship Pulaski lost on North Caro lina c o a st; 100 lives last. 1846— T rea ty o f Washington for settle ment o f the Oregon boundary. 1850— T hird great fire in San Francisco. 1854— M errim ac launched town navy yard. at Charles 1850— Republican national convention at Philadelphia nominated Fremont and Dayton. 1858— Steamboat Pennsylvania burned on the M ississip pi; 100 lives lost. 1802— Slavery prohibited in the terri tories by act o f Congress. 1863— W est V irgin ia admitted as a Stats into the Union. 1804— Alabam a sunk by the Kearsarjo off C h erbou rg.. . .Grant repulsed it battle o f Petersburg, Va.......Confed erates captured Winchester, Va.... H unter repulsed by Confederates it Lynchburg, Va. 1866— Prussia Austria. declared war against 1867— F u gitiv e slave law repealed in the H o u s e .. . . Execution of Emperor M axim ilian at Queretaro. 1871— Trium phal entry of victorious Germans into Berlin. 1872— Expulsion o f Jesuits by German Reichstag. 1874— Compromise currency bill defeat«) in the United States Senate. 1877— N ez Perces Indian war brake out in Idaho. 1886— C ity o f Vancouver, B. C., near!? destroyed by f ir e . . . .King Ludwig of B a va ria committed suicide. 1S87— Earthquake shock at Sumtnervilla S. C. 1891— John Most, anarchist, sentenced to one year's imprisonment in V * York. 1894— Attem pted assassination of | m ier Crispi of It a ly . . . . Prenderpst, assassin o f M ayor Carter llarrisou, | hanged in Chicago. 1895— B ritish government announced * I protectorate for Uganda, Central At- J rica. 1897— H aw aiian annexation treaty sif1' I e d . .. . B o m b exploded near carriqt | o f President Faure of France. 1898— President M cKinley signed « ' I revenue b i l l . . . .Behring sea ***■"* I paid. 1904— Gen. Bokrikoff, .governor o f Finland. H U M Slocum disaster in East river, * Y o r k ; 1,000 lives lost. I J 1905— Prem ier Delyannis of Greece » » j sassi Dated. Ite v fn n e o f N ational Fore*«* In a bulletin issued by the ft*** ^ | vice it is asserted that the govenm« I the largest lumber dealer in the « * ’ J and that it apples to its mans.-af^J the national forest reserves the sank I of instructions which it rt-oomw private lumbermen, thus illustrsu fact that profit may go hand >n “ *• j J scientific forestry. It appear* * .a ing 1905 the total salej from cur ^ reserves were $273,659. Th\ ,‘ £ , J fuel in South Dakota stand first ing second and Utah third. ‘ j mated that the cost of adtnmis- , forest reserve Is less thsn ®B*' 1 per cent of Its value^_______ , Hnaae at Stmpll«c<l Propaganda of the simphW hoard it now issued ' r0,n headquarters at No. 1 New York City. In “ A F «^ ■ » plea la made for the removal» , cap«, go that English may ^ , world’s language. It „ ¥ common words spelled la *j , ^.1 ways, and the board aeeka to ^ Intelligent readers will *«<P ^ I form. Those interested —«1 notify the board of «A n use the simpler form*, n0'1 ' — * receive its publications a*