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P r is o n e r s and C a p tiv e s By H. S. MERRIMAN C H A P T E R X I X .— (Continued.) The effect o f the discovery that they distinctly formed a group apart was bare ly visible to the keenest glance. Helen’s alow, gentle eyes were turned toward the center of the house, bent vaguely on the brightly dressed occupants of the stalls. “ I suppose,” said Helen, closing her fan, “ that all this is rather trivial for yon. The interest you take in it must be super ficial now that you are so busy.” “ Oh, n o !” T y e ie hastened he begin ; he was looking past her in that strangely persistent tray into the theater, and some thing be ssw there made him turn his bead quickly toward the stage. “ H a lloo!" be exclaimed. Then he caught her wrist in his grasp. “ Keep •till," he whispered. The painted curtain was bellying right forward like the mainsail o f a bath, and from the apace at either aide a sudden volume o f smoke poured forth in huge, uneven clouds. In a second the whole audience was on its feet, and for a moment a sickening si lence reigned— the breathless alienee of supreme fear. Then a single form appeared on the stage. It was that of the man referred to by Olaud Tyara a moment before; he who played the villain’s part so unconsciously. H e was still in his dark wig and pallid make-up. On his arm he carried the coat he bad just taken off, and the other arm. clad in white shirt sleeve, wss raised in a gesture of command. “ I mast ask you,” be cried, in a full, dear voice, “ to leave your seats as----- ” And his tonss were drowned, completely overwhelmed by a strange, unearthly roar; the roar o f a thousand human voices raised in one surging wail of despair, like the din o f aurf upon a shingle ahore. The man shouted, and hia gestures were almost ludicrous, even at that supreme moment, for no sound could be heard from his lips. Then the gas was turned out, and in the darkness a terrible struggle began. Some who came out of it could liken it to noth ing on earth. Women shrieked and men forgot themselves. As the gas flickered and Anally col lapsed those in the stage box caught a momentary vision of wild, distorted faces coming toward them. The pH had over flowed the stalls. Strong barriers crum bled like matchwood. Into a hundred minds at once there had flashed the hope • f escape through the stage boxes. “ O ra ct! Easton !" It was T yar’s voice raised, and yet not shouting. The crisis had coma, the danger was at hand, and Helen knew who it was that would take the lead. She heard the two men an- her face and hair and a whispered voice in her e e r : “ Agnes Winter— is this yon?" She recognised the peculiar American twang which was never unpleasant. A t that moment, She almost laughed. "T ee— yea," she answered. “ Then crawl to your feet. Don’t try to get up; crawl over this man. I don’t know who ha la, but I surmise he la deed.” ’ She obeyed, and found her way out of the narrow door and up soma steps. Close behind her followed some one, whom she took to be Matthew Mark Easton, but it ultimately turned out to be Oswin Grace, who was in his turn followed by the American, but not until later. Helen Grace heard the word “ Come,“ and submitted obediently to the support ing arm, which half dragged, half carried ‘ her up some steps. She remembered be ing carried like a child through some dark some place where the atmosphere was cold and damp. Then she was conscious o f a halt, followed closely by the sound of breaking wood and the tearing o f some material— probably canvas, for they were among the scenery. A fter that she prob ably fainted, and was only brought to conaciousneaa. by the shock o f a violent fall in which her companion was under most. Then she heard a Voice calling o u t: “ This way, a ir; this way.” She recollected seeing a fireman stand ing in a narrow passage waving a lan tern. By the time that she reached the open air she waa quite conscious. “ Let me walk," she said, “ I am all right. Where is Agnes?” ‘T h ey are behind,” answered Tyara. “ She is all right. She has two men to look after her. You have only me." “ W alt for them,” said the girl. T will not go home without them.“ **A-li righ t; wc th tll w tit outsidi» L it. us get out first." They were standing in a small room, probably the office of the theater, and a policeman stationed near the window, of which the framework had been broken away, called to them impatiently. The window was shout four feet from the ground, and Helen wondered momen tarily why Claud Tyara accomplished tbs drop so clumsily. In tbs narrow street he turned to a police Inspector and pointed to the window. “ L ift tke lady down,” he said. A cab was near at hand, and in it they waited— seated side by side in silence— for what seemed hours. The crowd dropped away, asking some more interesting spot. A t last there waa a movement at thq'-irln- dow, and Tyara got out o f the cab and went away, leaving Helen in an agony o f mute suspense. In a few moments it “ Keep the people back. I w ill break waa over and the girl breathed freely. open the door on the stage. It is our I t sesmsd strangely unreal and dream like to hear Agnes W inter’s voice again; The girl felt herself lifted from the to see her standing on the pavement be and carristf to the back o f the neath the yellow gas lamp, drawing to gether the gay little opera doak round “ H elen !" whispered Tyara. her shoulders. Aa Mias W inter stepped into the cpb “ A m you all right?” she leaned forward and kissed Helen. - jo o ." That was a il; no word waa said. Bat “ I thought you had fainted, you were the two women set hand in hand daring m q u iet! Hold on to my co a t! Never the drive home. leave go o f th a t!" Tyara and Oswin. spake together a few I k turned away from her, and above words in a lowered tone quite overwhelm tho'dH» and uproar cams the sound at ed by ths rattle o f, the cab, and then sat’ Ms'blows upon the woodwork o f the door. silently. The light of occasional lamps I t seemed impossible that such strokes flashed la through the unwashed window, dealt by an unarmed ku- and ¿ o w ed that the men’s clothes were covered wjth dirt and dust, which neither ■ P f tween the Mows came the sickening attempted to brush off. ’ so n p d of the struggle at the front of the When the cab stopped la Brook atreot, bok.; Imprecations and onpplicatftns, min Oswin got out first, a n d . going up the gled'with groans and the dull thud of mer- steps opened the front door noiselessly cilkhs flats upon human faces. Shoulder with a* latch key. Tyara paid the cab to'vphoulder the two men— the American man, and followed the ladies into the and the Englishman— fought for the lives house. of,the women placed by the hand of God The gas In the hall and dining room umlnr their protection. It was a terrible had been lowered, and they all stood for tank) though few women reached the front o f jjtht box. Each man struck down, each 'a moment In the gloom round the daintily asaaiflhnt "beaten back was doomed, anJ dressed table. When Oswin Grace turned tbs’ defenders knew it. Onee dowif, once np the gas they looked at each other curi under foot, and it was a matter of mo ously. Miss W inter kept her opera-cloak menta. Fresh assailants cams crowding on, closed, simply stating that her dress was treading on the fallen and consequently torn. Her hair wna becomingly untidy, obtaining an ever-increasing advantage as but she showed no sign o f scratch or hurt. Helen was hardly ruffled beyond a few they rose on a level with the defender*. Neither aeemed to queation the wisdom little stray curia, almost golden In color, She of Tyara’ command. It was a matter of stealing down beside her ears. her Immunity from life or. death. Those already in the stage doubtless owed box would only be crushed by the onrush harm, and in all human probability the of the others were they allowed to enter. safety of her life to the enormous bodily With a dased desperation the two moo strength of Claud Tyara. It was she who faced the frightful odds, hammering wild spoke first. “ Your arm !” she said, pointing to ly with both flats. Their arms ached from sheer hard work and they panted T yar’s right sleeve. “ Have you hurt It?” lie looked down at the limb, which was hoarsely. Their eyeballs throbbed with the effort to pierce unfathomable dark- hanging in a peculiar way very close to nem. It was quite certain that their de his body, with a vague and questioning smile, as If it were not his property. fense could not last long. "Yes,” he said, “ It is broken. “ Stick to I t !” yelled Tyara. He might Miss W inter and Oswin went to his have been on the deck of the Martial during a white aquall, so great was the side at once. Helen alone remained stand uproar all around him. A t last there ing at the table. She said no word, but continued looking at him with very bright was the sound of breaking wood. eyes, her lips slightly parted, breathing “ Grace !” shouted the voice of Tyara. deeply. “ Yea.” He avoided meeting her glance In the “ Look after Mias W inter when we __ »» same awkward, embarrassed way which go. she had not noticed before: answering the “ Easton!" be cried again. questions put to him with a reassuring “ Yea, old man 1” “ Gome last, and keep them back If you smile. “ It happened,” he said, “ during the can.” Then a minute later he shouted, first rush. W e fell down somewhere “ Com e!” At the same Instant the roaring crowd through some scenery, and my arm same of madmen poured In over the front of underneath." "You pot It underneath,” corrected the box, like soldiers storming a bastion. The door which Tyars had succeeded in Helen, almost coldly, "to— save me, I opening was so narrow as to admit of suppose.” “ Instinct,” he exclaimed, tersely. the passage of only one person at a time, “ Shall I fetch a doctor, or will you but at this instant (he larger door leading Into a narrow passage, the veal exit from come with me?” asked the practical the stage box, broke down before a pres Oswin, gently forcing his friend into a sure from without, and from this point chair. “ W e are surrounded by them in also a stream of half-demented beings Brook street.” tried to force an entrance. “ I will go with you,” answered Tyara. The only advantage possessed by the Refusing all offers of hospitality mads original occupants of ths box was that by Oswin and bis slater, Cloud Tyars they know the position of the email went off with his friend to the doctor’s; leaving the ladies comfortably Installed The subsequent recollection of euch in In arm chain by the fire. They protested that they could not dividuals aa survived were so fragmentary sud vagus that so eonnectad story of the possibly sleep, and that, aa It was only terrible tragedy in the stags bou of the twelve o'clock, they would await Oswln’s Epic Theater was ever given to the pub return. lic. And the two ladies left there eat, each Mina W inter renumbered finding herself In her deep a m chair, toasting bar neatly np in a strong pair o f armo, whMi shod toes sn the fender, and said never 1 to bo thorn o f Oswte Oraos, a word. They both stand Into the Are at f t a marked perolotenoe -that one have anapsatid them o f fear- to tng to moot each other'« glance ly ju a t become aware o f a black marl oq the soft mauve material of her dress. With her gloved hand she attempted to brush it off, and aa this had no effect ah« began rubbing it with a tiny handker chief. Then she raised her eyes. Miss Winter was watching her with a curious smile— a smile much more suggestive of pain than o f pleasure. Their eyes met, and for some moments both seemed on the verge of saying some thing which was never bald. Then sud denly Helen leaned forward and covered her face with her two hands. Helen recovered herself as suddenly as she had given way, and, rising from her chair, stood with her shoulder turned toward her friend, her two hands upon the mantel-piece, looking down into the fire. H er attitude, moral and physical, was reflective, " I wonder,” she said, “ if every on« got out e f tke theater?” “ Mr. Easton phomised ho ccsne and bell us,” answered Miss Winter. Helen raised her head and looked crit ically at her own reflection in the old faehioned mirror over the fireplace. The trace of tears had almost vanished from her young eye«— it is only older counte nances that bear the marks for long. Before she moved again the sound of cab hr heels made Itself audible In the street, and the vehicle was heard to atop at the door. Miss Winter rose and went to let In the newcomer. It jras Matthew Mark Earton. H e fol lowed Mias W inter ;lnto the dining room, walking lightly— an unnecessary precau tion, for his step was like that o f a child. “ I do not know,” he was saying, “ the etiquette observed in England on these points, but I could not resist coming along to see if you hsd arrived safely. No one hurt, I trust?” continued he. “ Yes,” answered thé girl, gently ; “ Mr. Tyara la hurt— his arm is broken.” Easton’s mobile lips dosed together with a snap, betraying Hie fact that be had allowed himself the luxury of an ex pletive in bis reprehensible American way. Ha turned aside, and walked back ward and forward for a few minutes, like a man made restless by the receipt of very bad news. It was a matter of a second only. Lika S serpent’s fang the man’s keen ayes flashed toward her and away apaln. The pacullarly nervous face instantly assumed an expression as near stolidity as could be expressed by features each and all laden with an exceptional intelligence. Then be turned away, and took up a broken fan lying on the table, opening it tenderly and critically. Bat Miss W inter was as quick aa he. She knew then that be had guessed. Whatever he might have suspected before, she had no doubt now that Matthew Mark Easton knew that Hele p L Claud Tyara. “ The worst o f it,” be broke out, with sudden airiness, “ is that there was no fire at all. It was extinguished, on the stage. The performance might have been continued.” “ It only makes It more horrible,” aaid Mise W inter; “ for I suppose there— wore some killed.” “ That la «©,“ he answered. “ They took forty-two corpses out o f oqr box alone.” “ I did not know,” said Helen, after a palnfnl panse, “ that it was so bad as that.” Oswin Grace came in, opening the frgnti door with hie latch-key. He was greeted with an interrogatory “ W ell?” from Miss Winter. “ H e la all right,” he answered. “ It was a simple fracture. Old Barker set ft very nicely, and I sent him off to his dub in a cab.” “ Then,” said Easton, holding oat hie hand to eay good-by, “ I shall go and help him into bed— tuck him In, and sing soft lullaby over his pillow. Good night. Miss Winter. Good night. Miss Grace.” ( T o be continued.) , T h e H a lb e rd . Th e distinctive weapon o f-th e gwlst was the halberd, which was their prin cipal weapon at Morgarten and Lau- pen. It la curious to note bow the Teu tonic nations, even to this day. prefer the cut and the Latin nations the point W e have been told by German officer* that when the German "and French cavalry met In the w ar o f 1870 the Ger man sword blades alw ays flushed ver tically, over their heads, w hile the French darted In and out horizontally tn a succession o f thrusts. Even the German dead lay In whole ranks with their swords at arm’s length. 8o the English at Hastings worked havoc with their battleaxes. The Ntherhind mercenaries carried a hewing wen pah at Bouvlnes. Th e Flemings at Cour- trnl used their godendags fitted alike both fo r cut and thrust, and finally the Swiss made play w ith their halberds, an Improvement on the godendag. Th e «halberds had a point fo r thrust ing, s hook wherewith to pull men from the saddle and above all a broad, heavy blade, "most terrific weapons” (valde te rrlb llla ). to use the words o f John of W interthur, “ cleaving men asunder like a wedge and cutting them Into small pieces.” One can imagine how such a blade at the end o f an eight- foot shaft must have surprised gs I lop ing young gntlemen who thought them selves Invulnerable In their armor.— Macmillan’s Magazine. . A s I t I s I s Chleanro. Jack Beacon— Yes, in Boston we have all cultured love making. When a young man goes wooing In the Hub be must embrace all foreign phrases and poetical quotations. You don’t see anything like that In prosaic Chicago. Dick I>akeslde— I should say not H ere a follow Is satisfied to embrace the g i r l . __ _____________________ •e at H e C s s U Do. “ You know,” sold the young man In the case, “ that I am poor, bat don’t yon think w e m ight be able to live on bread and cheese and klaaea?T “ Yea," replied the fa ir maid, bat— “ Then,” ho Interrupted, “ see if too can work your father fo r the bread and chaste and I ’ll attend to the re s t” M ove Im p o rta n t. “ H ere’s an article In this paper en titled ‘H ow to T a ll Good M ilk.’ ” “ I ’d moch sooner read an article on ’H ow to T a ll a Good Milkman.' Cleveland Plain Dealer. THE WEEKLY I ■ B R IA N T h e S h a tte re d V a s e o f H o p e. nice, the candles w ith the rose shades did not look half so pretty, the fancy costumes did not seem so wonderful, and the numerous games that had been devised for their amusement were not nearly so entertaining. Th e little people began to separate Into groups, which is fatal to the success o f any affair. I t was a welcome re lie f when the door opened apd Johnnie came in, still bugging his cat. Dorothy’s mother waa with him. “ I knew you’d all be glad to see me," he said, as the children gathered round him, “ ao I Just came up myaelf. And, Dorothy, I thought you’d feel pretty ann wenn we wennt passt raddye we kood bad when yon knew you forgot me. I sea brought you my Jerry. H s’a the beat him sitten there in turble mlisery cat there la !’’ Dorothy’s mother looked at her little daughter, but Dorothy understood. H er eyes filled with tears when she realised her mistake and saw that Johnnie’s little bpart knew nothing about .pride nor difference in ages. She put her arms about him.. “ O f course I ’m glad yon cams,” aha said, “ and your cat Is beautiful! I t ’s present enough fo r /on to Just bring him to the party. I couldn’t keep him always, you love him so. And, Johnnie. I think you are old enough to play with us— so we’II never leave you out a ga in !” A fter this the party waa the merrleat they ever knew.— Youth’a Companion. Wuns wean wee re goea flohen redd y brown was awl prepaired too go ann he kaim down too hennry beam us bowse ann wennt to gett sum wurms fora bate ann hennry aedd he bett the flah wood bite today ann wlla he wennt to gett a sinkur raddys muther aennt fora him to kum ann mind the baby aoae It woodunt get the coMck wile ahee gome to vixset with the naburs ana ao redd wennt aloly hoam us if his hart waa ledd. “ s it t e r m n ir -ru s a » m iz z e b t .” ann hennry sedd it onley goae to oho u kannt tel wott an owr brings foarth uno. ann bennry sedd a wood not rackugnloe him sitten tbare with big teera in his eyes us the maim lad boo dug the wurms fora bats ^ ann neavur noo the turble eavul fate witch wood cawl him hoam sose he doent share sood the wurms he is so bixsy diggen thara. ann me ann hennry wafebt him with a si ann saw Mm waiv a sorrofle goodbi at um us tbo thay shut the prissen dora ann he is abtat np thara foresrurmoar. ann hennry sedd it teecbes urn to ba lite harted wile we kan fora mismry may kum to urn sumtime the mim us redd ann we may be her vicktums, ann Inetedd uv goen Sahen we may hafftoo stay ann sea owr komruds go thara joyyna way. s—Philadelphia Ledger. The V aM U sa G am *. F o r a long time Johnnie had waited fo r an Invitation to D orothy'« party. T w o whole weeks bad gone by since the little pink, sweet-scented envelopes had been proudly displayed by the fo r tunate little boye and girls In Johnnie’s class. "G oing?” they all asked Johnnie. Got. one?” “ No,” be had answered bravely, each time. “ I. guees I ’ll get mine to-morrow." Th e to morrows came, but the Uttla pink envelope did not. Still he was pa tient and hopeful until the day o f the party. When he aaw his playmates running by, w ith happy, eager faces, he could bear It no longer. H is mother could not com fort him. * W hy had not Dorothy remembered him? H e had seen her every day at school. Perhaps she had thought him too yo u n g; he waa so little. W ith w ist ful eyes Johnnie looked at the big bouse on the hill. A fte r a long time his tears were dry. and then he Jumped up and ran to bis mother. ‘Mamma," he cried, " I ’m goin g! I ’m goin g!” he repeated, not understanding the look In his mother’s face. “ I ’ ve Just thought when they get there and don’t find me It won’t seem right, fo r I al ways play w ith them, and Dorotby’ U feel badly when she finds she has fo r gotten me. "Course,” he continued, “ I haven’t time to go and buy a present, so I guess I ’ ll take Jerry. Anyway, a cat’s ’bout the only thing Dorothy hasn’t g o t I — I'll miss J erry "— bis lip trembled— but I ’ve got to carry something— and I go by Dorothy’s every day, and when I w hittle he w ill come running out to see me. Please get me ready, m am m a!” A great struggle was going on In bis mother’s heart, but Johnnie did not know. H ow could she talk about Intentional slights when no knowledge o f such a thing had ever entered his honest little head? He was only five and— o f course there must be some reason fo r It— be should go to that party and carry hi* cat, too, and she would trust to Doro thy’s good nature to understand. She would surely reward Johnnie's faith In her. “ Yes, dear," «he said aloud, " I t ’s all right. You shall go,” and she made his hasty toilet w hile Jerry rubbed his bead aginst Johnnie’s hands. “ You’ ll be good, won’t yon, Jerry?” Johnnie asked. , ‘ M la o !” responded Jerry. “ Good-by!” Johnnla called, and he trudged off, bolding bit cat tightly In bio arms. M eanwhile Dorothy waa taking her first taste o f tbo responsibilities o f a bootees. H er guests did miss little Johnnie, and Ignored tbo la w « o f etU, qoette to each an extant a s to aek why ba had not boon Invited. H er explana tion that bo waa a mare child waa not satisfactory. 1644— Batle o f Marston. 1685— Archibald Campbell, Ear! o f As* gyle, beheaded at Edinburgh. 1720— The “ Mississippi bubble” buret. 1745— Capture of Cape Breton by tho • English. 1776— Battle of Fort Moultrie, Charles ton, 9- C. ...B a ttle of Long Island. 1777— Dr. William Todd executed at T y burn. 1778— Battle of Monmouth..... Turkish fleet defeated and destroyed. 1797— Richard Parker, head of the naval mutiny at the Nore, hanged. 1800— Act passed for legislative union of* . Great Britain and Ireland. 1815— U. 8. brig Peacock captured Brit ish cruiser Nautilus in Straits of Sunda. 1817— Piua V II . condemned Bible socie J u n io r O o a a a d ra o a a . ties by bull. Which la the best tree for preserving 1831— United States treaty with Black good order? The birch. Hawk, chief of Sacs and Foxea., W hy Is s person who nevsr lays s 1832— Cholera appeared in New York. wager as bad as a regular gambler? 1837— Act of British Parliament to dis Because ho is no hotter. continue use of pillory for punish When ia a man like a horse? When ment. he holds a bit In bis teeth. 1838— Coronation of Queen Victoria. When are men like time? When 1840— Blockade of Canton by the English. taken by the forelock. ‘ When are men’s pockets like a com 1844— Joseph Smith, founder of Moftnon- ism, killed by mob at Carthage, III. pany o f soldiers? When rifled. 1846— Repeal o f English corn laws. # When Is s piece o f linen like ths en 1848— Archbishop of Paris shot while trance to a prison? When barred. acting as mediator; When are country lasses like bridges? 1857— Ship Montreal lost near Quebec; When rustic. 250 persons perished. T h e R e m a in d e r . Teacher to Class— I f W illie should be 1861— Battle of Falling Waters, Va. sent to the store fo r a dosen eggs and. 1862— Lee defeated McClellan at battle of Gaines’ M ill.'V a. w hile returning hoipe w ith them, fell and broke tw elve eggs, what would bo 1863— Gen. Meade succeeded Gen. Hooker in command of Army of the Potomac. the remainder? Johnnie (aged 7 y e a r s )— Please, 1864— Confederates victorious at battle of Keneaaw mountain, G a ....P r e s i teacher, I know. dent Lincoln signed repeal of fugi Teacher— W ell, Johnnie, you may tell tive slave la w ... .Invasion of Den the class. mark by the Prussians. Johnnie— The shells, teacher. 1873— First reception o f foreign minis ters by Emperor of China at Pekin. X -ftA Y 6 U R Q K R Y flA V ffl DOG 1874— Henry Ward Beecher requested Plymouth church to appoint a com R a t t e n P o u n d l a th e Btam aoh a f a mlttee to investigate the TUten V a ln a h ia R la n h a im S- ——« - « A ll o f T o t’s anxious Philadelphia friends w ill bo rejoiced to learn that she underwent a very difficult opera tion in this city yesterday, and bqr chances for recovery are good, says tnS New York Herald. It should be stated, perhaps, that T o t is a thoroughbred* Blenheim spaniel, r.ud moves In the very best circles o f Philadelphia's how wow four hundred. She Is the leader o f her set, the pos sessor o f several blue ribbons and s general favorite. But T o t has been a great tufferer and her case Is likely to become s cele brated one In canine surgery. It Is now nearly a year ago that she began to complain. A t first she was treated for Indigestion by several o f Philadelphia’s test physicians. Brisk walks and plen ty o f exercise w ere prescribed, but that treatment did her little good. Then she was taken to Hot Springs, Ark., and received a regular course o f sulphur water baths, with a special at tendant to administer massage. She grew steadily worse and at last devel oped convulsions. These attacks would Inst from one to three minutes and came at frequent In tervals T w o nurses were with her constantly, and when her condition became more alarming It was decided to take her to a New York spe cialist. She arrived liere three weeks ago and waa hurriedly taken to the office o f Dr. D. S. Johnson and a consulta tion wag held. W ith the greatest care her case was studied fo r three weeks and finally the X-ray was applied. No doubt It was tbe searching eye o f the X-ray and the memory o f one o f the nurse.) that saved T o t’s life. Yes terday morning when the patient’s con dition seemed more critical than ever the phyalclan called one o f the nnrsea to the bedside and questioned her close ly aa to T o t’s early life. Th e nurse re- „membered that once, when T o t waa very small, she swallowed a large, round, black bone button. “ Ah,” said the phyalclan. "T h ere’« lig h t " Ten minutes later T o t was In the operating room and a nurse was holding the chloroform mask to her lit tle nose. When It was all over the "large, round, black bone button” was lying on the marble table beside tho surgeon’^, knife. It was found In the Intestines. Th e X-ray discovered it. T o t w ill live. 1875— Great flood at Bods peat. 1876— Democratic conventlcm nominated Samuel J. TUden for President. 1879— Great'tornado in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. 1881— Assassination o f President Gar field. 1882— Charles Gulteau hanged at Wash ington for murder of President Gar field. 1885— James D. Fish, bank defaulter, sentenced to prison fdr ten years in New York. 1861— Pike’s Peak, Colo., reached by first railroad passenger train. . . . Nineteen victims of the Samoan disaster buried at Mara Island. 1893— Gov. Altgeld of Illinois pardoned the Chicago anarchists... .Peary's vessel Falcon sailed from New York for the Arctic regions. 1804— The Tower Bridge, London, fo r mally opened by Prince of Wales. 1897— Coal miners in Ohio, Penaylvania and Weat Virginia went on strike. 1898— No newspapers published in Chi cago owing to strike of printers. 1900— Great Hoboken dock fire. 1902— Roosevelt signed Isthmian canal bill. 1904— Prohibitionists nominated Dr. 81- laa C. Swallow for President. . . . Steamer Norge lost off Scottish coast and 046 persons perished. 1905— Mutiny broke out on board Rus sian battleship Knias Potemkine at O d e s s a ..J o h n D. Rockefeller gnvs 31 , 000,000 to permanent endowment fund of Yale U niversity... .W arsaw besieged by revolutionists; 200 per sons arrested. C o b a lt t o r Storaore B a tte r y . Thomas A. Edison, in an Asheville, N. C „ interview, said he had found in that section cobalt that would reduce tho weight of storage batteries in automobiles one-half and the cost of city traffic more than half. He says the vein of cohalt runs from a point east of Nashville, Tenn., in North Carolina, and traverses four counties. He thinks It means a rev olution in the electrical world. Most o f the cobalt hitherto known to the world has been found In France and Australia. Cobalt is a hard, white metal, with gran ular structure, which is malleable, at rad heat and capable of receiving weak mag netic power when rubbed with a magnet. It Is nowhere found native, except in some meteorites, but usually exists aa an oxide, and the ores are'known to have been in uae in the sixteenth centyry for Imparting a blue color to glass. H ie Id e n t it y - “ Does any one know this poor fe l low?” asked the good Samaritan, ad dressing the crowd which had qnlckly gathered at the aceno o f the accident “ H is mind seems to have become an absolute blank, and------” “ Trust official 1 Trust official I” shout ed tho assemblage In on# v o ic e “ Out o f hia bead, and thinks bo’s on the wit- stand !” — W atson’s Magaslne. R e lir io n s ffa v tl P r o h ib it ««. ” 11 Santo, or the Saint,” la the tltlo of a mucb-dlacnased novel by Senator Fo- gassoro of Italy, which has Just been added to the list of prohibited books— “ Index Llbormn Prohibí toruno’ — by the Vatican authorities. Th t author is a devout Catholic, but atenía for liberal re forma. The theme of tbe hook Is the fata o f a devout sad étalons Carbolic, modeled after Bt. Francis o f Ass Iasi, who under Your Independence might look Ilka takes reform within the church and •*- After that nothing seemed quite ao Impudence In your neighbor. ooaatara tbe opposition of tho hiera rah s.