T m ln u t
IRON
By MAX PEMBERTON
R eek to r D t k o r s ls e .
The Illustration ahowt a rack to be
used either fo r dehorning cattle or
ringing bogs. F or sills use three pieces
4 feet long and 4 Inches by 4 Inches
mortised for bottom o f posts 8 Inches
each side o f center to allow tbe sides
and bottom boards to drop Into place.
Four posts 4 Inches by 4 Inches and ft
feet 4 Inches long and two posts. 4
Inches by 4 Inches, and ft feet 8 Inches
long are tenoned to tbe sills. Three
cap
pieces 2 Inches by 4 Inches and 4
c
a p ________
feet 2 inches long are mortised at the
ends to receive tope o f poets. T b e cape
are o f oak. One oek piece In fr o n t'o f
tbe cap, which holds the stanchion, la
2 inches bj>2 inches, and 4 feet 2 Inches
long. Tbe lower oak piece in front o f
tho stanchion la 2 Inches by 4 tushes
end 2 feet long. Tbe lumber Is 2 Inches
thick and 7 feet long fo r sides. One
board 2 Inches by 17 Inches end 7 feet
C H A P T E R X V I I.— (Continued.)
Ilia anger was fierce, terrible as a tor towards the hills. Black called after them:
nado. Hia teeth gnashed, his hands shook,
“ Bring to, you carrion, or I'll wl|
be rolled in his chair like a great wounded out, every one of you! Any man
beast; but when he saw that I was an save hia throat, let him come here
moved, he fell quiet again, and said in a
At these words they turned beck to a ■wing, he shall awing,
low, coaxing voice:
man, and came cowering to the water’s aboard.”
“ Don’s compel me, lad, to do what I edge. Thirty of their fellows lay dead
I might aa well have pnt a pistol to my
have meant not to do. You’re here for or wounded on tbe stones.
head aa to have refused. They bundled
good or 1IL These men are nothing to
“ Where’s your leader?” asked Black, me into tbe launch; but they would not
y o u ; they’re laay hogs that the world’s and they pointed to the American, who leave me when they came alongside, and
well rid of— let ’em die, and save your lay with the blood pouring from a wound “ Roaring John” himself drove me up the
own carcass. You’ve been here days now In hia left thigh.
ladder. Seven o f ua at last stood on the
— the first man that ever lived among ua
“ H e’s there. Is he?" screamed the Infu bridge, and were face to face with'the
without signing our papers. You’ ve a riated man. “ Well, I ’ll cure him like a captain of the Bellonlc, and four o f hia
straight notion that my hand’s agen Eu ham. Get torches, some of you, and ice officers.
rope. sod. for the matter o f that, ages •Tim ta."
The deck was a very babel o f sounds,
•he world, too; those that share with me
All helped him hi hia ghastly work, and o f groans, of weeping. The ship’s surgqon
sihall swing with me. It isn’t of my ask brought shovels and picks, which they car himself seemed paralysed before tbe eight
ing that you’re amongst ua, or that you ried to the highei plane of snow.
of the carnage around him. But above
took up the work of Hall, who put the
“ W e’ve got to die, both of ns,“ said the all this terror, I know of nothing which
first nail in his coffin that night he came American at last; “ you ea me. Black, en struck me with such fearful sorrow aa the
to m.v bed at Spesia. I saw him there, there isn’ t much ea we kin look for. Go eight of a fair young English girl lying
though he thought me sleeping; and that on. lay me right here as I lay 'n ow ; bnt by the door of the great saloon, her arms
night I wrote death against his name, as I ’ll rise agen yqn, and the day’ll come extended, her nut-brown hair soaked in
I wrote it against yours when you entered when you’d give every dollar ye'rs worth her own blood, while a man knelt over
my room in Paris. There’s reasons why to dig me np, en give me life agen.”
her, and you could see hia tears falling
I ’ ve broken my word in your case, though
I touched Black on the arm and was upon her dead face, and hia ravings were
you’ll never know ’em ; but there’s no about to plead with him ; but at the eight incoherent and almost those o f a maniac.
reason why you shouldn’t swear to go of me he raised his fiat, and I moved Meanwhile another scene was passing on
through it with me. There’s my papers. away. He stood foaming and muttering, the bridge between tbe man John end
8ign ’em now, or you lie a corpse before his hands clenched. Tbe haste o f the tbe captain of the Bellonlc.
an hour on die dock.”
men was not half haste enongb for him :
“ What do you want aboard of my
He leaned over his writing table and and when they began to dig be hurried ship?” cried tbe latter: and “ Roering
put into my hands a rough sheet of parch them the more, until a great pile of snow John” answered him with e mocking
ment. But my eyas were dimmed with had been thrown out.
lto ffiffi s
iv v * •
•
the restless excitement of the situation.
I watched them roll the man over Into
“ W e’ve come aboard to hang you, to
Th e silence of the room was terrible te the trench and shovel the snow quickly begin o n !”
bear; it was aa though I straggled for upon him. He watched them, silent In
Tbe men with the young officer rocked
life while already in the tomb.
My his terror; but when bis head only was their revolvers at this, and I said in a
. thoughts w att hurriedly ta Europe, to my uncovered be gave- a shriek o f agony, mad frenxy which would not brook al
bogie, to my friends. I took heart for a which rose like the great cry o f a man ienee :
step which was the last mad desiga of a going before his God, end ceased not to
“ You scoundrel. If you touch another
driven uuum
echo from height to height until long min soul here I ’ll shoot you myself;” for I long la used fo r tbe bottom.
For
“ Give me the pea; ! ” I said suddenly.
utes had passed.
Black gave a great had my revolver on me. “ Do you make stanchions la front use one board 2
He put the pen into my hands, and start, and shivering aa a man struck a business of killing children?” I cried
Inches by 10 Inches, ft feet 0 Inches
leaned back with a chuckle of satisfac down with a deadly chill, he passed from again, and pointed to the dead body of
long;
one board 2 Inches by 10 Inches,
tion ; but the movement coat him the the grave to the beach.
the girl-child. 1 don’t know who waa ft feet 2 Inches long. For back gate
*
_________
game. I clutched hia pistol with a light
more surprised, the captain o f tbe Bel-
nan two pieces 2 Inches by 12 Inches, 4
C H APTER X V IIL
ning grasp, and covered hhn with it.
Ionic, listening, or the man John.
It was on the next afternoon, near to
“ I f you raise a finger I ’ll shoot you like
“ You cub,” he cried; “ If you talk to feet 4 inches long, cat sloping to fit the
. a dog.” I cried. — ;-------------- 1
--------- - tbe setting o f the son, that Doctor Oabart me I ’ll skin you a live!” bnt I said quick- frame. It Is pat on with binge«. The
Then tbe man, who was no’craven, sat came to my room with great news for me. ly :
stanchions In fron t are bolted at the
motiooleaa in hia ehair, sad his face might
“ This business with tbs men has com
“ Gentlemen, these men want every bottom between a 2 inches by 4" Inch
pletely upset our plans,” said he. “ Black ■hilling on this ship. Give it them now
have been cat from marble.
piece, and tbe sill, tearing a space np
“ I f yon raise your voice to call oat, or hoped to winter here; and to let the hub and save your lives, for yon have no al
I f anyone comes to this room, you die bub in Europe quite subside before he ternative. I f you give the money up, you and down In front ft Inches wide. Tw o
put to sea again. Now he can’t do that have my word that they won’t touch you.” and a half feet from tbe bottom o f tbe
where you sit,” I said.
stanchion slope, cut a place fo r the
“ Boy, you’re the first that’s bested There’s only one thing that will keep the
“ Aa there’s a heaven above,” exclaimed
Black,” be said. “ I ’m caught like a rat bands quiet, and that’s excitement. He the young captain, “ they shall pay for animal’s neck. Th e 2 Inches by 2 Inch
In the hole. What do ye want? Name has determined to sail to-nlgbt; bnt be thia day’s work with their Uvea. I hand oak piece Is bolted to the side o f tbe
fore we talk of that, we must hava the my specie over under this protest; bnt cap with blocks to allow the top o f
it, and I ’ll know how we stand!”
“ I want my life— now that I refuse to conditions.”
don’ t deceive yourselves— half tbe war the stanchions to open and dose and
sign that paper. Yon can give tbe order
“ What have you to ask?” aaid L
ships in Europe shall follow you within a work with a lever. Tbe lever, which
“ Simply this,” he answered.
“ Yon week.”
that no man’s to lay a finger on me, and
* ear be made o f wagon tire, la ft feet 8
shall give your word, as a man o f honor,
yon w ill?"
He turned away, and presently tbe ruf Inches long. A %-lnch bole Is punched
He thought a moment, looking straigt that you will make no attempt to leave fians with me had lowered money to tha
In the top o f the lever, a second bole
down the barrel of the Colt. Then he the ship without permission.”
value of a hundred and fifty thousand
1 3 1 4 Inches from top hole, and the
“ I accept”
• a id :
pounds into their launch. When at last
“ Yea, I can’t avoid tbat— I ’ll give yon
Then slowly the great engines began we pnt off again, and the launch was full third hole 11 Inches from second bole.
their work, and we swept out to the open of the jewels and tbe money, it seemed Tbe upper hole Is fo r attachment o f two
that.”
“ And my liberty on the first occasion
W e dined that night in the saloon that I had passed through a hideous lion straps, one on each side, which
upon the deck, a commodious place light dream.
offering."
an fastened to the left hand stanchion.
“ No.” he replied very slowly and stern ed by electricity, and in every way luxuri-
On tbe second day after the robbery From tbe lower bole two pieces o f iron
ftualy fitted. Tbe walla of It were paneled o f the Bellonic, we stopped a second and
l y : “ they’d tear me to pieces.”
14 Inches long go to the right band
There was' no doubt that he bad right in white and gold, and were covered with then a third ship; though I saw nothing
stanchion.
When the stanchions are
In this. I put the pistol down; then I enrions designs, old heroes fighting, old of it, as all the fighting waa on the star
offered him my hand, and he jumped np gods drawn by Hons at their chariots; board aide, and my cabin waa to port; closed bore one or two half-inch holes
from hia seat, grasping it with a great Jason seeking the fleece In a golden bnt there was a sharp fight on the third In post back o f lever, in which to nee
barque; Orestes fleeing the Furies. Tbe morning with a Cape-bound vessel, and So Iron pin to hold the stanchions In
«hitch.
long seats were covered in leather of a again towards the afternoon with one of place.— Montreal Star.
“ You’re a sound plank of a boy.”
T h e sound of firing, rapid and oft re deep crimson, and there was a small the North German Llloyd boats home
W a t e r a a d S a lt f a r C o w s .
peated, came to us from the shore o f the piano. Tbe dinner itself was admirably ward bound to Bremerhaven ;
Oabart,
Eight gallons o f w ater a day la the
core below. He went to his window and served, and was partaken of by the deaf coming to my rooms, delighted to give me
■ saw the whole bay lit with silver light and dumb engineer, by tbe doctor, the the details of these captures.
average quantity required fo r a cow.
from a full-risen moon, and the distant Scotsman and myself. Black talked with
(T o be continued.)
and the milk given is abont 87 per cent
peaka as grim beacons above a land of out reserve before me, knowing well that
water. In some pastures there Is no
I
could
do
him
no
injury.
He
relied
vest. Oat on the snow there was a hun
water, tbe cows being supplied night
gry crowd of starring souls, crying for mostly on the doctor for advice, and dis
Th e obese citizen who was beaded to and morning, which forces such cow to
bread: and those to whom they cried an cussed everything with him In the best of ward tbe depot alk blocks aw ay paused
drink four gallons at a tim e In order
swered them with their muskets, dyeing the tempers.
“ My plan la this," be said ; “ we’re short to look at bis w atfb.
to be supplied. A s tbe cow does not
glittering white with many a red stream.
“ H ave I time to catch tbe next train know that she must drink four gallons,
“ For heaven’ s sake, help those men. If of oil, and Karl here is beginning to get
yon have anything bnt the instincts of a uneasy. I shall knock over a couple of fo r St. Louis?” he asked, addressing a she may use leas, and she w ill reduce
whalers in these seas and fill tbe tanks. policeman on the corner.
brute t a y s o ! " I cried.
her milk supply accordingly.
There was a pause before he answered Then, as they’ra looking for os In mid-
“ Yon hare the time,” replied the offi
Extensive tests and Investigations
toe. T h e « he snatched a rifle from a Atlantic, we’ll get south of Madeira, and cer, “ bnt yon don’t seem to have the have been made by tbe experiment sta
run
against
two
or
three
of
the
big
ones
case and aaid:
speed.”
tions to determine tbe advisability o f
“ Take that pistol and come on. There’s making for Rio or Buenos Ayres. We
adding salt to the ration o f dairy
shall pick np a good bit o f money; and
Jejrtol A g e .
blood to 1st."
cows.
Aa a result o f these trials. It Is
I followed him down the passage to the it’ll bs a month before they get on our
“ Yes,” admitted the maid, “ I have
beach, whets he blew a whistle sharp course that way, for I mean to let ’em Just celebrated the twenty-eighth anni recommended tbat dairy rows be given
down light when it’ s not a case o f saving
at least one ounce o f salt per day. E x
and shrill.
versary o f my sojourn on earth.”
“ That’ll wake ’em oa the ship,” he ex our own skin.”
ceptionally heavy milkers w ill require
“
I
congratulate
yon,”
rejoined
the
W s passed the Danish settlement of
plained. “ I ’m not afeard of these, bnt
old bachelor. “ A t tbat age a g irl ceases more than th is Th e uniform results
there's fighting to be done— now don’t Godthaab early on tbe next morning,
though so far ont at sea that I could to w orry abont her inability to acquire obtained with all cows employed in
show till you’ re wanted.”
husband and begins to have a good these trials Indicate that aalt In addi
He advanced towards tbe enow plain make nothing of it ; while we lost the
tion to that obtained in their food Is
coast
of
Greenland
altogether
before
the
time.”
and sang o a t :
absolutely essential to the continued
“ John, you there, Dick— hands to quar day had passed, e hasy shower o f dust
P rom ise o f Im p ro vem en t,
health o f a dairy cow, w hile producing
ters, do you hear me? Move right quick, like snow greeting our coming to the
Atlantic and to a perceptibly wanner lat
“ Edith,” exclaimed her mother, “ I ’m milk.
o r I ’ll move you r
It Is evid en t moreover, that
During this day, and nntil we sorry I brought yon to the shore at all. the amount o f salt which most be sup-
They put down their arms from their itude.
sighted
the
Shetland*,
the
email
screw
•boulders in blank amassment, and list
H ere five days and you’re engaged to plled directly w ill greatly vary in d if
tender kept oar course, end we exchanged two young men. It ’s disgracefu l!”
ened to him as he went on:
ferent localities, It being more at blgb
“Thera’s enough down for one night, I signals with her every morning.
“ Yea,” admitted tbe summer girl, "It’» elevations and at places remote from
Finally
we
sighted
the
coast
o
f
Ireland,
reckon, add I ’ m not going to be kept
and I know not if f have ever had a pretty slow work, but give me time, ma, tbe sea.— Agricultural Epltom lst
•wake by your firing.”
give me time.” — Phllaelpbla Press.
They came round him slowly and sulk greater pleasure than that distent view.
It
was
as
though
I
had
passed
from
a
A K e ttle tan n est.
ily, and he drove them to the big houses
■ eatrl o f E n v y .
A t butchering time and whenever
with fine round phrases. I larked near dead land to the land of man, from the
“ Meeker’s good lack seems to be
w a ter is to be heated It is a bother to
him. but an American saw me sad cried; silent ways of night to the first break
coming In bunches,” remarked Enpeck,
ing
o
f
the
day.
“ Bay, Cap’en, her ye took to adoptin’
set the kettle or to hang It w ith chains
as he laid aside his paper.
that boy es ye seems so fond of?”
A
simple
hoop
“
H
ow
’s
that?”
queried
Mr%
Enpeck.
C H A P T E R X IX .
“ Shat your jaw, or I ’ll shot It for
with three or fonr
“ H e has jnst got fft.000 from a man
It was not nntil daybreak on tbs fol
y e a !” replied Black. " Is tha boy your
legs
welded
on,
lowing morning that we reached tbe track who baa alienated h i» w ife’s affections,”
affair V
saves the time and
“ I calcerlate, an’ aotae of as wishes to ?f ocean-bound ships; but oar voyage was replied Enpeck.________________
trouble. Any black
altogether in favor o f Black, for the sun
know particier if he’s signed or no.”
H is M r a t it y .
smith w ill make it
“Oh. yon want to know, do yon? Let had scarce risen when Doctor Oebart got
“ Papa, whs la a ‘gentleman o f tbe old
them as makes complaint step right here.” dm from my bed to see what he called my
for a tew cants If
Only fear joined the leader; bat tbe first introduction to business. — —
school’ r
yon fnrnlsh an old
Kxrruc boot .
Captain suddenly snatched my revolver
“ Thera's the Red Cross Line's Bel-
“ One, my son, who Insists on having
cart tire fo r hoops
from me, and fired tour shots: and for Ionic not a mile off on the starboard Bright’s disease when be can abundant and legs.
Order tha legs tbs right
each shot a man dropped dead on the quarter,” cried h* exaltlngly, “ and we’ ra
ly afford appendicitis” — Pack.
length to bold tbe kettle Jnst high
beach; bat tbe American stood untouched. going to dear her.”
enough. It Is easily moved then from
The appalling brutality of the action
I dressed anyhow, almost as excited as
■ ra te .
house to barn, or to a neighbor’s —
•asms4 to awe the rest o f the crew. They be was, and Mapped oa to the gallery.
HIs
W
ife
—
W
hat
do yon think o f my Farm and Homs.
•cood motionless, dumb with their rage; All eyes were turned to the north, where,
bat when they recovered themselves they now almost abreast of as, there was the new photographs, John?
H er Husband— They flatter yon, my
rushed upon as with wild ferocity.
I long and magnificent hull of the great
K affir C a r s ta H e x lee.
heard a shout from the water and. look liner. She went at a tremendous pace dear. The man most have hypnotised
K affir corn la being cultivated suc
ing there, I saw Doctor Oabart In the and was rapidly leaving as, when the yon Into looking pleasant
cessfully In tbs State o f Oaxaca, Mex
launch; and there was a Maxim gnn In great gun forward sent a shell ploughing
It Is B v e a I s .
ico, and Its cultivation Is to be extend
the bows of her.
the sea fifty yards ahead of the Bellonlc.
Blderlelgh— There are two things g ed. This corn, which la- a native o f
“ Clear that beach I” roared Black la The effect o f the call waa seen upon tbe
Egypt, requires only tbe moisture o f
•w fn l passion; and instantly, aa he drop great vessel, wboas decks ware soon dot man never forgets.
DeYoung— W hat a te they?
ped flat sad I imitated him, there was ted with black objects, while three more
tho dew for Its wants, and appeal« to*
Eldelelgh— HIs first loro a ffa ir and the farm er tor planting daring the dry
• hail o f bullets, aad tbs main part of men appeared on the bridge, and the slg-
Tha victory was
bis first s lu r s
o f f k t Soli.
W e have but little more definite
knowledge o f tbe soil aud the prluclplea
Involved In Ita treatment than we bad
aU ty yea n ago, aaya tbe Scleutltlc
American.
F ertility la not nitrogen,
I-boapbonuk__ and
potaaalum
alone.
though the potential value o f any Held,
or State, or country, from tbe ggrlcul-
tural standpoint, la measured by these
constituent elementa In Its aotl; yet It
baa been demonstrated tbat soils wblcb
contain an abundance o f these elements,
and which are potentially capable o f
producing crops for centuries perhaps,
a it not capable o f producing profitable
crops without the addition or further
amounts or these constituents.
Tbe
chemical Investigator Is, therefore, com
pelled to take Into consideration other
facts than this. He must, tr be would
cover tbe whole Held, know something
o f geology, o f botany, o f physics, o f
biology, o f bacteriology, and o f tbe
other natural sciences, because chem
istry alone Is not'capable o f fully com-
passing tbe problem ; thus, tbe oppor
tunity for specialising In any branch
has been very great, and It la because
o f tbe broadness o f the subject, and
the opportunity, aa already p o in ts out.
and the necessity, also, ter giving Imme
diate help from the knowledge that w e
have that baa prevented In a degree
broad study o f tbe fundamentals esse
tlal for enabling genuine progress to be
made.
.A lte lta s S w in e T e sts.
Raising 1,000 bogs a year without
ever having any sign o f cholera In the
herd la the claim put forth by M. B u
ber o f Bloomington, Neb. He makes a
specialty o f this Industry and has 800
acres o f a lfalfa, where the hogs are
raised.
“ My hogs are raised In the field from
the time they are pigs till they are
abont 8 months old, when 1 put them
on a feed o f eote.” aaid M r Barber tn
a representative o f tbe Kansas’ City
Drovers’ Telegram . “ I f fed In summer
tim e I soak tbe corn. But the altelfa
la tbe most Important feed they get.
and Is tbe one groat thing that keeps
them healthy all tbe year around. In
all tbe years that I have been raising
and handling hogs in this way, I never
had a case o f hog cholera on my farm.
This la due to tbe a lfa lfa , which keeps
tbe hogs healthy.”
_ I s s n t s S B a tte r C h a rs.
Th e old-fashioned hand batter churn,
so long associated with fresh s ir and
country life, seems destined to be
overtaken by other
up to date churns
and wblcb require
*
leaa labor tb oper
•“ - V
ate. The old-fash
ioned churn was a -
clumsy affair, and
not a little “ elbow
grease”
was re
V
quired to manipu
late I t In the Il
lustration Is shown
itxw cHuait.
one o f newèr band
m
in
11
3 >
churns, which nevertheless contains
most o f tbe principles o f the older
churns T b e only change Is In tbe
application o f tbe power mechanism.
In this machine the power Is so placed
tbat little effort Is required to operate
It
A foot pedal la added, and tbe*
hand power Is entirely different from
the old method. Instead o f forcing the
paddle np from the churn after every
descent with tbe hands, springs are
placed beneath tbe hand grips which
do tbe forcing automatically. I t would
be poeslble to operate this churn and
at the same time read a book or news
paper.
T sssa r P sra se rs D o t s * to O ttos.
▲ recent new t telegram from York,
Pa., s a y s ; “ W ith the return to tbe
county commissioners to-day o f tbe Isst
registry assessor’s book It was shown
by tbe ’ totals that tbe population o f
voters In the county baa decreased
six months nearly 400. Th e shrinkage
In tbe male population Is attributed by
the commissioners to tbe desertion o f
tb * farms by young men, most o f whom
have been lured to Philadelphia and
other cities under tbe impression that
they can speedily make fortunes
“ In the borough o f Red Lion sixty
voters have gone to tbe city within six
months T b e decrease In population is
greater than In tbe boroughs. The total
registration In tbe boroughs and town
ships o f the county last spring was 22.-
802. The present registration shows
388 leas”
I
WEEKLY
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1860— First English lottery took pines
1610—Galileo discovered Jupiter’s satel
lites
1644— Archbishop Laud beheaded.
1806— Caps o f Good Hops surrendered by
the Dutch to the B ritish ....V ien n a
evacuated by the French.
1818— William Joses o f Pennsylvania be
came Secretary o f the Navy.
1810— Gea. Andrew Jack sou defeated
British at Battle of New Orleans
1840— Penny PoM Introduced in England
by Rowland H ill. . . . Chartist rising
at Sheffield, England.
1841— Samuel Scott, daring American
diver, accidentally hanged himself oa
Waterloo bridge, London, while giv
ing exhibition.
1842— Francois Coppee, French poet,
bora.
1844— Sir Hudson L o irs governor o f St.
Helena during Napoleon’s captivity,
died.
1884— Aster library, New York, opened.
1861— Steamer Star of tbe WeM fired
upon et Charleston. . . .Jacob Thomp
son o f Miasiasippl resigned as Sec
retary o f the Interior---- Philip Y .
Thomas o f Maryland resigned as
Secretary of the Treasury.
1863— Metropolitan Underground Rail
way, la London, ceremoniously open
ed.
/
1868— Steamer London, from England te
Australia, foundered in Bay o f Bis
cay; 220 loot.
1868— Chinese government
appointed
Burlingame Its special envoy to all
the treaty powers
1871— Paris bombarded. . . . Prince Fred
erick Charles gained victory over
Chensy at L e Mans
B— Upper suspension bridge at Ni
agara Falla deMroyed by wind storm
....T h irty-th ree persona killed end
scores injured in whirlwind at Read
ing. P s
S— Princess Marie of Edinburgh mar
1
ried to Crown Prince of Roumanie.
1 3— Royalist outbreak at Honolulu
supple sard by Dole governm ent....
Great street railway strike in Brook
lyn.
1807— Count Muravleff appointed Rus
sian minister of foreign affairs------
Anglo-American arbitration treaty
signed at Washington. . . . National
monetary conference met at Indian
apolis
1800— Railroad wreck at West Dunellen,
N. J. ; seventeen Uvea Idst,
1000— Chicago drainage canal opened.
1001— Twenty-six Uvea lost In orphan
asylum fire at Rochester, N. Y.
1002— Seventeen lives lost In Park ave
nue tunnel wreck In New Yerk City
....... Lewis Nixon chosen nominal
leader of Tammany Hall.
1904— Chinese Emperor ratified commer
cial treaty with the United States.
1905— Five killed in railroad collision
near Rlpon, N. M.
The upper house of the Austrian, or
Cislelthan, reichsrath has accepted with
out amendment tbe bill establishing uni
versal suffrage, which previously bed been ’
passed by the House of Representatives.
London papers reported that Jams«
Bryce had refused a peerage and would
go . t o the United States os ambassador
withont changing hia name, end thus be
the first plain dtlaen to represent hie
country at Washington.
R e n o v a t in g W a r n S e lls .
Just as It cams from tbe French Cham
Prof. W. J. Spillman, In bnlletln No.
ber o f Deputies, tbe new church and state
240 on tbe renovation o f wornont soils,
separation act waa finally passed by tbe
■ a }* :
Senate, 10O to 100. This waa directed
“ T o balld np and maintain fertility against those churchmen who had re
In the soil, feed a large part o f tbe fused to accept the original separation
crops, and return the manure to the law of 1006, and all clergy who refused
land. I f manure la not available, plow under orders from the Pope to give over
under crops grown fo r tbe purpose. possession of their residences end church
Plow deep, bnt do not subsoil. Grow properties to the state do so on penalty
of losing pensions While tbe priests hava ’
leguminous crops for the nitrogen they
disregarded the law providing fer re
add to tbe solL
ligions associations, the laity hava made
“ Commercial fertilizers and lime may tbe neceeeary declarations to protect tbe
be Important means o f Improving the churches and other pieces of worship.
aotl but the fertiliser requirements o f It la presumed that the other ecclesi
different aolla and different crape In astical buildings will be ranted to the
different seasons ar% so little under blehopa end priest« at a nominal figure,
stood that we are not yet In a position Just aa the clergy who have Mild moot
to make positive recommendations that without making a legal declaration to
bold a public meeting have bed oaly
are o f general application.”
nominal fines Imposed upon them.
The French minister o f finance has
T h e D « a lia s at tha Pasak.
Th e introduction o f new varieties, ordered the mints to substitute on all
budding, and tbe attacks o f Insects, as coin the words “ liberty, equality and fra
ternity” for the old device “ God protect
w ell aa diseases form erly unknown,
France.” MlnlMer of Education Briand-
have curtailed the ’ usefulness o f t h e '
announced that the church buildings taken
peach tree and confined It to certain possession of by the state would be de-.
localities.
Budding or grafting the voted te educational and museum pur
trees, whether apple, peach or pear, la poses, the seminary of St. 8ulplce at
now bnt a reproduction o f tbe origlnul Paris becoming part of the Lnxenbonrg
variety, anil' may Introduce all tbe Im museum. The expelled sIMen of the Ae-
perfections aa well as tbe advantages sumptlonista order left Paris for Bel
o f tbe variety, to every portion o f t h e , gium, In tbe midst of a throng of sym
pathisers, who shouted: “ Down with the
country.
Free Masons. ”