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C o p r r ir b t. l W i h r ) . B. U r r i K o r r C o W pawy .
By
AU r ig h t* r e a e r n d .
Edith Morgan Willett
CHAPTER VI.—(Continued.)
Giving his shoulders a resolute, fatal
Istie shrug, Sarto stepped out of his
stateroom and, locking the door behind
him, went jauntily down to dinner. In
the saloons through which he passed peo
pie were still scattered about, notwith
standing the claims of table d’hote, and
more than one loiterer turned around or
glanced up over his newspaper at the
sight of the distinguished looking for
eigner sauntering by.
“Dining saloon on the left. Your High
ness,” an obsequious steward informe«!
our friend as he turned into the maiu
entrance.
Alceste was an ally worth having!
With a sense of satisfaction that
amounted to positive elation, Sarto open
ed the door on his left. Before him glim
mered a river of lights, looked a river
of faces—men and women of varying
types, plying their knives and forks as
siduously.
Perfectly conscious of the eyes that
followed him. the mock prince walked
slowly up the length of the room between
rows of waiters, his eyes well to the
front, where a chair had been already
drawn out for him, far up at the captain's
right.
It was as he sat down, with a bow
to his uniformed host, and let his glance
wander idly about him that Sarto expe
rienced his second shock that day. and a
startling one indeed. For an instant the
sheer surprise of it staggered him com
pletely. Then, recovering himself with
supreme effort, he lifted his monocle and
looked steadily across the table.
Yes. there they were—there was no
mistake—the very last people he had
wished or expected to see—Mrs. Richard
Waring, Annette Bancroft and Gerald
Buist, Englishman t
After all, why had he not thought of
this possibility? It was just like Gussie.
after laying her plans for a protracted
stay in London, suddenly to take passage
for home.
Raising his head, the chauffeur glanced
rapidly over the tables, his quick eye
picking out a keen-edged profile—an an
gular back. Surrounded! Hemmed in
on all sides! His lips twitched. The
situation was positively comic in its dire
fulness. Detective, robber, and robbed,
breaking bread together! What a juxta
position !
“Game’s up,” Sarto told himself stoic
ally. and, fixing his eyes on his menu
card, he awaited the inevitable check
mate.
But it was long in coming!. Over and
over the chauffeur conned that intermin
able list of dishes, his brain on the alert
for developments across the table; yet
nothing happened, the tinkle of glasses
and the clatter of cutlery continuing un
broken.
What did it mean?
At last the sound of a voice opposite
made him prick up bis ears. “I told you
Blantock was on board,” came a familiar
British drawl. “See him over there, Gus-
«i«r Q
S I
“ Where?” Sarto experienced a faint
thrill at the clear-cut, well-known tones.
“ Down there. That second table to
your left. Look! Four seats from the
end.”
But Gussie did not look! Under his
lowered eye-lids the man opposite was
unpleasantly conscious that her gaze was
upon him curiously, interrogatively. She
had recognized him !
Taking a little gold pencil out of his
pocket. Sarto began, 'with perfect self-
possession, to cross off an elaborate meal,
while he waited for her next move.
What would she do?
Gradually the eyes upon him shifted,
then they came back again. Gussie put
up her hand and lightly touched her hair,
the furtive, beringed fingers patting a
lock here, a coil there—a characteristic
gesture, this of hers. Why. the bird was
actually pluming itself! For whose ben
efit?
There was a moment's silence.
“ If Mr. Blantock is really on board,”
Mrs. Waring remarked, in obviously cau
tious tones, “what do you suppose it
means?”
Gerald hesitated a moment. “ Perhaps,”
he suggested significantly, “it means that
a friend of yours is on board too.”
It was a tremendous moment.
Handing the card to the waiter, with
a low-toned direction, Harto now raised
his head and looked deliberately across the
table, his eyes encountering those of the
woman opposite in a steely, impenetrable
stare. To his surprise. Mrs. Waring
looked away, blushing faintly, and set
down her wine glass with a little click.
“ Well, I’ve quite finished,” she an
nounced. glancing at her party: “how
about you? Shall we go up on deck and
have coffee?”
The girl beside her acquiesced, speak
Ing for the first time, and, still under
his lowered eyelids. Harto watched the
familiar procession pass out of the room,
Gussie taking the lead, as usual, the Eng
lishman bringing up the rear.
If they had recognized him, of which
the chauffeur made no doubt, then, he
told himself, there must hav# been a mu
tual silent decision *o avoid a scene in
the saloon. Probably the arrest would
he made as soon as he went out.
“After dinner, the deluge!” quoth Sar
to, the philosopher, paraphrasing a fam
ous maxim, and. true to the teachings of
Mme. de Pompadour, be set forth on his
consomme. It was some time later that,
his eventful meal ended, the mock prince
stepped out of the saloon and, standing
in the lee of the outer door, placidly lit
a cigar. What a night of enchantment
It was!
Low in the heavens, over the luminous,
palpitating ocean dangled the full moon
—a great, golden coin—and from it, de
scending the waves, a ladder of light hung
suspended, each rung girt with silver.
Not a breath of air moved, the throbbing
of the screw alone breaking the mystic
stillness.
Glancing about him cautiously, Harto
tank in one group after another saunter-
ng up and down tj»e deck, and then drew
'>ack with sudden swiftness into the door
»hadow, his cigar bitten tight between his
eeth. his breath coming unevenly, as he
watched two familiar figures go by un
der the electric lights. Scarcely were
they past, a breath of violets following
the swish of Gussie's skirts, when the
man in the doorway sprang forward and
picked up something that whirled over
the deck in her wake.
What should he do with it?
Grasping the white lace thing, he star
ed after the couple, twisting his thin lips
uncertainly. Fate had thrown him Gus-
sie’s handkerchief, with some obvious end
in view. Why not run the chance now?
“It’s always best to know the worst,”
Sarto told himself, with unconscious Irish
wit, and he set out along the decks, quick
ening his steps to catch up with the loit
ering pair.
“Pardon, madame!”
He saw them stop, and felt Gussie turn
her head Inquiringly.
, Then advancing, hat in hand, “I think
you dropped this,” he said, speaking in
English and holding the handkerchief out
to her with a glance that was half ques
tion, half grim, daring defiance, for Gus-
sie’s eyes were full of recognition.
“Thank you very much,” she said, tak
ing her possession without looking at it.
and, with a little hesitation, “ Isn’t this
the Prince del Pino? The captain told
me that he sat opposite to us at dinner.”
Holding himself well in hand, Sarto
achieved a bow.
Mrs. Waring smiled. “I feel as If I
knew Your Highness already," she said.
“through my old friend Count Souravieff,
of the Russian Legation. I wonder if you
ever heard him speak of Mrs. Richard
Waring?”
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... .
With his self-possession miraculously
restored, Mrs. Waring's chauffeur bowed
over the hand so graciously outstretched
to him.
“I have heard your name, madame, a
hundred times,” he said gallantly, “and
from many others beside Count Soura
vieff. Boris Souravieff!” He laughed,
with a keen recollection of his late pat
ron’s boon companion. “Why, we were
motoring together only last autumn.”
At this point another voice broke in.
“My name's Buist,” said that individ
ual, Introducing himself with his usual
nonchalance. “Glad to meet you. I'm
sure.”
• “Charmed,” declared the Prince del
Pino.
Clicking his heels together, he bowed
again, searching the other’s face warily;
but Gerald's straightforward lineaments
were as open as the proverbial political
door. Not a shade of suspicion, not a sign
of doubt, lurked in that broad, clean
shaven expanse!
Behind his tilted monocle the eyes of
Ludovic Harto, chauffeur, glistened with
satisfaction at his own amazing good for
tune. Ho these two people had accepted
him without reserve! Theirs be the risk,
then. He would play the part for all it
was worth.
“ We were Just about to join my cousin.
Miss Bancroft,” Gussie explained, leading
the way around the deck. “Ah, here she
is!”
“Annette, this is the Prince del Pino.”
Hhe sat down next to the girl and smil
ingly motioned to a chair beside her.
“Won’t Your Highness join us? You see,
Mr. Buist is evidently going to desert us
for a smoke. Perhaps you will take his
place?”
With a murmured word of thanks.
Sarto slipped into the low, easy chair, his
mind going back rapidly to a certain ten
party when he had first taken Mr. Ituist's
place—when the humble chauffeur had
b«ien first allowed the honor of sitting by
Mrs. Waring.
What a turning of tables to-night!
With what subtle difference of texture the
Fates had woven in the old design!
And yet this exquisite situation had its
undoubted perils. It was with a swift
realization of his own immediate danger
that, turning his head, the mock Prince
del Pino now met Gussie Waring’s half-
puzzled, interrogative gaze.
“Really,” she apologized, “your face is
so absurdly familiar, you know, I’ve been
wondering, ever since I first saw you
across the dinner table, where I could
possibly have met you before—or is it
that you remind me of some one I know?
Let me think” (she frowned absently).
“Who can it be?”
"Yes, who can It be?” echoed the man
beside her. He smiled a faint twinkle
in his inscrutable eye. “Not Houravieff, I
hope?”
Gussie took the bait. “Houravieff. I
should think not !” Hhe laughed, remem
bering the diplomat's razor-like outlines.
Then, her thoughts swerving unconscious
ly into a new channel, "Oh, by the way,
prince, we have another mutual friend I
haven’t mentioned yet”—this with a mis
chievous side-glance at Annette. "Perhaps
you haven’t heard of my experience with
your chauffeur?"
“Ah, that miserable scelerat!” ejacu
lated Iaidovic Harto. He bent towards
the woman he had robbed, his face posi
tively sphinx-like in its impenetrability,
his manner serious, deferential; and, re
lapsing unconsciously into French, “My
dear Mrs. Waring, I cannot tell you how
distressed—absolutely apologetic—I feel
about your loss. To think of that fellow
of mine turning out such a rascal! It is
inconceivable.”
He paused, hesitated, then, the humor
of the situation carrying him on Irresist
ibly, “ Why, I trusted Ludovic Harto as
I did myself,” he declared, with infinite
pathos; "I was sincerely attached to
him !”
For the first time ha looked across de
liberately at the girl on his other side,
Annette Bancroft was leaning forward
also, taking in every word that be said,
her lips parted, her small face, in the all-
revealing electric lights, oddly tense and
eager.
“Ah! yon too!” she exclaimed impuls
ively, as she caught his eye. “ WaaB’WJt
' a terrible disappointment that he should
turn out so? That poor chauffeur I”
There was a little pause, then:
. “How about my poor diamonds?” aakev
Gussie. “ What do you think, prince?”
.She turned to him. “Shall we ever get,
hold of that man?”
:. “ How can I tell?” asked Ludovic Sarto.
He cleared his throat and spoke in busi
ness-like English. “ What steps are you
taking, if I may ask, madame? I sup
pose it is in the hands of the police—
Yes?”
Mrs. Waring nodded hey head. “ I have
a very capable detective,” she said confi
C u ltiv a tio n a t C o ra .
dentially, “who tracked the chauffeur all
Corn
makes
a rank growth both above
the way from Southampton to Liverpool,
where, unfortunately, he gave him the and below ground, and for that reason
slip. Mr. Blantock’a idea is that he was requires treatment somewhat different
from what Is given to wheat or oats.
trying to get over to America.”
“That is very probable," agreed Sarto. Planting in rows Is necessary not only
Turning slightly, he glanced again at to permit full development of the stalks,
Annette, to fiud her eyes fixed on him but also to glvq plenty of feeding room
with an intensity that was almost painful. to the roots. Corn roots, If they have
"My experience of the man indeed,” he a chance, will occupy every Inch to the
went on. choosing his words deliberately depth of from three to five feet, and
and watching her face, “is that he sel
dom fails of his ends. Sarto, I think, will the yield of the corn will depend on
elude you by every means in his power. the completeness of this occupation.
He is a shrewd fellow, I can tell you, and The feeding ground, or, In other words,
if you are too many for him”—he shrug the corn root pasture, depends mainly
ged his shoulders—"nut foi l I doubt me on the preparation and cultivation ol
if you will ever catch him alive.”
the soil. It may be limited In many
With keen satisfaction he saw Annettt ways, so that the farmer, instead of us
wince. “A h!’’ she said, in a low tone, ing from three to five feet of his field
“what a grisly suggestion!” Then, rising aa soil, will use only a small portion of
abruptly, “There's Mr. Buist.” This with |
evident relief. “I think I am going -to It If the land Is not properly drained,
join him and walk up and down a bit, either naturally or artificially, the corn
if you and the prince will excuse me, roots cannot penetrate Into the regions
saturated with water, for the water
Gussie.”
. ,
Holding on to the rail, she made her . shuts out the air. If hard pan comes
way off unsteadily. Watching the small near the surface the corn roots cannot
figure, Sarto was so absorbed in his own reach Into that, and he may be culti
speculations that it was with a start he vating but six, eight or ten inches of the
became conscious of a voice beside him.
field as soil. If the land be heavy and
“ Don’t you think," it asked, in languio, ploughed wet, full of lumps on the sur
rather bored accents, “that your chauffeur
and my diamonds have absorbed quite face or resting on the plough pan or
enough of the conversation? It seems to bottom of the furrow, the corn roots
me that you and I, prince, have a thou cannot utilize these, and hence his soli
Is limited. If he has ploughed under,
sand other things in common.”
in a dry time, coarse manure, so as to
(To be continued.)
TEA FROM THE FLOWERS.
.N a tu r a lly
Sw eet T e a o f
W n te n
C h in a — V a lu e o f T e a D u a t.
Tea, not from the leaves, but from
the tlowers alone of the plant, Is rare
ly encountered in commerce. The
petals, stamens, etc., are sun-dried, and
the resulting tea la of a rich, deep
brown hue of peculiarly delicate odor,
and gives a pale amber colored Infu
sion rather more astringent In taste
than that from the average fair grade
leaf. The taste for it is au acquired
one, and even if this tea could be made
commercially possible, It is doubtful if
It would ever become popular.
The American tea trade could advkn
tageously take a suggestion from the
brick tea of the far east. In our coun
try, the tea dust, some of which Is of
good quality. Is not properly utilised.
In Europe it is a regular article of
trade, and It Is advertised and sold as
tea dust. In America It Is sold to thou
sands of cheap restaurants, who make
from it the mixture of tannic acid,
sugar and boiled milk which they sell
as "tea.” If. as In the Orient, this dust
were compress'd into bricks, good tea
could be made from It, and the product
would find a ready market through the
multitude of uses for which It is adapt
ed. A beginning in this direction has
been made by the Plnehurat tea estate
in Bouth Carolina, and In Europe sim
ilar advances have been inaugurated.
The virgin tea (blepjcki-chi), so
called from its use at Chinese wed
dings, is the sun-dried leaf intact, tied
up with three strands of colored silk.
After infusion, these fngotllke little
bundles are pickled In vinegar and used
as salad. This tea is sold in especially
handsome silk-covered and glass-topped
boxes. The rarest of all teas, and one
that has never been known to reach,
this country, is a naturally sweet tea,
produced in western Chinn on a v«>ry
limited scale. Its culture Is centuries
old, and the secret has been jealously
guarded from generation to generation.
The saccharinity is probably due to
grafting and years of patient study and
care, such as only the small Chinese
tea farmer Is capable of bestowing.—
Scientific American.
N ew
R ed C lo v e r Is F o u n d .
The Bureau of Plant Industry has
been experimenting with a new f«>rm
of red clover which came from the
black soil region of Russia. The plant
Is practically hairless and therefore
does not hold dust like the common red
clover.
For this reason It Is believed thav
It will make a better forage plant for
horses, since it will be much less like
ly to cause heaves and will be cleaner
and more convenient to handle. Bloat
ing in cattle Is perhaps due In part
to the presence of hairs on common
clover. If this be true the trouble
would be obviated by feeding them the
new hairless Orel clover.
Another objection to the common red
clover Is that It mntures much earlier
than timothy, with whh'h It Is usually
sown. It Is thus Impossible to harv«*st
the mixture at a time when the full
value of both the clover and timothy
can be obtained.
The new Orel clover matures two
weeks later than the common red kind,
or at the same time with the timothy,
and at a season when the farmer’s at
tention is not so imperatively demanded
for his corn, and also at a time when
In most of the clover belt the weather
Is more favorable for harvesting the
crop without injury by rnlh.
E f fe c t o f
H eavy
G an
F ir e .
The firing of a big gun causes hem
orrhages In the ears of eight out of
ninety-six soldiers.
Freckles may be hereditary. Case*
of freckles all over the body are men
tioned. Food Is not supposed to cause
them. Hun and wind make soma faces
freckle.
shut off the supply of water from be
low, the corn roots are again limited.
It Is, therefore, about as necessary for
the farmer to understand corn roots
and their habits and ways as It Is for
the surgeon to understand the anatomy
of the system, where the bones He, and
where the arteries, veins, nerves and
muscles ar? hidden under the skin.
The corn plant, it will be seen, has
no top-root. The first roots start out
from the seed grain and go down.
C s s m l f O s l l o w C a ll* * .
A simple method of constructing s
cool, outdoor cellar In localities where
the common'house cellars are too
warm for use during the summertime,
Is shown In the accompanying sketch.
It Is a cellar made under the pump,
so that the water pumped by the
windmill has a very cooling effect.
In places where It Is difficult to obtain
Ice, It will prove Indispensable to the
dairyman who keeps a few cows. An
other Important Item Is the fact that
a man does not find It necessary to
pull up all of the pipes every ttmo
that he finds It necessary to repair the
pipes and pump. It Is constructed of
concrete. The top Is re-enforced with
oii(-half-Inch steel rods placed one foot
apart each way and the concrete Is
about six Inches thick. The sides are
made by using a form and t.ie stairs
are also made of concrete and a r j re
enforced by small steel rods. The cost
OUTDOOB
cells a.
Including the labor, amounted to about
$50 In the west and southwest It will
also answer the purpose of a storm
cave, which Is considered a fixture on
all farms.—Farm and House.
A N e w S w in d le o a F a r m e r » .
An entirely new but highly successful
scheme to separate farmers from their
money has been worked In Bouth Da
kota during the past few months.
An oily grafter calls on a farmer and
makes a bid for his land. The figure*
are absurdly low at first, but by de
grees are raised as high as $60 an acre,
and the farmer consents.
Then the visitor explains that he Is
only an agent, but that he can sell the
land at the price named if the owner
will agree to pay for advertising at the
rate of 50 cents an acre.
The “agent” promises orally that the
advertising money will not be payable
until the land is sold, but this stipula
tion Is not contained In the contract
that the farmer signs.
In a few days be receives a copy of
an ad and not overcoarteous demand
for money.
It is said that twenty-two agricul
turists were caught with this bait In
Brown County and that one of them
gave up $320.
T h a s S « m ad M i l k .
nisTBiBimoN o r c o w
soots
in
boil .
After this the roots are sent out In
whorls of from two to ten. As the plant
advances toward maturity, these whorls
rise closer to the surface. The first
roots thrown out immediately above the
primary roots run sideways and occupy
ten or fifteen Inches below the surface.
These lateral roots throw out fibrous or
feeding roots, which run In every di
rection through the soil and occupy
every Inch within a radius of from two
to five feet. It Is evident, therefore,
that if we plough corn immediately
after planting, or after it is first up,
we can plough as deep as we like, and
generally the deeper the better. When,
however, the roots begin to rise and
occupy every square Inch of soil within
reach, it will not do to plough deep.
Our cultivation must, therefore, be lim
ited to the surface, and with the end In
view of killing the weeds and forming
the mulch of dry dirt which will shut
off surface evaporation, and spread out
the water which is continually rising
from below within reach of the roots.
The older and larger the plant the
shallower should the cultivation be. In
fact, If the ground Is well prepared,
ploughed deep when there Is no dan
ger of cutting off the roots, the only
thing the farmer needs to do during
the latter period Is to maintain the
mulch of dry dirt on the surface.
F a rm
H e l p L e s s E x p e n s iv e .
Farm labor Is cheaper than it was at
this time last year and Is pretty sure
to continue so for the season. There
has been some curtailment In manufac
turing throughout the country, the re
sult being that a great many men are
out of work. With this condition farm
ers find that they can get help more
readily now than they have been able
to for several years.
It Is ascertained that where contracts
have been made In the Middle West and
Bouth west for farm hands the rate of
wages averages about $5 per month low
er than that prevailing a year ago.
A common rate of pay for farm bands
at this time Is $25 per month, as against
$30 last season. Competent men with
experience In special departments ot
farming will command more, but not as
ranch as In 1000 and 1007. Good live
stoak bands receive $35 to $45, hut
above this there arc few men hired even
for fancy farming or the specialties who
are receiving more.
Youths and inexperienced Immigrants
are offering their services for from $15
to $20 per month.
To many persons the curdling of milk
In a thunderstorm is a mysterious and
unintelligible phenomenon. Yet, ac
cording to scientists, the whole process
is simple and natural. Their claim Is
that milk, like most other substances,
contains millions of bacteria. The
milk bacteria that In a day or two,
under natural conditions, would cause
the fluid to sour are peculiarly sus
ceptible to electricity. Electricity In
spires and Invigorates them, as alco
hol, cocaine or strong tea affects men.
Under the current's Influence they fall
to work with amazing energy, and In
stead of taking a couple of days to
sour the milk they accomplish the task
completely In a half hour. With an
electric battery It Js easy on the same
principle to sour the freshest milk.
I m p r o v e d S h o v e l H a n d le .
In a scoop-handle for shovels, spades
and similar articles recently patented,
an Illinois Inventor claims that he has
designed a device
for tools of this
kind by which the
weight of the load
can be more ef
fectually balanced
and the forward
band of the opera
tor shifted In a
mor e
convenient
manner to facili
tate the operation
B A LA N CES LOAD.
of the tool In scoop
ing and lifting. The operator Is also
relieved of the necessity of stooping so
low as he does In shovels of the or
dinary construction. He introduces a
supplemental handle, which Is secured
to the handle of the shovel, the oppo
site end extending forward of the rear
end of the blade, being supported from
the latter by braces. The supplemen
tal handle Is engaged by the forwnrd
hand of the operator, the latter being
thus greatly relieved of weight. It
avoids the twisting strain of the body
caused by lifting a henvy load when
the forward hand Is placed low down
upon the usual handle. The hand of
the operator can he readily slid back
and forth In the various manipulations
of the scoop, rendering It more con
venient and efficient in use, adapting
it to be used with decreased power and
strain.
T h e C o d d lin g
M o th .
About one-fifth of the first laying of
egga by the coddling moth Is on the
fruit, the rest being on the leaves and
branches.
The young larva that
hatches from the egg Is able to feed
on the foliage to some extent and may
come Into maturity without entering
the fruit, although It rarely does so.
About 80 per cent of the first brood
finds Its way Into the apples at the
calyx, while the rest eat In a t other
points, principally at the stem. Only
about 28 per cent of the second brood
enters at the calyx, the others eating
In where the apples touch each other,
or a leaf at the stem end. The aver-
ags Ilfs of the adult Insect, or moth.
Is about four days.
110®— -Death of Peter the Hermit, the
preacher of the first crusade.
1388—-Swim defeated the Austrians at
battle of Hempach.
1006—Champlain founded the city of
Quebec.
1700—Peter the Great of Russia decis
ively defeated Charles X II. of Swe
den at battle of Pultowa.
1775—Washington took command of ths
Continental army at Cambridge.
1781—Engagement between British and
American troops at Kings Bridge,
N. Y.
1779—Fairfield, Conn., burned by ths
British.
1792—City of Washington selected as
the capital of the United States.
1839— First normal school in America
opened at Lexington, Ms
1840— Commodore 81oat of the United
Htates navy bombarded and took poo-
lion of the city of Monterey.
1848—Peace proclaimed between ths
United Htatea and Mexico.
1850— Integrity of Denmark guaranteed
by England, France, Prussia and
Hweden.
1851— Corner stone of the extension of
the capitol laid by President Filmore.
1854—Turks defeated the Russians at
Giurgevo.
1865—Lord Canning appointed Gov
ernor General of India.
1803—Hurrender of Port Hudson, a Con
federate fortress on the Mississippi
riv e r.. . .Last day of the battle of
Gettysburg.
1865— Execution of Payne, Atxerott, H ar
old and Mrs. Surratt, for complicity
In the assassination of President Lin
coln.
1866— Prussians defeated the Austrians
at 8adowa.
1887—The Ameer of Afghanistan, follow
ing a rising against taxation, pro
claimed peace, amnesty and a remis
sion of taxes for two years.
1890—Idaho Territory became a State.
1893—Marriage of the Duke of York and
Princess May of Teck.
1895—A third daughter was born to the
President and Mrs. Cleveland at
Gray
Gables... .Twenty
persons
killed in a railroad wreck on the
Grand Trunk near Quebec.
1897— Lisbon celebrated the 400th anni
versary of the departure of Vasco da
Gama to discover the sea route to the
Indies.
1898— The Island of Guam seised by the
Americans of the warship Charles
ton.
1900—LI Hung Chang made viceroy of
China.
1905—Christ's College, Cambridge, cele
brated the 400th year of its founda
tion.
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1907—Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco
sentenced to five years' imprisonment
for extortion.. . .Opening of the new
lift lock in the canal at Kirkfield,
Ont.
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The baccalaureate address of President
Woodrow Wilson of Princeton to ths
senior class said that the fundamental
moral problem in the complex civilization
of to-day was “how to separate the in
dividual from the mass, to lift the indi
vidual soul out of the confusion and dis
traction of modern societies, unions,
brotherhoods, leagues, alliances, corpora
tions and trusts, into some clear placs
of vision, where he may think and ses
apart, looking beyond the things of to
day to the things that a"bide.” Standards,
he thought, had been confused by the at
tempt to confound morals with material
ambitions. Individual conscience and not
law would make reforms. But the ten
dency toward vast organizations of all
kinds had resulted in men’s trying to sep
arate their individual life from the life
of their organization, being mhrnl In ths
jne and immoral in the other. He declared
that the tendency to be practical would
not conquer the tendency to be moral.
Gov. Warner has announced the ap
pointment of Chase 8. Osborn, of Hault
Hte. Marie, Mich., as regent of the Uni
versity of Michigan, to succeed the lata
Peter White, of Marquette. Mr. Oshorn
was chairman of the Michigan delegation
at the Republican national convention.
Gov. Johnson of Minnesota delivered
the commencement address to the stu
dents of Kansas State university.
His
subject was “Landmarks of American
Liberty.”
Dr. Wu Ting-Fang, Chinese minister
to the United States, delivered the com
mencement address at Iowa University.
At the conclusion of his address Minis
ter Wu was given the honorary degree
of LL. D. In the afternoon Minister Wu
delivered an open-air address.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., son of ths
President, has taken his degree as bach
elor of arts, thus flnlantng a four years’
course In three*years. The young man
has mads known hla purpose to begin his
ctrear in the ranks of the manual labor
ers, and is said to have strop ted a p a s t
•« a miner.