Newberg graphic., October 08, 1908, Image 6

A
Political Vendetta
WELDON J. COBB
C H A P T B R II .
A vision1 of seeming fairy-land; a ter­
raced rise overlooking a vernal valley, a
stalely marble edifice, palace-like in rich
facade and minnretled roof— this set in
the midst of a garden full of sweetness,
taste and grandeur.
On a lower level were as many as fifty
neat new frame dwellings in various
stages of construction, but none occupied
— death or desolation held dumb this por­
tion of the singular landscape.
Again, at the lowermost grade of the
grassy slope black, grim stacks arose
from a wilderness of frame and stone fac­
tory buildings— but there were no brist­
ling, red-lighted windows; all was cold,
dark and lifeless. Here, too, was silence,
deep and mournful— a dead or sleeping
city of industry.
There was light only at the palace on
the hill.
Toward It. up the cindered
road, smooth as a race course and bor­
dered with a neatly cqt stretch of sward,
a man plodded his way in the gossamer
moonlight— Gideon Hope.
He was fire years older than upon that
eventful pight when the star of his des­
tiny had set in clouds of storm, disaster
and sorrow, but the stalwart form was
• yet straight as a sapling— that face,
which always reminded of the faces one
sometimes sees on old Itoman medals, pre­
served its original statuesque, dignity and
coqtour— only, the eyes were deeper set,
the lips closer drawn.
He had pushed up bis hat from his
brow, as though he were fevered and the
falling dew a grateful boon. Once he
paused, to sweep with a glance, first sar­
donic and then almost sad, the deserted
factories, the silent homes, the towering
residence on the hill-top. Immediately
this passing interest departed— his mind
seemed to react upon itself, his head
drooped, and be resumed his way with the
firm, studied stride of a man with a defi­
nite, purpose, a goal in view.
Like a thunderbolt from pure heaven
had fallen the announcement of the chief
of police that dreadful night in the long
ago— its memory was with this man now,
as it had beep night andjlay, unceasingly
through the long, dragging years. -
He recalled, even now, words he had
spoken, questions be had asked, mechan­
ically, like a man under a leaden spell:
“ Who shut my brother in that trap of
death?"
“ It will never be known 1”
“ Who was last seen about the works?"
‘“1’he manager."
“ His name?”
“ One of his names is Percival Keene.”
“ Where ia he?”
“ Vanished—like the others.”
“ You can give me his picture?”
“ Yea— but he haa twenty aliases, a
royal fortune to dissipate in obscurity.”
“ I shall find him 1”
That had been bis object, his one mo­
tive for life. Since then Gideon Hope
had hunted half the globe.
T o bis quick mind the truth was plain.
His unsuspecting brother had visited the
works. Lad made some .vital discovery of
the company's rottenness— fatal informa­
tion, which would mean prison and ruin
for the schemers. He had died with his
secret!
Who had shut him in? It might never
be discovered. But there was one respon­
sible
head
of
rascality— “ Percival
Keane!”
This sweet, soft summer evening Gid­
eon Hope knew at last that he had suc­
ceeded- --be had found his man.
Up the hill and on he plodded. Now
the elegan t mansion was squarely before
him; what a paradise!
From a sumptuous lounging room a
colored lamp threw opalescent glinting
rays across a sheltered, screened porch.
A man, august and noble of visage, oc­
cupied a large chair.
Before him fluttered a feminine form
arrayed in fleecy white, with a face so
radiantly rare and beautiful that Gideon
Hope, pausing, had eyes only for her for
the moment.
She put a newspaper, some cigars, a
cup of some invigorating mixture at the
elbow o f the occupant of the chair upon
a delicate little stand.
He nodded, forced a dismal, wan smile.
She caressed him tenderly, and vanished
through the open French window.
Gideon had come up the winding gravel
walk slowly. Now, In shadow, he stood
and watched the man «s he sat alone.
The latter arose with a fierce, restless
sigh. He walked to the edge of the porch,
pressed his face to a north screen, and
his vision could thus take in at one
sweep all the salient points of the glori­
ous landscape.
But its beauties evidently
had
no
charms for him— even at a distance his
face and manner showed that what he
saw depressed and excited him alike.
He threw out a hand with an express-
ive gesture— like one in mute, choking
desiMir; tottered back to his seat. His
bead sank in his hands, his frame ebook
with deep internal emotion.
Gideon came up the step«.
He noiselessly opened the outer screen
door, silently approached the table, and
sank into a chair opposite the other—
unheard, unseen.
His eye dwelt momentarily on the win­
dow space where that fairy vision of
grace and lovelineaa had fluttered a mo­
ment before.
His glance wandered past the exquisite
draperies, across a rug worth Its weight
In gold made In far away Persian looms,
and then up the decorated wall to t fall-
length oil painting.
This seemed to speak— It was In color
and expression ths faithful presentiment
o f ths beautiful girl who had just passed
before It.
cold, cloee vault of the great rotten Con­
solidated Silver Company!
Then the mask fell. He turn S i from
sentiment, emotion, to the stern, merciless
mission that had brought him hitbef.
He glanced toward the drooping man
before him, put out hia hand and touched
bis limp and nerveless arm. The other
suddenly started— aroused by the touch.
He stared in confusion, then surprise—
and then the cold, haughty bearing o f the
aristocrat disguised his recent weakness.
“ How came you here?” he began.
Gideon quickly produced a card. It
bore two words: hia simple name, In sim­
ple, modest type.
The courteous gentleman ever, he arose,
his hat removed, hia voice modulated low
and respectfully.
“ I do not know you----- ”
“ I am nobody, nothing of myself,” an­
nounced Gideon bluntly; “ but I came for
a great puifriae. Now, Albert Tremaine,
I have traveled a thousand miles to ask
you a single simple question.”
The latter regarded him as though he
were a madman—or a trickster spreading
some specious snare.
“ The question,” he said, however, con­
trolling the instincts of caste— be, who,
In his time, had been a nabob of the
nabobs.
“ I wish to verify rumor, report. Yon
will listen to me patiently— till yon know
the purpose that underlies what may seem
to you impertinence.”
“ Proceed, sir.”
“ You are the man, the multi-million­
aire of yesterday, who was drawn into the
net of a clever industrial ring, and—
prophet seemed brathd Into their mys­
terious significance.
,
Tremaine regarded Gideon Hop# -fix­
edly. He could not treat tbia man other­
wise than seriously, though a stranger,
an utter stranger, to him— and tampering
with hia very heartstrings 1”
i “ T o regain, to punish,” he murmureu.
“ There is one vital element, on* cen­
tral point, that must be primarily acceded
to, or the thing I* Impossible,” spoke
Gideon Hope, oracularly.
“ And that to?"
T
“ Your daughter.”
The aristocratic chest reared— the gen­
tleman. the father, spoke In the chilling
austerity manifested by the Iron master.
“ S ir !" be cried.
“ No— listen. She Is the pivot on whlon
all success must turn— she the mainspring
that guides, controls. To my plan, blind­
ly, unqueationingly, the must lend her
beauty, her grace, her very life. A ten­
der, gentle lady— oh, truly! but from the
strong ordeal she will come unspotted, and
— victorious 1”
“ No 1”
Tremaine clenched his hands.
“ Sir,” tft said, with dignity, “ this la a
wild temptation, an unheard o f proposi­
tion 1”
“ Then it la useless,” said Gideon, aim
ply, taking up bis hat, shrugging his
broad shoulders, and turning to go.
“ Wait.”
Melancholy and pure as golden beads
dropped into a crystal dish, a sweet, pa­
thetic tone pierced the brief silence inter­
vening.
A t the open window stood beautiful
Claire Tremaine.
“ Wait, father," she said, simply.
And then she walked straight up to
Gideon Hope.
Her penetrating, questioning eyes rest­
ed full upon his own. so magnetic, so
clear, and yet so troubled.
“ Sir,” she said, in a voice that thrilled
him, “ I have heard your proposition. I
will answer for myself. Injustice, cruelty,
has been done 'us. Father, I trust this
man.”
She put out her fair, dainty hands, and
rested them confidently, pleadingly, in
the strong, earnest grasp of Gideon Uope.
(T o be continued.)
W IL D DUCKS IN T H E SOUTH.
fleeced.”
The other’s face became ghastly. He
half arose, as if to resent the candid,
torturing remarks.
“ Be patient,” said Gideon, calm ly; his
eye and ita power subduing his host, as he
intended that It should. “ I will be brief.
You were drawn into a ‘gentleman’s agree­
ment.’ There was a ‘ pool.’ Into it you
threw your holdings, your millions. You
trusted men whom yon believed to be
strictly honorable. You were given this
place as your *share,’ this town, with one
reservation; the mills here and the ma­
chinery were to remain the pool posses­
sion.”
“ You are well Informed,” bitterly inter­
polated Mr. Albert Tremaine— “ but ail
the world knows now !”
“ You are a good man, a just man,
Mr. Tremaine,” proceeded Gideon. “ You
fancied, in the arrangement thus made,
that you saw the opportunity of carrying
out a philanthropic plan, long and nobly
cherished. Yourself and your daughter
strove unselfishly for a model Industrial
city filled with model workmen.
You
erected this magnificent home, you beau­
tified yonder road stretches; you started
those substantial, comfortable homes for
jour workmen. Did you not own it all?
In ten years would not the natural rise
in property doubly repay you?”
Tremaine’s head sank low In humilia­
tion and grief at a thought of the reality
promised, never attained.
“ What happened?” continued Hope.
“The men, your partners, on a given day,
voted to dismantle the mill, transfer the
machinery to other distant works of the
pood That meant the min, the death, of
tins town, ita desertion by your proteges,
the blasting of your hopes. Practically,
it pauperized you.”
“ Yea!”
“ Out of all, you can not now realise
what was once a mere yearly salary. They
have tied up the active dividends. You
are a frozen-out, deluded victim— the jeer,
the gibe of a directory of seemingly hon­
orable men— really, polished scoundrels.”
. “ Y e s!”
“ I have come to you,” said Gideon,
quietly, “ to turn the tables.”
Tremaine stared at him in wonder.
“ I have come to you,” continued Gid­
eon, arising to his majestic height, some­
thing o f the old flash and fire coming into
hia face and eye, “ to enable you to regain
what you have lost, to make as the dust
under your feet 'those who sold you. I
aim at all, but I strike at one man— the
head of the combination, Percy V. Kane.”
A t the mention of that name the fam­
ous iron master grew whiter, and sick at
heart. He gasped:
“ Curse him— because of her— my child
— deprived of the wealth, the position,
the aspirations of a noble girlhood— curse
him!”
“ I strike at one man!” repeated Gid­
eon, and hia own features seemed turned
to stone.
“ Why?”
“ I shall not tell you. My motive shall
not interfere with yours. 1 tell you what
I mean and what I can d o : Within one
year, 1 promise, I swear, that the infam­
ous pool that wrecked your life shall he
baffled, beaten, at your behest— you, the
master; that this man, this fiend, Percy
Kane, shall cringe at your feet— at mine
— for mercy!”
“ You tempt me— revenge!"
*
“ I inspire you— justice!” solemnly pro­
nounced Gideon Hope.
“ Are you a wizard, to pledge this?”
“ As you like— but I can keep my word.”
“ You must possess a mighty weapon?”
“ Yes— politics 1”
It was enigmatical, the reply— vague,
unsatisfactory— yet something o f the mas­
ter genius in Gideon Hope’s nature flash­
ed out with searchlight distinctness and'
impressed the other fully.
“ Is It worth the effort— are you suf­
ficiently interested to listen to the details
of my plana— in confidence?”
“ In confidence, of course. You are a
remarkable man I”
“ No— only a wronged one.
It la a
mighty plan I have to submit. T o shrink,
the ordeal once faced would be craven.
C H A P T E R III.
Gideon Hope's eye softened— a rapt Yon shall enter on this agreement with
I o o i I m sadness drove from his face some your eyes open. And then trust In me,
in my Inspiration, In my power, abso­
of ftsVgtaral grim fierceness.
In those sweet eye« was a latent some­ lutely."
The word* thrilled, they were holy as
thing that reminded o f the fair bright
^ irit gone down to horrible death la the • haaanna, something of the spirit of a
It
I a C a lle d •
H u n te rs ’
H eaven
A l o n a t h e T e s a a G a l t C o a a t.
Th e coast o f Texas In the vicin ity of
Portland Is the winter feeding ground
fo r millions o f ducks. Th e hunters go
there by the score during the open sea­
son and make their headquarters at
Portland, Gregory, Tarpou, Kockport
and other places close to the waters of
the bay, says the Kansas City Star.
IB previous years when there was no
game law in Texas do. protect the wild
fow l, professional market hunters op­
erated along the gu lf coast and slaugh­
tered the ducks by the carload each aea-
bou .
This woeful destruction o f wild
game In Texas Is now a thing o f the
past. Those who were engaged In the
marketing o f w ild ducks made an effort
before the last Legislature to have
these fow l exempt from the provision
o f the law, but they were not success­
ful.
Th e owners o f ponds and lakes which
afforded unusually fine feeding ground
fo r the ducks made big fortunes out
o f killing and marketing the fow ls be­
fore the game law was enacted. It ia
related that one Galveston citizen who
owns an inland body o f fresh water
situated near the coast enjoyed an In­
come o f from $40,000 to $00,000 each
year from the sale o f w ild ducks which
were killed by professional hunters and
sportsmen at his lake. Th e water is
shallow and w ild rice grows abundant­
ly along Ita shores and in its bed. As
soon as the weather begins to get cool
the ducks literally swarm upon the wa­
ters o f this lake. The owner. In addi­
tion to having a number o f professional
hunters
constantly
employed, also
granted permission to sportsmen to visit
the lake, with the provision that they
were to leave on the ground for mar­
ket purposes all ducks, over a limited
number, that they might kill. W. J.
Bryan has been on two bunts at this
lake.
On each occasion be was the
guest o f the late Gov. Hogg. The sports­
men and professional hunters do their
shooting from blinds. The lake is still
a favorite resort for duck hunters, bat
the enormous annual revenue which It
form erly brought to its owner is now
cut off.
The law now provides that no hunter
shall kill to exceed twenty-five ducks
in one day. Marketing the fowls la
absolutely prohibited. Before legal re­
strictions were placed upon this sport
it was no uncommon thing to see piles
of dead ducks laying upon the hunting
grounds and around the lodging places
o f sportsmen. Th e fowls were slaugh­
tered, it is said, for the mere desire to
kill.
It Is said by sportsmen that one or
two hours o f good shooting a day ought
to satisfy the most ardent hunter. It
Is an easy matter to kill the limit o f
twenty-five ducks in one day.
When
this Is accomplished the hunter usually
goes a fter quail, or, if the conditions
are favorable, be takes a look around
fo r deer.
In the artesian well region between
Fortland and Brownsville the ducks
were more abundant this season than
ever before. This probably Is due to
the fact that the water from the w ell«
has formed many small ponds and lake«
upon the ranches and the feeding
ground la fine for the fowls.
F. W. Fitzpatrick, consulting archi­
tect o f the International Roclety o f
Building Commissioners, says the fire
loss In the United States every year to
$100,000,000 greater than the a mount
■pent In new construction.
In thto
estimate to Included the money paid
annually for Insurance and the cost o f
fighting fire.
The number o f Chinese scattered
throughout the world ontalde o f the
Chinese empire to given officially at
a, 708
,120
THE WEEKLY I
RIAN
H i r e d M m m a z < T h e H o rs e .
fr itr o g e a (ra m Ik e A le.
A detailed account o f the progress o f
the works now In course o f erection on
the falls o f the Svaelglos at Norodden,
in Norway, for the separation o f atmos­
pheric nitrogen, on the system o f
Messrs. Blrkelaud and Eyde, to given
In La Nature. These works are the
property o f a French company, and the
available power to atated at 84,000
horsepower. A second undertaking on
a fa r larger scale la now In course o f
construction to make use o f the falls
o f Kjukan, where not less than 250,-
000 horse power w ill be utilised. Pho­
tographs show that the buildings are
now completed, and that much o f the
machinery Is In place. The factory la
contained In tw o separate divisions,
the hydro-electric generating station
and the chemlnal works. Details o f
the revolving furnaces, with the Inter­
nal electrodes ajxl the flame area, are
given.
Let W o m e n R o n In c u b a to r. ,
Please do not get the Idea that the
Incubator Is so everlastingly automatic
that you do not need to give It any at­
tention. The result with the use o f an
Incubator 1s a great deal like the re­
sults with the use o f other things. They
w ill be In proportion to the effort you
make to a great ex ten t O f course l
am not personally acquainted with yofi,
but aa a longdistance proposition I
would a heap sight rather you would
turn your machlue over to your wife.
The women folks have more natural
good sense In raising poultry, and you
can bet your boots they look a fter the
pennies and dimes in whatever they
undertake. W hile a man that 1a accus­
tomed to dealiug In big money often
overlooks seemingly Immaterial things
that go to make the use o f Incubators
and brooders a success.— M. M. John­
son, Nebraska.
A C lo v e » B z a c k e r ,
Clover that is pastured until the
middle o f June and then permitted to
Every man who works on a farm
ought to kuow how to care fo r horses.
By "care” It to not meant that he
should know juat enough/ to feed a
horse, but he must know how to take
care o f a mare In foal, how to break a
colt and how to feed It to the best ad­
vantage.
H e should know all about
horses’ feet and something about shoe­
ing, too.
Many a man haa dropped
Into- a fine and permanent job because
he knew these things. Horses are the
mobt valuable anlmala on the farm, o f
course, and the man who can take the
best care o f then) to the most valuable
help.
C k zs (M Is F a ra ta g .
Farm ing la not what It was twenty
years ago from a revenue standpoint
Corn and cotton were the main prod­
ucts from which the farm er drew hia
income, and that, too, only onco a year.
Now the process has changed up. In­
stead o f -the one crop, cotton, farmers
have Invoked a m ultiplicity o f crops,
and not only grow corn and cotton for
revenue, but have supplemented pota­
toes. both Irish and sw eet; peaches and
pears, onions, melons, berries, peanuts
aud ribbon cane, all o f which bring
money at all seasons o f the year, aud
there to a continued market fo r what
he haa to sell.— Sulphur Springs (T e x .)
Gazette.
O r o w la g D ates l a T ex as.
An experienced date grow er o f Cali­
fornia who visited
the lower
RIo
Grande region o f T exa s tw o years ago
discovered large numbers o f date palm
trees, some o f them very old but ail
o f which were barren. H e proposed to
pollenlze the trees
artificially
and
share In the proceeds, a proposition
which was eagerly accepted by the
owners. Hundreds o f these trees are
now bearing delicious fruit. Th e poor,
crippled and sick Mexicans o f that sec­
tion regard the man as a sorcerer and
when he visits them they fall upon
their knees and beg him to cure them
o f their Infirmities.
H a e k la * H m
F r a il
Jury from the midge and usually give
a better yield o f seed.
When 96 per
cent o f the heads are a dead brown
color the mower may be set to work.
H ie Illustration abowa a. flnger-llke
mowing machine attachment fo r bandy­
ing and laying the clover out o f the
w ay o f the horses.
T o P r e v e a t T o m a to R o t.
The disease often attacks plants that
are not aprayed. It la first noticeable
as small black or brown spots on the
leaves and stems o f the plants, occur­
ring first on the lower and older leaves,
bat with favorable weather It spreads
rapidly till the plant is defoliated and
the spots on the stems have coalesced
Into Irregular blackish patches. I f a
piece o f bark with these spots be ex­
amined under a high power microscope
Innumerable
small,
crescent-shaped
bodies may be seen. These are the
fruiting spores o f the fungus Spray
with Bordeaux mixture.
H e lp * .
The machine wheel hoe to a great
thing In the garden. It makes garden
work a real pleasure If you have oue
o f the modern combined drill and wheel
boe arrangements Th ey are not costly
aud not hard to operate. Any one that
has a garden aa big aa a town lot can
afford to have one, aa It w ill save ita
cost the first season and w ill last for
twenty y e a rs
Yon can do aa much
work with one o f them as ten men
with hand hoes and do It better.
T rea
August Is the time to look for borers.
D ig the soil aw ay around the stems o f
fru it trees to the depth o f 8 Inches,
■crape the bark with a knife, and If
any sawdust or exuding gum to found
It to time to get to work. D ig out the
borer and wash the uncovered parts
with a mixture o f soft cow dung, lime-
wood ashes and a little crude carbolic
arid. Then return the toll. The quince,
d w a rf pear and peach trees are f i r -
tlcularly affected by this peat
P m
of
(h a
G reca
B ap.
Last season farmers o f the South­
west were greatly alarmed over the ap­
pearance o f the wheat plant louse, com­
monly known aa the green bug. They
caused a tremci-doua amount o f dam­
age, but thto year Its ravages were
much less, owing to the appearance o f
a parasite bee which destroys the bug.
G e t m D is k H a r r o w ,
Th e bee lays Its eggs on
T h e disk harrow to a tool that to
the body o f the green bug,
almost Indispensable on an up-to-date
which are shown in the
farm. F or working laud that to Infest­
picture on the wheat leaf.
ed with weeds that spread from their
When the eggs hatch out
root systems the disk harrow to the
the larvte feed on the bug
only harrow that should be used. It
until they become bees,
cuts the roots where they lie and does
when they lay more eggs
not drag them from one part o f the
on the bugs, and this proc­
field and transplant them In another.
ess Is repeated over and
W ith plenty o f horsepower It will do
over. The bees are shown
the work o f a plow on some kinds o f
In the picture, and farmers
soli, especially
In fruit orchards, should become fam iliar with them, so
where a plow is liable to tear up large they may recognize them as one of
roots and start suckers to growing up their beat friends.— Exchange.
where the ro o t'ls cut.
G r o w in g
R a tio n (o r C ow a,
Experiments conducted last year at
the W est Virginia Agricultural Station
go to show that, while a ration o f grain
given to cowa that are on pasture may
keep them In somewhat better physical
condltllon and keep up their flow o f
milk, the Increase In butter fa t to not
sufficient to pay fo r the coat o f the
grain ration. Thto would seem to be
oiw the assumption o f a flush pasture
and that the cowa would eat additional
grass to take the place o f the higher-
priced grain ration.
U a ia lz a a a
C ro p s .
Nature haa provided k leguminous
crop fo r every part o f the earth where
It was Intended that man should farm.
Oow pea< aoy beans and Japan clover
In the South, crimson clover In the
Eastern slope, red clover In the Cen­
tral states, a lfa lfa In the West, and
Canada peaa In the North show bow
thoroughly the distribution has been
affected.
H n n z r li,
Mangels grown continuously on the
same land for four years, yielded over
nine tons o f roots, containing one ton
o f dry matter, while on land under ro­
tation they yielded thirty-four tons o f
roota and four tons o f dry matter per
acre, at the New York Cornell Experi­
ment Station. From 25,006 to 80,000
plants o f mangels, rutabagas and hy­
brid turnip«, and from 40,000 to 60,000
plants o f carrots, per acre, are sug­
gested aa proper stands.
I g r t r t a g « • K i l l W eeds.
It has been proved that such weeds
aa falae-flax, wormaeed, mustard, tum­
bling mustard, common w ild mustard,
shepherd’s purse, pepper-grass, bell-
mustard, corn cockle, chlckweed, dan­
delion, Canada thistle, bindweed plan­
tain, rough pigweed, king-head, red
river weed, ragweed and cocklebur may
be destroyed by spraying the field with
a 2 or 8 per cent eolation o f copper
■alphate, using about eighty gallons o f
w ater per acre.
A /W W V \( V \A A i
1846— English defeated the French at
the famous battle of Creasy.
1664— New Amsterdam surrendered to
the British, who changed the name to
New York.
1783— Brandt made the first accurate ex­
periment» on the chemical nature of
arsenic.
1754— A disturbance of the French and
Indians occurred upon Ilooslck and
Scbaghticoke, which led to the break­
ing np o f these settlements.
1770— British defeated the Americans in
battle of Long Island.
1779— Gen. Sullivan defeated the Tories
and Indiana at Elmira, N. Y.
1798— James Wilson, one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence,
died.
1804— Margaret, widow of Benedict A r­
nold, died in London, aged 44 years.
1814— The city o f Washington burned by
the B ritish .. . . British evacuated the
' city of Washington. . . . Specie pay­
ments were suspended in Philadel­
phia.
1818— The Savannah, the first steam ves­
sel to cross the ocean, launched at
New York.
1829— First temperance society formed
In Ireland... .W arfare between Co­
lombia and Peru ended.
1830— The steam locomotive was adapted
to passenger service for the first
time in America, on the Baltimore
and Ohio railway.
1885— Sir John Gosford. Earl of Col-
borne, sworn In aa Governor of Can­
ada.
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1836— Opening of the Buffalo and Ni­
agara railroad.
1847— Republic o f Liberia inaugurated.
1848— T rial» of the Chartists began In
London.
1851— The yacht America beat the Iron
yacht Titania on a race of fbrty
miles by eight miles.
1856— The veasel engaged to toy the sob*
marine cable between Cape Ray, N.
F., and Cape North, C. B., began to
pay it out.
1856— The Dudley observatory waa dedi­
cated at Albany, N. Y.
1857— Beginning of a financial panic in
the United States, whirii culminated
in an almost entire suspension of ths
banks.
1858— First treaty signed between Great
Britain and Japan, _a __ _
______
I860— Victoria railway bridge at Mon­
treal opened by the Prince of Wales. /
1869— First Confederate soldiers’ monu-
_ ment unveiled ht Griffin, Ga. ______ _
1872— Severe storm and high tide did
great damage along the Nsw England
coaat.
1878— The independence of Servla pro­
claimed at Belgrade.
1883— The Salvation army began opera­
tions in Canada.
1884— England closed a contract with a
Chicago firm for 300,000 pounds of
compressed beef for the Gordon re­
lief expedition to Khartum.
1880— William J. Kendall, clothed in a
cork vest, swam through the Niag­
ara whirlpool rapids.
1801— Decennial census placed the popu­
lation of Canada at 4,823,344.
1894— A tornado swept ths shores of tho
Sea of Azof and caused the loss o f
1,000 lives.
1897— President Borda of Uruguay assas­
sinated at Montevideo... .Congress
of Salvador adopted the gold stand­
a r d .... Gen. J. P. S. Gobin of Penn­
sylvania elected commander-in-chief
of the G. A. R.
1902— Monsignor Guldl was appointed
apostolic delegate to the Philippines
by the Pope.
1904— Battleship Louisiana launched at
Newport News.
1907— The new cantilever bridge in
course of construction across the St.
I<awrence river, near Quebec, col­
lapsed, causing the death of nearly
100 workmen... .British House o f
Iiords passed tbe bill legalizing mar­
riages with a deceased wife’s slater,
thua settling a long pending ques­
tion.
P a t r ic k
to S u p rem e C ou rt.
Albert T. Patrick, serving a Ilfs sen­
tence for the murder of Millionaire Rica
In New York several years ago, has now
appealed to the Supreme Court from the
decision of Judge Lacombe denying his
application for release on habeas corpus
writ and a new trial. He makes the novel
claim that tbs life sentence is an Increase
o f penalty over that o f the electrical
chair which was formerly Imposed on
him.
A L L ABO U ND T H E GLOBE.
King Edward purposes to pay a visit
to Germany with the Queen early In
1906.
The Nsw Zealand government has re­
fused to enter into any arrangement to
aid In the grant of a subsidy to a c « , , . .
dlan-Anstralian line.
Ths Missouri law requiring railroads
to give free passes to shippers and care­
takers o f live stock, both to market and
back home, haa born declared onconstlto»