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The Great
Tontine
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• fine work of
fiction, embel
lished! with •
truly wonder-
ful and fasci-
'
*
noti ng
plot.
It is a splendid story and deals
with
an
ori^nal
subject
in
•
powerful way.
The incidents of this sterling
romance are cleverly drawn and
full o f great originality and interest
The characters are life-like and the
serial one of the very best ever
offered.
C H A P T E R I.
Herbert Phillimore. Ufth Viscount Lak
Ington, had reached his twenty sixth birth
day and the end o f his tether. There had
been no ho’der plunger on the race course.
“ T h e cleverest young one tl*4t has eve-
been o»«t.” muttered some.
“ H ow on
earth does he get his inf irm siion T’ mur
mured others. The bookm aker said noth
ing. hut continued dogge l y to lay him
shorter odds than ever, f t * bubble soon
burst, as it has burst many r time be
fore. T h » Viscount was no more astute
than his fellows, nor bleasjd t l t h any ex
traordinary sources o f information.
It
Was simply luck. *
I t did not occur to him to retire when
the smash came, to turn over a new leaf,
and attempt to live upon what was left
o f his income; but he quite recognised
that something must be done, and that the
o f w ar amst he raised frnan other
resources than his own in future.
He
fell back,-as- might have been expected,
upon the usual expedient o f unmarried
and impecunious nobility— the marrying o f
money. A popular, good-looking fellow o f
six-and-twenty, who can place a coronet
on his bride's brow, has not long to seek
fo r such opportunity.
Lakington was fortunate.
H e carried
off the greet matrimonial prise o f the
esason from a boot o f competitors.
A
quiet, lady-like girl, who, without being
s beauty, was still quite sufficiently good
lookin g; but whose greatest charm, prob
ably, In the eyes o f the world was that
she. was the only child o f Anthony Lym e
TVregis, the great financier.
T o define
what M r. Lym e W regia was, was pretty
nearly as difficult as to say what he was
not. H e seemed to have a finger in pretty
Nearly every big speculation that
a flo a t H is enemies declared that hi
a “ selter o f diamond fields,” promoter o f
"bogus” silver mince, phantom railways,
and every description o f bubble specula
tion that filled the pockets o f those that
started them at the expense o f the unfor
tunate dupes that took shares in them.
H ow ever, whatever he touched turned to
gold. H e had given a park to the people,
built unto himself a palace at Fulham,
and was reputed to be worth more than
a million o f money. The Viscount’s mar
riage was to take place the week after
Ascot, and the noble bridegroom, in con
junction with three kindred spirits as
reckless as himself, was at present stay
ing in one o f those pretty little bouses
that lie dotted around the village o f
Bracknell, and which had ben taken by
the quartette for tbe races.
i
a
?
! a
'
m
n;
I t is tbe evening o f the “ Cup” day,
and the party are lounging a t the open
window* o f tbe drawing room, and lan
guidly discussing tbe results o f the fierce
combat they have waged with the knights
o f tbe pencil the last three days.
“ H ow did you come through to-day,
la k in gton ?” asked S ir Gerald F itzp a t
rick.
“ Only so so.” replied the Viscount; “ I
had a pretty good win over Brown Duch
ess in the New Stakes, but I knocked it
ail down afterwards, and a bit more be
sides. I am fourteen hundred and fifty
out. and shall have to bet in earnest to
morrow if
if I am ever to get home.”
“ I « X .” suddenly exclaimed Carburkle,
barrister, "b a re any o f you taken
shares in the 'Great Tontine'? W hat does
I k rising b
your
that is to be. think o f
____ father-in-law.
U
it, Lakington?
Does the scheme com
---mend Itself to the great financier?”
“ W eil,” replied the Viscount, laugh
ing. “ as k so happens I did mention the
subject to him. Now . as you know, he
is no racing man— never troubles his bead
•bout I t In short; but, with a view, I
'
presume, to suit my limited apprehension,
ha puts his opinion o f that scheme Into
tu rf vernacular. H e described it as back
ing a yearling entered for the Derby to be
run when be was twenty years old, and
remarked further that he looked to turn
ing bis money over a good many ti
and making a good deal of it. bet'
this and then.”
"W e ll. I don’t know. I rather like tbe
Idea myself. It commends itself to my
mind as patting away something for one’s
old age,” observed Fitzpatrick.
“ A very broken reed to trust to, Ger
ald. and I most sincerely hope that yoa'll
have a good deal mare than that to fall
back upon in tbe days to con»».”
“ But what on earth is It?*' exclaimed
Forteerue. “ Pray explain to me what is
tbe meaning o f tbs ‘Great Tontine.’ "
“ T b e 'Great Tontine,' my dear F or
teerue,” replied tbe barrister, “ is a scheme
fo r tbe benefiting o f society, as orig-
ii «tc<i in the fertile brain o f Me. ftalie-
bury, the great Operatic impresario. He
that London has no opera
o f the greatest metropolis
H e prep earn to at t a n
o Of things by erecting
on# way or
furnikhed with all the tlaw.
1 have managed a
newest mechanical Inventions o f the ago. •run* an hotel, and may-do eli
The estimated triflo o f on# hundred and some day.
I have beea hi-
sixty thousand pounds w ill be raised by companles. I have mads say f
tho 'Great Tontine,’ end that la simply ‘bust up’ half a doses time
the issuing o f sixteen hundred shares o f often a ‘ big stroke’ to be dans
one hundred pounds apiece.
F o r every new place i f a man has a head on. hi'
hundred pounds share you take you must shoulders, and doesn’t arrive too late.
nominate a life, not leas than sixty years I t ’s vary possible 1 am th a t; but I heard
old, that la, you must give the name o f a good deal about this place from a M ead
some persoa who has attained that at
o f mine last week, and said I would rpu
say oae you lik e ; but he or she represent
down and look at it as soon as I had tp o
Ing the hundred pounds share must have o r three days to sp are; and h e n I am.”
attained the sixtieth birthday.”
In due course the lawyer showed his
“ And you may take as many shares as new acquaintance over the place, exp*
you please?” asked Forteecue.
tiating on Its advantages and fu tu n pro
“ Quite so,” continued Carbuckle: “ and pects. Mr. Hemmingby rattled nway with
name one life fo r tbe whole lot; or give his usual fluency, Intervperalag his speech
a different name for -each share.
Now, with incessant questions.
you see. It la considered, that as all these
M r. Pegram admitted to his new frtsnd
liven start at sixty years o f age, in twenty that he had been one of the very sarlie»t
years there w ill be very few, if any o f speculators in buying up land round about
them, left."
Llanbarlym, and owned that be bad made
“ And the holder o f the last Ufa takes a very good thing indeed on tbe transac
A r s n a W t E n te r p r is e .
the pool,” cried Gerald Fitapatrlck. “ I t tion in various ways during the last
An Io w a fa rm er baa succeeded In
would be rather exciting to find one’ s self three years, and that be fu lly expected
one o f the last half-doaen left in."
to make considerably more during the opening up a big field fo r bla enter
“ Don’t interrupt, Gerald,” exclaimed next five or six. A s for M r. Hemmingby. prise by applyin g an old method to n
lbs barrister pettishly; “ I want to make be told wondrous stories, and darkly hint new service.
H e baa gone Into tbe
Forteecue thoroughly understand Mr. Sal ed that ha guessed that there were dollars bualnean o f fu rn ish in g fresh eggs d a lly
isbury’s great conception.
T h e sixteen to be made in ’ Frisco, only he hadn’t to a regu lar *)lst o f customers, a fte r
hundred share« being all token up, and quite cyphered out fee “ hang” o f I f as the fashion o f tb e m ilkm en and bakers.
the namee attached to them being all care yet. Then M r. Pegram told o f his once
T h is fa rm er la a man w ho raises many
fully registered, tbe ‘G reet Tontine’ be winning fee “ Darby” lottery.
chickens and m arkets a la rg e number
gins. W ith the capital thus acquired the
“ L o tte rie s !' exclaimed M r. Hemmingby.
opera house ia at once commenced, and in^ “ I f you are good at lotteries, guess you’ ll o f eggs. T h ese he bad been sellin g to
about two years should be finished and in have to take a turn at the biggest tiding dealers, w ho In torn sent them to cold-
full swing. A s soon as that takes place o f the kind that has been mi hand in nay storage warehouse? o r to wholesalers.
five per cent per annum la to be paid to day. You w ill have to take a ticket in F in a lly th ey got to the consumers, usu
the aharfeolder*. As the lives la pee nom the ‘Great Tontine I” *
a lly p retty stale and much the w orse
inators lose all interest in the affair, and
“ W hat is that?” inquired tha lawyer. fo r handling, through tb e retail grocer
the rental is divided amongst those share “ I never even heard o f H.”
or huckster.
W hen eggs w ere p len ti
holders whose nominees are still livin g;
Whereupon Mr. Hemmingby proceeded
fu l and the w holesalers
w ere
w ell
conseqeutly, those fortunate enough to to explain the whole system o f that elab
stocked
up,
the
fa
rm
er
got
llttla
fo r
have made long-lived selections find their orate lottery to the beat o f hia ability.
income increasing annually.
The last I t took some time before he made hia them. W hen egga w are fe w and prices
eight, for instance, wUl be drawing • thou
companion thoroughly
understand
ths to consumers w ere very, ve ry high,
nd a year Interest on their hundred scheme. I t may be that the port wine the fa rm er found that hia egga In the
pounds share; the last two w ill have in had something to say against lucid ex warehouses w ere still In com petition
creased to four thousand a y e a r; while planation on ths one hand, and a dear w ith the producer.
T h is man’s egg
tbe shareholder who has nominated the understanding an the
other, although route Isn’t an egg route exclusively.
final life becomes the proprietor o f the neither o f the men showed the slightest
H e sells dressed chickens and other
whole.”
symptoms o f their deep potations; but farm produce, too, and when his egg
T h a t ia exactly what I say,” interpos when M r. Pegram had thoroughly mas
wagon la goin g about th e d riv e r tokas
ed Fitzpatrick. “ I call It making a very tered the details o f the scheme he became
orders
fo r oth er things which a re raised
suitable provision fo r your old age. Any deeply interested in It, and finally inquir
o f us, for instance, putting in our hun ed whether H em m ingby himself had token on the fa rm .— Springfield Journal.
dred pounds now, there ia a prospect o f shares in it.
S ta rttn p E a r ly C e le ry .
“ I ’vs got one," he replied, “ and I ’ve a
coming into eight thousand a year at fifty
C elery grow in g on
a
com m ercial
great mind to take another; but It ain’t
or thereabouts.”
A very distant prospect, a very dim so easy to find a life o f sixty that you icale baa received most attention In
and haiy prospect,” said Lakington, smil know and can do s bit with i f he gets tbo “ muck-bed" areas o f M ichigan and
W hy, if I found m yself In It New York, w h ere thousands o f acrea
ing.
“ No, upon the whole, Gerald, I ’d rickety.
rather trust to picking out the winner o f at last, and my man a hit ailing, I'd cart ir e devoted to this crop. C a lifo rn ia
the “ Wokingham’s’ to-morrow, and pot him round the world until he got ths c li ind F lo rid a have taken up the Indus
my'hundred on that, than put It into the mate be wanted.”
replied Pegram, “ I like that— try and du ring the w in ter and spring
G reat Tontine.’ ”
nonths p rovid e N orthern
cities w ith
“ Yea,” rejoined Oar buckle m editatively; capital idea— life yon can watch over,
“ a hundred pounds is a good deal o f keep your eye on, that’s the thing. I sup arge amounts o f celery.
of
T o secure an e a rly crop
tbe best
money to put Into such an everlasting lot pose the life you have got la a
plan fo r the am ateur g ro w er is to fill
tery as this,”
..______ Whom y o q can take care?"_____
H ia host eyed him keenly as he
i wooden tr a y 16 inches by 24 inches
But,’ replied the ever sanguine Fits-
patrick, “ look w hat a price It ia ! Treble “ N o ; and tbatis just the reason-1
:n slze w ltb fine soil three inches deep.
events are nothing to this. I have my lit like my eecond chance to be o f that kind. This soil should he pressed down and
tle scheme, and it ia worthy o f Salisbury No, I won’ name him ; but I ’ll fiv e you rbe seeds scattered eith er In row s or
himself. W hat do you say, my brethren, a very fa ir Hip’ if you think o f venturing jroabcast. C o ver the seeds by aprlnk-
to a pool at cards? W e put in twenty- your luck. D o as I have done— pick out
five pounds apiece.
D raw a card each one o f tbe moat eminent statesmen o f that
In spite o f tbe tremendous work
o f y o u ; the tw o highest first play togeth age.
er, then the two lowest, and then the two they do, the balance o f them go very near
w isu ers; and I propose that whoever livin g out the tim e."
“ I have i t ! " exclaimed M r. Pegram
wins the pool be solemnly pledged to in-’
vest that hundred in the ’ G reat Ton; next morning. “ Old Krabbe’s the man “ I
want. H e must be about sixty, and is as
tine.’ *
T b e game was played, and Lakington hale and hearty a man aa I know. H e’s
been clerk w ife me now some seventeen
won.
years and never been ailing all that time.
OEBMINATIXO BOX fo e CELKBT.
“ Remember, Lakington,” said F itzpat
I can’t call to mind his ever being a day
rick, “ yon are pledged to put that hun absent or five minutes 1st*. Father did a
dred into tha ‘G reat Tontine.’ I have the good stroke o f business when he got hold ling through a fine sieve a sm all quan-
strongest presentiment that you w ill even
of M m ; and, to do him justice, the old
lo w o f a m oderately w arm room w ith
tually win i t . ' I t w ill be so like tbs luck
dad was a mighty good judgs o f the points
o f tbs Fitopatricks to have chucked eight
frequent
sprin klin g w ill
p rovid e tbe
o f either man or beast. Old Krabbe has
thousand a year out o f window. Anyw ay,
germ ination.
been a good servant to me so far. I 'll xm dltiona necessary fo r
I am the first o f tbe fam ily who ever
ust ask him his exact age. and I f that’s When the seedlings a p p e a r 1 a fte r tw o
stoked as much on a hand at cards. And
about right, pot him in. L e t him Uve to jt three weeks turn tbe boxes d a lly
now I ’ m off to bed ; I can’t do the fam ily
land this stoke, and he shall have s new to keep tbe gro w th even. T b e
lllua-
•states any more mischief after that. I
rigout and live like a gentleman to the trstion shows the form o f box used
shall dedicate the next twenty years or
end o f his d a ys; and he may take hia oath
so o f my life to the framing o f a compen I ’ U not see Ms valuable life endangered*. 'o r sta rtin g the plants.
sation bill to be presented to Viscount
T h at’s settled. Yes, I ’ll put in for the
Cost o f B a ta ta s a C a lf. •
Lakington, the then owner o f the new
G reat Tontine,’ and old Krabbe shall be
In an experim en t to ascertain tbe
R oyal Italian Opera House.”
my nominee. I ’ll w rite about it to-day.”
coat o f raisin g a c a lf P ro f! Shaw o f
( T o be continued.)
C H A P T E R II.
M lcM gan station took a d a ir y c a lf and
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Amongst the little knot o f land dealers,
kept an accurate account o f the e x
T h e B a c h e lo r * ’ E x c a s e *.
»
builders, surveyors, architects and others
A t a w eddin g breakfast the bacbo pense o f feed in g fo r one y e a r from lta
who busied themselves earnestly about the
lore w ere called upon to g iv e th e ir rea birth. T b e amounts o f feeds used In
development o f Llanbarlym. there were
sons fo r rem aining single. T h e fo llo w that tim e w ere 381 pounds o f w hole
none more keenly interested than M r. Paul
m ilk, ¿.668 pounds o f skim m ilk. 1,262
Pegram, a solicitor residing in s country in g w ere am ong the reasons g iv e n :
“ I am lik e a fro g In the fa b le who, pounds o f silage, 210 pounds o f beet
town some twelve miles from the budding
watering place.
M r. Paul Pegram. al though be loved the w ater, w ould not pulp, 1,254 pounds o f bay, 1,247 pounds
beit a sharp and a somewhat unscrupulous Jump into tb e w ell because he could o f grain, 147 pounds o f roots. 14 pounds
practitioner, had arrived at the age of not Jump out again.”
o f a lfa lfa meal and 50 pounds o f green
forty without in his own opinion having
T h e grain ration consisted o f
“ I am too selfish and honest enough corn.
done much good for himself. H e was not to a d m it it.” 1
th ree parts each o f corn and oats and
a popular man; and though the Welsh
“ I p refer, on the one hadd, liberty, one part o f bran and ollm eaL A t tbe
bsve tbe reputation o f being a somewhat
refresh in g sleep, the opera, M idnight end o f the y e a r tbe c a lf w eighed 800
litigious people, they at all events put
pounds at a cost o f $28.50 fo r feed. T b e
their litigation but sparsely into Mr. Pe- suppers, qu iet seclusion, dream s, elgnrs,
gram's hands. H e was s man o f vary a bank account and d u b to,on th e other c a lf w as a H olstein.
humble extraction, his father having been
a cattle jobber. H e died very prond o f
having brought up his son as a “ profes
sional gentleman,” and o f leaving some
four thousand pounds behind him.
Paul Pegram threw himself heart and
soul into the development o f Llanbarlym,
Th is was the sort o f speculation that he
had been waiting for all his life. I t bad
special attraction for him.
H e was early in the field, foreseeing
what the railw ay would do for the place.
H e determined to sink ail the money be
could lay his bands upon in this specula
tion. Llanbarlym throve and grew In a
manner that quite surpassed tbe expec
tations o f those interested in its exten
sion. T h e annually Increasing throng o f
visitors bad brought settlers
in
their
wake.
Lodging bouse keepers and shop
keepers flocked from surrounding towns
to start In business in the new watering
place. I k e first hotel was already dw arf
ed by a gigantic rival.
N ot only had Paul Pegram already
made money, bat he saw tbs land he » in
quired Increasing rapidly in value.
In
sh ort should Llanbarlym
continns to
prosper, in the course o f s few years he
would become a rich own.
One day there arrived (h Mr. Pegram's
office a dark, rather flashily dressed gen
tleman, w ith s great deal o f watch chain
and a good deal o f diamond ring about
h im ; a dark, well-whiskered man o f soma
five or six-aDd-thirty, with a very glossy
hat.
Ha guvs his name as M r. Hem-
mingby, and curtly informed the lawyer
that he had coma down to sea If there
was anything to be done with this new
place— Llanbarlym. M r. Pegram natural
ly Inquired what did the stranger propose
to do for himself or Llan bariym
“ W ell, you sos,” replied
the other,
“ that is a thing I am not particular
I have had a tuna at a aaod
EEKLY J
IAN
T r o o io a S o u * Coot o f P r a lr lo D o b s .
In tbe state o f T e x a s alone p ra irie
dogs sat an n u ally enough grass to sup
p ort 1,062X00 cows. U tte rly uaeleea, tb e
little anim al la a peat ao dreaded that
the fo re s try aervlce has undertaken his
exterm ination.
Poison is k illin g him,
w h erever be now flourishes and another
resource o f the fa rm er is safeguarded.
W h o w ould think th at the p ra irie dog.
the shy and am using lit t le rodent that
w e lik e to w atch b efore the door o f
hia bu rrow a t tha Zoo, w ould ever be
com e the subject o f tb e governm ent in
terven tion o r endanger the success o f
stock raisin g?
Y e t such la tha fact,
aaya th e Technical
W o rld Magaxlne.
O ut on the national foresta which U n d e
Sam la guarding, fo r tbe use o f the pub
lic, expert hunters have gone a fte r tb e
p ra irie dog w ith seal.
Ingenuity and
poison and lite ra lly exterm in ated them
In grea t num ber», because some o f th eir
i choicest bottom landa have had the
graxln g ruined fo r stock by tb e Indus
triou s bu rrow in g o f th e “ dogs.”
/W W S^W W Ai
•
1606— Lord Ds La W a rr appointed G ov
ernor o f Virginia for Ilfs.
1648— Indiana o f Hoboksn massacred by
tbs Dutch.
1676— Indians mads a raid on the town
* o f Weymouth. Mass.
1724— The R h ois Island Assembly passed
an act requiring a property qualifi
cation for becoming a freeman.
1763— W illiam Franklin,
laat colonial
Governor o f New Jersey, took office.
1704— Rhode Island college waa incorpo
rated.
A G a te T h a t W ovov Saar*.
1778— First salute to the American 6ag
I h a re used this gate fo r many years
by a foreign government.
and n ever spent five m inutes rep a irin g
1783— First United Statee bank
char
it
Countersink tw o pieces .and pin
tered.
them together. Then aet up tw o 2x4
1780— The Cayagas sold their landa to
pieces 2 f t high er than the gate ao it
the State o f New York.
can be raised In w in ter.
M ortice and
1810—
Arkansas territory
formed from
set in between the crosspieces, which
Missouri.
1820— “ Missouri Compromise B ill” pass
ed.
■ ■ ■ I I I S a » I I R l
■ iisiiim c g a i
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wmx-covxaxD
•
a '
o atx t h a t
b alances .
a re 12 in. apart,
the board, a. and
fasten a cap to the top o f tbe fram e.
T h e gate Is 16 ft. long, 12 f t being fo r
the ga tew a y and 4 f t fo r the w eights
to -balance I t
T h e fra m e ia o f. 2x4!a.
C o ver the 4-ft. end w ith boards and fill
w ith enough atones to balance It when
hung. C over the gate w ith w ire fen c
ing and ban g by a chain.
Pu t a bolt
through the lo w er p a rt of, the fra m e
Into the crosspiece, a.— A . J. Fraser, in
F arm and Home.
1827— Charter for Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad granted.
1820— The Alabama Legislature protest
ed against the tariff.
t
1838— “ Compromise tariff”
bill passed
ths House o f
Representatives.. . .
George McIntosh Troup o f Georgia
resigned his seat In the United States
Senate.
1836— Declaration o f
Texas signed.
Independence
of
r
1887— The United States Senate resolved
that the recognition o f Texas as an
independent nation was proper and
expedient.
1845— The President approved a bill for
------the annexation o f Texas.
1847— Americans defeated the M exicans-
at battle o f Chihuahua.
.1848— Louis Philippe o f France abdicat
ed.
1854— American steamer. Black W arrior,
seised by the Cuban authorities at
Havana.
1857— Cfengress authorised the people o f
H o w to G ro w Potati
Minnesota to form a Stats govern
D irecto r W oods o f the M aine agricu l
m ent
tu ral experim ent station sum m arizes
1863—
Union force defeated by tbe Con
hia suggestions aa to succesful p otato
federates at Battle o f Falmouth.
gro w in g as ^follows.
W hat
he aaya
about thorough preparation o f the soil 1864— Ulysses S. Grant made a lieuten
ant general. . . . Kentucky University
is applicable to that to be used fo r any
destroyed by fire.
1
crop.
1865—
John
Young
Beall,
Confederate
Select h ig h ly fe r tile land, ao situated
spy, hanged on Governor’s Island,
that It w ill su ffer as little as possible ,
, N ew .Y o r k .. . .Transylvania U n iver
from e ith e r excessive
rain o r ' from
sity consolidated with Kentucky Uni
droughts.
versity. . . . United
States
Senate
T h orou gh ly prepare tbe soil and far-
passed the $600,000X00 loan MIL
Itllse liberally.
1868— Disraeli became premier o f E n g
K eep the crop fre e fro m weeds and
land, succeeding the Earl o f Derby.
the surface o f the soil loose d a rin g the
1871— Meeting at Washington o f Joint
w h ole season.
high commission on Alabama claims.
D o not 1st anything prevent the po
1873— Alexander H. Stephens elected to
tato field from receivin g constant care.
Congress from Georgia.
V astly m ore fa llu ree In potato g ro w
1873— Fernando Wood
moved
In tha
ing can be traced to neglect o f crop
House for the impeach meat o f Vice
than to lack o f knowledge.
President C oifst.
1875— Rev. George D. Gillespie conse
H o w M a n y Houo.
crated bishop o f the Episcopal dio
H a v e yon pondered the fa c t that it
cese o f Western Michigan.
requires v e ry little m ore labor to keep 1877— New American theater. In Ph ila
flock o f 100 birds than a flock o f 20?
delphia, destroyed by fire.
T h e re Is a bint there as to gettin g
1879— President Hayes vetoed tbs Chi
the proper return fo r you r labor.
nese
A restriction bill.
A lso the expense o f housing and y a rd
1887— Scores o f lives lost In tbs b a ilin g
ing the la rg e r flock la but little m ore
o f the steamer W . H. Gardner near
than fo r th e sm aller.
Gainesville, Ala.
These are- tbe tw o Im portant outgoes,
1880— Congress appropriated $350,000 to
aside from feed.
aid American workingmen thrown
I t fo llo w s that you r p rofit w ill be
ont o f employment by the stoppage o f
g re a tly Increased by the enlarged flock
work on the Panama canal.
w ith ou t a corresponding Increase o f
1800— Pan-American Congres voted fo r
expense.
an International railway.
hand, disturbed rest, cold m eat, baby
B y all means. I f I t w ill pay you at
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1801—
Charles Foster o f Ohio qualified aa
linen, soothing sirup, rocking horses,
all to keep chickens, It w ill pay you
Secretory o f the Treasury.
W h a t a re considered the finest apples to keep not lesa than aeventy-five.
bread pudding and em pty pockets.’’
“ I h a re a tw in brother, and w e have- ev e r grow n in the U nited States o r
1894—
W a r between Nicaragua and Hon
duras ended.
n ever had a secret From one another, any oth er country passed through Bos
W h o a and H o w to P ru a o .
ton recently on their w a y to the table
I t la very Im portant that tbe healing 1895—
l i e is m arried.
Postmaster General Biased resign
J o f K in g Edw ard, o f England. T h e y are process should
start soon
a fte r the
ed and was succeeded by W illiam L.
. s .known aa w in ter banana apples, and wonnd Is'm ade. otherw ise the cambium
T h e G ra n d est.
Wilson o f West V irgin ia. . . . Express
“ W h a t Is the grandest th in g In the a re tw o and a h a lf tim es tbe slxe o f w ill be killed hack qu ite a distance
train on the Iloustou and Texas Cen
u n iverse?"
asks
V ictor
Hugo.
“ A tbe ordin ary apple to which one la ac from the exposed surface, and healing
tral road held upland robbed near
Dallas.
storm at aea," he answers and contin customed. T h ese hpples are grow n at w ill be grea tly retarded. F o r this rea
ues, “ A n d w h a t is gran d er
than a tbe Beulah land orchards. H ood R iver, son w in ter pruning should be avoided, 1903— Aldrich currency bill defeated in
storm at sea?”
“ T h e unclouded heav Ore., by O scar V anderbilt, an exp ert p a rticu la rly in fro sty weather. In the
tbs S e n a te... .United States Senate
ens on a sta rry, moonless night.” “ And orchardiat. and they are considered the e a rly fa ll o r la te spring the cambium
passed the Philippine currency bill.
w h at is grander than these m idnight highest developm ent in the cultivation la a ctive and wounds made at thla tim e
1906— F ive million dollar dock Ir e ia
skies?” ‘T b e soul o f iqan” — a spectac o f this f r u i t • T h e ir color la perfect, ■tart to heal at once, and there la l i t
New Orleans.
ular clim a x such as H u go loved and the rosy blush blends w ith the green tie o r no d yin g back o f the camMum.
1906— lo w s State Senate passed bill pro
still, w ith a ll its d ra m a tic effects, the in tb e m ost luscious m anner Im agin
hibiting Sunday baas ball.
In fla vo r and textu ra they are
picturesque statem ent o f a vast and able.
A t ’* » f u l F a ro » Im p le m e n t.
1908—
N ew York State Senate refused to
•a good as they look.
sublim e and m igh ty truth.
remove Otto Kelsey, State Superin
tendent o f Insurance... .T h e first o f
L s e k y Youth.
Salt W a t e r to K ill '
ths tunnels under the Hudson R iv e r
D iggs— Lu cky
fe llo w , th a t young
g a it w a ter fo r k illin g weeds baa
between New York and New Jersey
Green. H e w en t w est last spring, you been exten sively used du ring tbe past
was opened.. ..U n ited
States Su
know.
season on the Oregon Short L in e ra il
preme Court decided in tbe O rre t
B iggs— D id b e do w e ll out there?
w ay. and ve ry sa tisfa ctory results have
Northern Railroad case that ths El
D ig g s— I should say bo .
W hy, he been reported. W a te r fo r tha purpose
kins rebate law was not repealed by
the Hepburn set.
w as abla to g e t back w ith ou t w ritin g ia taken d irectly from G rea t Salt Lake,
A useful but much neglected
farm
home fo r money.
w h ich la approxim ately 22 per eent salt,
W lro lo sa fo r B allo o n * Next.
and is m erely pumped into tank care Implement— th e shaving horse.
The Aerial
Navigation
Company
and hauled over tbe line.
which, under the direction o f Charles J.
O r c h a rd S a v a c a tio n s .
W ig w a g — I believe there’s a tin ge o f
(Hidden of Boston, is constructing sev
A s a ra le applet from orchards that eral airships to be used in regular traffia
T o K o v a l « « Stato I.oaS s.
Insanity in a ll religiou s enthusiasts.
T h a t a ll the
homestead landa in are In sod culture are better and m ore between Boston and N ew York, is ar
Henpecke— Y e s ; take the Mormons,
fo r Instance.
A n y man th a t wants M ich igan have been w ith d raw n from h igh ly colored than those fro m tilled ranging to Install a system o f wirelaoa
m ore than one w ife la plumb crazy.— the m arket ia announced by State Land orchards, bat this la not neceasarlly so. telegraphy for this ne«r air llna. Tha ob-
C om m isloner H u n tley Russell.
The
Ph ilad elp h ia Record.
T h e peach requires good culture, but oct la to communicate with any aerial
that
landa w ill be kept out until they have this culture should not be continued too craft carrying wifeless apparatus
A n attem pt to establish a municipal been reappraised, aa provided by a res la te In the season or the w ood w ill not may be fifin g anywhere east o f tbs Mto-
Special sanding and receiving
b rew ery In B erlin resulted In a dis olu tion recently introduced la ths lo w er harden by tb e tim e w in ter sets in and ■iselppL
stations a n now being constructed a t
m al failu re. I t d id p len ty o f buslnaaa, boose off the stato legislature.
tha tree w ill ha Injured.
but lost
c n tr .
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