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T'TT wwwawi 1 1. U WICKLY'S WOODS By II. W. TAYLOR TJJKCSSwwt'KWBWCP" ?o CIIAPTEU HI. "Would you mini) taking n little walk with me, Miss Wlckly? I want you to see Just what wo nro doing, niul what wo nro going to ili) In the wny uf digging up your pork, before wo go too fur with It. Prof. Huntley mentioned the matter twice Inst week. And nftcr considering It, wo concluded Hint you ought to see for yourself, ami fully understand the situation. Wo have concluded thnt our rrsenrches must lu much more pxtenslve than we nt first contemplated. And per Imps I'rof. Huntley thought thnt nu nddl tlonnl compensation ought to he given ypu under the clrcumstnnees; and tins mnde such n statement to the to the Hoard," tld Mr. Mason, on a Saturdny afternoon some two week after tho oc cnrrenccH detailed In tho first chapter. "I wish yon would tnko her away aomewhere, Mnson," exclaimed John Wlckly In mock despair. "She's In one of lirr tensing moods, and linn been tor menting the life out of me for the last hour. Don't take her, though, unless on nro fully satisfied that you can en dure unutterable thing. For I think tho taken about as much delight In tens ing you as me." "Teasing! Now, Mr. Mason, you shall Judge between us. Here are the Chicago papers with accounts of the meeting of the Wlcklif heirs. Illustrated with life like portraits of a great many of them pa Included. Now don't you think that family ought to get an estate of fifty million- simply upon their personal good looks?" There was a very merry twinkle In the mischievous brown eye of Lizzy Wlckly, a she skillfully avoided the audden trasp with which her father attemptod to get possession of the papers. "Now, remember, Mr. Mason, that this Is the way the Wlcklif, or Wlckly. heirs appeared, to fair and Impartial artists who delineated them to the life. Aren't they ugly? There ought to be some pen alty attached to such unmitigated ugli ness as these pages display. "Oh, blesa you; there Is. A rery harsh penalty, too; since the Tlctlms never live long enough to servo out the sentence," retorted Mr. Wlckly. with a laugh that had something artificial in It to Mr. Mason's ear. Therefore he hasteued to "If you are ready. Miss Lizzy, and non t mind the walk " "Oh, I shall bo delighted. I assure you," said I.Izzy, putting on her hnt be fore the little mirror over tho droning CUM. They went along the sandy street hedged with an enormous growth of wild liemp and Jluison weeds, wherever the absence of a dwelling made It unneces sary to clear nway tho rapid growth of tho hot Juno days. People stared at them out of windows, and came to the doors to prolong the view after they had passed. Little squad of men ceased talking as they came up, and preserved a critical and vigilant silence until they were well past these spots on their wny to the woods. Everywhere Sandtown had Its three hundred pairs of eye upon the pe destrians, and did not attempt to conceal that fact. Lizzy blushed a little indig nantly. "I haven't got accustomed to tne vil lage Argus yet," she said with a tight laugh, as they turned out of the road leading eastward and took their way up a little straight lane crowded with the staple jlmson and wild hemp, the dead white stalks of both plants glistening like bleached skeletons with knotted Joints among the dark lustrous green ot the lux uriantly growing young plants. "Nor has the village Argus come to know you thoroughly," answered -lr. Mason, smiling. "When It iloos come to make your. acquaintance tnoroughly. you will find It the moot docile of animals, even winking at the Urgent of your pec cadilloes assuming that these are of any magnitude at all" "Which Is an unwarranted assumption, air. Haveu't 1 been Hrfoet, even In th crltlcul eyes of the village Argus'" There was the light and bantering air of the merry young woman out to lie entertained, and entertaining, certainly. Hut there was also a quirk and search ing after-gkinec that mlaht mean some thing more, something deeper. "Do you men to ask me a conven tional question which should have a con ventional answer. Miss Llszy? You know I am so weil to the bare ami alistract so lution of plain arithmetic I am) alge braic propositions and problems, that " He ke4tateu ami glanced: at her doubt fully. "Let me le solved by the very sternest rules of your selenee, Mr. Mason," she said, with her brows drawn just a trifle, and the short upper Up now so com pressed ns to hide the gleam of her very pretty white teeth. "1 suppose that In very truth a young woman Is seldom fav ored with a calm and Impartial Judg ment upon herself from a competent source. And really, I think that all of us have a secret craving to moan tiro our selves with those who have already at tained eminence In some laudable di rection." "And have yon, too, that distrust of tlio hasty and formal conventional ver dict, that leads us to desl- to have the verdict reviewed again?" he laughed. "Come this wsy, Miss Wlckly. You will be floundering between a Scylla of wal nut stump and a Charybdls of Jimson weeds In a moment. And that calls me back to what I bad Intended to say of the village Argus. I became acquainted with it late enough In life to hate and condemn It at first, and afterward to yield it a tardy but ever growing respect mid esteem. The espionage of the ril- logo and tho country Is, after all, no mere vulgar and despicable curiosity." "What else can It be, Mr. Mason? What else but tho evidence of a total lack of good breeding? The rudeness of nn Ignorant and uncu...vated people?" die naked, her upper lip curling In scoru nt tho very contemplation. "For In stance, tho gnun'let of bold and unblush ing storings through which even you. man ns you are, did not conio unwound tl, just now." They had gone boyond the utmost limit of (he struggling village of Handtown, and had even begun a sarins of gentle as cents by which tho road, no longer n rait walled lane, led gradually over gentle knolls to the sharp wooded ridges of tho river bluff. As Lizzy concluded tier Invective site turned and glanced bnck toward the vil lage. At that distance figure of people In Utile groups on the street or nt doors and windows could be seen fixed and mo tionless, with faces toward the two stroll ers. Mr. Mason turned also, and both being struck by something ludicrous lu the situation, laughed very heartily. "1 confess that a laugh Is n great handicapping of a philosophical proposi tion. Nevertheless, I must say that m far nobody has rend the riddle of the Sphinx aright. The nrocresslvc world sets Itself about tho Instantaneous re forming, developing and lifting of the lower stratum of society up to the higher level of each epoch. In very fact. Miss Wlckly, such n proceed in c Is as unntillo- sophtcal and mnterlallr Imnossltde ns that those apple trees should bear their fruit before the flowers and leaves, and even tho twigs." He paused agnln and looked at her scrutlnlzlngly, and a little apprehensive ly, but with the apprehensive clement slipping nut rapidly. "I think I catch your meaning totally new and strange as It is to mo. Would you, for instance, have me give up my effort to Instruct and enlighten the very ignorant children of the still more Ignor ant people of Kandtown? Or, more com prehensively, would you have nil effort nt Instruction and advancement of the lower classes, the poor and uneducated, stopped for once and all?" Now, Indeed, the element of npprrhen slvcness had disappeared entirely from the took which Mr. Will Mason cast upon hi fair and serious, but skeptical ques tioner. In its plnco wns a half-suppressed, eager, delighted anticipation, which she saw there so distinctly, so unmis takably, that she could not rrstrnln the Involuntary smile of Instant recognition. Mr. Mason tlushcd n little, and his smile had something of embarrassment In It. Were his unuttcrcd thoughts to be seen at a single glanco of this girl of nineteen years? "You cau hardly have an Idea, Miss Lizzy," he said, apologet ically, and looking away while he made broadsword cuts at tho very vulnerable heads of the Jimson weed with his hick ory walking stick, "how hungry I get for the compaulonship of educated and re fined people. Or, rnther, Isn't It for a sort of Intellectual combat thnt we pine. In a solitude of observation on the price of wheat, the next election, and what your friend Hodden's last acquisition In Alderney cows cost him 7 If I hadn't discovered you and your tather and moth er here In this secluded spot to which 1 have been condemned by fortune, I should hare been tempted to try conclu sions with fate by resigning my position and fleeing back to tho city." "Not In the face of such a lovely scene as this, Mr. Mason, surely 1" Tor continued exertion, coupled with tin physical ability to copo with sustained effort or rather to achieve sustained ef fort. And If I mistake not, the seed fell upon fnllow ground, Hvo 1 not seen you armed with hoc and sunhontiet per formlug prodigies In the well kept gnr den behind your father's house? llellevn mo or not, Miss Ltxty, to the extent of my ueserts you hnvo renlly tnken a long step toward quieting the Argus uf Maud- town. After awhile it will blink com placently upon nil your goings In ami your comings out. There goes a fox aqtilrrrj. How the wary scamp runs strnigiit tor Ills own rortress, past mnny Inviting trees." "Hut you are quite sure thnt my gar den exercises nro the direct resi.lt of A J- ""w '" "vo , , , ,"t your Mount Zlon lecture. Mr. Phlloso- lnrli. or im tunny n desired. I U "" pher?" she said, with n little pique dls- section or bottom unu Is inndo J "' " closed In her voice, ns well hm In tliu Inches wide, from outiddo to outside, niched brows and the drooping lids, mid 1(1 feel lone! iiolnt both end to "Might t not nrrhe Independently at the prevent from slipping rounds U'j feot conclusion that 1 might to 'work the' gar- lmr,. ,,.., , ,m.Huro from top for wh!;t"."h.H .StVTl l l.ffiSwwmli; "How 8 Inches Tor slot or want a heap of ugly nil dirt, .Mr. Ma- . . , ' , ...... ... von son. Is this where you get all the henps "" ,3 iwUv" or, "" " or ugly rough stones thnt I snw lu the l,lt,"!,,,. " " ",xt "'V"''' .', .,," oilleo of the State geologist once?" I round project from either sloe- -H They went on through the woods slip- Inches for n shoulder for the next edl- iMiiK uiinii sieep ucciiriiies, inrougn mtis uon io rest on; put n " ot nrown leaves knee deep, leaping across ,,nch end, of 2x1, to prevent splitting. at -wtvw 'MV.H n nvf.-n t j x . -r urcv-r.-i r v wixxij nrm iviw 1 fKKrtTi THEWECKLY ORIAH A tlood lUtrnsloii l.iidder. Jolnteil InMer In lliroo or tour nine sieiiuer, siiaumi rills, pulling great Kpv-onit pnrt 8 feet lutiK, - "'t wine, bunchesofsweelwllllHm"hernndthere.lll!tllU, IllwlHUri, r Mlnu width from looking nt the surprisingly tall, slender 1,.,.... ... ,,. ,.., ......i..., 1. 0tl top saplings of nsh and elm. nud poplar, ami I llm'' l n" "' "r"t "'" r , .i,!, i.i..L-..rr , 1 ... 1... 1. '...'. 1. 1... outside, so the second pnrt enn slip vns'tt sti nv-vim-ii t ur III nill'll It Hill- I . ... , ry of growth to get up Into the siinshlno ''"'' ''" '' ""t pnrt. leltlng llm CHAPTnil IV. They had reached the summit of the highest of the rand mounds that lie as If lu little eddies of that mighty stream that once swept from the great lakes down the valley of the Wabash toward the ocean. "Was there ever anything so lovely? Look nt that fatut golden green of the fringing willows of this bright, bright river! And the darker green ilefienlHg into blue ami purple of the patches of woodland on the other fttd. Ami then beyond that, the upward sweep of the strange, fair, lonely, lonely, wdemn prai rie. I could never be unhappy nor great l discontented In the presence of a seene like this." Llsay had Involuntarily turned nway flora hint, holding her hand outstretched, in n sort of glrUsh ecstasy of admiration toward the wide river bottom ami lh ImmiikIIwii prairie beyond. They stood In alienee for almost a min ute, their eyed rwnlug upon n bright reach of limpid, iqiarklug river cut off by a mass of the distant blue grewi wmmI (ami, now upon a dim and misty light blue vtoa of valley that fnnn the dark and defined bordor of diminvMilMg line of woMllaml drawn up In martial array to wltmws the passage of the unceasing ImmmI of watem. Iwl un and on Into the undefined dominion uf northern ky. htlamled with hanks of unmovlng clouds of creamy white. "You are a poet. Miss Llssy. And I am not," hi Id the aiwdtaiit KlHfi"t. Itreseutly. "I think this fart fully ex plains the great difference between us. You can never weary t the Mautlful thinga of woo.1 ami Held ami ttaod. I, oti thf mhr luind, must have the Iwautifiil and the good In some human creature." He tok this last sentence alinwwt lu nn Inaudible murmur, aud now with his head turned away aud the cane making broadsword sweeps among the ranks of hostile JlmsottK. "Wo must go on, Mr. Philosopher, or we shall bo too late to make a rery thor ough Inspection of the field of your spring labors. And l have not forgotten, too, that I had put you upon dangerous ground by my question a few moments ago. How do you answer ItV They began the walk again, now dis appearing from the vision of the three hundred pairs of eyes, lu the thickest of linzel und dwarf oak that Intermediated between the sandy prulrio laud of the river bottom and tho primeval forest of tie upland mils. Unconsciously they had quickened their pace as If It had been the beauty of the rulley aud prairie that hud held them back Heretofore. "I meant to express my view that the proletary is that Immovable, Imperish able, immutable, base and germinal of humanity out of which has always grown the slender nud comparatively sparse, delicate and perishable roots and flowers the educated, the refined, the Intellec tual men and women, and even cities and communities of tho earth. Hut I'm afraid you will look upon this as a lecture, Miss Lizzy. And If I remember, you have stipulated against lectures." "Then your leeture at Mount .ion four weeks ago " "Was aimed at you. Mum Liszjr, I must ennfmm. I thouglii that I saw in you KliMt possibilities. If only there were hublnd you tho motive power of necessity above the high tops of the parent trees thnt they could not nfford mnterlnl for lateral growth. Here a bunch of wild raspberry vines held Its clusters of black, soft, sweet berries too temptingly townnl them, and their fingers nud lips were stained with the purple Juices. Here a hen phensnnt, spreading her drooping wings nud erecting her black ruff fluttered along In n wny that so niuuscd the latent hunter Instinct lu Lizzy Wlckly thnt she lutultlrely gavt chase, and only relinquished the pursuit when the wily bird, having succeeded In her diversion, aud being satisfied of the M-curity of her numerous little brown brood, finally flew high up lu a leafy oak and immediately stood so straight up that It looked rery much like a bit of dead limb. Here a tangle of wild rose bushes cov ered with the sweet smelling "forbears," of all the Mnrechal Niels and the Jacque minots and sweet lea roses prettier and sweeter than any of their noble and haughty descendants, called the ramblers Irresistibly to them, and held them a long, long time In admiring Investigation. and delightful acquisition. It was at the cud of this episode, and when the glorkvi of the wild rose tangls had been exhausted, that Lizzy held up a largo bouquet of the ric, the sweet williams, some wild pinks, some very richly tinted bluebells and a setting of long, rich, yellow-green ferns to tho ad miring gaze of Mr. Mason. 'This bouquet I shall leave at your tent for Prof. Huntley. If after seeing this he shall still persist lu keeping away from Kumltown and the Wlckly residence I shall be driven to seek him In his lair. Isn't that the tent yonder, Mr. Mason?" There was au odd, puzzled, uncomfort able, apprehensive and abashed look or combination of looks on Mr. Mason's face, that made an Impression upon Lttxy Wlckly. Wns he not hurt? Was the poor old fellow so very Jealous? And was she altogether right In romping through the woods in this boydrnUh way with Mm 7 Tor although his long and ahnndant brown hair was plentifully sprinkled with gray, announcing that tho 'rooting time" of life had fully nrrlrcd, wns his dons shaven fare not ruduy and preternatur any young? Thnt Is the tent. Miss LUzy. Ami we are upon It in the nick of time. Kor litre eumex a black cloud so rapidly and unexpectedly that yes, we will have ta run or get a iriukllug. Quick! (lire me the flowers so yon can kohl your kirt. .Niiir give me yonr hand. Not the left hand. That's ominous in a rnce like this. Now, hold hard, so I won't have to hurt your fingers in my grasp. Now, then. I'll never forgive myslf If I get you a wetting that would spoil your pretty druse, and that lore of a baU" (To be continued.) brming part together; the second pnrt should be 2 foot outside measure, nl- lowiiuro to Im nailii at Itoth ends for crotch, ami nt cither end a projecting round. The Idea of the coupling pnrt Is this tho lop section slips down over tho bottom pnrt until the. crotch K 1 rQ Itt J I ( v I 111 fl 1 " m n I " H If I q-m JliWt A!f EXTE.IBIO.f l-Alllim. renches the projecting round of the bottom section; also the bottom part comes In contact with the first round of section nbore, as seen In Illustration below. You can linve a ladder, 10 feet long. 18 feet long, 21 foot long; or ns Ionic ns you may want It, and bo easily handiest. Ten fsot. length of first ladder; (a) width at bottom, 2V4 feet; (b) width at top. 2 feet; (e) slot to admit bottom round of second part; (d) distance between slot nud round, 1(1 Inches, (1 feet length of second or third parts; (n) width at bottom Inside, 2 feet; (.b) nt top, 2 foot outside. HU I.ouls Republic. lint World's Knlr grounds to n oliit forty tulles beyond Chicago. If placed In sections uf twenty five curs, 1,700 locomotives would bo required to haul tho butter output, uml It would take H.7C0 triiliimeii to opernto tliu trains, If sections wore placed six inllra apart, tho first section would hi) wlilslllinr In Mnnllii, liilllppluu Islands, beforo 5"'?" tho Inst auction loft tho World's Knlr grounds, The Wool or I lie World, Itiissln tuts more sheep limn nny other country In Ktiropo. Mouth Amer ica linn the largest tlnclis, this side of the Atlantic, Australia luis more sliocp than any other country In tho world. Tho Pulled Stales hnvo about U-V (XKUKK) alirep, rminiln and Mexico about lft.(XH),l00 head, Australia about l2r..(sH),ooo, Mouth A morion something llko 00,000.000, tho Control American Itrptlbllc 10,000,000, ICiirope 2'.'0,(XX, (HH, Asln 80.0IXMXM) and Africa nbout tV.VXX).(XX). Tlw world's Hock totals something ko tUll,000,(MX) sheep. Tho gouts of some lotiutrlrs go In ns sheep, As statistics nro not Infallible, especially lu Asln, this goat fnct will probably not affect tint situation. As these sheep will produce four ikiuiiiIs of wool per head on the nverago, tho sheep of the world shear 2,iUll,000,(XH) pounds of scoured wool. The looms of the tJnllcd Mlntes need nearly 20 per cent of the total. The bulk of this Is sheared nt home, because our sheep nrn large aud shear a heavier tierce than tliu major ity of tho world's sheep, (Irent Hrltalu gets most of her wool from Australia, Hrltalu probably uses morn sheep wool than any other roun try In the world, while Helglum tises the most llama aud coarse ntilmal hair, and Itiuils more sont Hois than any other nation. mJfim -nsZ ?YjjW-n' .&$ ,.i.VJfaeWM J VJsssssl SSSSSSSSSSMS MSSSSSIMSSSSSS-SS1 Hnougli to Ifnko lllm Hwrnr. "I was brought up to iim m gofxl lino of talk," nay h yomiK man who lives out lustr the Catholic university. "I'vo been iiHirrlisI iww six mouths, ami tho only time my wife Imm evw hoard n cur-j wonl from my IIm was latK Shu iksy inornlnx. 1 went to n poker party over by tho tmvy yard tiattinlay night .My wife know l wns going, aud Just to show her what n Iwrmlotui little game It was going to lie I tWo her iiMmt of my money before I left homo. It wit h very mild game we played, but the gmli) of tho table was against mo ami by midnight I was broke. I didn't want to iimko a touch right tliru, m. as I was young ami strong, I concluded I'd stroll downtown and borrow cur faro of n nwnmp'r iiihii I know. It wns n idee night for a walk. Woll, I frisked Into tho news- pa Ior nian'H ottlce uml found tlmt he'd gone to llaltlinore. I've lived In Wash- Ington all my life, but I am not known at any hotel. There wuh no plnco where I'd bo nllowed to Htny without baggage except on tho C, O, D. basis, so off I M.'t for homo, nlono In Uio starry night, with n brand-now pair of patent lentliers on. I romped under tho wire two lengths ahead of tho milkman and wont Io bod, AIoiik about 0 o'clock my wife camo In and woke mo. '"What's the matter?' I anld, 'Are they ready to amputate my feet?' " I Just wanted wmo money for tho Himday iiapcrs,' said ahe, picking up my vt-bt, "'You'll hnvo to pnwo something,' I sold. 'I'm broke.' "She was poking In my watch pock et. "Don't take my watch,' I nald. " 'I don't want It,' ho answered. 'I want that $5 bill I put here beforo you went away.' "It wna thore. too. I hot you any in nn would have wild oxuutly what I ld." lUulnosji inon are not Judged so much by how they advertise an where, A Maruln of tutrr Profit. Tho canvass of forty-eight creamery patrons sending milk to au establish ment In Toud da Lac County, Wis., shows a total of 037 cows, The aver age cost of feed per cow was )2.KS and the average returns for butler from tho creamery per cow was I3S.N2. Tho cows averaged 4,201 quarts by the yours, yielding IS.' pounds of butter, which sold to return the patrons J 111.27 per pound. Kach dollar's worth of feed produced only f 1.20 lu butter, and the total profit per cow over cost of fii-d wns fl.UI for tho year. Hut an additional profit from skim milk at twenty cents per hundred amounts to ?S.20. making a total profit per cow of IH..TI. This skim milk profit Is really tho most striking result of the canvass. It shows that while with avcrag rows tho butter returned but little more than enough to pay for the feed, tho value of tho skliu milk lurrctised tho net profit two humln-d per cent. Tho statement duos not, of courso, cover the whole story, since tho cost of Inlior Is not reckoned, ami on tho other hand tho value of manure nud of the calves Is not estimated. Those last Items would bo considered to largely offset the labor. American Cultivator. lleluliiii Hurra. Passing a Chicago meat market re cently, the writer noticed a sign that road: "Two Helglau llnros for 2ft Cents." It wns above a groat pile of tho animals. This points a lesson. A few years ago tho exploiters of the Helgluu Imros at fancy prices wore de claring that the time would not come when Helglau hares would not bring several dollars pacIi. Multitudes of people went Into the raising of tho ani mals with tho belief that all I hoy pro duced could bo wild at high figures, lu vain their friends warned them thnt In tho natural course of events Helglau hare meat would como down to the level of other odlblo meat. At that time no argtimout wns effective. Mil lions of tho animals wore raised and little by little appeared on the mar kets, whoro tho producers found that they had to soil them nt about tho price of "rubblt." No boom of any kind of stock enn last Indefinitely. Tho high prices themselves stimulate the producing of enough animals to bring down tho prices to tho level prevailing lu other lines. This fact should bo remembered In the producing of any kind of live stock. farmers' ftevlew. Home Kill About Incubators, I'lrst comply with tho manufactur er's directions, as you ran be sum that ho will give the best advice possible as to tho running ot a machine that ho has probably studied over for years, says the I'cathrr. Then bo sure that you have placed the machine perfectly level. Keep the lamps well trimmed and use tho best oil you can get. Itemove all Infertile eggs on about the eighth day ami on tho fifteenth rrtest them. Commencing with the second day, turn the eggs night and morning until the eighteenth day. Do not open the machine while the chicks nro hatching. It Is a good thing to let the chicks remain In the Incubator for a day at a temperature of about 02 degrees. (Siva thrm their first feed when re moved to tho brooders. (live them for a few days fine gravel, stalo bread crumbs nud hard bolted eggs, after that boiled vege tables, cracked when!, meat, bran and green clover cut flue. As they grow they can be foil whole meat and onts. Orecn cut bone and milk also Is good for them. Never feed wet, sloppy food. lluttctln niul Mali Hoi. A subscriber of the Kami Journal sends au Illustration of n handy om blued blllli'tlH and mall box which ox plains Itself. Titer Is no kind of ltd wc Using that ran eqiM' this plan, which nil vortlMM things fot sale ami for thai which one would buy It Is n sure sign a man Is up to date when a IhiIIWIm board llko tho one Illustrated Is beforo Ills door. A hoard of this kind also shows the rowhletH'e of ohiimi which Is desired by aiten4by. VefU Ai rlciilttiritl AIhiiis, Now York has 00,(xj,ooo grape vim growing on tio.txs) acres of Und. During Hweinlwr egffs rwtalled on the Now York market as high as ttO rents a doxeii. Au ICngltsh NRiirnlliiral Journal de scribe Merretary Wilson's annual ro port us "a perfect (menu over (he prog, perity of the farmers of his country." A Kansas farmer, 10 years old, who has already made a suoross of farming, lias rented nis rami nud will take a course In Mieiitltle farming at tho State agricultural college. Tho model Poland-China hog, accord ing to Prof. John A. Craig, director of tho Toxns experiment station, should weigh not loss than 1W pounds when It Is six months old. Ono Hundred Your Ago. Tho largo cotton manufactory In Maoo, Mo, was burned, the loss being woo.ooo, Napoleon controlled the entire mill, tary department of Holland. The Portuguese government ordered that all ships, prizes of the Kugllsh, should quit Tngus, mid Hint no such prizes should agnln bo admitted. Napoleon received tint foreign en voys, who presented loiters of congrat ulation from their respective courts upon the birth of Prince Nnimleon Tho Kugllsh government ordered that corn and other provisions from the United Mtnles should bo admitted Into nil Hrltlsh possessions. The slnvo trndo bill, presented to the House of Commons, provided that no negro slnvo should bo admitted Into any of tho Hrltlsh colonies. Sovcntyllvo Yonr Ayo. Peruvian diplomats arrived at Part to solicit the recognition of their gov eminent. Tho Lyceum Theater of Ixiudnn wsi burned. The petition of Itngllsh Jew for the removal of their olvll disabilities) was presented to I'nrllainrnt. Fourteen hundred troop emhsrkrd from Hpnlu for Mnnlln ami 3,000 for llnvnns, fifty Year Ago, An Industrial exhibition opened In Pari. (leorge W. Oreen, a rich banker of Chicago, who hid been convicted of the murder of his wife, hanged him self In prison. All banks of Kan Francisco were closed and serious financial panic re sulted. Tho two Hrltlsh house of Parlia ment began to coiiimunlcnto by letter. The llusslalia attacked Kllpalnrla, which wns defended by the Turks, au . wore repulsed with a heavy lass forty Ycnre. Ago. The Cnhiu army took possession el Wilmington. N. C. Khermau's cavalry were rrortrd oa tho North Carolina bonier, with com munication between Charleston sad Itlrhmoml rut off. Charleston, M. C, was In the mmm alon of the Federal troops. The War DiqwrtHtoMt aHimumnl the rapture of Column!, M. C, by tshr man. Lee took general command of Ikt Confederate armlwa ami iwouimr tided the enlistment of uogrssss. Announcement was made in thi North that Moxlro ami the ConfnWr ary had enlwretl lulu a treaty by whleb Cwnfeshrale dvsorter wore returned. Volume of flutter Industry, III an address delivered at tho incit ing of the National Iluttonnnkers' Ah soclatlou at tho BL Louis Fair, M, M, Wontworth of Htato Centor, Iowa, lu giving some figures of tho magnitude of tho dulry and creamery Interest, said that tho production of butter last year In tho United Mate would amount to 1,GOO,000,000 pounds. Tho value of tho output, oxcluslvo of Hun. days and holidays, was, ho said, ,. 000,000 dolly. To move tho year's pro duction of buttor would require MJBO cars, each containing 20,000 pounds i nis uwoMion r earn would extend In tho tree for tho nlckora. so that . J B3U in 1 1 ea ir nlaciMl oml to m.l n. t -. " ""v - ----i w, uvui i vmi ilium ovury cuurry. Kcepluu Illrds from flirrrU.. A Maryland orchardlst bus found au effective way of keeping tho birds away from his cherry trees while the fruit I attaining thst degree of rlpo ncss necpssnry to a profitable market. All that ho has done has boon to pnt n few mulberry trees scnttorlngly in his orchard and as tho latter berry ripens about the initio time or a llttlo earlier than the cherry, and the birds aro more fond of them than of the stoiio-hi'iirted fruit, they obligingly crii nny irum uio ruriuor s stock. 1 Imoriiious Liierry Trco, A huge black Tartarian cherry trco nour Newcastle, Cal., hut year pro duced 11,100 pounds of salable cherries, for which the ojvnor received ?r0o' Tho trco Is over 100 foot high. Its trunk Is 10 foot In circumference. Across tho branches from tip to tip tho distance Is Wi fuot. LniMoro nro built ry Ynr Ago. '11e survey of the canal route a rt tho Ulhmus f Psuama was '"mi made. Tho Imlomnlty which MmIii wukl my tr the Vlmlulmt affair was flx) at (WXJ (wt each case. '11m PoMHaylvaNM Comtmny refuwd tho uso f 1U trnrlM In Pblladelpbla to tho llaltlmore Ac Ohm, an In. id.nt ot a railway war. HI Cturlew lell, tmt gesdogisi. died In iMittUm. Dr. He Koven, aaalft w!hm elec ItsHi tltere had lett mmii opposition, arrilsl the liyisjaH lilsboprlc ol llllmrfs. Tmi Itads Mllalid lmpn einenl bill iMiksod the House uf Itojin senU' lives. Twenty Years Ago. Tho police In tho Moiillieru Itusslao provinces made n largo number of ar rests In rouuootlon with a nihilist plot A bill for tho retirement of Hen. (irnnt wus defeated In tho House J the votos of Hoiithern Democrats, Congress passed nu iiutl-forolgu con tract labor bill. Dispatches from Korll to London de clared Uon. Huller surrounded and closely liemmcd In nt Abu Idea. Tho Hwlia nuthortllos Intercepted plot to blow uti tho federal palnco it Ilorno with dynamite. Tho Washington uionumoiit Washington, I). 0., was dedicated. , Ten Yor Ago. Tho National Council of Worn" opened Its convention In Witshlnr ton, D. O. Moro than a score of smnll coiio wise vossola wore roportisl to lis boon lost In n blizzard Hint swept "' Atlantic roast. Flold Marshal Oyaina. In ooinnisnu of tliu JapiinuMo at Wolhalwel, n noiiiiccil tho Hiirrondor of tho C'Jilne 1 ou leu und luud.