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1552 Council of Trent prorogued.
1607 Hudson nailed on his first voyg
of discovery.
1704 First issue of the Boston News
Letter, the first American newspaper.
1707 Allied English, Dutch and Portu
guese forces defeated by the French
and Spanish at battle of Ahnanza.
1790 Demerara taken by Great Britain.
, lSOo Derne, Tripoli, captured by Ameri
can marines.
1821 The Grek' Patriarch put to death
at Constantinople.
1834 The Quadruple treaty established
the right of Isabella to the throne of
Spain.
1830 Battle of San Jacinto.
1840 Earl of Cathcart appointed gov
ernor of Canada.
1851 First Canadian postage stamps is
sued. 1859 The French army defeated the
Annam troops, 10,000 strong.
1803 Mail steamer Auglo-Snxon wrecked
off Cape Race, with loss of 237 lives.
1808 Charles Dickens left the United
States for home United States
government concluded a treaty of
peace with the Sioux Indians.
1870 Queen Victoria declared Empress
of India.
1897 Grant's tomb, Riverside Park, New
York, dedicated.
1898 Ma tan zas, Cuba, bombarded by
American squadron under Admiral
Sampson. ... Spain declared a state
of war existed with the United
States. ... Beginning of the Spanish
American War. .. .American squad
ron under Dewey defeats Spaniards
at Manila.
1900 Attempt to blow up the gates of
the Welland canal.
1907 Treaty of peace between Salvador
and Nicaragua signed at Amafala.
In the Canadian Senate at Ottawa,
Senator McDonald of British Columbia
offered a resolution declaring the immi
gration of Hindoos should be limited as
much as possible, and the Canadian gov
ernment should invite the aid of the im
perial government to limit the influx.
Senator Scott said the Canadian govern-
ment sent Mackenzie King, deputy min
ister of labor, to England for that pur
pose. This satisfied Senator McDonald,
and he withdrew his resolution.
The IiOndon Times, in an editorial on
President Roosevelt's message on anarch
ism, says that the President has entered
upon a campaign that will command the
sympathy aud moral support of the civil
ized world. Fuller particulars of his pro
posals, says the Times, will be awaited
with the deepest Interest In all the cities
of the world, and whatever may be
thought of the prospects of the struggle
with this terrible evil hones'; men every
where will wish him victory in the fray.
The Chinese money changers of Hong
kong are supporting the existing boycott
against the Japanese which has come into
existence as a result of the Tatsu Maru
Incident by refusing to accept Japanese
bank notes even at a discount. The drug
gists' guild also has joined in the move
ment and members are making deposits
of money as security of their good faith.
The deposits of members who do notliold
to the boycott are to be forfeited to the
self-government society,
A Manila dispatch reports an engng?
ment between American troops aud con
stabulary, and Moro outlaws near l.anuo,
town ou the island of Mindano. Two
members of the constabulary are report
ed killed aud three soldiers wounded. A
column composed of a battalion of the
Eighteenth infantry and constabulary un
der command of Col. Davis has been fol
lowing a band of outlaws and it is pre
sumed that they overtook them and an
engagement ensued.
Australia's apprehension in the matter
of possible aggression on the part of
Japan was voiced at the meeting held in
London of the Australasian chamber of
commerce by Thomas Price, premier of
South Australia. Mr. Trice was empha
sizing the necessity of Great Britain giv
ing a more tangible proof of her interest
In the colonies and favored the organiza
tion of a large federal citixen army In
Australia.
The French cruiser Cassard has been
ordered to the coast of Morocco to try
to rescue the crew of the French tishing
vessel Baleine, who were recently captur
ed by Moors near Cape Juby.
At the trial of the nine members of th
sect known as "dreamers" for burning
down John Lehr's home south of Medi
cine Hat, Can., it was revealed that tha
members of the order had to obey tha
Instructions of their leader, who, becaus
Lehr refused to joiu the congregation, or
dered his followers to- destroy Lehr't
home and slay his family at midnight
"Wanna he was heretic."
ISTORiAH
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Inflaenaa Rptdemlm.
Influenza Is an acute infectious dis
ease of peculiar character. Its origin
al borne Is believed to bave been In
that mysterious region called Eastern
Central Asia, where also the plague is
thought to have Its natural habitat.
From this region It was wont to Issue
at Irregular Intervals of from four to
Ave years to seventy or eighty, and In
vade first Russia and then western Eu
rope. It was for long not known how It
spread from one country to another,
uffectlng large districts almost at once.
Its appearance In a city, for example,
was hardly noted before the entire city
was In Its grip. It was thought due
to some mysterious atmospheric "Influ
ence," whence Its name from f the Ital
ian fbrm of the word. The French
call It la grippe, whence our "grippe,"
because of the way It seems to seize
upon Its victims.
The last great irruption of the dis
ease was In 1889-90, when It spread
over the entire civilized . world with
such extreme rapidity that the belief
in an atmospheric Influence was for a
time revived. A study of the epidemic,
however, proved that It followed the
fwanderlngs of human beings along the
lines of travel ; at first In a definite
direction, because the travel In Siberia
and eastern Russia was along narrow'
caravan routes and In a westward di
rection. Once It reached populous
western Euroie, with Its radiating
lines of railways, It burst forth In ev
ery direction like the explosion of a
rocket which has Journeyed for a time
l.i a straight line up through the air.
This explosion and almost simulta
neous diffusion throughout Europe was
simply the result of human inter
course. As soon as the earlier carriers
of the Infection reached a populous
city they scattered In various direc
tions to their homes or to lodging
houses and hotels; and each one who
was suffering at the time from the dis
ease became a focus of Infection, and
from each of these centers the disease
spread, and the grippe seized upon
great numbers In all parts of the city
at the same time, as soon as the Incu
bative period of from one to four days
had passed. Europe for a time had the
epidemic to Itself, but In ten days or
two weeks, Just long enough for the
steamers to bring their Infected human
cargo, It appeared here on the Eastern
coast, and ,as fast as steam could car
ry It spread over the entire country.
The epidemics In former times last
ed from one to three or four years and
then ceased, but since 1890 Influenza
has been epidemic In Europe and Amer
ica every winter".
WHERE DOCTORS FARE ILL.
Fee In F.nglpnd, Germany and Alt
trin Often RldlculouIy Small.
Those who "pay the doctor's bills"
In England, like those In America, gen
erally have their own Ideas about the
periodical outcry raised In certain sec
tions of the medical profession, as ti
the increasing difficulty physicians
have to "make both ends meet," but if
the figures recently printed In the Brit
ish Medical Journal regarding the
struggle of the average physician In
thlB country to earn anything like a
decent livelihood reflect actual condi
tions, more leniency should certainly be
shown at least In Englnnd toward
apparently liberal charges for mlnlBter
lug to our physical woes, says the Lon
don correspondent of the New York
Times.
It Is pointed out that while there
may be a few specialists In London who
earn Incomes ranging between $75,000
and $100,000 a year, the average ln
jconie of the medical man in England
works out at something like $1,100 or
$1,250; and, reasouing from this aver
age, the letter of a corresiondent, who
bitterly bewails his fate at an Income
of $t,100 a year, out of which he must
defray the expenses of his surgery and
practice before be can claim anything
for his home, is taken as a sample of
the experience of the ordinary practi
tioner In the industrial centers of En
gland. The correspondent In question had
secured for himself a fair connection.
111 Fii nil "v H't ULU t 4 WIMCIiVTT
i of ten years In his district. Of his
jearnliigs 31.G per cent was paid to him
j Rt his surgery ; 87 per cent was paid In
weekly installments to a collector; two
j thirds of the accounts were paid at a
rate of 6 cents a week and one-third at
less than C cents a week; 12 per cent
had to be regarded as bad debts, Rnd
! the balance, 20 per cent, had to be got,
j If It was got at all, through the Countv
Court
j The reason of this Inadequate return
I for all the skill, patience and labor of
the medical practitioner In England Is
.not ascribed alone to the overcrowding
, of the profession. By many the prac
titioners themselves are blamed for
I consenting to accept fees which are not
'only unworthy of the work done but
too low when regarded In the light of
'the means of those who have the work
done. This state of affairs Is attrtb
I uted to rivalry and want of unity
j among practitioners In general. As a
consequence the suggestion Is made that
doctors. In each district should agree on
minimum tea below which no one
would be allowed to go, barring, of
course, charity work.
That the conditions In the medical
profession In England are no worse
than those In Germany Is shown by a
communication from a correspondent of
the New York Times, In which he
states that the physicians of the vari
ous German cities have been compelled
to advertise that In the future in
creased fees will be charged and all
consultations by telephone will be
charged for at the same rates as gov
ern when patients visit doctors' offices.
Warning Is also given that night and
Sunday calls will be charged double.
The reasons given for the Increased
fees are the enormous increase In liv
ing expenses, heavier taxes and the
general Inadequate charges made here
tofore. Dr. G. Pick, writing of conditions In
Austria, shows that about the same
unsatisfactory state of affairs exists
for the medical profession there as ob
tains In England.
COSMOPOLITAN SHANGHAL
Contain More People of Different
Rarea than Any Other City.
It Is the most truly cosmopolitan
city In the world; for Paris, after all,
Is mainly French ; London, after all,
is mainly English; New York, after all,
Is mainly American. Shanghai has Its
French hotels, its Imposing German
Club, Its English Country Club, Its race
track, Its Russian bank. Its Japanese
mercantile houses, Its American post
office. It Is ruled by a council of Eng
lishmen, Germans and Americans. It
is policed by English bobbles, Irish
men, Sikhs from India, and Chinamen.
On the Bubbling Well road, of a sunny
spring afternoon, where the latest thing
In motor cars weaves through the line
of smart carriages, you may see Span
lard elbowing Filipino, Portuguese jos
tling Parsee, Austrian chatting with
Bavarian; and they all talk, gamble,
drink and buy In pidgin English.
This settlement of fifteen thousand
Europeans, living apart from that pub
lic opinion which compels the mainte
nance of a social standard In every Eu
ropean country, and Indifferent to that
local public opinion which keejis up a
certain curious standard among the
Chinese themselves, seems to have prac
tically no standard at all. The prob
lem of every decent Aruerican or Eng
lishman who finds himself established
in business Is whether he dare bring
his wife and family and Introduce them
Into circles so degraded that families
disintegrate and children grow up un
der disheartening influences. The heavy
drinking of the China const ports la
proverbial, yet the drinking seems lit
tle more than an Incident ' In a city
where the social atmosphere Is tainted
and altogether unwholesome. Samuel
Merwln, In Success Magazine.
Kipling at Work.
"I have lounged in Rudyard Kip
ling's den at Brattleboro, Vt, before he
deserted America for England and seen
him at his work. He sat, at his table
in a revolving chair. I had a book in
my hand and said nothing unless I was
spoken to, for I was enjoying a great
privilege that was granted to no one
else but his wife. He would write for
a moment, perhaps for ten or fifteen
minutes at a time. If he was writing
verses he would hum very softly to
himself an air which probably kept
the rhythm in his mind. When writing
prose he was silent, but often he would
lay down his pen, whirl round In his
chair and chat for awhile. It might be
something relating to the subject he
was treating or bear no relation to It.
Suddenly he would wheel back again,
and his pen would fairly fly over the
paper. He can easily concentrate his
thoughts and as easily descend from
cloud land to the commonplace of the
day, though In his mind and on his Hps
nothing Is ever commonplace. Some
of his poems he has written when
speeding In a Pullman car at the rate
of sixty miles an hour." Pacific
Monthly.
Left Their Harki.
There was an air of cynicism about
Miss Martha Head and a brisk and
biting quality in her voice which was
not conducive to a display of sentiment
from her friends and relatives.
Occasionally outsiders attempted
some flight of fancy, and were speedily
blighted by Miss Martha. This was the
case when a summer resident went to
return Miss Head's call, and was vis
ibly stirred at the sight of the beauti
ful old house, of which she had been
told so many stories.
"To think how many, many little feet
have gone up and down over these
stairs!" said the visitor, In a tone of
awe, looking with reverent eyes at the
old staircase.
Miss Martha gave her a searching
glance, and then bent her gaze on the
stairs.
"Yes," she said, crisply, ; "anybody
can see that With three grandnephews
and two grandnleces here all summer
long, racing and tearing up and down,
and hardly ever remembering to wipe
their shoes on the door mat, those
stairs are never fit to be seen."
Jnat 80.
Agitator Senator, don't you think
that your colleagues voting for that
graft measure was very foolish?
Senator Grafter Well, yes, In a
way; I think If he'd 'a' held out as
I tol him to he'd got a good deal more
out of It. Toledo Blade.
Xaturally Follows.
"Gracious, but Smith has an awfully
rasping voice I"
"I guess that's because he went to
the dentist the other day and had hi
teeth filed." Baltimore American.
LOSS OP THE TORPEDO-DESTROYER TIGER AK3 THIRTY-SIX LIVES.
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THE COLLISION
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The illustration uepicis ' the terrible Hruwi naval
disaster which recently o!curred off the Isle of Wight.
During some night operations, carried on without lights,
off the south coast of the Island, the destroyer Tiger ran
across the bows of the armored cruiser Berwick. Both
vessels were going at full speed, and the destroyer was
cut in two between the second and third funnels. The
forepart, ou which the commander and most of the deck
hands were stationed, tilted perpendicularly and went
Through the Night
Hot with resentful retrospect, Tom
! Pardon leaned heavily upon the parapet
of the bridge,. All around the silent
streets, the absence of life, the dark
ness, accentuated more than illumined
Dy the even-spaced gas lamps, seemed to
convey the idea of a deserted city as
If man, awed by the devastation he had
wrought on fair Nature's face, had fled
from his grim handiwork. Like virgin
souls engulfed In a mire of sin, the
Bnowflakes fell silently and vanished In
the grimy-look Ing water that flowed sul
enly underneath the bridge.
"I beg your pardon."
The lurch of a heavy body against
fh hrnortiiicr man hronsht him back
sharply to the present A belated trav
eler, the sound of his footsteps dead
ened by the mantle of snow which by
his time had turned sidewalk and roaa
ivay into one level highway, had slipped
n a snow-tipped heel and fallen against
the loiterer on the bridge. The latter,
10 brusquely aroused to time and place,
started at the sonnd of the other man's
voice, and peered, with set eyes, Into
his face. The recognition was mutual.
"Lionel !"
"Tom!"
The tones of their voices differed ;
one was of glad amazement, the other
of bitter intensity.
"My dear lad, who'd have thought of
meeting you here?"
Lionel held out his hand, but the
proffered mark of friendship was un
heeded. With body erect and taut, in
a voice which a blend of bitterness and
anxiety made to tremble, Tom asked :
"Did you marry Miss Arley?"
"Yes," returned the other.
"Then I wish you much happiness!"
mapped out the angry Tom, and, turn
ing on his heel, strode off, not noticing,
In his hot mood, that he was going In
the direction which Lionel had been
pursuing.
For a few moments the latter stood
looking at his brother's retreating fig
ure, then with a smile of comprehen
sion he hurried after the wanderer.
"Come along home with me, Tom.
Let us have a talk about old times."
"Do you Imagine I have any desire
to discuss the past? My father drove
me from his presence with a bitter
taunt You married the one girl "
j "Come now, old fellow, look here ; let
as deal plainly with each other as man
to. man. Nay, you shall hoar me. Where
are you going to? What are you doing
now? Down on your luck, eh?"
j "What is that to you? I want no
sympathy, not even justice, from any
of my own kin."
I He staggered and, but for his broth
er's upholding arm, would have fallen.
I "Steady, old chap, we're nearly home.
You've been running yourself too fine.
Here we are!"
I By this time they had reached a
! house which stood, an oasis of home
life, amidst the desert of warehouses,
printing offices, aud the like, the pon
derous, polished knocker, the wide
iteps, the arched fanlight over the door,
the . solid aspect of the building, told
of a time when merchants were con
tent to live amidst the scenes of their
labors. With his left hand Lionel un
locked the door and then supported and
helped Tom up the steps Into the hall
and caused him to sit In a chair. Quiet
ly refastenlng the front door, he turned
Into a small room on a level with the
hall After lighting the gas he poked
the fire, which had been left burning
for him. Into a blaze, placed, a small
kettle on the fire, and returned to Tom,
who sat, white and tired, looking at
the portrait of a gentle-faced lady hung
"opposite to him.
I "Now, we're right." said Lionel.
"Come in here, Tom."
He helped his brother to a cosy arm
chair near the fire- aud busied himself
with "setting out some bread aud cold
meat, which was ready cut, from a Cup
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BETWEEN THE TIGER AND THE CRUISER BERWICK.
board, talking rapidly and vivaciously
all the while.
. "This Is my sanctum. I'm left here
undisturbed. I am hungry. Traveling
makes you so, doesn't It? Will you join
me In a little snack? Sir o'clock ln,the
morning Is a' funny time for a meal,
but I believe In eating when you are
hungry. There, now. You take the
head of the table, as befits you. Come
a toast! You won't refuse that, will
you? To my wife!"
lie held put his glass toward the por
trait of a lady which stood In the cen
ter of the mantelpiece. With fierce eyes
Tom looked at the picture of a gentle
lady sitting enthroned as a happy moth
er, with her two children, one standing
by her side, the other nestling in her
arms.
"That your wife!" said Tom. Amaze
ment was followed by a quick gleam
of hope. "You told me that you mar
ried Miss Arley!"
"So I did." Lionel's eyes twinkled.
"A health! To my wife!"
"Your wife!" and wonderlngly Tom
drank the toast. Lionel kept his broth
er served with the- simple meal, and
under the Influence of , his surroundings
and the badly needed food, Tom seemed
to forget everything else but to satisfy
the craving of his hunger.
Lionel went to a desk, unlocked It and
took out a square, blue envolpe, sealed
and addressed In a firm, clerky band,
to "My Son Thomas." Handing It to
Tom, he said:
"Now, 111 leave you for a minute or
two while you read your epistle. I
sha'n't be long away."
Softly closing the door, he crept up
stairs, chuckling to himself at every
step.
"What a lark ! Toor old Tom !"
Tom waited till his brother had closed
the door, and then ripped open the en
velope and took out the letter:
"My Son You and I parted In anger.
You have gone away, I know not where,
leaving your father and your brother
without a good-bye. You have not writ
ten, and now In my last days I find
myself cut off from communication with
my eldest son. But before I die I wish
to set down some particulars of which
I feel you are Ignorant. Jacob Arley was
my enemy. . The only crime he could
ever accuse me of was that I married
your mother the girl he professed to
love, but who did not love him. Three
times he tried to ruin me in business,
but failed. When you told me that you
loved his daughter aud wished to
marry her, I forbade you, on pain of my
displeasure, to think of such a thing.
When you persisted you were always
stubborn 1 threatened you with loss
of my favor and esteem, and to dis
suade you for I loved you, my son I
informed you that your brother Lionel
had a claim upon Miss Arley's affec
tions. So he had, but not upon the
Miss Arley whom you and I quarreled
about. The woman your brother loved
nd hs jnst married is Miss Arley's
cousin, and bore the same name. I ask
you to let the traitorous designs of your
father's enemey be the excuse for my
deception. I have since repented of It.
Before I go to join your mother I wish
you to know, should this letter ever
TOM TOOK OUT THE LETTER.
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down with all hands. The men iu the stern part,
promptly ordered up from below, were able to throw
themselves clear of the rest of the vessel, and some kept '
afloat on oars, spars, and wreckage; but nearly every
man saved belonged to the engine room staff. The Ber
wick and Gladiator sent boats to the rescue, with the
result that twenty-two persons were saved. At the mo
ment of the collision a great sheet of flame shot up from
the furnaces. - ,
fall Into your hands, that the head
strong course you pursued In leaving
home after our quarrel has darkened
the closing hours of my life. Some day
you will learn that it Is the privilege
of the old to remo'nstrate with the
young and the duty of the young to
listen In patience to admonishment
The warehouse and the busiuess I
have left to you. Your brother holds
It In trust till you return. He will be
a good steward, for he Is upright and
generous, and has such an affection for
you that I trust you will return , It In
some measure. May the peace that
well doing brings be yours. Accept my
blessing. But, oh! my lad, why did
you ever leave your well-meaning but
blundering father?
Thomas Sardon."
"Good news, old man?"
"Yes, too good for me. I'll not let
you read the letter, LI. It is too sac
red. But I am' off -again, LI. I'll write
this time to tell you how I get on."
"Not without your breakfast, my son.
My wife will be down soon, and she
will be, disappointed if you go away
without seeing her. I told her the good
news of your arrival." .
"Well, all right'. But after break,
fast I must say good-bye."
"Perhaps," said Lionel.
He led his brother upstairs and, wltli :
rare tact, left him after giving him the
key of the ancient oak .clothes chest
where thelr'mother had kept their stock
of household linen, their little baby
shoes, and other trifles of fond remem
brance. Tom unlocked the "chest and
with trembling hnnds drew out the
clothes that he had left behind in his
hurried departure from his home some
years before. Then, after tubbing, he
dressed himself and waited.
The gong sounded. Lionel appeared
and tied the way downstairs to the
breakfast room. A pleasant faced lady
there was introduced as Lionel's .wife.
With womanly Intuition she greeted
him as If he were an old acquaint
ance, and busied herself attending to
the wants of a little boy and girl who
were clamoring for "Aunt Bessie.'
.unt Bessie,
lame. . '
coffee?" ,fAl.
wived nWeff
Tom winced at the name.
"Do you take tea or
his hostess; but she received noPpisrl
Her brotther-in-law luad half rjsen '';
his chair, his eyes riveted on a'l .
who stood in the doorway, her hands
pressed to her breast, her lissom, gray
clad figure outlined against the door's
dark background, and swaying with
agitation. For a moment a dead si
lence fell on the room. Then, with a
glad cry, Tom broke the spell of as
tonishment which enfolded him, and
rose up In his place.
"Bessie !"
"Tom!"
He strode up to be-
"You waited for me, then througo
all these years?"
"Yes, Tom. I would have waited for
ever." . The simple words went home. He
drew her to him, till her head sank
upon his breast Brokenly he murmur
ed: 'This Is too much happiness. I am
not deserving." , -
Lionel, who was almost choking him
self In his efforts to continue his break
fast, at last cried out:
"Come along, you two! Breakfast
Is getting cold." London Tit-Bits.
Slightly Different.
"Miss Gabble seems like a pleasant
person to talk to."
"Indeed? She doesn't seem to think
so."
"Why, how do you mean?"
"She seems to think she's a pleasant
person to listen to." Philadelphia
Press.
Driven to It.
"Drinking is a matter of habit with
him. is it not?"
"Exactly; he goes on a tear every
time his wife buys a new hat" Hous
ton Post '
Grass widows are never as green af
they pretend to be. ,