Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1908 — Page 6

A CROWN OF FAITH

CHAPTER Vlll.—(Continued.) Tbs players played; the da'neers daneai; the quests thronged in. Stately ColoM Wycherly pulled his iron-gray nius-I feodhe, and smiled his supercilious smile, kail-contemptuous, half-condescending; and Mrs. Wycherly sat superb in black vahret and oriental pearls, watching the dancers, lifer black eyes flashing fire, her thin lips smiling, her proud nostrils dilating. Arthur Calthorpe hung over Ella. “Mamma will not let me waltz,” said the heiress. I “Then you excuse me if I run away?” rejoined the heir. "See —there is Mias Pritchard, the lady principal of St. Martha’s College, with thirteen of her phand teachers, and some of them are deplorably shy.” “Go, go!” cried Ella; “one of them las nothing deplorable at all about her — X mean that stately "creature who lias chosen to wear a dress of black lace over a pale-primrose skirt. She is covered up dose to the throat; she wears no ornament but a gold necklace and cross; she la like a Spanish princess; she is very handsome.” Five minutes afterward, Arthur Calthorpe, heir to the earldom of Beryl, was whirling round in the waltz with Leila lieigh, under-toacher at St. Martha's College for Ladies. The blond, blue-eyed young man, the stately, dark-eyed girl, looked into one another’s faces and read volumes; but it might be that those vplwmes were in an unknown tongue. They passed, panting, in a little anteroom —a costly gem of a chamber, where light refreshments were laid out daintily on an inlaid table. Arthur was handing Leila a jelly, when there entered a woman. She was young, not more than twenty. She wore black — a plain dress, made high to the throat, with linen collar and cuffs. Her llghthrown hair was disordered and rough. Her face was neither pretty nor plain, and her blue eyes were sinister and cruel. Her complexion was fair naturally, but its pallor at that moment was surely unnatural. Arthur Calthorpe dropped the jelly he was handing to Leila; the glass was shivered.

“I must speak to you!” she said Imperiously—“at once —out there in the Laurel Walk!” And without a word of apology, Arthur Calthorpe drew the curtains from before m ; French window anti paasfed into the garden. Leila Leigh sat there, indignant, silent, wondering, and waiting. Arthur did not return. After a while she re-en-tered the bail room, The night wore on heavily for her. Her interest in the ball was suspended while Arthur wan absent. Presently she saw him standing In a doorway. She started, looked again,. A. rthur, and not Arthur; like ami unlike. The same height, figure, build, complexion, hut different eyes, different mouth, different, expression. This young man was talking to her own brother, Lionel Leigh, who soon crossed the room and spoke to Leila. “Leila, that gentleman is Mr. Caltborpe’s twin brother. He has been away two or three years, and now he wishes to speak to his brother. Where is he' He'was seen with you last.” Leila rose up and- led the way toward the little ante-room. Her brother went with her. He whom we have known .as Dick Barrington followed, an i there was, a buzz of recognition among some of the guests. r _ '■ “lie went through that window,” said Leila. Lionel opened the window, and Arthur’s twin brother passed out into the garden. It was a frosty night, with bright, blinking stars, keen, piercing air. Leila wrapped her head and neck in her •pent—cloak, walked swiftly along the," gravel path, slipped, and fell. Then she returned hastily to the anteroom, passed into the blaze of light and uttered a shriek which brought the guests, thronging into the little chamber?--Her satin skirt, satin shoes, and fair hands Avere stained With that deep-red ■tain which tells of the ebbing of a liunan life. Then it was remembered that Arthur had been missed for same hours. The little atMeywKH filled so full that the guests surged out into the frosty laurel yatb. Leila lay back, fainting; but there was •ne face amid .the throng which burned itself terribly, mysteriously, and —so it •eemed—without reason, into the consciousness of Leila Iveigh—the haughty, white, fearful face of Mrs. Wycherly. Lionel- Leigh, towering above the heads •f the crowd, came on toward where his ■ister lay on the little couchT" He sat down near her and took her bauds into bis. “Wliat has happened, LionelV’’ “Mr. Hakhorpe is hurt.” ; “IIow? By whom?- Where is hey* “They , have carried him round to the US side” of the houses lie is in one •f the drawing rooms, and there are three doctors at the ball. I am going to send Dr. Dunilds v jthe other two are with him.” r ' “Is In* much hurt?” “frightfully. 1 should say he 'must die.”' -'V Leila shuddered. She closed her eyes, •ad wondered in n dreary way whats use her youth and her beauty would t>e. to Ser now. No word of love ' had passed the lips ofThe earl’s heir. He had written her two little, notes, and begged bes acceptance of- two splendid bouquets: lie bad taken off hlw'luit when met her in the lanes; and now -to-night Ire had waltzes! with her. and looked at her wit IT tye» which spoke volumes. " i *Ti “Tell me how it happened?” she said. **l went out throngli that French- window with Dlek Barringtonr I thought be bad gone to the Laurel Walk, perhaps —you said he had gone Out that way. We Walked to the end. -and Barri ngtou shoutad, called him 'Flitter!— which was his, nickname when they were boys—and there was no answer. Then Barrington, tan down the shrubbery walk, '1 know ■Miry Inch of the place,’ he said. I came hack toward the house, stumbled against ■awe thing in, the path, found it was a ana, dragged it toward a lighted window, tjNSi aaw that it waa Mr. Calthorpe, quite

.senseless, and with the blood streaming from a wound at the back of his bead,” “That- Barrington?' 1 cried Leila, “or the woman in black.” “What woman?” “A young woman who came into the room, and beckoned him out —a horrible looking creature, sly and cruel, Father pretty, so . far as fair skin and blonde tresses gO.” .. - ■ . r ; V “I carried him round to the drawing room, and went in to find the doctors, and then you ran,out and slipped on hte gravel,- where it was wet with the poor fellow’s blood, and Came in here and screamed." Lionel hurried' off and sought Dr. Dundas in every hall, room and corridor; but, amid all' the eager, talking crowd, which as yet showed no signs of clearing Beryl Court of its clamor and excited presence, no trace or sign of the doctor; neither could he see Mrs. Wycherly, nor the colonel, nor Ella, in the throng. He had not exchanged^a word with Miss Wycherly during the evening. The colonel’s daughter had been beset with partners in her own sphere, and Lionel Leigh had stood aside, feeling that for him this gay and brilliant bail was but a pageant, of which he was merely a spectator. *' - Ella had given him one smile. Lionel was in a misanthropic mood that night. He dashed into the yellow drawing room. Was Dr. Dundas there? No. On a couch lay Arthur Calthorpe, white as death, but with open eyes, in which gleamed consciousness.

TJy. Tufton was bathing the wound at the back of his head, Dr. Richards was feeling his pulse. The crowd had been banished from this room. There were only a few visitors present, chiefly young men, friends of the earl’s heir, one or two ladies, three servants, the poor old earl crouching in an armchair, and suffering tortures from mingled gout and grief. “I cannot find Dr. Dundas,” said Lionel to the earl respectfully. “Very selfish to go off at a time like this!” cried the earl, striking his ivory headed cane on the carpet. “I suppose that woman —that Mvs. Wycherly has nerves which must not be upset by the sight of blood. Dundas is clever. Our poor boy can’t last till morning, Tufton thinks.” Then Lionel heard-murmurs of detectives having, been telegraphed for, and he left the room, and resolved to leave the house. Very angry lie feR— very much -outraged; but with whom or by whom he could not tell. - ’ • Passing down a long, lighted corridor, lie saw approaching him a slight, rounded form draped in white lace, and with rubies sparkling on the neck and arms. It was EH a Wycherly, in' the 'costly dress and jewels which she despised. Under a lamp, held by a marble goddess, she paused and looked ..at Lionel. “What has happened, Mr, Leigh?” In hjs delight at meeting her, in all of a love, rapturous and passionate as his, the tutor forgot the tragedy, forgot that rumor popularly associated the names of Mr. Calthorpe and .Miss Wycherly, he answered : “Mr. Calthorpe has been wounded in the head by spmebody unknown, and his life is in danger.” f Ella turned white, then put her hands before her eyes. “I—I —I knew nothing of it!” she said vehemently. “I have been watching the whist players, and listening to the bapd. Mamma said I must not dance any more. Miss Worthington was with me. All at once mamma came .into the room and called her away; they told me not to come out until they returned. P waited and waited. I had nobody to speak td? for all my partners ball been kept away by Miss Worthington; then other people came in and whispered, and the whist players ‘ went out, and I—l ran out here ; and now I shall be lectured, scolded so for. stirring!” •*-—r

She looked at him: her eyes gleamed, her red lips parted in a maddening smile ; slve held out a small, white hand toward him. Lionel seized it, and, intoxicated irith"hte i>aaafon,"ho began to devcriig. it with kisses. * “Don’t—don’t —don’t!” she crigik-drtfw-ing it away from him, and looking at it as if it had received some injury. “You think” —she looked at him' scornfully—“that because I am a poor, ill-used girl, whose mother, is cruel, and whose governess is hateful, that I am a little idiot, do" you ?” “Oh, no. Miss Wycherly." “But I tell, you you do!" she said; ‘'and- you will find out your mistake. I am no idiot, whatever else I am !” “Miss Wycherly, if my life could atone for iny fault ” "Hold your, tongue !" she said.-stnmp-,iag_again “.Who wants yourJifc? Lour.. indeed! If you vpTe dead, the? would bury .yoif. I- suppose, and • your mother would cry. Most likely she loves you ; mine hates me ! Ah! is a cruel thing to feed a young heart on scorn and •. severity ; it. withers it, Mr: Leigh—nips it in -tiie bud.” How tender her voice sounded! and the large eyes shone through tears. Lionel. dared not tell her that his.heart and his life were at her service. She scented so terribly capricious, this beautiful Ella, that lie feared she might almost turn upon him. and execrate him in her angry scorn, if he presumed again to manifest any of the burning love which was fast making .dttJKsoul into an inward Topiiet; nevjjlcier,ing Uis. bruin; warping his judgment: causing him to forget the great aim! with which he had .started in life, though only as a teat-bar of languages, eighteen months "befofe: ‘ ' .... "I shall beigo blamed—so cruelly blamed for stirring, for leaving that room; but I cannot stay ,there any longer. I will not!” “Miss Wycherly, I really believe that the colonel and Mrs. Wycherly and Dr. Dundas have, driven away, have forgotten you; at least, I cannot find one of your party—not even Miss Worthington.” EliaV large eyes opened in amazement. She clasped her hands and the sweet

mouth was prettily puckered uj* as that Of a child about to cry. “Gone-t-forgotten me! Impossible, Mr. Leigh!” | “If you have not § upped. Miss Wycherly, will you permit me to take you-to the supper room, and then, while you are egtitig something—you must want something?” “Indeed, I . do! lam not a heroine In a story—one who lives oa ethereal thought and excited sentiment; pecks like Or bird at a crunib, and does all sorts of absurdities. I have eaten nothing for hours, and your offer of supper sounds like the noise of a fountain in a thirsty land, like the scampering of a mouse.behind a wainscot in the ears of a hungry cat. Will you give me your arm, and tell me wljpt there is in the supper room? I don’t care for the gold forks, and the tell me what there is tg> eat, please. Is there cold tongue, and cold roast chicken?” “I believe there is everything nice in ’the supper room, Miss Wycherly.” “Come along, then.* 1 ' She took his arm, and the two threaded their way to the supper room. “Hush! They say he is dead!”-said a thin lady in spectacles, and wearing gorgeous amethysts, to Lionel and Ella, when they entered. ~ r - . ‘ r “llow awful!” cried Ella -tenrpestuouslyr “Here have I been thinking of nothing but myself, and my dull evening in the card room, when I had .expected to be sd. happy, and their all going off and leaving. me alone, and 'then I heard poor Arthulr Calthorpe was hurt, and almost forgot it in my excitement; and now I’m certain I can eat nothing—nothing—at all!” Looking to the end of the corridor, Lionel perceived the figure of a woman clothed, in scarlet, and the figure waved an arm at Ella. “An apparition!” cried Miss Wycherly. “Save me — : save me, Mr. Leigh, from yonder fiend in scarlet-'—yonder demon, which waits to-pounce on me and carry me away in its claws. What on earth makes Miss Worthington take to scarlet opera cloaks? She wears brown, and slate.-and drab at home ; and even at dinner, nothing smarter than black silk; but to-night, over her -gray silk evening dress, she must needs wear a great scarlet cloak. Look at her spectacles, her face! Oh ! I shall he sacrificed, dished, sent to Coventry—l shall -ben ” “Miss Wycherly!” Oh ! the tone —the sepulchral tone of Miss Worthington! She waved a long, lean arm. on which flourished an ugly pebble bracelet, with the portrait of a plain woman in short curls set in the clasp.

“Where have you been, Miss Worthington?” asked Ella. «- “Your mamma was taken so suddenly ill that we ha'd —the doctor, and the colonel, and m.vsvlf—to take her to the open air. Dr. Dundas was fearfully alarmed. 'We knew—that is, the doctor knew —that only'the air could keep her alive until the danger was over. Such a dead, dead, dreadful faint ; I ran at lasts and ordered' the carriage; it took her home. I have.-re,turned for you. She is better new. Your papa is with her. The carriage' is at the side entrance by the fir avenue. Put on your waterproof ■ and come, Your maid is come for you. There are lamps in the room where you left your wraps.” Then Miss Worthington turned, with a cold stare, toward Lionel Leigh. Ella had already begun to ascend rapidly a flight of stairs leading off to the left, “Mr. Leigh, when I found, you In the summer house with Miss Wycherly, I ventured to say that the German lessons must bo discontinued; but that decision was, 1 think, most unwisely overruled afterward by Dr. Dundas. Will you tell me what you mean by these attentions to a little enthusiastic girl of seventeen, who will inherit a large fortune?” “Madam,” said the German tutor, "you must be a ware that your severity is unjust and ill-tidied. I met Miss Wycherly alone and hungry in the corridor. I took her to the supper room. 1 was looking for Her friends when I met you.” “Kjio was "taiafferihgT'wlTlT tier fn-regu-lated vivacity. You were-Hastening, as if entranced, • Mr. Leigh. I have been a governess some years, but I know something of the world. 7 . . “Doubtless,, madam.’’ ■ “And I know* that you are playing a dangerous game.” -*■ Lionel smiled bitterly. “Which only can end in the most terrible disappointment. The child herself mocks you behind your bark ! Ella Wveli-, 'efly will never love any one.” At that moment Lionel heard the dancing feet of Ella upon the stairs. Another moment and she stood before her governess, and her tutor.' wrapped from throat to heels in a large gray waterproof. On her head was a little pink hood; her face nestling within it. like a June rosebud. “Good evening. Mr. Leigh,’’ and she held out her hand. ... “Ella—Elhr!” But, in'spite of-the sharp tone of the governess. Lionel took her hand, held it a moment, and bowed. Another moment amT Ella hard departed with her gov(To hi* continued.)

The Height of Majesty.

“And so she is veiy queenly? I suppose she's the kind of woman who is never afraid drawing room.’’ “Oh. more majestic than that ! She’s the kind of woman who’s never afraid to outer her own kitchen-.” —Brooklyn Life.

Information.

The visitor to, New York was In search of information. “Do you know anything about the copper corner?" he asked his host. $ “No." was the reply, “but I know the corner copper-”-—Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Barred.

Baron Alderson once released from his' duties a juror who stated that he was deaf in one ear. “You may leave the box.” said his lordship, “since it Is' necessary you should hear both sides.” Of all the letters which pass through she postofiioes of the world, two-Ibirds are written by and sent to people who weak EMUfa- ' •» " '

FARM AND GARDEN

The rotation of crops does not call for more plowing, but less, and more stirring of the soil. , It Is the surplus or Increase of price above cost of production that adds to the prosperity of the people. Use brush and warm water for washing milk cans, then rinse with scalding water and stand In the sun. The difference between a good and Inferior caretaker is everything in the matter of success or failure iii cattle feeding. Did yo uever notice how a bunch of hogs will always work their feeding troughs away from and never toward the slop barrel? Take the first rainy day to repair the tools, oiling the harness, and other matters that can be so well done in she barn or workshop. , M If trees are received from a distance and are partly dry when opened, bury them for a week, top aud all, in finely pulverized, moist soil, to restore them. The horse has a smaller stomach than the cow, and has less power to digest coarse food, hence it is worse than wasteful to oblige them to live on coarse food. It is injurious. Keep milk in cold, water. Don’t use wooden milk pails. Dou’t leave skiin milk standing in cans. Don’t allow milk cans to remain in the stable. Strain milk carefully through the wire and cloth strainers. Don’t mix night’s and morning’s milk before eoollng. The fanner that makes any pretense to dairy interests soon learns to know the great value of soiling crops. When the early summer drought dries up the pasture there is nothing like having a supplementary crop tor draw needed supply rations from for the milch cows. - - •' ■ *♦-*l—4* The thin-rinded or Hampshire hog is UV-Vl-* wrapidly increasing in popularity. The exhibit of this breed at several of the State fairs attracted much attention. The Hampshire hog is possibly the most picturesque in appearance of all hogs, as he is black with a white strip completely around his body. Pull the cabbages up by the roots, instead of breaking or cutting the stalks. Remove any dry or decaying leaves and hang them to the studding in a dry cellar by means of twine tied about the stalks, placing them so that they do not touch one another or the walls of the cellar. ——Do« l fe-feed-be44eMh r Hiat are Intended for the dairy large quantities of fat-producing foods, but an abundance of good hay and a limited supply of oats and corn, for the habit of laying on in calfhood is liable to follow her to motherhood, and lead her to placing the results of heavy feeding on her back instead of in the milk pail. Clay soils are lacking in nitrogen and sometimes phosphoric acid. This can be supplied by barnyard manurf. The growing of legumes has made it possible for the farmer to grow some kind of a leguminous crop, one that will gather nitrogen from the air and store It up in the soil. Salt is not a plant food, and therefore cannot supply the elements jjeqdgd .by .the clayey soil.

Raising Alligators. Of all the Interesting uses to yvhlch Incubators have been put that of hatching alligator eggs Is probably the most striking, says Popular Mechanics. An Englishman at Hot Springs, Ark., Is engaged jn raising alligators for the market. The demand for the hides to use for manufacturing purposes is constantly increasing, whHe parks and zoos buy the live reptiles for exhibition. Protecting: Trees from Rabbits. If yon are- troubtod with rabbits eating the bark of the tree during the winter, try wrapping tUp trees. Newspapers can be bought; at any local newspaper office, and a whole paper should be used to each tree,’ tying the'paper at both ends and arounffi the middle with stout twine.. Manila paper may also be used In the same way; it costs more, but Is more durable. Nurserymen use split tile, placing them around the tree and tying so they will not part. Two or three hundred of these can be bought at any tile factory at a very reasonable cost Have them spilt while green and burned with the other tile. —— - The Cot#wol4 Sheep. The Cotswolds are large* hardy and prolific sheep, and the ewes are good mothers. They furnish a valuable combing wool, and the average of fleeces Is from 7to 8 pounds. Selected flocks produce considerably more wool. The wethers, fattened at 14 months old In England, weigh from 15 to 24 pounds per quarter, and at 2 years old from 20 to 30 pounds per quarter.'They frequently are made to weigh considerably more in this country. Their mutton is superior,lb .that of the I>»1-

celfcers, the fat being less abundant and better mixed with lean meat. They are much used In crossing other breeds and varieties. They impart more hardiness, with stronger constitutions and better qualities gs breeders to ftMT'Lelcesters, and thicken them dn the hind quarters. They are decidedly favored sheep tilth the breeders of the United States. Kansan Corn Testa. One of the most valuable bulletins on Indian corn which we have yet seen is No. 147, issued by the Kansas Experiment Station. It contains the reports of four years of actual work in the corn experimental station by Professors Ten Eyck and Husted. Durng these four years 112 varieties of corn were tested. The bulletin gives the results of a very careful study of these different varieties with a recommendation of such varieties as seem best adapted to Kansas conditions. In addition to this study of varieties a very complete report Is made of different methods of planting and the best date to plant, a study of soil moisture in connection with the different methods of planting, different ways of cultivating, a comparative style of fertilizers, a study In rotation, experiments in shrinkage, etc. Altogether it Is an admirable bulletin. It differs from aIL other bulletins on this subject'which have been issued, in that it contains the reports of actual, caref.nl experimental work, rather than a theoretical presentation of the Subject. In the Vegetable Cellar. Suburban Life says apple and potato bins may be partly filled with welldried autumn leaves, which are among the An old orebardist declares that the leaves of the apple tree will, if well dried, ketep sound, well-ripened apples in good condition until the trees come into bloom the following spring. Provide smaller spaces for beets, carrots, onions and other vegetables, not forgetting a deep bin for celery, which may be? taken out of the ground with the roots as complete as possible, and packed in boxes or the concrete bin, containing four or five incites deep of clean sand. Orte farmer says he has kept celery, growing and blanching half of the winter by burying the roots in clean, damp sand ap.d tying each stalk closely with a piece of cloth. Strips three or four inches wide make the best ties for celery, which should be kept in a dark place or lightly qpvered with a piece of perfectly dry burlap/ All of the usual market vegetables may be stored In a dry cellar and kept until early dainties come in the first days of spring.

Blanketing; Cows. Burlng the last couple of years u good many dairymen in Australia have adopted the practice of blanketing their cows during wet and cold weather, and the results In every case are spoilt of as being highly satisfactory. When cows are kept warm the food they consume, Instead of being utilized to maintain bodily heat, is largely devoted to the production of milk, and In this way the dairyman realizes a largo profit on the very small outlay required to provide blankets for his catttle in cold weather. Men who have studied the subject closely say that the effect of covers on cows Is very remarkable. The quiet cows become more quiet and contented, while those that are shy and nervou9 have their nerves soothed and submit to being handled without fear. This Is po fad of one or two men, but has become so common that manufacturers have placed several kinds of blankets, as coverings, on the marked, a ylew to supplying the -demand that has arisen. It Is said, however, that a homemade blanket, made from old wheat bags, serves the purpose as well as anything. After-they have been worn for a short time they become thoroughly water proof.—Northwest Farmer, Winnipeg.

Sowlng Clover With Rape. Clover seed with rape is a very successful and popular method with mnnj farmers who are engaged in raising sheep and goats, says a bulletin Issued by the Department of Agriculture, With the .land prepared as indicated for sowing clover alone In the spring, ten to twelve pourids of clover seed arid two to four pounds of rape seed per acre are sown broadcast about the first of May, and covered with harrow. If the ground Is rough and cloddy, It should be finished with a roller. If this mixture is sown on a thoroughly pulverized and compact seed bed, the rape develops rapidly and furnishes exeellent pasture for sheep, goats, calves or swine, In six to eight weeks. The tramping of the animals while feeding, during the suqpmer, principally on. the rape, forms a dust mnlch on the surface of the ground. In this way soil m&fsture Is retained fpy.. the use of the clover during the dry summer. If a hay crop is desired the second season, the rape is killed by pasturing it closely with sheep during the late fall or winter, Sheep eat off the crowfis of the plants close to the ground and the rape then dies. If the rape is not killed it will go to seed the next summer, and the stalks will give some trouble lb the hay. If the dover Is hot cropped closely the first summer, this method gives an excellent stand.

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1154—Henry 11. crowned King of Bug* land. 1500 —Columbus arrived a prisoner in Spain. 1562—Huguenots defeated at Dreux. 1686—Sir Edmund Andros, first royal governor of New England, arrived in Boston. ■* 1773—Destruction of cargo of taxed tea in Boston harbor by citizens disguised as Indians, known as the “Boston Tea Party.” j 1775—British Parliament passed an act for confiscating all American vessels and impressing their crews into the British navy. 1780—United States Congress appointed Francis Dana minister to Russia. 1780—Bank of the United States began to discouht. 1793 —City of Toulon retaken by Napoleon from the British. ISO3-=-The United States took possession of Louisiana. .1812 —Bonaparte arrived at Paris from his Russiati campaign. -- 1845—Battle of Moodkee. ISlS—Park theater, New York City, destroyed by fire.... Louis Napoleon took the oath of allegiance and was proclaimed President of the French Republic... .Asiatic cholera appeared among United States troops in Texas. 1851— J. M. W. Turner, eminent English landscape painter,, died in obscurs lodgings in London, under an assumed name. , 1852 — Pegu annexed to the Indian empire. 1859 First train crossed the Victoria bridge at Montreal. 1860— The passport system abolished in France by Napoleon 111 South African Republic established, Paul Kruger president. 1861— Federals attempted to blockade the channel of Charleston harbor. .1863 —Gen. Grant established his headquarters at Nashville. 1804—Gen. Hardee escaped from Savan- » nah with 15,000 troops.... President Lincoln called for 300,000 volunteers. ISGs—Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution proclaimed. 1874 —Italian parliament voted an annuity to Garibaldi..... Emigrant ship Cospatriok burned at sea, with lost of 465 lives. IS76—All awards made in payment of the Alabama claims, leaving surplus of about $8,000,000. ISB3—Cantilever bridge at Niagara Fails , opened for traffic. 1884 — -World’s industrial cotton exposition opened in New Orleans. 1885 — House of Representatives passed tlie presidential succession bill. 1891—Violent earthquake in Sicily. - 1894—War between China and Japan declared ended. 1897—William Terriss, eminent English actor, assassinated. TS99 —House of passed the currency bill. 1900—Martial law proclaimed in Cape - Colony.. . .Gen. Leonard Wood assumed office as governor general of Cuba. 1903—United States Senate passed Cuban reciprocity bill.

Home Consumption Nurses.

Commissioner of Health Dixon of Pennsylvania has"* inaugurated a campaign against tuberculosis involving a house-to-house inspection and instruction by visiting nurses, who will go to the home Of every person applying to the State Dispensary for treatment. It will be the duty of the visiting nurses to instruct the patient and the patient’s family how to obtain the requisite amount of fresh air, the most desirable foods, and how to conduct themselves so'as to avoid infection. Every member of a household in which a consumptive lives will be inspected, and where there is a sign of 11l health the suspected person will be. pec.... suaded to adopt precautionary measures. In this way it is hoped the State will he ablejto check the spread of “the great white plague” by discovering hundreds of cases in the early stages when a cur* is probable. The difficulty which ha* been experienced in sanitarium work heretofore is that, cases are not reached until they are'too far advanced to b« susceptible of cure.

Big Profits in Cigars.

President George J. Whelan of th« United Cigar Stores Company, When cn the stand in the government’s suit against itLe American Tobacco Company, testified / that the company had paid a 12 per cent dividend in 1905. 20 per cent in UMXS and 46 per cent in 1007. * .

Big Order for Wheat.

A Greek giving the name of Lizerai has created a sensation in Baltimore grain circles, by giving the exporting firm oPG!t._ & Fisher an order to buy 1,500,000 bush els of wheat for shipment to Athens : While giving no credentials or evidence ol fils ability’ to pay. he referred to a promt neut New York house.-* It is. said that if the order is filled it will take five steam ers to carry the grain. A rough rstlir.ato cf the census of Cuba, now being tabulated, places the popular don of Ji* island at 2 a 028,'259t