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n- awn ' 'l 3, i i. i, t f «‘9‘ ~.,.- 1.43.,»- ~. urn-\,< A... _w"<‘<)\'fl~»fl 31””. xiv-“.4. g it THE MAYOR gainâ€"rum FLAT. BY WILLIAM ATKINSON. CHAPTER I. It was the lat day of September 1838. In faraway New York City good citizens were either in bed and asleep, or were preparing to retire ; in more remote London, the milk- men and market-gardeners had already opened up the business of a new day ; but in South-western Arizona it was the hour of sunset. 3, Seated upona canip-stool,'in front ofa frame shanty that boasted two sniall apart- ments, was a man, handsome in spite of his rough dress and weather-tanned counten- cean, but prematurely gray and careworn. His white locks betokened threescore years at least ; but if the re ister of a certain parish in the North iding of Yorkshire tells the tale truly, John Lee was born in the year of grace 1850, and was therefore just thirty-eight years old. A shingle protruded from the entrance of the rude cabin, upon which some apprentice hand had printed the legendâ€" “ DR. Joux LEE, Physician and Surgeon." Now, although Dr. Lee was the only medical man within forty miles in every di- rection, he was not overburdened with patients, and had long since arrived at the conclusion that, viewed from a professional standpoint, Sawmill Flat was altogether too healthy a locality. Indeed, on this es ecial September evening he had been calcu ating the length of time since his services were last in requisition. He found that it was exactly eight weeks since he extracted a bullet from l‘ombstone Hank’s hipâ€"placed there by Hank’s bosom friend, upon the oc~ casion of a slight difference over a friendly ameot Seven-up-for which the grateful ank had paid him six dollarsâ€"nominally as a ten per cent. deposit, but in reality as payment in full. It will be readily conced- ed, even though Arizona doctors are not compelled. to urchase dress suits, attend receptions, and) make their professional calls in broughams, that six dollars is, to say the least, a thin income for two mont s; so it is streets and sold at high prices for city lots. from the consideration of this meeting. On no account will permit my name to be pre. sented for the Mayoralty.â€"â€"hlr Ree- e, if it is within your province, and if you will do me a favour, I should like you to adjourn this meeting for one week, when I will re- quest the privilege of addressing my friends â€"Bleas my soul, Doc., you'll soon have a â€"and othersâ€"in this room.” big city practice. and be a millionaire land- owner to boot." “ Meanwhile? " grinned the Doctor. “ Meanwhile, ifyon want a nugget or two to help you out, you know where old Jim Hawkins lives, don’t you 2 " .- “ You're very good, Hawkinsâ€"very good. Well, I’ll go down and look on. The two men took several paces in sil~ euce. Then, with much abruptness, Haw- kins asked: “ Why don’t you merry Andy Dunbar’s darter 2 Jen would say “ Yes ” too quick ; and Dunbar would be tickled todeath‘, and set you up in good shape. Why don‘t you do it, Doc. 2 " John Lee pulled at his gray moustache for some moments before he replied : “Haw- kins, ” he said, “a few months ago you showed your good-will to me. so I will an- swer your question. I broke one girl's heart, and that is sufficent for me. I do not 10v: Jenny Dunbar, and I shall run no more risks where a good woman is con- cerned. ” “ Doc,” said Hawkins bluntly, I ask your pardon, sir. ” - Sawmill Flat, formed part of the town (or township) of San Bernardino, a district fully as large as the English county of Lincoln, settled by a sparse population of but two or three hundred, most of whom resided at- Sawmill Flat. Looking to the future, this township had been forni- ed for local government purposes, the chief executive being none other than Jim Hawkins, whowas known as the Reeve. The other township officers were one Eli- phalet Younghusbaud, Justice of the Peace, and his constable, Pedro Lopez. The law called for a town meeting twice a year, when all the male residents of legal age were entitled to give voice to their opinions and to present resolutions, &c., reg irding public matters. Hitherto, during the six years’ history of San Bernardino the town scarcely surprising that John Lee was about meeting had been systematically ignored resolved to Fold his tent, like the Arabs, And silently steal away; or, in the more concise language of Saw Mill Flat, to “ dig out.” For a man who had spent his boyhood's days in one of the most picturesque of the North Yorkshire dales, the prospect from John Lee’s shanty door was not particular~ 1y inspiring. Immediately before him was the Santa Fe Trailâ€"that great South-west» ern emigrant road along whose thirteen- hundred-mile course hundreds of scalpless corpses have been left to rot in the summer sun and bleach in the autumn winds. Half a mile down the trail could be seen the score of low shanties occu ied by the workersâ€"- who were also share . eldersâ€"in the Big Bug Silver Mine, whose location was betrayed by the huge derrick and pulley-wheel rising high above the cabins. Beyond the mineâ€" south, east. and westâ€"was an endless ex- panse of waste sandy soil, which sustained no life save that of the deadly rattlesnake. To the north the view was not quite so dismal, although itwas dull enough. More than a. mile away, surrounded by a clump of dwarfed cotton-wood trees and sickly oaks, was the sawmill which gave the name to the settlement ; while stretching away as far as the eye could reach rose tier above tier of low saudhills, that finally merged into the desert mountain range which crosses Central Arizona. Before the setting sun reached the horizon, John Lee was so dis- gusted that, as he had done many times be- fore, he took refuge in a pipe of tobacco and shut out the view with thick clouds of smoke. Now, because TombstoneI-Iank had settled with the Doctor upon “ the instalment plan," it must not for a moment be supposed that Sawmill Flat was the home of a poverty- stricken community. Lacking it may have been (and was) in fine scenery and other natural advantages as well as in good so~ ciety, schools, churches, and other refining influences; but in gold and silverâ€"especial- ly silverâ€"by no means. For two years the output of the Big Bug Silver Mine had been enormous, and had made rich men of at least a dozen of the citizens of Sawmill Flat; while Jim Hawkins, the proprietor of the sawmill, and Andy Dunbar, the keeper of the general store, both had in addition to their respective properties at Sawmill Flat, healthy balances at the First National Bank of Tucson. As a matter of fact, money was literally “no object" to some of the Saw- mill Flat pcople, who frequently paid most extravagant rices for the commonth neces- sities of life, at lived on and toiled on in the hope that railroads yet unbuilt would some day bring the outside world to their settlement; or else that the themselves, when rich enough, would leave Arizona Territory for the comforts and civilisation of “ the States.” The clouds of tobacco smoke from John Lee‘s pipe so effectually shut out the Doc- tor's immediate surroundings, that he speedily lost himself in amaze of thought, and was considerably startled when a loud voice exclaimed : " Evenin’, Doc. 1” "Good-evening. Hawkins." “Going along, Doc. 2" “ Coin along where 3" " To t 0 Fiat. Where else? Come, hurry up, Doc." ” Why, what's going on 2 I've been as far as the mine once today, anal it will soon bemy bedtime. No; Ithink I‘ll not go, Haw ins." “ Not go? Why, man alive, it‘s the night of the town meeting. Come on 2" “ Meeting? By Jove, that’s a fact, though I had clean forgotten it. Anyhow, whatathe use of me going to the town meeting! No: I won't go." “ Coufound it all. Doc., ain't you a public spirited citerzen! Ain't you a real~estate man? Ain’t you a man of edgereation? Don’t on live at Sawmill Flat. anyhow, and ain‘t is a meetiu’ of Sawmill Flat towns. folks? " John Lee felt compelled to laugh at this man's curious but earnest appeal, and the laugh temporarily di _ died his fineness. Hawkins was a pretty amend man, and. in his gray, he was generous too. “ Yo ‘re do in the nth, Doc., that's what's the tter with you. Don‘r youiuse heart so quick, pr luer, for th here place is jest ag- ' to lie. sir, you bet 2 I twoyears from now tli lty ofSawmill Flat will have five th... .1 people and five railroads -, and your two hundred acres, that you'd be derued lad to get two hun- tired dollaran to- y willbecut into a l ’ by the citizens. But on the present occas- ion the Sawmill Flat people intended to boom their settlement, and become incor- porated under the municipal laws of Arizona. as a City. No cash and no enthusiasm was tolbe spared to bring about the desired re- su t. - The meeting was held in the town- hall, which was a room about twenty feet square. and was 'attended by well-nigh every resident of Sawmill Flat. No time was lost in appointing the Reeve and the Justice 9. deputation to wait upon the Gov- ernor of Arizona for a charter ; , nor was it long before fourteen thousand dollars was subscribed to be spent in erecting 2‘. new City Hall and an Hotel, in sinking wells for a water supply, and in widely advertising the advantages and glorious outlook of the new City. This having been done with much un- animity, Chairman Jim Hawkins arose to make a speech. “ Boysâ€"Feller Citirzens, I should sayâ€"from the looks of things, the City of Sawmill Flat will come into ex- istence on the lst day of January 1889. When it does, we want a man to take chargeâ€"a good man and a smart man. \Ve don't want no shyster for Mayor, which we are pretty sure to get if we don't make the office a liberal paid one. \Ve want a compe- tent man, a man with a level head, and a man with interests in Sawmill Flat. In other words we want one of ourselves, and one of our best selves at that. Now, you fellers as know how to do things up in proper shape can make a good living, and you ain’t going to neglect your business to 'run this city for next to nothing a year. We ought to pay the Mayor of Sawmill Flat a salary of at least five thousand dollars, and then he’ll do the fair thingâ€"at least, if he don’t, we can stiing him up or tar and feather him." This proposition of the Reeve’s was also duly moved and seconded without a dissen- tient. But the salary question being settled, there were many aspirants for the honour of the nomination to be first Mayor of the new City. The meeting new took the form of a genuine political caucus ; and some sensation was caused when, after two or three names had been mentioned, Joe Brice got up and said: “Gents, I nominate my old pard, Zack Pegg. Zack is a rich man, and an old settler in the Flat, and he ’lows that if he’s lected Mayor, he’ll donate his entire salary to the citizens, which I think is handsome and generous.” But Jim Hawkins suddenly vacated his chair and took the floor. “ Justice,” he said, "have the kindness to preside for a few moments while Isay my say. This here generosity of Zack Pe'gg’ii puts me in mind of the man what got pretty hungry and cut off his pet dog’s tail, which he biled and eat, and then gave the bone to the dog. Zack would only be giving back to the boys what he got from them, which wouldn’t be much of a virtue in Zack, seeing as he's a- rolling in boodle. But don’t you see, boys, it's considerable like bribery to make such offers ; and if Zack did et elected on any such scheme, he might find himself in the pen. [penitentiary], instead of Mayor of Sawmill Flat. Nu ; I’ve got a name to pro- pose that I think will fill the bill. It’s the name of a clever man and well edgercated man, a man of experience, a man who owns real estate in this town, and a man that’s one of ourselves. He needs the money that will go with the office of Mayor ;and because he needs it, he'll try to earn it. I erlude to Doc. Lee ; and he's a blamed good feller, as we all know.” The Doctor‘s name was cordially received and there was a hurrah as Hawkins re. sumed his seat in the chair. John Lee was well liked in the Flat, except by one or two newcomers. One of the new settlers arose as Hawkins sat down. “ Feller-citizens, " said the man, “ I take it that you meant what you said at the outset when you resolved that the Mayor of Sawmill Flat mustbe a good man, an honest man, and a man with a clean rec- ord. Now, I don't suppose you want a jail bird-a murderer, for instance -a"â€"-â€" There Was an angry bus: of voices, and nianya hand found its way . to a pistol- ‘ket when the insinuation was uttered. mt anger changed to suprise when the audio ence {tacovered that speaker was look- ing squarely at Lee, whose face wasa deep or: own. When. therefore, Hawkins called for order. quiet was quickly resumed. “Gentlemen,” said Lee in a low voice that noticeably shook with violent agitation, “ I beg very respectfully to withdraw my name It was well for John Lee, as well as for the man who had cast a: terrible a slur up- on bim, that he promised what was evident- 1y to be an explanation at a future meeting. Otherwise, there would probably have been a terrible uproar that night in the embryo City of Sawmill Flat. As it was, Dr Lee‘s request was complied with, and the meeting stood adjourned for one week. (To us cosrixcnn.) How A hlarried Woman Gross to Sleep- Instead of thinking of what she should have attended to before going to bed the average married woman thinks of it after-' wards. “’hile she is revolving these matters in her mind, and while snugly tucked up in bed, the old man is scratching his head in front of the fireplace, and wondering how he will pay the next month's rent. Sudden- ly she says : "James, did’ you lock the doc: ‘2” “ w hich door ‘2" says James. “ The cellar-door,” says she. “ No,” says James. “ \Vell, you had better go downstairs and and ‘ock it, for I heard some person in the back yard last night. " Accordingly James paddles down the HBOBABICAL AND SCIENTIFIC- Brick is to be made from chipped granite and clay. . A patent has been issued fora lock which can be operated by a magnetized key. A recent invent-ion is a shoe with a hinged [8013, for the purpose of facilitating putting it on or off. A chemist in Berlin claims that he has discovered a system of reproducing natural color in photography. A London firm finds a windmill the most- economic means of securing the motive power necessary to run a dynamo. It has been found that the same wire can housed for telegraphing and telephoning. The experiment was recently tried a dis~ tance of three and one-half miles. A Chicago man has recently taken out a patent for an electric piekpocket and coat thiel detector, which apparatus is intended, automatically, to sound an alarm bell when- ever the wearer's personal property is inter- ' fered with. Luminous figures on street doors to render the number of houses visible at night is the newsst patent of an electric company at Ber- lin, Germany. A street car in Fitchburg, fitted with steel ball bearings as an experiment, has been run for several months with out being oiled since it was first put in service. Blaudyte is the name given to the new material made of Trinidad asphalt and stairs and locks the door. He returns, and W13“) rubber- It X‘BSiStS the POM 0f high is just getting into bed when she remarks : PrGSSure Steam and lasts well in the prof!- “ Did you shut the stair door '2” “ No,” says James. “ Well, if it is not shut the cat will get ‘ into the pantry.” “ Let her get in, then,” says James, ill- naturedly. “ My goodness, no,” returns his wife ; “ she’d steal all the food.” Then James paddles downstairs again, lbe and steps on a tack, and closes the door, and curses the cat, and returns to the bed- room. Just as he begins to climb in, his wife observes : “ I forgot to bring up some water. Sup- pose you bring up some in the big jug.” And so James, with it mattered curse, goes down into the dark kitchen, and falls over a chair and breaks one or two cups in search of the big jug, and then jerks the stair-door open and bowls : “ Where are the matches?” She gave him minute directions where to find the matches, and added that she would ence of oil and grease. There is a rock in Mexico which fore- ‘tells the weather. In fair weather it wears a neutral tint, and when it is about to ruin it turns a dingy red. Its tempera- ture increases and it appears as if it were being heated by an internal fire. Photogra hing under water has actually on carrie out, so it is said. Experiments were made in 1889 in the Mediterranean to ascertain how far daylight penetrated under the water. In very clear water, near Cor- sica, and eighteen miles from land, the limit of daylight was found by means of photographic plates to be 1,580 feet. England has thirty-four astronomical ob- servatories, America eighty, France seven- teen, Austria twenty-four, Italy twenty-one, lRussia fifteen and Belgium five. Besides these there are many private observatories all over the world. Among the 1,160 as 'tronomers of note, now living, about one- rather go and fetch the water herself than hulf have Private Observatories' have the neighbourhood raised about it. After which James finds the matches, pro- cures the water, cames upstairs, and plunges into bed. Presently .his wife says : “ James, let us have an understanding about money matters. Now, next week I’ve got to pay ” “ I don't know what you’ll have to pay and don’t care,” shouted James, as he lurch- es around and jams his face against the wall; all I want is sleep. ” “ That’s all very well for you,” snaps his ' wife as she pulls the clothes viciously ; “you l never think of the worry and trouble I have And there’s Amarintha, who, I believe, is taking the measles.” “ Let her take ’em,” said James. Hercupon she begins to cry softly, .just about the time James is falling into al gentle doze she prods him in the ribs with ‘ her elbow and says : “ Did you hear about that scandal about Mrs. Jones ‘2" “ What Jones '3" says James, sleepily. “ Why, Mrs. Jones. ” “ Where ?” inquired James. “ I declare,” says his wife, “ you are zet- ting more stupid every day. You know Mrs. Jones at No. ‘21? Well, day before yesterday Susan Smith told Mrs. Thompson that Sam Baker had said that Mrs. Jones hadâ€"” Here she pauses and listens. James is s ' ' . ' . . . mung 1“ pmfound Slumber “nth “snort i statues aforesaid and Visiting our museums. she pulls all the clothes off him, wraps her- self up in them and. lies awake until 2.0 a.m., thinking how bidly used she is. And this is how a married woman goes to sleep. â€"â€"â€"+â€"-â€"â€"â€"- The Sultan of J chore. A little party of Americans have paid a visit to the Sultan of Johore, and one of their number has given an account of their expedition from Singapore, which presents some picturesque details. The hos- pitable Sultan sent out his state barge, manned with Malays in canary-colored suits to meet them, and at the landing pier they were received by “the Illustrious Secre- tary of the Sultan,” whose title and name are “Dato (lord) Abdul Rahman.” He isa Commander of the English Order of St. George and St. Michael, and is stated to speak Malay, Chinese,- lnglish, French, and German with who is said to have inherited the other day from the late Sultana “ a million and a half of this world’s goods," appearsfrom this narrative to be a prosperous person. The hall, approached by a marble reception room. in which the company were entertain- ed at a banquet, is described as 150 feet in length. Every article of the service for seventy persons and sixteen courses was of gold, and one course was served on “ the celebrated Ellenborough plate.” At the table the Sultan remarked: “ lVe are all temperance folk in this Mohammedan coun- try. See, all I drink is pineapple juice.” His guest gazed about the table, and found that the foreigners were the only crsons equal fluency. The Sultan, He Loves Merry England. Joseph Fernas, a gentleman of Belgian ex- traction, is a standing protest against those unpalriotic Englishmen who continually decry British art and the British climate and spend their money in inspecting statues and pictures in distant countries instead of searching for the beauties of their own. He comes from the land of Quentin Matsys and Pct-er Paul Rubens, but think you that his artistic soul is satisfied with the productions of these foreigners? Not a bit of it. His ideal of really high art is to be found among the statues of London. For half a day he would stand before Charles Fox, sit- lmd ting in Russell Square, clothed in as much of a Roman toga as can be seen through a sturdy accumulation of remnants of fogs. “ Ah,” he used to cry, “ that's something like art !” And when he got tired of this view he patiently trudged to Charing Cross to gaze upon the magnificent statue of Charles I., covered from top to toe with the splashings of omnibuses and liansoms. Why should a man with such high tastes and ap- preciation of British art find himself in the North London Police Court? The fact is, Fernas is in receipt of a pen< sion of £40 a year, which is payable in his native city of Ghent. The moment he receives his annual allowance he comes over to London‘to spend it in gazing upon the then, at the end of the year, it is all gone, the Consul has to pay his passa 8 back to to Ghent, where he draws a fres sum and and repeats the experiment. A policeman found him wandering on Stamford Hill with- out any means of subsistence and unable to speak a word of English. He was waiting be sent home by the Consul, ashis pension was due on Aug. 2, but, as he had one or two coppers left, this consummation was for the moment unattainable. The magistrate discharged him, and in a day or two, when I real impecuniosity has set in, no doubt the Belgian authorities will see him pro erly off. So many aliens come to our stores without a penny in their pockets thata per- son like Joseph Fernas stands out as an agreeable relief. Toprressing Wheat Fields- Many good farmers, where Winter wheat is largely grown, apply more of the stable manure to this crop besides dressing it liberally with commercial fertilizers. They ' claim that it pays better to apply to the wheat, not because that era itself isa ay- ing one, but the manure tins applie re- mains in the soil, helping the clover to larger growth. Again, by the time the land comes around to corn again the clover sod does as much good or more than a dressing of unfermented stable manure could do. In plowing under green manure in tl.e Spring, if. the season following is dr , it sometimes does injury rather than goo the first season. This top-dressing of composted manure never does injury to wheat if ap- who were drinking the wines provi ed for plied judiciously and with a doe amount of them. It is a noteworty fact that the sub- jects of this Malay Sultan, of this Mala state, are Chinese. They are. it is sta allowed to come-to J chore and settle on the best pieces of land they can find unoccupied. Fired on by a french Gunboat- Advices from Dahomey state that the French gunboat Heron, one of the blockad- ing squadron ofl' the coast of Dahomey, fired three times on Saturday on the African mail steamship Berna. The Heron sighted the Boma 03‘ Grand Po Po and si salted to her to are The Basia caution on her course and t e commander of the Heron o nod fire. The Boma~then slowed up an ,the Frenchman came within hailing distance. The Commander of the Heron demanded the papers of the Roma for inspection, pro- fessing to believe that she carried contraband articles to Dahomey. The Captain of the Berna, protested, but eventually showed his papers. The matter has been reported to the Governor of Lagos. Uncle Sam consumed 30,021,079 barrels of beer last year. mineral fertilizer. Spread the composted manure as thinly as you can ; barrow it thoroughly to incor rate it with the soil. There are very few where the amount of composted stab e manure that a farmer can spare for wheat will hurt his crop. On the contrary, more stable manure for wheat might help bring up the average crop of this country to something like that of Lug- land, which is 29 bushels per acre. â€"[Prairie Farmer. Harry Took the Hint. Harry wanted to give Lucy a birthday present, but couldn’t make up his mind what it should be ; so the next time he called he frankly told her the difficulty under which he was laboring. “ Want to make me a presen b, Harry 2” exclaimed Lucy, in well-counterfeited as- tonishment. “ Why, Harry, you forget yourself !" Harry took the hint and offered himself on the spot. Nextto excellence is the appreciation of iLâ€"{Thackeray. ‘. BOOKING VERSUS COAL- One lesson Learned In English Naval Manoeuvres. One thing already made clear by these evolutions at sea is the importance of dock- ing ships periodically for the pus-‘5‘“) of having accumulations of men seaweed scraped from every curve be ow the water line. This is of paramount importance as affecting the speed of battle ships, and therefore their coal consumption. After cruising all night at seven knots speed, which took us at first far toward the coast of France, and then by change of course, back to within sight of the Lizard, every ship hit its place in the same formation they had fallen into when leaving Torbay, and. one could not perceive the slightest irregu- larity of interval in either line. To keep station thus when winds are light, the sky unclondcd as it was last night, and each ship leaves a wake of phosphorescent foam on a Icalni sea behind her, is not veiy difficult, perhaps. The conditions changed somewhat this morning, when a strong wind from the east sprang up, and waves ran hi h enough to make green curtains for caiin scuttles. Under these changed conditions, however, the vessels kept accurately in position, thereby showing that the commanding officers had them completely under con- trol. All this, simple though it may seem to landsmen, can only be achieved by cease- less watchfulness and considerable skill in seamanship, when vessels of so many different classes are together, and when even ships of the same class must burn very various quantities of coal in order to keep station. \Vhen signals were exchanged this morning we found that the Anson, per- haps the fastest of all the Admiral class, when in proper order, had been compelled to keep her engines going at a rate of live and a half revolutions a minute faster than those of her sister ship, the Camperdown, and that naturally meant a much larger coal consumption. It is estimated that docking and cleaning her before she came to sea would. have cost about £200, and for that small outlay sh'e would have been able to hold her own with any ship in this or the hostile fleet, except the Royal Sovereign. In her present state, however, the additional cost of coal neces~ sary for her to perform similar work efficient- ly will amount to thousands, and there is ‘ the increased strain on engines to be thought of. Our friend the enemy need not expect to catch this ship napping, never- theless. She can still go fast enough for any emergency that is likely to happen, but her expenditure for coal will be much great- er than it need have been. Goals. however, come under one vote, and docking a ship under another, and members of Parliament who are curious in such problems may work out for the reason why economy ofn. few hundred pounds in one direction is secured by the expenditure of thousands in another. oâ€"â€"â€"- I‘ifteen Decisive Battles- According to Lord Creasy, the fifteen de- cisive battles were those at Marathon, Sep- tember, 490 B. 0., when Miltiades, with 10,000 Greeks, defeated 100,000 Persians imder Datis and Artaphernes ; at Syracuse, September, 413 B. 0., a great naval battle took place, the Athenians under Nicias and Demosthenes being defeated with a loss of 40,000 killed and wounded of their entire fleet ; at Arbela, October, 331 B. 0., Alex; ander the Great overthrew Darius Codonia- nus for the third time ; at Mataurus, 3'” B. C., the Consuls Livius and: Nero cut to ieces Hasdrubal's army, sent to reinforce annibal ; Arminus, in 9 A. D., and the Gauls overthrew the Romans under Varus and established the independence of Gaul ; at Chalons, 451 A. D.,Actius and Therodrio utterly defeated Attila and prevented Eur- ope from devastation ; at Tours, 00- tober, 732, Charles Martel overthrew the Saracens under Abderahmen and. broke the Mosleni yoke from Europe ; at Hastings, October, 1066, William of Normandy slew Harold II. and ob- tained England's throne ; at Orleans 14‘49, Joan of Arc secured the independ- ence of France; the defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588, destroyed the hopes of the Pope in England; the battle of Blenheim, Aug. 13,1704, when Marlborough and Prince Eu one defeated Tallard, leading the French an the Bavarians. and thus preventing Louis XIV. from carrying out his schemes ; at Pultowa, July, 1709, Czar Peter utterly defeated Charles XII. of Sweden, and established the Muscovite power; at Sara- toga, October, 1777, Gen. Gates defeated the British and Gen. Burgoynes and thus secured for the United States, the alliance of France: at Valmy, September, 1792, the French Marshal Kellerniau gained the upper hand for the French rcvolutionists over the Duke of Brunswick and the allied armies: at \Vaterloo, J one 18, 1815, Napoleon Bon‘ u arte commanded the French and the Duke 0 \Vcllington the British and their allies, and the victory broke up Napoleon's revolu- tionary plans ; two recent battles, not here included, are those at Gettysburg, July, 1863, and at Sedan, prc aring respectively, for the downfall of the fionfedcracy and tho captureof Napoleon III. and his army. Drinking Cold Water in Winter- Farmers are slowly learning the folly of turnin stock out for water in the storms and co (1 of our severe winters. The lesson was forced upon me by not being able to at a well dug as I hadplanned in the fall. aving a well in an adjoining building, the cattle were watered in the barn ever since. It is cruel to drive cows out in winter, and they must be driven out, for they will suffer before they will leave warm i narters for the water they need, neither will they drink when out, as much as the would if they were comfortable and t e water of the right temperature. When they return they are cold, and their once warm quarters have also become chilled by the opening of doors, and much time and feed is required to re- store the loss of heat. In warm sunny days I let my cattle out, when it is a pleasure to themâ€"(J. W. R. The Homestead Mill Saw- A 110 ton saw iscalculated tocut through almost anything, even through a nickel steel armorvplale ; and for just this use has the gigantic saw been made for the Home- stead mill, Pittsburg, at a cost of 835,000. The blade of the saw is seven and one-half feet in diameter, being cared from above and revolving horizontal y. After one has (1 upon the huge steel carpenter's tool, -e little wonder: to see it slice off an angular slab of cold nickel-steel, weighing about a dozen tons, as easily as a carving knife clips of! a crisp turkey wing. l!“