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others, unless there is already a good

manac-maker, named Grier-a cousin, by the way, of Alexander Stephens, the Southern statesman. One day his son, a quiet-faced, mild-mannered young man, was sent to mill. The humble youth bridled an old mare belonging to the family, put a blanket on her back to keep the horse-hair out of the meal, and, with no saddle, started for mill.

Some strangers overtook the verdantlooking youth on the way, and one of them decided that it would be worth the effort to have a few minutes' amusement with him.

"What is your name, my unsophisticated young friend?" he inquired. "Grier", was the monosyllabic answer. "Oh, you are a son of the somewhat noted almanac-maker Grier?"

"Fact", was the second monosyllabic reply.

"And do you also make calculations of the weather?"

"Always", responded the youth.

"Well, well! this is very interesting", exclaimed the stranger, rather banteringly, and winking slyly at his companions. "It must be heredity. May I ask how closely your and your father's calculations agree?"

"Never more than two days different." "Why that is astonishing! And how do you account for such an invariable coincidence?"

"Well, you see", rejoined the "verdant youth", "father always knows the day before it will rain."

"I see I see. And you?"

"I always know the day afterward", said the boy on the meal-bag, without apparently changing the expression of his face.

September 17-Andrew Carnegie delivered an address at Glasgow, Scotland, in which he praised the New York city government in comparison with that of foreign cities. Former Mayor Frank S. Katzenbach, Jr., of Trenton, N. J., was nominated at the Democratic State Convention for Governor of New Jersey.

18 The Treaty of Arbitration between Italy and Argentina was signed at The Hague. A proclamation was issued by Governor Smith, convening the National Philippino Assembly on October 16.

19-Justice John Franklin Fort was nomi

nated for Governor of New Jersey by the Republican State Convention.

20-A dispatch from Peking said that Wu Ting-fang would probably return to United States as Minister.

21-Armed peasants attack the house of Count Tolstoy, the Russian novelist, during his literary jubilee celebration.

Mayor Tom L. Johnson was renominated by acclamation by the Democratic City Convention of Cleveland, Ohio. 22-Maya Indians, near San Isidor, Mexico, ambushed a patrol of troops, killing seven

men.

23-"Robert Fulton Day" was celebrated at the Jamestown Exposition. Mark Twain. was master of ceremonies.

The International Congress of Hygiene was opened at Berlin.

24-The fourth international congress of Religious Liberals opened at Tremont Temple, Boston.

26-Premier Bond of Newfoundland, declared the imperial rescript on fisheries was invalid.

27-Secretary Taft and party arrived on board

the Minnesota at Yokohama.

28-Fifteen persons were killed and many injured fatally in a collision between a Baltimore and Ohio express and a freight train, at Bellaire, Ohio.

29-President Roosevelt left the capital city on

his extensive Western and Southern trip. President Cabrera, of Guatemala announced his intention to send a delegate to the Central American peace conference at Washington.

30-The McKinley memorial monument was dedicated at Canton, Ohio; President Roosevelt delivered the principal address. October 1-President Diaz of Mexico, wel

comed Secretary of State Root at the National Palace, where cordial speeches were exchanged.

President Roosevelt, in his speech at Keo

kuk, Iowa, declared that there would be no deviation from his announced policies regarding the punishment of offenders of the law.

Seventy thousand employes in Austria began a passive resistance strike for higher wages.

2-The Japanese Emperor received Secre

tary Taft in private audience at Tokio. A memorial tablet was unveiled at the birthplace of President Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio.

The general convention of the Episcopal Church opened in Richmond, Va.; the Bishop of London preached a sermon. 3-President Roosevelt's trip down the Mississippi River was interrupted by the breaking of the machinery of the boat on which the President and party traveled; no damage was done.

6-A report came from Tangier that the

British government had accepted Raisuli's terms for release of Sir Harry MacLean. At Odessa, anti-Semitic outrages were renewed, many Jews being badly beaten. 7-The arbitration committee at The Hague

approved, by a vote of 31-9, the AngloAmerican plan of obligatory arbitration. J Pierpont Morgan's resolution to reduce representation in the House of Deputies was rejected by the general convention of the Episcopal Church, in session at Richmond, Va.

China, and was warmly greeted. At a dinner given in his honor, he spoke on America's policy toward China, and the goodwill which United States sustained for that country.

A Belgian syndicate is in contemplation to establish a line of turbine steamers between Antwerp and New York and Boston.

9-About nine miles from Oudja occurred

a sharp action between French troops and Moors.

10-New York Day was observed at the Jamestown exposition; addresses were delivered by Governor Hughes, and President Schurman of Cornell University. Emperor Francis Joseph, the aged Emperor

of Austria and King of Hungary, who is suffering from bronchial catarrh, was reported much improved.

11-Rodolphe Lemieux has been appointed Canada's envoy to Japan, to take up the immigration problem with the Japanese officials.

12-The special service squadron, consisting

of the armored cruisers Tennessee and
Washington, under command of Rear
Admiral Sebree, sailed from Hampton
Roads for the Pacific.

13-Count Okuma, leader of the Japanese
Progressive party, has changed his atti-
tude toward the Japanese-American im-
migration problem, and it is reported that
inmigration will not be made an issue at
the approaching session of the Diet.
14-The British home fleet, under command
of Lord Charles Beresford, assembled for
maneuvers in the North Sea and the Brit-
ish Channel.

15-Secretary of War Taft arrived at Manila from Hong Kong and received an enthusiastic welcome.

16-The occurrence of an earthquake of unusual length was reported from South Canada and Austria.

Secretary Taft opened the Philippine As

sembly in the National Theatre at Manila, and made an address.

17-Mehmed Ali Bey, the first Turkish Ambassador to United States, arrived at Washington, D. C.

DIED:

ARDAGH, MAJOR GENERAL SIR JOHN CHARLES-At Caernarvon, Wales, October 1, aged 67 years. After his graduation from Trinity College, Dublin, he attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, entering the army as a lieutenant of engineers in 1859. He was promoted to Captain in 1872, to Major in 1880, to Colonel in 1885, and to Major General in 1898. General Ardagh was a British delegate to the peace conference at The Hague, in 1889, and later was appointed a member of the permanent court of arbitration, which was organized at The Hague, after the conference of the various powers in 1899. As a subaltern, he accompanied General Sir W. Jervis on a mission to Nova Scotia and the Bermudas, and soon after his return, was appointed a deputy assistant quartermaster general, of the Intelligence Department.

Many honors were bestowed upon him from different governments, as well as his own. Aside from serving as a delegate to The Hague, and as a member of the permanent court, he received the appointment as government director of the Suez Canal Company, and attended several important commissions.

HAWKINS, SIR HENRY—In London, England, October 6, aged 90 years. He won a distinguished reputation by his knowledge of the law and by his keen and searching power of cross-examination. Born at Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, his father was John Hawkins of Hitchin, a solicitor of note and an able lawyer. Sir Henry was educated at Bedford School, and later entered as a student of the Middle Temple. On May 5, 1843, he was called to the bar. On November 2, 1876, he was appointed a judge of the Queen's Bench division of the

High Court of Justice; and on the 14th of the same month, he was transferred to the Exchequer division of that court, by royal sign manual; and on the 28th, was made a Knight Bachelor. He resigned his seat on the bench in 1898, and the year following was created Lord Brampton. MASSOM, DAVID-At Edinburgh, Scotland, October 7, aged 85 years. He was an editor, and an author of distinguished ability. He was born at Aberdeen, Scotland, December 2, 1822; and received his education at Marischal College and at the University of Edinburgh. At twenty, he became the editor of a newspaper in Aberdeen, and remained there until 1847, when he engaged in contributing to numerous publications and other special work for publishers. He then moved to London, continuing his literary work. In 1853, he was appointed to the chair of English language and literature in University College, London; and in 1858, he became, aside from his duties at the University, editor of "Macmillan's Magazine." In 1865 he became professor of Rhetoric and English literature at Edinburgh University, and in 1893, the Historiographer Royal for Scotland. Among his most noteworthy volumes are, "Chatterton: A Story of the Year 1770"; Life of John Milton"; British Novelists and Their Styles: A Critical Sketch of the History of British Prose Writers"; "Drummond of Hawthornden, the Story of His Life and Writings"; "Carlyle, Personally and in His Writings."

RIDDICK, JAMES EDWARD-At Little Rock, Ark., October 9. He was born in Fayette County, Penn., on August 29, 1849; educated at the Macon (Tenn.) Academy, studied at the Lebanon (Tenn.) Law School, and at the University of Michigan. In 1879, he was elected to the lower house of the State Legislature, and in 1886, was placed on the bench as judge of the Second Circuit. In 1894, Mr. Riddick was made an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the State, and in 1906 was again re-elected to that judicial office.

ROOKER, BISHOP FREDERICK Z.-At Jaro, Iloilo, Philippine Islands, September 19. He was born in New York City, Sep

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tember 19, 1861, and was the son of Myron Holly Rooker, who was night editor of the New York Tribune, when Horace Greeley was at the head of that paper. Bishop Rooker was educated at Union College, and received in later life the degrees of Ph.D. and S. T. D. from the Propaganda, in Rome. He was ordained in Rome in 1886, and soon afterward became vice rector of the American College. In 1894, he was sent to the Apostolic Delegation in Washington, of which he was secretary under Archbishops Satolli and Martinelli. In 1903, he was appointed Bishop of Jaro. TIFFANY, WILLIAM SHAW-In York City, September 29, aged 83 years. He was an artist of distinction, and his bestknown paintings are "Lenore," and "St. Christopher, Bearing the Christ Child." This latter piece of art, was presented to the Harvard Memorial Hall. Mr. Tiffany also illustrated Tennyson's "May Queen." After his graduation from Harvard with the class of 1845, he went to Paris, where he studied under Sheffer, Coupure, Constant, and Troyon. After being under the tuition of these celebrated masters, the young artist became eminent in his chosen profession, and was remarkable for his originality.

WILMER, WILLIAM N.-At Plain Dealing, Virginia, October 14, aged 54 years. A member of the New York board of education, was educated at the University of Virginia; studied law at Harvard University and later at the law school of the University of Maryland, where he graduated. Mr. Wilmer came to New York city soon after his graduation and became active in school affairs, was school inspector under Mayor Van Wyck, and in November, 1905, was appointed a member of the Beard of Education by Mayor McClellan, taking office on January 1, 1906. In February of the same year, he was appointed chairman of the executive committee of the Normal Collee. Mr. Wilmer was a member of the Diocesan Convention for a number of years, and took an active part in its deliberations; and for a long time he was a trustee of the fund for aged and infirm clergymen; and the Widows' and Orphans' Fund.