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smart blow across the face with small cane. The skin of her forehead was broken and blood flowed. Before he could renew the assault Pate was seized He was defended on his trial by Mir Cockburn. afterwards lord chief justice, who made out a strong case in favor of declaring his client insane. The man was convicted however, and sentenced to seven years penal serv- itude.
 On February 20, 1872. Arthur O'Con- nor, 17-year-old lad. presented pis- tol at the queen as she was entering Buckingham palace after drive. The weapon was not loaded, and there was no doubt that O'Connor was weak minded youth who had been overex- cited by the Fenian movement going on at the time. He was punished with q years imprisonment and a whipping. 1 The last attempt to do violence to her majesty was made on March 2, 1882, when man named Rodcrick Maclean l fired at her as she was riding from the railway station at Windsor. Like all the rest of her assailants, Maclean was a poor marksman. He, too, was found to be u Predetermined man--indeed, he had previously been insane-and he was simply handed over again to the care of keepers.
 All things considered, Victoria may be excused for feeling trifle nervous at her approaching public ordeal. No sane man will seek to do her any barn, but there are cranks in England as else where, and she may reasonably desire to have such disagreeable persons kept at safe distance from her carriage on Jubilee day.
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VICTORIA A PEACEMAKER.
True Story of Her Queenly Interfer-
 ence in the Trent Affair.
Prince AIbert,s Memorand Russell's BeIlicose Dispatch-Why James G. Blaine Said .She Was
 Wiser Than Her Minfstersv
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 There is one episode in the long reign of Queen Victoria which may be re- called with peculiar interest by Ameri- cans in this jubilee season. James G. Blaine, in his Twenty Years of Con- gress." after describing the war scare that grew out of the seizure of the con federate commissioners, Mason and Sli- dell. from the British mail steamer Trent by Capt. Wilkes, of the United States steamer San Jacinto, on No vember 9, 1861, wrote as follows:
 It would be ungracious to withhold an expression of the lasting apprecia- ton entertained in this country of the course pursued by her majesty the queen of England throughout this most painful ordeal. She was wiser than her ministers, and there can be little doubt that but for her considerate interposi- tion softening the rigor of the British demand the two nations would have been forced into war"
 The story of what Mir. Blaine terms "her considerate interposition" is one of the most romantic chapters in Amer jean and English history. When the news of the Trent affair arrived in England on November 2s, 1s61-the ca ble was not then laid-the indignation aroused was general and intense
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Some of these boy farms are famous, like the George Junior Republic in New York state, where little community of boys has been formed who choose their own judges, policemen, and other officials, and earn their own living on the land during the summer months. This plan of fself-goyernment works like magic. Boys who, when in the city, were decidedly tough soon become industrious and we'll behaved when they begin to feel their own responsi- bility as members of a real. though small, republic.
 So well has the Junior republic sue ceeded that Principal French, of the Brooklyn truant school, has just put the plan into practical operation. The boys at this school are those who in the city are either unmanageable in the schools or refuse to go to school alto gether. Out on the farm they live all day in the open air, raise crops of vari- ous sorts out of hours, and go to school regularly. Besides the farm work they practice carpentry, wood carving, and other manual arts, and have military drill.
 But the principal thing they do, after all, is to govern themselves. They elect a president, a legislature, judge and 8 police force, and the well-behaved
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ROLLING THE DISK.
An 0ut-of-Door Game Worth Borrow ing from Sunny Italy.
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tCopyriSht 1857.
 The modern Italians have few out-of- door games worth mentioning. There | is, however, in northern Italy, region from which very few immigrants come to the United States, one bowling game
 which is good enough for transplanting l to the new world.
 In Orvieto the boys and young men whittle out round disks of light wood, l varying in size from three inches across to eight inches. The smallest sizes are
 rolled by children of five or six years,
 the largest by tall youths and young
 men. The disk is slightly rounded at
 the edges by whittling, and in throwing
 or rolling it tough string, from five to nine feet long, is used. The string
 has a loop tied in one end. To roll the
 disk, this loop is slipped over one or two
 of the fingers of the right hand. Then, beginning at the other end, the string is l wound snugly round the edge, until the disk rests in the hollow of the hand. After the disk has left the players grasp, he draws back the string. with a strong, even pull.
 It 10 oui PA loiuS sfioc eA ti1ASi SA'Se sNAo
 use of the string makes in the speed of the disk and the distance to which it will go Rolled from the hand in the ordinary way, it will travel only short distance; but with the string an Orvieto
 boy can send large disk spinning up
 steep grade on an ordinary macadam road nearly 400 feet. The boys in Or
 vieto never roll this toy down hill, as it would be too much trouble to chase it,
 or to make new ones when the old were lost.
 An interesting experiment can be
 made with the disk. After winding the string, hold the disk wrong side up. so
 that the string comes to the hand from
 the top instead of the bottom. When
 thrown in this manner, the disk, almost
 as soon as it reaches the ground, darts back towards the thrower, precisely like billiard ball which has received
 downward stroke on the under side to
 set it revolving toward the player A disk can be most conveniently cut from two-inch plank, after tracing circle of the proper size which should not br above eight or nine inches.
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ones dine lD two companies, each com manded by little captain. None of the boys is over IA years old, as that is the age beyond which children are not compelled by law to go to school. The farm, unfortunately, is rather small, but each lad has garden plot of his own and plants in it what he likes, the favorite crops being beans, turnips, radishes and carrots.
 In St. Louis an association has been formed which will raise $10,000 to buy a big farm near the city, where or phans from the city, and children whose parents have abandoned them, may grow up under wholesome influences and have chance to get a good edu- cation. It is probable that Missouri will soon lead in this movement, if the plan is carried out; for it is expected that many of the larger cities will es- tablish such farms, as wellsas St. Louis.
 Up in Westchester county, near New York city. is a big tract of land called the Burnham farm, where a hundred or so young people race over the breezy hills, go in swimming after work is done, and generally enjoy themselves; and away up in Maine the Good Will farm takes care of a great many boys from the city in the same way.
 n is q great piece Of good luck tor a .ffg 1,<,u xpif fho11f a oood homa 10 find
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Walter and Dr. Rice. At this writing Clifford, Handspring, Hastings, Belmar, Sir Walter and Howard Mann are, per haps, the most talked of. Three of these ran in the same race last year-Clifford finishing third, Belmar fourth, and Sir Walter sixth.
 Clifford CD will carry 126 pounds; Handspring (4) one pound less; Has tings (4), 123 pounds; Belmar (5). 121 pounds; Sir Walter (O, 115 pounds; and Howard Mann (4), 106 pounds. As be- fore stated, if among the starters. Re quital (4) will carry 129 pounds, the top weight in the race This noted racer won the Futurity stakes in 1896, both on the Sheepshead Bay track. and the greatest events in the two-year-old and three-year-old classes respectively, thus accounting for the favor which a bad defeat at Morris park seems to have annihilated. But the uncertainties of horse racing are proverbal, and in the whirligig of time doubtless Requital will regain form, but, if the judgment of the sports is accurate, not in time for this years Suburban.
 The value of the stakes to be contested for is $7,50O, and the length of the race 1A miles. More than a million dol lars, however, will probably change hands after this event.
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DANGER IN THE JUBILEE
The Queen Fears for Her Safety
 During the Parade.
She Has Had Many Narrow Escape, from the Assnssin's Builet-seven Attempts Made to Take
 Her Lifes
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A recent cable dispatch reports Queen Victoria as suffering great anxiety at the approach of her diamond jubilee day. She is said to have ordered n most careful survey of the route, bit by bit, with a view of discovering any points at which disaster might be caused by q panic, "or from which an attack might be delivered against her self"
 Such occasions naturally furnish the best opportunities for personal attacks upon the persons of rulers. President Carnot was assassinated while engaged sn great public ceremony. Moreover, the fear felt by the queen has ample justification in her past experience, for though more than Is years have passed since she was last threatened with per senal violence, she has been thus as- sailed no less than seven times, and on two occasions at least narrowly escaped death.
 Her first experience of this unpleas- mt kind was on June 10, 1840, when Ed ward Oxford, aged 10, fired two pis- tols at her at short range. How he failed to even wound her is one of the mysteries of Providence. The queen and the late prince consort were driv- ing up Constitution hill in a low open carriage. when Oxford. who had been awaiting its approach, pacing to and fro with his arms folded, suddenly turned, nodded, drew a pistol from his breast pocket, and discharged it at the
 
 see if he was observed, he then drew B second pistol and leveled it across the first at the queen, who stopped to avoid the fire, which was delivered this time at only six or seven yards distance. It appeared that Oxford had been practic- ing at a target for several days before.
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From it's establishment in 1884 the Suburban has been popular event, ex- citing the keenest interest in betting circles and engaging public attention all over the country.
 Theamount of money changing hands as the result of the Suburban is almost incaleulable; and, judging from the in terest manifested in sport this year up to date. it will be greater than ever on the 22d inst. Sporting managers in the east thus far this year have no oeea- sion to join the great army of grumblers about hard times" As well-informed gentleman tersely put the matter: However it may be in other businesses. racing clubs are making money this year, and theirs seems to be the best business going"
 The chances of Howard Mann in the Suburban would be good, it is thought, in the event of the track being heavy, giving scope for the power and endur- ance which earned him his great vic tory in the Brooklyn handicap The weight he will carry, only 106 pounds, gives him the advantage over horses that until recently far eclipsed him in reputation. But it is vain to conjecture which horse will be the winner.
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A CROP OF BOYS.
Finest Thing That Gan Be Raised
 in This Country.
The "George Junior Republic" of New York State, and How 1t Is Conducted Other Farms
 That Are Profitable.
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Some of the most interesting and in one way, profitable farms in the United States are devoted to raising crops of boys.
 Not the ordinary farm, which gener- all has one or two boys growing up on it as a matter of course, but specia, farms full of boys to overrunning. People in the big cities have all at once discovered that the best thing in the world to do with poor city boys who have no home is to provide them with one in the country, where they may grow up strong and healthy and become good and self-respecting citizens.
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No political or other motive was shown, for the deed, which seemed to be sim ply the result of an insane impulse. At any rate, the jury who tried him thought so, for they adjudged him in- sane, and he was confined for the rest | of his life.
 The next attempt on the queens life was made by John Francis, aged 20, on May 30, 1s42. He discharged pis- where Edward Oxford had made his attempt two years previously. He was tried, convicted of high treason, and sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered" in the old style; but the queen herself interposed and forbade the execution of the sentence, so Fran cis was sent into penal servitude for life. On the very next day after this act of clemency was made known, the queen was a third time assailed. It was on Sunday, July 3, as she was going from Buckingham palace to the Chapel Royal, that John William Bean, a haunch-backed youth of IF, present. ed pistol at her and snapped the trig- ger, but failed to discharge the weapon. He was promptly seized, and examina- ton showed that the pistol was loaded only with powder, wadding and small fragments of clay pipe. He was tried for simple misdemeanor and sentenced to Is months Imprisonment with hard labor. This led to the passing of an act of parliament under which any at tempt to terrify or injure the queen, even though made with a harmless weapon. was punishable with penal servitude for seven years. with as many whippings thrown in as the court should order, such castigations not to exceed three in number
 There were no more attempts to as- sail the queen after that until May 19, 1s49, when bricklayer named Will liam Hamilton fired pistol at her as she passed him in an open carriage on her afternoon drive. It was alleged that the pistol was not loaded with any thing except powder, and Hamilton es- capped with a sentence of seven years penal servitude. The next venture was made on May 27, 1850, Joy Robert Pate, who had been an officer in the army and was then living in retirement in London. The queen had been calling at Cambridge house, where the old duke of Cambridge lay dying. It was about six o'clock in the evening as her carriage turned out from the great gates of the ducal residence into the public road. As it slowly rounded the
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fully aware that the British govern. ment could not allow it's flag to be in suited and the security of her mail con- munieations to be placed in jeopardy; and her majesty's government are un- Willing to believe that the United States government intended wantonly to put an insult upon this country, and to add to their many distressing complications by forcing q question of dispute upon us; and that we are, therefore, glad to believe that, upon a full consideration of the circumstances and the undoubt- ed breach of international law commit ted, they would spontaneously offer such redress as alone could satisfy this country-viz. the restoration of the un- fortunate passengers and suitable apology"
 This request to Lord Russell to change the keynote of his dispatch to our gov ernment to one of menace to one of conciliation was in effect, of course, a command. The jingoism was knocked out of the instructions to Lord Lyons, who presented the matter to our Secre- tary of State Seward in such way as to make it easy for President Lincoln to end the incident, as he did, by ad- hitting that Capt Wilkes had acted without instructions. and ordering Ma son and Slidell to be given back into British custody. On January 9, 1862, the queen received the news at Os- borne castle that the affair was set tied, and at once wrote Lord Palmer ston expressing her qualification, and telling him that she considered the prince consort's changes in the draft of the dispatch sent to the American government to be entitled to the credit of the peaceful issue of the episode Lord Palmerston frankly acknowledged this in his reply to the queen and
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Statesman of both parties joined in passionate cry for an immediate de- mand upon our government for the surrender of the captured commission CTS and an apology for what was called "the outrage" On this side of the Att lantic the feeling was just as general and intense in the other direction. Our house of representatives at Washington unanimously adopted a resolution of thanks to Capt. Wilkes, and our secre- tary of the navy, MT. Gideon Welles, officially approved the seizure.
 In this situation of affairs Lord Pal merston, then prime minister, wrote to the queen that the cabinet had de- cided to advise her majesty ito demand reparation and redress That was on November 29. On the following day there was full meeting of the cabi- net, and at it's close Lord John Russell, foreign secretary, forwarded to the queen the drafts of the various dis patches which he proposed to send to Lord Lyons, the British ambassador at Washington. They reached Windsor castle in the evening. The prince con- sort was already in the first stages of the illness which ended in his death. He had passed a sleepless night; he rose early on the morning of December 1 and read the Russell dispatches. He did not approve of their bellicose tone. Before eight o'clock he had finished a memorandum to the queen concerning them; and the queens course in adopt
 
 ing the advice given her in that memo randum doubtless prevented an other wise almost inevitable war between the two nations and changed for the bet ter the whole course of their history. It was the last writing on public affairs that the prince did; 13 days later he was dead. A facsimile of the docu- ment is preserved in Martins Life of the Prince Consort," and the hand writing shows traces of his weakness, which was such that he told the queen he could scarcely hold his pen while writing.
 The famous memorandum, which had such a tremendous influence for peace, was in form a request to Lord Russell to drop the arbitrary and threatening tone in his dispatch of instructions to Lord Lyons, and to present the British claim for reparation in courteous and moderate terms, such as President Lin coin and his cabinet could accede to without loss of dignity It ran as fol lows:
 Windsor Castle, Dec 1, 1s61.- The queen returns these important 2 raftts which ch upon the whole she proves; but she cannot help feeling that the main draft that for communica- ton to the American government Somewhat meager. She would have liked to have seen the expression of D hope that the American captain did not
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THE SUBURBAN OF 1897.
Increase of Interest Due to the Bad
 Form of Requitai.
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 The date fixed by the Coney Island Jockey club for the Suburban of 1897 is June 22. One of the leading turf events of the year, it is anticipated with greater eagerness than usual this sea- son, a large field of entries being made and recent developments promising an exciting struggle, the result of which nobody is pretending to foresee. A few weeks ago victory was predicted for Requital, horse which has shown such bad form of late as to put an end to this prophecy. The card includes 30 entries, and the best-known horses of the country. Weights vary from 129 pounds imposed on Requital to the 84 pounds to be carried by Mingo II. The ages of horses vary from three to seven, among the oldest being Clifford, Sir
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I flames. Axes in hand, they smash open the doors, and with the hose dash up the stairway This is all afre, and tho flames are rolling above like a red pail. With the engine at work and good pres sure on the line, the battle between the two clements, fire and water, begins. Inch by inch the men fight their way III, the stairway, now to retreat as the fire gains upon them, and now to advance. as it rolls away for q moment The e1l- couraging words of the commanding officer are heard behind them urging them on: Now, get in, boys! That's it-get in get in! Make the nextla ing! Hit it up, boys!" and all the other words of enconragementt that he usual- ly gives.
 They finally reach the landing. They are on the floor with the fire Itrolls away from them. They drive it further back. Encouraged by their seeming victory, thy drag up more of the heavy hose to make a final dash at it, when suddenly something falls in at the rear of the fire that gives it renewed draft. It rolls toward them, an impenetrable wall of fre-the deadly back draft! Their only chance of escape is to throw themselves upon their faces, in hope that it may roll over them. or to. hurl themselves down the stairs up which they have so gallant1y fought their way. Better broken leg or arm than death by roasting; and the water of 50 sn- zines could never stay the pubgrqss of that awful wave of fafne. ~<a
 Many brave fellow .has lost.his life in this manner; and very oftek all the members of company return with their eyebrows, hair and beard singed off, bearing evidence that they have been 'ketched,' as they express it, by less terrible form Of this deadly draft. Charles T. Hill, in St. Nicholas.