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\' AN AEERITION or EVA.
Era Norrington inserted her latch
key- into the keyhole of a Bedford
Square boarding house, and entered. It
was a dismal, windy, rainy November
evening, and ever since lunch she had
been paddling about London, climbing
grimy stairs of newspaper offices, and
talking to people who did not seem es-
pecially pleasedto see her. Her, skirts
were wet, and a wisp of damp hair was
tumbling over her eyes. On the hall
table, disclosed by the flickering gas-
je't, were some letters.
“A year ago today!” said Eva to her-
self as she closed the door against the
wind. “Has he written, or has heffor-
gotten?”
He had not forgotten. Eva picked
up the letter from the hall table, looked
quickly round at the cloSed hall door,
at the closed dining-room door, and at
the baize door that led to the kitchen
stairs—and kissod it. Then she went
upstairs to her bed-sitting-room with
the letter in her hand, and joy in her
heart
“Hateful little room 1” she murmured
to herself, as she struck a match and
lit the gas. “But it’s the last time.
thank God!” '
The room was not really bad; a bed
in the corner, a wash-stand, a ward-
robe, here and there a picture on the
walls, and a table by the window,
rather rickety, on which lay a heap of
manuscript—a half-finished story.
“I will burn that before I go to bed
to—night,” said Eva, as she caught sight
of it.
Then she took ofl her hat and cloak,
drew the only easy chair under the gas-
jet and sat down; fingering the let-
ter—she did not open it at once. Now
that happiness stretched in front of
her it was pleasant to linger on the
confines of misery, to look back on the
life she was to leave.
“It is not every one,” said Eva re.
ffectively, “who can make experi-
ments in life—without expense.”
Eva Norrington had been the pride
of the provincial town which gave her
birth. At the High School no girl
could stand against her. Her form-
governess, who now and then asked
her favorite pupils to tea, even said
she might be a head-mistress one day.
To Eva this seemed absurd. But when,
at the age of twenty, she gained a
guinea prize for a story in a weekly
paper, she began to think that at least
she might be a greatnovelist. At any
rate she felt sure that somewhere
ahead of her stretched a career; and
as her twenty-first birthday ap-
proached she announced to her start-
led parents her intention of going to
London in search of it. Thereupon en-
sued a series of domestic scenes such
as have been common of late in the
homes of England wherein the par-
ents play the part of the apprehensive
hen, the daughter that of the adven-
turous duckling. The duckling invari-
ably gains its point; and so it was
with Eva Norrington.
'Eva was almost happy; for she had
the hopefulness of youth and beauty,
and all the exhilaration of taking her
life into her hands and fashioning it
as she would, with none to raise ob-
jections to the process. She would
have been quite happy but for Allan
For Allan Craig, whenever he
heard that Eva was bent on going to
London to make a name for herself,
promptly offered her his own for a sub-
stitute. It was a geod enough name,
and at the foot of a check it was gen-
erally respected, as Allan Craig had
lately stepped into his father’s busi-
ness as estate agent and was prosper-
ing. Eva was disturbed, but she turned
not aside from her project. Eva had
mapped out her life and Allan Craig
was not included in the scheme.
As she sat fingering her letter in her
bedroom, she went over the parting
scene in her mind. The details of it
would only increase the delight of the
letter. They were sitting out a dance
together, for Eva was not disposed to
think unkindly of Allan, though she
might resent his intrusion into her
scheme of life. She remembered how
there had been silence between them
for some moments, how Allan had
leaned his elbows on his knees and dug
the heel of his dancing-shoe into the
carpet.
“And so you are quite determined
to leave us?” said Allan.
“Of course,” replied Eva.
boxes are all packed.”
“Full of manuscript novels and oth-
er things?” ,
“One novel and several stories:”
“I cannot understand why you want
to go when—”
“I want to—well—«to
life.”
“You mean you want to live in a big-
ger place?”
“Well, not exactly. I don’t think you
quite understand.’ .
“I quite understand that there is not
enough scopefor you here, and that I
am a selfish brute ' for trying to
keep you from your ambition. Look
here, Eva, can you honestly say that
you dont love me a little bit?”
Allen had risen and was standing
over'her. Eva looked up at him. She
could see him standing there now-—
big, comely, with something in his eyes
that thrilled her, half with fear and
half with pleasure. She rose and faced
him. . ,
“I shall be sorry to leave you—very
sorry.”
“Then why—”
“Can’t you see, Allan? I know I have
“My
live a larger
be where good work is wanted. Here
I am hampered; in London—”
“You may fail,” said Allan, with a
note of hope in his voice. Then Eva
spoke: ' ' '
“I shall succeed—I know I shall."
“Will you write to me?”
Eva hesitated. She was half inclined
to give in to that extent. Allan had
mistaken her hesitation. .
“No," he said. “There shall be no
selfishness in my love for you. I will
wait a year from to-night, and then,
if London is no go, you know there will
always be me. You can’t expect me to
pray for your success, can you?”
Eva, placed on her mettle, looked
him in the face. _
“I am bound to succeed,” she said,
and turned to go. The waltz had
ceased in the room below, and a rustle
of skirts and a ripple of tongues had
taken its place.
“Eva—once—the last time, perhaps.”
She turned again laughing.
“Quick,” she said, “some one will
come.”
A woman may forget many things,
but no woman ever forgets the first
time a lover’s arm was round her
waist and a lover’s lips upon her own.
And as Eva sat in the corner of a third-
class carriage in the London train next
morning, looking forward to the career
before her, the remembrance of the
support of Allan’s arm persisted in ob-
truding itself. Having got wlut she
wanted she already began to doubt if
she wanted what she had. got. For a
career, after all, is rather a lonesome
sort of thing. '
Such small success as may come to
the inexperienced girl upon her first
incursion into literature came to Eva.
She lived sparingly, worked hard, and
never made the mistake of refusing in-
vitations on the ground of work. She
~ stayed up a little later or got up a lit-
tle earlier instead. A weekly column
on “Health and Beauty” placed at her
disposal by the youthful editor of a
new woman’s paper, who had met her
at the Writer’s Club and thought her
pretty, paid her weekly bill at the
boarding house. Her stories found fre-
quent acceptance, and occasional wel-
come in the minor periodicals, and a
happy meeting with an editor at a dinw
her party paved the way to her ap-
pearance in a widely-read magazine.
By the end of the year Eva Norrington
had got so far towards the realization
of her ambition that when peo. 1e
heard her name mentioned, they
wrinkled their brows and tried to re-
member where they h-ad heard it be-
fore. ’
All this time Eva was lonely. And
the most fair thing about the whole
business was that, while success was
almost within her grasp, success was
not what she wanted. There is no fun
in living your own life when that is
precisely the life you do not want to
lead. .
It was not as though Allan Craig had
never kissed IZva Norrington.
She opened the letter—cutting the en-
velope with her nail-scissors. She felt
like one who has held his breath to
feel what sufft'focation is like. The
letter was long. Eva read quickly at
first, then slowly, knitting her brows
as she lumed the pages, and came at
last to the signature, “Ever your true
friend. Allan Craig.”
The letter lay for some minutes in
Eva’s. lap, while she looked vaguely
round her room.
“He is afraid of spoiling my career—
my success has put an insuperable bar-
rier between us,” she murmured. The
phrases of the letter had burned them-
selves into her brain. “0, Allan! I
wish I could tell you—or do you want
to hear?”
When the dinner-bell rang an hour
afterwards Eva rose wearily from her
writing table, Where she had been toil-
ing over her half-finished manuscript.
She had not burned it.
Five years passed before she saw Al-
lan Craig, and then the meeting was
unexpected—at the exit of the theatre
where Eva had gone to see the hun-
dredth performan of her play. Allan
was obviously pr d of knowing her.
and introduced his wife, to whom she
gave graceful recognition. It was
raining and Allan offered to see Eva
to a cab. They stood for a moment on
the steps to the entrance.
“Yes,” said Allan, in answer to Eva’s
polite question, “all is going well. We
have a little daughter—Eva—my wife‘s
name, curiously enough.”
He stood by the hansom as she en-
tered, guarding her dress from the
wheel. As she turned to give the ad-
dress, he said:
“I ought to congratulate you on your
success. It is very sweet to me. You
know—you—owe it all to me. Are you
grateful?”
“Yes; I owe it to you,” she said.
leaning forward as the apron closed
upon her, and the attendant constable
grew impatient. “Come and see me—
Tuesdays.”
“I can’t think why I should be so
silly," said Eva to herself, as she stuf-
fed her handkerchief back into her
pocket and felt for her latch-key, when
the cab drew up before the hall door
of her flat in Kensington.—Black and
White.
A Rather Weighty Volume.
Profesor Max Muller, of Oxford, in
a recent lecture, called attention to the
largest book in the world, the Wonder-
ful Kuth Dlaw. It consists of 729 parts
in the shape of white marble plates.
covered with inscriptions, each plate
built with a temple of brick. It is
found near the old priest city of Man-
dalay, in Burmah, and this temple city
of more than 700 pagodas virtually
makes up this monster book—the re-
ligious codex of the Buddists. It is
written in Pall. Rather strange to say,
it is not an ancientproduction, but its
preparation was promoted by the
Buddhistic party of this century. It
it in me to do good work and I must was erected in 1857 by the command
of Mindomin, the second of the last.
kings of Burmah.—Home Journal.
A Friend's Advice.
“I’ve about decided to give up the
study of law. I fear I’ll find it too con-
fining.” ' " 1
“Oh! keep on. You’ll soon be ad-
mitted to the bar, and then you won’t
have anything to lief—Puck.
' ‘ _. . q l
‘A. DOWAGER‘EMPRESS
MOTHER OF THE EMPEROR OF JAPAN
CLUNG TO THE OLD WAYS.-
She Made Concession to Modernism by Us-
ing a Landau With Liveried Servants—
Her Sou Progressive and Ready for
Reforms.
The Empress Dowager of Japan,
whose death is announced, was one oi
the few surviving members of the old
regime in the imperial circle. She had
her separate palaces and courts at
Kioto and Tokio, w‘herethe ancient
systems prevailed. She seldom ap-
peared at official functions, and had
made but one concession to modern
ways. She used a landau, with men
in livery on the box. 'She had charge
of the imperial nurseries, where the
children of the Emperor by his various
wives are kept until they reach the
age of 5 or 6. There were rooms set
apart for her at the palace of her son,
but she seldom occupied them, for
she visited but little, and could not
reconcile herself to the change that
had come over land and people. So
she passes out of history, at least for
the Western world, which will proba
bly never know more of her than has
been recorded by the American travel-
er, Mrs. Starr.
The great change was no change oi
her making. She had brought up hel
son, Mutsu Hito, in the most ortho-
dox and respectable way. At the age
of 16, when he came to the throne, he
could read the Chinese classics, write
poetry, arrange flowers according to
the laborate system of the Japanese,
and give a. tea .party with appropriate
ceremony. That was about all; and
the fond mother, no doubt, thought it
was quite enough. The 120 predeces-
sors of Mutsu Hito, in the same line.
who had ruled Japan for 2,500 years,
had never known more, and most oi
them had known less. The lad was
worshipped as a god, like his fathers
before him; and that sort of rever-
ence covers a multitude of sins in the
object of adoration. No man might
look upon his face and live. He was
never allotted to wear the same gar-
ments twice, nor to eat OK the same
dish a second time, both clothing and
crockery being destroyed at once.
So things went on until he ventured
to look at the sun without a veil, liked
it, and thenceforward turned his im-
perial countenance on his whole peo-
ple. The new man had come to town
Changes followed with startling ra-I
pidi‘ty. Forty-nine superior persons,
with their wives and sisters, were
sent round the world to report on
constitutions, manners, customs, and
education for men and women. The
poor Dowager Empress must have
stood by, like the mother of Aladdin1
with her hands in the air; but her as-
tonishing boy was not to be gain-said
She lived long enough to be about
the only “dowdy” in the court circle,
and to see haughty China on its knees
before her son’s throne—London Daily
News.
TOPICS OF INTEREST.
Golden shoes are worn by-a Shet-
land pony belonging to the Shah oi
Persia. This expensivelyshod animal
is only 12%, inches high.
Japanese officers who fought in the
late war against China have petitioned
their Government to erect a monument
to the memory of the horses-that fell
in battle.
A Kansas City doctor who was look-
ing for a crazy patient whom he was
to lock up in an insane asylum, found
the lunatic serving on a jury in the
Circuit Court. _
A canary owned by a Baltimore mu-
sician is said to sing, at a signal from
him given on the violin, the “Popaga-
no” from Mozart's “Magic Flute.” He
has had the bird two years.
A giant sewing machine has been fin-
ishbd at Leeds, England. The ma-
chine, which is to be used for attach-
ing cotton belting, weighs five and a
quarter tons.
It is believed that some of the camels
imported in 1853 to run Wild in Ari-
zona are still in existence. Indians oc-
casionally report having seen slime.
and lately the International Boundary
Commission saw two with their spy-
glasses on the Mexican border.
Old age has made an end of a blood-
hound known as Old King, at Butte,
Mont. The dog was owned by “Uncle
Dick" Suttan, with whose “Uncle
Tom’s Cabin” company the animal had
traveled all over the world. It was
so thoroughly trained that if any one
began to recite the lines of the play it
would go through its part.
(”o-{sting on the Bible.
A friend of the Listener has seen a
funny sight down in Maine. At a place
there. which needn’t be named, there
lives a small boy named Jonathan
Longfellow, who is a third or fourth
cousin of the poet; and he is a great
boy. too. One day this friend of the
Listener was driving past Jonathan’s
house ,and saw the boy engaged at a
little distance in sliding downhill on
the slippery crust,on something that
was not a sled. What could it be?
Evidently the scrutiny of the passer~
by was observed by the boy, for he
stopped his coasting and called out
amiably: “I’m sliding downhill on the
Bible!” And it was the fact, too. He
had got the smooth, leather-bound fam-
ily Bible, containing the generations
of all the Longfellows, and was coast
ing on it with magnificent success.—
Bostcn Transcript.
“Why do you insist upon taking your
wife out for such long walks in this
rough weather?”
“The doctor has told her that she
must be very careful not to talk When
she is out in the cold air.”
“Say. who’s your doctor?"—Cleve-
.r
land Lea ler.
EEEES AMENDMENTS.
CONCESSION To 0LD CLUBS.
The Word “Trafficking.” as the New Law
Defines It—The Tax on Beer Battlers.
The Employment of Former Con-
victs to Be Prohibited.
Albany, April .13.—The amendments to
the Raines' liquor tax law, which have
been adopted by the Republican sena-
tors in caucus and thereby made a. par-
ty measure, and which will be passed
without change by both branches of the
legislature during the Week, have been
printed and are practically for the first
time in the hands of the public. While
statements of a general character about
the amendments have been given out
by the legislators having the measure
in charge, a careful examination of
them discloses some amepdments
which, while not of vital importance,
are nevertheless interesting.
The main idea in the promulgation
of the amendments was for the aboli-
tion of “fake” clubs andjiotels. To ac-
complish this all clubs are taxed in the
following language: '
“Trafficking in liquors Within the
meaning of this act is the distribution
of liquor by or between or on behalf
of members of a corporation,vassocia-
tion or co-partnership to a member
thereof, or to others, in quantities less
than five gallons."
Another amendment relating to clubs,
which is 52 pages away from the above
in the printed bill, exempts all clubs or-
ganized before March 23, 1896—the time
when the original Raines law passed—
from the prohibitions of the raw rela-
tive to the sale of liquor after hours,
on Sunday, election days, and within 200
yards of a. fair. And still another
amendment prohibits special agents
from entering clubs organized before
March 23, 1896, except as expressly di-
rected by the state excise commission-
er. Any club, therefore, organized after
that time and taking out a. liquor tax
license is subject to the same provi-
sions of law as are saloons.
To Wipe Out “Fake" Hotels.
The amendments intending to wipe
out “fake” hotels first provide that they
shall comply with the law, ordinances,
rules and regulations of the building,
fire and health departments. A hotel
is then required to have ten bedrooms
above the basement, exclusive of those
occupied by the family of the proprie-
tor, separated by partitions at least
three inches thick, extending from floor
to ceiling, with independent access to
each room by a. door opening into a.
hallway; each room having a window
with not less than eight square feet of
surface, opening upon a street, open
court or light shaft; having at least
80 square feet area with 600 cubic feet
of space therein; having a. dining room
with at least 300 square feet area, which
shall not be a part of the barroom, for
the accommodation of 20 guests; a.
kitchen and conveniences for cooking
bona fide meals for at last 20 guests. A
guest'is defined .as a. person who occu-
pies a room in good faith and pays reg-
ular customary charges for such occu-
pancy, but who does not occupy the
room for the purpose of having liquor
served therein; or a person who, during
the hours when meals are served, re-
sorts to the hotel for the purpose of ob—
taining-and actually orders in good
faith a. meal.
The amendments fixing new taxes for
certain kinds of licenses are: For phar—
.macists to dispose of spirituous liquor
on prescriptions only, $5, uniform
throughout the state: for persons en-
gaged in bottling malted liquors to sell
in quantities of less than five gallons,
but not less than three gallons (24 pint
bottles), $100 for every wagon used in
delivering such goods. This is also a.
uniform tax throughout the state. For
trafficking in alcohol between the hours
of 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. for mechanical
purposes, $25 in New York city, $20 in
Brooklyn, $15 in Buffalo and cities of
the second class; $10 in other'cities, and
$5 in any other rlace.
A very important amendment leaves
the tax in the various localities to be
consolidated into Greater New York
the same as it.now is.
The excise commissioner is authorized
to take an enumeration of the popula-
tion of any hamlet or unincorporated
village when there is a doubt as to the
amount of excise tax to 'be assessed.
Expenses of Commissioners.
In addition to receiving a. salary of
$5,000, the excise commissioner is given
$1,800 a year for expensesgthe deputy
commissioner, with a salary of $4,000,
gets $1,500 a year for expenses. The
salary of the special deputy for Eric
county is increased from $2,000 to $3,000.
The special attorneys appointed to as-
sist special agents in prosecuting vio-
lations shall be paid by the county or
city in Whose behalf such prosecutions
are made.
The sale of liquor is prohibited in the
same building wherein are dry goods,
groceries, provisions, etc., unless the
barroom is separated from the rest of
the building byapartition3 inches thick
extending from floor to ceiling without
an opening, so that it will be necessary
to go into a public street before the one
place can be entered upon leaving the
other. . '
A person forfélts his tax certificate
and violates the law “if he has “know-
ingly” in his employ a. person who has
been convicted of a felony. '
So called private rooms are prohibit~
ed in barroons.
The sale of liquor is prohibited not.
only to a minor, but also to a minor for
any other person.
An all night license is granted for a
tax of $10 extra. 3. night when permis‘
sion is obtained for such a. license from
the mayor and chief of police of any
city in thefirat, second and third‘ classes.
Selling of liquor on cemeterypremises
is prohibited, as also is selling from any
vehicle except a bottler’s wagon and
railroad cars.
Death of a last Horse.
Detroit, April 13.—The runner Hail-
stone, the property of Conover 8; 00.,
died at the Windsor race track. Hail-
stone has won numerous races \on the
western tracks.
Senate’s Tribute to Voorhees. >
Washington, April 13.——The senate ad-
journed after-being in session only a.
few minutes. as, a. mark of respeCt t0
the la -e Senator Voorhees.
5
' with people.
-, former Senator Calvin S.
III THE WOOLLY WEST.
AI Bullflgbt Proves ‘Mon: Exciting no:
Was Anticipated \ - " E .
Yuma, A. T., April 13.—The gran
feast of Yuma wound up with .w'iid
West .sports and Spanish bullfights.
which constituted a. crowning feature
of the five days’ revelry. The feature
not the show which drew the crowds
was the Spanish bullfights, headed by
the. renowned bullfighter Captain Car-
los Garcia, from Juarez, Mexico. Cap-
tain Carlos Garcia and his troop of
toreadors and picadors, including Ln
Carlotta, a female bullflghter, display;
ed wOnderful skill in fighting fierce an-
imals, but a. magnificent black bull,
Porfirio Diaz, proved himself almost
invincible, and before he was dispatch-
ed in the third fight in which he was
used he caught Garcia upon his long,
slender horns and rippfi open the
man’s jaw. Captain Garcia’s wound
may prove, fatal.
After goring and badly mutilating
the captain the bull, stung to frenzy
by the torments of the toreadors and
picadors, charged full _at the bullpen
and smashed through it. He then
charged into the grounds surrounding
the amphitheater, which was filled
Many were injured. The
roulette table, stacked with gold and
silver coins, was tossed high in the
air and the money scattered in the
dust. Straight through the crowd the
enraged animal sped out into the main
street of Yuma, but fortunately no
more people were in the way. After
a. long chase and hard work the bull
was returned.
THE GLOBE BANK FAILURE. '
Reappearance of President Spalding—Re-
leased on a 8500 Bond.
Chicago, April 13.—Presidel§. Charles
W. Spalding of the defunct Globe Sav-
ings bank arrived in Chicago on the
Baltimore and Ohio road, coming from
Grand Calumet Heights, and leaving
the train before it reached'the city de-
pot. After consultation with some of
his friends, whom he met privately, he
went to the residence of William L.
Hall, justice of the peace, where he
gave bonds for his appearance in court
in answer to the charges of receiving
money when he knew the bank to be
insolvent.‘ This charge had been made
by Frank E. Stone. Justice Hall placed
the amount of bond at $500 and set
April 19 for the hearinguof the case. '
Rev. John N. Lewis, Jr., Chosen.
Honesdale, Pa., April 12.—Rev. John
N. Lewis, Jr., of this place has been
chosen rector and dean ex ofiicio of
Christ church, Episcopal cathedral,
Lexington, Ky.
A $2,000 Dog.
'Boston, April 12.—-Dr. W. G. Kendall
of this city has sold his blue ribbon
Boston f_e.rier,.Squanto. The price was
2,000, but Dr. Kendall refused to give
the name of the purchaser.
Vetoed by Wolcott.
Boston, April 12.——Governor Wolcott
has filed with the clerk of the Senate
a. veto message of an act permitting the
sale of pure alcohol by dealers in paints
and chemicals. ,
Another Woman Victory.
Manchester, N. H., April 12.—The
Methodist conference voted“ to 18 in
favor of an amendment submitted by
the general conference to admit women
as delegates.
New Bank Authorized.
Washington, April 12.—-The comptrol-
ler of the currency has given authority
for the organization of the Coreopolis
National bank of Coreopolis, Pa., cap-
ital $50,000. .
Pulp Factory Closes»;
Madison, Me., April 12.—The pulp fac-
tory of the Manufacturing Investment
company has shut down for six weeks.
Eighty men are thrown out of employ-
ment.
Stems Accepts.
Washington, April 12.——Lester F.
Stearns of Dunkirk, N. Y., has decided
to accept the offer of the third assistant
postmaster generalship.
‘I
Brice Not a. Candidate.
Cleveland, April 12.—John H. Farley,
ex—chairman of the Democratic state
central committee of Ohio, who has for
years been the political manager for
Brice in
northern Ohio, has made the authori-
tative statement that Mr. Brice will not
be a candidate for the senate next win-
ter.
Danger In Pneumatic Tires.
Selma, Ala., April 12.—Edward Geer,
the horseman. was thrown from a sulky
yesterday and had one wrist broken
and his ankle dislocated. The pneu-
matic tire exploded, frightening the
horse.
A Mexican City Burned. -
Guadalajara, Mexico. April 12.—Ad-
viceshave reached here of a. great fire
in the city of Chilpancingo. Nearly 200
business houses and residences were
burned. Two children were burned to
death.
Bad Outlook at Vicksburg.
Vicksburg, Miss, April 10.—A fierce
northerly gale blew here, and the river
is now nearly three miles wide and is
white with foam. 'The waves have a
long sweep at the Louisiana levees and
may do .them great harm. The stop-
page of trains north of this city by the
Valley route indicates the beginning of
an overflow of perhaps as great a. flood
as ever inundated the delta.
Fargo Needs No Outside Aid.
Fargo, N. D., April 10.—After a meet—
ing of citizens telegrams were sent to
Secretary of War Alger and to con-
gressmen saying that Fargo was very
(grateful for the proffered aid from con-
gress for flood sufferers, but that none .
was needed.
Comic Opera Singer 11].
Saratoga, April 10.—Miss FlorenceLa-
'vine of Louisville is critically ill with
pneumonia in the Saratoga hospital.
She is a leading singer in the Wilbur
opera company, now 'filling an en-
gagement here.
Wayne MacVeagh Coming Home. .
London, April 10.'—The Hon. Wayne
MacVeagh, late United States embas-
sador to Italy, with his family, will
sail from Southamptonfor New York
tomorrow on board the steamship New
York
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EEEEN EEEEE EEETEE
The Triple Alliance Is Uhdoubte‘dly
Tottering to Its Fall.
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GERMANY GOURTING“ RUSSIA
A’Pendlng Compact “'hich “'ill Put the
Latter In and. Force 'Italy Out of
the Drelbund—Bismarck’s \Var
' on William to Reopen.
Berlin, April 12.—-It is understood on
reliable authority that another great
shifting of the political chess board 'of
Europe is imminent, the relations of
France and Russia having steadily
grown worse to the extent that they are'
being artificially bolstered up, and the
adhesion of Italy to the driebund be-
ing, since the financial and military im- .
portance of Italy became glaringly ap—
parent by the Abyssinian adventure,
but nominal.
Therefore a new arrangement for pre-
serving the peace balanCe of Europe has
been deemed necessary. Since last Sep-
tember private letters on this subject
have been repeatedly exchanged be-
tween Berlin, St. Petersburg and Vien-
na, and in German diplomatic and polit-
ical circles it is considered a. foregone
conclusion that an understanding has
been reached.
Italy will little longer belong. to the
driebund, even nominally, and the force
of events is gradually driving her into
the arms of Great Britain and France,
and it is believed here, with the proba-
ble speedy victory of the Radical party
in Italy, this change will be accomv
plished.
On the other hand, the czar and his
advisors are said to be decided that
France is too fickle for a. reliable ally,
and on the best possible authority your
correspondent is informed that an en
tente, which perhaps later will be fol-
lowed by a formal alliance, is to be
reached in the spring and summer be—
tween Germany, Russia and Austria.
Some of the preliminaries will be agreed
upon between Emperor William and his
ally, Emperor Francis Joseph, during
the former’s visit to Vienna, which is
now definitely fixed for April 22. Three
days later Emperor Francis Joseph will
visit the czar at St. Petersburg.
During theSe visits the preliminaries
for the understanding between the em- ,
perors will be discussed and will proba-
bly be ratified. Emperor William’s visit
to the czar soon after will serve the
same purpose. The proposed agreement
is directed mainly against the dubious.
shifting policy of Great Britain in t‘ :
eastern question and the maintenance
of the European status quo.
The Bismarck \Var.
The fact, which has now become
known in spite of reports to the con—
trary, that Emperor William sent nei-
ther a message of congratulation nor
other greetings to Prince Bismarck on
his birthday has been generally and se-
verely commented upon by the entire
German press and has rendered the
emperor, for the time being, very un-
popular, and even the Centrist press
deems the omission to be an act of un-
pardonable rudeness. 1
Prince Bismarck is said to be so deep-
ly offended that he will (never forgive
his majesty. At Friederichsruhe it is
understood that more startling revela-
tions are being prepared for publica-
tion, so that the merry warfare between
Frederichsruhe and Berlin will shortly
be resumed.
German exports during the past three
months show curious features. For the
consular districts of Hamburg, Bremen,
Stottin, Dantzic, Koenigsberg and
Madgeburg there are enormous in-
creases compared wlth the same period
of 1890. At Hamburg, for instance, the
exports rose from 1,666,222 marks to
3,490,000 marks. At Bremen the exports
rose from 623,828 marks to 1,035,827
marks. At Stettin they“ rose from
1,085,895 marks-to 2,358,873 marks. At
Madgeburg they rose from 1,604,405
marks to 2,959,589 marks, and of the lat-
ter alone 2,167,277 marks were unrefined
sugar. ,
All the increases were largely for sug-
ar and such other foods as have been
hurried to the United States to escape
the new tariff duties. The other dis-
tricts. with few exceptions, such as
Glauchau, Breslau, Annaberg, Crefeld,
Frankfort. etc., show considerable de—
crease. Berlin, Hanover and Gubon
show small increase. The increase in
,the exports from Berlin is reported to,
be 1,249,531 marks, or 77,276 over the first
three months of 1896. "
Fearful of May Day.
With encouragement from the Social-
ist party. the leaders of the workingmen
of Germany have resolved to celebrate
May day en masse as a. labor holiday.
Great parades, meetings and preces-
sions have been planned. The employ-
ers’ federation formed in 1896 has. on
the other hand, resolved to dismiss from
employment all those who do not go to
work on May day unless they have ob-
tained special permission to stay away.
Trouble therefore is anticipated.
By the emperor’s instructions the re—
mains of Frederick the Great,‘ now in
the garrison church of Potsdam, will be
removed and reburied in a. fine mauso-
leum to be erected in strict accordance
with the will of Frederick the Great of
1760 on the terrace of the chateau of
Sans Souci. The mausoleum will have
the form of a miniature reproduction of
the chateau of Sans Souci itself.
An interpellation of the government's
intentions in View of the United States
tariff and the reciprocity clause of 1891
will come up immediately after the East-
er holidays. It will be supported by the
Conservatives, National Liberals and
part of the Center. The semioflicial
Hamburg Correspondent says edito-
. rially: .
“The interpellation will not serve a.
useful purpose, and while the agrarians
doubtless would welcome' a. tariff War
with the United States, German indus-
try» would suffer therefrom.” Continu-
ing, the Hamburg Correspondent ad-
vises the abolition of the sugar premi-
um, jointly with other. bounty paying
countries or alone. This article isbeing
extensively reprinted in the German
press. .
The trotting mare Bethel or Nellie
Kneebs, which was seized when Robert
F. Kneebs,‘the American horseman just
released from prison was arrested on
the charge of ringing, will be sold by
the government at public auction. The
lowest bid which will be admitted is
1.20 marks. , '
Norwalk Chronicler