1 EE K .. Y .
‘ {THE ELEVENTH HOUR -
When Katherine threw open the
thultels that morning a flood of yel-
11w sunlight greeted her, and- the
Iubtle f1agrance of many flowers
I den with dew.
It was certainly'a fine morning, yet
Katherine, Nature’s disciple though
the was, felt that for all its beauty it
still lacked something which cannot
be defined in mere words and is only
obvious to the senses through the,
heart.
She had felt it before her eyes un-
vclosed on her pillow, before she was
fairly awake, and before memory and
reality had come back to her. Now,
as she looked gravely out across the
garden and the river and the cluster-
ing roofs beyond, she wondered vague-
ly if Jack’s going away had occa-
sioned this gnawing restlessness and
.rlissatisfaction with which she seemed
1:) view all things past, present and fu-
lure.
She would miss Jack-miss his late.
sweet smile, his~ restful voice,‘ his
{leasant ways.
Never since their earlies‘t childhood
Itad they been separated longer than a
few months at a time. He had always
been her friend, her comrade. Having
1110 brothers of her own, he had stood
to her rather in the light of this rela-
tion. It had never occurred to her that
Jack might regard her with other than
brotherly affection. Therefore, when
he one day asked 'her suddenly to
marry him, and had told her how
necessary she was to his happiness,
she had been startled, at first, then
quite inclined to treat the-matter as a
ioke.
It was a long time before she could
understand that he was terribly in
earnest. Grieved beyond expression.
she had told him frankly that she
could not marry him because she did
not think she cared for him as she
ought to care for the man she married.
And Jack, putting all thought of self
out of the question, forebore to press
his suit further, and begged that in
the future she should regard him ex-
actly as she had done in the past.
But this was impossible. Each felt
a restraint in the presence of the other
that it was useless to try to conceal.
lack felt that he could not go. on see-
Ing her daily, knowing that she was
not for him, so the evening before the
morning on which my story opens he
2.11111 Come to tell her that he was going
away—had been sent as staff corre~
spondent to Japan, and that it was
quite possible they might not meet
again for years. He himself had
known it for some time, but somehow
he could not bear to tell her until the
amt. He should leave the city on the
morrow. His steamer sailed the day
after. And Katherine. could say
nothing except to wish him God-speed
1nd a safe return, trying with all her
might to keep the tears out of her eyes
and voice
As she turned from the window hel
glance fell upon his photograph,
iramed and standing on her dressing-
table. She took it up and looked at it
long and earnestly. The frank, smil-
Ing eyes, the firm chin, the tender
mouth—there was no trace of weak--
ness or irresolution in them all.
She put the photograph suddenly
ilown as a great waveof dull, aching
loneliness swept over her. '
An hour later she surprised her fam-
ily by appearing at the breakfast table
gowned and bonneted for a journey.
“I am going to spend the day with
Aunt Patience,” she explained. smil-
Ineg. “I have neglected her quite too
long.”
Aunt Patience was really not aunt
to Katherine at all, but one of those
lelightful old ladies to whom people
ire always anxious to claim relation-
ship. She lived in the country, hardly
twenty miles distant, with her brother,
who, like herself, had never married.
When Katherine alighted at the
country station of Brightwood the
summer day was already well ad-
vanced, and she lost no time in setting
out for her destination. As she
walked along' the shady lane and felt
the crisp grass beneath her feet and
smelled the fresh, sweet odor blown
from wood and field, her heart light-
ened curiously.
Aunt Patience had seen her coming
up the little path that led from the
gate, and met her at the door with a
kiss and a hearty welcome.
“Dear child, how bonny you are!
How the sight of you gladdens my old
eyes! I’ve been grieving this long
while lest my dcary should forget me
lmong all of her fine friends.”
“As if I could ever do that!” Kath-
arine replied, with moistened eyes.
“Well, well—come in. This is a right
onful day for me to have both my
precious children again—”
“Both!" echoed Katherine,
arise.
They had crossed the little entry and
were entering the best room. A tall
figure came forward from the window.
with hands outstretched.
“Well, Katherine!” Jack said,
ing down at her with happy eyes.
It was quite a moment before she
found her voice sufficiently to speak.
_"Why, 110w is this? I thought you
were going away today!”
“And so I. am; but of course not
without bidding Aunt Patience good-
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by. If you had, been able to take an
. oa1lie1 train, Katherine, we might
have come down together. You aren't
sony that I’m here?” he asked pres-
ently, as Aunt Patience left the room
for an instant.
“Sorry! How could I be that?” And
‘ Katherine' s eyes met his frankly.
He turned away with a quick drawn
breath. _
“Ah, Katherine, Katherine!” he said
Eepr.oachfully “Your words mean so
much and your eyes so little."
Fortunately for both Aunt Patience
returned just then. The dear old lady
was in her gayestnnd mo'st' reminis-
rent mood. She recalled so many of”
Jack’s youthful pranks that he felt, as.
he said, quite like a boy again. It was
wonderful how she remembered
things long since escaped from the
minds of the participants themselves—-
little trivial happenings which re-
vealed to Katheiine how large a place
she and Jack had filled in that gentle,
colorless, life. I
Aunt'Patience would have none of
Katherine’s proffered assistance in the
preparation of the noonday meal.
“No, no, child! ’Tis little enough you
know about such things. You would
only soil your pretty hands, and be-
sides, you must talk to Jack. It may
be a weary long day ere you see each
other again.”
At the stroke of noon she .came out
upon the porch, where the two were
seated.
"The dinner horn!” cried Katherine,
clapping her hands gleefully.
"'l‘oot—toot—too—t!” Katherine blew
with :1. will ‘
“A11. I knew the minute I heerd the
horn it warn‘t Patience a blowing of
it!” the little, bent, kindly—eyed man
said, as he took Katherine‘s soft
hands in his hard brown ones. “How
air ye, Katherine? But I needn’t to
ask. You’re as pretty and sweet as
one of Patience‘s :pinks there. And
John, too—well, well!”
Uncle Dan was quite overcome
with surprise and delight.
“So you're going to Japan, eh? Ain’t
that a rathc1 sudden move for ye? I’ll
wager you’ll wish yourself back in-
side of three days of your landing."
“I’ ve no doubt of it, sir,’ Jack an-
swered. looking anywhere but at
Kathe1ine. who sat opposite him at
the small lound table. .
“V e1 v foolish in him, is it not I” she
siid. t1ying to speak as naturally as
was possible under the circum-
stances. .
"These boys—these boys! Soon‘s
over they get full grown they needs
must be scampering off to see new
sights and new countries, as if their
own warn't good enough for them!
Why don't yo get married, John, and
settle down like a sensible creature,
I‘d like to know? Here’s Katherine—
what's the matter with Katherine,
John?“
Katherine flushed hotly.
"Can’t agrcc, Uncle Dan." she
laughed.
“Speak for yourself, Katherine.“
Jack said in a low direct tone.
Jack’s train left at five, and in the
course of the afternoon he coaxed
Katherine to visit with him those
scenes in which they had a common
and very tender interest. There was
one spot especially—a place by the
brook where a willow drooped its
graceful boughs almost to thesurface
of the restless, sparkling Water. The
willow had been a tender sapling in
the days when they played at house-
keeping beneath its branches. .
soft
Katherine sat down on the
turf and drew her hand lingeringly
through the clean cool water. Re-
collection lent a sweet gravity to her
fair face, and Jack. watching her
with his whole tender, aching heart
in his eyes, thought he had never
seen her look so lovely.
“Do you suppose, Katherine." he
asked at last in an odd, low- voice,
“that you will ever come. here after I
am gone?”
’ ' She was silent.
“I should like to know that you
would, ” he went on wistfully, “for old
times’ sake, if for nothing more.’
She 1ose suddenly to her feet, flirt-
ing the drops of water from her hand
with a little, impatient movement. In
the light that sifted through the
quivering green leaves she looked
quite pale. ‘
Jack caught her by the shoulders.
“Tell me Katherine,” he cried pas-
sionately, “shall you?”
She swung loose from him, laughing
a little—faintly.
“Shall l—come, do you mean? Oh,
yes, I suppose so! I never visit Aunt
Patience without strolling down here,
you know. I like the water and the
willow and the—quiet.” _
Jack set his teeth hard, and,_ turn-
ing, began to walk silently at her
side back across the green meadow.
In the distance the whistle of an
approaching train sounded shrilly. He
stopped with a dismayed exclama-
tion.
“It can’t be possible—but yes, it is—~
it is my train!” He glanced at his
watch. “We lingered too long undo-.-
the willow, Katherine. I shall have
barely time to bid Aunt Patient-c
good-bye now.”
Katherine put her hand to her
throat. Her lips moved vainly in an
effort to speak. Then a low sob burs:
frOm them.
“Katherine, my dear, my dear, do
you really care like this? But I must
go—-there’s my train!”
He pressed her hands hard.
of a sudden her voice came back to
her. She cried out piteonsly—~
“Oh, 1 ca .n’t let you go—l can't live
without y,on Jack—Jack, stay until—
{I can go. too!”
Aunt Patience was frantically beck—
‘ ouing to them from the porch as the:
leismely app1oached the house, 111111..
'in hand. The train was just glidi -11-.
out of the station.
“Jack,” she called, as soon as they
were within speaking distance.
“there goes your train! It’s too bad;
I tried to warn you in time, b11t—"
Something in the young people‘s
"faces as they drew nearer gave her :1
suspicion of the truth.
“Then you ain’t going?" she said 1
slow wonder.
“Well, no—at least not until i (-1111
take Katherine with me. You So:-
I’ve just made a promise to that ol-
tience! I’m the happiest man alive,
and she is—”
I “The happiest
Katherine, softly.
woman,” finished
I
Then ‘
feet, and—congratulate me, Aunt Pal--
.1 ERENoH 11081 E1 11."
KISSES THE STEPS A3 HE LNTERS
THE CHAMBER CF DEPUTIES.
llough a Frenchman He Adopted the
Bloliammedam Religion, and Devotes
Himself to Teaching His New Belief in
France. .
The 'most'curious‘ figure in the
French Chamber of Deputies is Dr.
GEenicr, the Mohammedan member
for l’ontarlier.
A sensation was produced among
the French legislators by the appear-
ance of a member wearing the hos-
tume of pne of the nomad tribes of the
Algerian desert. ‘
He wore a flowing white burnous
about his body, and his head was cov—
cred by a turban. The laws of his re-
ligion required him to wear his turban
in the Chamber, for it is a Moham~
medan rule always to keep the head
covered in a placewhere great respect
should be shown.
On his arrival at the Chamber Dr.
Grenicr knelt and kissed the steps be.
fore he entered and repeated this cere-
mony immediately after passing the
vestibule.
As one of the youngest members of
the Chamber, he was called upon to
act as temporary secretary pending
the election of the regular officers for
the comingsession. As he followed
the President'of the Chamber to the
desk assigned to him he again knelt
and kissed the floor.
Dr. Grenier, although a Frenchman.
has features which adapt themselves
rather well to the Arab dress. He was
converted to the new religion in the
French colony of Algeria. He made
the orthodox pilgrimage to Mecca and
then sought to become a mollah or
priest. One of his legs. however,
shorter than the other, and as the Mo-
hammedan law requires that a priest
shall be free from physical deformity.
he could not take up the sacred of-
fice. Disappointed in this he do:
tcrmined to devote himself to propa-
gating his new religion in France.
He settled in Pontarlier, where he.
gave free medical treatment to the
poor and succeeded in making eight
converts to Islam. His originality and
charity enabled him to be elected Dep-
uty.
The French Chamber has lately had
a large supply of eccentric members.
Among them was Thivrier, the work
ingman member, who always wore his
blouse in the House. Another mem-
be1 was a professional st1ong man,
who had gained fame by his ability to
catch a cannon ball fired at him.
is
A CITY WITHOUT WHEELS.
A DIexican Town \Vhere a Carriage is a
Tradition.
latorce is Spanish for fourteen. The :
tradition is that so many soldiers de-
serted from the Spanish army in Mexi-
co some time in the last century,
climbed to this almost inaccessible
spot, turned bandits, discovered that
the mountain under them was full of
silver, began to mine and in due course
became rich and respectable. To-day
Catorce enjoys all that goes to make
life comfortable and agreeable, save
one thing. The telegraph and the telv
phone have reached the city, on poles
which have been planted along slopes
on which goats can hardly'hold foot-
ing. There are pianos in the houses
of the well-to-do. If the stranger is
so fortunate as to be doing business
with one of the substantial residents
of Catorce about the dinner hour he
will be entertained in a way to make
the memory of hospitality on the
mountain most satisfactory.
In every sense save one Catorce is
metropolitan, as things go in Mexico.
Catorce has no wheels. By this it is
not meant that Catorce is without the
bicycle. Catorce not only has no bi-
cycles, but it has no wheeled vehicles
of any kind. There is not so much as
a pushcart within the corporate limits.
The back of the burro is Catorce’s
common carrier.
‘It is not strictlyaccurate," said Mr.
.Kaufman, the leading druggist of Ca-
torce, and one of the three English-
speaking residents, “to speak of this
city as never having known the pres-
ence of a wheeled Vehicle. The oldest
inhabitants will tell you of a tradition
that. once a carriage was seen in Ca-
torce. The occasion was the celebra-
tion of a certain very notable anniver-
sary. The carriage was separated into
as manypartsas practicable. The pieces
were loaded on the backs of burros.
When they reached the city they were
put together. The carriage was used
as the chief feature of a procession.
. There was only one street in the whole
city 011 which the carriage could be'
drawn. That was the thoroughfare to
the cemetery. After the celebration,
the carriage was taken apart and car.
ried down the mountain in the same
way that it had been brought up.——St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
A “'idow of 1776.
The only pensioner of the Revolu-
tionary war living in New England is
Mrs. Esther Damon, of Plymouth, Vt.
She. is ei011ty-tliice years old, and was
married in 1835. Since her husband
died. in 1842. she has received $80 a
year from the Government as a pen-
sion.-~.\'ew York World.
His Plan.
“How does Volumes get‘ his manu‘
scripts carried in the mails so cheap-
ly? He says he only pays newspaper
wins on them.”
‘ 'ls sacrificing his pride and sham-
ing the devil. He marks them ‘Second-
Class ‘ Matter.’ "—Cincinnati Commer-
cial 'l’ribuno.
Y‘htn is the wind like a rose- bud?
~—“- hen it is blowing.
Why is a tear like a potato?—Be-
cause it‘springs from the eye.
Chairman Dingley Explains the Oper-
ations of the New Measure.
THE REVENUE DEFICIENCY.
Reasons Advanced For the Necessity of
Passing the Bill — “’ilson’s \Vool
Schedule Attacked—Difficulties
of Ad Valorenl Plan.
Washington, March 23.—What will go
down to history as the tariff debate of
1897 began in the 'house-at 10 o’clock.
Despite the early hour of assembling
there was a laige attendance on the
floor and the galleries showed evidence
of the great interest manifested in the
proceedings. Mr. Dingley and Mr. Bai-
ley, the opposing leaders, were early in
their places. By the terms of the rule
under which the house was to operate
during the consideration of the bill the
house immediately resolved itself into
committee of the whole, and the speak-
er conferred upon Mr. Sherman (Rep,
N. Y.) the distinguished honor of pre-
siding over the committee. Those who
expected the debate to begin imme-
diately were disappointed. The leaders
decided not to dispense with the read-
ing of the bill, but. to have it read in
full at the outset in order to disarm
the criticism passed on previous bills
that they were put through without
even having been read in the house.
The spectators in the galleries and the
members on the floor waited‘while the
clerk droned through the 163 pages of
the bill.
The reading of the bill consumed a.
little over two hours so that it was
12:20 before the leader of the majority,
Mr. Dingley, was recognized to open
the debate. The members squared
themselves around to listen and the
galleries craned their necks. Mr. Ding-
ley wore his customary black frock
coat and stood at his place in the aisle
to the left of the main aisle. Mr. Ding-
ley’s voice is not very strong, and he
usually has some 'difficulty'in making
himself heard, but today he spoke with
great deliberation and his tones were
clear and ringing. .
Mr. Diligley’s Speech.
Mr. Dingley began by stating that
congress having been convened in ex-
tra session, the facts that had led to
the issuance of the president’s mes-
sage were: That the government reve-
nues during the past four years had
been insufficient to meet expenditures
to the extent of more than $200, 000, 000
or an average ,of $50, 000, 000 per annum;
that this deficiency will continue to
grow under existing conditions; that
the deficiency has been met by borrow-
ing—that is by bond sales—and that
this has promoted distrust, intensified
and prolonged the run on the treasury
and weakened business confidence.
This deficiency of revenue, said Mr.
Dingley, has nearly all arisen from a.
falling off of revenue from duties on
imports, and not from a decline of reve-
nue from internal taxes. In revising the
tariff, he said, the committee have en-
deavored to discard mere theories and
' have addressed themselves to the fram-
ing of a. practical remedy, at least in
part, for the ills which have for so
many months overshadowed the coun-
try.
It is a condition and not a theory
which confronts us. Our problem is to
provide adequate revenue from duties
on imports to carry on the government,
and in impoSing duties to secure this
result so to adjust them as to secure
manufacture of such articles as we can
produce or make for ourselves without
natural disadvantage, and thus pro—
vide more abundant opportunities for
our labor. No .economic policy will
prove a. success unless it shall in some
manner contribute to opening up em—
ployment to the masses of our people
at good wages. When this shall be ac-
complished and thus the purchasing
power of the masses restored, then—,-
and not until then—will prices cease to
feel the depresSing effect of undercon-
sumption and the prosperity of our
people rise to the standard of 1892.
‘ The Past Four Years.
The past four years have been en-
lightening, especially to candid investi-
gators of economic problems. We have
been attending a kindergarten on a gi—
gantic scale. The tuition has come
high, but no people ever learned so
much in so brief a time. Hereafter the-
ories, preached in hOWever captivating
teachings of experience.
It has been the favorite assumption-
of some theorists that revenue and pro-
tection in the same tariff schedule are
impossible. But we have had, in the
past seven years, in the contrasted
workings of the protective wool and
woolens schedule of the tariff of 1894, a
most striking demonstration otherwise.‘
Mr. Dingley then gave some statictics
relative to the importations and tariff
on woolens, and said that by placing
wool on the free list the treasury lost
$21,000,000 revenue and the farmers $30,—
000,000 per year, and that this country
had not been able to increase its ex-
ports of manufactures of wool.
It had been claimed, he went on, that
‘ the price of clothing had been reduced,
but this was only in appearance, be-
cause people had been deprived ‘0f work
and wages and found it harder to buy
clothing than before. The new sched-
ule would aid the woolgrower, increase
manufactures and ultimately increase
the revenue.
Speaking of the sugar schedule, Mr.
Dingley said it would increase the rev-
enue and encourage sugar production
in this country. He explained the sug-
ar schedule in the following statement:
“The duty on sugar proposed is spe-
cific accbrding to polariscope test of
the degree of saccharine matter, com-
mencing at 1 cent per pound for sugar
polarizing not more than 75 degrees
and increasing the duty three one'- -hun-
dredths of one cent for each additional
degree. This would make the duty on
raw sugar of the same polariscopic
test as refined sugar (100 degrees) 1%
'cents. To this is added one-eighth of
Dutch standard in‘color (refined sugar),
making the duty one cent and eighty-
seven and a. half hundredths. This
eighth, with whatever may be added by
' the countervailing duty on all sugar
imported. from export 1 bounty paying
countries, is the protection which, it is
believed, will maintain. the refining in-
'dustry here.
' “For the most part otherWise the in-
crease of _¢uti.es #111 the pending bill to
language, will have to give way to the”
one cent for such sugar above No.16'
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covering luxuries like tobacco, liqums.
silks, laces, etc., which being articles
of voluntary Consumption are always
regarded as objects which will bear the
highest duties. The exceptions are the
earthenware and glass schedule and
the agricultural schedule, on which the
duties have been placed the same as in
the act of 1890, because no other rates
seemed to be protective."
Mr. Dingley then briefly touched upon
some schedules which had not been ma-
terially changed from the present law.
These included iron, steel and cotton.
Continuing, Mr. Dingley said: “In
all the other schedules the rates pro-
posed in the pending bill are between
5 the rates of the tariff of 1890 and the
.‘w
to our own people .the production and,
present law.
“There have been transferred from
the free list of the tariff of 1894 to the
dutiable list of the proposed bill not
only wool, lumber, salt, burlaps, bags,
cotton bagging and cotton ties, which
never should have been made nondu-
tiable, but also argols, crude opium,
asphaltum, chickle, paintings and stat-
uary, except when imported for free
exhibition by an established institu-
tion, straw ornaments, etc., which un-
der existing conditions ought to con-
tribute something toward the much
needed additional revenue.
“So far as possible the aim has been
to avoid exclusively ad valorem duties
on articles which have been notorious-
ly undervalued and thus failed to pay
the duties intended—a. loss of revenue
which has been more serious than ever
under the present tariff in which out-
side of the metal and cotton schedule
almost exclusively ad valorem rates
prevail. The better class of importers
have united with manufacturers and
administrators of the law in asking
for this.”
Mr. Dingley next discussed at some
length the ad valorem and specific sys-
tems and presented figures showing
how disadvantageously the ad valorem
system worked.
He then presented the estimates as to
the probable revenue that would be
raised by the bill, which were given in
his report, with the supplemental state-
ment that the second year the bill
would yield $100,000,000 increased reve-
nue.
General W'heeler of Alabama, the old
cavalry leader of the Confederacy,
opend for the opposition. It had been
arranged that Mr. McMillin of Tennes—
see should reply to Mr. Dingley, Mr.
Bailey having requested him to do so
in deference to his long service on the
ways and means committee, but Mr.
McMillin’s wife has been seriously ill
and he was unable to make‘prepara-
tion. It therefore fell to the lot of Mr.
Wheeler, the next ranking member of
the minority, to perform this task.-
Presidential Nominations.
VVashiugton, D. 0., March 23.—The
President today sent the followmg
nominations to the senate:
Joseph L. Bristow, of Kansas, to be
fourth assistant postmaster general.
Binger Hermann, of Oregon, to be
commissioner of the general land of-
lice.
Boyd B. Jones, of Massachusetts, to
be attorney of the United States for the
district of Massachusetts.
James D. Elliott, of South Dakota, to
be attorney of the United States for the
district of South Dakota.
Ernest G. Timme, of Wisconsin, to be
auditor for the state and other depart-
ments—fifth auditor.
Commodore Joseph N. Miller, to be
rear admiral.
To Investigate the Ruiz Case.
Washington, March 23.—It is expect-
ed by the state department officials
that the inquiry to be conducted into
the causes leaning up to the death of
Dr. Ruiz, the naturalized American, in
a. Cuban prison will soon be commenc-
ed. The investigation will be conduct-
ed in Havana or in the place where
Ruiz was imprisoned, arid Consul Gen-
eral Lee will be present in person or
will be represented by some one to look
after the interests of the family of Dr.
Ruiz. Secretary Sherman expresses
the belief that the investigation into
the affair will be a thorough and fair
one, assurances/to that effect having
been given by the Spanish government.
Departure of Weyler For Matanzas.
Havana, March 23.—Although he has
not yet completely recovered his health,
Captain General Weyler embarked on
board the Legazpi for Cardenas, Ma-
tanzas. A.dispatch from Sancti Spiri-
tus, province of Santa Clara, announces
that Senora. Manuela. Isabel Canizares,
mother of Senor Santiago Canizares,
the secretary of the interior of the in-
surgent government, has been acciden-
tally burned to death. '
Shun-key Wants to Meet Maher.
San Francisco, March 23. —Dan Lynch,
manager for Tom Sharkey, has posted
$2, 500 in the hands of Parson Davies
to bind a match with Peter Maher.
Lynch says Sharkey will meet Maher
before the club offering §the largest
purse any time after five Weeks from
date and will make a. side bet of from
$2,500 to $10,000.
Fifty Years .a Minister.
Mount Vernon, N. Y., March 23.—The
fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of
the Rev. Charles Winter Bolten, pastor
of the Episcopal Church of the Re-
deemer at North Pelham, is being cele-
brated today 'by the congregation.
Bishop Potter of New York and many
clergymen from surrounding towns are
in attendance. _
The Tariff on Art.
New York, March 23.—A special meet-
ing of the New York Library club has
been called at Columbia. university to
protest against the omission (in the
Dingley bill) from the free list of books,
pictures, etc., imported for the use of
libraries, educational institutions and
learned societies.
Mrs. \Voodhull a lVidow.
New York, March 23.—News has just
' been received in this, city- that John
Biddulph Martin, a prominent London
banker and latest husband of Victoria
C. Woodhull, died from pneumonia Sat-
urday in the Canary islands... Mr. Mar-
tin was an Oxford man.
The Italian Election,
Rome, March 23.—"he results of the
elections, so far as known, show that
297 ministerialists, 70 members of the
constitutional opposition, 17 radicals,
and 16 socialists have been returned.
Signor. Imbrianl. the mciallst leader.
was re-elec'. ed. 2.;
the figures of 11:1 " ..1 of 1890 have-'
been in the sche du es of paragraphs
A’IION IN- THE EAST
Turkey Appears to Regard the Gretan
Blockade as Useless.
VASSOS IS STILL DEEIANT.
He Declares IIe ‘Vill Destroy All Decrees
of Autonomy. \Vhich May Fall Into
His Hands—The Greek Forces
Are \V ell Provisioned.
Constantinople, March 23.—The opin-
.on prevails here that the blockade of
the island of Crete by the fleets of the
foreign powers, which began at 8
o'clock yesterday morning, will be a
useless proceeding, as Colonel Vassbsn
commander of the Greek army of occu«
pation, is well supplied with provi-
sions. It is now thought that the best
means to accomplish the withdrawal
of the Greek troops from Crete would
be to withdraw the Turkish troops from
there.
Difficulty is already being experienced
in feeding the Turkish troops on the
frontier. Edhem Pasha, the Turkish
commander in Macedonia, has tele-
graphed the minister of war not to send
any further re-enforcements on ac-
count of the scarcity of provisions. He
has twice submitted his resignation to
the lorte, but the ministers refused to
accept it.‘
The commander of the Turkish
squadron just made ready for sea. has
received sealed orders, but it is not be-
lieved the warships will leave Gal-
llpoli. Their departure from here was
intended to justify the minister ,of ma-
rine in the eyes of the sultan and to
inspire the Mussulmans with confi—
dence.
During the disorders at Tokat, in the
Sivas district of Asia. Minor, reported .
yesterday, 15 persons were killed on
both sides. The Turks attacked the
Armenians while- the latter were in
church. It. is feared that the outbreak
marks a renewal of the massacres of
Armenians.
Servians Are Passive—Perhaps.
Belgrade, March 23.—The report that
the reserves and militia of the Servian
army have been called out is pronounc-
ed untrue, and it is said to have been
based upon the fact that the officers
of the reserves and militia have been
summoned to attend a course of lec-
tures at the military academy. It is
officially declared that the government
of Servia has no wish to endanger the
peace of Europe, that no troops are
massed on the frontier and that such
a. step is not contemplated.
Highlanders For Khanla.
.Valetta, Island of Malta, March 23.——
The Seaforth highlanders have sailed
for Khania, Crete, on board the trans-
port Clyde. They will arrive at their
destination on V’Vednesday.
Christians Angry.
London, March 23.—A dispatch to
The Times from Khania. says that
Chief Manouli at Rodia represents that
the insurgents mistook the Austrian
warship Sebenico for a Turkish vessel
and thus were misled into a. hostile ac-
tion. The Christians are very angry
at the proposed landing of British
I troops, for they assume that these will
side with the Mohammedans.
The c01 respondent of The Daily Mall
at Berlin says the Berlin Post pub-
lishes a. telegram to the effect that two
Greek lieutenants have been arrested
in the Turkish camp at Elassona and
condemned to be shot as spies.
Vassos has announced that he will
tear up every copy of the autonomy
proposition that comes within his reach.
This announcement, made to an official
representative of the powers, is taken
to indicate that Vassos will assume an
offensive position.
The Cretans are not yet assured of
the desire of Euxope to accomplish a.
peaceful solution of the troubles of the
island. They insist that the Turkish
troops should first be withdrawn from
the island. This action they would re-
gard as an earnest of good faith on
the part of the powers.
Pillage and fighting continue. At
Halipa. three Turkish soldiers were
caught stealing by the officials. They
fired upon the gendarmes, who return-
ed the shots, and one of. the soldiers
was killed.
Russia and Turkey.
Copenhagen, March 23.—The semi-
official Berlingske Tidente publishes a.
dispatch from Athens saying that an
agreement has been concluded whereby
Russia guarantees the integrity of. the
Turkish empire in return for an island
in the Mediterranean and the peninsula
of Mount Athos, situated in Turkish
territory, at the extremity of the penin-
sula of Chalces, 80 miles southeast of
Salonika. 0n the flanks of the moun-
tain, which is 6,778 feet high, are sev-
eral villages and 22 convents, besides
chapels, cells and grottoes, inhabited
by more than 3,000 monks. It was the
seat of the first seminary of the Greek
church and its most celebrated theo-
logical school. .
Warships For Germany.
Berlin, March 23.—It is reported that
a syndicate with a, capital of 100,000,000
marks has undertaken to employ Herr
Krupp. the great gunmaker, to build
the warships which the reichstag' re-
fuses and that they will place these at
the disposal of the government~ when
the reichstag from time to time votes
the money for them in coming years.
/ The Coal Miners’ Troubles.
Clnzinnati, March 23.—National~Pres-
ident Ratchford of the United Mine
Workers is back at his home in Massil-
lon a'nd denies vigorously that a na-
tional coal miners’ strike is contem-
plated at present. He is'hopeful of an
adjustment of the Pittsburg trouble.
Governor Tanner May Be There.
Springfield, 1115., March 23.—Governor
Tanner will probably attend the Grant
monument dedication exercises at New
York next month.
Dervish Chief Suing For Peace.
Cairo, March 23.—It is reported here
that the Caliph Abdullah, leader of
the Dervish hordes in the Sudan, is
suing for peace.
. Snowstorm In Colorado.
Denver, March 23. —Snow fell contin-
uously all day. The storm was general
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