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scalded.” The man sank into the
large surgical chair and closed his
eyes as though faint. ’i'he v:von1-111

placed dressings and bandages upon
the table near him, then 1: '131‘ cd out th-i

coat sleeve, cut away the s21 :L sic eve
and applied something that in high
such reliefthat the man 1:: ‘Eil 1;...
eyes and watched her dch;y bandage
theinjured arm.

“I think I’ll sling it; it will :‘Ct be
apt to pain you as much;' have you a

large handkerchief?"

“Yes,” producing one. ‘uces
scald amount to much?”

“Painful, but not danger

“I am an awful coward about
ing pain. ”

“Another boiler blust at the mu
quci ied the woman.

We weie measurir .g f01 new
when I got this beastly scald."

“I am glad. The old ones were al—
rxays hurting somebody, and now the
"aiill hands will not have to suffer from
your negligence. You are Mr. Harri-
man?”

“And you are Doctor Owen?"

”Of course. I should not be in the
office attending patients if I were not.”

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bear-

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(DECS

come in.”

“Whom did you think m

"Oh, an assistant—his daughter, per-
haps.”

“I am Doctor Owen’s daughter and
successor.” Her face softened. “Papa
was ill a long time, and scarcely able
to make his rounds. I went with him
and helped him in his work. After-
ward I took the State examinations.
When he died the people sent for me,
and,” smilingly, “here I am.”

The man was silent a few minutes;
then he said,—

“So 'you wrote me those letters?”

“Did you think me very importi-
meat?”

"I said, ‘Confound that fellow’s im-
pudence!’ every time I got one of
them. You wrote in your last you
would like to shake me for my neglect
of the mill employees, and now,” com-
ically, “I am at your mercy."

“I never ill treat a patient, so you
are safe for the present. This object
lesson,” touching his bandaged arm,
“will do more for your men than all
my letters.”

“So they brought me home from
Heidelberg to get this, and to be de-
nied sympathy from my doctor, too.”

“We are proverbially hard-hearted,
you know.”

“You do not look so, Miss Orra, and
you are very different from my idea of
women doctors.”

“What was your idea?”

“Oh, big nose and eye-glasses
voice and—and horrible.”

“No doubt you thought we smoked,
and chewed and swore,” sarcastically.

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, loud

“No, not that; but I have an old-
fashioned aversion to advanced wo-
men." ,

“I am glad you admit it is old-fash-
ioned. I,” emphatically, “have always
disliked prigs.” , '

Miss Owen went on refilling bottles
and placing them on their shelves. Her
eyes were very bright. The patient
coughed and placed his feet heavily
upon the fioor.’ The woman turned.

“You are angry now,,‘aren't you?" be
asked. “I am sorry. 'I didn’t think
you would mind what I said. I am

willing to take it back. Besides, you _

are not long-nosed and spectacled,"
laughing. “‘Shake hands and make
up." ‘

He extended his firm white hand,
and compelled by the friendliness of
his eyes, she placed hers within it.

“I am so tiredof being considred an
. advanced womani I have to earn my
bread and mamma’s'too‘. and this is
the only way. Besides, I love medicine
and though I'say it who shouldn’t, I
am successfulv‘in my practice."

“I‘tako my arm as proof of what
yonsay; his much easier."

“You must go now. I will give you
some pills to put you to sleep if the
arm is troublesome 1tonight, and do
not eat a heavy dinner. Gbod- by. "

The man wont; he could not do any-
thing else after ‘her dismissal. He
walked away'thinking about her. She
was something new; he had not as-
sociated with women during his col-
lege life, and had' been without wo-
men relatives from boyhood. While
Orra. was not pretty she had a. sweet,
true face, and—and—

Every day for a week Harriman
went to the doctor’ 11 allies and remain-
ed for the entire afternoon, and the
two quarreled, and discussed their
favorite‘books, and were’chums. Orra
liked this .breezy fellow.with- his air
of the outside world, and when with
him forgot the wooer who had so long
before loved and ridden away, leaving
her desolate. She could never care for
another man; her heart was still with
her faithless lover. But she and Philip
understood each other; he knew her
thoughts from her face, and she could
finish his sentences for him, and did
when he was not quick enough to
finish them first. She went with him
to the mill and gave helpful sugges-
tions, and he smiled when 'he heard
one workman call to another,—

“Here’s our Miss Orra."

After the visit to the mill, Orra in-
vited Harriman to stay to tea.
said,—

“Mamma will be glad to see you..

‘As she never leaves her rooms, a
stranger is a delight to her.” She hos-
itated a. moment, then added frankly,
“She has rather peculiar ideas, 'and
doesn't know that I am a practising
physician. You will never underceive
her?"

Without waiting for a. reply she led
him. up a to, istops from the tines.

. _ , now hcie to go.
“I’ve been wondering why he did not

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across a wt 3 hall into a bribht, cheery,
210m elike room. The pale old lady sit-
ting by the fire put out a weak hand
for" him to shake.

“Crra has told me about you, and I
knew you when you were a little'boy
and usedto pull my Bettie’s hair. You
were very mischievous, Philip. Have
you outgrown your faults?”

“Well, I have not pulled any one’s
hair lately, but Miss Orra and I have
almost come to blows several times."

He looked roguishly at Orra, who
smiled in return. She was laying the
cloth, bringing in different dishes, and
boiling the water for tea in a. pretty
brass kettle. '

“Crra has everything as convenient
as she can, so she may be with me as
much as possible. Nursing is a. mis-
erable occupation; it keeps her away
from home. I almost wish I had con-
sented to her practising medicine, but
it was so Lin-womanly that I couldn’t
endure the thought."

“Mr. Harriman will quite agree with
you, mamma; he thinks women doctors
are all old maids, with long noses,
spectacles and freckles. How is the
salad? I pride myself on that.”

“Did you make it?”

“Oh, I do all our fancy cooking.
Janet is young, and cannot do very
much as yet.” '

“She was hurt in the mill and bad
So Orra very foolish-
ly brought her here. We cannot afford
to keep two girls. Mary could get
work elsewhere, but Janet couldn’t.
Orra does what she cannot manage—
as if she had not enough to do without
household duties!"

“Now, mamma, Mr Harriman will
not come to tea again if you tal‘ r the
servant question to him,” Orra broke
in. And for the rest of the meal they
were merry.

That night,
Philip Harriman decided that whether
she were new or old, Orra was the
one woman for him. She was all that
was good and true and tender. Her
mother’s nagging voice rang in his
cars. Poor little girl! How could she
bear it all so bravely? When she was
his it would be different.

CHAPTER II.

Orra did not go to bed, as she in-
tended after Harriman left her, but
sat thinking of the time when her
father had been at his desk while she
sat at the table with Lyle Artan, his
assistant, studying “dry bones” or
plates, Lyle explaining everything she
could not understand. She .was only
sixteen then, and he was thirty-five,
yet she had loved him. Those two,
her father and Lyle, were her world;
and he had been gone fourteen years,
her father six. She called herself
“Daddie’s bey” in her baby days, and
at the last Doctor Owen had put his
weak hand on her head and said,—

“More to me than twenty sons," and

One was repaid for her lifelong de-

votion.

The next day Orra received a note
from Philip, telling her of his love, and
asking if he might come that afternoon
for his answer. She wrote “Yes,” and
went her rounds strangely preoccupied
and came home at dinner time, still
undecided as to what her answer would
be. But she put a few red geranium
blossoms in her black dress, and went
out to the garden.

It was one of those delicious, sum-r
mery days in April that sometimes suc- ,

ceed a cold, rainy' day. The birds were
chirping gaily, and it sounded as
though they said “Lyle!” “Lyle!”

Lyle Artan!” and then she heard a.
step and decided, f‘vaill be his wife
and forget.”

She turned, with hands outstretch-
ed, then paused and let them fall to
Lyle Artan stood before her.

“Have you no welcome for me,
Orra?" he asked. _

“Forgive me and say you are
glad to see me after all these years!”

“Fourteen weary wasted years, Lyle.
Why did you leave me?”

Her voice sounded hard and far
away; she wondered at it in a dim way.

“I was jealous, dear—a fool and
blind! I met young Hemslie after I
left you here, one day, and he walked
to my rooms with me. You had been

' driving with him in the afternoon—"

“Mamma made me go,” interrupted
the woman.

“And he said you loved him.”

“It was a lie, Lyle! And you believed
him?"

“I thought you would not send me
away because you pitied me, and knew
how great was my love for you. So I
said, ‘I will not stand between those
two; they are young; .I will go away
and they will be happy.’ Last year, in

Africa, I heard that he had married,
and you were free, and I came home,

to ask you to forgive me and forget the
past."

Philip Harriman came through the
ofllce into the garden and stoOd behind
them. Orra looked at him, and in a
flash read her own heart.

“Oh, Lyle, it is too late!” she cried.
”Nothing can ever be as it was. I for-
give you, but I shall never be your
wife."

“There is another?" he asked, with
a yearning look at her white face.

“Yes,” she murmured. “I am sorry,
Lyle—"

He turned and walked away slowly,
like one grown suddenly old.. Then
Philip came and stood before her, and
the light in his eyes was dazzling.

“Orra, my darling, are you going to
send me away also?"

“You heard what that man said."
Her voice was almost harsh. “I loved
him once. Knowing this, do you care
to have me for your Wife?”

For answer he held out his arms
and with a half sob the new woman
crept into them as if they were her
only cart-lily refuge. She had found
her own at last.

as he walked home,

. good to His disciples. *

 

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FOLLOW; 1'8 DR. BRIGGS.
i—.’i’.ElFFER'i: l8 ANOTHER UNION
SEMINARY HERITIC.

3R.

He Has Vv'ritien a. Book in Which His

Lina.- of 111.: Lord’s Supper and Substi-
Naturo Sacrifice Materially
Cunflict ‘i‘i'lili “’csiminstcr Confession.

tizti main

Another heresy trial in the Presby-‘
teriau Church and one that will be as
sensational as here those of Dr. Chas.
A. Briggs anti Dr. Henry Preserved
Smith is threatened. The man whose
Presbyterianism is questioned is Dr.
Arthur Cushinan McGiffert, professor
of church history in the Union Theolog-
lcal Seminary. His new book, “A His-
tory of Christianity in the Apostolic
Age,” is sold 1 3 conflict with the West-
minster C..: fession of Faith, the Large:
Catechism and all other declarations of
the Church.

Dr. I:ICC7::‘:1llt‘S book was published in

the Iizteinaticnal Theological Series,
edited by Professor Briggs. From a lit-
erary and scholarly point of view it is
said to be of great merit, but it is want-
ing in orthodoxy as defined by some of
his critics. .
' The first and only woman allowed to
practice in a Supreme Court in British
dominions is Miss Ethel R. Benjamin,
who last year graduated from Otaga.
University at the head of her class in
every branch of the law. The New
Zealand courts immediately admitted
her to the bar, although in Great Brit-
ain and British possessions there is a
prejudice or conservatism that has pre-
vented any other woman from being
thus honored.

 

M 'GJFFERT.

DR.

That point which has. aroused the
most criticism is Dr. McGiffert’s discus-
sion of the Last Supper of Jesus with
His disciples. On this point the confes-

sion says:

"Our rd, Jesus, in the night
wherein He was betrayed, insti‘é'
tuted the sacrament of His
body and: blood, called the Lord’s

supper, to be observed in His Church
unto the end of the world for the per-
petual remembrance of the sacrifice of
Himself in His death,” etc. (Ch. xxx.,
p. 108.) '

This incident is thus presented by
Professor McGiffert':

“The fact must be recognized that it is

not absolutely certain that Jesus Him-
self actually instituted such a supper,
and directed His disciples to eat and
drink in remembrance of Him (as Paul
says in I. Cor. XL, 24, 25). Expecting,
as he did, to return at an early date
(of. Mark xiv., 25). He can hardly have
been solicitious to provide for the pres-
ervation of His memory."

The professor points out here that the
words, “This do in remembrance of
Me," are not in the gospels, though
quoted by St. Paul.

“It was apparently not the institu-
tion of a memorial feast that He had in
mind as much as the announcement of
His impending death and the assurance
that it would result not in evil but in
‘ * He was
simply foretelling His death and en-
deavoring to impart to His disciples
something of that divine trust and
calmness wiLh which he approached it.

But (this is vitally significant fm' the
sacramental character of the supper)
after His death, when His followers ate
bread and drank Wine together they
could not fail to recall the solemn mo-
ment in which Jesus had broken bread
in their presence, and with reference to
His impending death, had pronounced
the bread His body and the wine His
blood; and, remembering that scene,
their eating and drinking together must
inevitably whether with or without a
command from Him, take on the char-
acter of a. memorial feast, in which
they looked back. to His death as He
had looked forward to it.

They knew that they were fulfilling
His wish in thus gathering in brotherly
fellowship, and they must have felt
from the beginning,‘ whether they had
His explicit command for it or not, that
they were only doing what He would
have them do when they repeated His
reassuring words for their own com-
fort and in food remembrance of their
Master. ’

The difference is that Dr. McGiffert
does not agree with the confession in
the way in which Jesus instituted the
Lord's supper. The professor believes
that they did not institute it formally
by explicit injunction, although that is
exactly what the confession asserts. Dr.
McGiffert attaches a spiritual and-me-
morial significance to the sacrament.
but does not believe that Christ said:

'“This do in remembrance of Me."

Another vital point upon which Dr.
McGiffert disagrees with the confession
is. on the substitutionary nature of
Christ‘ 8 sacrifice. This he makes clear
in his exposition of St. Paul’s teach-
mgs. u hen He says:

'11: have believed that the wo1k of
i‘ l"112 st was only 5 lbstitutionary in its
significance. that He died merely as a
sacrifice» by virtue of which other men

though sinful, might be relieved of
death, the penalty of their sin; to have
believed that there was only an arbi-
trary and forensic connection between
the work of Christ and the salvation of
men, would have been to do violence to
His most sacred convictions, and to run
counter to all his religious experience.
Another man of less vigorous character
'2 * * might have believed that God
in virtue of a merely substitu-
tionary sacrifice of Christ could pro-
nounce a. sinful man righteous (i. e.,
“justify him”), but Paul could not.”

“Christ saves a man,” he says, “by en-
tering and taking up His abode within
him, by binding him indissolubly to
Himself, so that it is no longer be that
lives, but Christ that lives in him; so
that whatever Christ does he does, and
whatever he does Christ does. Out of
the revelation of the Son of God within
him was born the conviction to which
he gave such constant expression, that
Christ had redeemed him by making
him completely one with Himself. God
saves him, not merely by accounting
him righteous and declaring him re-
leased from the penalty of death, but
by giving him the divine spirit. * * *
[t is righteousness not imputed but im-
parted to man, and imparted just be-
cause the divine nature or spirit, which
is itself righteous, is imparted to him.

This is vitally different from the con-
Eession’s doctrine, that the sacrifice
which Christ made of Himself supplied
the demand of divine justice, and that
those who accept the provision are
"justified," or pronounced righteous.

Perhaps one cause of the criticism of
Dr. McGiffert is that he does not be-
lieve in the inerrancy of the Scriptures,
believing with Dr. Briggs and other of
the “higher critics. ”

If the charge of .heresy is formally
brought against Dr. McGiffert he will
assertthat he is right in his views. He
will also assert the right to higher crit-
icism, outside of the majority of au-
thority in the church, both ancient and
modern, relying on the accepted Scrip-
tures, which he will declare the right to
read according to modern reason and
under the light of kno vledge accumu-
iated since the adoption of the West-
minster confession.

His contention will also be that the
church should welcome criticism, to
ShOW that it is able to withstand it.

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DIMPLES MADE TO ORDER.

A New York Damsel \Vho “’as Dissap-
pointed in the Manufactured Article.

A special, dispatch from New York
brings the interesting information that
a. young woman ,of that city has sued a.
“beauty institute" for $50,000 damages
because the professional beautifier de-
manded and received $300 of her money
and failed to make her beautiful in- re-
turn for the investment.

Beauty is said to be only skin deep,
but it apparently is considered deeper
than'that in New York. The plaintiff
in the action referred to wanted dim-
ples in her cheeks and paid for them.
The defendant performed a surgical op-
eration, cut the facial muscles and pro-
duced two dimples. But, alas, they do
not show when their owner smiles!

Her petition sets forth the'fact that
whenever she really wants to display
these dimples they disappear entirely.
On the other hand, whenever her face
should be in repose those artificial dim-
ples draw up the mouth into an invol-
untary smile. And so it happens that
whenever she is happy her face he-
comes as solemn as the visage of a pro-
fessional mourner, but when she is sad
or resentful or angry her smile is warm
enough to melt ice two blocks away.

It is a. sad case, but the damages
have been set entirely too low. Any
man who wrecks a. woman’s cheeks and
makesher go through life the living
embodiment of facial false pretenses
might consider himself lucky to escape
with a. verdict for a million dollars
damages. ""

Our Most Destructive Warship.

The monitor Puritan is a much more
terrible and destructive vessel of war
than the Terror, in spite of the Puri-
tan’s peace-suggesting name. The Ter-
ror does not displace 4,000 tons of wa-
ter. The Puritan displaces 6,000.

This tonnage is that of a. second-class
battle ship, but the Puritan is not pre-
cisely a. battle ship in the sense in

 

THE MOVIE-SOB. PURITAN.

which that term is gene1 ally used. She
is purely a coast defense vessel, and.
owing to her extremely low freeboaid,
she does not care to go far to sea al-
though she can sail if she has to.

The Puritan, like lie1 sister ships is
a floating fort. She has two turiets,
instead of one, and can hurl a. most de-
structive charge at an enemy. She (a1-
ries 12—inch guns in her turret, instead
of the 10- inch guns of the Terror. There
is no ship of her kind .on water that
can Compare with the Puritan for fight-
ing ability or for tonnage.

Circumstantial Evidence..

Sherlock Holmes (at the theatre)—
That woman in front of us has re-
markably pretty teeth.

Dr. Cubbes—How do you know; you
haven ’t seen her face?

Sherlock Holmes——But she has
laughed incessantly ever since the 0111-
| ta 2n went up. -Chioago Newsfl

 

 

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IN FASHIo'N’s 1111.11.11.

REVIVAL OF THE BUSTLE D'zD NOT
MEET POPULAR APPROVAL.

 

Blue and Red Are the Colors for Spring—
‘Skirts‘Aro Long, Even to the Ground,
and Have a. Slope to the Back—Other
Frills That DIust be Met.

Velvet is now puffed, waved, box-
pleated, and accordion-pleated by ma-
chine processes, and the result is any-
thing but elegant. It is like painting
the rose or perfuming the violet to
thus maltreat so beautiful a material
as velvet. The rich, lustrous surface
of the fabric is spoiled, and its value
bemeaned by such manipulation. As
well starch point lace or cut up sable
in‘to minute fancy bits to trim a gown.
If ever beauty unadorned is adorned
the most, it is in sparing the scissors
and withholding every sort of “decor-
ation” from either silk. velvet. or cost-

1y fur.
A Theatre Blouse.

Theatre waists and those for house
wear are even more varied in style
than the shirt waist. They may be of
any material and style according to

the occasion for which they are to be
used. One of the reigning styles is
the bodice with neck out low and long
sleeves, a. collarette of velvet or satin
being worn around the throat.

A Neat Style.

The coming summer promises more
variations in the styles of shirt waists
than were ever seen, and there will
certainly be no reason to complain of
monotony. The heavier materials will
be most popular for early spring wear,
and gingham and madras make up
dainty and serviceable waists.

 

A simple shirt waist is made with
the yoke extending well over on the
shoulders, being rounded in the back.
The material is brought to a point at
the waist-line and the fastening down
the center is trimmed on both sides
with rufiles of white lawn. Regulation
shirt sleeve, finished with narrow linen

cud. ' .
Handsome Theatre Gown.

A most becoming and beautiful cos‘
tume was worn in a box at the Van-
deville the other night by a handsome
woman, considerably past her youth

 

The gown was of black mousseline lie
soie, accordion-pleated, and glittering
with lengthwise rows of jet bands
Over her shoulders was thrown a long
boa of black ostrich plumes, in a way
to outline the square decblettage, .1116
about the throat was a very full, ye!
very light, neck-ruche, of black gauze
fastened with a. diamond buckle. A 113;:

jet butterfly on the head made lls€_

merest' excuse for a. theatre bonnet. 11.
France “is quite common'to see c.
dressed women wear a small lhnn!‘
hat with a low-Docked‘ corsage.

 

 

 

S l-
Full synopsis of the? findings of
Spanish Naval Commission.

THE SPAN$

 

 

 

 

CALLS IT AN ACCIDENT
Insists That Because No Fish Were Slain
There “'33 No
Mine Could Not Have Caused the

11 11 (I “'aterspout a

Explosion.

Washington, March ESL—A full syn-
opsis of the report of the Spanish Nav—
al Commission, which investigated the
destruction of the battleship Maine is
here given. It is taken frOm a. copy
of the original report which is now on
its way :here from Havana, the synop-
sis being cabled in the meantime and
yesterday placed in the nands of this
Government. The conclusions reach-
ed are directly opposite 'to those in the
repmt of the Court of Inquiry Submit-
ted to Congiess yesterday. The syn—

opsis is:

“ ‘The report contains declarations
made by ocular witness and experts.
From these statements it clearly de-
duces and proves the absence of all
.those attendant circumstances which
are invariably present on the occasion
of the explosion of a. torpedo.

“The evidence of witnesses compar-
atively close to the Maine at the mo-
ment is to the effect that only one ex-
plosion occurred; that, no column of
water was thrown in the air; that no
shock to the side of the nearest vessel
was felt; that on land no vibration
was noticed; and that no dead fish
were found.

“The evidence of the senior pilot of
the harbor states that there is an
abundance of fish in the harbor, and
this 'is corroborated by other wit—
nesses. The assistant engineer of
works states that after explosions
made during the execution of works
in the harbor he has always found
dead fish.

“The divers were unable to examine,
the bottom of the Maine. which wasl
buried in the mud, but a careful exam-
ination of the sides of the vessel, «the
rents and breaks in which all point
outward, shoWs without a. doubt that
that explosion was from the inside.

“A minute examination of the bottom
of the harbigxr around the veSSel shows
absolutely no sign of the action of a.
torpedo, and the Fiscal. (Judge Advo-
cate) of the commission can find no
precedent for the explosion of the stor—
age magazine of a vessel by a. torpedo.

“The report makes clear that owing
to the special nature of the proceed-
ings following and the absolute respect
shown for the extra-territorial rights
of the Maine, the commission has been

prevented from making such an exam-

ination of the inside of the vessel as
would determine even the hypothesis
of the internal origin of the accident.
This is to be attributed to the regret-
table refusal to permit of the neces-
sary co-operation of the Spanish com-
mission, both with the commander and
crew of the Maine and the different
American officers commissioned to in-
vestigate the causes of the accident,
and, later on, with those employed in
salvage work.

“The report finishes by stating that
an examination of the inside and out-
side of the Maine, as soon as such ex-
amination may be possible, as also of
the bottom Where the vessel rests, will
prove that, supposing the remains (of
the wreck) be not totally or partially
altered in the process of extraction, the
explosion was undoubtedly due to some
interior cause.” u

 

:Fam'ous Onchosm Leader Dead.
New York March 29. -—Anton Sledel,
the famous orchestra leader, died sud-
denly last night at the house of F.
Bernstein, his business manager. It
is thought dentin was caused by pto-

'malne poisoning. due to fish which he

ate for; luncheon.. He was 48 years of
age. and leaves a. wife, but no children.

Seidl came to New York in 1885. aften
the death of Dr. Leopold Damrosch,
the father of Walter Daimrosch, and at
that time one of the few exponents of
German opera. in this country. Seidl
succeeded him. The first opera that
Anton Seidl directed in New York was
“Lohengrin. ” He also directed for the
first time in this country “Tristan and
Isolde " “Seigfried,” “Gotterdammer-
nuns" and “Rheingold.” “Seidl was a.
member of many societies, prominent
among them the Lotus Club’ and the
Liederk’ranz.

 

Cleveland Indorsco Action of Government.

Princeton, N. J., March 29.—Ex-
President Cleveland, after reading the
report of the Maine Inquiry Board. the
message of the President, and other
developments in the Cuban matter in
the evening papers last night, express-
ed himself as believing that the Gov-
ernment was taking the right course.
When asked if he thought the Cubans
would agree 'to the proposition of the
United States he replied simply: “Yes. "
Mr. Cleveland would not say whether

- . or not he consideicd the day’s events

the beginning of the end either toward
peace or war.

 

NEWS IN BRIEF.

The cruiser New Orleans, formerly

. the Amazonas of Brazil has sailed from

Gravesend, England, for N ew York.

A cold wave and wind and rain
storms did damage to stock and craps
in northwest Missouri, Kansas and In-
dian and Oklahoma territories.

Flood conditions prevail along the
Wabash and White rivers, through
southern Indiana, and levees on the
Kaskaskia River threaten to break.

The Naval Board continues its search
for auxiliary vessels. No instructions
have been received from the Govern-
ment about like detention of the Ameri-
can line steamer St. Paul.

The Navy Department has decided to
form a. “mosquito fieet." composed of
tugs, steam yachts and other harbor
craft for ceast defense, the boats to be
manned by the naval militia of the
States. ‘

General Lee demanded that Spanish .

officials cease searcning the wrecking
tug A. D. Bache, which was leading
with m material from the ‘13: 111- at

‘ Ila-173.1119. and. hi‘sdenrand was immedi-
ately complied with \by General Bianca. _

REPORT"

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