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NEEDLESS ENTANGLBMENT.
Rothing to Be Gained and Much May Bo
Lost by the Policy—“’illiam's Third
Abccss—Many Recent Expulsions
of American Citizens.
BERLIN, March 1.--The opinion in Ger-
man political circles is that the emperor
and the government have needlessly en-
tangled Germany in the Cretan question
and its embarrassing developments. A
reichstag Conservative loader, referring to
the subject,- said to your correspondent;
“The admission of Baron Marschall von
Bieberstein, the minister for foreign af-
fairs, that German interests are in nowise
involved in the orient argues plainly
against the recent course of the govern-
ment, which will make us no friends and
only enemies and which will entail consid-
erable expense to us if it leads to nothing
Worse. ”
This opinion is shared by nine out of
ten men one meets privately irrespective
of party, and it is generally said that this
new departure in foreign politics is radic-
ally opposed to the old Bismarckian pol-
icy. Even the Centrist press, although
anti-Bismarckian, recalls the sounder pol-
itics of the Bismarck regime. The Ham-
burger Nachrichten strongly protests
against the government’s policy in articles
evidently from Prince Bismarck’s pen,
and the only class who express satisfaction
with his majesty’s proceedings are colonial
enthusiasts, who also favor his gigantic
naval schemes. , .
William's Third Aboess.
The abcess on the emperor’s knee gave
him excessive pain, and he had to have
fomontations night and day in order to re
duce the swelling. The pain commenced
a fortnight ago, and his majesty was un-
able to stand upright for three days. It is
dommcnted that this is the emperor’s third
such case within four years. Professor
Bergmann removed a small abcess from
his left shoulder, in 1894 with the knife.
Great indignation prevails among Ber-
lin folk at the police forbidding aftei
March 3 all traffic in the streets leading to
the site of ' the national William I monu-
ment, which is to be unveiled on March
22. This is interpreted as meaning that
all except a. favored few will‘ be rigidly ex-
cluded from the unveiling ccremOnics.
Even the loyal National Zeitung rebels at
this. .—
Enormous prices will be paid for places
from which to view the ceremonies. Eight
thousand marks has already been paid for
a half story of a. large house overlooking
the scene; 800 marks have been paid for
single windows and 200 marks for single
seats. - ,
On the occasion of the centenary, on
March 22, the emperor will issue an am-
nesty decree, the provisions of which only
exclude murderers and less majeste Offend-
ers. Robert F. Kneebs, the American
horseman, who is undergoing imprison-
ment for racing the mare Bethel on the
German turf under the name of ,Nellie
Kneebs, will probably be included in the
list of pardons.
Reckless Sharpshooting.
The sharpshooting practice of the Guards
corps is now proceeding along the line of
the Potsdam railroad, and on Wednesday,
for a distance of four miles, bullets were
whistling past the passing trains. One
passenger was mortally wounded.
\The Leipsic university buildings, which
have been thoroughly renovated and re.
built during several years past, will be
rededicated with grand ceremony in the
presence of the king of Saxony and a. num-
ber of princes J unc 15.
There has been an epidemic of influenza
in the military barr bits of Prenlzau. Two
hundred and fifty men were prostrated.
The same state of things prevails at the
Berlin, Spandau, Breslau and Koenigsberg
barracks. ’
Countess von Griebenow, formerly Miss
Ada Rhodes of Savannah, is the first lady
of Germany to enter her trotters for this
year’s races.
Count von Rottenbcrg, curator of the
Bonn university and son-in-law of the late
W. W. Phelps, has incurred the wrath of
the whole Centrist press and party by a
paper on “Melancthon and Liberty of
Thought in University Teaching.” The
Volks Zeitung and The Germanic. fiercely
attack him.
Americans Expelled.
There have been many recent cases or
the expulsion 0 American citizens from
the reichsland, and in every instance the
United States embassy has been powerless
to effect a revocation of the order of expul-
sion, as the reichsland is not included in
the treatv of 1868 with the North German
federation. dome of the cases of expulsion
arc deserving of sympathy and special
consideration, but nothing could be done.
For instance, a youth named Rene Gui-
rand of Colmar was visiting his dying par-
ents when he was turned out of the house
and escorted to the frontier by the policc‘.
Guirand is a naturalized American, resid-
ing at Worcester, Mass.
Delegate Aucker and 57 others have in—
troduced a resolution in the rcichstag
granting members a per diem compensa-
tion. This time the Agrarians, besides
other factions, support it, so there is little
doubt that it will be passed by a big ma
jority. It will then go to the bundesrath.
Both houses of the Prussian diet have
now approved the bill raising the salaries
of teachers in public schools, which will
be enforced on April 1. The new law pro-
vides an average increase in the salaries of
20 per cent and fixes the minimum at 900
marks.
The government has already begun an
agitation of the measures it desires to pass
during the next legislative period of the
reichstag. The most important is an in-
crease of the German army on a. peace foot-
ing, besides the big naval projects. The
increase in the army amounts to 21,000
men, mainly to form the Third battalions
added to the new 42 regiments which will
be formed on April 11.
Inauguration Day Exercises
BOSTON, March 1.—In an address to the
principals of Boston public schools Super-
intendent Sealver asks that they follow
the recommendation of Governor Wolcott
regarding the proper observance of inau-
guration day. The governor asked that
special exercises be held whereby the pu-
pils be impressed with the significance of
the occasion.
“Van Born a Slave.
CLIFFSIDE, N. J., March 1.——-Harry Bon-
nison, colored, who was over 99 years of
age, was found dead yesterday. He was
living alone and had evidently been dead
about three days when his body was dis-
covered. He had been a ,slavs.
The Kaiser Blamed For Sticking His ‘
I
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD.
Come. cuddle your head on my shoulder.
dear. '
Your head like the golden-rod,
And we will go sailing alone: from here
To the beautiful Land of Nod.
Away from life‘s hurry, and flurry.
worry,
Away from earth’s shadows and gloom.
To a. world of fair weather we’ll float ofl
together ’
Where roses are always in bloom.
and
Just shut up your eyes. and fold your hands.
Your hands like the leaves of a. rose.
And- we will go sailing to those fair lands
That never an atlas shows.
On the North and the West they are bounded
by rest,
On the South and the East by dreams:
Tie; the country ideal, where snothing is
real,
But everything only seems.
lust drop down the curtains of your dear
eyes,
Those eyes like a bright blue-bell;
And we will sail out under star-lit skies.
‘ To the land where the fairies dwell.
Down the river of sleep, our barquc shall
sweep,
Till it reaches the Mystical Isle;
Which no man hath seen, but where all have
been,
And where we will pause awhile.
I will croon you a. song as we floatalong,
To that shore which is blessed of God;
Then ho! for that fair land, we’rc off for
that rare land,
That beautiful Land of Nod.
—Eugene Field.
“MY COUSIN AMY.”
Here is a story that Mr. Van Rensse—
laer Crossgrain told to a few of his
cronies at tho'club the other evening
after the final brandy and soda. They
never before suspected him of any sen- .
timental weakness, but now they gave
their doubts about it. He did soften in
the telling of it, even if when he had
finished he resumed his natural man-
ner and swore at the waiter for show-
ing a. natural desire to clean up for the
evening and go, perhaps, to his Street-
heart. Hore’s his story:
“I have known my cousin Amy since
the days when she was five and I was
fifteen. and that was many years ago.
Still, I never during all that time
even suspected the truth, and I
never knew it till it was too late. Then
[learned what might have been; and,
as I thought the simple story over, it
occurred to me it might in its moral
prove useful to other youngsters as
blind as I was and have been. Fortune
never knocks twice at a man’s door.
Few of us know our caller when she'
visits us and are generally disposed to
ignore her summons, taking her for
a creditor or a bore. The only way is to
learn from the experience of our eld-
ers.
“Young folks think that old folks are
fools, old folks know that young folks
are. Thus goes the old proverb the
sanity of which never impresses one till
he has crossed thirty. But let me tell
you the story of my cousiu Amy.
“To begin with, she was the sweetest
girl that ever was or will bq. And she
is now. But this is only the comple-
ment of this story. Well, Amy was
is, and will be the sweetest girl in the
world. Still, I never loved her—ex-
cept as a. cousin and as a sweet‘
girl, the sweetest I have ever seen or
shall see. _ From now on—I don’t know,
I can tell—but you are not interested in
my future or Amy’s, so let’s get back to
the story. Well, then, I have known
my cousin Amy since file was five“ years
old. Even then she had an infinite
sweetness about her which was not
overshadowed even by the fullness of
life and spirits which was her second
best charm. Even at the age when
young maids of five do not linger long
in the thoughts Of youths I was fond
of Amy. She was companionable even
then, and though at. times noisy and
persistent, she infused her grace even
into those disagreeable qualities and
made them half lovable. This was
Amy at the age of five. Well you know
how a youth changes at seventeen.
How he becomes then one thing or the
other; good or bad, studious or care-
less, serious or trifling. During the
next ten years I saw Amy only now
and then. She was changing and de-
veloping also, but I paid little attention
to her growth. I was chasing after the . p
false gods whose worship is so attrac-
tive to the young man. Amy was only
a child at my advanced years, and
while family connections kept me in
frequent contact with her. I thought of
my old young friend only as a rather
awkward, shy girl of} fifteen. while I
was rejoicing in the full manhood and
unlimited experience and wisdom of
twenty-five.
“When I saw her in those days I paid
little attention to her. There was still
the old sweetness there, the power of
loving, the simple but strong attrac-
liVeness, but I was buSy with my false
gods and tinsel goddesses. You men of
thirty, you know where you worshipped
then, and you know you were devout
in your worship, and how the fallacy
and how the hollowness of your creed
never strikes you until you have-had
five or ten years of it, and how then you
learn your god is stuffed with the dirti-
est kind of sawdust and the worship
stinks in your nostrils. Well, I passed
through that stage. I went the rounds
and rejoiced in. the designation of a
rounder. No hog wallowed in his filth
more luxuriously than I, and it took me
ten long years to learn that there was
not and never can be anything in dissi-
pation, that alcoholically stimulated
spirits and the purchased affections of
women are the bitterest mockeries on
God’s earth. They are hell’s boat coun-
lerfeits, but rank counterfeits they are,
and only the so-called keen eyes of
youth are deceived by them.
All this has a bearing on my story "cf
Amy, because, thank God, after a while
my eyes were opened and I saw the fol-
ly of my life. And, as when a man has
thrown the bloom and flower of his
youth in the gutters of dissipation he
takes the faded remnant back to the
highway, so I seeing I had been giving
much for nothing, bethought myself
thatperhaps the ways of decent people
were rather wiser and I sought to tread.
them. Society does not condemn the
..;l': :-.,.l‘.l(’.l‘.r Hi3 social position is.
thrown like a cloak over his life, and
virtuous mothers who ' know from
wordly husbands the story of his es‘ca-
pades are glad to show him their jewels
in the way of marriageable daughters-
that is, if he may be eligible.
"Well, I was rich and eligible, I easi:
1y worked my way back into the society
I had quit for what is styled Bohemia.
I saw young women. far more sweet and
attractive than those who shine at pub»
lic balls, late suppers and fancy resorts.
And among them shone conspicuous my
cousin Amy. I had never entirely given
up her society, but of late years I had
seen less and less of her. It seemed to
me her manner had changed. She was .
now a woman of the world, with her
three crowded seasons behind her.
New York, Newport, London, and the
Riviera had been her stamping grounds,
and even her infinite sweetness—pardon
the repetition of the word. but it fitted
her—was partly covered though not ef-
facod by the manner of the woman of
22 years. I had not noticed this, or at
any rate dwelt upon it, in our few
meetings in the mean time. -
“Amy was still and had never ceased
to be fond of me as an old friend and
playmate, for in the far away old days
we had even played together as child-
ren will. But I could never regain my
exact old footinoa After aiwhilo she
did let me get a little closer, and then
later I thought I noticed sometimes a
return of sornething like the old cama-
radarie. Was I falling in love with
Amy? I did not say so. Then one day
I heard sOmething and the next day she
told me something herself.
“I knew the fellow and liked him. He
was all that a man should be, and if any
man could claim such a standing he was
worthy of Amy. Still, for a moment
I hated him, and could I have heard of
his disgrace I would have rejoiced; I
hardly knew why, but I felt why. But
A was very happy, so happy that I
for e him, and she softened more to-
ward me.
"This is all of my story. {It’s enough
for it’sa story of what was missed and
of fortune turned away from the door
at the first and last call. How do I
know? I will tell you. Amy was to be
married after Easter. During Lent I
passed a few days at her father’s place
on the Hudson. She was so happy and
grateful to this old world for her hap-
piness that she opened all her heart to
me and told me her hopes and plans.
So selfish is entire happiness. If she
had confined herself to her future I
might still have been fairly happy even
in her and his happiness. But in the
fulness of her spirit Amy lapsed into
reminiscence. -
“During one of our close and cordial
conversations I noticed a look on her
expressive face, a look half quizzical,
half amused, and then she turned to me
and smiled. iBlushed? No! But when
she told me this story I left her 3 mm
ment saying ‘I thought I would smoke a
cigar, though I forgot to light it when I
got on the veranda.
“I had spoken of her happiness, and
without thinking what I ‘was saying I
asked her familiarly: ,
“ ‘Amy, is that lucky fellow the first,
or are“you giving him only the rem-
nants of affection a pretty girl has left
after three years of society? She
laughed gayly and without embarrass-
ment.
“ ‘Yes and no,’ she answered. ‘I have
met no man in society I consider his
equal in any way, and he has all the af-
fections I possess, but I must make a
confession to you, and I can do so safely
now. I was in love once before, and
oh! how in love I was. It wasa foolish
affair,’ she said smiling, ‘but at that
time I was terribly in earnest. I have
quite recovered, so I can tell you all
about it. Do you remember some years
ago when you were still quite respectaer
ble and used to come and take tea with
us every Sunday evening?’
“ ‘Of course I do,’ I answered rather
testily.
“ ‘Well, you never knew I was in
love then, did you?’
“ ‘Why no, certainly not, I never
thought of it. You were a child,’ I re-
lied.
“ ‘I was 15,‘ she said, ‘and I was very
much in love, and with you, you silly
goose. You never knew it, you'paid no
attention to me, but would talk to fath-
er or some of the guests, and I would
sit up and drink in your words and
think them wisdom. Why, I remem-
her one evening when I was sent up to
bed at 9 o’clock I came back after the
maid was gone and sat at the head of
the stairs where I cOuld hear you speak?
ing. Then my feelings got the better of
me and I began to cry. Mamma heard
me. but you didn’t, and she came after
me and sent inc back to bed, besides
giving me a good lecturing.’
“And Amy laughed heartily and I
thought with unnecessary gayety. And
so I made a fool of myself. In a mo—
ment I felt that my cousin Amy was
the one woman in the world for me and
that she had really always been. (And
she will always be).
And I said to her: ‘Amy, are you
telling me of years ago, mayI tell you
something of the present time?’ But
she understood me, and Amy was loyal.
For a. moment only she seemed startled
and drew a lOng breath. Then she
smiled again.
“ ‘No, no 1’ she said with her old gay-
ety, when your story is as old as mine
you may tell it to me if you like, but
the exchange is not fair now.’ 'Which I
thought was a. poor, way out of it, and I
told her so. '
"Still when I left iher and ,went out
upon the veranda to smoke I forgot to
light my cigar.”
Another Illusion Shattered.
A young man writes to this office to
leny the impression that there is any
pleasure in teaching a. girl to ride a bi-
cycle. He says that it is true she clings
to her escort, but it is a frantic cling,
like the clutch a. drowning man makes
for a board. There is nothing tender'in
it, and she squeezes his hand so hard
thatlhe has to grit his teeth to keep
"rom screarning—Atchison Globe.
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Among the series of Thrilling Mo-
ments published by the Outlook is the
story of a narrow chance in the Irish
Channel at 10 O’clock of a very foggy
night. The whistle of the Hooper, a
freight and cattle ship, was blowing
every ten seconds, when suddenly,
away off to starboard, came a thin,
squeaky whistle in return. Then it
sounded again, and this time it was
louder.
A minute passed, and we whistled.
Another, and we blew again. A third,
and then—But at the fourth, a loud,
long blast blew on? abreast of us, so
near that it seemed as if we must see
something. A moment later. high
above us, appeared three ghostly
masts, nearly in a. line.
Captain Murrell sprang to the tele-
graph, and almost instantly I could
feel a. quiver run through the ship,
telling that the engines were being
reversed at full speed.
Half a dozen sharp commands were
given, calling all hands except the
watch aft to clear away the boats.
Then a hull loomed up out of the fog.
“She’ll strike us right amidships,”
said Mr. Costello, the mate, close at
my ear.
“Port your hclm!” the captain cried
out to her. “You go full speed ahead.
We’re full speed astern.”
“Not a sound'in reply.
“No,,she'll catch us right abaft the
cathead,” whispered Mr. Costello.
I grasped the rail of the bridge with
both hands, from an insane idea that
the shock might throw me down.
Then I distinctly remember laughing.
I did not think at all. I simply gur—
gled, and watched her crawl upon us.
“We’ll catch her on the starboard
bow,” murmured Mr. Costello. as the
long‘ craft pulled across our hours.
“No, right amidships. God help her!"
“Ali’s clear by fiv-v-e feet!” came a
voice out of the fog from forward.
The chief ofiicer turned to the cap-
tain, who was wiping his forehead.
“A close shave, sir!”
“It was the mercy of God, Costello!"
said the captain.
Instantly the crew of both vessels
began to shriek curs’es at each other,
and I turned at the sound, to see the
captain’s wife on her knees on the
bridge in the for; and rain, with her ‘
hands stretched high’ above her head,
while the quartermaster, who had
turned away from his wheel, stood
facing her with head bare.
Mr. Bronson’s Servicoablo Skull.
Late yesterday afternoon Rufe Bron.
son, colored, drove down below the I.
C. incline to ”dump a load of trash in
About the same time Cap-
tain Newt. Roberts, the well-known
steamboat man, repaired to the bot-
toms-on the north side to try a new
Winchester of 38 calibre. Just as
Captain Roberts drew a head on a
stalk of ironwood and pulled trigger
Rufe moved into range from behind a
gravel bank about 275 feet away.
There was a crack from the rifle, and
an exclamation from Rate. The heavy
ball had hit him on the forehead,
somewhat above the eye, with all the
force of a heavy charge of powder.
The negro did not even fall down. He
wiped his brow with an old handker-
chief and drove on toward the river
bank. This morning he told a re-
porter about it:
“Ylssir, somethin’ hit me in der
head, and den I heard a gun go off. At
tus’ I thought a hornet had stung me.
it felt kinder that way."
“Did you fall down, Rufe?"
“Naw, sir; but de bullet sort of
pushed my head over ter one side, but
flat as all. Dis mornin’ my head
kinder ached a leetle, but I’se been
workin’ all day. My head’s peeled a
leetle bit and'sklnned up, but not ’nufl!
ter hurt.”—Paducah News.
[Struck It the First Time.
“So you have written a novel?”
“Yes.” .
“Has your heroine satin skin, velvet
eyelashes, and hair like threads of spun
gold?”
“Yes.” -
“Is her name Gwendoline‘?”
“It is.”‘
“Then I don’t see why it shouldn't be
a successi’
SlR RICHARD BURTON’S WIFE.
Who Sacrificed $30,000.
to Conscionce.
A story of the late Lady Burton has
the following: .
The marriage of Explorer Burton was
of the most romantic sort. It is said
that the two met at Boulogne when his
future wifc was a school girl there, but
they were separated immediately. and
it was not until after he had made his
famous journey to Mecca, and had then
gone to the Crimea for the war, that he'
again encountered his inamorata, this
Tho “70mm:
‘ time in London, at the Botanical Gar-
dens.
There they entered into a sort of
understanding. but before Viticould be
ratified Sir Richard had started for the
- heart of Africa. with Speke.
The lady was the daughter of Henry
R. Arundell, one of the aristocratic
Arundelles of Wardour, and her family
objected strongly to the alliance on the
alleged ground of his inferior social po-
sition and lack of faith. At length the
lady wrote a decisive answer to her
mother: ,1
“He is the only being who awes me .
into respect, and to whose command I
how my head; and any evil opinions
- may have heard of him arise from
u recklessly setting at 'defiance con-
ventional peOple, talking nonsense about
religion and heart and principle, which
those who do not know him unfortu-
nately take seriously, and he amuses
himself watching their stupid faces.’
Once he is married to me he will be the
favorite of our family.
“Let me tell you another thing. > You
and my father are immensely proud of
your families; and we are taught to be
the same; but from the present to the
future, I believe that our proudest
; record will be our alliance with Mr.
Burton.” .
Finally Cardinal Wiseman’s interven-
tion smoothed away all difiiculties and
they were married in 1861, the explorer
being then forty years old. The mar-
riage proved a. happy one, and SiruRich-
ard and Lady Burton enjoyed thirty -
years of life together traveling much
of the time in remote places of the
world. :. c
When her husband died in 1890, she
was constituted his literary executrix.
She edited her husband's manuscripts.
with the exception of his “magnum ,
opus,” upon which he worked until the
day of his death—a translation from the
Arabic of the “Scented Garden.”
Burton when dying, told his wife that
this work would realize an annuity for
her. After his death she read the work,
and was offered $30,000 for it. After
days of self— torture trying to decide how
to act in the difficult situation, though
left with little money, she burned the
manuscript sorrowfully. She said:
“Not for six million would I have
risked its publication.”
Lady Burton was a keen shot, a fen-
cer of no ordinary ability and a. splendid
swimmer. She had a pronounced fond-
ness for animals, and made their pro-
tection from pain and suffering one of
her principal objects of life in the
East.
Mortgaglng Children.
When he was in Madras, General
Booth was informed that it was not an
uncommon practice for the father of a
family, when he borrowed money to
defray expenses of his daughter’s wed-
ding, to pledge the first-born son as a
security for the payment of the debt.
General Booth was incredulous until
one of his own oflicers in Madras Mel
him that he had some cadets in the
Madras Salvation Army who had thus
been mortgaged by their grandfathers
in payment for the festivities of their
mother’s marriage, and who recognized
their obligation to discharge the debt
when possible. -
Very Small Saws.
There are saws so small and minute
as not to exceed one-fiftieth of an inch
in width, and less than that in thick.-
ness. The smallest circular saws in
use are those employed in the minu-
facture of gold pens, and are half an
inch in diameter.
On’Its Tracks.
The Boss-Tommy, do you know
what has become of my ink‘l.
Office Boy—Yes, sir; I saw some 01
it on those letters I mailed for you this
morning.—-Roxbury Gazette.
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BOSS” .
Always the Same
Norwalk Chronicler