THE EVENING_GAZETI‘E » 9 BEGI 1 THE YEAR BY VUBSCRI FOR THE WEEKLY EAZETTE ' AND N. Y. WEEKLY TRIBUNE. BOTH PAPERS Sent to anv Address FOR r .3 'One — DOIIar! ADDRESS ALL ORDERS T0 GAZETTE. . v THE UNSEEN SINGER. I was alone in the little seaside town, the solace of work being de- . nied me because of the illness that had brought me there to seek for health. I had been perhaps a fortnight in the place when first I saw the lady of whom I would tell you. It was only for a moment as she drove past in the company of an older woman, but that moment’s sight was enough to fill my thoughts until I saw her again upon the morrow. She was beautiful beyond all words; I fancied she could hardly have passed the age of twenty; and speech and hearing had been denied her. She was talking with her fingers to the elderly lady, her companion, in whose eyes as they looked on the girl I. I saw an infinite pity expressed. 0n the next day, at about the same hour, the carriage. passed along the length of the "promenade. She was still innocently glad to be.alive, and content to accept her burden. It was with a gentle smile that she looked into the pitying eyes of her compan- ion, and I could fancy that the mes- sages she was conveying with swiftly moving fingers were humorous appre- ciations of what she saw around her. My earlier questions had been ad— dressed to a quaint, elderly waiter at the hotel—a man who had in some sort made it his especial task to see to my well-being, and who was the nearest approach to a friend I possessed with— in a hundred miles of the place. It happened that I was lunching at the open window one day when the car- riage passed, a little earlier than usual. “That is the lady of whom I was speaking,” I said to him. ‘ He looked out of the window with quick interest. A dear little maid, if I may say so. Yes, and the girl is deaf and dumb; she’s talkin’ upon her fingers. Well, I thought from what you told me they must be strangers in these parts, and so they are. I don’t even know the horses nor the car- gage.” ""V'I‘hus passed a period of several days. I had, on divers occasions, set forth on foot and explored the coast and the inland lanes for myself. I went alone, but never felt the absence of compan- ions, for my expeditions always took place before or after the hour at which she might be expected to pass along the' promenade, and so my thoughts were always busy, whether with anticipa- tion or remembrance. Never once did she fail me; never once did her affliction seem to mar the beautiful gaiety of her mood. It ap- peared that she saw and enjoyed every little thing that could be seenynor was it altogether a young man’s van- ity that made me wonder whether she had noticed the fact that a certain sallow invalid was always idling on the promenade at the hour when she drove by. I had come to understand the routine of their daily outing. They were man- ifestly living somewhere to the West of the town. Every day they went through the inland lanes at the back of it until they were a. mile or two to the east, and then, descending sea- wards, drove home by the promenade and the road that skirts the sea. Some-dozen or. so cottages and a lit- tle pier stood at the margin of the sea. Inland a few houses were seen among the fruitful orchards. But at the edge of the slope there was a little space of wild woods, and this, as I looked across the flower—grown hedge, tempted me to rest. I climbed the interyening bar— rier and lay down in the shelter of a little oak tree. The sunlight flooded a wealth of bracken, foxgloves and gold- on harvest-weed. I lay at ease, con— tent to watch stray ntterflies that went lazily from flower to flower. It may be I slept. Certainly I was a long time under the oak before I be- came aware that I was not the only oc- cupant of the wood. Some one was singing softly through the fern. I could tell by the sound that the new- comer was stopping here and there to pick flowers. Now, I had enjoyed the solitude, but even at the first the person who was coming toward me did not strike me as an intruder. Her singing was in abso- lute concord with my mood; it was as if one had thought of a poem and a mo- ment later found oneself humming the melody that would make of it a per- fect song. I lay and waited, and the singer came nearer. The song ceased when she presently appeared. She was a little startled, but not nearly so much as I. “Then you are not dumb! ” I cried in- voluntarily, as I started to my feet. She hesitated, and a little smile play- ed about the corners of her pretty mouth. “It is my aunt who is dumb,” she said. Then, with a sudden recovery of her dignity, “I don't know why you . should ask.” But that was a matter of no great difficulty in explaining ere I came back to London the happiest man on God’s earth—Black and White. A Long Dog. “Don’t be afraid,” said the owner of the very attenuated dachshund; “he won’t hurt you.” . “I can’t help being suspicious of him,” was the reply. “If he is good natured why doesn’t he wag his tail when I go to pat his head?" “He will pretty soon. You know it takes even thought some little time to travel.”—Washington Star. A Dead Failure. Wiswell—Charley isn’t a bad fellow racially, but he's a dead failure in mon- ay matters. Why, I actually believe he owes everybody in town. Wrightly—And you call that a dead failure? I should say that Charley is 3. Napoleon of finned—Boston Tran- script. ._ t A ‘ _ ... . ..._.-.‘... ,l - .« - _.‘. iPOWERS DIDN’T MEAN ANYTHING. Having Delivered the Note Their Efforts *‘ 5 Are at an End. Washington, D. 0., April 9,—Inquiry at the foreign embassies and legations made it plain that the action of the great powers in presenting a joint note to President McKinley urging peace constituted all that these powers will do. There is no present purpose to take further action, or to follow up this guarded and diplomatic utterance with any suggestion of mediation or intervention. It was stated by influ- ential members of the diplomatic corps that the joint note contained nothing between the lines which indicated a further purpose. This was the View taken by the administration, and is V fully borne out by the attitude of the foreign representatives, who are in close touch with their foreign Offices. It is important at the present junc- ture in that it practically eliminates the influence of the‘powers at Wash- ington beyond a sentimental expres- sion toward peace. There is no doubt, however, that these foreign influences will be strongly urged at Madrid tow- ards securing further concessions, though the foreign representatives here begin to doubt seriously whether Spain is in a position to concede any more. One of the best informed diplomats tersely summed up the situation to- day thus: , “Spain has placed her back against the wall, determined to yield no more. Even the heroic efforts of the Queen Regent toward peace, by granting ex- treme concession, seem to be overruled and the radical element is in control.” JUNTA LOOKS FOR DELAY. Counsel Rubens Declares There Is a Plan on Foot to Keep Congress “'aiting. New York, April 9.—There is an ab- sence to—day of that joyous feeling, brought on by the prospect that Cuba would be free in a few days, recently characteristic of the Cuban sympa- thizers who gather daily at the Junta on Stone street. An intimation was received from one of the Junta officials at Washington that the Administration will receive a communication from the Spanish Gov- ernment on Sunday or Monday which will make it necessary for the Bresi- dent to delay his message. The intimation was to the effect that the Spanish Cabinet will inform Pres- ident McKinley that they will yield a few minor points of little significance in themselves, but of sufficient force to cause the delay which the Spanish Government is fighting for. Consul Rubens, of the Junta, said that it was more than probable that the Spanish Government will agree to some sort of an armistice in Cuba. “This information will be conveyed to the Washington Administration about Sunday or Monday,” said Mr. Rubens, “and that will make it nec- essary for the President to withhold his message until the Cortes in Spain can set upon the plan of the armis- tice. “The Cortes will not meet until the latter part of the month, and if they are as slow of action as- they always are it may require several months’ time for them to agree on a plan of action.” Purchasing Provisions. Chicago, April 9.—The Government is buying supplies for the navy on a large scale. Within two days it has bought 1,000,000 pounds of canned meats from Armour & Co., and had them shipped immediately to the navy yards at Brooklyn and Portsmouth. It has also closed one of the largest contracts ever made in lard oil, 2,000 barrels being bought from Swift & Co. for the Navy Department. An Insurgent Defeat Reported. in the Cartagena Mountains, province of Santa Clara, have according to an announcement at the palace, defeated a force of insurgents, inflicting numer-v ous loss upon the latter. The Spaniards lost five men killed, and had one offi- cers and four soldiers wounded. Killed by Blows in the Ring. Columbus, 0., April 9.—George Stout, of Cincinnati, who was knocked out by Oscar Gardner, the Omaha Kid, af- ter twelve rounds of hard fighting, died yesterday at Mount Carmel Hospital. A blood clot on the brain was the im- mediate cause of death. Gardner, to- gether with his manager,‘Sullivan, and Stout‘s manager, Mike Connolly, and the referee and seconds in the fight, have been arrested. Cuban Steamer Service Stops. New York, April 9.—The Ward line steamers plying between this port and Havana have been stopped, as have also the Southern Pacific Company’s boats from New Orleans. Endowed School Independent of Town. New Haven, April 8.-—In the suit against the trustees of the Morgan School at Clinton. Conn, Judge G. W. Wheeler in the Superior Court here ruled that the citizens of the town could not be parties to the suit. This is an import-ant ruling !in favor of the trus— tees, who have held that the town had no control of the school, and have been supported in that View by the heirs of Charles Morgan of New York City, who endowed the institution. NEWS IN BRIEF. The following is a censored dispatch from Madrid: The European powers and the Vatican continue, each in a different way, to exert the greatest pressure upon the Queen and the Min- istry to force concessions to the United States. Representative Lorrimer, of Illinois, says Gen. Lee told Capt. Sigsbee that when the Maine was blown up the electric lights in Havana were ex— tinguished, showing electrical connec- tion with the destruction of the bat— tleship. Gen. Lee will tell what he knows to Congress. United States Consul Hyatt and thirtyother Americans from Santi- ago, Cuba, arrived yesterday at the Island of Jamaica on a steamer sent for them by Consul Dent. The refu- gees report everything quiet in South Cuba yet, but say the suppressed ex- citement is intense. The Deputy Treasurer. of Cuba told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House that his republic has issued but $122,000 of the 810,000,000 bonds author- ized. ‘ , ._.. Havana, April 9.—The Spanish forces _ ——_-t #H j NORWALK BUSINESS DIRECTORY. = , i Norwalk Fire Insurance 06-. V \ - , ————-IN—- 4 . SUCCESSFUE OPERATION 'SINCE 1860. ~ . , ' S. No OUTSTANDING CLAIMS. ,. A ' “'. Piel Bros’ Real German Lager, ON DRAUGHT AND IN BOTTLE ' “at—— A/ - RATCHFORDS’ 44 Main street. 8. CB- WILSON, PRACTICAL CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. ‘1'. Estimates cheerfully given. Large buildings a. specialt _ y. Contracts taken 1n any part of the Countr . Steam mill and 5rd 8 C Wal treet, Norwalk, Coin. _ -:- 9':- , ross street. 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