IS. NOT iSU EASY
Media' ion in Greek War May Not Prove
Such an Easy Matter ai Thought-
COMPLICATIONS CAUSE UNEASINESS
Towrrt hnKK'tt an Ann t Ire During
l;o latinim for luce - Admiral Al
low timck I n opt to l.raie Crate.
Constantinople, May 13 The aru
bassadorn met yesterday morning for an
exchange of views on tlie subject of me
diation. In the meanwhile the Turks
re advancing in Greece, Edliein Pasha's
or gmal orders being to march upou
Atluns. Uneasiness prevails here on
the subject of peach nogotiatinns. It is
feared that the reported conditions will
render an agreement difficult anil cause
further (.''implications. It is expected
Ktitsia may propose concessions to thy
Macedonians.
The director of the Deutche hank of
1'i-rlin is exjiected here shortly with
p:opo-als to reorganzi the Turkish
finances, conclude a loan and secure
railway concessions.
The ambassadors of the powers held
another m; eting this morning, after
wbiidi they piesented at the palace and
to the Turkish government a collective
note proposing an armistice pending ne
gotiations for peace between Turkey and
Greece, which are now in progress. The
admirals in command of the foreign
fl.-e's in Cretan wateis have been noti
fied of the mcdiati in of the po.ve-s be
tween Turkey Mil Greece, and have
been ins-ri;cted to pi-im t the, departure
if the (ireek t-oiiH from the island of
Crete.
Pm:h, May 1.1. -c rding to a dis
patch received here from Constantinople
ah the amiias-.ul rs uf the powers there
have areed upon the question of medi
ation between Turkey and Greece and
only a few details an to its form remain
'0 be settled.
Mat-tiUi em (rive Trimble.
Kxm.i Crrv, M iv 13 --According to
one s'Hir'e thete is to be war be
t oi!i the International association of
muchiniMs, which closed its biennial
con ven here yesterday, on one eile,
and the Typographical union and tlie
linotype "engineers," on the other.
Just liefore the final adjournment of the
machinists, it is sid they passed resolu
tions in secret demanding that those
who had charge of typesetting machines
shall be members of the international
association of machinists. The sessions
of the machinists were held in secret,
and the passing of the resolution was
supposed to have been known only to
the convention. The officers of the con
vention af'erxard denied that such a
'step had been aken and it was given
ont that the matter had finally been re
ferred without action. As the position
ai letted to have been taken by the ma
chinists is Htrenously opposed by the
typographical union . and the "engi
neerr," a sharp fight is anticipated, if
iucli a measure has really been adopted.
The executive board, which remained
in sess'ort after the conventiin ad
iotmied finished work today.
Detective K tin ml (Mirer.
South Bend, Ind.. May 13 Patrol
man Austin VV. Christiansen of the
South Bend police department was shot
and instantly killed shortly after 10
o'clock last night. Detective James
Millea of Chicago, for many years an
employe of the Lake Shore railroad, as
detective, is locked up here on the
strength of a statement of ancther de
tective, Ja -k Ca'iiey, of Elkhart, Ind.,
who says M i Ilea did the shooting. It
was at firet generally sup-iosed that
tramps killed th. oilier, as the latter
was on watch for hoboes who had bro
ken open Lake Shore freight cars at
Elkhart.
Two tramps left a train at the Michi
gan street crossing and one of them, on
seeing the oflieer, began running across
the common just north of the tiack.
Christiansen started after him and a
fusilade of idiots began, one ball strik
ing the patrolman in the face, kill'ng
Jhim iiiMantly. The chief of police bad
information pointing to either Carney
or Miilea, Carney soon after fastened
the crime on Millea. The latter took it
coolly, lie is raid to have killed three
men during the big railway strike in
Chicago. One hundred tramps had
been arrested on suspicion and were
driven out of the city today.
t.anj- Kiiila In a Hint,
Sharon, Pa., May 13. A
game at Grove City yesterday
baseball
between
the teams of Grove City and N-w Wil
mington colleges ended in a serious riot
in which Beveral students were badly
hurt. The latter club was badly beaten.
During the game the players indulged
in fights and were separated by the po
lice. Afterward, as tliJ players were
leaving the grounds, the fight was re
newed. Bats were freely ned. One
spectator was struck on the head, and
Pitcher Wilhelm of the New Wilming
ton team had his arm broken, besides
being badly hart about the head and
faoe. Four other players were so badly
htirt that tli ;y ha i to he removed to the
hospital. Two of the men are in a ser
ious condition.
four Men I'erloh.
Sam Francisco, May 13. Four fisher
men ars believed U have been drowned
on the (falling boat Amelia, which left
here seven days ago. Word was re
celved yeiterday that tlie boat had been
capsUed outside the heads and later
some wreckage eanw ashore at Point
RsniU. The drowned men are:
P. Ravano.
A. Zennao.
R. Frank.
Juan Jaima.
tlit.i.NN WIN VIC I OKI
Spauiah Forern, Mrrt W th Heavy Loimi
ipiuroa Ilia I ouv.y.
. - -
xK lowc, May 14. A dispatch to
the Herald from Havana, via Key West,
l'la., says:
Apparently reliable news of the most
imporunt insurgent success in mor.ths
has just reached Havana. It appears
that Gen Calixito Garcia and General
Babi fell on a Spanish forci which was
carrying food and supplies from Man
zanillo to Bayamo, early last week, cap
tured the convoy, routed General LonoB
column, and pursued him so vigorously
that he fled to the coast with the rem
nant of his brigade and took a ship at
Caboeorus for Manzasillo.
, It is said that so severe were the losses
and so thoroughly disorganized were tiis
men that theSpunish general did not
dare att .pt to retrace his steps to
Manzani . by land, fearing that he
would be aain attacked and this time
wiped out of existence.
These engagement, which are regard
ed by the Cubans here as more impor
tant than any battle since Caearijic: ra,
go to show how helpless the fcipai. h
are in the country east of the truclia.
Spain has lost 5,000 men and food and
arms without end along toe road to I'.ay
amo and now the Spanish soldiers call
it "the road to death."
A I! If ting- Wreck,
San Francisco, May 14. Tossing
somewhere on the stormy waters of the
North Pacific is the schooner Genera
fc-iglin, a battered, helpless wreck, with
a corpse for a helmsman.. The vessel,
dismantled and waterlogged, was seen
by the t-ealing schooner , Willard Ains
worth on the morning of May 5, HO
miles west of the Queen Charlotte
islands. The body lashed to the wheel
w ns that of Harry Saunders, the schoon
er's mate. Uf the nine persons who
sailed on tlie schooner from this city not
one escaped to tell tlie story. Tiiere
were no boats on the w reck, and it is
thcijoht the captain, passenger' ftnd
crew perished after leaving the vessel.
lt(-uly for tlie (lullows.
Paxton, 11',, May 14. Fred W. Hoei
rnan, who is to be banged today fo' I he
murder of Mrs. Wiebkohen Geddes on
December 2, 18' 6, held a dress rehearsal
yesterday morning and was photo
graphed, on the gallows upon which he
is to be executed. He hopes to s: 11
enough of tlie pictures to pay for hend
ing his body to Grand llavn, Mich.,
and have it buried beside the remains
ef his wife. In addition to the murder
for which he Is to suffer Uoelman is
supposed to have killed three other
women. After being photographed he
rehearsed the piece which he has pre
pared for the jjailows.
To Unite forces. '
Nrw York, May 14. At yesterday's
session of the Ancient Order of Hiber
nians, board ( f Erin, a resolution was
a 'opted providing for the appointment
of a committee of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians to meet with a similar com
mittee of the board of America, with
full power to act finally and decisively
on the union of both orders in this
country. For national presidents the
favorites are Father Phillips and
Thomas H. Horan.
Ra i l rn.ncl.i o lint i Irea
San Frncjhco, May H. Early yes
terday morning fire broke out in the tan
nery of A. 3. Patrick & Co., which oc
cupies a strip of land on Sixth avenue
south, between Q and R streets, and
two hours later there was little left but
ruins. The loss to stock and plant is
estimated at from $400,000 to $425,000,
with insurance of $-115,000. The build
ings destroyed numbered ten, four of
which were two and a half story frame
structures, and one a five-story build
ing. The remaiuder were one-story
sheds. Tho fire had almost full sway
after it started, from the fact that the
fireman could not. get to the rear of the
strip of Ian 1 on which the tannery was
situated, being bounded on three sides
by tidewater.
Almost simultaneously five tenement
houses on Telegraph hill were burned.
The families occupying them barely es
caped with their lives, so rapidly did
the flames spread in the ramshackle
wooden houses. Loss, about $75,f,00.
Another blaze destroyed four cottages
on Wisconsin street in South San Fran
cisco Wednesday night; lose, $5,000,
An explosion of gas in the grocery
store of D. BorJori, 1020 Bryant street,
wrecked the building and injured a
number of people, including the pro
prietor, and did damage to the extent of
over $4,000.
l'nlTriHlu. Convene.
Nkw York, May 14. The board of
trustees of the Univeisaliet general eon- j
vention completed its work yesterday
and adjourned lo meet again in this city
in October. The condition of the Uni
versalis mission in Japan was dis
cussed and provision was made for a
continuance of the work on the same
lines as heretofore. The arrangements ,
for the neit convention, which will lie
held in Chicago on October 19 neit,
were also talked over. Rev. Dr. C. E.
Nash, president of Lombard college,
Galeeburg, III., is the chairman of
committee of assignments.
the i
Paowi in Au.lrla.
London, May 14. Heavy snow fall
and severe frosts continue in all parts of
Austria and Hungary. There have been
avalanches in the Austrian Tyrol and the
Baoikammergut. Or oat damage hat
been done everywhere to crops, vines
and fruits. Telegraph and telephonic
coanmunication is interrupted. Bheep
and game are perish int. and then have
basn oarthqiiake shocks near Brizse,
Futna and elsewhere. A large quantity
of soow has fallen la the Italian prov
ince of Udiue .
IN" TJ1E SENATE
Senate Discusses the Morgan Cuban
Resolution at Length.
ITS PASSAGE MAY ESTRANGE SPAIN
Senator Hale Thinks Tliat the Fpaniah
Minlatnr Would Demand Hi i'aiwp rU
aud lime Morgan and Turpi
Defend Th mieltre.
Washington, May 11. The Morgan
Cuban resolution was discussed at con
siderable lengt h in the senate yesterday.
For the first time since the debate be
gan the opposition sentiment expressed
itself. The speeches were not of a kind
to stimulate the galleries, being in the
main calm and dispassionate reviews of
the situation in Cuba. Mr. Hale main
tained that it would tie most unwise to
einbarass the president by the adoption
of these resolutions at a time when he
wks investigating the subject. He inti
mated, also, that the adoption of the
resolution would lead to the withdrawal
of the Spanish minister and the termi
nation of diplomatic relations between
Spain and the United States. The sen
ator eaid few real Americans were im
prisoned in Cuba. He had never heard
of a genuine Yankee being among them.
They were all Sanguillys or Delgados or
Ruizs. The senator said (he real mo
tive lor the Morgan resolution was
shown in the recent statement of Mr.
Morgan that the passage of this reeolu
tion would prevent Spain from maki:g
a loan, and thus prevent her from put
ting down the insurrection.
Mr. Gallinger (rep., N. H.) ditsenlcd
fr ini this statement, saying the ques
tion of a loan was but one ground on
which tlie friends of Cuba had favored
the recognition of Cuban belligerency.
Mr. Morgan also dissented.
Referring to the reports that another
Spanish loan as being negotiated, Mr.
Turpie (dem. hi !.) said:
"Spain ia n.w on its last legs finan
cially. Shall we fill up her treasury?
Are we charged with supporting and
maintainins the Spanish credit? 16 it
our duty to support too armies ana na
vies of Spain cu laud and sea in her
vain efforts to subject the patriots of
Cuba once more to the oppression of the
Spanish yoke? I think not. But the
eenator from Maine i-ay-i that if we pass
the resolution the Spanish minister will
ask for bis passports, break up diplo
matic relations and go home. I do not
attach importance to that consequence.
Ministers have heretofore received their
conge and gone away without destroying
the political, geographical or physical
equilibrium of the American hemi
sphere. I do not attach the slightest
importance to the fact that the Spanish
minister may be instructed to ask for
hi papers, to suspend diplomatic rela
tions and to go home."
Japan After Hawaii.
San Francisco, May 11. The steamer
China yesterday brought the following
Hawaiian advises :
HoNOi.ui.c, May 4 The Japanese
cruiser Naniwa should soon arrive here.
She brings Coramulla Akiryama of the
Japanese foreign oflic , two Japanese
new-paper correspondents and three of
the immigrants lately refused a landing
here, who come here to serve as wit
nesses in the investigation which is to
beheld. The Naniwa also brings in
formal instructions to Minister Shim
ama from his government their gist be"
ing that he shall charge Hawaii with
having violated the existing treaty in
1-eoruary, in retusing a landing to im
migrants, preventine them from em
ploying counsel and declining to enter
tain the proposition for suit at law to
determine the riirhts of the immigrants
It is stated that Count Okuma, Japan
ese minister of foreign affairs, will in
sist on a revision ot tlie existing immi
gration regulations.
Col. 7j. C. Spalding has withdrawn
from his contract made with the Ha
waiian government for the construction
of a cable from California to the Ha-
waua a islands, naving iaiiei to secure
the expected assistance from the United
Store., j
Ilaiikem Arrentrri
West Siti'ekior, Wis., May II. Ho
mer and Walter Fowler, ex-president
and vice president of the Southwestern
National bank, were arrested yesterday
afternoon by the United States marshal
on a btneii warrant, the result of the
federal grand jury's investigation. The
charge Hgainut the Fowlers is misappro
priation of fundB by overloaning to the
Russel & Miller Mining company.
Murdrrer iv I p.
Townkr. N. D., May II. August Nor
mand, the T.arimore murderer of a year
I ago, was captured twelve miles south of
here in the sand hills by Charles Thuen.
He gave up 'vithout fighting and says
he is worn out by the effort to escape
and readv to take whatever mi v com.
This probably means a speedy death.
Liquor Law lturd.
Di'.s Moiiikh, Ia., May 11. Governor
Drake Saturday signed the new state
l'(luor lw including the sections allow
ing manufacture.
ItoblMra Meal From frit at.
Bourn Bknp, Ind., May II. Two
masked robbers at 1 o'clock yesterday
morning entered the residence of Rev.
Joseph Flasche, the Catholic priest at
Dysr, Ind., and ranracked the house.
The cook and priest were aroused and,
seeing the probable reaiitanoe, the rob
ben used an iron bar, striking the cook
on the head, Inflicting dangerous
wounds. The priest attempted to shoot
but hit revolver failed to work, and he
was roughly handled. ,
rOII'KKI TO AKKITUATfc.
Will Settle th-, Ore. k I'onti vveray
Wi fe
Greece's Conaent.
Athrns, May 12. A collective note
from the powers on the: subject of medi
ation has been presented to the Greek
minister for foreign affairs, M. Skoulo
dis, by the Russian minister here, M.
Onou, It is said that the Greek govern
ment has accepted the conditions im
posed and has confided its interests to
the care of tlie powers. Active meas
ures, it is further stated, were taken at
Constantinople today to stop the further
advance of the Turkish troops under the
uie command ot hid hem fasha.
The collective note of the powers as
cabled exclusively to the Associated
presa Monday night is to thp following
effect;
Upon a formaf declaration by Greece
that it will recall its troops and agree to
such an autonomous regime foi Crete as
the powers in their wisdom shall deem
best and accept unreservedly the coun
sels of the powers they wili intervene in
the interests of peace.
It was understood that Greece in its
reply w ould assent to all these condi
tions. The diplomatic pour rarlers which
have been proceeding have been brought
to a definite conclusion. Greece has
formally ndhered to the preliminaries of
peace as agreed upon between the pow
ers and the heads of the different lega
tions have received positive assurances
investing them with authority to treat
with Turkey. The negotiations at
Athens are regarded as concluded.
Diirrant'a La-t Chanee.
San Francisco, Cal., May 12. A tcr
neys Deuprey and George A. Knight
have begun the preparation of their plea
for executive clemency on behalf of,'
Theodore Durrant, which will be pre-.
Rented to Governor Budd next Friday.
The procedure before the governor will
be strictly in accordance w.th the law.i
There will be no emotional or sensa-1
tiona! appeals. The attorneys say they
will be content to depend upon facts
and the force of argument to save their
client. It is not the intention of Mr.,
and Mrs Durrant to accompany tne at
torneys to Sacramento, aa it is under
stood that the governor would not see
them should they present themselves.
Durrant is satisfied that the governor
will act favorably on his application.
Voluntrera for Calia.
Kansas Citv, Mo., May 12. Col. D.
8. llarriman, who has been recognized
here for several months as a western'
representative of the Cuban junta in
this country, is authority for the state
ment that 1,450 men have been recruited
for the Cuban army in Kansas City and
vicinity and are now waiting to be
transported to Cuban soil. Many of
these recruits have already made their
way to the gulf coast, he says, and ar
rangements have been made to send
them all to Cuba between now and fall,
when the yellow fever season in Cuba
will have been passed. Colonel . Harri
man also states that an American volun
teer legion of 25,000 men ia now being
recruited at various points in this coun
try for service with the Cuban patriots.
Havana, May 12. -Gen. Calixto Rniz,
on entering Lariforma, found the insur
gent cavalry drawn up in waiting. He
charged them and they retired in confu
sion to the San Fernando hall, where
their infantry was in ambuscade. Gen
eral Ruiz succeeded in seizing the posi
tion. According to the official report the in
surgent losses were heavy. The Span
ish lost Captain Pina, who was killed,
with two soldiers, and had twelve
wounded.
A Kentucky Affair. j
Loo an, Ky., May 12. A double mur
der was committed Monday night at
Longstretb, a small mining to-vn near
here while an ice cream festival was in
progress at the church. Arthur Barber )
of Montreyn, a mining village two miles '
from Longstreth, while intoxicated, en
tered the church and raised a disturb
ance. Upon being ordered to leave he
drew a revolver and tired seven shots
into the crowd. Five of the balls en
tered the body of "Dunk" Christian,
killing him. . Christian's father received
the other two balls and is dying
Bar-
be r escaped. A posse of miners is scour-
ing the country for the murderer and he
may be lynched it caught.
To Petition McKlnley.
Nkw Yobk, May 12, A petition is
now being circulated and signed by New
York bankers and business men u ruing
President McKinlev to do all in his
power to effect a speedy settlement of
the Cuban iuauriection.
It is raid that the petition will be ex
tended to every town and city in the
United States where business has been
hampered by the Cuban war.
Mlrr Men M-et,
Das Moines, Ia , May 12. The silver
republicans held a state meeting here
yesterday, Amos Stockel of Bloomfleld,
presiuing. xuey oeciueu to seep up
their own organization for the state
campaign this year, but to unite with
the democrats and populists in a com
mon ticket, wit'i a platform on silver
straight. The democrato meet today
and then the time and place of holding
the state convention will be dejided on.
A mendi d the ItegnlaUona.
Washington, D. C, May 12 Presi
dent McKfnley has amended the regula
tions governing admissions to the army
and navy general hospital at Hot Springs
Ark., by adding to the class of persons
to be admitted to the hospital honorably
discharged soldiers and sailor of tba
regular and volunteer army and navy of
the United States, nnder such condi
tions and eg alations as may be pra
scribed by the surgeon general el the
army aad approved by the secretary ol
vac. . .
CUBANS WINMNO BAT 1 LCI.
UetMral
1 Crarcla Centlauea tm Umbul tW
Kpanlarda.
Kev Wcst, Fla., May 10. News con
tinues to arrive regarding the successes
of General Garcia in the western part of
the island. He bad a sharp engagement
with the Spaniards at Holguin after the
battle of Jaguina. The Spaniards out
numbered him, but Garcia outgeneraled
them, and attacked them in the rear
and flank, put them in fligbr, capturing
over 100 prisoners and inflicting consid
erable loss. General Garcia has entire
! conroj 0f tne
province now outside of
the fortified towns, and moves about
with entire freedom. '
.Two days' fighting recently occurred
near Arroyo Blanco, in which the Cu
bans won signal victories. Three bands
of Spanish guerrillas were met in suc
cession by' the Cuban force under Gen
eral Betancovrt, and they fied in all di
rections. The guerrillas lost heavily,
j among the dead being two captains and
three or four other officers. The details
that have reached Havana are meager.
A daring raid was made on La Encru-
j cijida, on the Santa Clara seacoast, re
I eently. An expedition had been lar.ded
! near there the day pievious, and the
I 500 Cubans who escor;ed if, after taking
J the cargo inland, returned to the coast,
j They bad been well supplied with the
! new arms brought by the expedition,
I and having plenty of cartridges, dashed
into the town at midnight, going
, through the different streets and tiring
into the houees and at the Spanith
headquarters, dashing over the senti
nels and creating a general hubbub.
The Spanish garrison, hastily aroused,
did not know the strength of their as-
! saiiante, and w ere in a panicky condi-
tion. As they emerged from their quar-
ters they were mot with a withering fire
i from the insurgents, w hich they re
turned as best they could. The fighting
in the streets continued for several
hours, and when daylight broke and
the Spaniards discovered how few the
Cubans numbered, they mustered the
entire garrison and drove the invaders
out of town. The Cubans had during
the night, however, entered a number
of stores and secured a quantity of am
munition and some arms. They also
broke into the commandant's office and
took $3,000 in silver. The raid was a ;
most daring one, as the Spanish garri- j
son consists of over 3,000 troops. The 1
Cuban loss was slight, considering the j
amount of firing, and it is stated that I
the Spanish lost a great many mert as I
the Cubans knew where to fire, and
their aim was accurate.
A Holy War to be Waged.
London, May 11. The correspondent
of the Standard at Constantinople says:
"I learn that a circular has been is
sued by the sheikh Islam to the Islama
in Constantinople and the provinces
which foreshadows the speedy approach
of a holy war, the sacred edict for pro
claiming which is already being pre
pared." .
The Daily Telegraph's Athens corres
pondent says that Colonel Vassos told
him he had great difficulty in 'leaving
Crete, as all the foreign warships were
on the alert. He departed from the
island, be says, on a dark night, after
having passed the two previous nights
in a cavern.
The Constantinople correspondent of
the Standard says:
The Turkish military commiss:oners
held a prolonged conference with the
sultan yesterday at the Yiosk and de
cided to increase the troops in European
Turkey to 432,000 men, a decision rati
fied by the sultan.
In view of the possible early interven
tion of the powers, Ed hem Pasha, has
been ordered to hasten his advance,
leaving the line of communication to
be guarded by reinforcements which are
daily dispatched to the front,
Athens, May 10. It is understood
that Greece agrtes to confide her inter
ests to the powers in the peace negotia
tions. Good Attendance at Nanhvllle.
NA8iivrj,i,ii, Tenn,, May 10. The first
seven days of the centennial shows an
! attendance of 47,450. Today, the eighth
day, is Expected to surpass all records.
The pictures in the Parthenon are not
yet all in place. With good weather
the coming week will show increased at-
tendance, for as yet the attendance has
been almose exclusively from too vicin
ity of Nashville. Tomorrow begins a
week of many meetings and assemblies
at the exposition grounds, which will be
well attended.
Thus far no serious accident or injury
has occurred within the exposition
grounds and the Becond week bids fair
to open most auspiciously. On the first
favorable day Professor Barnard will
again experiment with his airship.
M. Fa n re Will Not Go.
London,, May 10 A dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Berlin says the Tage
blatt is authorized to announce that M.
Faure's proposed visit to St. Petersburg
has been abandoned.
A Montreal Kile. ,
Montreal, May 10. Fire Saturday
wrecked the building of E. A. Small A
Co., wholesale clothiers on Beaver Hill.
Damage to building and stock, $125,000.
Kanat ConvlcU Have a Chang
Lansino, Km., May 10. The board of
directors of the state penitentiary have
announced to the convicts that the regu
lation striped uniforms will be discarded
beginning on the Fourth of July. The
new garb of the convicts is to be of gray
material, with black stripes along the
outer seam of the trousers and around
the coat sleeves. The old striped uni
forms will be worn out in the coal nine
and by offenders against priaop disci-nllaa.
GHOST SAVES A WOMAN'S LIFE
Presence of the Phantom Beveala a
Cobra in the Bathroom.
The following story comes from the
house of the narrator's sifter at Meer
ut, northwestern India: Two sisters are
connected with families of undoubted
repute, both in India and England. The
narrator's a'ster was (seated at :i tai.le
reading one evening, when, happening
to lift her eyes from her book, she was
astonished to see seated in a chair be
fore her, and between herself and the
door to the bathroom, a man, -a siraD
ger to her, who calmly regarded her. It
was loo great a surprise for her to
speak and demand who was thus "'n
truding unbidden upou her privacy,
and what was wanted. She ivmniiied
for a moment in that silent astonish
ment. Then it gradually dawned upon her
that the figure was probably not that
of a person of real flesh and blood, but
a visitor from the unseen world. She
remembered having once, as a child,
seen a similar figure, under circum
stances which seemed to preclude the
idea that it was any pen-on still tlie
body, and, in later years, in revolving
those circumstances, she had remem
bered how the apparition had after a
little while faded away into invisibil
ity. Concluding that this visitor also
was not a person of flesh and blood, she
sat silently gazing at the subject, while
the intruder, whoever or whatever he
was, sat also in silence, steadily re
garding her. How long this state of
things lasted the lndy did not accur
ately know, but it was probably not
very long, when the mysterious stran
ger began to vanish into a thinner nul
thinner personal presence, until in a
moment or two lie had vanished.
She had been vaguely conscious that
in a minute or so after she had first
seen the strange visitor her two pet
dogs had begun to hark furiously in
another room. .It h:id been her in
variable custom to take a bath at this
time in the evening, after which she
liberated the (logs. As the animals on
ibis evening were making such a tre
mendous and unwonted ado she open
eel the door of the adjoining room to
see what was exciting them. They 'it:
once darted to the door of the bath
room. This their mistress opened in
time to see a huge cobra on the floor,
the snake whose bite is certain death.
The reptile raised its head angrily, but,
apparently, became afraid of the dogs
aud wriggled through a hole in the
floor and escaped. But for the appear
ance of the supernatural visitor she
would, undoubtedly, have gone direct
ly to her bath from the reading table,
and would, with equal certainty, have
been bitten by the snake.
tiaws of Modern WnrTare.
The "laws of war," as at present for
mulated by the civilized nations, for
bid the ue of poison against the ene
; my; murder by treachery, as, for ex
ample, assuming the uniform or dis
playing flag of a foe; the murder of
those who have surrendered, whether
upon conditions or at discretion; dec
larations that no quarter will be given
to an enemy; the use of such arms or
projectiles ;s will cause unnecessary
pain or suffering to an enemy; the
abuse of a flag of truce to gain infor
mation concerning' an enemy's posi
tions; all unnecessary destruction of
properly, whether public or private.
They also declare that only fortfled
places shall be besieged, open cities or
villages not to be subject to siege or
bombardment; that public buildings of
whatever character, whether belonging
to church or state, shall be spared; that
plundering by private soldiers or their
officers shall be considered inadmissi
ble; that prisoners shall be treated with
common humanity; that the personal
effects and private property of prison
ers, excepting their arms and ammuni
tion, shall be respected; that the popu
lation of au enemy's country shall be
considered exempt from participation
In the war, unless by hostile acts they
provoke the ill will of the enemy. Per
sonal and family honor and the relig
ious convictions of an invaded people
must be respected by the invaders, and
all pilhige by regular troops or their
followers strictly forbidden. Philadel
phia Times.
Monktying with the Uentint.
Mike is the name of n big monkey ar
the Chutes. He has ti long tail, and
until a few days ago had long eye
teeth. He still has the tail, but the
teeth are gone. After having bitten a
number of people with those tusks
Mike learned their utility and threat
ened to do more biting, so Edward
Haa be, the electrician, decided that the
teeth must go. lie had already com
pletely won Mike's heart, and had
taught the monkey to ride on Hover's
buck, to shake hands and do other
things. So the trusting Mike suspect
ed nothing when ltaabe took him on hi
knee in the power house, and, taking
n pair of nipper used in cuttting wire,
told him to open his mouth. In a mo
ment there was a crunch, a snap and a
yell, mid one of Mike's tusks was it
blunt stump just even with his little
Incisors. The others quickly followed,
alternating with yells and despairing
appeals from Mike's eyes, and the
prince was disarmed and disgraced.
Shu Francisco Examiner,
The I'lrat Man Dressmaker.
Aa far buck a 1730 there was In
PnrU a man dressmaker, and probably
the tlrat of his kind. Ills name was
Rhombcrg, and he wne the eon of a
Bavarian pennant from the neighbor
hood of Munich. Ho owed hi success
to his gen Iiw for concealing and rem-'
cdying defoctei of figure. He drove a
beautiful carriage on the boulevard,
and bad an eecuMioou In the shape of
a pair of comets and an open pair of
sdaaora painted on the panel of each
door. He left a large fortune to bis
beire. ,
fat man le all right eo long aa be 1
not In hi own way.
