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wmKxrrr" '.uiss'l,*'. i -■ u wwuj,wa« THREE PROPOSALS. i. OW many lumps?" nhe asked anxious ly, “one, two, three?” She holds my fate with my cup in her fair hands. I see the slow Juices of the Flori da cane rising from the moist earth un der the sun’s com pelling kiss. I hear a rustling among the yellow stalks of sorghum as the wind waves their silken tassels. Vis ions of blood rod beets, dissolved In the Ichor of their souls, visit me. Verily, all these htc sugar. And yet- these are not all! "Three,” I make shift to reply, re garding her gravely as she poises the old Dutch sugar tongs tentatively over my cup. As she offers the Assam-Pekon In Its Jeweled bauble of a chalice, a wave of the fragrant liquor overflows upon my wrist. "Oh, I have hurt you!" she cries. "Irremediably," I reply. The word, as I utter It, sluggers with significance. Hhe lifts her eyes, under puzzled brows, to mine. “Surely," she hazards, softly, "the pain will noun he gone?" "It Is undying," I uver solemnly, "and yet," I add, “I cherish It.” “Then I may give you another brim ming cup, since you woo pain?” Alas, might silo not have said more truly, "Since you woo painfully." "No, I will have no more tea." "I may give you coffee, then?” "Nor coffee." "Chocolate?" I for hand rests upon the fantastic lid of the silver box which eontaink the perfumed powder. She has lifted the carved handle of an apos tle spr.on to her lips. At the sight my passion breaks its bounds. I bend over her until my breath Htirs the lock of hair in [to warm noting place on the nape of her white neck. vim c'ii’duu (i /Iniitl nrtntttln with a living disciple so near?" I whis per. Her answer cornea so low that I am fain to nsk for it ugaln, and yet again. I^ie apostle hears it, and laughs In his lontf heard. h'ur has not he, too, been kissed? II. A shadow from the old ehureh lower fails upon two figures, the shadow of a trot*. Within their walled garden mission priests chant midnight prayers for souls In purgatory, Betty's black eyes burn, her breath comes fust; she Is young and bold. As she leans against a slender -ot tnuwood, the south wind whispers to Its heart shaped leaves, and the girl thrills frith the tree's tremulous reply. Or do her pulses march with her lover's at the touch of his arm against her sleeve? "Betty?” 'The pan stoops to the black eyes, out of which there leaps a sudden fire— nearer 40 the red lips, ripe as the blos som of a cactus. Krom a clump of high sage, ghostly gray even in the splendor of the night's high noon, the soul of the hour speaks in an owl's cry, once, twice, three limes, the thick, soft, echo less notes robbing It, In a breath, of all Its safety and sweetness. "They passed me in the canon. I crouched behind a bowlder and heard them curse each other for having lost my trail." The man shakes his shoulders at the recollection. In the luminous lmze which has overspread the sky. the scar let handkerchief about his throat changes oddly to the likeness of a gap ing wound. He takes the girl's dusky face be ifi VWIIIIIIlA I'ilfrr . • MY WOMAN. BY TIIK LORD.'* twuc Ins baud* and toMtrcbc* u avid tou*ly. "You lav * pm. HMiy!'' A* |i«r waim utouth ut««M th* pa* •i»u ut blit. » t>a»»ti!R cloud upon tb mnvb'» lair '»«* blot* out «mm arm o th. ct'ntBlt. *>> that th* pair .Sand tv lot.gar in tb* .Uadu* w! a vroo*. but a * M'tb*' I bv girl do*a not iu4'h li. nor It** tb* - It by put smug luotitrp* wbb’l Mo* . a tb* *b*tt*r of a ptuj*<-t|*g an gl. of th* wall, n* b*r U «*r «bi»p*r» Alt** or <i«n4. th*n. lb* watun ir*l Mb** u*. Bntty * M* Woman, by lb Lard, my * wan' III. U *t*nd* und*r n *b«otd*» of tb h wb*t» .t.tt m tb* b**t * (outfit tb* oiMbing an*** »hi»*r *u •badoar ol '#* ipru** m*b« t*d:gl uot ol tto»n I bnu*b at tb • bat*t -dwatr t • uo.au • tot-. fto« th. t*i It • iMct ttMi rwpd** to <u» .v'.gfon -Tbf* w *mI an inn l»t tb* Mbtr to*** .1 tb r at * • bit »o**w* A’l tb« eh .iu»* tb. I ,1*1* m» • • •*►»' w»4 in tt *»* , | •(.»• fawn. *y*w «♦ *»»» bo ol » r'My A****** wl * *• i hangs across the sunset, brow thought ' fill a3 the Matterhorn’s sky before Its stars have risen, heart brave and ten der. “But I am not a common traveler,” I answer, boldly. Light laughter drifts down to rne.gay as the golden motes that swim in a sunbeam. "How may my house serve me?” “With n sight of its fair mistress.” "I hear a step upon the stair. The bolt of the door Is drawn. A flood of light streams out into the night. A withered old woman bids me en ter. My feet sink In the silken pile of eastern rugs. I hear a gold hammer strike nine resonant strokes upon a bronze shield. Upon a spit before the Are place two birds are roasting. The air Is redolent of their Juices and the banquet of newly decanted wine. I have Journeyed from where the Matter horn climbs its last height, and my student dress Is splashed and stained with mud and snow. Dropping upon n velvet couch I stretch my hands to the fire. “Hay to your gracious chatelaine (hat she shall dine with mo.” The old serving woman turns away, mumbling. I draw a heavy table Into the middle of the hall, and set upon It platters and trenchers. The firelight flashes mer rily on Jeweled flagons and crystal car afes. Placing her chair where the lamp light will strike upon her face and bring out I he gold In her hair, I sent myself and fancy her figure on the oth er side of the table. Two sleepy love-birds twitter over head in a glided cage. One stirs, and flutters its downy feathers against my hand. "Elsie, El sie,” It murmurs. There Ih a rustling among the cur tains that hide the stairs. All my veins run lire at the music of her reply, "I am here.” I turn and sen a slender figure In vio let velvet embroidered with gold. Above tbe low fair brow riotous locks make sunshine In curling tendrils, but whether the eyes beneath are violet liko the woman's gown or black like Ihe tips of the satin slippers under it, or turquoise or sapphire, like the •tones that glimmer on my mistress' white hands, who can tell? Not I. Hut If I cannot meet her eyes, I may follow the mutinous curve of the short upper lip and mark the cleft chin,white as an almond's heart, and the rows ol pearls clasping the full fair throat. I seat her, and we begin our meal. “There Is no salad.’’ she says. At a sign tho old woman fetches me crest and oil. "Does it commend Itself to you?” 1 usk, when 1 have served my vls-a-vis. "it commends you to me,” she re peats softly. I look Into her eyes. Pul by now the wine has given me cour age. "Why are you not In your proper ela tion, you who would grace a court?” I cry. "I am tired of courts. Ah, you tblnli the Princess Elise may not say sc much?” The Princess Elise! She, whom name is upon every tongue, my people's queen, mine, If llefore I can speak I hear shoutr snatches of song, the whizz of Wylnj arrows. One strikes the door ol' the chalet. "Sire, sire, admit us. In six hours we were to seek you. The time Is up.’ Time? Ah, but the game is still t( be won. I drop upon my knees before thi princess. "Elise,” 1 cry, "my throne is empty I love you. Reign with me. Speak l< me In tbe voice l have loved since firs It fell on my listening ear. I wait foi your yes." Was it the echo of the bird's note ii his Jeweled ring overhead, or did m; love reply? "Alexis! My king."— Mary Wukeman llotsford tu Fou O'Cloek. i m* curing or l irimcro. To cure tobacco ho aH to develop It fragrant flavor Ih do illincult matlei The leaf Ih carefully cut from the »t«r an noon kh It begins to turn yellow which Indicates ripeness. The leave miiHt lie carefully handled, and no bruised. They are strung by the stem on stiff wires, twelve or so on each, an hung up In an airy place, not too dry au upper room Is a good plact for then or an open sittlc. There they dr slowly and fully ripen. They may sta In this way until a damp day, when the may be handled without brcaklttt They are tied In bunches of twelve h the stalks and slightly spread by twist leg a strip uf a leaf around thea bunches, which are called hands A the hands are tied they tire laid tr . ' get her, the tips lapping and the butt out, In a square heap on which a plot I of board, for a small quantity, I . placed, and a weight Is put on th > 1 hoard They stay in this way for set | rial weeks, warming up to some ei > ' tent, and this fermentation Is nevestwr I to complete the ripening and to develw the fragrance and flavor, Alter agat f I taring dried by hanging a few days or la i tng spiel to chick th« farm.-Hienui • th» hands are packed In tight bud where they Anally t'ttlf 4114 lit* t&flU * marketable or usable Nothing ware * needed for use Hut It Is a romnoi pi e i e fug h"t*>e u*> to dt|( the |eli In aw wet water ur diluted motwasee as II twist them into a,sort of short rope j doubting them and thus waking mu. • hr ward In this con.lit ton for wsukit or vh«*tng Hug tohaiet u made I laying the leave* stripped troin tl gftM sad dieted In sweetened Wats j ■lovdi'at.lv moulds and pcesatwg the wader 4 heavy pfeaa t dwl by a acre1 w mitt they be* om* solM *k*a Verne • flavoring ti'tffe are weed by the naan It lac t 4iVt« «f »••*•* *0 * flat pats. *t Always Went Straight to tt<j leart of Affairs. Thiers' great achievement at Ai* was In winning a prize offered by the acad emy for an essuy on Vauvenurgues, says the Chautatiquan. The way In which this prize was secured was char acteristic of Thiers. He wrote one es say which would have been successful but for the fact that It was known to be his. The essays were sent anony mously, but Thiers had been unable to refrain from reading his to a literary society. The royalists on the commit tee, knowing Its authorship, were un willing to grant It the prize and post poned the decision. Thiers at once wrote another In a different style, which Miguel copied and sent anony mously. This essay won the prize, and the whole town laughed at the clever scheme. The money which he received enabled him to go to Paris. He bad hoped to practice law, but found he had not money enough to be admitted to the Paris bar. He tried unsuccess fully writing, fan painting and the du ties of a private secretary, hut earned barely enough to keep from starving In his garret. Finally he got a chance to write for the Constltutlonncl. The editor, to whom he had an Introduc tion, had thought to get rid of him by asking him to write a review of the salon for that year. He supposed that Thiers must fall In such a task. The artistic taste which had been developed at Alx made his review a literary event. While doing Justice to David’s great service to French art In the past, Thiers urged emancipation from the fetters with which Ilavld had bound I be French school, and In contrast called attention to Delacroix, then an unknown painter. This single article did much ftir French art, and also se cured the author a good position as a journalist. For this he* was eminently fitted, as he was clear headed, went right to the heart of affairs and always wrote with his audience clearly before Ills mind. These same qualities were afterward prominent In his speeches. AN ENGLISH GALLANT. Ilo Wu» Verjr Oorgrous la tlie hethun Days. Glancing across the surface of every day life In the Elizabethan days of ro bust manhood, It Is interesting to no tice the lively childlike simplicity of manners, the love of showy, brilliant colors worn by both sexes, and to com pare these charming characteristics with the sober habiliments and re served manners of the present day, says the Nineteenth Century. Here is an example of the man of fashion, the beau-ideal of the metropolis, as he sal lies forth Into the city to parade him self In the favorite mart of fashionable loungers, St. Paul's churchyard. His beard, If he have one, Is on the wane, but his mustaches are cultivated and curled at the poitits, and himself redo lent with choicest perfumes. Cos'lly Jewels decorate his ears; a gold brooch of rarest workmanship fastens his bright scarlet cloak, which hi thrown carelessly over his left shoulder, for he Is most anxious to exhibit to the ut most advantage the rich hatchings of his sllver-hllted rapier and dagger, the exquisite cut of his doublet (shorn of its skirts) and trunk hose. His hair, cropped close from the top of the head down the back, hangs In long, love locks on the sides. His hat, which was then really new in the rountry, having * supplanted the woolen cap or bood, Is thrown jauntily on one side; It Is high and tapering toward the crown and has i a band around it, richly adorned with precious stones, or by goldsmith's ■ work and this gives support to one of the finest of plumes. Only .llm Didn't. In a hall game the other day Jim Corbett put out twelve men and his share of the receipts was $.100. And yet there was a time when Jim could have made $20,000 by putting out one man.—Ex. 4 -- MISSING LINKS. The bicycle, as well as the Bible, s now forms a part of the missionary's i outfit. ( In August nearly 3.000.000 pounds of I fish, valued at $116,000, were landed at Gloucester, Muss. In ten years the school attendance In f IKVIlgtl .- - creased In any such proportion. Sutton-In-Ash field, lu Nottingham. ’ has given birth to more famous crick eter* than any otTier town in Eng land. "Shaw's Saw Shop” la a sign In I’ort laiul, Me., and a paper there suggest* * that It is a good test for artleulatlou In a prohibition slate. * It Is estimated that more than 7J.MMI fishermen go out of New York every * Sunday and that they spend on an av I erage of |] each on the sport In n Hoaton court, a few days ago. a < man engaged In manual lalair testified ’ that he was obliged to work twenty I* one hour* out i f the tweutv four, II \ uumiwr T Woman graves have re cently been laid hare at Cologne I h« b ItuMalu has more than doubled, al * place has been secured from spcdlgtlo* * by an egtenelve tncloaure * 'I don't *•• how a brilliant man tiki * ProfeMor I kiseal rat* cna put la «• * into h time lathing to that luaip'd llu d i MohiMwe »M» he a only etrctppiai », S gta intellect ** CM* ago Journal. It I fatter Nellie I* your mother la* * Nelli* Mother la out shopping ‘ t*n» « j «r When will the retain. Nellie* iy j Nellie I>ailing ha*hi Uatawta nha ,« j .bail | say uow • Hat per , lta« r ! ||e | undereiend lb rthhler he m 1 m«.J« * Mg hit With Ms navel | did a i i lust he ••• clever'* She Its Ian It { rtever h* • shrew! Il'l . ba»wt wi * ) gun I tath *'u»tt nntthiag but, by.wt-a, 1 - Philadelphia R**ofd IT HAS iNO POWER. OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF IN TER-STATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Th«« llo«ly Cannot I Is Frp||{ht nr !*•»» Ningpr Charters Without Farther Au thority from CongreM— What the Coniinltftlon Hays Ahont It. The Supreme Court of the United States decided !n May last. In what Is known as the Freight Bureau cases, "that under the Interstate commerce act the commission has no power to prescribe the tariff of rates which shall control In the futuro," and "that Con gress has not conferred upon the com mission the legislative power of pre Fcrlblng rates either maximum or min imum or absolute." This decision was rendered In cases where the commission had held the rates complained of to be unreasonable and unjust In violation of the Inter state commerce law, had found what rates would bo reasonable and Just, and bad ordered the carriers to ceuse and desist from charging moro than the reasonable rates so determined. That the commission was authorized to require carriers not to make higher charges than those shown and found to be reasonable In cases Investigated by tt had been generally believed, and the commission had In that way en forced the provision In the law for "reasonable and Just rates" since Its organization. The commission has recently. In an opinion by Chairman Morrison, ren dered a decision In a case against the l.ureka Springs Ity. Co., Involving the I reasonableness of rates complained of. ! In the concluding portion of this decl ■ sion the ruling of the Supreme Court ! In the Freight Bureau Cases Is ills j tinned, and uicnllon Is there made also i of a prior Supreme Court decision ! Iri the "Social Circle Case," which re ! ferred In an ambiguous way to the 1 power of tlie commission in respect to future rates. The commission says: "While thus deciding that under the interstate Commerce Act, power to prescribe rales which shall control In the future has In no case been given to the commission, It is conceded that the act has given the commission power 'to determine what in reference to the •past was reasonable and just, whether is maximum or minimum or absolute, rates. How this power to say what was reasonable and Just In the past will benefit the public, correct any abuse, be of any advantage or afford any relief to shippers who are made to pay whatever unreasonable rates and charges the carriers may In the future establish or continue to exact, Is a matter about which the court gives no information.” In the “Social Circle ease” the court said: “The reasonable ness of the rate In a given case de pends on the facts, and the function :jf the commission Is to consider the ■ facts and give them their proper i weight. What Is their proper weight ; which can he given them us to the | past? For what purpose is the com i mission to consider them? How can the fact that the rates were unreason able and unjust in the past be given or have any weight while like unreasonable and unjust rates are, and may continue to be, exacted In the future? In this i case the court adopted the view of the late Justice Jackson that 'subject to the two leading prohibitions that their charges shall not be unjust or unrea sonable, and that they shall not un justly discriminate so as to give undue preference or advantage or subject to undue prejudice or disadvantage per sons or traffic similarly circumstanced the Act to Regulate Commerce leaves common carriers as they were at com UIWU inn. “We are here advised that the act to regulate commerce subjected common carriers to two leading prohibitions to which they were not subject at com mon law, one of which Is that their charges shall not be unjust or unrea sonable. Until the court decided to the contrary in the Freight Bureau cases it wus believed that this prohi bition meant that the charges of com mon carriers shall not be unreasonable and unjust In the future or after the time the act was passed. In these lat ter eases the court says: 'The fset that ! the carrier Is given the power to es i tabllsh rates In the first instance, and the right to change, and the conditions | of such i linage specified. Is irresistible i evidence that this action on the part of the carrier Is not subordinate to ! and dependent upon the judgment of ; the commission.' liut it Is nowhere j decided or claimed that under the In terstate commerce or other act the ' right of the carrier to estahlUh and to change Its rates Is subordinate to or dependent upon the Judgment or ae i tlon of any other tribunal, and freed j from (he Judgment and made Inde pendent of the 1-iinmlssluli. Interstate renders are not subject to any provl i dun of lit requiring their rates and chargee to be just or reasonable.'* "The llret eretl»n of ibe ad to regu late commerce provides that all charges tiiada for any transportation service shall be reasonable aid Just, •nd every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service Is prohibited and de* fared to be unlawful.* Under lh# decision of the Supreme Court no ctvatge tor iisb set v lee la prohibited Keweoaable and Joel rales are content plated, not required " > | "Under the law sw quMtrued. the contact salon baa power tu say what ia I reaped la Ibe past was uareasons;tle and unjust. bur *» to rales i rtiMpialaed of II unreasonable I uajuet and ttalawfwl, and m found b i i« in ibe rate under son rid- ration 1 lh# s-.>nmtminn ran male no peer isms * . it order t 'i lb-dr reduciian which I Its 1 courts are required la endures nr the carriers are obliged to obey. Having, In the light of these decisions, given the facts due consideration, we ascer tained, found and reported the rates which would be reasonable from and to St. Louis, Springfield and Seligman, Mo., to and from Kureka Springs, Ark., nnd have recommended that the car riers reduce and conform their charges to the farts so found and reported. This recommendation may Impress the car riers only an may seem to accord with their own IntereHta, since In the present state of tho law, as declared by the court, common carriers have the power to establish, change and exact rates Independent of the Judgment of the commission.” "The court roncedes to the commis sion power under tho Interstate com merce act ‘to determine what, In refer ence to the past, was reasonable and Just.' In the eaae under consideration, the commission has determined that tho rates complained of and which are now charged by the defendants, wero in the past and are now unjust, un reasonable and In violation of the statute, Tho duty of notifying and requiring the defendants to cease and desist from such violations Is enjoined upon the commission by the act.” It Is evident from this oSIcial state ment by the commission that shippers and travelers are deprived under the ruling of the Supreme Court of their supposed right to compel through the commission the adoption by rullroad carriers of ascertained reasonable charges, and that they can only recov er such right by securing favorable action In Congress. VACATION SCHOOLS IN CITIES. A few years ago It would have seem ed odd to choose I lie close of summer nir ii review oi educational progress. Hut the summer schools have changed all that. Nowadays much of the best work lu education Is done In summer. Moreover, u new kind of summer school, very interesting In many ways, has lately come into notice. In the summer of 1894 The New York Association for Improving the Condi tion of the Poor began on a largo scale the experiment of vacation schools, for the children of the tenements. Kdu catlon was not the sole purpose of the enterprise, which was, In fact, closely akin to fresh air funds and other schemes for brightening the lives of the boys and girls crowded In the nar row streets and stifling houses of the poorer quarters of the city. The Department of Schools and Kd ucatton granted the use of three cool, roomy grhoolhouses, and the managers undertook the task of coaxing the chil dren Into them. Books wore discarded. The children wore invited to come anil play. (Jrad ually the play was made work, but work of such a sort as to keep the pupils Interested and pleased. All the devices of the kindergarten were em ployed. There were singing, dancing and gymnastics. The children were taught to play at sewing, at carpeting, ut drawing and clay-modeling. Some of them learned something useful; and ull were comfortably and cleanly housed during the school hours, and kept off the hot streets and away from vicious associations. There lias been no trouble about get ting the children to come since they have found out what, the vacation schools are like. The average dally at tendance during the first summer was nearly one thousand. The second sum mer It was more than three times as great. During the session just closing eleven schoolhouses were used, and the average attendance during the first week wus more than six thousand. The cost per day for each child was about eleven rents and a half In 1894; in 1896. by better management, it was reduced to less than five cents. The officers of the association main tain that the vacation schools are no longer an experiment, and accordingly they ask the city to make the system a part of its educational work. Other cities have done something in the same direction, but nowhere else has the plan been worked out so fully us in New York. IteiuemUer lint t'liOUreu. "Don't ride roughshod over the chil dren's tastes and preferences," says u motherly woman, writing of dress. "It Is an old time notion that a little con sultation and yielding here panders to vanity. Our tastes do not come upon us like a birthday gift at sixteen. It ta attention uud skillful pruning, not a snip at every turn, that develops the little girl's crudities Into a woman's delicate tastes. Ifcin't drive the little girl into self-conscious awkwardnriat by compelling her to wear something that some twist of childish faury ren ders hateful." 8t. laiul* illobs1-Demo crat. Oaltimore supplies the shops of all ■ nations with saiia. That etiy is the | center of the cotton duck Industry uf ; tke world, and not only furnishes sails ' fur feu sign nartea. kut tenia for Ktr | sign arm lea. tke ptoda* turn uf tta ! |art** factories being greater Iksu Ilia ! product uf sit etket facturlea in tka 1 world combined It ta a strict rule wttk Iks ktg trane ! sits trite *item*hip cowgante* that lk« ' a .ts of tke saprsiu sfcatt net ttarcl In ' his skip. Tke tugpualthin ts tknt if I asytblag should happen ta tka skip, : ilia rapt sin ta*i«ad of atlsading la kta patrlte duty •« «14 foul* kit atteatlon aualatjr la the safety ef kta *»'* THE REPLY OF SPAIN. THE LONG f XPECTED DISPATCH FINALLY ARRIVES. -— It Coror* In Installment, amt Ocenplaa Many Ilnur* In Tran»ml**lnn—Snc rnla ry Porter Decline* to Make Public a Ntaleiueut of It* Content*—The Mat ter Will Heat Until Congr*** Assembles. t'ableiriam From Mlnl*ter Woodford. WASHINGTON. Oct, 28.- The event of the (toy at the Staid Department was t.ho rtcelpt of the long-expoctetl cablegram from United Stati-s Minister Woodford at Madrid transmitting the I answer of the Spanish government tc I his representations In the Interest of j iwace In Cuba. 'I his message liegan to I come in Installments it 2 o'clock this | morning, and It was nearly noon today | before It was all In. It was not the length of the mo-sigo that occupied the win s all the ttmo, but the fact | that It was all lu groups of figures and | that It was probably being filled In email hatches as It was turned into the complicated State Department cipher In Madrid. All of this work had to lie undone at the State Department, and the message translated from the <y |,lv>r I ack ngj.'n Into good Kngllsh. This occluded no 'ly all 'iy, so ths, it was 3:30 o’clock before the first, lopy of the nwsmgae was turned am It was not bo long In fact, there he v Inga tittle leas than 1,000 words In tho\ missngc, for Mr. Woodford, Instead of | '’aiding the whole of the Spanish un j irwer to tits note, had contented him self with reducing the mater to a brief outline. The first copy was taken at once to the president, not ladng cn j trusted to a inessongf r. but being d® IIval i d by Chief Clerk Michaels In per il hi at the w i i e house. After due opportunity had been | allowed the prcsl oil to rind Hie me - * nn unnllcM 1 Inn wan made for a ; statement of III i< ntents or nature. Tills was declined hy Secretary Pur ler and It was r ild that under no elr ‘ ' cii instance* would the correspondence j he made public before the considera tion of the cabinet, Krom official In formation that has reach* 1 certain of j fleer* In advance of Mr. Woodford's j message It Is evident that In neither ! language rr r subject matter Is the message likely to be taken c# offens-. Ive. It may la., It Is true, regarded as Insufficient to nice! the Issues pre sented by Mr. Woodford In Ills note, but officials of the State Department, ray that. In view of what, lias already been accomplished by the m w Spanish ministry an* cabinet In reforming a basis in Cuba, In removing Weyler and *"■ In projecting what, appear* to be a lib- » era! measure of autonomy, our govern ment will certainly rest, el least until congress assembles and nfford the new Hpanlsh government time to ca.rry out It* plana,_ COURTS CONFLICT. Tits llsllot Matter In low* Create* Some Trouble. DBS M0INB8. Ia., Oct, 28. -The su premo and district courts have come I in direct conflict over the ballot caae ami tomorrow will n « the alt nipt of the Polk county district court to en force un order In direct opposition to j ih< supreme court. The attorney general and auditor of | state, members of the (lection board, appeared before Judge Spurrier In dls I trlct court and were comm; tided to at ! once show why they should not bn at | j,ached and Jailed for contempt, in re vising to revise I he certificate i of nom ination as ordered by the court. At lorney General Rem If y asked till 5 o'clock to make a showing, which was granted. He went, direct to the su premo court and presented a petition for e, supersedeas to stay the lower court from committing the board to jail. This was heard by Justice I teem <r and the supersedeas granted. When 5 o’clock came the board failed to appear before Spurrier and the proceedings In supremo court be ing explained to him Judge Spurrier declared that the writ of the supreme court was worthless; that his own court had the right to enforce its or der and that he should not recognize the supersedeas. He Issued notice to the election board to appear before him at 9 o'clock in the morning and said ff they failed to do so he would flml means to compel attendance. He Is ex pcoted to commit them to Jail and then they will bring habeas corpus proceedings In supremo court for re lease. Secretary of State Dobson was not In court and the officer who searched for him reported that he was tielleved to have left the state to avoid the pro cess. • Vte*fr<«rrllnir |f»Hro»««l WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The Inter state commerce commission today. In opinions by Commissioner Prouty, an rutiinml Hpplttinnii in itm cuuoa nt iho Kentucky rallroeil coinmlaalon arilnit tho Cincinnati. New Orlonua a Tex a a Pacific Hallway company and the Southern R-itlwny company, and .1 A. C.uxtin n-itlavt the Illlnola Central Railroad Company and (then*. In the (lUNtln tune freight rate# from MotPiphin. New Orelana art other : aouthern and aotithweatern point* to Kearney, Neb,, matte up of rate* to and j from Omaha, wore alleged to Ite unr»a 1 aonalde, iinjuat und uni twful. hut no folnt through rale* were puhtlahed or bird. Th railroad rnntpmnle* either did or dtJ not admit that the ahlpment and carriage waa eonttnmma and no proof was «u Unit led by eontp'ntnant allowing that the carrier* make a through route in fa- i t>y their tour-re of ImatneiMi The drclaloii waa that the contnileaion k.ta no power to rompei a i through rate, and no lwia> of law or fai l kiting taeeu presented oyer whl-h the o-miii* liw Ml lorlatltclliin. tho et nipUtul ahould he tlhunlwnl Mrt Ptc OM l*< ► «r I W MtlllNUTtiN ttrt Jit Karllkak *» who rear tied ilbt tliarnw Irun a nrhioa In Havana waa the .. of honor at a dinner liven In kta honor to hta fellow newyptpvr wwrhan of " »-«hiMgto» lienee ai iilve Vm>n J Cumntinga uf New York Mr IWfcar a let U*h*«a nueia *p»w» hew *»»*•* %• * Mft « l»t« * VY VSttINMTUN twt |« Cuaaul Mead at Tien Tain, »p u« te the Mat* ItepnrtnMrnt that d***i.»r* IMiigi** and Carter and • * H*a*tur laioM gr itted tn tea Tain tat,.her tt and pro* tended to tatla the t*db#n mp d»r
