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
