W A S H IN G T O N
FOOD RUNNING SHORT
Dawson City and Fort Yukon
on Reduced Rations.
HAY8 JOHN LINDSAY OF OLYMPIA
Yukon PII**<1 High With Ice, Milking
Teaming by the River Route
an ImpoHibility.
Port Townsend, Dec. 28.— John
Lindsay, uf Olympia, Wash., who has
just arrived here from Dawson, says
that there will surely he starvation
there this winter.
Jfe examined into the food situation
in a thorough manner, lie says, and
after satisfying himself that there
would he starvation, he sold his outfit
and, in company with Frank Hailaiue,
of Olympia; Torn Ktoncy, of Victoria,
and Dot) Glynn, o f ¡Seattle, started out
on foot, each man drawing a sled carry­
ing about 140 pounds of provisions.
Lindsay says the Dawson |>eople de­
clare that there is no great amount of
food at Fort Yukon, us has been al­
leged. The river rose sufficiently and
remained open long enough to enable
toot] supplies to have been brought
from Fort Yukon, hud there been uuy
there, so the majority of the people at
Dawson refused to go down to the
camp, preferring to remain in Dawson.
Not more t Inin 800 or 4U0 people took
advantage of the trunaportat ion com­
pany’s offer to take the people to Fort
Yukon free o f charge.
When the miners at Dawson found
that no more provisions would reach
the town by the river route, they an­
nounced that a meeting would be held
to take steps for an apportioning of tho
provisions in the town. Those that
had plenty, they said, must share w ith
those who had not.
('aptain Constantino, of the North­
west mounted police, interfered, aud
total the miners that no such tiling
would he [«‘lim ited. The meeting was
not hold.
Lindsay says the output of the mine-
will ho greatly curtailed this winter
because of the scarcity of food and
light. Coal oil sold for $15 a gallon,
and candles as high as $150 per box of
100. Even if men am able to work
their claims, tliej cannot get light to
do HO.
These statements are borne out by
all returning Klondikers, quite a num­
ber of whom have reached here in the
[last week.
Few of them, however,
tako as gloomy a view o f tiie situation
us does Lindsay.
Dr. It. L. Bradley, o f Busehurg,
Or., hhjs that food is scarce, hut l.e
does not think that there will be actual
starvation. Neither do \V. B. King,
of Merced, Cal.; I’ . ,1. Holland, of
Butte, M ont.; Thomas Stoney, of V ic­
toria, or Robert Glynn, of Seattle, all
of whom arrived this week from Daw­
son. Most of them left there Novem­
ber 2.
Aitan eivdence of the scarcity of food
in Dawson, Lindsay relates tho case of
Dr. Van Sants, formerly of Spokane.
Van Hants is an elderly man, und lie
ing without provisions or money, lie
offered a gold watch for a sack of
flour. He could not get it, and he re­
marked to Lindsay:
“ God only knows how I am to keep
body and soul together.”
\
Lindsay says 200 or more utii eis aie
prospecting at the mouth of Stewart
river, but us yet. it Is not know n what
success they have achieved.
Henderson n eck , five miles below
Stewart river, and 40 miles from Daw -
sou, is a promising Stream that is lieiug
developed this winter. The Weather
about the Stewart and Big Sainton
rivers has been bitterly cold, 70 degrees
below aero being recorded at Major
Walsh’ s camp, 12 miles below the Big
Salmon, on November 17.
The Yukon river between Dawson and
Fort P el'v, froze completely over No­
vember 18. The river is piled full of
ice it; great ridges, as high as an ordi­
nary house, and a roadway will have
to he cut through it before the dog or
horse teams can operate upon it. The
outlook, therefore, for taking supplies
down to Dawson in the immediate fu ­
ture is not good.
Inspector of Minos McGregor left
here a week ago with a number of dog
teams and horses to make the attempt
to reach Dawson with atiout 20 tons of
provisions, hut nothing has since been
beard of him.
ON LY
IN TEREST.
Tioverniurnt Hounded on* It« Attitude
TowHid Chiu».
Washington,Pe ‘.24.— It is understood
the authorities iiere have been utiofli-
aially sounded as to the attitude o f the
United States toward tliecompilcations
in the Far East, with the view of learn­
ing whether American interests in
China were regarded as sufficient to
warrant any active step by this govern­
ment.
From what source the inquiries have
come is not disclosed.
If from Great
Britain, they must have oorne through
Colonel Hay. the American ambassador,
as the British officials here have re­
ceived no instructions as to the Chinese
situation.
It is well understood, however, that
Great Britain would look with favor on
any active step by the United States
which would serve as a check for the
advances of Germany and Russia. The
British interests in China are ten times
greater than those of Germany, Russia
and the United States, and yet, with
Germany and Russia fit inly located on
Chinese soil. Great Britain is left in a
sort of cul de sac. It is known also
that the Chinese authorities would wel­
come a movement by tho United States,
and that this lias been communicated
to officials here.
Althrough these soundings, (or they
amount to nothing more as. yet, have
not taken official form, they iiave been
sufficient to gain a pretty general un­
derstanding as to the attitude of this
government.
This, in brief, is that
the United States lias no interest in
territorial extension /now going on in
China; that she will not land at any o f
the coast ports of China, as Germany
and Russia have done, and that her
only consideration is to guard <aab-
lished American interests in China.
3RADL
C R O SS IN G
ACCIDENT.
T w e n t y FerHon** I n j u r e d o n t h e
vi u n a H a i l r o a d .
T acita­
New York, Dec. 24.— Twenty persons
were injured, three perhaps fatally, at
a grade crossing on the Delaware, Lack­
awanna & Western railroad, between
Russian and Delaware, N. ,1., tonight.
They were in a stage which was struck
by a train. That any of them escaped
is regarded as a miracle.
All the victims are employed in tho
Wothern & Aldrich m ill, at Delawana,
two miles from Passiuo.
They ride to
and from their work in a big covered
stage. There were ¡iff persons crowded
into the stage tonight.
The party re­
lieved the monotony of the trip hv
singing, and it was not until the horses
were on the truck that the engine was
seen by the driver. Tho driver struck
iiis homes sharply witli the witip, and
they leaped forward, and then stopped
abruptly as the gate closed on theother
side of the track.
The locomotive
struck the stage almost in the middle,
hurling it several feet ahead, then
struck it again, throwing it from the
track. The occupants of the stage were
scattered in all directions.
ACT W AS JUSTIFIABLE
Colonel Ruiz a Victim o f His
Own Rashness.
DETAILS
OF
THE
EXECUTION
(itHut-gentrt Were Forced to Kill Him
to Maintain the Integrity
o f Their Lawn.
New York, Dec. 24.— T. Esfra«la
Palma, of tiie Cuban junta, made the
following statement last night:
“ Tl le death of Colonel Ruiz did not
occur ns tiie Spanish have put it, while
lie was negotiating as a peace messen­
ger under a flag of truce. Again and
again have tiie Cubans promulgated a
law that all who came to them with
peace propositions not based on tiie in­
dependence of Cuba, should he treated
as spies and be dealt with accordingly.
Colonel Rniz knew of the existence of
tiie law, and according to tiie Spanish
accounts was personally warped as to
iiis fate.
-‘ ‘ General Blanco and Secretary-Gen­
eral Congosto, too, were well aware of
tiie existence of the decree. Neverthe-
'ess, these latter took advantage of tiie
mforturiate Quixotism of Colonel Ruiz
and sent him to the Cuban lines. The
blood of Colonel Ruiz is not on the
hands of tiie Cubans, hut upon the
Heads of Blanco and Congosto, who
lent him to his fate. If tiie oenelty of
the law had not been i.,rried into
•Beet, doubtless Spain would have
taken advantage of tho fact to show
that the Cubans were not in earnest in
their rejection of autonomy absolutely,
hut were willing to listen to arguments.
“ This decree was not promulgated
because Cubans are afraid o f disaffec­
tion in tiieir ranks, hut because it is
known that innumerable commission­
ers would otherwise lie sent, and on
their return make false statements, rn-
luiiiaging the belief that peace might
lie established on a basis other than in-
lependence.
Snell statements would
only serve tiie interests of Spain in
gaining time with tiie resulting death
if thousands, owing to the useless pro­
longation of the war.
“ Beffdes, tho Cubans are advised
that the Spanish are seeking to enter
tho insurgent lines with tiie purpose of
assassinating tiie more important lead­
ers. Documentary proof of this fact is
it: our hands and we are tiie more can-
tic ns when we remember that in IS?!]
G moral Blanco authorized General
Folavieja, in Santiago de Cuba, to ex­
ecute an many unarmed Cubans as the
latter thought necessary as an example.
“ It is somewhat remarkable that
with tho first news of thedeatb of Ruiz
came the announcement of the killing
of over 40 insurgents found in a hos­
pital, and not a voice was raised to pro­
test thereat. The shooting of Cuban
prisoneis bv the score passes almost
without comment; tiie thousands of
wounded Cubans slain in hospitals at­
tract but little notice. According to
all tile laws of civilized warfare, tiie
Cubans, from the beginning, hud the
right to retaliate in Kind, but they
never have done so. (in tiie contrary,
all prisoners taken by them were set
at liberty and the wounded attended to.
"W e are denied by tiie entire world
status as belligerents, and might there­
fore claim tiiat we have no obligations
to conduct the war as belligerents, lint
we do not intend to take this stand.
The conditions obtaining in Cuba and
the character of the Spanish, demand,
however, that we take the necsessary
measures to speedily terminate tiie war
by convincing the world that independ­
ence alone can satisfy us.
We accord­
ingly issue a decree and solemnly warn
tiie Spaniards of its enactment. If, de­
spite tiiis warning, th«*y persuade a
limn to he rash enough to come to us to
treat on the basis o f autonomy, we
must either acknowledge that our laws
are made only to be broken, or lie eotn-
I«died by a painful dutv to carry them
•lUt."
HATCHET.
MAY DIO UP THE HATCHET.
______ lsk_
ludiau Territory Brave» Ready to Go
on the Warpath.
Chicago, Dec. 23. — A special to the
Ti men-Hera Id from Washington says:
Trouble in the Indian territory is ex­
pected by tiie commissioner of Indian
affairs and by others who are familiar
with the condition of affairs there. On
January 1 tiie tribal courts will he
abolished by an act passed at the last
session of congress, and the United
States courts given full jurisdiction
over the territory. In many quarters
tiie officers of the Indian ‘oouita have
delared that they will forcibly resist all
efforts to prevent them from doing
business. Tiie United States marshals
have given notice that any tribal courts
attempting to sit, and those assuming
to conduct them will be arrested.
A delegation of eight Ohergkees,
seven of them full-bloods, is now in
the city. A few» days ago they pre­
sented a memorial to caagress asking
that the law he rescinded, but congress
has now adjourned without action, and
when it again convenes the Indian
courtH will he out of existence.
Meanwhile tiie subcommittee of the
senate committee on Indian affairs,
appointed to consider the problem pre-
sented in tiie territory, practically de­
cided to recommend an amendment to
ttie law applying to tiie apportionment
of all lands held by tiie five civilized
tribes among tiie members of these
tribes, and also an amendment pro­
viding that all valid leases shall bo
recognized by tiie government of tiie
United States and the money paid on
account of them covered into tiie treas­
ury of the United States for the benefit
of the various tribes.
The Dawes commission has reported
its failure to oome to any conclusion
with tiie Indians. Such agreements
as Iiave been concluded vary so in their
provisions, that, in view of the fact
that eventually a uniform system of
government must ho provided for In­
dian
territory, it is
questionable
whether any of the agreements should
lie definitely ratified by congress until
the desired and necessary uniformity
can lie reached.
Secretary Bliss thinks no government
will be satisfactory until congress shall
provide for a single uniform system of
laws for tiie Indian territory tiiat shall
place all its inhabitants in possession
of tiie rights of American citizenship.
JUMPED
FROM
A WINDOW.
F x - S e c r e ta r y H e r b e r t '» D a u g h t e r
m its S u i c i d e .
Com ­
Three l>e«ths Iteniilied.
Altoona, Pa., Dec. 28.— As a result
of last night’s freight wreck, caused by
a runaway train on the Pennsylvania
road, three men lost thoir lives, and
damage to the amount of #75,000 was
done to tho rolling stock. The dead
are: 8. Kuster, Charles J. Ntimer and
8. C. Corbin. Three locomotives, four
passenger coaches and 28 loaded freight
cars were w reck««!.
Washington. Dec. 28.— Miss Lelia
Herbert, daughter of tiie ex-secretary
of tiie navy, died at her home in this
city tiiis morning, us the result of a
fall from tiie third story of her home
on New Hampshire avenue, in tiie most
fashionable part of tho city.
The sudden deatli and tiie tragic
features surrounding it were a great
shock to the large circle of friends site
had made in Washington.
Her death was traceable indirectly
to an accident while horseback riding
in her native state, Alabama, about
two months ago. This morning she
was unusually bright and cheerful.
Shortly before 10 o ’clock she dressed
to go down stairs, but instead of de­
scending went to a rear room of tiie
third story, from which she fell, sus­
taining injuries which caused her
death.
The death was reported to police
headquarters as a case of suicide, due
to melancholy aud temporary aberra­
tion of mind as the result of a long
illness.
Miss Herbert was the eldest of ex-
Secretary
Herbert’s three children,
und was a charming figure in Wash­
ington society. Socially she was ex­
ceedingly popular, and her presenco
was sought at all gatherings.
Her so­
cial triumphs here were repeated in
Europe, whore she went to attend the
great naval demonstration at Kiel.
Within the past year she lias not en­
joyed robust health, hut this only in
duced her to redouble her devotion to
out-of-door sports and exercises, and it
was while regaining her health by out­
door riding tiiat site met with tiie ac­
cident tiiat indirectly resulted in her
MEASURE OF PRECAUTION.
death.
Tiie coroner returned a verdict of
A New Fight on UusHiaN Occupation of
suicide through temporary insanity.
Fort Arthur.
As the facts were clear, he decided tiiat
Faris, Dec. 24.— The Paris corre­ an nquest was unnecessary.
spondent of the Cologne Gazette tele­
Tli© Turk Apologized.
graphs that paper that lie learns on re­
Constantinople, Dec. 23. — It appears
liable authority that tiie Russian occu­
pation of Port Arthur was connected that when tiie United States steamer
with the visit there o f the Britisli war­ Bancroft arrived at Smyrna on the
ship Daphne a week ago,when, in spite night o f December 2, site was greeted
of the protests of tiie Chinese, the with a blank cannon shot and rifle
Daphne entered. Tiie Daphne entered bullets from the fort of Venikle. A
the inner hnrbor illegally to ascertain boat sent from the warship to ask for
whether or not there were Russian an explanation was fired upon and
to return.
Thereupon the
ships there. China complained of the forced
incident to the representatives of the American admiral lodged »protest with
the United States minister here, Dr.
power* at Peking.
The Britisli far eastern squadron is A ngell.w bo demanded the punishment
said to be at Talicoan, and according to of the guilty parties and an apology
the correspondent quoted, shortly ex­ from tiie Turkish government, which
was given Sunday. In addition two
pected at Port Arthur.
Turkish officers were dimissed and sen­
The Cologne Gazette regariis the oc­
tenced to a week’s imprisonment.
cupation as merely a continuance of the
co-operation of Germany with Russia
T h e N ew p ort at G reytow n .
in Eastern Asia.
Washington, Dec. 23.— A dispatch
from Greytown, Nicaragua, announces
H a r v a r d * » 01<le»t G r a d u a l « .
the safe arrival at tiiat port o f the gun­
Boston, Dec. 23. — William Gordon boat Newport writh the members of the
Prince, who was the oldest living grad­ Nicaraguan canal commission on hoard.
uate of Hai van), is dead at his home in All the members of the party were well
River Place, Dedham. He was horn in and the voyage had been pleasant and
enjoyable.
Boston at «nit 94 yeats ago.
Fog In FoglanA.
Lynn. Maas., Deo. 23.— The Rev. J.
London, Dee. 88.— Heavy fogs pre­ M. Pullman, brother of Hie late George
vailed in the district o f London and M. Pullman, had a very narrow escape
over the British channel, the Mersey, •from deatli in the Boston A Maine sta-
the Clyde aud the Tyno. There have I tioti last night. He drove into the sta-
been numerous shipping accidents, and j non just as the Lnckport express was
innoh inconvenience has been caused pulling out. He jumped for itan.i loat
to traffic by delags and stop|>ages. It his balanoe and fell beneath the step,
ia feared that several lives have been rolling onto the track. A young man
saw him fall and grabbing him pulled
' him off tho track, the wheel* just
were first usod ir 1114 by ' graaing hia shoulder. The doc tar was
1 very much shaken up
Durrant Still Fighting.
Washington, Dec. 24. — Commis­
San Francisco, Dec. 22.— The father
sioner Evans, o f the pension bureau, is
a strong advocate of the policy of pub­ : of Theodore Durrant, the condemned
lishing the entire list o f persons who | murder, says:
“ We have not given op the fight for
draw pensions from the government.
He expects that a bill for this purpose my son's life. We will try to get a
will be introduced in <x>ngrees when it writ of erior from the state supreme
reassemble« in January. A recommend­ a urt to the United States supreme
ation that a list be publisbad was made court. If this ia denie«i we can go d i­
by the commissioner in his annual re- rect to the latter court and make the
poit. as he expressed the belief that it application. That ia, if we can raise
would be particularly valuable for the thw money, for the expense o f this liti­
gation hae impoverished oa. ”
Me o f u a tu in eis in the fieid.
I '.iir j'. N>»t Trip.
New York, Dee. 28.— A dispatch to
tiie World from Washington says:
Lieutenant it. E. Peary, tho Arctic ex­
plorer, who returned from England on
the S t Paul, immediately u|«>n his ar­
rival in New York, took tiie train for
Washington. Lieutenant Peary tonight
was enthnsisatic over his reception in
F-ngland, and tiie gift to bint by Alfred
C. Uarmsworth. tiie wealthy English­
man, o f the Windward, a fine ship,
which the explorer will use in his trip
to the A rctic next year. Mr. Harms-
worth also furnished funds for the ex­
pedition. Lieutenant Peary said tiie
Windward will Ire sent to New York
early in the spring, and he will start
north the latter part of July. Lieuten­
ant Peary starter! for New York tonight
to finish work on his narrative which
ia in the publisher's hands.
ál'JA
OU R
COUN TY
BEHRING
SEA
\rl»itrat<>i-H A g r e e o n
Utili
AWARD.
the
A m o u n t C an *
< luillM'll.
Ottawa, Dec 2 4.— The government
has received a communication front tho
arbitrators appointed to deal with the
claims of the Behring sea sealers
against the United States government
(or losses caused by tho seizure of their
vessels, submitting the award. Tiie
arbitrators were Judge King of tiie su­
preme court of Canada, und Judge Put­
nam of tiie United States. The award
is $ 1)14,000, with two reserved cases,
those of the Black Diamond for $5,000,
mid tiie Alia for $1,000. It will lie re-
lnenihoied that in 1800 tiie United
States offered $400,000, and Canada
claimed $460,000. Afterward, a com­
promise was reached, and tiie amount
placed at $425,000, but congress refused
to vote that sum. Tiie piescnt award
is virtually what Canada agreed to ac­
cept, wit It interest.
Amt Now ii Milk Trust.
Chicago, Dee. 24.— A special to tiie
Tribune from New York says: A milk
trust lias been incorporated with a cap­
ital of $16.000.000.
The articles of
incorporation have been tiled. John D.
Gilmer, the promoter of tiie shew com­
pany, is a rich baker of 203 Greenwich
street. He formed the famous corpora­
tion known as the New York Biscuit
Company. Mr. Gilm er and his asso­
ciates have been busy for over a year
in organising tiie new company. His
son, W P. Gilmer, says they will be­
gin business at once. He says lie has
control o f tiie milk delivery of over
1,000 wagons, and that a large major­
ity of the milkdealers of the oitv are in
tiie
corporation.
Three hundred
creameiies and 800 retail companies
who deliver milk to consumers are to
lie consolidated in one great company.
The present price o f milk ia six cents,
and Gilm er says the trust could do
business at a profit by selling at three
cents a quart.
“ Alas. I cannot tell. We parted I
*g °"
„
"But to thee wast given her soul i,
Oh. don’t I love my lady •
Mm-m-m-m! You ought to see
bring to the throne o f God. What r '*
thou to say?”
How she comes out to meet me
Ami goes wandering off with me.
"I huve nothing to say.’’
With her cheek* so like a blossom
"The love o f all the world d w e tlj
And her neck so like the snow e-
beyond these gates. Hast th,.u love?
Oh. don't I love my litt'e girl1
plead thy cause?”
M in in!—Nobody knows'
“ I left the earth because the ea
w us full o f sorrow. My trouble
Oh. don’t 1 love my Indy?
greater than I could bear."
Mm-m-m-m! You ought to hear
“ You fled from pain - but God aid i
The little iinine she rails me
When she whispers iu m i ear,
call thee here. God hail appointed the*
y\qth her eyes so bright and dancing
a precious tusk. T o those alone wh
Till my heart u-putter got*»—
pass through the furnace of living |
Oh, don’t I love my little girlV
can the crown o f peace be given. Wo
M-m-m!—Nobody knows!
1 might help
* thee, but - uone
........*
' “an
*•■ a*
sa«« '
-New York Frees.
tiiee now. As thou forsiwk thy trust,
has thy God forsaken thee.”
Then lie knew his worst forcbodlngi
THE VOICE OF GOD.
were fulfilled. He stretched out his
arms and would have cried for mere;
N the cold of a - Inter » but heaven grew dim and far M aS
night, beneath the yel- and with it the sad face of the gp
3 low glare of a city lamp, vanished forever from ills sight. ¡ _
'a tall man stwid with a a cold, bitter blast rushed down tm
little weary child.
him and he was cast shuddering i
A cruel wind blew the his face.
rain around them. It
*
*
•
•
•
* - *
dashed it into the man's
"Daddy, daddy, wake!”
face, so that it trickled
With a start the sleeper opened hi*
down his chin aud fell eyes and looked up. On the seat when
1,iii
lukiiti
ia?iviip
Liu
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on the brown head try­ lie 1 had
been lying
ills l little
buy had
ing to cuddle against his climbed and was now tugging with all
coat.
his small might nt iiis father's coat and
A feeble cry broke
[leering down horror-stricken into hit
ery now and then from face.
tiie little fellow—n cry of protestation
the
"O, daddy, daddy! I’ ve finished all
anil alarm.
“ Daddy—D addy—cruel my prayers—hut you wouldn’t wake -1
and
1 I
H
m o b o
i r m i v i'o b r v t tf
make
you
wake!
Daddy.
Take me home—take me couldn't
“ Never mind, my little darling—ntiei
home!”
A shudder shook the man from head mind it now. W e’ re going home-
to foot. A sob rose In iiis throat—he going home— we’ re to go hack b lome
oi -
could not speak. Iiis arms went mor<> after all. O. Sammy, Sammy!”
closely round the little body leaning
against him, and lie began to move on
Stiff later, hut on the same night
slowly und to mix with tin* crowd.
man footsore and weary, sat by a win
“ Daddy, daddy, take me home!”
«low, watching.
“ Ah, Christ!”
In the same room, on a chair,
"It was not nn oath, but the pitiful, rolled round with a blanket, was a
appealing cry of a broken spirit. The tie hoy sleeping heavily. Close to
man iu him was crushed and tortured; fire was an empty porridge bowl,
his heart was bleeding itself to (loath. over tiie back of a chair some cli
Love for his wife and child had given had been spread out to dry.
this Tnan a soul. Evil passions had
The night crept on and tiie gray da
burnt themselves out before the tire of came, but the watcher had not inovi
that pure devotion; a mighty tender­ and the blind was not drawn down.
ness had sprung up with the light
But what he was waiting for came
his baby’s eyes. ,
last.
Wonderful future schemes for the
A shadow crossed tho window, a loi
happiness o f mother and child had hut certain cry o f pain disturbed
tilled iiis leisure moments and made silence of the street outside.
the music of iiis lift*. He had worked
Then tiie man ros«>, and, B M _
bravely and cheerfully, he had been slowly to the door, opened It very wldi
tender and true und patient, and his At iiis feet on the step a woman croacl
love had taught him to pray.
ed and moaned. When he spoke
He had been at peace—and happy.
lifted up a hard, despairing face
And now his heart was broken.
"Nell!”
The cruel wind blew the rain round
“ I’ m going—I’ m going at once,
them and daghed it coldly into their never meant to come, hut smoothing
faces; but other drops that were not tin* child-----’’
rain fell on the curly head of the child.
“ lias he left you?”
When a brave man weeps there are
“ Yes. I'm glad o f It. though.”
tears of blood that well up from his
“ What are you going to do?'
heart and blind iiis eyes; and no power
“ To live, you mean? O, there
on earth can heal tin* wound below.
ways—it don't matter—I’m past
The fretful wail of a iittle voice, the ting for. you know.” Theik
frightened clutch of chubby fingers you’ ve been good to tne always—i
only made the agony more Intense. lie good to tiie child, now tl
There Is no peace to he found in any­ now-----
“ It's crtld out here—you’re shiv
thing when despair first rushes with all
too. lass—ther«*'s it fire inside." f
its force into it human soul.
But the woman staid on her
“ I want my mother!”
“ Baby—haven’t I told you—you’ve no clinging weakly to the hands pot
help her up.
mother!”
"R ob—R ob!
You don't meaft
The noise and the glare are left be-
hind at last. There is a long, silent you're dreaming Rob! Why. I ve
street and a narrow bridge, and dark yer heart—I know I’ve broken
water creeping beneath. Here there is can’t never come hack here. I
was dead!” '
quiet to think in at last.
But the man was strong and
By the edge of the wall is a seat cut
in tiie stone. The man sits down in raised her in his arms.
“ Nell—it’ll be hard—mighty
one corner of it, and after looking care­
fully to make sure that the boy sleeps for both o f us—but we’ll try, 0oa
turns round so that he can watch the ing us! An’ Nell— there’s a little i
inside waiting to be put to botj-J
deep water below.
“ It will be mortal cold,” lie tells him­ rolled In a blanket—we couldnt
self, “ and awful just at first. But then his shirt. * * *”
On the floor of the cottage ft
it will soon lx* over, and better and
easier than years of pain. Cod would and woman knelt together
punish him o f course, but only him. He yearningly into each other s
wool? understand how sorely lie had eyes—and round each neck was
been tempted, and he would not make ing little arm, and a sleepy
the punishment too hard. He would was the only sound they heard.-
let him he with Ills boy at last. Hadn't cago Tribune.
they only got each other?”
F ln tu k litu o f Y en yln ch icM rt
The child hioved uneasily, and the
The Pekin Gazette of June
man bent over him caressingly, anx­
tains a memorial from the Ohio
ious even at such a moment that noth­
oral in command at Kuldja, ai
ing might be the matter. He peered
emperor to snnetlou an avatar. W
at tiie closed lids and pushed some hair
tain ruler—named Kung-niu p*
hack very tenderly from the high, moist
the «unperor in the ’60s, when tr
forehead.
luimmedan rebels had overrun i
‘‘«¡oil bless him,” he thinks. Then,
country round. He has died, f
“ he sent him this sleep, he didn't mean
mu-pa-ju-p’u-chun held la
him to know.' It will be just like going
to bed for him, but with a beautiful Mongol tribes among whom Ml
are anxious to have him oa«t
morning at the end.”
among them. At their request,!
Iu a minute It should be done.
ingly, the memorialist “beW
special edict may be lssue” *
It was terribly cold. Like stabbing permission to the heroic
Ice. and being drawn down into a great to l«*come an avatar—la
crack. But after the rush and horror that his spirit be permitted oy^
o f it the stillness entne, and then dark­ grace of the throne to beet-™
ness. aud space, and solitude.
boffled, to serve again the
It was lonely in tills Valley of Shad­ nasty for the preservation
ow. But when it was past there was fought so valiantly.” The eo«
a new light everywhere.
Rents, and appoints him,
The spirit of tills man watched and llutu kh tu o f the M onastery ‘ J
waited. He lmd lost Ills child in the cblchenhun.—London Saturday
valley, but did not doubt he made one
T he R ic h '* » Tow«* ■
o f the many radiant beings gliding
The richest town In ,b* ,
quickly past him with their heavenly
is Brookline, near Boston,
guides.
At the end of a long time he reached tlon Is 17.000, and valuation
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tiie shining gates, and through the bars yet It is governed ,liro°*
he heard sweet music and caught New England town mcctinft J
public library containing • •
glimpses of an eternal paradise.
Such rejoicing he had dreameu of ttmes. a $300.000 high
sometimes when on earth, but It free bathing establishment. ^
brought him no p«*ace or comfort now. $100,000 a year on its P * " .
He stood motionless, waiting and f a r ­ shaded streets. Boston
ing he knew not what, when his eyes annex It. but Breoklln*
lighted on a child angel standing near on as It la.
the gate, and In that pure and lovely
A ntith etical Ad»
countenance he recognized hia son.
Somebody give* tbe fo
But the Joy that leaped Into hia face
thetical advice: “ Drink
faded ns suddenly as It came. There
more; eat leas, chew
Mas a great and terrible reproach In walk more; clothe w
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the eyes that met his own—the sadness
worry less, work
there could hare made him weep.
more; write leas, rent*
"Where Is my mother?"
practice more.’
“ I know not—how could I know? I
left her long ago upon the earth.”
No woman
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Shadow since. Where la she now?”
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