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/ | IN THE CI pf A NARRATIVE C 5jS By SEWARD " GXK (COPTBIGnT 189s. BY K( CHAPTER I. ' STARTING OUT IN THE WORliD. It may have been indigestion or it may have been lonesomeness. The coffee did not taste as it should. Either it lacked aroma, or I lacked appreciation of it. I sat at the table, idly watching the people come and go. Some would rush in as if all of life must be crowded into the next halfhour, hastily give an order, swallow the meal when it came as if mastication was one of the last acts of their lives, and rush out again. Those people evidently begrudged the time it took to pay the bill. Others would saunter leisurely in, tcan the entire place with a cool, scrutinizing stare, pick out the table promising tbe most elbow room and calmly await the ar rival of their cnuner. . It was at noon. I bad finished my midday meal in a restaurant in San Francisco, and sat ^thinking, not very placidly, of the scenes around me, and also of my uncertain prospects in a certain game called "life," in which I was about to start as a professional man. I had just graduated from the Ann Arbor Medical College, and equipped with my diploma, a few hundred dollars and what of experience and hope attaches to twenty-aix years of age, I had come West to build up a practice. I had bnt recently reached the Golden Gate of the great Western slope, and had spent the first few days "seeing things." But now I had had my fill of idleness. I was anxious to get to work, both for the pleasure of occupation and the financial emoluments thereof, of which I would soon be in need. I was practically alone in the world. $ It bad not been so up to tbe Becond year of my college life. My father was a merchant 01 St. Lonis. He was very fond of me. He and I were all that were left of a small family. He had generously provided for me during my school-days, and been extremely liberal as to my allowance after I entered the university. But he succumbed to a, sudden attack of pneumonia, leaving me entirely alone. He left no large estate. After settling up his affairs, I found myself with enough money to comfortably see me through college and leave to me the little I now possessed as "working capital." I had not yet opened an office. That was to be my work that afternoon; so, shaking off the somewhat morbid spirit that had come over me, I paid my bill, and strolled out of the restaurant. I had noticed in some of my walks through and around the city that in the northern suburb, where many new i houses were being built, there were | comparatively few physicians' signs. In this direction I turned my steps. I did not know a soul in San Francisco, save those whose acquaintance I had made during my present short sojourn. But I was full of the pluck of youth. My ambition was to become a successful practitioner and, some time, to be the owner of one of the beautiful fruit ranches that make. California famous. I experienced little difficulty in securing an office. The rent, after all, was a trifle higher than I had expected to pay; but, after something of a search among dingy and ill-ventilated places, I fell in with the good-natured janitor of a fine new flat, who offered me at what was really a reasonable figure the four front rooms of the first floor. This would leave him and his wife the four rear rooms?all they needed for their comfort. The rooms were finely decorated aud well lighted; and as fiats were something of a novelty in San Francisco, I paid a deposit and concluded the bargain, reasoning, to myself that the very novelty of itself would serve as an advertisement. I expended four hundred dollars in getting my new abode furnished. The front room, which, if occupied by a family, would be the parlor, I furnished neatly but not expensively as a reception and waiting-room; next to this my consulting and operating-room; then a small, cosy affair of a library, in which I stored my bookp, instruments, cabinets, skeletons, relics and the various trophies incident to student life. I had a good lot of books, of which I was very proud. Part of them were in?r1i/?a1 wnrku T hail tmrchiised dur ing my coilege career, but the greater portion of them had been my father's. Back of the library was my bedrjom. Having arranged these things to my satisfaction, after a careful survey, I # considered myself the best-located physician on the hill. I listened with a degree of pride to the laudatory remarks of my friend, the jafii4or, and his estimable wife, who fain would believe me already on the road to professional glory. In fact, I had yet to earn my first dollar. Next door to my flat a motheriy sort of woman kept a boarding-house. Acting upon the advice; freely given, of the janitor, I made an engagement at this boarding-iiouse to take my meais there. Nothing could exceed the pride with which 1 contemplated the perfecting of nay plans. The last thiug in the completion thereof was a sign, which I had already ordered of a brassworker downtown. I gazed with pardonable pride at the shining affair when I had screwed it to the doorpost. It seemed to me the most ornamental finishing that my landlord, whoever he was, could ha\ e for his apartment house. I stood off and studied it. ; read it alou<l. "It looks all right and sounds all light," I said to myself with gratifica1ion. It read thus: ARCHIBALD CRICKMORE, ' I-EYS;C1AX AND SCEGEOX. * TT/>?t?0. ( 10 a. no. to lp.m. : . I virncx Houns: . c ^ a Z | b n. re. to 8 p. ID, tfI\TA CCA I Lim/\ oLf/i | ?F ADVENTURE. || W. HOPKINS. )BERT BONNEB'8 SOKB.) "That will leave me time in which to make my calls?if I ever have any to make," I said hopefully to the janitor. who had come to admire my sigu "You'll make plenty of calls, doctor, never you fear," he replied, rubbing his hands in gleeful anticipation of my coming greatness. "I hope so, I assure you, Hr. Robbins." "Oh, you will! I know it! You see this is a star location. No mistake about that. Why, there's old Doctor Baldwin, who has been here twenty years. That old fellow, sir, just rolled up wealth. But he never had no such office as this. That I'll bet on. And then, you see, the advantage you have. When you are dashing around making them calls, my old woman, in a white apron, answers the bell and says: 'Oh, you want to see the doctor? Well, come right in and wait. I think ne will be here soon, but Lord knows, poor man, he is worked to death. He is busy all the time.' Eh? How would that sound? Or something like this: 'Your little boy sick? My, my! But that's bad! But the doctor will be in soon, and I will send him right around before he lets his man unharness ins norser Eh? Well I guess!" I laughed at his picture?especially the horse. "lam announced, at any rate," 1 said,amod$atly. "And if no one sees fit to employ me, it will certainly not be my fault." "Faujd! 'Pshaw! I see the money pouring into your pockets now," replied the sanguine janitor. "It must be an edifying sight," I answered. "It would do my eyes good to see it?just once." Returning to my library, I took down "Gross on Surgery," and soon became deep in its interesting pages? that is, as deep as I could be with my ears waiting for the tinkle of my bell ?the sound that would first announce the beginning of my career, ^ ' CHAPTER H. A MIDNIGHT MYSTEBY. Despite the predictions of my friend, the janitor, I had not stumbled into a mine of wealth in my new abode. I did not find the populace waiting with outstretched arms to welcome into their circle that mo3t distrusted of all men, a young physician. Success, if such a thing existed for me, was coming very much as success always comes, - with slow and lagging steps. It is true, now and theu I had a call. Not much of a call, generally, but nevertheless, -a call. A servant burnt her hand, and 1 attended the injured member?for which service I was never paid. A hostler in a stable on Nob Hill was kicked in the kcfee, and I replaced a dislocated' patella. A Chinaman, rushing around late on Saturday night with laundry-work for his patrons; slipped and fell. The weight of his basket, together with the shock, broke his arm. With a fearful ado he was brought to me, and the fracturei bone was successfully set. For this, as for everything else I ever did for " *1 : T ms Class in can irauuiocu, ? woo pmu in cash, consisting of ten-cent pieces and nickels. These are fair samples of the work I did during my first three or four months in San Francisco. I had plenty of time for reading, and I greedily devoured the latest novels and books of travels. A portion of each day I managed to spend in study. I was not a reclusc. " My nature demanded companionship. And in pursuit of this I met with a steadier growth of success than in the practice of my profession. "Within a few blocks of my office there was a magnificent church, where the singing was grand, the music superb and the preaching very modern. Here I was wont to betako myself Sunday morning, and sit calmly aud quietly, restfully listening to the peals of the great organ, as, under a master hand, it sent forth melodyunsurpassed. I had always made a point of dressing well. I did not go in for fads; I was not a walking fashion-plate; but my clothes were stylishly cut and always fitted me. To be truthful and as modest as possible, permit me to say that I was tall, broad-shouldered and not bad-looking. At school I had beer an athlete, and now possessed, as relics of those days, sundry medals and prizes won in the athletic arena. That all thiB had anything to do with the pleasing reception I had in the Park Street Congregational Church, I would not be so unchristian as to believe?much less to hint. But, be it as it may, I was received. The pastor, a man not more tlian fifteen years my senior, welcomed me cordially into his circle. I respected the great truths expounded by my learned friend. My daily life and habits were not iu discord with a churchman's rule. I had no riccs; not* because my principles were so strongly against them, but I had inherited a rugged will from my father, and, like him, I considered a man who allowed himself to be controlled by vicious tastes a fool. My acquaintance continued gradually to grow. I knew plenty of young ladies, but I was not a ladies' man. I knew a large number of young men, some who like myself were but starting out in their chosen life-work, and 1 - ~ ~ ~ U?/1 *-? r\ 1-toar? nrrinrl Hilt. j UHJCI S WUU iiavi U\J u&bii vv who were the fortunate sons of wealthy i men. Nor was my acquaintance limited to the younger element of San Francisco society. I was the recipient of many gracious bows and handshakes from the substantial men and women of the Tark street congregation, some of whom lived in fine residences on Nob Hill. I also became a member of the Golden Gate Ciub, a club composed of many of the prominent and mo9t of the rising men of Han Francisco. In the comfortable club-rooms I spenl manv pleasant hours. I had beer proposed for membership by Arthu] Laugston, thrti a young lawyer, whos< success at the bar just about equalec my own success as a physician. Langston and I had met at some o the social gatherings, in which I was 1 "* * X ~ +A fan' DeglQIJlUg IU UO (Ji, au ivoou, ?%, like?a fumiliar figure. My lega friend was possessed of no more o: this world's goods than I was. But being a shrewd, capable fellow, hii practice gradually began to shov signs of life. Langston was a gay man at least, his mind was always at ease and he took a humorous view of life, He was a favorite with all who knew him. I regarded him in the light of c brother. On our evenings at the Gol den Gate Club, Langston and I coulc almost invariably be found at the sam< table. When I was not at the Golden Gat< or attending to my professional dutiei or lounging in my comfortable office, reading, my unoccupied moment.' were generally spent talking to another new friend, Phister by name, who kept a well-appointed drug-stor? near my office. He was a good fellow, somewhat prosy, it is true, but, on the whole, an agreeable companion. My associates at the boardinghouse remained almost strangers tc me, for I was there very little. ] generally got my breakfast there, and sometimes my lunch, but Langston and I were extravagant enough to partake of our dinner at the Goldec Gate. Langston had more of my confidence than any other person in San Francisco. If the time ever cam< when I needed legal assistance, Lang ston wa3 the lawyer, of all lawyers whom I would favor with my dis tinguished patronage. And he, if h? needed medicine, would come to me. But neither of us needed the other. Many and many a time did we lingei over our coffee and plan brilliantly for the future; and when the walls oi our castles became dangerously high, we would tumble them down with a laugh and find companions for a whist table. * Matters progressed in this way foi nearly a year. Gradually my litfch practice grew, and with care I coult live within my income. My circle o friends slowly increased as well, and ] began to feel myself in a sphere whicl might in time become a useful as well &' a paying one. My main ambition nov was to have a practice that wouh enable me to lire wen ana Keep i span of fast horses. It looked verj business-like, I thought, for a doctoi to be seen driving furiously througl tb9 streets, as if the lives of hi: patients depended more ou the speec of his horses than on his skill. I expected no change in my plans I was anchored in San Francisco, ant expected to spend my life there. i had heard and read of creatures o fortune, swept here and there by th< tide of unexpected events; but in mj prosaic, humdrum life thei-e was noth ing to indicate that such a fate was ir store for me. Perhaps it was better that it was so One dark night in December, afte: I had my dinner and made a few un important professional visits, I wa thrown on my own resources to pasi .away the time, by the fact that Langs ton had a very pressing business en gagement out of town. As was usua at 6uch times, I wandered inti Phister's. Phister was talkative, an< as that suited my mood, I sat musing unheeding the flight of time. Th wind began to blow, and the rail came down in torrents. "Crickmore," said Phister, peering from behind his colored bottles ou iuto the night, "this is the wors San Francisco has had in five years You are lucky not to be out in this." "Possibly," I said, with sonn doubts. "I am lucky to be in here and then again possibly I am not You forget that I have got to go out ii the rain to get home." "Not a bit of it, doctor. Just yot throw yourself down on the loungi back here in the office, and snor< away till morning. I wouldn't go ou to-nigfit for anybody." "Well, I'll see. But it's early yei ?only eleven o'clock. It may stoj by midnight." But it did not stop. If anything, ii got worse. At midnight. Phister be can to nrenare to leave for his apart meiit upstairs. While he was fussinj around with his lights, counting hii cash and straightening up shelves, sat dreamily looking at the rain. [to be continued.] "Children Not Allowed." I don't know whether you know i or not, but the owners of certain apart rnent houses here in town havo se themselves to undermine the founda tions of society by discouraging th< acqniring of families. If you have on< child they will receive you within thei: walls freely. If you have two chil dren they let you come in but the] eye you with suspicion, and if you an so extravagant as to possess three they'll none of you, and you'll haveHc apply elsewhere. Sometimes they art even stricter than this. A woman j know went to one of the brand-nev apartment honses and had a consulta tion with the janitor. "How many children have you?" h< demanded. "Two," she confessed, respectfully, "Can't take anybody with children,' said he. ' 'But all mine are grown and married and live away from home," she pro tested. "Can't help it," he replied. "Them's my orders. The owner told me not t( rent Hats to anybody that had chil dren, nud I can't rent you oue. It's against orders."?Washington Post. How III* Head Wan Situnted. The Youth's Compauion tells a storj of a woman on board ship who saw i ooilnv foil niul nio lmo/3 lidfllr was solicitous in her inquiries as tc bis welfare -when she saw the captaii that nigut, and would undoubtedly have continued her sympathy had no' a rough sea called to mind her owi sufferings. Four days later, whei she emerged, white and weak, fron her stateroom, she suddenly remem bered the poor sailor. In the coursi of the day she saw him, witb a strij of plaster on his forehead. "How ii your head?" she asked, kindly, as h< passed her bent on some duty. "Wes' by south, ma'am," -was the reply, de livered with respectful but hasty clear ness, Rad he was gone. ? : LAffTOHBACKATMASILA" r j General Otis Orders All the Towns Captured by Him Evacuated. OBJECTS OF ADVANCE ATTAINED, Return of the Expedition Resulting in the Capture of Santa Cruz?Several Gunboats Taken?Our Logo, Six Dead and Eleveu Wounded?General Law ion Prepares For Another Expedition. Manila (By Cable).?Mnjor-GeneralLawion bas returned with bis expedition to Manila, by order of General Otis, after svacuatinc the towns of Paete, Longos, Lumban, Pasasujan and Santa Cruz, from xrbich the rebels had been driven. \ * > MAJOH-OENEBAL H. W. lAWTOS. The objects of the expedition, namely, ; the capture of the Insurgents' boats and the distribution of the proclamation, emE phaslzed by a lesson of American powei throughout the lake region, have been ati 'alned. General Laxrton immediately began pre?*a + lsv*ta fr\m n r* ImnAffnn^ ATnAfl If {fin Oil ^aianvuo AV/A uu v^wv..... ? _ land. STORY or LAWTON'S ADV ANCE. He Captured Several Towns and Many Kebels Were Killed. With 1500 picked men, General Lawton and General King embarked In small boats on April 8. The expedition was composed of 200 sharpshooters from various regiments, Hawthorne's mountain battery. Gale's squadron, three troops of tho Fourth Cavalry, unmounted; Bronko's and Tappen's battalions of tbe Fourteenth Infantry, Linck's battalion of the Idaho regiment, and Frnlne's battalion of the North Dakota regiment. The small boats wero towed by the "Unclad" gun boats which were captured from the Spaniards. It was noon 8unday, April 9, when Santa Cruz was reached, but before nightfall it was in the hands of our troop?. Our loss was reported by General Otis as teD ; wounded, of whom one died. General KiDg was overcome by heat and had to bo sent i to a hospital. The official report or reoei9 killed was ninety-three, but it was later ' found that the enemy's loss in killed was - 160. On April 10 General Lawton advanced i alone the road which follows the shore ol the lake northward, capturing the towos of Pagsajan and Lumban. Six launches and two cascoes were captured on the L' lake. These are the vessels which nro to be . returned to their former Spanish owners In Manila. In this operation-no loss on the American side was reported. General s Lawton again advanced on April 12, drlv lng the rebels northward for twelve miles from Santa Cruz, taking the towns of Lon' gos and Paete. The American loss was Ave 1 killed and two wounded, and the rebel loss J was. heavy. j The American loss in the expedition is x six dead and eleven wounded. Possibly ' two hundred rebels were killed and many 0 prisoners were taken. Among the rebels 1 killed were thirteen officers. ? ENLISTED MAN MADE AN OFFICER. t ? Corporal Jruies Dreams Win* Sliouldei Strap* ar J Is Freaented With a Sword. Willed Point, N. Y. (8pecial).?Corporal T?.rv>Aa T\?-aomo rvr*of orthnnl mnatpr n nrl a a U UiUCO 4/iVUUJiJj |/v?? 0VMVW* ?? ? ? member ot Company D, of tbe Engineer Battalion, has been presented" with tbe j commission of tbe second lieutenant in the regular army, by Major John Gk D. Knight, post commandant. A bandsome sword l and belt, tbe gift of bis comrades, was 8 presented to bim b? Corporal David J. 9 Brady, of Company D, in tbe presence ol " the whole battalion. t The presentation of the sword preceded tbe presentation of the commission, as it k marked the exit of the corporal from the ranks of enlisted men, and tbe acceptance J of the commission marked his entrance into tbe army as a commissioned officer, t Lieutenant Dream9 taught school in Kentucky previous to bis enlistment on February 17,1897. During the lato war be was Btationcd at Fort Monroe, Va., and helped I to mine Hampton Roads. He passed the 3 Examining Board with an average of 917-10. r Mathematics be passed a: ninety-nine per L cent. He bas not yet been assigned. H? was born on a farm in Laurel County, Kentucky, twenty-two yean ago. STUDENT CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. . i Boy Who Says be is a Nephew of Senator ^ Allison Arrested at Baltimore. Baltimobe (Speolal),?Edgar Allison, 3 eighteen years old, of North Caroliua, ? medical student at the Maryland Unir versity, who says he Is a nephew of Senator Allison, of Iowa, was arrested here charged with burglary. Tho police believe ' he is a professional. He was one of the most 3 popular yonng men at tho university and , | from his statements it is supposed ho be} longs to a prominent family. When arrested at 3 o'clock in the morning he bad a 5 bag over bis shoulder containing many valt unble pieces of harness. At the house where r Allison boarded the police found more articles of similar kind. A member of a hardware firm identified some of the goods. Another merchant identified goods belong? incrtohim. The manner in which the ware house of Edward Jenkins & Co. was entered showed the work of an expert. Three Children Burned to Death. While she was paj'iag a brief visit to a 1 neighbor the house of Mrs. Jncob Lesoch, In Pittston Township, Tean., was destroyed by fire, and her three children ?Mary, aged six; Katarina, aged four, and Apolo, axed three?were burned to death. The charred } bodies wete found under tho ruins. j Bluhop Watterson l>ead. Bishop John A. Watterson, of the Roman Catholic dioiese of Columbus, Ohio, died suddenly a few days ago. Bishop Watterr son was one of the'best k.aown Catholics in t America. Ho was tifty-six years oid, and i wus bishop nineteen years. Prominent People. 1 Andrew Carnegie nas given 10 tun city ot T McKeesport, Pean., the sum of 550,000 for I a public library. i Slatin Pashn, formerly Govemer oLDur, fur under General Gordon, has been created a chevalier. The estate of the late Sir William Jenner. physician in ordinary to the Queen and 3 the Prince of Wales, is valued at 1,925,000. ) Senor Don Francisco Silvela, the new 5 Premier of Spain, is an eloquent orator, and was Minister to Franco some years t ag?" Genera: Lloyd Wheaton, who is now in The Philippine?, entered the service as a sergeant in the Eighth Illinois during the Civil War. _ ..... I INDIANS GO TO MEXICO. Ch;rokees, Creeksand Delawares Dis?miii. StttlSUCU. TT llill tllO UUTSlUlUCUh Have a Capital of 8425,000 and Will E?tabllsli a Union Reservation on Land Near Guadalajara. Guthrie, O.T. (Special).?Between 8000 md 10,000 IndlaDS belonging to the Cherokee, Creelc and Delaware tribes, dlssatisled with the conditions prevailing at their jld reservations in the Indian Territory, aave emigrated in a body to Mexico, and frith a capital of $425,000 will establish a anion reservation on a large tract of land aear Guadalajara. The self-expatriated [ndians declared that they were tired of having white people coming into their territory and dictating how they should live, and that no whites would be permitted on their new reservation. LIQUID: AIR CAUSES A DEATH. Archibald Campbell Die* From Injuries Received In the Conrse of an Experiment. Chicago (8pecial).?After working seven pfiars in nn effort to make liauid air. and after baying obtained results proportion* itely as successful ns those of Charles E. Tripler, of New York, Archibald Campbell, of this city, became a victim of the power of his own invention. He died at his home in Austin, as a result of injuries received November 21, 1898, at the factory of tbe Healy Ice Machine Company, 139 Clinton street, while successfully manufacture Ing this new force in dynamics, which promises to revolutionize the commercial wor Id. , Campbell was experimenting in the laboratory with u machino that had a capacity of one gallon an hour, and an extraordinary condensing strength. It had been frequently subjected to ? pressure of 10,000 pounds to the square inch. It was during one of the moments of this enormous pressure that a valve was forced off, striking the inventor on tbe forehead. Ho wae disabled for a while, and tben returned tc work. But two weeks ago he complained of the old wound, and was forced to tako to his bed, and died. CRANT LEAVES PORTO RICO. The Brigadier-General Ha* Been Ordered to,tbe Philippine Iilanda. 8ak Juau, Porto Rico (By Cable).?Tb? United States transport McPherson has left here having on board Brigadier-General FredD. Grant, who has been ordered to the BBIOADIEB-QEXEBAL FEED D. GRANT. ^ Philippines, and his staff, General Robert P. Kennedy and Henry G. Curtis of the Insolar Commission, and a large number of officials who are to be mastered out of the Government service. COVERNMENT_VICTORY IN SPAIN. tteiulto of the Elections For Member* oi the Cortei. Madbid, Spain (By Cable).?During the election riots at Bilboa twenty-six persons were wounded. There was a serious affair In the town of Portos, Province of Tarragona, where, the official candidate being beaten, the municipal officials fired guns at the crowd, injuring a number of persons. The result of the elections are that the Ministerialists will have a large majority. Senor Moret, who was Minister of the Colonies in the Sagasta Cabinet, has been elected At Saragossa. The Government will get 285 out of 410 seats. Two hundred and forty-three Ministerialists hAve been elected, Including 180 Silverlsts, 33 Polaviejists and 30 Pidalists. The Opposition returns include 86 Liberals, 30 Gamazists, 18 Tetuanists, 15 Republicans, 5 Romerists and 4 Carlists. In Madrid five Conservatives and three Liberals have been elected. Senor 8agasta has been returned by a small majority for his birthplace, Logrono, capital of the province of that name, after a sharp contest with a Republican. For the first time since 1863 8enor Romero y Robledo failed to get a seat. 8enor Emilio Castelar, the distinguished Republican statesman, was defeated at Murcia. He is badly disappointed at the non-success of the Republican candidates as a party. LEPROSY IN CANADA. Twenty-one Inmates of the Lazaretto at Larcadle, S. B. Moxtbal (Special).?A Government publication gives information as to the extent to which leprosy prevails in Canada. The ">t onov n pstnblished {O-lUi CUU, (IliJULHUIV, il, A/., la 1S44, and since then it has never lacked for inmates. At present they number twenty-one. Tne asres vary from eleven to sixty-two years. The Ifimates, though treated with all possible kindness, are shut from the outside world, with the exception of occasional visits from relatives under carefully devised restrictions. They are mostly Illiterates, and are furnished with no employment, but pass the time in indoor games and outdoor walks in suitable weather. Most of the inmates come from the seafaring populations of the maritime provinces. but within the last two or three years three cases were found amonjj the Icelandic population of Winnipeg. Two of these were married women, with children, but they were compelled to part from them and make their home at the lazaretto, ?u ? A-? ?111 nnHl /loafh wuore luvy win muiaiu uuiu Barued in a Nebraska Prairie Fire. A prairie Are near Vrooman, Neb., destroyed much property. While fighting the flames, Mrs. Anderson, a widow, waf burned to death. Her nephew, John Westerniand, and T. Fllekinirer und his son Charles were badly burned about the face and hands. The town was barelysaved. A Princeis at the White Iloase. Princess Oques Salm-Salm was presented to the President at Washington a few days ago by Representative Joy, of Missouri. Tae Princess was a Miss Joy, of New Jersey. and is a distant relative of the Congressman. Nebraska Cashier a Suicide. 8. W. Grlustead, cashier of the bank Id Humboldt, Neb., has committed suicide by shooting. Before the tragedy Grinstead admitted to Bauk Examtner Wilson that he was "short" In his accounts $10,000, The bauk will continue business. A Spanish Colonel Expelled. The Tribunal of Honor of Spain baa expelled from the army Colonel Znmern, who participated in the Cuban oampalgn. Re-Enlistments In the Ariny. It is reported that few of the volunteei army desire to re-jnlist. ? * ? ELEVEN' MEN DROWNED. 5 The Schooner Eliza Wrecked on. Rose tr and Crown Shoals. Captain Hopkins Goes Down With the 8 Veuel, and Only Three Survive to Report the Disaster* Nantucket, Mass. (8pe6lal).?The fishing *1 schooner Eliza, of Beverly, Captain Hop- * kins, which sailed from Hyannis Monday f, evening for fishing grounds, struck on w Rose and Crown Shoals at 1 o'olock Tues- *j day morning, and eleven of the crew of 8, Wfl?0 Irtof t] IUUX ICOJlL UiCU Tl V*w ?vw?< The three survlvow arrived at Siasconset in the schooner's dory. They report the. t rchooner as a total loss. Their boat was _ badly damaged, and reached land with . great difficulty. Tbe names of the sur- r vlvors are Gilbert Doane, Belver Nickerson, d and George Miller. _ Guilford Doane said: "We were under n mainsail and jib, running along with a fair breeze and clear sky, expecting to be on ? tbo fishing grounds at daybreak, having left HyannU, where we put in for a harbor. I The first watch had been below only a t short tiu.e when the schooner ran hard t upon tbe reef, rolled upon her bilge, and j( quickly filled. All bands were called and r we found ourselves wreoked." _ Fortunately tbe seventeen-foot dory, the H only boat, was on the weather side and was e secured to the foreboom, the foresail be* ?, ing furled. Here it wns lust clear of the j, wash of the waves until the boom was j( carried away, when the stern lashing of t the dory was cut and she swung free. E Doane urged his companions to get into * boat, but the captain declared it was e foolhardy to do so, as she could not ? live to pass the breaker on the reef. But t Doane found two compaclons to join bim, / while tbe rest took to the fore rigging, j preferring to take chances on the vessel, a In the hope of being picked up in the morn- t log. The dory baa been slightly stove, _ and the three men had to keep two buckets E balling to free her while tbe third j nlled tbe oars nnd kept as sear the vessel t ! as the wind and tide'would allow. They could hear the timbers crack under the I force of the water these reefs throw up, i but did not venture too near. At dawn ( they scanned the horizon for signs of the vessel or some shipmate on a spar, but nothiDg was visible. They then turned their attention to their own safety, i Following are the names of the lost members of the crew: Captain Martin M. Hopkins, Seth Hopkins, Emerson Hopkins, Osi car Hopkins, Lorenzo Smith, cook; John Smith, Herbert Smith, Kinsman Smith, Moses Bethel, John Mathtwson and James Mathewsnn. Seth and Emerson Hopkins ! were brothers of tho captain. Oseur Hopkins was his cousin. John and Herbert Smith and John and James Mathersoo were brothers. AN ANGLO-AMERICAN WEDDINC. A Boiton "Woman Attorney Marries s British Naval Officer. Hamilton, Bermuda (By Cable).?Mrs. Mary Kennedy Brown, a practicing attorney of Boston, and a graduate of Cornell University, was married at Pembroke Church, to Lieutenant Alan Bosworth Smith, of the British armored coast defense ship Hotspur, guardship at this port. Lieutenant Smith is well-to-do and heir to , un English baronetcy. Tbe chaplains of the dockyard and of . the British flagship officiated at the ceremony with Rector Davidson. A detach ment oi DiuejacKets irom me xioisput g drew the bridal carriage from tbe chnrcb r and British officers formed a steel arch with their drawn swords ;from the church door to tbe gate. MILITARY DIVISION OF CUBA. The President Order* tbe Six Department* Coniolldated Into Four. Washington, D. C. (8peclal).?The first Important result ot Secretary Alger's visit ' to Caba was an order Issued by the War Department, by direction of the President, consolidating the sixmUltary departments of the Division of Cuba into four depart, ments. Tbe departments of Santiago, Puerto Principe and Havana City are retained intact. The departments of Santa i Clam and Matansas are consolidated under the command of Brigadier-General James H. Wilson and the departments of Havana Province and Plnar del Rio are consolidated under command of BrigadierGeneral Fitzhugh Lee. Brigadier-General George W. Davis, who was relieved temporarily from the command of the departmonf of Pinur del Rio. to become a mem be*1 of tbe beef court of inquiry, will not Jj return to Cuba. Brigadier-Geueral Bates, j who had command of the department of J Santa Clara, will also lose that detail ' through the consolidation. BrigadierGenerals Chaffee and Ernst will remain on I the staff of General Brooke. * ASKED TIME ON THE SCAFFOLD J Blanks Was Held While tbe Noote Wai 1 Adjusted? 'Watt* BUnute," He Said. J Louisville, Ky. (Special).?Bob Blanks r was hanged at MaysfleliT, Ky., on the same ^ scaffold on which Will Tattle died a few * days before. Blanks was taken sick be- f fore going to the scaffold, but he rallied and asked to be permitted to make a speech. He f talked forty minutes. He asked every one j present to bid him farewell, and a thousand ( "goodbys" arose in chorus. Then ho asked ( that a collection be taken for his wife and ] ' children, and $11 was realized. TheSherifl ] told him to get ready, but he begged foi f time, and kneeling on the trap prayed. ( Then he began to sing hymns. Tne Sheriff started to put on the cap, but Blanks tore j It off live times. At last four men held him t while the cap and noose were adjusted. Just as Bhnks yelled "wait a minute" the f trap was sprung and he fell to death. s SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN CLEVELAND, x Three Public Schools Closed and the Peit> ) bouse Too Small For the Patients. ] Cleveland, Ohio (Special).?Smallpox * i has Increased in this city to such an ex- j tent that the Hsaljli Department officials confess themselves unable to cope with it under the present conditions. Three 01 toe [ public schools have been closed and Health 1 Officer Leick has asked the City Council to ? Immediately place 515,030 at his disposal 1 In addition to the regular department funds. The smnllpox cases are widely scat- J terod, every purt of the city being repre- ? sented, 1 The pest house long ago proved utterly : Inadequate to hold paiients assigned to it, ' and a large annex is being constructed. J An idea of the extent of the disease can be * cathered from the fact that every day for 1 more than two months has?een from two to nine new cases reported. An Indiana Knilway DJ?a?ter. j. A Beit Line train turned over ou a high trestle near Bedford, Ind., a few Qcys ago. c Charles Meinzer, the engineer, and a man 1 named Demoss. a merchant of Limestone, | were Instantly killed. Henry Splftberger ?' ' was fatally injured. A number ol other- k were seriously hurt. fj \ Fatal Earthquake in Argentina. t An earthquake shock In the province of j Eioja has destroyed the villages of Vinclina , ! and Jaquel, Argenl'aa. Several persons y j were killed. Much damage was also e | caused by eruptions of the volcano Huoan. go, near Vincllna. p p Spain's Ex-MlnUter of War Dead. " Lieutenant-Geccral Correa, Chief of th* Queen Regent's military household, at Mad- t rid, Spain, is dead. Lieutenant-General If Correa was formerly Minister of War, but a resigned office last October. At the out- l break of the war with Spain Lieutenant- 1 General Correa delivered a bombastic u speech about the prowess of the Spaniards | and how Spain would crush America. ; I B Mr. McKlnley Going; to narriiburjr, Pcnn. Major I. B. Brown, of Harrlsburj;, Penn., n bas been notified by President McKialey " that he would be present at the uovciiiuu j ot the Hartranft statue on May 12 and ^ would make a speech. I 1 i IE SABBATH < SCHOOL. JTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS FOR MAY 7. abject: The Vine and tlie Branchei," John xt., 1-11?Golden Text: "I Am tbe Vine, Ye Are the Branches," John xv.t 15?Commentary on the Leuon. 1. "I am the true vine." The genuine, le Ideal, the perfect vine. He is the one ho can fulfil to them the perfect relation t a vine to its branches, in distinction rom a natural vine; and from every other >ho has been called a vine; and from all < lings that > might seem to be the source of H tie Christian's life and power. As the vine upports the branches, and its life flows $j brough them all an'd Is their life, so Jesus i the sustaining power of the Christian Inffdom and the source of the life in all 1 lis disciples. T&ey are all born from ', bove by the Spirit. They nil live in and brough Him. "Tolive is Christ." Take J !hrist away from the churcb, and it Is ead, a separated branch, a hoaso without foundation, a limb amputated from a ? aan. 2. "Every branch in me that beareth not rait." These Are the external professors -the merely baptized members, who have o life and never had?though they belong * w o the outward connection. It includes . ,i hose who are joined to Christ by Intel- ^ actual conviction, who acoept of Him and - ' Us teachings with their minds, but do not bey Him nor love Him. JudAS was one "Sg xample, Simon Magus another. "Be takth away." Because their presence in* ores the other branches; and their remain- V og Is of no benefit to themselves. As Dng as there is hope of their besrlng fruit V ^ hey are permitted to remain, and are . .? iruned and cared for. "Every branch >v? bat beareth fruit, Hepurgeth it." Cleans- Y-. th it. There is a ourious play of words in V ound between the taking away (halrei) of '-.3 he fruitless branch and the purging i kathalrel) of the !*ultful branch. "Intne .4 East dressers wash the leaves and shoots * md tendrils and olusters, each by Itself in - -a urn, so as to clear off the dust and mold." . -C. S. Robinson. But the principal < > oetbod of purging is by pruning ("purge" . s used in old English books on husbandry , .Vi 0 express pruning). The cleansing and irunlng are the work of the Holy Spirit, > hrougn the discipline of life, through the imitations of life by the divine Provl- t lence, through the Word of God. All the "? [helpline of life is a pruning of the exuber- 1 int growth of tbe will, the feelings, the '-! msslons, tbe desires, all the motive forces >f our natures. 8. "Now ye are clean." The same word is "purge'.'.in r. 2. "Through the word"." Ill Jesus'sjteaching and training for thre* rears bad been cleansing and pruningtHe llsciplfes. Imperfect as they were, -they cere bearing good fruit and were pretared to bring forth a great deal more and 1 great deal better fruit, as we see in th* Lets. Tbe fruit is the faith, love and tbedience referred to so often In our last ,t esEon. It includes all the fruits of th? ? Iplrit?love, Joy, peace, long-suffering,. V itc. (Gal. v., 22. 23). It'includes tbe Ten \ Commandments and the Beatitudes and all yi he Sermon on tbe Mount. It includes all , ' ; abors for the conversion of souls and for J kssing of mankind. It is not measured ly the result?, the amounts of money riven, tbe number of souls save J, as w* . J ire too ofcen inclined to measure fruits; 1>ut by tbe love, the obedience, the graces, ' ho devotion, whiohlead to these outward "'i?j esults.as we see iu Christ's words about he widow's two mites. 4. "Abide in Me, and I in you." Con- . rTii inue your connection with Me by trusting, '?" ovlng and obeying Me. After I am gon? > till continue in Me as you have done so- r ar. Let all your strength, your wisdom, rour plans, your hopes depend on Me, as ' ouls grow by contact with other souls, I -) rbe larger and fuller the spirit with whom \ ve come in toucb, and the more the joints. \ if contact, the more free and strong is our \ jrowth. 5. "The samebringeth forth much fralt." " 'Grapes of Eshool, in heavy clusters." No "yji1 nan can make things grow. He can get vtf hem to grow by arranging all the circum- ,1 tances and fulfilling all the conditions,. ' |] rot the growing is the wort of God. What nan can do is to place himself In the midst '4 >f a chain of sequences. While man prays . ' U n faith, God acts by law. "For without tie." Apart from Me, as a branch separated ^ rom the vine. 6. "And they are burned." Because no 3 letter use can be mad* of the vlne-wtyd; ! t is absolutely worthless (Ezek. 15). Th? i orces of nature, the energies of God-tn, Lfition are forever working to the remold1 . >y decay, of whatever Fs dead?a dead >rancb, a dead arm, a dead plant. Th? "; < aln and sunshine that make it flourish vhen alive destroy It when dead. Thii ^ ipplies to ohurcbes and to Individuals. :'qj -rod does not desire to have fruitless iburcbes large and prosperous. He lets hem wither away. The churches that > ;eep nearest to Christ will grow the largest, rhe Christian that negleots bis union with 3hrlst will find that bis religious and moral ife wither away, in tlm*. 7. "And My words aoide In you." ExGaining and illustrating bow tbey abide In Jim, oy continuing in His teaching, let- > Ing all their conduct grow out of His eacbing, and be conformed to it. "Y? hall ask what ye will, and it shall be don? into you." Because such are so imbued vitb God's will that they will ask what Is Jod's will to give, for God's glory, in subnlssion to His wisdom and love. It is alvuys safe to answer prayers made in such ilrcu instances. Every true Christian will ilm at great things, and ought to ask for creat things, and expect great things. 8. "Herein," in the abundance of tbef ruit they bear, "is My Father glorified." 3ecause "they represent God to men; belause the fruits are the expression of Sod's character and goodness, which ore Us glory; because thus will they bring in lis kingdom, and all the men and angels iball see the consummation of God's work q >f redemption, which also Is His glory. 'So shall ye be My disciples." Learners n the school of Christ, followers of His eacbfng, enjoylnsr His rewards. 9. "As the Father hath loved Me, a? >ave I Joved you." This is a marvelous < itatement of the measure and the quality > >f Christ's love for us. It is true, warm/ "j jersonal, seeking our best good, unfailing.. >Vhen we wish to know how mnch Jesus oves us, let us remember how much the father loves His only beaotten Son. Coninue. Abide; the same Greek word used ;o often In these verses. The next vera?,' 0, shows how thev are to do it. j ' 10. "If ye keep My oommandmento/ . . even as I have kept," etc. Even ,i. or Christ there was only one way to conlnuelnthe love of the Father. They could ee. therefore, that it was the only way or them. 11. "These things havo I spoken unto ou, tbat." Oneobject of all tblP teaching vas true joy, because joy is the flower and ragrance Of a true life, the crown of life, he proof of its perfectness. It Is a great oy to be the conductors of God's blessings < o others. "That My joy." The samd ;lcd of joy that I have, and to be obtained in the same ??v WOULD NOT BE THEIR KINC. ,'I.ilkat Indian* Then Tried to Kill White l*io?pector. A strange story lias been reported to tbf )iiondlnu militia headquarter? at Fort 8el? irk. Alaska, of how the Cbilkat Indians, ear that post, attempted to kill a prosector on the MacMillan River. Behind be attempt on the miner's life there Is a lugutnr adventurn. It 1? said that one ol he medicine men of the Cbllkats told the rflsfc that not until they had secured o rhite chief would (he tribe cease to degenrule. Accordingly several of the chiefs held a , ow-wow, und it was decided to try to gel >iso of the prospectors la the vicinity to ccept the position of "hyas tyee" of the uce powerful and warliko tribe. One lobnrt S:unton, of Indiana, who has for everal years been prospecting the MacHll:m country with indifferent success, was ppointed and offered the position, titan- n ou spumed the honor. A wrod and hart H he Chilkat chiefs loft him, nnd he thought H 0 more of tho Incident. H About a week afterward, while he waa D ooUiufj bis evening moal, several ballets B rliistiud over his head, one just grazing B| i* shoulder. Ho managed to escape with* H uf injury, and thinking it unsafe to re- 9 i:iio in that part of the country any longer, H mile for Selkirk where he reported his ad- H enture to the military authorities there, le believes that the chiefs purposed to kilt .-U 1 n out of revenue for refusing their offer. .?*