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\ y 11 - " : Mynhei , 99999*991 . | BY ST. QEOKqt I COrTBIGHT 1s93, Robj CL ? CHAPTER II. ? [Continued.] 1 Eye looks into eye as Sandy Barlow stands there; then the correspondent 1 exclaims, with a ring of satisfaction in his voice: "Mynheer Joe, for all the vorld!" "Sandy, is it yon, my dear fellow? Where under the sun did you drop from?" asks the other, holding out the hand that has been used to shied his eyes from the light, though he does not alter his position one particle. The correspondent seizes hold of the hand thus offered in greeting, his very enthusiasm showing what he feels at heart. "Bless you, old boy, it's good for sore eyes to see you again, and looking as natural as ever. Never have I ceased to remember the days of 'auld lang syne,' when we two did the Nile In company. Talk about fate in our first meeting?it doesn't hold a candle to this! Same old grasp, same old Joe!" and he works the prodigal's arm like a pump-handle, while rattling along in this strain. "Quartered in Cairo, Sandy?writing up the beauties of lower Egypt as a winter resort, or have you been ap pointed a Consul here?" asks the other, with a jolly laugh that causes Mr. Crimes to wonder what stuff this man can be made of to be so composed and even merry after what he has gone through. 'That's not my luck. Still pegging away at the old business. Makes both ends meet and gives me a chance to see the world. But see here! Confound my stupidity! Here's a friend of yours waiting to meet you, and I've been monopolizing your time." Mynheer Joe raises himself to a sitting posture and faces the silver king, who hesitates for a few seconds and then comes forward. "Pardon me!" he says frankly. "You have made a mistake, Sandy. I did not claim to be a friend o? Mynheer Joe, only a fellow-countryman, and one who has heard much about him and takes a deep interest in ms welfare. Obed Grimes, at your service, Mr. Miner." The explorer possibly catches some significance back of his words. At any rate, he looks at the stout gentleman with the florid countenance as though intent upon studying out a problem; but noticing the outstretched hand, accepts it in his usual hearty way. Now and then, during the subsequent interview, while the correspondent plies him with questions, Mynheer Joe can be seen to keep a reflective eye upon Mr. Grimes. Perhaps lie is endeavoring to place the wealthy miner; and yet the latter has declared they have not met before. __ ' Sandy thinks only of one thing now. True, he has been especially pleased to meet with one he regards so highly; but his feeling has now' given way to the instinct of his craft. He has been educated up to being a newspaper man above all else, and, like all others of his calling, lias a keen nose for news. To be the first at the wire with startling information is the dream of Sandy Barlow's daily life. Here he sees a golden opportunity for making a ten-strike. The whole civilized world hangs in suspense awaiting definite news of the heroic Chinese Gordon's fate. Humors have been rife almost daily, sometimes detailing his death and again giving accounts of some wonderful victory over fifty thousand dervishes, as the followers of El Mahdi are called, his own force numbering but two thousand. Like a shuttle-cock, dashed hither and yon by the battledoors. has this eubject been kept on the go for weeks, and up to this black night in February no deiinite news has been received which settles Gordon's fate. Thus' Sandy's dreadful impatience its trApiiiiiiru, tut* niut'-awunv irui'i'wspondent is aroused to the exigencies of the hour, and for the benefit of the waiting civilized world would seize and send out an authentic account of the tragedy of ill-fated Khartooin. Mechanically be draws out his note l>ook and. pencil in hand, prepares to take down in shorthand what may be said?a proceeding Mynheer Joe eyes with a smile. "Pardon me, my friends, but I am almost starved. When 1 went to sleep the captain here said he would have a meal ready for me when I awoke. I was hungry then, but could not keep awake only long enough to take a cup of coffee and a bite. How is it. capSain? Will you keep your word?" The dusky Ben Hassan Effendi nods and gives a signal with his hands. Immediately two fellahin annear. One carries a tray covered with a white napkin; tlie other lays a cloth upon the little round tah:e. Almost like magic, a savory, steaming meal is thus placed in front of the hungry Mynheer Joe, after which the magician waves his hands, and his followers vanish as if into thin air. 5 "Your pardon, gentlemen. I have fasted for some days now. and the aroma arising from this spread is too much for me to withstand. Captain, how long have I slept?" "Twenty-seven hours, gentlemen," gravely announces the old reis. "Incredible!" exclaims Mr. Grimes. "Eat. uiy hoy! Jove! You may go to sleep again, unless you get your jaws working"! I've heard of such things as people sleeping for days," cries Sandy, with an air that plainly marked the martyr, and says: "Don't consider me?1 can wait." So Mynheer Joe does ample justice to the meal set before him and, when ten minutes have passed, very little remains of what was brought in. At the same time something of the pinched look has left his face, and he seems more like the man Sandy remembers. The correspondent has been surveying the interior of the cabin curiously, ^Ueavoring to Veep down the sDirit H m \ h\ ER JOE. I ; pATHBORNE. ' \ set BOSNET.'S SOKS. * Q of impatience that makes a minute seem an hour. He knows his friend has great need of all the sustenance lie can secure at present, and hence will uot allow his own selfish motives to triumph. As he finishes his survey of the pay decorations upon the walls of the cabin, where scores of novelties add to the picturesque appearance of the scene, Sandy hears a sigh of deep satisfaction, and, wheeling about, is just in time to see the captain, at a signal from the pilgrim, clap his hands, when AU" *?~ ?+*An,li,n+a A o r-4- in mm AV in or I lit.' IHU uutuuauio u??.v iu, . .?0 tho debris. "Gentlemen?one favor. In the name of mercy, have either of you?a cigar V" asks the recent diner, in a tragic voice. He has a choice weed in a sccond, and ere three pass, fire has been applied to it. "Richard is himself again?first cigar in seven months?think of it," he says melodramatically. "Now, my dear felow, pardon my beastly haste, but after midnight I lose the wire. Can you tpll me whether Gordon is dead or alive?" Mynheer drops his head suddenly, and something like a groan comes from his lips. "Gordon is dead," he replies, slowly, "with these eyes I saw him fall, and this right arm struck his murderer, cleaving him. to the chin." ' CHAPTER III. X. THE TRAGEDY OP THE KIX.fi. At these words, both Americans look very grave, and even Ben Hassan, standing near by, seems as though appalled. Faith in the astonishing powers of Chinese Gordon has always given those who know him an idea that nothing could ever overcome him. He was a man absolutely without fear, with a fine Christian character, respected every where* by the natives, for his personality was something far beyond the ordinary. For six months and more this valiant man has been shut up within the walls of Khartoom, with a few thousand miserable native troops facing fifty thousand dervishes of El Mahdi. Without the presence of Gordon, these troops would not hold out a day against the enemy. There, with a few faithful officers and friends, he has held out from week to month, hurling back the legions of the False Prophet and holding the debatable ground against the slave-traders, waiting for the rescue that will come too late; fof England, thfc- more shame to her, being engaged In political discussions, delays sending a relief-column until it becomes a necessity on account of the clamor of the people, which column will find Khartoom in the hands of the enemy, find Gordon?lost. "This is sad news you bring, Joe," says the newspaper man, at length. "Sad, yes; but true, too true. England has, by her vacillating policy, murdered the bravest of her sous. IIow blind the powers that be! This will topple over the ministry quicker than anything else on earth. The people loved Gordon because his motives were always honorable." The man from Khartoom speaks quietly, as if he has long since learned to look upon the disaster with composure. He is not given to emotion, at any rate, as a glance into his face would inform an observer. "Tell us about it. Joe," bursts out the impetuous Sand}', note-book and pencil in hand. The other passes one hand wearily across his brow, as though he would clear away thcobwebs time has spun about his brain. "It is hardly a propitious time for entering into details, my friend. I am willing to speak, but I know you will pardon me if I simply sketch the matter lightly." "Yes. yes, tell what you please, Joe." Mr. Grimes and the reis say nothing; only moving a little closer to the messenger from Khartoom, in order to hear how Gordon fell. Millions will, later on, read the story of his desertion and death in that town on the Nile, and from every country under the sun will oreathe curses against Old England for the cowardly policy that has ended in this way. "You know what took Gordon to Khartoom and the sacred work to which he devoted his life. He was the deadly enemy of the slave-trader, and lopg ago declared that his life would be spent in endeavoring to break up that terrible trade on the upper Nile. The rattle of slave-chains was the most bnted sound he knew, and it was this that made him hold on even when dnnm stared him in the face. "I know his mind, for I have talked with him clay by day, and found Gordon a rock. lie eould a dozen times have saved himself by flight, but lie would not desert his post. Heaven sent him there, and at Ivhartoom he would remain, the rock of Egypt, until the longed-for line of British troops appeared in view or doom came. "What we went through with during those months heaven alone knows. Day after day we fought the black dervishes of the desert, and thousands laid down their lives in front of Khartoom's walls. Now it was a sally; anon, an attack. We might iia > r t Yuu uuu uit u ui'i luiu uuuiaiuii but for the treachery of certain leaders. Gordon tried them later, and all were shot. He would not stand insubordination. "Thus months passed. We endured all that can come during that pestilential season from July, when the city was invested. The weeks passed us ny in a way that was maddening. Our eyes were strained looking for the succor that never came. Through it all Gordon was the same man I have ever know him, cheerful, sober, and never falterinsr. If it was his fate to .- U : :'h . .' * . r* * * die nt his post, death would Slid hire ready. "I shall never, while I have breath, cease to remember that man with all the wonder and admiration my soul can express. God never made a human being more in the mold of a hero than when he pave us Gordon. The world will keep his memory green forever. "Thus, as the months passed away, our stores grew low, and a spirit o? discontent arose. Money was scarce, and the soldiers were in r> state of constant irritation bordering on frenzy. Mutiny would long since have broken out but for the astonishing power this man seemed to have over his subjects. I marveled at it then, and it will never cease to be a source of wonder to me. "At last came the fatal hour -when this magnetism could no longer hold tiie iragmenxs or nis nine army together. I knew it was coming as well as I knew anything. Signs pointed to it from all quarters, and each morning as the sun rose in the east I wondered whether it would ever be my good fortune to look on its setting again. "Gordon never despaired of a rescue. He had no doubt prepared for the worst, but his faith in the ultimate coming of his comrades was sublime. "They will come to-morrow,' he would say each night as the darkness settled about us, and deep down in my heart I firmly believed that to-morrow would never arrive. "Thus the days moved along, each sun showing niiw difficulties that at its setting Gordon had managed to smooth over in a way that was simply marvelous; but each time I noticed that things looked worse, and it was only a question of how long it would be ere certain matters came into conjunction, and bore us under. What I most dreaded was a mutiny during one of the enemy's fierce assaults. Should a portion of our troops turn upon us, even the fierce ardor of the Baslii Bazouks who remained faithful could not keep Gordon's life sacred. "My fears proved to be well grounded, as you shall soon see. If happened on the 2Gth day of January, and that should be a day of moruning for all time to come in England. "Gordon came from his room that morning as cheerful as was his wont, and ready to meet the duties of the day, whatever heaven might "send him. The storm was gathering, but his presence had chased away the clouds so often that all of us had come to believe him invincible. "We knew the enemy was about to make a desperate assault, but, we had hurled them back from the walls of Khartoom so often in bleeding masses that we aid not doubt our ability to do the same thing again, although ammunition was beginning to grow scarce. "I have since come to the conclusion that during the night of the 25th some arrangement must have been made between our native troops and the sheiks who led the hordes of the Prophet. Certainly, the events 01 tne day justified such a conclusion. "Gordon, as usual, assembled his leaders and harangued them. Up to now, he had never once failed to Impart some of his own enthusiasm to those In charge of his men, so that they went to their scverul stations inspired to fight like heroes in the cause of this magnetic man. "With wonder and uneasiness I saw that his words on this morning appeared to fall upon deaf ears. The dark faces grew moody. As it happened, I was the only white man close by, though I could hear some of his officers giving orders near the governor's house. "One man threw the spark that exploded the magazine. He dared answer Gordon back :nd tell him it would be best to give up Khartoom while El Mahdi was willing to let them depart in peace, since the doom' of the city was a settled thing, any "The general's face flamed up as he heard this cowardly plea. I can see him now, as in scathing terms he rebuked the officer. The man hung his head. I expected to see him fall on his knees and beg for pardon. "My attention was drawn from him for just a few seconds, while I swept my eyes around to see how the others were taking it. I found that they, too, scrowled and looked ugly. [To he Continued.] City Men and Country Papers. The homing instinct in the blood is felt by hard-headed, shrewd and practical men, engaged in business in great towns, and apparently free from inconvenient sentiment Yet, though they scan their newspapers with keen and eager relish, they throw them aside when read, while some little sheet, not particularly well printed and put together as if jumbled in a scrap-basket, is slipped into the pocket and carried home. This is the county paper published up-country, and filled with intimate personal details, the pleasant and kindly neighborhood gossip which goes on at the postoffice and around the station when the train comes in. Here are familiar names; the story of life in a farming community related with minute care; the goings and comings of kindred and acquaintances; the sales, the purchases, the casualties, the changes, all chronicled without much art or skill, but with closest and most satisfactory realism. The man may be a millionaire several times over, but he was once a boy on the farm, and he will be a subscriber to the little country paper as long as he lives.?Margaret E. Sangster. in Collier's Weekly. ^ An Emetine Occopntlon. The cameo-cutter's occupation is very exacting. He can put in only a few hours' work at a time as a usual - 1 - * * a f It i o tiling, uecause 01 iue icuaiwu ? ...o nerves. A quavering hand may be responsible for the single stroke which will spoil a week's work. He must have an eye almost like a microscope, and a very dclicate toucb; be must be an artist in soul and as skilled a craftsman as a watchmaker;4he must know how to model and draw, and be must have a knowledge of chemistry, so as to remove offending spots. A PalnfulJCoinpHriHon. "There is hack work and hack work." said the struggling writer. "Think what I get for mine?and what the hackman gets for bis!" be added, bitterly.?Puck. .C.;\ % | cooooooooooooooooooooooooo I SOUTH AMERICAN EATTLE BKDW-| 18 EffSflUHZmN flHff SIIPKFM- o f* U11B liiiiunijwu wwift . 0 AEY AS BEEF FURVEYDR ? ? TO THE WORLD. g o 5 oOOOOOOCOCOOOOOCCOOOOOOCOO IS South America lestined'to supersede the United States as the great provider of beef for the world? Each year South America increases in importance rs rival to the United States as a producer of beef. There are now in the Argentine, Paraguay and Uruguay fully 30.000.000 cattle. and in the United States 44,000,000. While the cattle ranges of the United N??npurP IN 512.fi. Of tKX AmST SOUTH-AMentCAN JSTCERS . j States are becoming more and more restricted each year, there are in the South American countries named vast regions suitable for cattle raising which have not as yet been utilized. In Texas now the cattle no longer roam over vast ranges, but are practically kept in pastures, the grazing grounds being inclosed in miles upon miles of wire fences. The old-time cowboy, too. has become largely a ''fence rider," patrolling the outside of the inclosures to see that the fences are not broken down, and that the cat:le are not lost, strayed or stolen. Many cowboys have emigrated to South America, where they have taken up their old free life alongside of the native gauchos on the wide-swept pampas. In Paraguay a large region called the Chaco has just been opened up to stock raising. It lies in the northwest corner of Paraguay, between the Paraguay River, a navigable stream, the Pilcomayo River and the Bolivian boundary. The climate is healthful, and though it is warm there in sumuer. it is never as hot as it was in New York last summer. The prairies are clothed with a variety of good grasses .and the Chaco lands are arknowledged to be the best fattening grounds in all Paraguay. Good land can be bought in the Chaco for $1000 a league, and one league will support 100 cattle, and two herds of 1000 each can be fattened on it In a pear. All the expenses of raising cattle there are ridiculously small compared with the expense In the United OUlit'a. J\. iiiaii uuu put aieeio uii im* range in Paraguay, all expenses paid, at a cost of $8.50 a head, and these he can sell when fattened for $12.50 a nead. Experienced cattie men in the Chaco have cleared as much as $8000 the first year on an expenditure of $10,500. They put in $1000 for land, $8500 for cattle and $1000 for labor and other expenses. Living and labor in Paraguay cost about one-eighth as much as they do in the United States. The gauchos are paid $3 a month in the Chaco. In the United States the cowboy's wages used to be ?30 a month. The gaucho's food, TEXAS COWBOY. which is supplied to him, costs about $3 a month. Cowboys are furnished with food costing $10 a month. The cattle of Northern Paraguay are similar to the Texas cattle, being of fully as good stock and much tamer and more easily managed. Though there are now in Northern Paraguay only enough cattle for a small beef Industry, their numbers are rapidly increasing, and in three or four years this region bids fair to be the centre of a great beef industry. All that is needed to "boom" the cattle raising industry of this part of I J THE GWCl-Ob HETHOD Paraguay is an outlet for the beef. With the extension of railways and the increase of river, navigation this can readily be obtained, and the catlie of the little interior republic will join with the herds of the Argentine and of Uruguay in furnishing the "roast beef of old England" to the world in competition with the United States. Excellent "stocking cattle" can easily be brought on to the ranges of the Chaco from the Brazilian province of Matto Grosso, which adjoins the Paraguay border. Cattle diseases in the favored land of Paraguay are seldom seen. In the north they are unknown. In the south one occasionally runs across cases of "black leg," but even then only among calves, and 'me percentage of such cases is nev- alarming. Loss of cattle owing to the cold of winter or to a dry season is unknown. It will be seen that Northern Paraguay is an ideal place for the raising of cattle. As yet, of course, these South American regions have not the facilities for transportation which the cattle districts of the United States possess, but it is only a question of time when they will have them, and then can the United States hold its own in the export of beef? Just now a combination of capital is said to have acquired practical control of the Texas cattle industries. If this combination should put up the price of beef there would be an additional incentive for the development of the South American cattle industri' '. The THE TEXAS METHOD. South American field is just now appealing to cattle men in a manner WMC& promjses tue most lmponam results ultimately. Cheapness of production down there is an especial inducement to invests. Oue does not need to have a great deal of money to start with either. It is no place .for a poor man. on account of the low wages, but a man with a capital of $2500 has an excellent opportunity to lay the foundations of a fortune. Many people in Paraguay have good cattle lands, but not the money to Jgpl Ijlp^ 80UTH AMERICAN GAUCHO. stock them, and these lands they will sell cheap. So great is the demand for money to invest in ranching in Paraguay now that capitalists command their own prices, and sometimes get as high as thirty or forty per cent, for their loans. Carrying foreign cattle to South America to cross with the native breeds is already a big business. When the native breeds are crossed with a foreign one the cattle grow -f?--f Jl I I larger and attain their full development sooner. That great land of cattle ranges, the Argentine Republic, is as large in area as Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada Idaho, Washington, Oregon and California together, and how much of th? country still remains available for exmntr Hn frAm foni ^iuiiauuu ixia.j uv **VUJ *?v? that only about six per cent, of its 240,000,000 acres of land available for agriculture?15,000,000 acres?is under cultivation. The value of animals and their products exported by the Argentine increases at the rate of about $4,000,000 a year. Uruguay, though a comparatively small nation, has excel* lent grazing grounds, and four years ago was reported as having 5.881,403 head of cattle on its ranges, a number which has Increased considerably since. Southern Brazil ^oins with the Argentine, Paraguay and Uruguay in competing with the United States foi *4 the cattle trade. In the State of Ri\ Grande do Sui.the cattle industry 1) already Important, rnd is growing every yertr. The country is favorably for cattle raising, labor is cheap anc living costs little compared with li^ ing in the United States. Land fo; cattle raising p.nrpose-. can be boughlow and ports for shipping cattlj abroad are easy of access.?Ne Yort Press. OCEAN JELEPHONING. Great Future Predicted For the Inventloi of s University Professor. Ocean telephoning is not only feasi ble, according to electrical engineers who have studied the discovery ot Professor M. I. Fupin, of Columbia University, but the prediction is made that within the lifetime of the present generation the sound of the human voice may be made to encircle the globe. Officials of the American Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company maintain profound secrecy as to the invention and the experiments which they have been conducting, but admit the purchase of Dr. Pupin's patents. The price paid is said to be between $400,000 and $300,000 in cash, and an annual royalty of $15,000 during the life of the patents, which is seventeen years. This would aggregate nearly three-quarters of a million dollars, and FORM OF THE COILS. (Attachment used by Professor Pupin to bis telephone.) is probably the largesc sum ever paid for any Invention. "In my estimation the invention of Dr. Pupin is the greatest since that of the telephone," said Stephen L. Coles, managing editor of the Electrical Review, who has be?n watching the development of Professor Pupin's work for live years and is familiar with the theory and its application to commercial uses. Dr. Pupin is one of the foremost scientists in the United States," Mr. Coles said. "His experiments have been thorough, and he ha9 demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt thai telephoning any distanc- over land or under water is practicable. At present we can talk, say, one thousand miles over specially constructed land lines and short distances under water. "It was considered a great achievement when we first talked with Chicago, but with Professor Pupin's system of induction coils at regular intervals along the line it will be possible to talk under the Hudson River, but telephone cable messages are "mitnri ir\ oVirtrt <1 ictnticoc! Rv iisinc T)r Pupin's system a telephone cable to Europe or auy distance becomes practicable. "It is difficult to summarize his invention so that it can be grasped by the lay mind, but it consists in taking the elements of impedance in an ordinary telephone or telegraph line anc balancing them against each other sc that their effect is neutralized and a clear passage is left for the transmission of electrical waves "In all probability the first use of the new system will be on long distance land wires." Accoruiug to the Electrical Review "the essential feature of the invention, followiug the elaborat: mathematical analysis of the subject by l)r. Pupin, consists of the application of inductance and capacity to such a circuit in a way that is. to all intents and purposes. equivalent to a continuous distribution of these qualities, but which is, at the same time, practically poscihlu on/1 Professor Pupin's experiments were conducted at Columbia University. He constructed an artificial line two U?iydrod and fifty miles U >g and tested it with various forms of induction or "choke" coils. Observations. Suspicion and treason are bed-fellows. Men confess to making love, but ltlush or rage if assured of really feeling it. Short absences increase friendship; long ones kill it. Adversity ennobles or degrades; it permits of no mid-way. To assist nature is no sin, hut to resist lier is death. The reputation of woman is in the hands of man entirely.?Philadelphia Record. - ....J f . : \ ? SHOT BY REJECTED SUITOR! Young Woman Teaoher Killed in * School in Winsted, Conn. J: . Bliss Winifred Cook Murdered by Johlf T. Hayes, a Former Lieutenant in the State Militia,Who Attempts Suicide. Winsted, Conn.?Miss Winifred Coot twenty-one years old, a teacher in the] W. L. Gilbert Home for Children, waa shot and instantly killed in the homeB by her former suit.r, John T. Hayes,J. formerly lieutenant of Company Id Fourth Regiment, Connecticut National Guard. Lieutenant Hayes afterward turned! his revolver upon himself, inflicting! IUICC IJUllCl WUU11U9 iU Li ID iUlfUCttWj', His condition is serious, but it is be4 iieved that he will recover ! Miss Cook and Lieutenant Haye? formerly were engaged to be married,! but the engagement was broken offij by the young woman several montha^ ago. Since then, however, Hayes has persisted in his attentions. The twoj were standing in Williams avenue) when Samuel Parsons, who was driv*: Ing past in a sleigh, was hailed by thfll young woman, who cried: "Take me to the home, will you? X want to get away from this fellow/t: When she stepped into the sleigh Hayes followed and seated himself;1; beside her. Arriving at the home, Ml** Cook jumped out, sobbing, and rax) . into the building, followed by Hayee They passed along a corridor and into a sewing room, where Miss Eunice ' Hyde' was seated. Miss Hyde says Hayes had hold o$ Miss Cook's golf cape, and as shri turned half around he placed a revolvj . er to her temple and fired. Miss Coo?. fell, ^obably dying instantly. Miss Hyde ran from the room, calling fo? help, and during her absence Hayei* shot himself three times. When Franl4 Case, an employe of the home, whd had been summoned by the alarm, en-J tered the room, he found Hayes kneeK ing by the side of the dead woman with blood streaming from bit wounds. "This was according to an agreement! we made when we were engaged," said' Hayes as he saw Case. Hayes was placed under arrest. H^ is about twenty-four years old aud has lived here about six years. He formj < erly worked in Colebrook River for Frank Bushnell, a farmer, who too& him from a- reformatory in Mansan,1 Mass. He has had a good character I101-A nnrl tunn nn nmnlnvA r?f flip (3iM bert Clock Company. His mother fai, said to be in an insane asylum near Boston. His father is in Andoverl Mass. Hayes has been ill since tha, engagement was broken off and haf been treated for hysteria by his phytff ' clan. ' <0:v FORMER KING MILAN DEAD. * V Abdicated the Servian Throne In FaTor 0 His Son in 1889. Vienna, Austria.?Former King Mfy lan, of Servia, died here from lung an<j heart trouble. His body was* buried in Kronchol, a sacred monastic ahrind in Syrmia, Slavonla, with the honor*' due a member of a reigning dynasty}. The former King was born Augmit 10, 1854, at Jassy, the son of MeloH Obrenovlc and a Moldavian woman. He was adopted by his uncle, Princfe: Michael Obrenovlc III., the reigning FOBMEB KIITQ MIL4N OF 8ZBVIA: M Prince of Servia, and was educated at| H Paris. Upon the assassination of hisj.H ancle, June 10, 1868, Milan was called] to assume the government In lS75j H be married Natalie Keschko, daughter of a Russian colonel. Their marrledj life was unhappy, and in 1889 the kings and queen separated. At the samel time Milan abdicated in favor of his. 6on, Alexander. VfjM DISTRESS IN RUSSIA* Widespread Suffering, Owing to the Ftll< ure of the Crop*. H St. Petersburg, Kussia.?xne Minis-; try of the Interior at last officially ad-? mits that widespread distress exists in large sections of the country owing to the failure of the crops. I An official announcement says there* has been a complete failure of tie crops in the Governments of Kherson, and Tomsk and the Territory of Smo-j lensk, while similar conditions exist in numbers of districts of Bessarabia; Kleff, Tobolsk, Taurida, Podolia and the Trans-Balkel territories. The Government considers that 5,500,000 rubles will be necessary to meet the requirements, of which amount 5,000,000 rubles will be contributed by the Government. The Minister of the Interior appeals to private charity to aid the Government in the relief of the sufferers. Roberts le "Earl of Kandahar." Lord Roberts's title is gazetted as "Earl of Kandahar and Pretoria and Viscount St. Pierre." Conger May Bo Governor of Ioira. Major E. H. Conger, United States Minister to China, lias cabled to an Iowa friend that he will accept the Republican nomination for Governor of Iowa, but will not make a fight for It Two Chicago Men Drop Deod.1 Two men dropped dead in Chicago while standing on the street waiting for cars. The victims were Emmet M. Stage, a letter carrier, and John Ma*>talis. Both deaths are supposed to have been due to heart disease. Neway Gleanings Formosa has only one railway line1, f A ton of pure gold is worth $602, 70Q 91 ! Boston claims to be enjoying an onJ H usual building boom. H Two Ice-break - for Port Arthoij B are being constructed in a Finnish | Big search lights are to be put up I by the army engineers to guard Ne-^ H York Harbor. | American naval officers say Gerj B many can easily build her new navy B within six years. H