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Show NKW WEEK IX COXtiliKSS. sniMARY. crisis in tin Npanibli cabinet curred last week. A tV .VI oc- - e script she added: a UjT Z. A. HOWRY. es S.UUi-O.iili- I, Copyright, tint. Dally Story Pub. Co. s The season st the national capital was at its height; the whir of fashion was In the air. and It seemed the social question would If possible absorb the polltlral one. K. street was crowded, for it was Cabinet Day, and two members of the Presidents official family resided there within a square of each other. Some people just think they are Richard Staey enjoying themselves, exclaimed. Indicating with his cane the stream of callers pouring Into the Tuesday. Secretary's door. They are not after pleasure, HarMAY MU. vey Johnston replied, smiling, they 11T.sE Tne bill to Increase the suhsiiliury are following the band. silver coinage was passed. The text of the hill The two men had walked into the follows: "Thai the secretary of the in usury is hereby atithori.e, lo coin silver biil'iioii iu street together and stood in front of Johnstons home watching the scene. the treasury, purchased under I he act of Pt-nns- The notes of low music filled the palms waved their graceful fronds from niches and archways, and brilliant women, aiul what Is better, beautiful oues, moved from room to house, room. A good many years ago. Stacy said, I was much interested In a family nam'd Gray; they lived twelve or fifteen miles front Memphis. The old gentleman's four Rons, he went on reminiscently, were in the Confederate army, tint lie dispensed a lordly hospitality, and later when an order was issued to destroy his fine ancestral home we were aide to prevent its execution. Isabel Clarke smiled brilliantly. The Grays are ir.y dear friends, she eci;:inied, anil I have often heard them lei of (lie time when Jean lren- - July II, siH, into such denominations of suiisid:ary l silver coin as lie may deeu. nccesary to public renniiciiiciils ami thereafter, as public neccssiliec may demand, ton-coisilver dollars into subsidiary coin, and so much of any act as tixes a limit lo the a vreg.ite of subsidiary silver coin outstanding and so much of any act as riins-l- s the coinage of any poclieu of the bullion i:dtT .he acts of May llili, isgo, into standard silv.-- r dollars, is hereby repealed." A bill was passed for the improvement und care of Confederate Mound, Oakwaodceuu-lerChicago A bill was passed to reduce (he seleriiun of reserve IkiiiUs to cities of irumi) inhabitants. no-e- pun-husi'- l The report outlie formications bill was adopted. The house tlu- -i adjouruud until Monday. rf'iift-rene- The Philippine hill s' ill occupies the at lent lou of the seuuie. Messrs. Morgan, Clay and Spooner were the piiiiripal hjieiikers of the day. A joint lesolnlioii was introduced and passed authorizing tiie secretary or war to dolivcrlu the governor of New Jcr-e- y as many broi:e ciiii'i-i- not neighing over I.Voj as might fertile must ruction of SKS-tTK- - id i uu etiuoslriuri -- taint- of Cem-ra- l W. .1. Sewell. '1 he roiifeiTiiee r, pert on the river and harbor bill was j n wiiliotil cuMim-n- l Agreed to. May Ml. Hissing in tin- seimte is so unusual lhal when ii in llie course of the Philippine debate it created a seiis-tio- ii. Mr. sponger ot Wisconsin was speaking and inci'leiitallv. to llie -- lory that a llious-an- d Filipino hail Intii put todealli lv American troops in t rein-lieu hicli they weie compelled to dig. Mr. fanlgn said the story hud been denied hv lln futlier of the soldier who l.ad start it and that the war d parlnn ul had raided to Genera) Can flee to ascertain llie fads. Mr. Carmack interrupted to say that no doubt llie soldiers would ,h ny the story us ail soldier liei-in requlr d tod. Ill was greeted with hisses I rom the demonstration or disapproval 'culling oulu sharp rapping of the gavel from the chair. SKN.VIK - s hurt. Harry Hicks, an aeronaut, waskilied at Kingston Point, New York, last week, by a fall from a parachute. He IforsE. - ifif 'house, by a vote of hi) lo 44 truck head first on a sand bar in the suspended the rules urid adopted the joint resolution extending the thanks of congress te river. of Siam Hay for his address on the. Secretary Charles Jamison was drowned in the Occasion of the McKinley memorial exercise? swollen river at Perry, Okla., last hist February. Tiie the senate bill tc report week, while attempting to ford it. All wild m .m and hirils lit Alaska wax protect been efforts to recover the body have - cunf.-ri-'i- up-i- adopted fruitless. he special rule for the cotishler.ilion of the nnt lull until disposed of wusailopted. An attempt to Miqiciid the rules mid puss a bill to retire General Sternberg failed. Scxatk I.itllr interest, either on the floor or In the galleries, was manifested In the deliute on the Philippine government hill. Mr. Mason of Illinois, In a vigorous speech, differed from the majority in the treatment proposed for the Filipinos. He urged (hut no reason existed for ucrardingido them a treatment different from that accorded to the Cubans, and strongly advised that they Is afforded the right to govern themselves. Other senators who spoke were Messrs, lloar, Forakcr, Cullotn. liacnn, Patterson. Teller, Carmack and Proctor. 'J The fire and police board of Denver lias issued instructions to the chief of police to close all wine rooms and tc enforce the ordinance excluding women from saloons. Owing to the large aggregation of Norwegian contract laborers going tc Canada, the authorities of Norway haye prohibited foreigners from hiring laborers there for export. The Ministers association of Manila is about to send a cablegram to the United States protesting against the shelving of the Phillipines bill as recommended by the Phillippine commission. An attempt on the life of the Czar by a woman was discovered lust week by secret service ofiicers. The woman was at the summer residence of the Czar witli an infernal machine concealed iu a handkerchief. Later details of the earthquake iu Guatemala only add to its horrors. Passengers urriving at San Frankoon the steamer City of Sydney say they understood that at least 1,400 dead were taken from the ruins of (Juezalte- nan go. (Mlie'alsof the Hawthorne race track, who grand stand burned Friday of last week, say that no lives were lost in the lire. Tlic stable hoy who was reported killed lias In en found. Detectives believe (lie tire was t lie work of incendiaries. An outbreak of Yaqui Indians has occurred. A light took place thirty miles from llermosillo. in which eight Yaquis mid two Mexicans were killed. Thu Yuquis retreated in u southeasterly direction mid another fight ia expected. Iu Denver the I'nited Association of Ho1.l ami Keslniiraiit Employees ils convention. Resolutions were adopted indorsing Hie strike of the building trades in that city. Sec- rotary ,1. It. Armstrong was made gen- - I ral organizer. eon-elud- I June 3. Horsx Hills were passed for holding terms of tlm circuit court of oppeuls of the Eighth circuit annually at Denver. Cheyenne und St. Paul: to authorize a light und fog signal at Srinluhoo Harbor, Wash.: a senate lifll to grant hit) nrn-- of land certain hut springs to the stale or Idaho. Consideration of the anarchy 1111 was liegun. Se.v.vie. -- Tho senate the Ixidge Philippine mu eminent hill by a vote of m to The Philippine government bill, as ussed by Hie senate, approves Hie union of the president In creating the Philippine commissioii ami the Hires of civil and vice governor of the islands, und acihcries the governor urnl vice governor to exercise the Hwvrs of goveru-nieas directed by orders Finuro appointments of the governor or vice governor v shall I. lln- prr-- id at, with the advice and consent of n.e mute. 1 he of rig li s ,f t lie I ined States ( is up. i: d in Hi' li i i j: u islands with the cvrrptii'ii of the ighl in bear arms a d llie right lo a l ri.il by ;tirv. All the inh.ihit.inis el Hie Philippine islands are deemed to ciuens ,f ilo- - I'liilippine islands ii Hit eali'li-i- i lo the protivtion or the ln iled Kia ips. A lllllll is In be eslunlislied ii Nt.iliiliX mill coins aulliiir:.ed may at the mint, the laws of lln- Cn'.ted Slates Iveing extended to the islands. When the !surrpei;nii in the islands shall have been ulidin-- , I. a cap-fu- l censns of the Islands snail In' lahcn. and after such census the governor ol tin- - islands sluiil make a roll reand iiiaUe rfcuiiimcmla-linn- s port to the as to fulure government. s jxi.-x- rd Mil- r gnri-nui- nl -- l I I 1 I - - Tiie areli liislnqi of Trebizonde ly communicated (n the Pope Tuesday the news of Hie termiiialiuii of the war in South Africa. Ilia holiness Hod be Messeil. answered: pray to llie British you to eoiiiiiiuiiii-Htgovernment the fuet that llie news has filled me with content." ofli-cil- 1 e ch, vanity of vanllit How wayward llie decrees of fate are; . Dow very weuk the very wine. How very (mull the wry great are. Staey quoted following bis friend into the house. They left their top coats in the ball and went directly to the library. The low hook cases lining the walls were tilled with handsome volumes, some of thorn rare and difficult to obtain, and the center table was covered with magazines and journals, scientific and political. A bronze head of Minerva hoid the letters and loose papers on the desk in place. Stacy seated himself in an easy chair a and footstool. appropriated each Thoughts are battling with other for a channel of utterance iu Gtiroom, he said, glancing up at the busts of statesmen standi'ig guard over the hooks, no wonder your editorials are n sui prise to your friends! Hut my valHarvey was amused. iant effusions are launched from the oilUr down town. perNonsense," the army officer sisted, "I do not care where tVy are written they are Inspired iu lids room. I believe in this eh air.'' Johnston was looking for a box of cigais. 1 thought these could not he lari." lie said, placing tlic Havanas before his guest. It was growing dark, and the fire had become the signifieant light in tiie library. Clouds of smole curled lazily above tbeir heads. "1 wish you would not leave Wash1 want you to go to ington the Warrens with me, they made quite a point of your coming," Johnston said. At first Stacy way back In his chair seemed too comfortable to reply, then be leaned forwa&L It Is out of tee question, old mim, I claim a social furlough when away from home." Tell me, Dick, the editor watched the rings of blue vapor as he spoke, "were you ever hard hit?" "If I understand you, no, But the question aroused his interest. Harvey, he continued, do you remember a picture that hangs in My room to the right as you enter? Johnston nodded, a look of genuine amusement showing in his eyes. it was copied from a rough drawing I made in war times. Stacy left his seat, and stood with his back to 1 y the fire. thought I saw that face again ; it was somewhat older and very much sadder. 1 was going to the Navy Department to see McNairy and passed her as 1 crossed the Avenue from Lafayette Square. The servant came in to light the gas. Many carriages rolled by outside, an- - OS. "y i THE CRIMINALS Great lUHIvultj Ksiwrleura! la Coavlrt-I- u a Mardrrer. Just to see how hard it is to convict a Chinese accused of participation In one of the highbinders' wars, 1 will cite a single Instance that came under the notice of one of the representatives of a great San Francisco newspaper. A Chinese gardener named Ah Lnk was shot in the back by a binder while he was sitting in the Chinese Theater on Jackson street. He was instantly killed. Immediately following the fatal shot the usual movement t'Hik place arouud the body, hut the actors on the stage never even so much as hesitated in the delivery of their lines. When tin; mail fell from t'ae bench the lookout at tiie maiu entrance of tiie place called out lu Chinese that the hit devils were coming. Tiie man who did the sluxitlng so far forgoi himself as to run, aud the police on a hot scent saw him a id started after the fugitive. The man ran out of i lit side eutrar.ee to tiie auditorium and nude his way to Fish Alley. The police were close to him and saw him enter a building at the corner of Hie next Idork. The squad hurried into the place and raptured two hinders. Neith-- c ' of them had a weapon, but there were iKtwder burns uu the right hand of one of tiie men. Nothing could be learned from either of the prisoners, and they were locked up with a charge of murder against each of them. The next morning in court two lirot tiers of the murdered man swore that they were with him at the time of their brother's drain and saw tho man who did toe idiooting, and positively swore that neither of the prisoners had anything to do with tiie killThe accused men were forthing. with released. Hut that night both of the brothers were arrested for killing one of tiie men who was turned loose by their rildcnee in the morning and the other. dangerously wounding When the wounded nan recovered he swore tnat neither ot tne brothers had anything to do with shouting him. Which ull goes to prove that it does not matter much what a (liinese has to swear to, and also that in his oor, weak Mongolian way he does not take a great deal of stock in the brand of Justice dispensed by the white devils. New Orleans well-know- - Tvc found her!" lie exviaimed, burst- ing into Harvey's sanctum, tiss dropped on her knees before the handsome young officer, and pleaded so eloquently with hint that he revoked the order to burn her guardian's home.'' She glanc'd up into Col. I conclude you are Ilia Stacy's face. man! He bowed his head in assent. Tell me, he said earnestly, "what has heroine of the Grays, of Miss lTeutlss?" He had not known before the young girl's name. The old people are dead, the daughter. Lucy Gray, is married, the family is scattered and the homestead sold." And Miss lrentiss? Jean Is here, in Washington, visiting the family of the member of Congress from our district. ile bent eagerly toward her. "Would you object to giving me her address? She gave it to him, and he left the Warrens' that night thinking that at times it is well to follow the lead of an editor. to-nig- ht Time-Democra- TERRITORY BELONGS TO NOBODY. Front Inr Town That Nell her Fruxila Nor Belgium Can Call lie Own. When a person speaks about the smallest states In the world he mentions the Republic of San Marino In the Apennines, the Republic of Andorra in the Pyrenees or the principality of Monaco. There is a little district smaller than any of these which is still more curious in its political relations. It cannot be called independent, for two countries have a I hand in its affairs, and yet It belongs There must be some mistake. know no one by this name, Jean 1rentlss said next morning, when Stacy's card was brought to her. Below in the library Stacy wag having a bad half hour. It was not a sound but an Impression that made him turn his head; a lady stood In the doorway for a moment, then movtd slowly across the space dividing them. The eyes he well remembered were looking again into his own. My apology for coming. Miss Prentiss, he said, "is that 1 am a man with a memory. And I, too, have not forgotten, CoL Stacy, and she extended her hand cordially to him. I have found her, he exclaimed an hour later, bursting Into Harvey's sanctum, and she is all I thought or hoped her to be!" I have been thinking of the old times since I saw you. Juan Prentiss said to Stacy. She was very beautiful, her eys sparkled like sunlight on a jewel, and her laugh was as spontaneous and merry ns when che made the brightness of Gray farm. I, too, have been re! respecting, he replied, "and there is one scene that will nev: r leave niv memory." He drew a yellow paper from hN pocket and sprrnil it before her. "This has been my talisman since I first saw ' you." Jean's color heightened us she brut lover it: she ?:w n figure, a jfair girlish face up'.iftid iu Stacy seated himself in an easy chair, tion, and great wondrous ryes that looked an appeal, that carriid a eoin-- j nouncing tin fact that the Sscretary's maud. Ibli'w site read: homo for tho present had lost its importance as the gathering piace of 'A face to b'se yniitii !"r. To ociiip sue vi:h the .hr, mi of. fashion. ' To nnet (iiiilh uiiii Harvey watched his friend with inI shall induce you "I could l.nt be so impressive now, creasing interest. lo remain over another day, ho do- - she said, gazing tadly at her oilirr rided mentally, "upon the chance of st If. This was tiie audacity of youth meeting Hits love of long ago. and that hail confronted no failure." '1 hat take you with tuc to the Warrens' to- night she wrote to Lucy Gray Claire: night." I am When fitary was presented to Miss coining lnmu to le married: Clarke of Tennessee that evenlmr, he all the happiness or my life except this was conscious of a rjddun exhilaraIasi lias been shared with your people tion. and I want to associate them now in Of Tenness.i e? Tie repeated. this new era if my life." As n post To-da- j : i wmmasasb HELP CHINESE ! I rei-oi- Iat Meagher, a steeple-chas- e jockey, was killed at the Woodbine track, Torouto. The Kmperior of Japan haa subscribed Id, not) francs to the Martinique relief fund. There is a coal famine in New York 4'ity, occasioned by the striae iu the Irani a fields. All the coal companies i.i llaicton, Pa., are cummisnioidiig special otlicers to guard their property. John Jrrmyn, the millionaire coul operator, died at his home in Scranton. Pa., last week, aged T.'i years. The iuqiorts of dry goods and merchandise at the port of New York fur last week were valued at Sii..V.,4,74l.. There is four feet of water iu the townsite of Walters, Okla.. and the transaction of business is impossible. Four people were drowned by the capsizing of a boat iu llie Columbia river last week near Martin's IllufT, Oregon. The Oklahoma rivers are recediug. The total damage of the lloods throughout the territory is estimated at over a million dollars. The II oods in western Oklahoma and the western portion of Indian Territory continue unabated, and most streams urc still on the rise. I. P. Harrow eommited suicide at Itutte last week by shooting, brooding over a love uiVair is supposed to have prompted the rash deed. Senator Platt, (if New York, has introduced a bill in the senate makiug train robbery a felony and providing the deuth penalty for the offense. All difference!! between the Chicago Union Traction company and its employees lin vc been settled and the company accepted the domauds of the men. The lireat Northern llyer was wrecked last week near (iraud Forks, N. 1). Several coaches were piled in a heap. Only one person was seriously Col. Stacy says that Isabel Clarke must be one of the wedding guests." - BEFORE LEAVE TAKING MS. teiM. -- Tin' liiiii.p speiil (lie .lay ilelia' instin- - Ml .ill i.1 rv C'lilinye by till l'il I to inert-uscoining the sitter liuliiin in t ireusiirr aud to the standard dollars as the public may require. The limit of su bsidiury The hill cuinase is now to an indentiiie amount in of ilia secretary of the treasury. SKXXia The followin. (dlls were passed. Authorizing tlm board of sus-r- t Isors of Santa truze county. Arlz , to Issue tionds for the eretluu of a courthouse and jail; grunting title to the town of Juneau, Alaska, to lands occupied for school purposes: uit,untiug certain conflicts respecting Mule school indemnity selections hi lieu of school sections iu abandoned military reservations. An agreement was reached tiy which a tinal vote on tho pending Philippine government bill and all amendments will Ih taken up next Deaths from the Goliad, Texas, cyclone have reached a total of 141. Admiral Schley delivered the Memorial day address at Bangor, Maine. Mt. Ielce is still active and vometa fire which is visible forty miles away. The situation of the famine stricken peasants of Itussia continues to grow worse. o - j hm-iiin- j l - j ! j to nobody and thus occupies an anomalous position, says the New York Sun. This little area, containing only about two square miles, is the ground on which the Town of Moresnet stands, a little to the southwest of the important German city of The Vienna congress in 1815 established a new boundary between the low countries and Prussia. The congress was unable to agree as to how a very short part of tho boundary should be drawn, A temporary arrangement was finally made by which Moresnet should be called neutral territory. Subsequent events played ducks and drakes with the frontiers established by the congress of Vienna. But Moresnet has never been disturbed. It is still neutral territory and is so marked on every good ma) of Europe. The town is mentioned in very few' school or other geographies. Writers would not know where to class Moresnet if they did not mention it. to-da- y He Item mi tho Test. Th Rev. E. L. Yeomans, late of Grange. N. J.. was very fond or children and made much of them in a pastoral way. One Sunday, says the New York Times, lie preached a sermon from the somewhat fanciful ti xt, Thun .Makest as the Iliud's Fret. and was My gratilb'd lo notice that th young son of one of Ids congregation gave it unusual attention and cciiiod very much interested. Meeting him a few days after lie said: "Well, lands, I saw you in church last Sunday, wide awake as usual, and listening witli luitli ears." "Yes, sir." "And do you remember the sermon?" "Yes. sir." "Weil, 1 am curious to know If you can repeat the text." No. sir. I don't think I san. It was something about your hind feet, but I didn't just understand what." hr-re- The man who goes all tho gait after a while. will heeomc nriDT'i--t |