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lOTIMES ■ JF HMM MMB 1 WEEK • VOL. 45. T O M, BY HELEN MATHERS, Author of “Cornin’ Thro’ the Rye,” “Cherry Ripe,” etc. ' Copyrighted, 1895, by Helen Mathers. CHAPTER I. Torn woke up very early as usual, hours before any one else in the house wajj Btlrrlng. For a longr while ho lay staring at the sky, for he abhorred blinds, and always opened his window as far as possible from the top, the nearest approach to breathing that he could get 'indoors these stifling summer night®. It would be ages before the slipshod ser vant (how could she sleep With those ' pushing Angers of the day at her eyelids?) would shuffle down to open doors and win dows, and dabble with dustpans and # brooms; the same hands later on preparing the coffee that nobody could drink, and the rasher of bacon that was clean when It went into the frying pan and black when It came out. If the missus were down they might possibly get fewer blacks and more bacon, but the missus was getting into an old lady now, and had a knack of dozing oft when she quite intended to do other wise. The boy's soul sickened at the prospect of the gruesome meal, at Billy-goat who would comedown unwashed and unkempt to turn up his- nose at k, at the spoiled younger brother who passed all his indoor 'life in having rows with Billy—rows in which he was invariably backed up by the missus. Then Billy would cry—partly because his muscles did not allow him to try con clusions with the Benjamin of the family, a-nd Benjamin would presume on Tom’s neutral attitude towards both parties, and very likely would insult him, and an aw ful revulsion of feeling would oome over Tom as he saw the sorry figure they cu t, three able-bodied men all Mving in hatred and bitterness of spirit on one poor old mother, and not doing a stroke of work to help themselves or her. Tom thought of all these things as he lay in his hard bed (true thee earth was harder but then it had smelt sweeter) debating in his mind whether ‘ho would read, or get np for a six mile walk In a fifth rate Lon don suburb. He glanced at the yellow backed book near him, and turned his eyes away. He was Mck of books. He had been liv ing on them for months now, ami he would have given the whole lot of them for one clear, fresh page out of Nature such pages as he had turned contentedly day by day for years, till at tola mother's bidding he hrd come home, because ahe was sick, she satfii. aqd would like to see him once more before she died. His thougftils wi-til clean out of the fthabby .m.i-ruw I. m ac A i si.rw.. f ... '..r : <nd'‘<ttbably’ex V Aillriutwig, and ini inuu/wativ.t iho leaped on on® of those ftottwe, Jkarwbacked, and never hitherto ridden, of man-that it wag nl« trade to break in, a trade he had brought to the utmost perfection. It wag his metier—the one thing he tairsolutely excelled in, and if nature must take a share of the credit In fashioning him a Hght-welglit, the other qualitie* necessary to the making of a successful cowboy were his own. and in hfe hum ble way he rejoiced in. and was proud of them. That had been the. one good he had learned that he had nev»-r forgotten— that had outlasted all the Latin and Greek and other ueekw things he had been taught in those exthavsugant days of his you th, when the poor old dad. had more horses in hla stable than sons in his house, and the youngest child of all could ride well before it had atrenght to Climb into the saddle. Those day's were long over now, and Wiowo gently-roared sons anti daughters wore all out in the world, the girts all married, some of the l>oys doing well, others camo home as ne’er do wools to live on their mother’s scanty Income. But Tom was not one of thewe latter, and his present life was aw grit, between hits teo.h, and he longed to go back to the old tndc penamt on** from which he had been taken. For a few brief moments the poor boy •nlffcd the accustomed scents of his be loved bush. f elt the tierv and bounds of the animal beneath him, was back jumped with equanlmtty, and kept his seat, by what seemed a series of mira cles... then the blue gum trees vanished, the glorious new world gave place to a natch of morntag sky, and he found himself once mon* face to face with the problem how iho ehotnld waste three hours of precious time. Suddenly a thought struck him. We are apt to remember in tho morning the last thing (especially if it be dtaiigir«'*xiblo) that wv thought of over-night, and now ho thought of some expwtuMtory remarks that ho had heard the Missus, In the mildest of tone®, ad dr®*® to Billy-goat at bedtime. * w ™’' ril tn <®t any more beer in till Saturday,” she had said. “You «tad make what Is 1n the houso hud. till then.'* Now Tom know that -Billy had away of waking up early, wy at 6 o’clock, or thereabouts, thirsty, and having an in <tense distaste for water, was in the habit of descending to the kitchen and there quenching his Christ on bear, and it oc curred to Tom that people who don’t earn anything have no right to fancies in their moat and drink, and an idea struck him a® has before be*w» stated. Partly drawing himself, as he stole down stairs, and made his way to the kitchen unlovely, as all London ones are (and is ■not a neat country one the cheerlet apart ment to the whole house?) and investiga tedthsi cupboard tn which the drinkables of the house were to be found. On® sM® of the cupboard was filled alas’ with anti in tho proportion of at IwsO to oiw <*f the small phalanx at full bottles on the oth« r side. Tom grinned, and swiftly removed th® latter to a safe corner of the >oa] cel la r rhon carried a considerable numix'r of empty bottles to the tap, tilled them with water, carried them back to the cupboard then, and there was the rub .’found himself stumped for corks. Bottles, Indeed, there wore gw torn -but no corks* anywhere to be found. Tim® paswM. RHiv-goat might be down at any time what was to la done? He rubbed his head, and an idea, the second that morning, came. A vorkavrew was handy, he seixed it, •nd rapidly returned to the coal cellar w hereupon ensued a popping of corks al most as rapid as those drawn by Grip tho Raven in Barnaby Kudgv, and he quickly reappeared with a handful, that he cut in half and duly rammed tato toe bottles of w»Wr bo tightly (w’rh the aid of the wall) that they presented no appearance of being tampered with, then hid himself behind a door whence to w»tch the march of events. He had not long to wait. Whether in that ill-built house Billy-goat had heard sounds tn the region where all his hopes were centred I know not, but very soon his slippered h*et were heard on the stair and he came shuffling In, blear-eyed, tho little gratae beard, wlx*mv he derived his name, nil unkempt, and with that curious monkeyish look that had been stamped on him ever since fee wus horn, and that seemed to tiiervvise orf' ieasen aa he grew into a middle-aged nmn. He looked around susptcioush'. but the scullery doer told no tales, and satlsfac tlon illufflinad his wtien face as he opened the cuubean.l door, and saw Inside the plump bottles ttghth- corked, that tu*em< 1 (o invite him to a drink. With a si l :'* of •ntr tpat’.on he took one. uneork» I it gw* e dim jX eW6. _ E O R lr '™'- ■■■——— p ( THE ifitieic, r "’EWS. ) •< Established 1850. - 'X-S -*<>4 1888. > < J. H. ESTILL, Pre*,., i > fetched a tumbler from the dresser hard by, sat down for the greater enjoyment of the occasion, then with a flourish poured out a foaming—but did It foam?— glass of water! Billy-goat swore, danced, knew that he was the victim of a trick, though t*e was not quite sure which Os his brothers was responsible for it, and vowed vengeance on whoever it was. Then, with sore mis giving, uncorked another and another, and another, and by time he came to the last was ripe for Bedlam! Never had Tom seen this Incarnation of laziness display such energy before. The variety of his step-dance, the fervor of his language, the magnificent capacity of his threats, all proceeding from so wholly in adequate a source, at last affected Tom to the degree of bursting out laughing, whereupon there were ructions, in which Billy was the assaulting party, while Tom confined himself to warding off blows, and retreating upstairs as fast as possi ble. After which he sat down and laughed for awhile, then dressed, and went out for a walk. CHAPTER 11. Tom, ’ said Rose Clovelly, putting her work down on her knee, “when are you going to get something to do? Tom’s eyes, of that vivid beautiful tint we call hazel for want of a better name, and which Is rare as it is beautiful, fal tered before the girl’s earnest blue ones, and fell. “I don’t know,” he said, irresolutely. She shook her head a little impatiently. Yes, that was the fault in Tom; you saw it in those pathetic eyes of his, that said so much more for him than he was ever able to say for himself, and let you Into the secret places of his timid, gentle soul. Irresolution was written in the lines of his mouth, of his chin, yet it was a sweet and lovable face, strikingly like that of poor Frank Miles when in his young prime. "But you must find out,” said in her quick, bright way. “Providence doesn’t knock at people’s doors to bring work, you know. You must go and look for it yourself.” “It's no good,” said Tom, hopelessly. “I don’t understand anything but horses, and nobody wants them broken in over here, and nobody wants me either. I’ve tried, and it’s no good.” “Then go on trying,” said Rose, cruelly, as she counted some stitches in the waist coat she was knittinp, “Begin on Mon day morning and stop on Saturday night, but go on.” “London is a bfg place,’ he said, heavily. “It’s not much good to walk about it ail day unless you know where to go, and some fellow has said a word to In sure you a hearing. You get turned away like a stray dog come after scraps, and it doesn’t seem to be considered even honest to try and earn your living. “It’s hard, I know,’ said Rose, smooth ing out the big. shaped piece of knitting on the little table before her. ’lt was months and months before 1 found any thing to do—and it was my own idea, hitting on these waistcoats that all the swagger men wore last winter. And it’s wretched pay,” she sighed, “but little , a»- U to it Lelpn mother; • i / ' Tom flushed. He would have been proud to take oven a copper home that he had earned. The little room in which they sat was very fresh and neat, quite unlike his own home in Marigold Road. Rose and her mother were poorer than he and his, yet they achieved comfort and content. “You see, Tom,” said the girl, as she threaded her needle with pale blue silk, to pqt In the little dabs of color the walßtcoat’s plain brownness demanded, “if you don t make a start, the other two never will, and it’s telling on your mother; she is getting to look quite hag gard and old.” Tom admitted it. He had noticed it him self. But be did not think the sight of him in full work would have any stimu lating effect on Billy Goat or Benjamin. When they had beein abroad, they had been compelled to work or starve. Now that their mother had got them home, and they could eat without the disagree able preliminary of earning what they ate, it was not likely they would exert them selves. Tom did not tell Rose this. If she could not se>e for herself the stuff of which his brothers was made, he was not going to tel) her. And he could not blame the poor old mother, because her desire to see him haxl taken him out of a state of life in which he was happy, and even success ful, and planted him here, where he was degraded to the position of a loafer. Per haps his eyes spoke for him, as they so often did, for Rose looked earnestly at him, and said gently. “why did you come back Tom—was it wise?” For a moment he was silent. Then a great desire to right himself with this bravo, pretty girl, who was the only gleam of Bunshino in his life, overcame him, and he ,«rpoko. “It was this way, Rose,” he said. "You know—you remember how. when the poor old dad died, we wore all chucked out into the world anyhow, anywhere, with only mother’s little private income saved out of the wreck, to bring us all up on. Luckily some of the* girls were married, others were engaged—things somehow fell out all right for them, but it took time, and mean wnllo all of us boys who could, tried for work. Some succeeded, some didn’t. Billy Goat (Rose (smiled) got the best chance, and went out to a teaman in India, Ho rubbed along there somehow till mother got him home—they don’t hurry up much over anything there, you know/’ he added wisely. "No," said Ros®, laughing outright, “or he couldn't have earned enough rice to keep him alive. To lie down and wait till the clouds roll by, Tom, that’s Billy’s motto." “Yes.” said Tom. "we did hear that whenever he was wanted for anything he was usually found sound asleep—rolled up somewhere—and I can quite believe it. Well, two of the others got berths in banks. They are in them now, respectable members of the family, who look down on us ne'er-do-wells, and we seldom see em. 'They lump you in with the others,” said Rose, nodding her bright head indignantly, "and It s a shame.” ‘‘W®! l *’* continued Tom. "I wak always a fool. There’s one in every big family, you know, and I never could do anything The only thing I could do, and the'others could do it. better than I could—was to ride. And by accident I heard of a man who wanted a light-weight who under stood and could break in horses, and after a bit—” here Tom stammered, unaccount ably—"after a bit—when—when the missus could ret me a steerage passage—l *• he drew a deep breath—“l went.” Ro’se looked searchingly at the boy—for he looked but little more, with his light figure, his close cropped curly head, and fresh skin. •And why didn’t you go at once, Tom?” she said. Tom did not immediately reply. He had turned absolutely pale, and a look had come into his beautiful eyes that was not fear, or horror, or shame, y»< n was com pounded of all three. “Rose." he said, almost in a whisper "don’t call me a coward or a fool, rve tried to get over it; I can't. I have a hor ror of the sea. I always had, and though 1 don’t fear death, something tells me that I shall die at sea—that's the only way I can account for my loathing of lt.’ r "Yet you went upon it. and came back safely.’ said Rose, gently, ‘which proves t)»at your fear of it is all moonshine.” I Ton* shivered. "I didn't want to go. and I didn’t want to come home." he* said simply, "and that’s the reason; And I wish.” he paused i and his eyes fell on her face." if it were « not for one thing, I mean.” he added, th® ! cold coming Into his marble white face, j ' "That I'd been coward enough to refuse I to come home when Benjamin fetched “He fetched you?”, exclaimed Rose, sharply, “and who sent him?” “The missus. He was in Melbourne, you know, and I was a hundred miles up country from Sydney. She wanted us both to come home, and sent him to me. The man I was with didn’t want me to come— he couldn’t replace me at a moment’s notice, and told me if I left him I left him for good. I hesitated a bit.” Rose could well believe it). “But you know what a will of his own Benjamin has got—and he made me come.” "Poor boy,” said Rose, softly, and bent her head over her work. Was it To hide a tear? “Wej had bad luck all the way along,” eald Tom, “everything went wrong from the beginning, then Benjamin had an ac cident with a gun at Sydney, and I had to get a doctor, and he nan us up a long bill; and the money went so fast—” "What money?” said Rose, quickly. "Benjamin’s?” “Benjamin! Os course, he hadn’t got any. It was what I had saved.” “How much?” “A little over a hundred pounds.” “And you had saved all that? Tom, how old where you when you went out there?” “Eighteen.” “And how old jare you now?” “Twenty-seven, he said, in a shame faced way. “And you never had any help from your mother—never came upon her in any way?” “Os course not! The idea of such a thing ” “Tom, you are a hero. Q! Tom, poor Tom—brave Tom,’! and the girl put her head down on her work and sobbed aloud. "Rose, Rose,” he cried, distracted, “don’t cry—what is there to cry about? I wish I hadn’t saldl a word about anything.” “GO on with your story,” she said, dry ing her eyes fiercely, “but I can tell you the end of it—l know! You spent every farthing of your hard-earned hundred pounds on that scamp of a brother, and briging him and yourself home; and now you haven’t a penny to call your own, and are girded at every day because you are not working! And I have girded the worst of all—noor Tom! O! poor Tom!” “You haven’t,” said Tom, stoutly, his handsome, weak mouth trembling. “You’ve just kept me alive, or I might have blown my brains out long ago.” “I always hated Benjamin,” said the girl still flushed, and piteous, and angry, and pretty, for the way he treats you, and your mother airways backing him up too—but now I loathe him. And it was wicked of her to get you home, when you were happy and earning your living in a way that contented you—and all for what for what?” “The poor old missus was ill,” said Tom, “and she hadn’t seen us for a long time. If she could find the ‘money to send me iback ” He paused, and got furiously pale again—"l—l’d chance the sea and go. But she can’t. If I go abroad again it must be some short distance—some jour ney that will only cost a few pounds.” Rose saw that his pallor remained, in deed it was still there when at last he got up lingeringly and wished her good-bye. Long afterwards she remembered it, with tears she remembered it, with the fruitless wish that she had been wise before the event that we have all known to. our bitter sorrow. CHAPTER 111. Things had come to a climax in Marigold s.. ■ z k V Tne'tni'ee men shut*Ujr within a narrow compass quarrelled, and occasionally fought (the elder and younger especially), and tho mother began to fall really ill in trying ’to reconcile Irreconcileable ele ments, independently of the daily problem of how to teed them. Two of them desired nothing better than to drive out the third—a poor creature in their estimation—who neither fought nor swore, who delighted in none of their- pur suits, and even on occasion as has been shr>wn in the matter of the beer bottles) went out of his way to thwart them in their cherished likings. So Benjamin, who was his mother’s tyrant, and right hand, and general ad viser, spent a good hour every day poring over advertisements of cheap passages to foreign parts, and after some considera tion came to the conclusion that a voyage which cost £f>‘ 10s. from start to finish would about meet the requirements of the case, the state of the family purse, and the ca pacities of the Intending emigrant. All of which views being duly impressed asked him what he was going to do when on his mother, and by her passed on, and with some womanly circumlocution con veyed to Tom, that personage turned a little white rpund the lips, drew a deep breath, and announced himself ready to sail when his passage money should be forthcoming. Then the poor woman, whose weak craving to behold him had lost him his humble, happy career, set to work to make flannel shirts for him, and other such things as mothers love to make ready for their sons when they journey from them, but since he never said anything, or bullied her after Benjamin’s fashion, it never occurred to her that she was assist ing at a tragedy, and indeed it is probable that no one in the world, not oven Rose, knew what was coming. Rose wept hot passionate tears when he told her that he was going, but when she he got there, he said he did not know— and he might have added that he did not 1 Ton id, unresourceful, irresolute and doubtful of himself to the last degree, he might have gone on to the end nf life In the safe groove of his open-air con genial Australian life, but rudely taken out of It, thrown as he so soon would be entirely on his own exertions in a for eign land, where he would not even know a word of its language, it is no wonder if his mind shrank from looking forward, and that he prepared to obey orders like a bitted and bridled brute. So that, when he answered Rose after that fashion, something deeper than pain stabbed Roe®’, it was fury, indignation, it was a nameless fear and passionate affec tion all in one, and if she could have saved poor Tom by any impossible feat of work, she would have attempted It there and then. But everything was already settled. Tom had spared her until the last mo ment, and in another three days he would be gone. .. .... .. “Rose ” he said, presently, "that’s a prettier waistcoat than usual. Is it for sale?" Rose blushed, and hung her head over it. "No, Tom,” she said, softly, "it s—it's for *1 istolc * * Tom sat silent—siWnt, and very, very St pcrhaps he was a fool—he had never been as capable of taking care of himself as his father’s other children—but without an other word, without a look at her, he knew who Jack was. So still he sat that at last she stole a look toward him. And she knew then, knew it for all time, that this poor boy loved her. would love her, who knows? When to him all other earthly things faded, as he did. W hen he had gone away, saying no word, she burst suddenly into wild weeping. “It is murder,” she said, “to send him awav like that, and out of the whole world no one will really care but me. O! Tom—poor Tom.” Next day she went—it was no great dis tance—to his mother. Mrs. Holmes drew her young guest’s at tention to the fineness or the satin stitch in Tom’s new flannels, showed the shirts, the housewife, and the rest of a lonely boy’s outfit going far from home. Billy Goat, caught in wild deshabille, sat on the horsehair sofa, ogled the pretty girl and fondled his beard. In the distance Benjamin’s strident voice might be heard bullying the maid. "Mrs. Holmes.” said the girl, and her young face looked strangely stern, "do you thing it right to send Tom to a place where employment is doubtful, and It is most unlikely he will meet with anything , for which he is fitted?” j Mrs. Holmes folded the shirts, and ■ wished that Benjamin were present. j "He anly understands, horses." pleaded ■ < the girl, “tee is a genius with them. Can’t ! SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1895. you send him back to Australia, to where he was before?” Mrs. Holmes said it was impossible— she co-uld not pay the passage-money. “No,” said Miss Clovelly, giving Billy Goat a level look of scorn beneath which he squirmed visibly, “with your expenses, I know it is difficult. But you should recollect, dear Mrs. Holmes, that for nearly ten years he has entirely sup ported himself—that he had saved up a hundred pounds, which he spent, mainly on his brother, and that it is your turn now to help him.” She was outrunning tlie constable now with a vengeance, and she knew it, but her blood was up, and she was fighting for Tom, poor Tom, who would not fight for himself. ‘ “Really,” began Mrs. Holmes, and then, to her intense relief, Benjamin, black browed, sullen faced, came in, and Rose, scorning to stoop to such an adversary, went abruptly out. Tom that evening received much ele gant chaff on his bright young compan ion, but for once in his life he flashed out with such a vengeance as to silence them both, though to his mother, from first to last, he never said an unkind word. When he came to bid Rose good-by, he was calm, and even cheerful, but when she pressed him to write to her, he made no reply. He was to go down to the docks that afternoon, and sail at daybreak. When the actual moment of parting came he held her hand a long while, and his beautiful eyes, with their dumb, inarticulate pleading said more than he guessed. "Good-by, Rose,” he said, “you are the only person in England I am sorry to leave.” That was all. Lung, long after she wished with ail her heart and soul she had granted the request in his eyes, and kissed him, and even Jack wished it too. That night she dreamed a dream of him, and its terror haunted her for the few* days before she knew. Sbe thought that she was coming down stairs and saw, in the narrow* passage, Tom, his back against the wall, his arms stretched out wide, and when she stepped close and looked in his face he was— dead. i CHAPTER IV. Rose Clovelly waited, with an indiscrib able fear and anxiety for news of Toni. He had got the worst, of it over now—he had faced the sea (did not that dread speak dumbly among other things in his eyes that night?) and' all might yet be well with him. And yet the thought of that simple fel low bewildered, helpless, in a strange place smote her with even sharper pain, and many a tear fell on the bright silks that made the glory of much hard work, and she longed for Jack, now on his very way home from India, who would be sorry with her, and possibly hit upon some plan to help her friend. Rose conquered her aversion to Billy- Goat and Benjamin and ‘went more than once to Marrigold Road to inquire anx iously if any news had come of Tom. Mrs. Holmes began to think that the only good-looking on® out of all her boys had actually made R&se fall in love with him, so was kind to, her, and made her welcome. But there was no news, and the weather, for of year, was extraordinarily cold, i. One day, Tom had been gone over a fortnight, Rose was sitting with Mrs. Holmes when the postman’s knock was heard, and the girl stopped working and grew white as snow. • S|3On th® in with a letter— » only way pushed into Rose’s hand, as being nearest, and shuffled out. . Rose, sat, scarcely breathing, and read ing the superscription of the letter. It was addressed to any relatives or friend of the late Mr. Thomas Holmes.” And then she knew—knew that poor Tom’s awful dread of the sea was well founded—that he. knew that he was going to his doom when he bld her goodbye; •that her dream of him had foreshadowed what was to come. “What is it?" said Mrs. Holmes, looking up from an intricate stitch that the entry of the servant had not disturbed, and then Rose's whiteness, the agony in her face struck her, and she began to tremble. “It's Tom,” said the girl in a whisper, then kneeled dowm, and put her arms round Tom’s mother. “Don’t cry,” she said, not knowing what she said, only longing to soften the blow’ •to her; “he is happy now, and he was never happy here. O, Tom! Tom!” “What is it?” said the* mother again; “something has happened to Tom—it is in that letter.” She too made no effort to open it, only fell into the sad, hopeless weeping of old age, and Rose opened it. Some of it she read aloud, some of it she did not. If any one could be found who had the heart to read it all to any poor mother then she was not that person. But Mrs. Holmes knew that Tom was dead—that he had died the very night he sailed, had been buried at The Hague, and his clothes and personal effects were now on their way home to her. Rose kept the letter fast within her palm even when the brothers had come, and there was confusion and some real grief, for she could not make up her mind to part with it—lt seemed hers. Presently she escaped, and In the room that ha<J been Tom’s read and committed to memory every word of the chaplain’s letter; then she went back to the others, and subsequently, on search being made for the letter, it was found on the table. It was not a long letter, but its intention had evidently Men kind. The writer said that Tom Holmes had come on board just before th® ship sailed, that he was observed to be strange in manner, or, as the sailors put it, “afraid,” and all that day he stayed apart, neither, eating nor drinking, nor answering any one who spoke to him. That night there was a hard black frost, and the cold of this first night at sea, intense. In the morning, in an unfre quented. unsheltered place on deck, with out a morsel of anything but his thin clothes to cover him. he was found stretch ed out—frozen to death. Did he He down there on purpose, poor, friendless, timid Tom? Did he prefer* the safe anchorage of death rather than that fierce struggle with life for which he was eminently unfitted? Perhaps, who knows? God solved the riddle for him in the wav he thought best, and he whom we called "Poor Tom” is passing rich Tom now. (The End.). TIPPER REPORTEDSXIRBED. A Reqnest for Information Elicits no Reply. Ottawa, Ont., April 24.—1 n the House of Commons this afternoon Mr. Langelier, opp>osition, asked the government if there was any truth in the report from Wash ington that Secretaiy Gresham had . snubbed Sir Charles Tupper during an in terview with Sir Julian Pauncefote and the secretary. There was no reply. Mr. Laurier asked for the correspond ence concerning the Bering Sea ques . tion. and Mr. Coatigun, the minister of marine, said all the papers he coifid pro duce would be brought down, but the negotiations were not yet completed, and until that was done all the correspondence could not be had. SUGAR TRUST AAO THE SENATE. The Counsel Unable to Agree on a Date for the Trial. j Washington, April 24.—Nathaniel Wilson : of the counsel representing H. O. Have | meyer and John A. Searles in the proceed j ings against them for refusing to an i swer questions asked by the Senate com mittee that investigated the alleged re ; lation of the sugar trust to the tariff ’ legislation, has had a final conference ! with District Attorney Birney, which re j suited in a failure to agree upon a day for the trial of Mr. Wilson’s clients. Th<‘ dis- * triet attorney will >;ccordlngiy ask the I cbu'rt to ‘■•ct elf early day. ONE OF CUBA’S LEADERS DEAD. JOSE MACEO DIES FROM WOUNDS RECEIVED AT PALMARITO. His Body at First Supposed to Be That of Gen. Antonio Maceo —The Insurgents Repulsed in a Fight; at Ramon Jagnns and Their Captain Killed—The Queen Regent Com mutes a Death Sentence—Gen. Campos’ Movements. From the Staff Correspondent of the United Press. Havana, April 24.—Absolutely reliable information confirms the report of the death of the insurgent leader, Jose Maceo as the result of the wounds which he re ceived in the recent fight at Palmarito. The governor general of Cuba to-day re ceived a dispatch from Senor Castellanos, the Spanish colonial minister, announcing that the government was in receipt of as surances from the governments of Hayti, San Domingo and Costa Rica that they would prevent the formation in those countries of filibustering expeditions in aid of the Cuban rebels. The dispatch further stated that the British and Danish authorities had renewed the assurances previous given Spain, and had instructed the officials of their respective colonies to put down all attempts to aid the insur gents. Gen. Martinez Campos arrived to-day at Puerto Principe. A crow’d of 6,000 per sons, among whom were many ladies, gave him an enthusiastic greeting and cheered him repeatedly. It was expected that at a o’clock this afternoon Gen. Cam pos would proceed for Havana. Santiago De Cuba, April 24.—The body, supposed to be that of Gen. Antonio Maceo, the insurgent leader, has been fin ally identified as that of his brother, Jose. A battle was fought on Sunday at Ra-» mon Jaguas. Little is known of the de tails, beyond that the insurgents were re pulsed and Capt. Julian Miranda was killed. Lieut. Benjamin Gallego, who was sen tenced by court martial to be shot to-day, was saved by a cablegram from the queen regent, commuting his sentence to life imprisonment. Madrid, April 24.—Some 3,200 troops will s<ail for Cuba next week. The Official Ga zette publishes a call for 20,000 more men to enter active service. Jacksonville, Fla., April 24.—The story sent from Birmingham, Ala., a day or two ago that 300 filibusterers had sailed from this port for Cuba is the baldest sort of a fake. No such expedition sailed and there is nothing to indicate that there is any filibustering movement afoot in this vi cinity. New York, April 24.—Passengers on the Ward line steamer Yucatan, which arrived from Havana to-day, say the people of that place are much excited, owing to the expected arrival of Gen. Martinez Campos. A large number of young men of Havana and vicinity are leaving the country on steamers for Tampa and New' York. The Spanish steamer Panama arrived at quarantine this afternoon, after a trip of three days and fifteen hours from Ha vana. Among the passengers on board was Dupuy De tome, the Spanish minister to the Vnited States ZTh®' -minister snicli IncFkc*it i'nt ulPris qaSmuifi n'bwn and I am confident that tffe troubles wilT soon be settled. The captain general, Mar tinez Campos, will be in Havana before many days. He is now visiting the affected districts, with a view o-f suppressing any disorders that may arise. The alleged in surrection is eontined principally to ne groes, the whites not taking active part with them. I feel assured, from my knowledge of the captain general, that he will be prompt and energetic. His perfect knowledge of Cuban affairs makes him the best man for the place.” The minis ter will remain in Nev/ York for several days. Boston, April 24.—The Boston Fruit Com pany’s Jamaica line steamer Ethelrid, be fore reported as chased into Port Antonio, Jamaica, by a Spanish cruiser, reached her dock this morning. Capt. Hopkins says: “We had no trouble this time from any man-of-war, and we were not chased into Port Antonio, nor did anybody lire at us.” One of the ship’s company said: “That Spaniard wasn’t after us. He ran in after an American schooner that had sailed from Florida and was suspected of carrying arms and contraband of war. He was there ahead of us, but we heard nothing from him at all.” STRIKE OF THE BUS DRIVERS. The Company Make* Coneesßions and the Men Apt to Return to Work. Paris, April 24.—The situation in the omnibus strike changed somew’hat this afternoon. There were very much fewer riotous demonstrations to-day than yes terday. which is perhaps accounted for by the fact that all of the strikers arrested for rioting yesterday were promptly con victed of disorderly conduct to-day and punished. The moral effect of this action was greatly enhanced by the physical ef fect produced by the procedure of the prefect, of police, who to-day employed 2,500 regular policeman and 1.500 of the municipal guards in the preservation of order. It is now believed that the strike Is approaching its end. The omnibus company has consented to the point made by the men tljM the minimum pay shall | be francs a day and the men, in consid eration of this concession, will probably abate some of their claims. Several other points have been conceded to the strikers and it is probable that most of them will return to w’ork. Proust and Deville, leaders of the om nibus strikers, have been arrested for in citing the men to violence. I , 111 Ill’ll —I IW.U ..I I. U«| i*.., w... —I- ■ HOLLAND TAKES TO HIS HEELS. The Defnnlting; Bank Caahier's Wliereahonh Now Unknown. Charlotte. N. C.. April 24.-J. R. Hol land, tne defaulting cashier of the Mer chants and Farmers National Bank of this city, left last night and his where abouts are unknown. He has not yet been taken under arrest. To-day United States Marshal Allison swore out a warrant for him and a de scription of him was wired in all direc tions. To-day, also, the bank offered a reward of SI,OOO for him. There are no further new developments as to the shortage, which is understood to be about $60,000. The bank is absolute ly safe. It can stand its loss and still have a good part of its surplus left, with out the necessity of going upon its uifiii vlded profits or capital. MRS. PARNELL -SINKING. She Is no Longer Able to Recognize Ac<i uai n tan ces. Bordentown, N. J., April 24.—Mrs. Par nell is still alive, but her condition Jhis afternoon is considered as extremely crit ical. The convulsions are less frequent and less violent, but the patient is grow ing weaker and does not recognize her neighbors and acquaintances. No relative is yet present, but friends are doing all ‘that can be done for the patient. Called on to Rally for Cleveland. Austin, Tex., April 24.—The democratic bimetallists in the legislature at a meet ing to-night, called on the people to rally to the support of Cleveland and the Dem ocratic party on the financial policy. This move was made necessary by the fact that the free coinage members of the legislature will to-morrow issue a proela- > mation asking the people to support the i 16 to T policy. ■■'.•-■ 1 ( WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK $1 A YEAR 1 4 • 5 CENTS A COPY. <. I DAILY, $lO A YEAR. f ENGLAND AND JAPAN. The British Not to Meddle in the Pence Settlement. London, April 24.—The Daily News will announce positively to-morrow that Eng land will not act in concert with the continental powers regarding the Shim onoeski treaty. It will say editortally: “England’s refusal to co-operate with the other powers is clue solely to the desire not to take part in matters in which she has no immediate concern. We trust it is not the policy of any of the powers to do more than to endeavor to persuade Japan. nothing to be gained worth even the remote risk of war.’’ From St. Petersburg the News learns that Russia has sent a note to Japan sta ting the various conditions of the treaty which she cannot allow. The Times correspondent in New • Chwang says: “There is a famine in Southern Manchuria owing to the badness of the harvest in 1894, the presence of the rival aimies, the .stoppage of transporta tion from the north and the paralysis of trade here.” WILLIMANTIC’S BANK WRECK. The Controller Decides to Malte the Recelvershii> Permanent. Washington, April 24.—Controller Eckels has received a preliminary report from Bank Examiner Dooley on the condition of the closed First National Bank of Wil limantic, Conn. From it he has decided to place the bank in the hands of a per manent receiver. Examiner Dooley re ports that the assets are about $440,000 and there are due depositors and other banks $300,000 and from these figures Mr. Eckels thinks all the creditors will be finally paid in full. The loans and discounts are placed at $344,000, the greater part In the bank, but part of them rediscounted. The books statement is $44,000 incorrect. The bank’s paper to the extent of $59,000 is forged, most of which is in the books, but part of these notes have been discounted. The estimate as to missing paper and forged paper is found to be correct. The bank’s capital of SIOO,OOO and surplus of $25,000 is wiped out. ARMS FOR EQUADOR. Secretary Gresham Refuses to Pre vent Two Shipments. Washington, April 24.—The consul of the republic of Ecuador at San Francisco, adopting the error which has widely pre vailed, that shipments of arms from the United States to countries where revolu tionary movements may be in progress are Illegal, notified Secretary* Gresham that two vessels were about to leave San Fran cisco with consignments of arms, sup posed to be destined for rebels in Ecuador. He asked that the United States interpose to prevent these shipments. Secretary Gresham referred the matter to Attorney General Olney, whoi gave it as his opinion that.there was nothing illegal in the acts complained of. The United States authori ties, accordingly, declined to interfere and 41? SCHrLZE'S surcinß. He Wait Mailly in Love With Marie Wainwright. Tacoma, Wash., April 24.—Instead of a few thousand dollars, as first supposed, the defalcation of the late Paul Schulze, who was land agent of the Northern Paci fic railroad, will amount to $50,000 and may be more by $200,000 according to the report of the experts who are engaged in exam ining the accounts of the suicide. This shortage and disappointment in love are believed to have led to his suicide. A farewell letter to Marie Wainwright, the actress, was found on his person and the statement is made by his friends that he had played the part of the lover towards her for some time, but the collapse of her divorce proceedings placed an insuperable obstacle in the way of the marriage of the actress and Schulze, who obtained a di vorce from his German wife over three years ago. GOT READY AND DIED. 1 J A Newark Man Settle* III* Business Affairs and Commit* Suicide. Newark, N. J., April 24.—Jacob Webber, 40 years of age, swallowed two ounces of carbolic acid this morning and died with in ten minutes. A week ago Webber ordered his coffin from a firm of under takers. On Sunday he made a tour of the homes of his friends, bidding them good bye. On Monday and Tuesday ho sold his property and engaged his burial plot. His actions, very strangely, did not lead to a suspicion that he intended to take his life. ON FIRE AT SEA. A Sailing; Vwmei Seen Ablaze Off Cape Matterns. Norfolk, Va., April 24,—The British steamship Dunbeth, Capt. Makenzie, from Galveston to Liverpool, has just arrived and reports that at 6 o’clock last evening she sighted a vessel near Hatteras on fire, which proved to be a sailing vessel with her foremast and yard standing, but which soon went by the board, leaving the vessel a mass of flames, it being impossible for any living being to remain on board. It is thought that the officers and crew* were saved by a schooner near by. The name of the vessel could not be ascertained. SHOT DEAD IN THE ROAD. * 11 An Old Fend Culminates In Homi cide In Alabama. Eutaw, Ala., April 24.—Near Union yes terday J. Marshall Chambers killed Har vey A. Mize in the public road by shooting htm with a pistol five times. An old feud had existed between them for some time and culminated in the killing»as above sta ted. A preliminary trial will be had some day this week, when the facts in the case will be made known. Chambers.la here in the custody of the sheriff. Both men are white and were considered good citizens. SELLING OUT FAIR’S WHEAT. A Seventh Part of His Holding* Dis- I>osed of So Far. San Francisco, April 24.—Lewis Mc- Glaufiln, who was intimately associated with the late Senator Fair in wheat oper ations, sold the larger part of 10,060 tons, principally of the May option, to-day His sales during the last few days have been very heavy, and will probably amount to nearly 30,000 tons, or the sev enth part of the wheat which the late Senator Fair is reputed to have pur chased. Art in ihe Champ* De Mars. Paris. April 24.—The exhibition at the Champs De Mars salon was opened to-day with the usual crowded attendance and display of beautiful toilets. The collection of paintings and other works of art great ly surpasses last year’*exhibit, and a high < degree of success is promised to the ex i hiMtion in every respect. MONDAYS ANO THURSDAYS DARK CLOUDS OVER DURANT. HE WAS SEEN WITH A WOMAN JUST BEFORE THE CRIME. A Witness Tells of the Blood Stain* in the Wash Room of the Church. A Blood Stained Coat Left With a. Woman by a Man Who Resembled Durant—The Pastor of the Church Put on the Stand. San Francisco, April 24.—A close Inves tigation of the wash room in Emanuel church was made yesterday. This wash room could only have been reached by some one thoroughly familiar with the building. Besides a number of stains qn the washbowl, there are numerous stains? on the splashers surrounding it. Blood stains have also been found on the walls of the little hall leading to the wash room. The extent of the blood stains goes to prove that the murderer had no light, for a judicious person, as his actions prove him, would not have splattered bo much blood around had he seen what he was doing. The blood stained coat which was brought to light in Berkley on Monday has caused a sensation there, hut there is considerable difficulty In determining the date on which it was found. Mrs. Bofilot, with whom the package was left, tells th . r ?c different stories as to the date on Which .a strange man asked permission to> leave a bundle at her home for a few “® u , rs - Mrs - Boillot says the man resem* bled Durant very much and she believes she could identify him. The interest In the trial continues una bated. A new witness was presented to day. His name is Adolph A. Kobe. He had been a school matq of the prisoner and. had known him for about eight years. He testified to having seen Durant at the ferry at 5 o’clock on the fatal night. The accused was accompanied by a young lady who answered the description of Miss Wil- • Hams. Dr. George Gibson, pastor of Emanuel Baptist ohurch, followed Hobe. His ap pearance on the witness stand created ai great stir in the court room and the spec tators evinced great Interest in the testi mony given by him. In reply to questions Dr. Gibson said that he left his study* in the church on Friday evening, April 12, at 7:30 o’clock, and went to Dr. Vogel’s house, his object being to attend a meeting of the Young People’s Endeavor Society. Durant did not arrive until after the business session was over, about 9:30 o'clock. The witness did not know whether or not the defendant had a key to the church. He met him there alone several times. “I went into my study the Saturday morning the body was found and while there I heard noises in the front part of the church,” said the witness. “I was soon afterward told by the son of the janitor that the lock on the library door had been broken. I went to the room and saw the broken lock. I looked into the room, but not into the closet. I then returned to my stury and remained .there until the ifiano tuner drove me outwrith his noise, and went to my home. The first I knew of the body being in the clos et was when I went back to the church on being told by Mrs. Nolte that it was them.” ... „ ».-'Pbv rant's alibi that he was at a clinic in Copper’s medical college on Wednesday afternoon, April 3, about the time he was said to have got on a car near the Normal school with Miss Lamont. Detective Gibson said on this point to-day: “We have questioned every student who was at the college on that afternoon and none of them remember having seen him there. We have not found any one who answered for him at roll call, but we have clearly established, that he frequently got others to answer for htm. We have positive evidence that he got qn the car with Miss Lamont that afterndon. Not only the three school girls wi|l testify to that, but the conductor and gripman saw him. They knew both him and Miss Lamont and frequently saw him escort her to and from school. We have a great deal of evidence that has not been made public. The Lamont case is the strongest of the the recess hour Durant, received a number of admirers in his cell. They were young women who seem to regard him as something of a hero. Some of them were acquaintances and some en tire strangers, who called to gape at hint, through the bars. Durant chatted pleas antly until the officers came. . Another new witness, Dennis Welsh, an Alameda policeman, was introduced this afternoon. Welsh said that he saw Durant and Miss Williams together Im Alameda on several occasions within two weeks prior to the discovery of the girl’® body in the church. The Lamont inquestl has been postponed indefinitely. BUCHANAN STILL HOPEFUL. I He Urge* Hl* Lawyer to Try to Aver* the Denth Penalty. Sing Sing, N, Y., April 24.—Buchanan before he retired last night, wrote a long letter to Gov. Morton thanking him fob listening to the appeal of his wife and foB granting him a respite of one week. Buchanan’s young wife came direct from Albany last night to Sing Sing and spent some time with her husband in the prisoff, Buchanan told her that he did not expect to be executed next week, and he still had strong hopes of escaping the death pen alty. Buchanan’s final words to his wife were tp keep up her courage, to see his Jawvers to-day and urge them to take ad vantage of whatever chance there might; row be to prevent the execution of thff death sentence next week. Warden Sage said to-day that he would not execute Buchanan until he had con ferred with the attorney general as to whether it would be legal to carry out the law next week, when the respite granted, by the governor will expire. He said no did nos think it would be necessary to have Buchanan re-sentenced, and another day appointed for the execution. He said that he would be governed, however, by the de cision of the attorney general. He will go to Albany to confer with that official. NO NEW ARMY DEPARTMENT, j No General Officer Available to Com* manti It at Present. Washington, April 24.—Secretary La mont will not reconsider the question of establishing a military department with headquarters at Atlanta during the pres ent recess of congress. At the instance of southern senators and representatives the matter was thoroughly weighed some time, when it was concluded by Gen. Scho field and other authorities that the project was not possible for the present. V. hue the secretary of war has ample authority to arrange the army departments as he deems advisable, it is pointed out that no general officer would be available for the command of the new department, unless congress should increase the number. Inis may be accomplished in the future by makifig the grade of lieutenant ®c"®ral permanent for commander of the entire armv and adding another brigadier to the present list. If this should be done there is scarcely any doubt* that the department of the South Atlantic will be established. Garment Worker* Win. St. Louts, Mo., Aprl 24.—The strike of the garment workers against the “Sweat shop” contractors ended to-day in a vic tor* for the strikers. The garment work ers yesterday organised under both the Federation and Knights of Labor, and thia movement was too strong for the con tra/ !<.-;>■, and they granted the terms ask ed by the strikvi-s. NO. 32.