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FOR THEE. (The snn, with its glories outspread, the Is gilding the land and sea. And I fancy Its smiles are all shed For thee, little sweetheart, for thee! The birds, with their songs of delight, Are waking the morning with glee, And they’re singing—I fanoy I’m right— For thee, little sweetheart, for theel The roses that grow at thy door, The daisies that bloom on the lea, Their sweetness I fanoy outpour For thee, little sweetheart, for thee! The love that endures In my brenst, The worship my feelings decree, I know are most truly possess’d thoe! For thee, little sweetheart, for —Bernard M. Itamsay, In the London Hun. ***** ******* m CAUGHT IN A STORM. lly Mary Maclean. *t(*******)i©K*^et(***«ttJteii M OW there are some advan tages,” s a i d Ronald, medi tatively, "in being a cousin -\G after all.” He addressed «.», Angelica, who sat opposite him. All about them was deep blue sereuity—ou one hand stretching away to meet in a line with a fainter azure, on the other merging distantly into long shining masses of greenish brown rocks, with ragged cliffs tower- hands ing above them. Angelica’s voliing were thrust into the pockets of a pro reefer coat, her hat was tilted a little forward and the breeze darted in among her curls, tossing them merrily about her face. She was a diminutive person in all respeots save two, which two were practically large, brilliant, languishing, aud iu every way dangerous. "But on the whole, Angelica,” added Ronald, deliberately, "I regret that I am in any way related to or connected with you,” "Ronald!” she exclaimed, "I really cannot allow you to be so flatter ing.” variable "A cousin is a nondescript, sort of a being—at times ou absolute stranger, at others a sort of second hand brother—in that capacity ex tremely useful. Of course, that is something; but still--” "I think it’s a great deal; but I see you are the same as ever. You al ways were a greedy little boy,” said Angelica. hand, “Thanks. You, on the other wore rather nicer as a little girl than you are now—in some ways—oh! you could still be nice if you tried.” "If I tried? How funny! I shouldn’t know—you see most people ■* think”—she regarded "I dare say; but I a not ‘most people.’ I stand alone. - “I thought you were sitting down,” interrupted Angelioa. (She certainly WA3 provoking to-day.) "And I wasn’t aware that you were alone. But per haps I don’t oount.” "My dear, that’s the worst of it. You do count, and there’s no one else in the world who does. I just worship you, Nan! Have I startled you?” "Not at all,” she answered politely, "You see they all say that or some thing equivalent." She turned her bend a little and dabbled iu the water with her baud. “Oh, yes, I know! Of course, I’m a presumptuous fool. All the same, I have thought lately”—he paused and then added: "Do you remember last week at Gowes?” "Yes,” said Angelica' radiantly. "On that afternoon—I don’t mind tell ing you, Ronald—1 very seriously con sidered falliug in love with you. There is a yacht, quite close to us,” she added hastily, "i considered, and af ter due deliberation decided >» "Well, Nan?” "Not to fall in love with anyone at all.” "You mean--” "Ronald, if you don’t row, how can I steer? We don’t want to be swamped. Love is so inconvenient.” "You’re pulling the wrong rope. I confess I don’t quite see how--” “Well, it doesu’t always go with other things.” "But is it not worth more than— ether things?” "Ronald,” replied Angelica, sotne what irrelevantly, “have you any idea of the price of n Paris hat ?” "The left rope again. Ah, now we’re safe! A Paris hat. I—well, I have heard that they’re something ridiculous.” "They are—absolutely ridiculous. That fact alone,” said Angelica sol emnly, "is enough to make any thought of "Except lqve impossible and wicked.” with for anyone a heart, with a soul, composed in fact of any thing but shallowness and vanity.” "My dear boy, if yo’u goon,” she said encouragingly, "you will in time make tho most accomplished flatterer of the age.” ^^ont jest with me, Nan. It’s nothing to you, perhaps, but to me it’s everything. I love you. If you knew what the word meant,” he burst out vehemently, "you could not sit there coolly breaking my heart in your hands.” "Hush! Not so loud. Yes; I know I’m wicked (penitently), I oughtn’t to be here with you at all, when I’m going to marry some one else." ‘Tou’re going to—Nan, is this true?” "Mr. Rathbone,” said Angelica, drooping. "Are you engaged to him?” ( i He will ask me to-night.” "How do you know that?” curtly. “Oh, Ronald, don’t be so absurd! How do I know?” This was convincing. "Well, he’s a consummate fooV’ said Ronald, savagely. “Thanks, ” she murmured. “And, moreover, he could not pos sibly love you-” more.” "Thanks—once "Or anyone else, except himself. But, of course, I see that he has ad vantages. Oh, don’t trouble to ex plain what they are! I see them. How pleased everyone will be, especially mamma! It will all be quite delight ful.” There was a silence. The sun had disappeared and the blue sky had turned to gray. "It’s not so pleasant as it was, ie it?” inquired Angelica, presently. "No,” shortly. Are far "I felt a drop of rain. we from home, Ronald?” "Yes; about three miles.” "Oh, dear; are we? Why don’t you turn quickly, then? Don’t you see it’s going to be wet?” "I thought you were steering,” rudely. me,” she said, "You might help plaintively, tugging at the rope. He gave a swift stroke or two, and they swung round. There were an gry masses of clouds drifting toward them over an uneasy, ruffled sea. "Why don’t yon row faster? We shall never get home," she exclaimed, petulantly. and the wind is "The tide is strong against us. I’m doing my best.” “Ronald, wliat was that? Oh, don’t say it’s lightning! I’m more the afraid of it than anything iu world. Oh, listen!” There was a subdued but silent roar iu the distance, now dying away, now gathering force and crackling ominously. thunder?” said “Ronald, was that Angelica, waveringly. thunder when "There is generally it lightens,” he answered, with bitter sarcasm. i < But we’re out in an open boat, miles from homo or shelter of any kind!” "I am aware of that.” She gavo a pathetic little gulp and pressed hpr hands together. “Oh—h! There’s another flash! Ronald, I—I’m going to faint!” "Faint? Nonsense!” he returned roughly. do "Nonsense? What you mean, Mr. Grant? How dare you? I sup pose I have aright to faint if I choose' I—ah!” Crash, rattle, rattle, bang! C-r-a-c-k! "Put that over you,” said Ronald, sternly, wrapping her in his mackin tosh coat. "But it doesn’t rain, and that makes it m—much more dangerous, d—doesn’t it, Ronald?” "Much more,” he answered, merci lessly. be heartless "Oh! how can you so and ern how el much mouuA I suffer! Meu J ‘Yaudon’l care ale al ways like that-” / "Aud women never, of course,” pul iu Ronald, with quiet irony. i i Oh, don’t—don’t be so hard! I know I’m a wicked girl, and this is tc punish me!” A vivid gleam shot up in the heavens, and something seemed to hurst over their heads. "Oh, Ron ald! (in a frenzy of terror) save me, save me! Oh, let us die together! ] love you, eh, you know I do! Don’t look at me so coldly; forgive me, oh, forgive me, Ronald!” Angelica sotbed. hid her face in the cushions and “I can better bear to die with you, dear, than to live without you,” said Ronald, tenderly. There was a sus picious twitching about his mouth, but he mastered himself heroically, aud it did not become a smile. A silence followed. The tliundei rolled and tumbled away to the west, and presently there was a gleam more brilliant than any before. “What’s that awful light?” moaned Angelica. “Look, dear. It’s the sun.” “The sun!” she started up iu cou sternation. "It, can’t be, Ronald (in dignautly). Do you mean to tell im the storm is over?” "I think it’s passed by. You seem annoyed. Aren’t you glad we’re out of danger?” "Yes—yes, of course. Only I thought!”—haughtily—"perhaps now, Mr. Grant, you will take me home?’ "Yes, I’ll take you home, Nau. They’ll be surprised, won’t they, al our news?” “News? What—what do you mean?” gasped Angelica. "I think you know.” There was no mistake about his smile now. "Ronald," she said pathetically. "Now, you’re not going to he tire some?” "Nan,” he answored gravely, "I do hope not. But, of course, a life time is a severe test.” "You know it is only because I was frightened. It’s a mean advantage— it’s ungentlemanly”—her weakly. voice died away Ronald (provokiugly)—"Are you quite said?” sure you didn’t mean all you Angelica (tearfully)—“It’s so ab surd! Mamma will be so angry.” A Woman’s Long Suffering. There has just died near Stockholm, Sweden, a woman nearly 100 years old, who, according to her last words, has had a life full of uncommon suf fering and wrong. As a girl this Au gusta Ivellgren was of uncommon beauty. Her parents were poor and her only dowry was the oharm and natural grace of the peasant. Iu 1819 she was accused, when only nineteen years old, of the murder of an old peddler woman. “When arraigned in court she protested her innocence, but was sent to prison until she should confess. She spent forty-seven years iu prison, until, about ‘thirty years ago, the king pardoned her. She set up a small business in Stockholm aud to the day of her death maintained hei innocence of the charge on which she was condemned. GEORGIA STATE NEWS. . __ It was announced a few days ago that the Georgia railroad would change its schedule between Atlanta and gusta, and that the change would go into effect April 30th. This order has been rescinded by the management of of the road, for the present. The trains will run as heretofore. The change may take place later. * m * Senator Bacon and Congressman Bartlett have been assured by the president that Postmaster Hertz, of Macon, will hold his position until the end of the four years’ term to which he was appointed, unless, of course,there should he some cause not now in sight that is, unless there should be charges growing out of the admimstra tion of the office. The vacancy on the board of trus tees of the state university, caused by the death of the late Colonel N. J. Hammond, was filled by the appoint ment of Hon.Clark Howell, Jr., of At lanta, by Governor Candler. Colonel Hammond was president of the board, and was one of its most influential members for a number of years. The board will doubtless be called together in a short while, when a reorganiza tion will take place. It is likely that ex-Governor McDaniel will be elected president. Tlie semi-centenial convention of Medical Association of Georgia ad journed at Macon after a three days’ session, to meet in Atlanta in May, of next year. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Dr. F. W. McRae, of Atlanta; First Vice President, St. John B. Graham, of Savannah; Second Vice President, II. B. McMaster, of Waynesboro; Secretary, R. H. Tay lor, of Griffin; Treasurer, E. C. Good rich, of Augusta; Censor, Dr. JohnB. Morgan. Tlie building boom which has been on in Atlanta from the first of the year continues to improve every day. Feb ruary and March were record ers, and April comes to the front with prospects of furnishing an even better record than any month this year, and any former April in the history of At lanta. The authorities regard the out look as most encouraging, and the figures are an inexorable evidence that Atlanta’s growth is indeed remarkable. People are not hesitating to turn their, money loose and almost every promi nent thoroughfare shows scenes of ac tivity in the buildiug line. Will and Ben Morrow, two mem bers ot the old Morrow gang that ter rorized Gordou and surrounding coUn ties in 1801 and 1892, have been run down and are now. in jail. Will Mqg in 1892, near Plninvill^jnst across j j ure line in Floyd county, and he will ! be taken to Rome for trial. Chester Scott, who was implicated in the kill- j ing of McGuiness, was captured soon ; after it occurred, and is now serving a j j life sentence. Other members of the gang have served sentences for robbery and Will and Ben Morrow are the last cues to be brought to the bar of justice. V * * Macon was in gala attire last Friday in honor of Colonel Patrick .Henry Ray’s Third regiment United States volunteers, generally known as Ray’s immtines. In appreciation of the splendid service rendered bythisregi inent in the Bpanish-Americau war, I and in recognition of the discipline, efficiency and high character of the ; regiment, the people of Macon ten tered a barbecue aud reception to the immuues. In return for the compli ment, CD. Ray kindly consented to allow his regiment to parade the prin cipal streets of the city and pass in re view. The railroads gave reduced rates and ran excursion trains from far and near, and a great crowd of visitors landed in the cily. The master out of the Third Georgia was completed at Augusta Saturday, company F being tlie first. The men were all happy, quiet and orderly. The mustering out of the Third Geor gia aud Second South Carolina regi ments was a bonanza for Augusta dealers iu clothing, hats, shoes and gentlemen’s furnishing goods. The boys wanted to fix themselves up for citizen’s life before returning to their homes, aud as they received two months’ extra pay, travel, allowance, etc., they were in good shape. Some of the merchants say Saturday’s busi ness was better than Christmas eve, and some of them are displacing boxes 0 f ten and twenty-dollar gold pieces. One firm took in over §1,000 iu gold alone, Governor Goes to Clitckamauga. There is a strong probability tbat the state of Georgia will be represent ed at Chickamauga on the occasion of the dedication of the state monument by the Atlanta troops of the state in fantry. Final arrangements were made a day or two ago at a conference be tween Governor Candler aud Secretary Gordon Lee, of the monument com mission, for tbe visit of Governor Candler and liis staff, which is to in elude three days at Chattanooga. For mal notification to every member of the governor’s staff' was sent out by Adjutant General Byrd Saturday, re questing, them to be present, at the dedication and take part in the exer cises of tli.e day. Tho staff ns a whole will be the personal escort of the gov ernor, and the party to leave Atlanta for Cha tanooga on the afternoon of May 2d will include in addition to the troops the members of the monument •emmiesion. In order to be present aud take part in the exercises of the dedication of +i,o XTontuckv state monument, Gov- ernor Candler has decided to leave Atlanta oir Mnv 2d. ihe Iv#n . tucky monument, which occupies a position near that or Oeorgui* snair, is to'be unveiled on In) AU. i e j governor of Kentucky has u0 t,fl ®“ ho "ill . oe on i park commission that hand, accompanied bv the membeis o his staff and possibly hy a it gimcn of * state troops. 'Die chief executive Kentucky hns also signified his inten tion of remaining over at (..hickamuuga and witnessing the dedication of tin Georgia monument, which occurs t.ie j day following.____ TERRIBLE CRIME REVEALED. ( of a youn(r Woinan Found in FIlnt Rivpr A terrible traged y, has come to light the diBCOVery o£ tbe body of Miss I p j K uo tt in Flint river, near ear ‘The Woolsey, Fayette county, Ga. body was weighted down with plows, old axes and trace chains. The discovery was made by fisheT men, Mr. Rivers and Mr. Yen Moore, in searching for a fish basket. The coroner was notified and reached the place shortly after the discovery,when Ihe he proceeded to impanel a jury. to jurors afterward reached a verdict the effect that the deceased came to her death by a wound in the head from a pistol in the hands of George Iverlin, and tbat tbe act is mur der. George Kerliu was placed under I arrest aud carried to jail at Fayette v jjj e Laid- he was sent to Atlanta f Qr Fa£e bee pi u g. alleged Tbe mot ; ve of the crime is ! to bave been that Iverlin had been criminally intimate with the Knott woman. He was arrested soma days ago for abduction and carried to ray etteville for trial. After the prelimi nary examination Re was released, the evidence not being sufficient to bind him over. Sinca that time the body has been found. Knott It was proven that when Pearl was last seen she was iu the company of George Kerliu. It was brought out in the coroner’s investigation by a sister of the deceas ed that Kerlin came to her house ou the 13th of April between 7 and 8 o’clock and that her sister was there at the time. Pearl Knott told her sis ter, Mrs. Wilson, that she was going off with George Kerline to marry his son, and Wilson swore that George Ker lin carried her sister off in a top buggy on tbe night of April 13, between 7 and 8 o’clock. "FIFTY CENTS A YARD.” Captain Coglilan, of the Raleigh, Relates Story of Admiral Dewey. At the entertainment of the officers of the cruiser Raleigh at the Union League Club in . !New York Friday n ’ght, Captain Cognlan i elated the following story of his admiral: jGnofficer of onr friend, Admiral J uj -iut make a''complaint. It was my pleas- deck ure to step out on the quarter just as he eam e aboard. It was partly accident aud partly by design. I heard him tell the admiral about his complaint and I heard the admiral re “ ‘Tell your admiral those ships of his must stop when I say so. I wish to make the blockade of this harbor complete. ’ "The German officer replied: ■" ‘But we fly the flag.’ “The reply of the admiral was just ^ke Dewey. He said: “ ‘Those flags can be bought at a ba ^ dollar a yard anywhere.’ Dewey further told Deidrichs that anybody could fly the German flag, aud tho whole Spanish might come upon bim showing such ensigns, PEN’DLEY IMPLICATES ROBERTS. - A Third Man Charged With Murder of l’oiicemnn Ponder, ie louder murder case at Atlanta day t 00 , ^ morning, a ue ) v and and start before ling turn the Y\ day ednes was over Jim Roberts, a young white man, was arrested and locked up, charged with complicity in the crime. In his first confession Pendly, who has just received a life sentence, said there was a third man in the crime and since that time the detectives working on the case have been quietly securing evidence to fasten the guilt upon the third man who was believed to be re sponsible for the murder of the po liceman. For several weeks they knew Jim Roberts was the third man to whom Pendley referred, but they lacked suf ficient evidence with which to convict j Roberts. Now they believe they have secured that evidence, and with it they faced Peudiey, who has made another confession, and heard from his own lips the full story of the crime with Robert’s name in it. NEW EXTRADITION TREATY Between United States and Mexico Ratified By the Mexican Senate. The Mexican senate Thursday unan imously adopted the new extradition treaty with the United States, The case of Santiago Morphy, charg ed with embezzling $70,000 from the National Bank of Mexico, is likely to be in some sense sensational in its de velopments, as it is expected h*f will disclose the names of his accomplices, He is rigorously incommunicado in Belem prison, QUAY AT WASHINGTON. ConKrutulatod Friends, But Declined To Be Interviewed. Senator Quay, of Pennsylvania, was met at the station on his arrival at Washington Friday by a number of friends, who congratulated him upon the outcome of his trial aud ment as senator. There were a null# ber of callers at the house and congratulatory telegrams were e( j. ii m raw lira BARTOW MAN TAKES A FEW RET ROSPECTIVE GLANCES. TALKS OF FRIENDS OF HIS. YOUTH. William Get* Letter* From Some of Them In Which They Recall Event* of the Bonn A|jo. How theso old men do cling to gether. Almost every day brings a good kind letter from some venerable man who is lonesome or has a commu nity of interest with me, and wishes to write, for he knows that I will listen. There are many more of them living than I thought, for old men grow silent as they near the end. They ponder and ruminate, but make no noise. Providence is kind in giving to most of them children and children’s children to .comfort them and to brighten up the passing hours. An old man must be forlorn, indeed, who has none of these. Charles Lamb, in his old aud mellow days, wrote sadly when he said: “Where are my childhood playmates, the com panions of my in the joyful school days? All, all are gone—the old familiar faces gone before me to tbat unknown and silent shore.” But Lamb was wifeless and childless and had a right to be sad. He should have adopted some bright little orphan child who would love him and call him father and cling to him in his declining years. Every old bachelor should. I have just received a good long let ter from an old and forgotten friend whom I kne w in the long ago aud sup posed was dead. He is nearing his four score years, but writes the same old school master hand that his gener ation were taught to write. He is in good health and strong of mind and loves to commune with memories of the past—the halcyon days, as he calls them. I wonder how many college boys know that the pretty word hal cyon comes fromtwo Greek words that mean the sea and an egg. When the elder duck lays her eggs on the cliffs by tbe sea, it is always warm and pleasant weather, and hence came the word halcyon—als,the sea,and oon, an egg. My friend’s name is J. J. Richards and he is the survivor of the three brothers William C. and T. Addison Richards, who were our fore most literary men away back in the forties. They published "Georgia Il lustrated” and the Orion Magazine, and many beautiful legends of the Cheorokee Indians. This brother published a war paper called The Soldiers’ Friend, of -which I have some oo ancrar@"Yittle p^s is sued in 1864, both-'in in Augusta, editorial Ga., gyms, He ana selected matter. now lives not far from McPherson barracks, near Atlanta, and is the postmaster at Golden Gate, and still finds time and pleasure in writing poetry when the spirit moves him. He, too, has added some verses to “John Anderson, My Joe.” These old men do not like the way that Burns left John, and his spouse sleeping at the foot of the hill, but want them to rise again and enjoy heaven. Wallace Reed ought to go out to that Golden Gate and interview Mr. Rich ards and chronicle some of his memo ries, for he is about the only literary link between the present and the past. These pioneers should not be forgot ten. Most nil pioneers are. We eat the fruit of the orchards and vineyards and take no concern about who plant ed them. Not 13,V)00 a dozen people in Rome, a city of people, know who planted the trees that give such mag nificent shade around the. churches, or who first laid out and ornamented the beautiful Myrtle hill cemetery. Who knows of the long and patient toil of Mark A. Cooper in developing and building up the iron industry of Cher okee Georgia? What engineer sought and found the winding way for a rail road from Atlanta to Chattanooga nearly 60 years ago and planned all its curves and spanned the rivers and creeks frith bridges? Not long ago I asked a conductor on the Nashville – Chattannooga railroad to tell me who planned that magnificent work across the Cumberland moun tains, and he could not tell me. Who founded old Franklin college, now the University of Georgia and who con ceived and projected the estab lishment of the Wesleyan Fe male college, the first female college in the world? The antiquaries and relic hunters will pay big prices for old things, such as ancient coins aud furniture and cu rios, but care nothing for tlie pio neers of our civilization, the men -who cleared the wilderness and blazed the way for the generations to come. This reminds me that a one-armed confed erate soldier who is now pinched with poverty wishes to sell two very old vol umns that were published in 1542 — the “Had” aud "Odyssey” of Homer. The binding is in whitish leather with raised images' and flowers stamped on it and the'autographs on the title page are Albert, Prince Glenbevrie, and Philip Melanchthon. And there is a Lat in inscription as follows: “Sum Johani Conradi Rbeumati, 1615.” Now if this be Melanchthon’s genu ine autograph these volumes are of great historic value, for no greater man has lived or died in all these cen turies—the man at whose feet Luther knelt in reverence, and of whom Eras mus exclaimed, “My God, how pro found is his learning, how exalted is his virtue.” These two, Luther and Melanchthon, sleep side by side in Wittenberg, and in 1860 the king of Prussia erected over his grave a beau tiful monument, a duplicate of that over Luther’s. I do not know what evidence this veteran hns that Mel anchthon ever owned these ancient volumes, but I will know. It is J cer* tain, however, that they were publish ed in hir. day and he could have owned them. The Latin inscription reminds one of another that was sent to me for translation not long ago by a friend in Alabama. It is on the top of a massive gold-headed cane that is an heirloom in the family. There is a crown engraved upon the golden head aud undorneuth are these words: “Epis non cbor,” which are not good Latin or Greek, but I suppose are ab breviations. At any rate tliey pass my comprehension. Tho cane de scended from a distinguished Episco pal bishop of New York city. The more I try to solve such problems the more I am convinced that "a little learning is a dangerous thing.” AVill not some college boy tell me what that Latin means? —Bill Akp in Atlanta Constitution. LINES WILL BE THINNED Tflien General Oil*’ Troops Are Detached For Garrison Duty. A Manila special says: Spain’s evacuation of the Philippine islands will be practically completed by the withdrawal of the Spanish garrison from Zamboanga, island of Mindanao, and from the Suln islands. As the United StateB assumes con trol of Mindanao aud the Sulu islands on ihe Spaniards withdrawing, the military authorities at Manila must, in order to garrison those islands, di minish the forces of American troops, which are already too small. Inhere was almost mutiny among the Spanish troops in the islands because they were ordered to proceed to the Ladrone islands and the Caroline islands, some of them refusing to do S'), claiming that their enlistment had expired. The latter were exempted and were allowed to return to Spain on board the transport Alva. The native troops in the Spanish garrisons are in a sad plight. They must accompany the Spaniards or risk the vengeance of their compatriots. The Spaniards propose to disband them, but they refnse to give up their arms. The natives of Zamboanga, embold ened by the successful capture of the armament on board the Spanish gun boats which were purchased there by Royes, of this place, as cabled to the Associated Press of April 13th, are likely to prove troublesome when the Spanish garrisons are withdrawn from the coast towns of the islands of Min dano. It is believed that the smol dering tribal wars will then be re sumed. Anarchy will prevail and the inhabi tants of nearly every village will fight with their neighbors. A tri-pavtite exchange of prisoners will be arranged if if is possible to ne gotiate with the Filipinos. If they consent to release the Spanish prison ers the Americans might release the Tagalos they hold prisoners, in return for which Spain would free her politi cal prisoners. The provisions of the Paris treaty would thus be carried out. The Spanish commission, however, hesitates to enter the Filipino lines, fearing treachery, although Aguinaldo has guaranteed the safety of the com mission. GERMAN OFFICER IMPRISONED? Report That Commander of the Falke Is Under Guard at Apia. A Seattle, Washington, Times spe cial from Victoria says that the steam er Aorangi, from Australia, brings ad vices tbat the commander of the Ger man man-of-war Falke, at Samoa, had been arrested by the British and is now held a prisoner on the British vessel Porpoise. He was surprised by a squad of British sailors handing arms and am munition to Mataafa’s men. Tim re port was brought to Australia by the passengers of the steamer Uploa. After the arrest of the Falke’s com mander a conference was held betw r een Captain Sturdee and Admiral Kautz, and the Porpoise and Philadelphia steamed in a position on either side of the Falke. Orders were then sent aboard that if she made a move of any kind she would be blown out of the water. No one-was allowed to go aboard or leave the German ship of war without permission, written and signed either by Captain Sturdee, of the Porpoise, or Admiral Kautz. Fighting continues between the forces of Mataafa and Malietoa Tanus. Bush fighting, with slight loss, is a daily occurrence, and business is prac tically at a standstill. There is con siderable sickness among the seamen of the Porpoise and Philadelphia. Three of the Porpoise’s crew died from fever. Mataafa’s cause is waning. April 4th is the date on which the reported arrest was made. A Washington special says: Thr statement that the commander of the German cruiser Falke had been ar rested at Apia by the British naval commander was at once scouted by the administration officials to whom it was referred. Both Secretary Hay and Secretary Long expressed their disbe lief in the accuracy of the report. fact Attention was directed to the that the navy department had heard from Admiral Kautz by cable from Aukland at a later date than that upon which the steamer just arrived at Vic toria must have sailed from Apia on her long eastward voyage. Koep abreast of these stirring times by subscribing for your home paper. The price is little, and, you cannot afford to be without it.