UGLY HANDS
: The roughened hands that never shirk
ed,
The plain brown hands that planned
and worked,
Are folded now iu peace amd vest
Upon the wayworn, weary breast,
O'er ivory Leys they never strayed:
Embroidery, lace, they never made
Poor tired hands! On one of them
Flashed never brilliant, shining gem. |
They cooked and washed, they scrub.
bed and mended,
Unto the children fondly tended:
They soothed the head that ached and |
beat i
And gently bathed the fevered feet.
They gladly ' toiled from till |
night
That they might
white
And tried so hard to roses spread
Adown the path for loved ones’ tread.
morn
other hands keep
They were so temder, auite,
Ne'r noticed how unselfishly
They clasped each across with
and prayer
And burdens bore
share.
we
trust |
more than their |
Aye, ugly, coarse, unlovely quite,
They Wok to our defective sight;
But, to their missions dutiful,
In God's eyes they are beautiful. |
-New Orleans Picayune.
NED'S DISCOVERY.
“Don't be discouraged, Ned," gho
pleaded, in a soft, cooing voice, putting
up both hands to touch his
pale face. “lI dreamed of you
night—dreamed that you were
happy and successful. 1 stood at
door of a strange little house, looking
out over a wild, pieasant country
oh! for miles and miles 1 could
nothing but hills and trees: no living
Creature in sight excepting your busy,
patient self, dinping water from a
hollow among the rocks, and
time you looked up and saw me
ing there you smiled such a
bright smile that I knew you were well
and happy. And all the while
Here she paused suddenly, and tl
Young man, looked down into her
saw that she blushed deeply and drop
ped her eyes,
“What is it, dear?
you dreamed. Wi
“Nothing,”
Only you will
be repeating th
“Nothing is
to do or say,
said, trying
are my
whether I am better
Your precious face lod
then I am always better,
and tell me the rest of
But Sibyl blushed again,
winding the ends of her bonnet-str
around her plump
shy about telling
dream little
her feet, two
her neck, and a dimpled face
close against her ear.
“And vet he ought to
thought to herself,
sad
last
well,
the
BOW
every
stan’
brave.
ae
face,
1
140
what ¢
tell me
at troubles you?"
to speak
comforter;
Now, go on,
vour dream.”
and stood
fingers. She
him
children
soft
that
played
baby
arms
know it.” she
“far all the old wo
men say it is a od nek to
dream of children "speciaily a baby.”
“Where was the house you saw?’ he
asked, looking a: with
something softening the
lines of pain and weariness about his
mouth; for Edward Edwards
been sick for a year, and sickness. to
A strong man is a grevious affliction.
He had been exposed all night to al
ternate fire and flood at the time the
Marion house on *he hill burned down:
bad saved the life of the only son and
heir, at the risk of his own, the result
of which was a attack of in
flammatory rheumatism, which had
settled into a chronic form. comnii
eated with a tendaney 10 onsumption,
$0 the doctors said,
His broad. full and shouolders
grew thin and angular: his cheeks
hollowed; his form bent: a slight per
sistent cough hacked at Lis lunes: his!
i strong, supple joints were stiff and
terribly painful, and the kind-hearted
neighbors said, “Poor Ned.” and shook |
their lieads sadly. but no one expected |
him to live until winter came again. |
“1 do not know where the hous
was,” sald Ribyl, answering his ques. |
tion; “but it must have been a long!
way off. It was not at all like this!
place.”
“Was it like woods down in |
Maine? You know 1 was down there |
one winter logging: aud dince 1 have |
been chained fo this room, I have!
dreamed often of the camp In the for
est, and the wind among the pines.” |
“Perhaps,” she answered, wise as an |
oracle, “it was somewhere among!
mouniaing, for I could see such al
long way; and now, good-night, for 1!
must go. Remember you are to write
to me when yon have found that
wonderful land, else I shall fret.” and
laughingly lightly, away she ran.
leaving him still standing by the win.
dow, whence he watched her tiny fig
ure tripping swiftly across the field.
swinging the basket in which she had
brought his daily custard and baked
apple.
Bhe was nearly soventeen, hut so
small that everybody treated her like
a child; even her father, grave Squire
Rogers, often called her baby, and
laughed at her queer whim in caring
for Ned Edwards,
After she had flisted out of sight, the
young man st thinking. The vig.
‘orous climate Maine would only
hasten his death; was life worth pro
longing In his present state? Would
it kill him to travel?
While he debated thus, a farmer's
and
sign of
her curiously,
like a smile
had
Severe
chest
the
{
i
i
“1 am going out West next week,
and so called to say good-by,” he sald,
cheerfully,
“Going out to
“Yes, And if }
does 1 shall stay.”
“Ray, Joe,” the volee was suddenly
resolute amd decided, “I have five
hundred dollars in the bank out here,
and if you will take me with vou 1
will divide even. Everybody has been
good to me since 1 have been laid up
here, and it has cost me little or noth
inz; I have no debts to pay, and if 1
find John?"
like it as well as he
dollar 1 have,
Will you do it?”
“But are you able to travel?"
“Oh, hang it! I am as well able
git here and mope.
to
I'll
"”
as to
And so next day, when Sibyl brought
patient fumbling clumsily at a valise
and his few clothes,
Her quick small hands
hurried to
Her eves filled with tears as she
“Oh, 1 shall miss you so mueh! Are]
you sure you are able to go?”
“Quite sure,” he answered, bravely, |
when married” (for it]
ne seeret Squire Rogers’
had IAarry |
Judge Endicott’'s son) “you must come |
out into the wilds on your wedding |
trip, and see how well 1 am.” {
“I shall stay at home with papa,” |
a low tone, and the
Young man's heart sprang to his lips |
and pleaded for a word!
but his strong will denied it utter |
ance, {
you are
that
expected to
begged
He went away. The trip told fierce i
wasted frame, but vouth, |
of air and a naturally strong]
in his favor
Au attack of
the rheamatism
Iv ubon hb
iV upon his
change
and
fever
ous
very
from
constitniion were his
they triumphed.
and ague shook
of his joints and left
depths of physical
him in the
weakness,
which he climbed slowly.
Joe Davis found his brother John
ing and ralsing steep.
up to the
to
crevice
safely
White Pine
sown in
hil,
thousand
mountains.
Treasure City,
‘
f th nesti
ix
than f
level of
he
ned
more
the the sea
From hers
lear
tious, was sure he had found
He with th
mula for establishing his
1
went
and soon the su
went
through
then commenced work.
It was far up
mountain and a
already |
On an
half
solatexd sour.
mile below him was the
famous Tricolor nn
He
Ire
claim Sibyl's
4
i
ried
Con
£3
Day after 3
no result--the Sabbath
i more fi
fon
if
resfogd rn f
perhaps, than from real
any
Yaukee training
Sunday-s
for his
h and
the eo
howd,
Ned
to look once more at his work. T
In
Gut
excavation that, with
arly twilight wan
much trond
made was
He
filtering
rocks and dripping
He discouraged,
to in that wet
and all his
To. bail it out
would be a weary task, and endless as
wed
he had
Ww
yery
could
slowly
ith water. see the treach
erous liquid
shelving
down.
between two
down,
To at
place
old
was
vy #
-
meant
10 work
cold, fever
troubles returned.
irisome,
Too sick at heart to
Ned
“Tricolor”
from the
return to his
wandered down
and heard a man
“Eberhardt” telling
ful stories of “brick making’
there,
“If we had
course here”
poor cabin,
to
the just
wonder
going on
ever so small a
sald one of the
tors, gloomily, “it would be worth od
“How much? asked Ned.
Th: man shrugged his shoulders,
“Ten thousand dollars?
reply. “I there is plenty of
waler up yonder, but 1 have no time
hunt for it, and the boys are all
silver mad.” i
“What would you give, though, for
a good spring less than a mile from
here?’ asked Yankee Ned, for he
remembered how the water crept out
through the rocks, and he had found
a spring. i
The man looked sharply at the young
wats.
1 »
pronrie
was the
believe
to
and large, bony hands, and said. slow-
ly:
“You look as though you had pluck
common ahead, and!
if you can find as good a water course
as they lmve down in the
Rese, (io
“Yellow
sand dollars in ‘Tricolor’ stock, or fifty!
There was plenty of work to de In
digging and tubing and bringing the
slender water course across the inter.
vening gulches, but the fountain head
was found and success was sure,
* ® * . - -
The eanvas walls of the old cabin
disappeared several years ago, but
Treasure City is still a thriving place,
and one of the prettiest nooks in town
is known as Sibyl's Dream.
The Horse in Battle.
A voteran cavalry horse partakes of
the hopes and fears of battle just the
same as his rider. As the eolumu
swings Into line and waits, the horse
grows nervous over the waiting, If
the walt is spun out, he will tremble
and sweat and grow apprehensive, If
he has been six months in service he
knows every bugle call, As the eall
comes to advance the rider can feel
him working at the bit with his tongue
to get it between his teeth. Ag he
moves out he will either scek to get
on faster than he should or bolt. He
cannot bolt, however. The lines will
carry him forward, and after a min.
ute he will grip, lay back his ears, and
one oan feel his sudden resolve to
brave the worst and have done with
it as moon as possible,
A man seldom cries out when hit in
the turmoil of battle, It ls the same
with a horse. Five trooners out of
of thelr saddles within a minute, If
hit In the breast or shoulder, up go
thelr hands and they get a heavy fall:
if in the leg or foot or arm, they fall
forward and roll off. Even with a
foot cut off by a jagged plece of shell
It is only when
down, He may be
wounded, but hobbles out of the fight
to right or left, and stands with droop-
ing head until loss of blood brings him
down. The that rider
and is mmwounded himself will con-
tinue to run with of fours un-
til some movement throws him out.
Comes
horse loses his
hig set
he
rac
neighing with fear and alarm, but
will not leave field, In his
ing about he may get among the dead
the
if possible, and, in any case, leap over
When he has come upon three
the
the
the
them
“rally”
whole
Buffalo
and
bring
in a
protection,
may
ranks
World.
on
bugle of
body. Horse
AERIAL WARSHIPS FOR UNCLE SAM.
Appropriation of $25,000 to Experiment with
Flying Machines.
The Board of Ordnance and Fortig
i i to
investigation ol ie poss
for
f
engines of
stitute an
flying machines recon
ing pur fos
destruction
At last
$25,000 of the
noir and as
in tine of
war.
the of the
board
fund at the disposal of
meeting
wins appropriated for the
{ experiinentin
So Impressed were t
he
the ad
ye
ht
ed
exer:
appear
and gave his
of experimentation
¥
Gf others
Professor
servative,
Seli«Control.
Min
wt until! about
Mr. Gandail’'s Remarkable
Gandall bas lived iz
neapolis some time, but
Frank G.
months ago
perform unusual things
well-known prin
ology that in Hight
the eyes contract and in the dark
dilate
dilating his pupils In the light and con
the the pug “
Gandall ean oppose nature by
rit 1d i
3 2 . ark
tracting them in the dark.
1 with
rin
the
mmenon
in a
this
leave
perform
and
sinte,
Another
put
body.
or vein, The
closes up and not a drop of blood
Keon
Another feature of which this phe
nomenal man speaks proudly his
ability to put any part of his body into
For instance, he
43
eye alier
pastime of this
through
man
needles any part of
hole cansed Immediately
fis arm to become so
During
is
that two men cannot bend it.
his state of complete catalepsy he
in a semi-conscions condition,
to make the ordinary man
shudder. While in a chair he
ean cause his heart to beat alternately
slow and fast. Then with a mighty
effort he can make the vital organ
stop for an instant. This cannot be
sitting
the bear. However, by feeling his
pulse the phenomenon can be fully ap
preciated,
Grandall is twenty-four years old
and & well known in the city. His
wonderful freaks of nature are Inter
esting to the medical profession, be.
fore a number of whom he has ex.
hibited himself.-8t. Paul Globe,
A Postal Joke.
A West Sider recently approached a
certain postoffice official, His face
was serious; #0 was his voles,
“Say.” he said, “1 don't think it's
right for you to make your letter ear
riers do double duty.”
“What do you mean?’ exclaimed the
official.
“Why, we've got a earrier over our
way who is at it night and day.”
“At what?"
“Why, he carries malls all day, and
then has an extra male 0 carry at
night."
The official looked puzzled.
“That's queer,” he said; “I'll inquire
into #.” Then his face brightened up.
“Hold on,” he ered; “what does that
night mall weigh?”
“About nine pounds” sald the cit)
sen, with a hoarse chuockle,
The official grinned,
“Guess he'll have to stand 11,” he
sald; “it's just a short route, you
know."~Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Ore swallow will do away with at
feast 6,000 flies a day,
THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE.
—————
Indian Word,
Major W. A.
Yer, an astute politician, and an ad-
mirable gentleman otherwise, 1s fond
of literature of the best classes, says
the Charlotte Observer. He likes
search through rare books and papers.
iO
of some aged citizen, he bought two
rusty looking volumes for a mere tri-
fle along with other books, On exam
ining the books he found them to be
“Travels through the Interior Parts
of America, in a series of Lectures by
an Officer of the British Army.” They
are the letters of Lieut. Thomas Au-
burey. He was taken prisoner at the
battle of Saratoga during the Revolu
tionary war, From there he was sent
i prisoner to and later was
marched with many other prisoners
of the British army, who had been
captured at various places, to Char
lottesville, Va. Mr. Jones, a large
planter of Virginia and a member of
the Continental
boston,
CONngress,
to the Congress for a prison camp.
From this plantation Auburey wrote
many of his letters. All the prisoners
were paroled. This officer spent his
riding about
Charlottesville,”
to a friend
Later tl letters
volumes, and
Earl of Harrington,
tersham, Col
of
1774,
the
The
in
time In country
around letters
were of his England.
I
were published in
dedicated to
is-
the Twenty-ninth
Au-
30
ty
Iwo
were
Viscount
#1
ii
tegiment ‘oot, They begin
gust BN, run to
1781.
and October
The lotte full of
in wives vo frye
instructive reading.
rs are interesting
In
I1., page 46, v sitten from Cambridge,
New England,
Volume
1777. is a
Yankee, tof
war the Virginians
Englanders Yankees,
d during civil war everybody
north Mason and Dixon Line
called Yankee,
AR to the word,
In 1777: "If
» to obsers
vem bar OF
November 235,
history of the word ore
the
sradest dt - %
ie Revolutionary
called the New
al the
of the
Was
Lieut.
Auburey
may not we
amiss
hat the etymology of
i
one & f £11
ite] he | irom
Cherokee
fle coward
of Yankee
4
ants of
How Hobsoa Was Pleased.
Richmond
the hero of the 3
Hobson,
is no longer 4
to relate a little
during
1 3 wi «
proof of the loyalty
tenant
Pearson
jest, 2 t
our gu
be ungracious
taat
It
Scotch for their own, although the
truly Ameri
vas in the vol
the war,
attending a
by a
and
muni
oceurred his siay
cAdent
#
is a of
the
who
ariny throughout
Holes mn
given In
an
fair women of
Lieutenant was
reception his honor
1
*
physi of the
the
were
city,
> ’ this
many of the
around hin
or A
The
his
carrying
crowding
handshake passing
Seoteh
eager for a
conversation.
standing by with
and they on
quite a conversation with the Nation's
After satisfying herself
of
was side
friends, were
hero,
of a famous man and had talked with
him, one of them, with an attempt to
be superfluonsly complimentary. said
to her friend, “My Mrs, H, don't yon
wish you had a son like that?’ *I
dont know about that,” quickly re
plied the one appealed to, “I have
three and I think every one of
then is every bit as good as our hon.
ored and brave Lieutenant here” All
those within bearing astounded
at the temerity of the Americanized
SOLA,
were
remarked, “That's right, Mrs. H.;
stand up for your own bairns. 1 was
glad to hear you say that” Before
parting he presented a rose as a oken
was loyal to her sons
Annual Fire Waste in United States.
Few people outside of the
writers appreciaie the extent
business and the mwmagnitnde
losseg of the fire insurance companies,
There were burned fn the United
of the
saloons and barrooms and 735 church.
es, besides 31,008 other bulldings--the
total destruction being 65,779 build
ings, or an average of over 172 build.
ings for each day in the year. It will
also be seen from the above that while
nearly three barrooms are burned ev.
THE NEWS.
i me
RBapressntatives of broom manufacturers
Among other things, it was agreed to ad-
vance the price of brooms twenty cents per
of broomoorn and other materials, and to
issue a call for a national meeting of broom
manufacturers at the Palmer House,
Chloago, on Decomber 20, at which time a
national organization will be formed,
The jury In the case of Mrs, Cody, who
was charged with attempting to blackmafl
the helrs of Jay Gould, failed to agree and
were discharged at Albany, N, Y.
The National Farmers’ Congress, in ses-
sion at Fort Worth, Texas, adopted resolu-
tions favoring the construction of the Nica-
ragun canal under government control,
Ina speech at a Chicago banquet, Fer-
dinand W, »eck, commissioner-general to
the Paris Exposition, sald that commerce
should keep pace with geographical ex-
panion,
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, in s sposch be-
fore the Rochester Chamber of Commerce,
sald the United States is enjoying a wonder-
ful prosperity,
The National Farmers’ Congress com-
menced a four-days’ session at Fort Worth,
Texas,
The American Flag Day Association
| adopted a bill to be presented in Congress
providing a pensity for using the United
States flag for advertising purposes.
After an orderly trial, lasting several
hours, by the committes of citizens of Ben-
ton, La., it was decided that two negroes,
Hearn and Richardson, who were under ar-
rest there, wore gulity of the murder of
Larry Vauoce, and they were at once taken
to the piace of execution, half a mile north
of town, where they were hanged by citizens,
The erowd was very orderly.
Antonio Terry, the Cuban millionaire and
husband of Sibyl Sanderson, the California
prima donna, Is, according to private letters
received In New York, dying of Jiver com-
plaint at Nice, France,
MAY SELL THE PHILIPPINES,
Japan, It Is Stated, Has Offered to Give
$200,000,000 For the Islands.
A Washington dispatch to the New York
Herald says:
In a couversation between President Me-
Kinley and a United States Senator it is
said on the authority of the Senator, that
the President signified bis approval of the
policy of selling the Philippines; Morsover,
it was developed during the conversation
that at the proper time a measure to that el-
fect would be latrodusced in the Senate,
The Senator stated that Japan had already
offered §200,000,000 for the isiands, and, al.
though the authority for this statement was
not forthooming, the Benaetor said it
semi-official, Ie favored, il such a 1}
was necessary for the preservation of the
“balance of power," selling porticus of the
islands 10 Great Dritaln, France, Germany
sod Spain, sud leaving 10 these nations the
probiem of properly governing the people
of the archipelago.
Buch » measure, it was stated, would not,
probably, be tatroduced during this
of Congress, but would be maturely
ered pending the military regime,
would continue until the meeting
Filiy-sixth Congress. It was urged
boiding of the Philippines by the
consid.
of
the
of this country in insisting u
It was
that the propositic
support in the equotry.
should retain as a naval station
of Luzoa,
¥
doctrine, believed by
the Isiand
FIELD OF LABOR,
Tennessee is 10 have limbless cotton,
Michigan loggers welcomed the spow.
The Phillppines boast 50 varieties of wood,
DBeigium bas 183.000 jiquor establish
ments,
Loudon, Oat., garment workers organ-
ized,
Greater New York has
printers,
Nawburg, In
A ton.
Many Sonora ( Mex.) schools are closed,
owing to nck of teachers,
Utab farmers will form a State union
obtain better prices for products,
Albany malsters have been conceded #11 a
week, and only unionists are to be em.
ployed,
Raskia, Tenn., a co-operative town, is to
have a sash and door factory added to its
industries,
Cleveland, Ohlo, liquor dealers will fight
the ordinance that compels the closing of
saloons at midnight,
The New York Legisiature will be asked
to pass a law compelling brewers (0 manu-
facture a pure grade of beer,
Short Brothers, shipbuiliders of Palilon,
England, declares that their employes under
the eight-hour system do more and better
work than when the day was longer,
St, Louls brewers boycotted a firm five
yoars, and last week its employes were con-
esdod union wages and the eight-hour day.
The Philippines derive their greatest
weaith from the growth and export of
sugar. The cane grows on practically every
iginnd in the great archipelago.
The most costly leather In the world is
known to the trade as piano leather, The
secret of tanning this leather is kpowsn
oniy to a famliy of tenners in Germany,
though the skins from which It Is tanned
come almost entirey from America.
Bolton Hall, second son of the Rev. Dr.
John Hall, whose enthusiastic advocacy of
Henry George's theories and support of la.
| bor unions are said to bave been the reason
| prompting his father to discriminate against
233 idle union
.» minors struck for 35 cents
tc
Terre Haute miners struck for an ad.
| vance of 10 cents per ton, The demand for
| Indiana coal ls better than it has been for a
number of years. One of the noticeable
| facts about the increased demand Is that in-
quiries are coming from the natural gas
| fleid, which has not been buylag coal for
| ROMS Oars,
| been issued by the engineering trade unions
of Great Dritala show a continued redo.
tion in the number of unemployed mem-
bers. The Bteam Enginesrs' Uslon has
now very little over 5{ per cent. of its total
membership on donation, while in the Man.
insurance companies amount to the
enormous sum of about $135.000,000
per annum, but losses during the past
years have been so heavy that after
paying expenses and losses the come
panies have made lvtle over 2 per
cent as a profit on the entire business
h
i
Paris Peace Commissioners
Conclude Their Work.
READY TO BE SIGNED.
Points Covered by the Agreement In.
clude Little Besides Those Mentioned
in the Protocol —Spaninrds ins Resent.
ful Frame of Mind About Allusions to
the Maine,
Parls, (By Cable. )—The United States and
Spanish peace commissioners concluded
their work Thursday and flually settied the
terms of the treaty of peace,
They wiil meet once more in formal ses.
sion, when the Bpauish commissioners sore
rowlally, and the Americans with feelings
of reilef, will write their sigustures upon
the document which embodies the result of
the war, and the preparation of which has
consumed sleven weeks, In the meantime
the treaty will be engrossed under the sup-
ervision of Mr, Moore and Senor Ojeds, the
secretaries of the respective commissions.
The essential features of the treaty are
embodied in eight articles, as follows:
First—The customary preface of treaties
in the nature of an expression of amity and
of hope for perpetusl peace,
Becond--The relinquishment by Spain of
her sovereignty over Cuba,
Third —The withdrawal of the Spanish
troops from Cuba.
Fourth—The relinquishment by Spaln of
bier sovereignty over Porto Rieo,
Fitth—Spain's cession of the Philippines,
Bixth—-The withdrawal of the Bpanish
troops in the Philippines,
Bevecth-—Payment by the United States
of $20,000,000 for the Philippines.
Eighth The provision for the “open~
door” commercial polley in the P {lippines.
Rios nnd Ojeda Prostrated,
The Bpaninrds are exceedingly bitter over
the result, though observing the forms of
frisudiiners aod courtesy to the end, Senor
struggle to save for his country every pos-
#ible asset from the wreck of aer eclonial
empire, has commanded the respect and ad.
mirationof bis opponents, went from the
council chamber to his bed Ina state of
complete collapse ns the result of the long
strain and his chagrin over the small fruits
of hisefforts. Besor Ojeda has been pros.
trated,
The Spaniards charge squal blame upon
the European powers and the United States
for their downfall. One of the Spanish
commissioners sald
“The European nations have made s great
mistake io deserting Spain and leaving her
10 be despoliied by the brute fores of a cone
ecienceless giant. They all ksow that in
the Philippines America has taken more
than she can digest. She wili ultimately
sell the islands to England or Germany, and
mrhen the transfar {s attempted 1t will pre-
eipitate general European strife,
“We have refused to sell any island In
the Carolines. We never thought of econ.
we consented to
negotiate upon any questions except those
directly invoived inthe protocol signed at
Washington.”
Americans Were Nervoos.
The American commissioners sutered into
session In a nervous frame of micd. They
had reason to believe that a possibility ex.
isted, even at that that there
might be a rapture
This feeling was }
which tb
iate hour,
ased on the temper
w Spaniards bad displayed lately,
The commissioners of Spsin had not con
cesled the fact that, having failed to gain
all the important polots, they were inclined
to be indifferent as to whether or not the
conferences result in the sigulag of a treaty
by which Spain loses all her colonies A
miscarrage of the negotiations would leave
their political prestige at home no worse, if
not than any if they signed the
treaty.
Bad Feeling About the Maine.
The Americans were anxious not to give
the Spaniards any pretext to break off the
negotiations, or take offense, so far as the
exercise of patience and diplomacy could
steer clear of protests;
The Madrid papers had been disposed to
revive the question of the Maine and excite
public opinion against the United States on
account of the reference made to this subs
joct in President McKinley's message to
Congress. It was reported that Sesor Mon-
tero Rios, president of the Spanish commis
sion, made an impassioned denuseiation of
President McKinley at the last joint meeting
of the commissions. But this was incorrect,
Senor Rios did refer to the Maine, but ia
only one sentence, in which he expressed re.
gret that the Spaniards thought, unjustiy of
them,
The Spaniards had proposed, at the con.
ference, to have the responsibility for the
Maine explosion reported upon by a joint
commission of the European powers. The
American commissioners refused to aseeds
to this and permitted Senor Rios’ reference
to the President's message to pass unchale
Jenged,
Several points upon which the
vioners were unable to agree were
jel open for diplomatic negoti.
ations, The Bpaniards refused to admit
that they hall falled to respect the former
treaties guaranteeing religious freedom in
the Caroline Islands, or that thers was
necessity for new guarantees in that line,
Reaching the End,
The conclusion of the work was marked
by politeness and outward evidences of
good fecling. There was great relief that
the task was acconfplished,
When all the propositions had been dis.
cussed Judge Day, president of the Ameri.
can commission, said:
“There seems to be nothing more to do
but to eagress and sign the treaty
President Rios, of the Bpanish commission,
acquiesced In this, and the Americans
bowed themselves out bafore the Spaniards,
according to thelr custom,
Possible Trouble With Franca
Diplomatic circles in Paris predict, as one
of the resuits of the treaty, a diplomatie
contest between Fraves and the United
better,
commis.
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