Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1895, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895-TWELVE PAGES, se 11 (Copsright, 1895, by Irving Pacheller.) (Continued from Wednesday's Star.) CHAPTER V. ‘No more was heard of Sophy's trouble for many months. Braelands put a notice in the local papers. warning people against giving his wife shelter or credit, and after this insult had been commented on other things quickly occupied the attention of Pittencraigie—storms and shipwrecks, and men lost, and men miraculously saved. In the plain old kirk, with its model of a fishing smack in front of the gallery, there appeared suddenly that winter, more than one brown face thought to be dead, mag- netizing every eye and making even in the Psalmody a solemn, joyful pause. But late one evening the following sum- mer, in the very height of the fishing sea- son, this thing happened. Janet had been to see her daughter, and had sat with her until quite bed time And when she went sk to her own house there was a little figure in black, crouching on the door step. Two weak hands clasped her round the knees and a pitiful voice sobbed: “Take me in, Janet! Take me in to die! I'll no’ trou- ble you vera much.” It was Sophy. Janet sat down beside her and drew her head to her breast and looked with wondering pity at the shrunk- en face, so wan and ghostlike in the gray Nght. Then she called Christina, and Christina lifted her like a child and car- Tied her into her own house. “For we'll wie Braelands nae occasion against her,” she said, “nor against Andrew.” Then they made her tea and iaid her in Chris- tina’s bed, and after a little she began to talk feebly of her past life. “I run awa’ frae Braelands last Decem- her,” said she. “I could bide the life there nae langer, and I went to Glasgo’, where “Take me in, Janet; take me in to diet? my mother's cousin, Jessie Largs, lived, and I have worked at the dressmaking there till E couldua put the needle through the cloth any langer. Then I came here. I thought you would let me die among my ain folk and bury me in the kirk yard estde my mother. Oh, it will be a gude day to me when fhe cool winds go o'er my grave and I dream o’ the waves lap—lap- ping below me.” ‘They comforted an but she wished to what she could, great effort and tried to cheer her, in her own excuse nd though it was with between terrible par- oxysms of pain and coughing, she con- trived to make them understand some- thing of the slow torture that had driven her at last to rebellion ard flight. “I wasna marriet two weeks when he began to find fault wi’ my talk and my manner and my dress and wi’ a’ I did or aid. And he put me under his mother o learn how to be a fine lady, and she was gey and bard on me and set Archie against me, ard made him scold me for just naething at all, And I was ill, and she said I was only awkward, and my head ached and I cauldna learn the books I be to learn, nor walk as she showed me, nor talk like her, nor do anything at a’ she tried to mak’ me do. Oh, the wears weary days that I hae fret mysel’ through, and the lang painfu' nights, and some- times Archfe sae kind, {1 thought I must he in the wrang, and I would try again, and sometimes Archie sae cross, I thought I must die wi’ the shame and the heartache 0’ it, and at last I could thole it no langer gnd I went awa’ to Jessie Largs and she wasna very kind. I was in her way. I seem to hae been in everybody's way. When I spoke to Isobel 0’ my trouble she wouldna listen to me, because, she said, Mistress Braelands’ cutom was worth #30 a year, no’ to speak o’ her in- fluence. And I kent [ must die soon, sae I tholed Jessie's cross ways as weel as I gould, for I wanted to save you and Chris- tina for the last hour,” and she put her thin hand out to Christina and laid her head closer to Janet's breast. “And I would like to see the man or wo- man who would daur to trouble you now, my bonny bairn,” said Janet, with a sob in her yoic?, and she crooned ‘kind words to the dying girl, until she fell asleep in her arms. When she awoke she was in a high fever and delizious, end her one cry was for An- drew. Andrew was in his steamer, but the ship was lying off in sight of Pittencral- gle, and Janet went down to the village and got two old men to put to sea with a message for him. Then she sent to the nearest doctor and called in at the minis- ter's and told him all that had happened, for, she said, “you yoursel’, doctor, will be the only parson that will be caring to go to Braelands about the puir soul.” The men were too old to be at the fishing, and were therefore old and infirm for the labor of reaching Andrew's ship, but, Strengthened by pity for the dying girl, they managed to bring their craft near to the melee of boats surrounding her. Some were discharging their boxes of fish, others struggling to get come point of vantage, others fighting to escape from the uproar. For the air was filled with the roar of the waves and with the voices of men, blending in shouts, orders, expostulationg, words of anger and words of jest. Above all this hubbuh Andrew’s figure on the steamer towered, large ard commanding, as he watched the trunks of fish hauled on board, dragged, pushed, thrown or kicked as near to the mouth of the hold as the blockade of trunks already shipped would permit. But, sharp as a@ crack of thunder, a sten- torian voice called: “Captain ' Binnie wanted! Girl dying at Pittencraigie wants him!" Andrew heard, and in a moment had deputed his charge to Jamie and was ft the gunwale; and, selecting a point when f great wave lifted one of the small boats to the level of the steamer's bulwarks, he scrambled into her and was soon going shoreward as fast as his powerful stroke at the oars could carry him. Sophy, however, was beyond his power to reach; the tenderest words could not com- fort he®, for life was inexorably coming to an end, and every one of her muttered words was mysterious, Important, won- Grous, though they could make out nothing she sald, save only that she talked about “angels resting in the hawthorn bowers.” Suddenly Christina remembered that rome large, important looking papers had been sent that morning to the dying wo- man, and Andrew, on examining them, saw they were proceedings in the divorce se between Archibald Braclands and Sophy. “Does she ken aught o' these?” he sternly asked Christina, and when his sister answered “Na, na! They only cam’ an hour ago from Jessie Largs. And what- na for would we tell her? Death will break her marriage ring without judge or jury vera soon, the doctor says in a few ours at maist.” ‘Then Andrew put the papers in his pocket and strode rapidly down the cliff and away to Braelands. He met the mas- ter at the door, and at Andrew's look he dismourted from his horse, and they turned into a small room without a word. Then Andrew threw the papers down on the table and said with passionate sor- ‘ou’ll no need to fash folk wi’ the like o’ them, Braelar.ds. Your wife is dying at my sister's house. Go to her. Go at once!” “What is that to you? Mind your own business.” “It is the business o’ every decent man to call comfort to the dying. Go, and say pe words you ought to say before it is too late.” “Why is my wife at your sister's house?” “God pity the puir soul! She had no ither place to die in. For Christ's sake, go and put a’ right between you.” . “She left me of her own free will, Why should I go?” “Oh, mon, mon! Go for your ain sake, theh. Tomorrow it will be too late to say the words you will then weep to say. Go for your ain sake, to spare yoursel’ the black remorse that is sure to come. If you dinna care for the puir wife, go for your ain sake.” do vare for her. I wished——” “Then dinna Icse a moment. Haste ye! Haste ye! If it is but one kind word, give it to her before you part forever. She has lo’ed ye weel. She lo’es ye yet—at the grave’s mouth. Haste ye, man! Haste ye!” His passionate hurry drove like a wind, and Braelands was a straw before it. An- drew urged him to his horse and saw him flying down the road to Pittencralgle ere he seemed corscious of his own efforts. Then he drew a long sigh and began to hurry his steps. Half way down the Brae- lands garden path Madame Braelands stepped in front of him. “What have you come here for?” she asked. “Where has the master gone? Did you send him anywhere?” “I sent him to see his dying wife. She is dying.” “No such luck for my house! The wo- Cet has been dying ever since he married er.”” “You hae been killing ber ever sin’ he married her. Give way, woman! I dinna want to speak to you, nor touch the claithes o’ ye! IE think nae better o’ ye than God does, and He'll ask Sophy’s life at your haz.d.” “I shall tell Braelands of your imperti- nence, It will be the worse for you.” “Let me pass, and dinna touch me! ‘There's ticcd on your hands and blood on your skirts, and you're waur—ten times waur—than many a puir body that has to swing on the gallows tree for her crime. Out o’ my way, Mistress Braelands!” and as she stood before him motionless as a white stone with passion, he turned into another road and left her there. For he was impatient of delay, and with steps hurried and stumbling he followed the hus- band whom he had driven to his duty. When he reached Christina's home it was easy to feel in it the majesty of Death's presen All mere mortal needs had been forgotten; there was no table laid, no thought of neat, for Life stoad still to watch the great mystery trarspiring. The door to Sophy’s death room stood open, for the day was hot znd windless, and the household were gathered there. He went softly in. Braelands.was on his knees by the dying weman. Her head was folded to his breast and he was whispering in the fast closing ears the despairing words of love suddenly reawakened. On the edge of the grave, wrat did they care had the whole world been present? He won her last loving words, her last smile, and her sweet blue eyes set in death with their gaze fixed on him. But Andrew stood humbly at the foot of her bed, following her soul with fervent prayer, with a love that spurned the grave, and which was pure enough to venture into His presence with her. When the sun set Sophy’s little life of twenty years was over. Braelands rode furfously away without a word, and An- drew threw himself on the turf, with his face downward, and “communed with his own heart and was still.” At this supreme hour all that was human flitted and faded away; mal essence of self was overshadowed by the presence of the infi- nite. Wher. the midnight tide flowed he had reached that serene depth of the soul led him to rise to his feet and was laid to rest in the little wind-blown kirkyard of Pittencraigie. Some said Brae- lands watched the funeral from afar; oth~ ers that he lay raving and tossing with fever in his bed. But this, or that, he was not present at her burial. Her own kin— who were fishers—iaid the light coffin upon a bier made of oars and carried it, with Psalm singing, to the grave. It was An- drew who threw on the coffin the first earth; it was Andrew who pressed the cover of green turf over the small mound and did the last tender offices that love can offer. And it was Andrew who was the real widower. Braelands married again, married a proud, masterful, rich woman, who paid in full all Sophy’s wretched debt of petty jealousy and oppressions to both mother and son. But Andrew kept the Her Head Was Folded to His Breast. memory of his first love as purely and ten- derly as a mother keeps the memory of her Gead babe. And as love so vital must find some expression, Andrew raturally began to cast about for some way in which to honor Sophy’s memory. It came to him suddenly one Sabbath morning, when he walked up to the kirk- yard. A slender shaft of white marble had been placed at the head of Sophy’s grave, and Braelands stood looking at it. Andrew walked forward, till only the little green mound divided them. Their eyes met and filled with tears; they clasped hands above her grave, and then, without a word, each went his own way. But though Andrew was pleased that Braelands should thus honor his wife’s memory, he was resolved to still more nobly keep her name in the hearts of her people. He was making mon- ey rapidly, ard as his project would need much money, he saved with conscientious care for many a year ere he could compass his desire. This was to build a mission ship for the deep sea fishermen; and after twelve years work and saving the ship was built—a strong steam launch, able to buffet and bear the North sea billows. She was pro- vided with all appliances for religious com- fort and instruction, with medicine for the sick, with surgical help for the wounded, with all necessary protection against the agonizing <'sea blisters” which torture the fishers in the winter feason. This vessel of many comforts was called “The Sophy Trail,” and she is still busy about her work of mercy. Many other mission ships row traverse the great fishing flects of the North sea, but none are so well beloved by the fishermen as the “Little Sophy.” When the boats lie at their nets on a summer's night it Is on the “Little Sophy” that “Rock of Ages” is started, and then taken up by the whole fieet. When the stormy winds of winter blow great guns, then the “Lit- tle Sophy,” flying her bright colors in the daytime, and showing her many lights at night, is always rolling about among the boats, blowing her whistle to tell them she is nearby, or sending off help in her life- boat, or steaming after a smack in distress. Sha is the pride and the joy of Andrew's heart; she has consecrated that passion for hoarding money which was the weak side of his character; she has given to his dead love a blessed memory in the hearts of thousands. ani “a name far better than that of sons and of daughters.” (The end.) HARRYING HAWAII A Worrying Demand Made by the American Government, HOSTILITY 0 THE DOLE GOVERNMENT Evidence of Accord Between Great Britain and Uncle Sam. RUMORS OF BILIB USTERS eg eee Special Correspondence of The Evening Star, HONOLULU, August 1, 1895. For a good while our city and govern- ment have been enjoying a good degree of peace and quiet. Our fears have not ac- tively responded to the very lively rumors sent down frcm the coast of filibuster ex- Ppeditions said to be on the way; and of late such reports have excited only contempt. One of the latest reports of the kind came from Puget sound about a large tern, or three-mast schooner, the W. G. Watson, which, it was said, was to lie outside, and, throwing overboard her large load of lum- ber, receive from a steomer a force of pi- rates, with cannon and ammunition, to be landed here to restore the queen. Last week the Watson came peaceably in and delivered her 585,009 feet of lumber to her consignees. The filibusters have all failed to materialize. Ashford, Spreckels & Co.'s le factory at San Francisco will have to design some new style of their goods for this market in order to alarm us. The fili- buster scare is played out. Again, however, we are in serious dis- quiet—more serious than for many months. This disquiet proceeds from a source well calculated to beget alarm, because one from which we have heretofore experi- enced extreme hostility exercised in secret methods, and we are unable to determine how serious an evil is now planned against us. There may be no very injurious de- m, and yet past experience teaches us to apprehend that the worst !s not unlikely to be prepared for us. The thing has come as a total surprise—an unheralded act of apparent hostility from Washington. It comes quite as unexpected as the Presi- dent's manifesto against us In November, 1898, although not as pronounced in hos- tility as was that. We can only surmise what injurious Intentions it conceals or what course of persecution it is designed to initiate. The Case of Dureell. On July 21 United States Minister A. S. Willis addressed to Foreign Minister F. M. Hatch a letter, in which he claimed “‘ade- quate reparation for an injured citizen of the United States,” one James Dureell. Mr. Willis’ letter is accompanted by an affida- vit, made in Honolulu last April by the aforesaid Dureell before United States Con- sul Mills, and then placed in the hands of Mr. Willis for further action. In that affi- davit Dureell claims damages for injuries done to his business, feelings and reputa- tion to the amount of $25,000. He had been summarily arrested under martial law with many others believed to be in active con- splracy on January 9, two days after the outbreak of the insurrection. He was kept in prison for forty-nine days and discharg- ed on the 27th of February, never, as he says, having been at any time informed of the cause of his arrest or of any charge made against him. This case is evidently one of a large num- ‘ber of those, chiefly Hawaiian citizens, who, having been arrested for the sake of the public security on good evidence of their complicity in the insurrection, were mercifully released when the dan- withont further prosecu- 2, perhaps, two hundred cases of this sort, almost ail like Dureell— chscure persons, mostly native Hawailans. Their confinement for a time was esse tial to the public safety in a great emer- gency, as being participators in a strong censpiracy to destroy the government. At a heavy outlay of money and labor the more clear and conspicuous cases were convicted and sentenced by the military commission. A majority were finally set free, not from absence of evidence against them, but from unwillingness to be severe. The marshal, who is looking up the cast has not yet reported the grounds of Du- reell’s arrest, but it is understood that he had been particularly under suspicion before the outbreak. “He declares that he has never by word or dead forfeited his allegiance to, and his right to protection by his government; that he has neither done nor spoken anything directly or indirectly against the govern- ment of Hawati or its laws; that he has never expressed sentiments antagonistic to that government or in any manner coun- seled, encouraged, aided cr abetted its enemies, either in armed rebellion or secret plotting, and that he never possessed any ormation which, under existirg laws, it was his duty to report to your govern- ment.” Mr. Willis’ Request. Mr. Willis makes no peremptory demand. He says “these statements establish in the opinion of the President of the United States a prima facie claim for substan- tial indemnity.” He is “instructed to bring this case to the attention of the Hawaiian authorities.” He represents “the confi- dence felt in Washington that this govern- ment will not refuse or hesitate to make reparation and free him from injurious imputations upon his good name.” Dureell is a very obscure individual. His Peculiar name is now heard by the public for the first time. Of course, he is none the less entitled to protection and indem- nity if wronged. When arrested he was running a milk-shake and soda water stand in a little shed on a street corner. He had previously been a cook in a re- spectable small hotel. Since the date of his affidavit in April, as well as before, he has remained unheard of, his name never having appeared in the papers at the time of his arrest or afterwards. Min- ister Willis has had his case in hand for nearly four months, but has never breathed a syllable about it to this government, whom he now charges with having Wronged the man. The minister’s present action thus has the effect of a surprise, as springing the case upon us. It raises the question why, before referring the case to his own government, he did not make investigation by inquiring of our author- ities about the reasons of Dureell’s arrest and detention? It is highly probable that such inqviry would have shown him that the complainant had no case, but was properly arrested and detained. What thus seems to be a peculiar course taken by Mr. Willis materially contributes to increase a grave apprehension other- wise created in the minds of the president and cabinet as to the real animus of this action. Even in this letter the minister does not intimate the possibility of any doubt of the truth of Dureell’s allegations, He seems to assume their truth as estab- and only to ask for reparation in nee with those assumed facts. He does not suggest any inquiry or investiga- tion as preliminary to the reparation called for. All that possibly has no real signifi- cance. It may be mere inadvertence. It may sieply assume that it properly belongs to this government to make demur and in- terpose Inquiry. But coming from the source it dces, with the rrevious record of their dealings with this government, the peculiar course now taken does not inspire confidence. | It may be that your administration will be kind and reasonable in this case of Dureel. If they are so, there is little doubt that this government will make it clear that he was one of the numerous persons whose active advocacy of the queen's cause made it necessary to suppress and confine them during the crisis of the rebellion. If, as there {s little doubt, his affidavit is proved false in asserting that he never spoke any- thing against this government, nor encour- aged its enemies, it may reasonably be hoped that Mr. Willis will be instructed to withdraw his demand. If, however, our in- jury is determined upon, and equity is to he set at naught, and unjust payment Is to be exacted by compulsion, our payment of the iniquitous demand will be accompanied by such protest as we are able to make, and such setting forth of the facts to our broth- ers on American soil as, it may be believed, our statesmen well know how to make. We are well assured that our American breth- ren will not look with indifference at any attempt of the administration to combine with England in crushing exactions because we defended ourselvts ‘successfully against a nest of bitter corspitators. Royalists Well Informed. A number of timeg We have found it pe- culiarly instructive=tq. observe what the royalists had to sayipm-the occasion of any display of hostility By'President Cleveland. They have repeat: roved to be excep- tionally well informed)as to his intentions. They have means of information on that subject which maké their expressions of opinion of much weight. Just now there Is only one decidedly royalist paper here of much intelligence, the Independent. Upon the publication in the'senate, on the 26th, of Mr. Willis’ request, that paper was jubi- jant, and expressed a certainty that claims for damages were 16 be enforced from “England,Germany,Denmark, Portugal and other countries.” ‘The action of President Cleveland has dispelled the illusion that the United States would hold out protecting hands.” “The Nicaragua affair should have furnished warning enough.” There can be Uttle doubt that the Independent 1s par- ticularly well informed, and takes a cor- rect view of Mr. Cleveland’s policy toward us. It would be the blindest fatuity for us to ignore the past two years’ record of the Prestdent’s hostility to our republic. That hostility has proved itself implacabie, and such as to impel him to methods of attack which seem contrary to the directness of conduct that has usually been imputed to him. The most conspicuous instance of this was at the time when he sent Mr. Willis to restore the queen. He then adopt- ed, in order to justify his interference with the internal affairs of this mdependent state, the wholly untenable bypothesis that he was enforcing his devision as the arbi- trator of the case between Mr. Dole and the queen, which he claimed both parties had referred to him to arbitrate. He claimed to have tried the case and decided it in favor of the queen. Mr. Willis declared himself instructed to announce that decision, and demanded that in accordance therewith Mr. Dole and his colleagues should step down and put the fallen queen in their place, The Case of Lilinokalant. Now It is conceivable,although with mut difficulty, that the President did actually persuade himself that both parties agreed to refer the case between them to his de~ cision. Liliuokalani did specifically claim his interposition, in a letter sent by Paul Neumann. In surrendering her throne to Mr. Dole and his colleagues,she interpolated a clause invoking the arbitration of the United States. Not very astutely, Mr. Dole accepted and filed the paper, without par- ticularly noticing what afterwards proved to be a clause of great significance. Mr. Cleveland made it significant, although no act or expression of Mr. Dole ever gave countenance to the idea that he would sub- mit the rights of the provisional govern- ment to foreign arbitration, His whole procedure in going on to negotiate the treaty of annexation with President Harri- son forbade such a conception. Still it re- mains conceivable that Mr. Cleveland did persuade himself that he had been made the referee of the question between the parties. But he went so much further than that as to assume that he had actuelly tried the case so referred to him. It was at once pointed out by Minister Thurston, in a letter of protest which Mr. Gresham never deigned to acknowledge the receipt of, that an arbitration necessarily involved a formal adjudication by a regularly con- stituted tribunal, befere which, at an ap- pointed time and place,;botn parties should be fully notified to appear, with full cross- examination of each other's witnesses. As a matter of fact, the,enly inquiry imade by the President was the,secret and ex parte Investigation of Col. J..H. Blount, who was supposed by Mr. Dole and his cclleagues to be investigating the expediency and pro- priety of completing-the treaty of annexa- tion. The provisional government had never received the remotest intimation at any time that it was proposed to try their right to exist as against Liliuol It seems impossible to» conceive that Mr. Cleveland, as a sane man, could really have imagined that he had actually adjudicated that case, as he instencted Mr. Willis to announce. What is the true solution of this strange assumption by the President is “beyond the p: t writer's province or capacity to determine. What is plain—what we never can over- look or forget—ts that we are dealing with an enemy who uses strange and unlikely— one might say irrational—methods of pro- cedure. Added to this is an evident de- termination to act against us at seasons when Congress is not in session to inter- fere. This was done when Mr. Willis was sent out in October, 1893, on his errand to destroy us before Congress could assemble for its regular session. He failed through the queen's obstinacy to make his demand in time. Congress interposed and saved us. One year ago again the Philadelphia was withdrawn, and, for the first time in twenty years, Honolulu was left without United States naval protection. We be- lieved, and our royalist enemies all be- lieved, that this was done to afford them the opportunity of wrecking the city with- out hindrance. This also was done some months before Congress should assemble, but again the royalists were dilatory, and did not move until January. Now, again in the interim of Congress, the President Initiates his third move against us. We have given President Cleveland no cause for his deep and implacable hostility teward us. We well know how it originat- ed. It was because our revolution and the crganization of our government was at- tended by the friendly sympathy of John L. Stevens, who was the intimate friend of James Blaine. It was, further, because our appeal for annexation was most heart- ily accepted by President Benjamin Harrl- son. Blaine and Harrison were Cleveland's rivals, whom he hated above all other men. Therefore he hates the republic of Ha- wali, and desires to destroy it. Mr. Cleve- land is a good hater. He -has great fixity of opinion and tenacity of purpose. He is in some respects a formidable enemy. We are sorry that this is so. Mr. Cleveland three years ago had many friends and ad- mirers in Hawaii, who now only wonder at the spirit which possesses him. Britain’s Ex-Commissioner Rebuffed. The late representative of her British majesty, Maj. J. H. Wodehouse, now on the eve of departure for England, has just re- ceived a rebuff from this government. He requested permission to visit the ex-queen in her place of confinement. He was de- nied, on the ground that he appeared still to hold an official position. It is learned that he had never communicated to this goverument his withdrawal from office. His wife was also denied an interview with Mrs. Dominis, and a letter she sent to her was returned because addressed to “her majesty.” This is very grievous to the royalists, of whom Maj. and Mrs. Wodehouse have al- ways been very active partisans, Of course, the imperative reason for refusing the in- terviews desired was the fact of that strong partisanship. It is notorious that prior to and during the late insurrection Mrs. Wodehouse, if not her husband, gave F street and Eleventh. Storage Warehouses: 22d st. near M. White Enamel Beds Are almost as ¢heap as the cheap- est wooden ones, We've bunched a big lot of WHITE ENAMEL IRON BEDS, with brass trimmings, at a price that’s, surprising. All widths among them: 3 feet, 3 feet 6 inches, 4 feet and 4 feet 6 inches. e Any Size, $4.58. You know they are worth $2 to $4 more than this. A lot-of single WHITE ENAMEL BRASS TRIMMED BEDS, with woven wire springs attached, whose value would be fairly appraised at $7.50. Now. $4.45. active encouragement to the royalists on Maui, where they were temporarily resid ing. During the first year after the queen’s dethronement Mrs. Wodehouse, who lived across the street, was in constant and in- timate intercourse with Mrs. Dominis, and stimulated to the utmost a hopes of restoration as the result to expected from the labors of Col. Blount. It is easy to understand that the government does not regard the further intercourse of this lady with their ex-royal prisoner as ex- pedient. It is learned that Maj. Wodehouse has never deigned to inform this government of his retirement from the office of British minister, nor up to the last moment has he exercised the invariable courtesy of a for- mal farewell. He is evidently making em- phatic his contempt for the republic which his own government has formally recog- nized. He would have been glad to show that contempt still further by paying his farewell to Mrs. Dominis as queen instead of to President Dole. There has been no disposition to make the imprisonment of Mrs. Dominis severe by denying her frequent intercourse with her friends. She sees many of them fre- quently. It is quite certain that had Mr. and Mrs. Wodehouse been strictly private individuals they would have been permitted access to her, notwithstanding their very outspoken royalist zeal. It is only Mr. Wodehouse’s public and official character, combined with his studied discourtesy to the government of the republic, which makes his case an exception, so that the interview could not fall to mak2 a mis- chievous impression both upon the ex- queen and upon her friends outside. Our Minister Castle goes on toward Washington on the same boat with Maj. Wodehouse this evening. With his genial presence, he is likely to make himself generally acceptable. His wife ar.d older son accompany him. Mrs. Castle, being much of an Invalid, will doubtless lead a retired life, KAMEHAMEHA, —_—- GOV. BROWN DENIES. Not Advised the Withdrawal of Hurst. Gov. Brown of Maryland last evening de- nied the truth of the interview printed in ae Baltimore paper yesterday, and tel- egraphed to The Star, in which he was represented as favoring Mr. Hurst's with- drawal, and with reference to Mr. Hurst said that “he wished it understood most emphatically that he had no such advice to offer, and any remarks that he may have made in connection with the demo- cratic nomination were made ticidentally and in a jocular way, with no intention of having the same in print, and with no idea that they would be so used.” He regretted exceedingly that. “his name had been used in connection ith any al- leged interview which was calculated to mislead the public as to his position in the campaign; that he had always supported the democratic ticket, and would certainly do so in thts contest. “Mr. Hurst,” said Gov. Brown, “as I un- derstand it, was nominated without any so- Neitation on his part, and is in every way qualified to fill the office, and is entitled to the support of his party as the nominee of the democratic state convention, and I pre- dict his election.” John E. Hurst, the democratic candidate for governor, wes seen concerning the in- terview credited to Governor Brown. “The Publication came like a bombshell to me,” said Mr. Hurst, “and I at once sent to Gov- ernor Brown's office to ask him if he was correctly quoted. He sends me word he has had no interview. Under the circumstances I can say only that any reports that I con- template withdrawing from the candidac: for the governorship are absolutely false. England to Have Consular Reports. Mr. Claude Meeker, American consul at Bradford, England, has apprised the State Department of the movement among the boards of trade of various cities ‘n Eng- land to secure from British consuls reports concerning business openings in their lo- calities, such as are made by the consuls of the United States. Mr. Meeker regards this movement as a decided compliment to American methods, and he calls attention to the fact that it is a compliment which “comes ‘ot }rom tyros, but from the most eminent authori- ties in the United Kingdom in commercial matters.” ONE ENJOYS Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste, and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys- tem effectually, dispels colds, head- aches and fevers and cures habitual constipation, Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever pro- duced, pleasing to the taste and ac- ceptable to the stomach, prompt in its action and truly beneficial in its effects, prepared only from the most healthy and agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have made it the most popular remedy known. Syrup of Figs is for sale in 50 cent bottles by all leading drag- gists. Any reliable druggist who may not have it on hand will pro- cure it promptly for any one who wishes to try it. Donot acceptany ‘substitute. CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL WEW YORK, @.¥. COOEPOFSEPEODEDESEOOOOTIOOD Chapped Hands and Faces Cured by Pine Blossom Soap. The best Medicated Tollet Soap known for inflammation, blotches and all skin blem- ishes. Chapping and roughening of the skin can be prevented by using this soap frecly. Pure and antiseptic, it is always soothing and healing in its effect. Price 25 Cents, AT ALL DRUGGISTS. Foster ‘Medicine Co., Baltimore, Md. 42d12r-12 ©2OO000000000 0000000000000 THE ANIMAL EXTRACTS. CEREBRINB Extract of the brain of the ox, for Nervous Prostration, Insomnia, CARDIN Extract of the Heart, for Fune- "ional Weakners of the Heart. MEDULLINE, Extract of the Spinal Cord, for Locomotor Ataxia. TESTINE, For Premature Decay. OVARINE, For Diseases of Women. THYROIDINE, For Eczema and impurities of the blood. Dose, 5 drops. Price, $1.25. SOLE OWNERS. Columbia Chemical Co., 1404 FOURTEENTH ST. N.W. Washingt a Bend for book. oy Je6-th,s,tutt WEBRASKA DEMOCRATS. Convention to Be Held at Omaha This F Afternoon. The Nebraska state convention will con- vene in Omaha this afternoon. Since all cpponents of free siiver in the party will hold a state convention September 5, it is conceded there will be no fight along this line. Thero has been a pretty fight on between the two factions ever since the last county convention. After the elec- tion in which the silver wing, by the nomi- nation of Judge Holcomb for governor, came out victorious, there was a let-up in the, fight, and for a time it promised to die out and result in a reunton of the party in the state. In fact, steps were taken for a conference wita this object in view. Recently, however, the peace negotiation’ fell through, and the fight was renewed. It is charged by some anti-administration men that the recent visit of Secretary Mor- ton had something to do with this change. The call provides for 811 delegates, and Chairman Smith expects that at least 700 accredited delegates will attend. In the evening a mass meeting will be held, at which addresses will be delivered by W. J. Bryan and Editor Carmack, the latter ef the Memphis Appeal Avalanche. ——- ree A Sealing Schooner Wrecked. The steamer Excclsior arrived at Seattle yesterday from St. Michaels, mouth of the Yukokon river, bringing news of the wreck of the sealing schooner Walter Earlde, off Kodia Island, and the loss of eleven Indian sailors. The wreck was found bottcm up, and the bodies of the Indian sailors were found in the forecastle. But the bodies of the captain and six or eight white sailors aboerd were not found. The sailors left Victoria last spring for Bering sea, with Captain Morgsen com- manding. “@CURE® SICK HEADACHE, BILIOUSNESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, POOR APPETITE, and all derangements of the =) Stomach, Liver and Bowels, Of all druggtsts. ONCE USED —— ALWAYS IN FAVOR. YOUNG SPIRITS, @ vigorous body and robu t strength fol- low good health. But all fail when the vital powers are weakened. Nervous, debility and loss of manly power result from habits,con- tracted by the young throuy ignorance of their ruinous con- sequences. Low spirits, melancholia, impai meniory, morose or isritable __ temper, fear of impending calamity and a thousand and one derangements of body and mind, result from such pernicious prac- tices. All these are permanently citred by improved methods of treatment without the patient leaving home. A medical treatise written in plain but chaste lan; , treating of the nature, symptoms and curability of such diseases, sent securely sealed in a plain envelope, on Teceipt of this notice, with rocents in stamps, for postage. Address, Wortp’s DISPEN: SARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, Buffalo, N.Y. The Term: A Tender Foot— ** © —has a double meaning. It is applied to **** the “green” or ‘soft’ young men who °° ** float west from the cultured cast. It is’ **** also applied to aching “‘eoft” feet, which **** are very painful—uniess the feet °° * cased in a “Wilson's $3.50 Shoe. No * °° * pain thereafter Wilson, “Shoemaker for Tender Feet,’* 929 F St. aul9-36d You’re Too Fat. There Are Others. Read What They Say—They're Being Cured by Dr Edison's Obesity Treatment—Hot Weather is Here—Use Dr. “Edison's Pills, Salt and Bands for the Fut—Not Patent Medicines—They Make Fat Folks Thin and Comfortat Florence Evelyn Merry, acthor of “Two Girls at the Fair,"” writing from ‘the Great Northern Hotel, Chicago,’ states that e?> bad been gaining fesh Fapidly for five years until September, 1894, when she began using Dr. Edison's Treatment for Obesity. ‘From Sept. 2 to Dec. 20 I took Dr, Edison's Obe- nda, and entirely cured’ of Uyspepaan "Ne" cont peunds, and entirely cured'of dyspepsia. My com- Dlenton was rendered clear and beautital”? > Merey Sturtevant Wai 3 from the ‘Treasury Department, say: weeks Dr. Edison's Obesity Pills and Salt brought me down 44 nd cured me of chroale ailments.’ Capt. Henry Caton, long connected with Pest Office Departmeat, writes: “I took Dr. son's Pills aad Salt ‘ond they reduced me writer: “I took pounds in a month and a hal: Mrs. Col. Stanton, Georgetown, Dr. Edison's Obesity Salt and Pills six weeks, re- duced 35 pounds and cleared my complexion. Francesca Townshende, secretary of the Woman's Ethical Culture Club, writes: “1 fleshy seven years. ‘From 124 pounds I had grown Indigestion and spepsia made me near] . Rdlson’s treatment 1 sical wreck. Under uunds in eleven weeks cured my the i 38 a pt have SASTOOS “T had been getting Mammoth Credit House, 819-921-823 7th st. mw., bet. H and I ste. E auto-sia MUNYON HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES Act almost instantly, speedily curi most obstinate cases. Hheumafem cured in from 1 to 3 days. Dyspepsia and stomach troubles quickly relieved. Catarrh positively cured. leadache cured in 5 minutes. Nervous diseases promptly cured. Kidney troubles, Piles, Neuraigia, Asthma and all Female Complaints quickly cured. Munyon's Vitalizer imparts new Tite and Vigor to weak and debilitated men. Ask our druggist for a 25-cent vial of one of junyon’s Cures, and if you are not bene- fited your money will be refunded. This Company puts up Acure for every disease Parker, Bridget & Co., 315 7th St. Regret exceedingly we did not open earlier for you this morning. Did not know the seashore, country and moun- tains had worked such havoc with your wardrobe. Awfully glad we started the sale at this time and pleased so many of you, Selling $8, $10 and $12 Suits for $5 ought to do us a lot of good this fall and winter with you and your friends, for it re- quires a little nerve to make such a loss. Our object is to clean the store complete prior to the ar- rival of the fall styles—which, by the way, will be “beauties.” You'll find black, navy, brown and fancy mixtures in this lot— provided you don’t wait much longer, and nearly all sizes in each lot. This price is necessarily “cash down,” and alterations (if any) extra. Bring any of these back, too, if you are not pleased, Parker, Bridget & Co., 315 qth St. GREAT, GOOD NEWS! Until closing time next Saturday night we offer our entire stock of Mattings, Carpets, Rugs, Below Cost And on CREDIT! Arvange the paymexts to please yourself—weekly or monthly. No notes—no futerest. All Carpets made and laid absolutely FREE of COST —no charge for waste in matching figures. Mattings at exactly half price—and tacked down FREE, AN-wool Ingrain Carpet—re- 4 gg PER ular 70c. quulities- 45 yarn Very Heavy Union Ingrain pet—regulac 40c. qualities~ Bost quality Double Extra Brussels Carpet. Others ask a@yq PER 115 per yard—this week... 20C* yarn Good quality Brussels Carpet elsewhere T5e.—this week..47' Heavy Ingrain Carpet—splendi value at S5e. per yard—wur PER price this week. 223¢ yikp GROGAN'S PER YARD PER YARD lost €3 poi doepenela.” 1s. Helen Wandall Sturgess, from her residence on F street, writes: Edison's Obesity Band has reduced m; and cured me of kiduey troubles. ‘. lison’s Pills and Salt have cured my brother, Col. Wandall of the rtment of State, of liver disease and reduced bis weight 39 pods in forty-threo daya.”” Obesity Pills, $1.50 a bottle; three bottles, $4, enough for one treatment; Obesity Fruit Salt, $1, Obesity Band, any size up to 36 Inches, is $2.50: 10 cents extra for each additional inch in length. Send all mail, express or €.0.D. orders 10 us. Retail drug (ride supplied by E. P. MERTZ, lith and F nw. ©. C. G. SIMMS, 1346 N. Y. ave. nw. Send for “How to Cure Obesity.” Mention address exactly as given below. TORING & CO., General Agents, United States, Chicago, Dept. No. 19, No. 113 State street. New York city, Dept. 4, No. 42 W. 220 street. auld-3m You can make your home and of fice like a summer resort by putting in an electric fan and discarding the hot gas light, substituting electricity. No power is as clean, as stable or as cheap as electricity. We furnish the current. Drop us a postal or call up *phone 77 and we'll turn it on. United States Electrie Lighting Co., 213 14th st. nw. Bargains In Long Hair Switche. 50. Formerly $5.00. 4.50. Formerly Formerly $10.50. ‘attendance in Hair ASS las Dreasing, aul3-202 BRIAR PIPE GIVEN AWAY Dy MIXTURE for SS cents Every pipe stamped DUKES MIXTURE or 2oz. Pacxaces 5¢ umpooing, ete. ‘Try our ‘‘Curlette,"” for keeping the hair { curl. S. HELLER’S, 720 7th Street N.W. Jet-204 WHOLESALE AND IF YOU HAVE A BABY At doubtless suffers from red, Itching skin— qhating aod prickly beat. EVANS’ Talcoy POWDEE gives relief, 10c. a box—plain ned. aul5-84 perfun NS" DRUG STORE, 938 F STREET, SD RETAIL