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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-12-23, Page 61 1,esiee, .....exegettrese 041. t. 4r JVLE5 CLARETI 1 ,I 4. eeeee• e,,,,,,F_ELtliesp.; This Revere, whom he was amused of belling, he loved, and, to tell the truth, in that strange and troublous ex- istence wheal be had, lived Rover° had t.een the only true friend whom he bad known. Rovere, a sort of pessimistic philosopher, a recluse, lycanthropic, after a life spent in feasting, having sarfeited himself with pleasure, recog- nized arse m his last years that disin- terested affeetiou is rare in this world stestibis savage misanthropy softened be- fore Jacques Dantin's warm friendship. "1 coutinued to search for, in what is called pleaeure and what as one's hair whitens beconees vice, in play, in the uproar of Parbe forgetfulness of life, of the dull life of a Man growing old, alone, without home or family, an old, /stupid fellow, whem the young people look at with hate and say to each other, 'Why is bestill here?' Revere more and more felt die need of evitlaireewing into eolitude. thinkieg over his adventurous life, ee bad end as reined as mine, and be wiebed to see no one—a wolf, a wild boar iu his lair. teau you eniderstand this frierelship betevet n kiwi old fellows, imeefef whom tried in every way to di- rect his fliOUAIHS from liieneelf and the other waning death in a corner of his dreelde, solitary, =sociable?" ; "Perfectly. tlo on." * And the magistrate, with eyee riveted upon Jacques Dentin, SIM this man, ex- cited, making light of tide recital of the . , I past, evokiug remerabrauees of forgot- - ten events, of this lost affeetion—lost, as all his life was, • "This is not a eoriference. Is it not 00? Yon no longer believe that it is a • comedy? I loved Revere. Life had often ; eeparated us. He searehed for forme At the 4ttitt.T end nnf th0 ',veal. I nettle a :311t:'sS" of mine and ate it in Paris. lint we aleveys it,tt, up our relations, mei vbn lie reverend to Frew() we were hail y in again ie eine eavii other. The gray, r turee-,1 the he, ill° EzolT, A-M(1(T tie b. .L41 14 -"..t", I La alWays lentil him teeew we —from his Mt -ant -al ;ow ar th'elWer-01---e'e-',1 af;, r Wei a eine./ , r 0 141-.1”3444 -,nnii Plinin lit.' ll Oh.'0.111 a co: &Lee Ca;:e . P. `...f...W.ty enei in a 2a-6 eee weit ei. all Me. a'ae:-. 1 igiVt," i laneleeely eeFel te len dee he proba- bly Lel nee with nue pitted !eve( tied sp. Lila Eriz.. ,., 4 .v.,141 $,:uo unhappy" pas - lie sell no! 1 feieen ti t;; laileve it. Onlii,1 wt. ;;xdit,tyr and nu lanieledy like tat v. Wean le en' even't grief. : After n.l, tht tei are othere who do not ".. feel any e.ee r with a smile en the lips, . &einem ie no eign. Nt'itiler is gayly!" 1 His fac,, to -h on a weary, melancholy espreesion, whieli at liret astonished the magietrato; then he experienced a feel - big ef pity. Ile listcutel, silent and grave. ' "I mill ra.'s over all the details of our life, ehell X not? My monologue i Vaud?), lie ton long, The years of youth f pawed with a vapidity truly astonish- ing. We aline to the time when we :found ourselves—he, weary of life, es- tablished in his chosen apartments in , tho Boulevurd de Clichy, with his • aintings and books, sitting in front of ! is fire laud awaiting death, I contine- ' eng to spur inyself on like a foundered ,4eirse. Hoveru moralivel tome. 'jeered 'at his sermons, and I went to sit by his . fireside and talk over the past. One of Nis joys had Leen this portrait of me, tainted by Paul Hendry. Ile had bung it up in his salon, at the corner of the f chimney piece, at the left, and he often I said to me: 1 a 9Dost thou know that when thou I art not her I talk to it?' l "I was not there very often. Parisian :life draws us by its thoueand attrac- tions. The days which seem iutermina- ;hie when one is 20 rush by as if on timings when one is 50. One has not etwen time to stop to see the friends one iloves. At the last moment, if one is right, one ought to say: 'flow I have !cast to the winds everything precious jwhich life has given me. How foolish I i have •been—.how stupid.' Pay no atten- tion to my philosophisms—the cell. Ma- eas force $ one to think. i "One day—it was one morning—on 'returning from the club where I had passed the night stupidly losing sums e which would have given joy to hundreds of families, I found on my desk a mes- , page from Revere. If one would look tthrough my papers, one would find it , there. I kept it. Revere begged me to . come to hineimmedietely. I shivered— & sbarp presentinitint of death struck . me. The writing was trembling, unlike ihis own. I struck my forehead in anger. IThis niessage had been waiting for me 'since the night before, while I was Impending the hours in gambling. If, iwhen I hurried toward the Boulevard de -Olichy, I had. found Rovere dead on ray arrival, I could not, believe me, thave experienced greater despair. His assassination seemed to nee atrocious, but I was at least able to assure him that his friendship was returned. I hastily read the telegram, threw myself into a fiaore and hastened to his apart- ments. The woman who acted as house- keeper for him, Mme. Moniche, the portresa, raising her arms as she opened the door for nee said: "Ah, monsieur, but monsieur has waited for you. He has repeated your name all night. He nearly died, but he is better now.' "Revere, sitting the night before by his fire, had been stricken by lateral paralysis, and as soon as he could hold it lien, in spite of the orders of the phy- sician who had been quickly called, bad 'written and sent the message to me acute hours before. "As sodn as he saw me he—the strong an the mad misanthrope, silent and aomher--held me in his arms and berst into tears. His embrace was that of a man who concentrates in one being all that reniabas of hope. 'Thou—thouart here," lm said in tt low tone. `If thou lcuewesti' "I was moved to the depths of nee haut. That manly face, usually so en- ergetie, wore an expression of terror winch was in some way almost childish, a timorous fright, The tears rose in his eyes. 'Oh, how I have waited for thee bow I have loused for thee!' "He repeated this phease with anx- ious obstivacy. Then he seemed to be suffotiating, Emotion! The sight of me revelled to him the long agouy of thae eight when he thought that be was about to die without parting with me for the last time. "For what I bare to tell thee'— ''Ele shook his bead, 'It is the secret a my life,' "He was lyiug on a sort of sick chair or lounge in the library where he pass- ed his last days with his books. He made me sit down beside him. He took xy hand and said: `I am going to die. I believed that the end bad come last night. I called thee, Oh, well, if 1 bad died there is one being in the world who would not leave bad the fortune which—I have"— "He lowered his voice as if he thought we were epied upon, as if some one could hear. "I have a daughter. Yes, even from thee I have hidden this secret, Nvilist tortures nie. el. (laughter who loves me and who has not the right to coufess this tendereess no more than I have the right to give her my elan*, Ale our youth, sad yeeth 1 might have had a home today, a t. .eeide of my own, a dear one near ante and instead of tbat an affection of which I an ashamed and which I Lave hidden even from thee, 418(111es—from thee, dost thou compreintudr "I remember each of ,Rovere's words es if I was bearing them now. This conversation with ray poor friend is antong the most poignant yet most pre - doles of my remembrances. With much emotion, which distressed me, the poor man revealed to me the secret which be had believed it his duty to hide from me so nany years, and I vowed to him —I swore tobini on soy honor, and that is why 1 besitated to Speak or rather re- fueed to epeak, not wishing to compro- mise any one, neither the dead nor liv- ing -4 sue:re to him, M. le Juge, to re- peat notitiner of what he told me to any ane, eny fete but to her"— "'Lee" interregerfrd M, ilauteeter," Dentin reelivil. The inuaieerate recalled that oh -her in llark who laid been Fall OCiNislidld4;,,V at Revere's apartmeuts an the little remance of width Paul Weiler had written in his paper—the roznaoce te: the woman in bhwk. "And this daughter?" "ehe bears," said Dentin, with a die- coureg, d geetuee, "the name of the fa- thir which the law gives her, and this name is a great name, an illustrious name, that of a retired general officer living in me of the provinces, a widow- ; and wbo adores the girl who is an- other BMWS Child, The mother is dead. The father him never known. When dy- ing, the mother revealed the secret to her daughter. She came, by command of the dead, to see Bovero, but as a sis- ter of charity, faithful to the name which the bears. She does not wish to marry. b'he will never leave the crip- pled old soldier who calls her his daughter and who adores her." "Ohl" said M. Ginory, remaining mute a moment before this very simple drama, and in which, in that moment of reflection he comprehended, he an- alyzed, n'early all of the hidden griefs, the secret tears, the stifled sobs, the stolen kisses. "And that is why you kept silent?" he asked. "Yes, monsieur. Oh, but I could not endure the torture any longer, and not seeing the expected release any nearer I would have spoken—I would have spo- ken to escape that cell, that sense of suffo- cation, I endured there. It seemed to me, however, that I owed it to my dead friend not to reveal his secret to any one, not even to you. I shall never for- get Rovere's joy when, relieved of the burden by the confidence which he had reposed in me, he said to me that, now that she who was his daughter and was poor, living at Blois only on the pension of a retired officer to whom she had ap- pointed herself nurse, knowing that she was not his daughter, this innocent child, who was paying with a life of devotion for the sins of two guilty ones, would at least have happiness at last. " 'She is young, and the one for whom she cares cannot live always. My for- tune will give her a dowry. And then!' "It was to me to whom he confided this fortune. He had very little money with his notary. Erratio and distrust- ful, Revere kept bis valuables in his safe, as he kept his books in his library. It seemed that he was a collector, pick - ag"-*•=- Viterie vile was biting on a sort of sick chcdr or lounge" ing up all kinds of things. Avaricious? No, but he wished to have about him, under his hand, everything which be- longed to him. He possibly may have wished to give what he had directly to• the one to whom it seemed good to him to give it and confide it to me in trust. "I regret not having asked him di- rectly that, day what he counted on do- ing with his fortune and how he intend- ed enriching his child whom he had IltgeVaa not the right to recognize, I dared not, or, rather, I did not, think of it. I expe- rienced a stroug emotion when I saw my friend enfeebled and almost dying. had known him so different, so hand- some. Oh, those poor, sad, restless, eyes, that lowered voice, as if he feared an enemy was listening! Illuesshad quick ly, brutally changed that vigorous man, suddenly old and timorous, "I went away from that first inter- view much distressed, carrying a secret which seemed to ine a heavy and cruel cum and which made me think of the elseleseeess, the wickeduess, the vain loves of it ruined life, But I felt that Revere owed truly his fortune to that girl who, the next day after the death of the one whom she bad piously attended, found herself poor and isolated in a lit- tle house in a steep street, near the chateau, above Blois. I felt that what- ever this unknown father left plight not to go to distaut relatives, who cared nothing for him, did eot even know hien, were ignorant of bis sufferings and perhaps even of his existence and who by law would inherit. "A dying Mall, yes! There could be AO quesdou %bout it, and Dr, \Teethe. whom I begged to accompaey me to see rem friend, did not bide it from me. Revere was dying of a kidney difficulty which had made rapid progress. "It was necessary, then, since he was not alone in the world, that be eliould think of the one of whom be had spoken and whom he loved, "'For I love her, that child whom I have uo right to mime. I love her. She is good, teenier, admirable. If I did not see that she resembled me—for she does resemble me—I should tell thee that she was beautiful. I would be proud to ory Aloud, "This is my daughter!" To promenade with her on nay arm—and I must hide this secret from all the world. That is my torture, And it is the chastisement of all that has not been right in my life. Ale sad, unhap- py loves!' That same malediction for the past came to his lips as it bad come to his thoughts, The old workman, bur- dened with labor thronghout the week, wlio could promenade on tile Boulevard de Clieby on Sunday, with his (laugh- ter on his arm, was happier than Re - 'sere. Aud—a strange thing, sentiment of theme and remoree—feeling hieneelf traveling fast to his last resting place in the cemetery, he expressed no with, to vee that child, to send for ber to Come from Blida under some pretext or Other, easy enough to find. he experienced a fierce desire for volitufle, lie shinek from all inter• view in whieh he feared all his grief would rueli to his lips in a torrent of words. He feared for himself, for hie weakness, for the strange feeling he ex- perienced, in Ids lit ad. " 'It seems as if it oscillated epee my shoulders,' he said. `If Martha carne'—. and he repeated the name as a child would have pronounced it who was just learning to name the letters of a word— 'I would, give her but the sad spectacle of a broken down man and leave ou her mind only the /repression of a huinau Mill. And then—and then—not to sce her, not to have the right to see her, that is all right—it is my chastise - Ment.' "Let it be so. I understood. I feared that an interview would be mortal; be had been so terribly agitated when he had sent for nm that other dine. "But I at least wished to recall to him his former wish which he had ex- preesed of providing for the girl's fu- ture. I desired that 1m should make up zur the past, since money is one of the forms of reparation. But I dared not speak to him again in regard to it or of that trust of which 1m had spoken. "He said to me, this strong man whom death had never frightened and whom he had braved many times, he said to me now, weakened by this ill- ness which was killing him hour by hour: "'12 I knew that my end was near, I would decide. But I have time.' "Time! Each day brought him a lit- tle nearer to that life about which I feared to say to him, 'The time has come.' The fear, in urging him to a last resolution, of seeming like an execu- tioner whose presence seemed to say, 'Today is the day,' prevented me. Yon understand, monsieur? .And why not? I ought to wait no longer. Revere's con- fidence had made of me a seoond Revere who possessed the strength and force of will which the first one now lacked. I felt that I held in my hands, so to speak, Marthe's fate. I did not know her, but I looked upon her as a martyr in her vocation of nurse to the old par- alytic to whom she was paying, in love, the debt of the dead wife. I said to my- self: 'It is to me, to me alone, that Re- vere ninst give instructions of what he wishes to leave to his daughtar, and it is for me to urge him to do this. It is for me to brace his weakened will.' I was resolved. It was a duty. Each day the unhappy man's strength failed. I saw it—this human ruin. One morning, when I went to his apartments, I found him in a singular state of terror. He re- lated nee a story, I knew not what, of a thief, whose victim- he was. The lock of his door had been forced, his safe open- ed. Then suddenly, interrupting him- self, he began to laugh—a feeble laugh, which made me ill. "'1 am a fool,' be said. 'I ara dream- ing awake. I continue in the daytime the nightmares of the night. A thief here! No one has come. Mine. Moniche has watched. Ent my head is so weak, so weak! I have known so many rascals in my life. Rascals always return, hein "He made a sad attempt at a laugh. "It was delirium—a delirinm which soon passed away, but which frightened me. It returned with increased force each day and at shorter intervals. "Well, I said to myself, during a lucid interview, 'He must do what he has resolved to do, what he had willed to do, what he wishes to dor And I decided—it was the night before the as- sassination—to bring him to the point, to aid his hesitation. I found him calm- er that day. He was lying on his lounge, enveloped in his deesseng gown, with a traveling rug thrown acrose bis thin legs. With hi back skull cap and his grayish beare 1m looked like a dyiug doge. behl out his bony hand to me, giving me a sad smile, and said that he felt better, a period of remissioa in his disease, a feeling of oomfort, pervad- ing his general condition, " What if I should recover?' be said, looking nm full in the face. "I comprehended by that ardent look, which was of singular vitality, that this man, who had never feared death, still clung to life. It was instinct. "I replied diet certaduly he might, and I even said that im would surely recover, but—with what grievous re pugnance did I approach the subject—I asked him if, experiencing the general feeling of ease and comfort whielt per- vaded his being, be would, not be even more comfortable and happy if he thought of what he ought to do for that child of whom he had spoken and for whose future he wiehed to provide. fro am coigne/um:I Ora Time Firemen. Fifty years and more ago, when Mew Yorie and many other cities relied upon the members of their volunteer tire de - pertinent to put out fires, the ambition of each company was to be brst at a Are and most efficient in subduing the deletes. One old time Amman says that node Ing now can rouse in him the excite - meet which never failed to 00me at the sound of the fire alarm. "Business, meals and health were of small account compared to a call to join the fire engine," this veteran says, with a retrospective sigh. "The night of my wedding there was a fire, but it came right in the middle of therrearriage sere. foe and I had tomise it, However, there was one early the next morning while we were eating breakfast, and I went. No bride was so exacting as to expect to keep her husband at her side when the fire department had use for him." There were no salaries in those days save those paid to chief engtheers. The firemen paid for the painting and deco- rating of their honored eugines aud for snob repairs as were needed from time to time. In the days before cities were divided into districts the volunteer firemen, added to active Service On the field of the conflagration, frequently had a good deal of preliminary exercise in the way of running, before they dis- Covered where their services were need- ed.—Youth's Companion. A Vegetable Caterpillar. The meet extraordinary object I have ever seen is the New Zealand vegetable caterpillar. The rata is a parasite creep- er which first destroys ite forest host and then °rushee it to death and, usurp- ing its skeleton, becomes it tree itself. If the rata seedling is dug up, it is found to be springing not frora a seed, but from the head of a perfeotly formed caterpillar. It is supposed by some that the cater- pillar, which on diesection proves to be internally the exttot counterpart of its living insect relative, swallows the tiny rata seed while living, and burrowing into the ground becomes, instead of a chrysalis, the ger.adnating horae of the seed, which by some agency turns its unfortunate foster mother into wood. Others, however, contend the cater- pillar itself is prodnced by the rata, urging in support of their theory that if springing from a seed the shoot would grow out of different parts of the oater- pillar instead Of invariably growing out of the head. The insect vegetable is yellowish, about four inches long, and is fully ex- tended. I have seen them freshly dug up, and others that had been kept for year% and all had the appearance of a perfect insect carved in wood.—Pear- son's Weekly. Tanning by Electricity. By the introduction of electricity into the process the period required for the tanning of leathers has been very materially reduced. In the final process of unhairing the pelts and skins it has been demonstrated that if a cur- rent of small density be passed through the solution of lime and arsenic in which they are usually soaked the proc- ess is so hastened that the skins are readyfor the mechanical removal of the hair in several hours, whereas in the ordinary way it would require several days. The passage of the electric our - rent appears to carry the solution into the pores of the hide in a very remark- able manner. After the hair is removed and the skins placed in the proper tan- ning solutions a weak current is again passed through the solution, which has a similar accelerating effect. The fig- ures of time required for tanning by this process are, with bark liquor, about 12 days for cowhide and one-half to three days for calfskin and one day for kangaroo. • A German Beath Notice. Under the "collective mourner" sys- tem in Gerbaany all the relatives of the deceased bind themselves together to mourn his loss and to defray collect- ively the cost of advertisement. The case of Mrs. Regina Werschau is an in- stance in point. She lived to the age of 111 and left behind her many relatives, whose testimony, quoted textually from the Werschau Gazette, reads as follows: "Filled with sorrow we announce to all our relations and acquaintances the Departure of our innermostly loved Mother, Mother-in-law, Grandmoth- er, Great -Grandmother, Great -Great - Grandmother and Great -Great -Great - Grandmother, who departed this life on August 22, 1898." The signatures of the parties affected follow. The Ger. man for the last title is "Urururgross- mutter. '' With a Difference. "My friends have often told me I look like the Prince of Wales." "Weil, yes, you look as the Prince of Wales might- have looked by this time if he had never been restrained by re- gard for the dignity of his position." AGAINST EXPA.NSION„ Williarr Jennings Bryan Opposed to a 1,1.S. Oolonial Polioy, RUSSIA WANTS U. S. MONEY. Aa Inquest to lie Held Coneerning the Death or Robbie geld or Newmarket —Killed by Eating Pork Containing Trichinae -- Germao Socialists Novo to Aboilsik tbe Crime or Lese 3fajeste. The peace treaty will be submitted to the Sena= during the present session= The U.S. battleships Oregon and Iowa, en route for the Pacific, have arrived at Valparaiso. Major-General William Ludlow, Mili- tary Governer of Havana, left Mew York Lor Cuba on Saturday. William Jennings Bryan declares him- self an uncompromising oppoeent of the McKinley poltey ot expansion. It is said the Russian thivernment has repregentatives In the "United States endeavoring to negotiate a large loan. Meetings were held in 88 towns In England op Sunday to urge ebe adoption of the Ozar's plans for uulversel, peeee, Latest returns from Alberni, B.O., makeeit carte= that Mr. Neill is elected to the Legislature for that constituency. The angleisehe committee of the Reiehsrath has accepted all the articles et the bill regarding customs nninie with liongary, Le Courier d'Orient, a violent .Anglo- phobe Frenob daily, started in CAIN three menthe aeo, is dead, Cause—nubile, oontempt. In a tank- exhibition at the Alhambra, London, alise Wallanda remained under watet 4 minutes 9 0-5 seconds, whiela beats all records. The Grown authorities have ordered an inquest touching the death of 10-vezir-old Robbie Reid of Newmarket, Parental cruelty le alleged AS a factor. At the request of tbe Vatican the French Government bas withdrawn the catididature of M. Jules Cambon for the least of ambassador to the Holy See. Two girls of a Hillsboro, pe faudlY are dead and the remaining Mx of itS members are threatenee by death from trichinosis from eating pork killed at home. All the lee -breaking beats at Detre% backed up by nearly 40 down-Lowel boats, were re make a =1;1 Saturday night or Sunday morning on the lee blockade. Judge Lavergne at, Hull on Saturday deeithwa that a priest was bound to answer In a criminal ;else oven if the knowledge of the memo eame to bit through the confessional. 13y the direction of the President, Brig. -Gen. Michwiel V. .Sheritian, bas been neeigneti to temporary command of the Depertment ot the Lakes, rgieving Brig. -Gen. Bzwean. The Britigh steamer Ashanti, which loft London for the Canary Islands Sat- urday, has returned with her port side damaged, buying beau In collision with au unknown steamer. Th a French Government has decided not to Wive an army and navr exhibit at the 1900 exposition. As Russia will have no such display, it is believed Gant the military exhibit will be eliminated. German Soolaliste nave moved in the Reichstag to abolish the ;ileums of the criminal code which make lese limiest° it crime. There will be a lively debate on the question after the Christmas holidays. Ebner and Geurge Butler, brothers, aged 20 and 18 respectively, shot trona ambush a young girl at Chillicothe, Ohio. They have been convieted of man- slaughter and sentenced to the peniten- tiary. Sunday afternoon the members of the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, met and aocepted the resignation of Dr. Lyman Abbott, who will retire on May 1, and afterwards become the editor of a weekly paper. The Goslin-Gibbons abduction ease at Montreal has been amicably settled, and Mr. and, Mrs. Goslin have taken their child home and the brother-in-law Las been warned by the court not to interfere with the married couple. The total circulation of all kinds of money in the United States now Is said to be 21,886,800,000, which is 3165,795,- 000 more than at the same Sate a year ago. On the first of the year e100,000,000 is to be distributed in interest and divi- dends. The U. S. House committee on naval affairs has decided to report favorably a bill providing for an increase of waisted men for the navy to 20,000 men and 2,500 boys and apprentices. The present force of 11,000 men is Inadequate for properly manning the fleet. The Cubans in Cerro, a suburb of Havana, on Saturday night raised Cuban and American flags and were indulging in jubiliatione, which provoked a riot, during which one inan was killed and five wounded, one of whom was an American soldier from Illinois. Eddie Connolly and Jack Bennett boxed 15 fast and scientific =wands to a draw at the Crescent Athletic Club's show Saturday night in the Pavil- ion, Toronto. Jimmy Smith beat Al Ward in one round and Andy Ward won from Denny Gallagher in six rounds. The Louisburg schooner Parisian, with a cargo for Halifax was wrecked on White Head Island, Nova Scotia coast, on Friday night. Miss Louisa Dewd, an Invalid, on her way to a Halifax hospi tal, and Geoege Banal, were drowned The captain, mate and cook managed to twim ashore. All the women clerks and stenograph- ers of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- road who have not been in the employ Df the oonipany for at least two years are to be discharged, and the vacancies evill be filled by men. The aim is to inaugur- ate a policy of promotion and seoure °facials from the ranks. Heavy Spanish Tax Hnoeked Off. Washington, Dec. 19.—In the customs tariff schedule of rates of duty levied on Sobacco exported from (Juba, the provi- sion that tobacco in the leaf for cigar Wrappers shell be liable to the duty leviable on tobacco iu the leaf, with a mrtax of 100 percent., has been stricken nit by the Secretary of the Treasury. 'his additional or surtax was enforeed ander Spanish rule, Lilt Hill be die00f1- lin ued. GRAND r coNnaAN rzNopbx. ITOVOilfnti o otttlIAVIAt to iU Sold ors in the tete. Constantinople, Doc. le.—Tbe Poise tia Grand Duke Nieholas, who arrived here on Friday an board a Russian steamer, nnveiled yesterday at Galatana, neer San Stefano, where on Marcia e. 1878, wee - signed the treaty of peace that termin- ated the Russo-Turkish war, it monument to the Russian soldiers who fell in that coning:wt. The unveiling was accompanied with moon ceremony and a military parade, as which representatives of all the Balkan State; Wei'S present Earlier in the day a requiem was held at the Russian chapel there in memory et the (lead. The Turkish newspapers are exces- sively irritated at these ceremonies, which =cell great disasters to the Turkish arms. At the reception at the palace yes- terday the Grand Doke handed the Sultan the Ozar's autograph ietter and informed His Majesty that Emperor Nicholas had delegated him (the Grand Duke) t draw closer the ties of frieudship binding the two countries. Decorations and presents exehanged. A.NTi-ANARCHIST (' FEitEiOE liteason to Believe That t Pl3r4 Half Been Adoptril. LOUd011, Deo. 19 —The Rome corm- spondenr of the Times says: "1 have reason to believe that the international anti -Anarchist conference, which has been in session bore tar several weeks, has proved a sweetie Great secreey is mann:Oiled regerding the proceedinge nun coneinsione; bur the delegates Room satisfied that they have bald solid tounda- thin for a uniform system of (leafing with -Anarchists. The conference declines to recognize Aaarchlee outrages as political times," TIM ASIANS or 11131)13ITA. »lscpvered Near Peareiswaand Accepted by tbo filog or Siam. Calcutta, Dee. 19.—The ashes Of (loot - anus Siddertha, the Sakya Muni, goner. ally termed liuddna, the founder of the Buddhist religion. which have been dee. covered near Veprehwa, nave been offered to the King of Siam, who is the only existing Buddhist menereb, The offer ha e boon aveopted and a royal commiselon leas Wen assigned to proceed froui Bangkok to India to receive vim sereed gift. 'run R1.(U IN Cit1NA. DO of Their Cuelmais Already Abovo Nal141‘11U2' the *S011tliern Capital." London, Dee. 19.—Aceerding to a despetch to the Morning Pest front Han - now, on :leo Yanatee Iaag. ateiut 700 mile,' from the Si% a Vreneli enpetlition iris keen tiewipaohed up the or t Kwol Chau. cind one gin -wheat is already above Nen:king, the "Southern Capital" of China, about 90 miles frem the river's mouth, Ali Over it Little nut. London, Dee. M. -A ease lu the law courts which has t.re ited no little Interest and amusement, too. in society elrelee, la one in whleh the husband at Mrs. Berta Williams, a noted leader in dr.'s among society ladies, has been siva by a dress- maker for the enaill Sala of 1UU, Ilor husband refuized to pay the bill, alleging that, as Mrs. Williams has large means of her own, and that as he allowed her VMS) a year Th.: pin money, he was not Tbe question is considered rather o nice point of English law. The judge himself was rather doubtful how to acolde it, for be delayed judgment in order to consider the matter. ,-----. Curzon Wrote a Book. New York, Deo, 10.—The London corretpondent of the Times says; Lord Curzon, before leaving hero, completed a book on '"rhe Indian Frontier," and arrnuged for its publiention with the I -harpers. I have received a message, how- ever, from a great personage, mad I believe that the Queen herself is pointing out the impropriety of it book about India by the Viceroy appearing during the Viceroy's term of office. Therefore. the book has been withdrawn, the pub- lishers naturally requesting the reim- bursement or their expenses. J. Nation to Pig,ht Consumption. Berlin, Deo. 19.—The plans of the Government to call an international con- ference to devise measures for fighting tuberculosis, first made public a month ago, have matured. The congress has been called to meet at Berlin, May 28 to 27. Chancellor Hohenhohe will preside. Prince Victor, Duke of Ratibor, and Prof. Leyden have been appointed a com- mittee to have in charge the necessary arrangements. The main business of the congress will be to devise concerted meas- ures to prevent tubercular Infection. Enaak Likely to Suffer. Berlin, Deo. Ie.—According to the Kleine Journal, the evidence as to Frank lintiak's utterances against the Kaiser is so overwhelming that a heavy sentence is certain. The plea that he had been drinking heavily is of no avail, and tbe fact of his German birth is taken as proof that be was aware of the gravity of his offence. .All efforts of the American embassy In his behalf remain without avail. Prince Arthur for Khartoum. London'Deo. 19.—The Roe corm - 4 spondent of Route Daily Mall says It learns that the Duke of Connaught will go to ,p; ICheftM1M, as the representative of tbe • Queen, to lay the foundation stone of the Gordon memorial college to be erected there under the direction of General Lord Kitchener, for the instruction of Soudan- ese youth. Kaiser Hay Visit Paris. Berlin, Deo, 19.—The Kaiser's suite is exceedingly desirous of visiting Paris during the exposition. If the conference for a general disarmament is favorable to European harmony the Kaiser hopes to render possible his presence in Paris in the company of some sovereian friend of France,. meaning, of course, the Czar. It Cannot Be Thought Of. London, Deo. 19.—The question was recently broached of placing a statue of Washington in Westminster Abbey. Dean Bradley now announoes that no such proposal has vet been submitted to the authorities, and he is of the opinion that it is impossible for the matter to b. offloially entertained. Gomez Reported Bead. Madrid, Dec. 19.—A report has been received by a Cuban representative in the Spanish Senate from Havana that General Maximo Gomez is dead. •