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OUR BRITISH COUSINS ♦. HOW THKY VIKW AMERICAN OPER. ATIOAS IN THE PHILIPPIAES. Slitp Owner* Oppose Abrogation of the ( Inrtoo-Buiwer Treats’ I nleiu Cuncewiionfi Are Uraitled. ♦ OPENING OF PARLIAMENT THE NEW LIBERAL LEADER AND SALISBL BT'B SIGUESTION. - Career of the 111-Fnted Prince Alfred of Suse-CoburK anti Gotha— Andree Siberian Story Discredited. [Copyright, 18M, hr the Associated Press.] LONDON, Feb. 11.—The dispatches of the Associated Press from Manila occupy a prominent position in the British newspapers, and there is no doubt that the American victories are popular here. The British cannot understand the incredible folly of the Filipinos in forcing hostilities, which Is put forward as proving the correctness of the American view that they are at present incapable of self-government. The weekly newspapers devote considerable space to the developments of the past week. The Speaker says: “The American course is justified by the account of the fighting and even more fully by the Filipinos’ own statement of their case. Their efforts to starve and* worry the American troops into sickness and their generals Into concessions culminated with an attempt to control the water supply of the city, which would have resulted in intense suffering to 300,000 pacific noncombatants. America’s resistance taught the Filipinos a severe lesson on the customs of civilized warfare.” The Speaker predicts that there will be little more real fighting, expresses the opinion that the real difficulty is how the government of the Philippines is to be carried on, and says: “The only way America can fulfill her mission is by a trained civil service. The brilliant reputation acquired by West Point during the past fifty years encourages the hope that a civil-service academy will meet with no less success. Few people take more kindly to training or acquit themselves better than the American graduate. He has more adaptiveness than his English colleague, has probably more energy and a stronger will. We have little doubt that a trained civil service for her new possessions will show America the desirability of a trained civil service for herself.” The Saturday Review says: “The thought of what would have happened at Manila if Aguinaldo's savage troops had been let loose in its streets is itself sufficient to make us view the victory with satisfaction. The revolt, however, is not likely to end with the slaughter around Manila, The guerrilla warfare which the Filipinos can wag£ effectively may tux the resources of the Americans for many a day.” Utterances instructive to Americans as reflecting the opinion of hard-headed business men here towards the United States were made at the annual meeting of the Chamber of Shipping, which is composed of the leading shipowners of the United Kingdom. The chairman in his opening address, which was generously applauded, said that while excellent relationship just now existed between Great Britain and America, there were questions which would have to be faced and settled. He hoped the Foreign Office would not agree to the abrogation of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, unless the neutrality of the Nicaragua canal and nonpreferential rates were guaranteed to Great Britain. The chairman further remarked that Great Britain also had the greatest interest in the ultimate control of the Philippines, as up to now the valuable carrying trade from the islands has been almost entirely in British hands, and he urged the government to lighten the heavy burdens of the shipowners in view of the increasing competition of Germany and the fact that America was doing everything possible to get her trade carried in her own vessels. The Speaker, referring to the foregoing reference to the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, says: "We believe that both bills before Congress are clear and satisfactory to British interests, that it is desirable that the guarantee should be stronger than ordinary law.” - ♦ PRINCE ALFRED'S DEATH. How Queen Victoria’* Grandson Was I.cd luto Evil Maya. [Copyright, IM*9, by the Associated Press.] LONDON, Fob. 10.—There is a dark tragedy lying behind the death of young Prince Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, the onlyson of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, second son of Queen Victoria. This adds greatly to the grief of his relatives. He was handsome, tall and of manly bearing, and his slight, boyish figure, in a brilliant Hussar uniform, was conspicuous during the jubilee festivities in England. Soon after the jubilee the prince returned to his regiment in Berlin, one of the crack guards regiments there; but lie soon fell into bad hands, became entangled in the gambling scandals, and finally this resulted in his cousin, Emperor William, dismissing him from the guards, and, under the guise of promotion, transferring him to a line regiment at Coburg. Two other officers who were mixed up in the gambling scandal were cashiered. But gambling was not the worst feature of the young prince’s case. He Indulged in other dissipations which undermined his health and brought about his untimely death, as it did with Alfonso XIII of Spatyi. Early in January specialists pronounced Prince Alfred’s state to be hopeless and his succession to the throne of Coburg out of the question. The prince, however, had to participate in the silver wedding festivities of his parents, and was carried to the gala performance at the Coburg Theater in a sedan chair. Four days before the prince’s death the disease from which he w-as suffering caused inflammation of the brain and brought on an agonizing end. He died without any of his relatives near him, 1n a delirium, in the sanitarium in the Austrian Tyrol to w-hich he was taken. Only two doctors were at his bedside when he expired. The state of the health of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha will bring into prominence the question of the succession to the throne of Coburg, w-hich devolves upon the Duke of Connaught, brother of the Duke of Edinburgh and third son of Queen Victoria. Before long the Duke of Connaught may have to decide whether he will leave his native land and take up the sovereignty of Saxe-Coburg. If he chooses the latter he will have to abandon his career in the British army. In which he is the most popular general and has the prospect of becoming commander-ln-ehief. The Duchess of Connaught will have an important voice in the question. She Is a patriotic German and a princess of Prussia, and will probably throw her weight in favor of SaxeCoburg. The general belief, however, is that the Duke of Coniwwight will renounce the title and succeesionun favor of his son, Prince Arthur, who was born Jan. 13. 1883. The death of Prince Alfred has been a heavy blow to the London season, as black will have to be worn up to Baster. The

season began with the opening of the Parliamentary session. THE MISSING BALLOONIST. Story of Siberian Natives Don bred by Prof. Andree** Brother. MALMO, Sweden, Feb. IL—The brother of Professor Andree, the missing balloonist, who attempted to cross the Arctic regions, has informed a local newspaper that he does not believe the repot ~ received by way- of Krasnoyarsk. Siberia, that the remains of Andree and his companions and the car of the balloon In which he left Dane’s island, of the Spitzbergen group, on July 11, 18S7, have been found between Kemo and Pit, in the province of Yeniseisk. He says that locality is cultivated and that it appears incredible that the corpses and the car of the balloon could have been there a y-ear and a half without being seen before this. Furthermore, Andree’s brother points out that, in stormy weather the bodies would almost certainly have been separated from the wreck of the balloon. The well-known polar explorer, Professor Nathenlst, has Issued an appeal to the Swedish people for funds to equip an expedition to East Greenland during the coming summer to search for Professor Andree and to engage in scientific explorations. The party will consist of twenty-five persons. They will be absent four months and the cost of the expedition is estimated at 70,000 crowns. The balloon Eagle, with Professor Andree and two companions, Strindeberge and Fraenkel, in the car, left Dane's island, of the Spitzbergen group, on July 11, 1807. in an attempt to cross the north polar point. No definite news of the aeronauts has been received beyond the message attached to a carrier pigeon, found by the whaling ship Falken, which arrived at Copenhagen on Sept. 2. The message Vead: “July 13, 12:30 p. m., latitude 22:02 north, longitude 12:06 east. Good voyage eastward. All well.” The party carried provisions for only four months. The same inability to carry a great weight which limited their food supply also made it impossible for them to take any dogs. They hud, however, sledges, which would enable them to take supplies as far as they were able to proceed on foot if obliged to abandon the balloon, and a collapsable boat twelve feet in length, which would carry half a ton of freight, as well as the three passengers. ’The aeronautic exploits of Andree have become known all over the world, and re made a name for himself as one. of the most audacious men who ever ascended in a balloon. Every one of his daring trips was carefully planned, as if it had been the crowning journey northward. Once he went up from Stockholm and crossed the Gulf of Bothnia, landing on the shores of Finland, a deed never before tried. Another time he sailed in his balloon from the city of Gothenberg, on the western coast of Sweden, to the island of Gothland, in the Baltic, traversing the distance of 230 miles in five hours. Andree took for the model of his balloon the sailing vessel, not the steamship. And when he did this he had-to deal with a natural law which is exceedingly simple ami yet which is not always clearly understood. Andree’s first step toward steering his experimental balloon w-as to create a resistance. This he did by trailing along the surface of the sea, or land, the end of a heavy drag rope, which was suspended from his balloon. The friction created by the movement of the rope over the earth or sea made the balloon travel a little more slowly than the wind. Then he set a sail on the balloon, and the wind bellied out the sail, which w-ould have hung quit flat if there had been no drag rope to prevent the balloon from moving freely with the wind. The difficulty of steering was overcome in this way: The most vital part of the frame of a balloon is what is called the suspension ring, a large iron hoop to which the network envelope of the gas bag is fastened and from which the car hangs. To this ring the spars of Andree’s sail were attached. When the drag rope was hooked into the hoop at that point of the ring, which corresponds to the stern of a ship, the effect of the wind on the sail was to push the balloon straight ahead. Andree’s actual flights through the air, undertaken for experiment, showed that he could sail due north if the wind was blowing from any point from south-southeast and south-southwest. This gave him 45 degrees, or an eighth of the whole circle, in his favor. He did not need a direct south wind to blow* him toward the pole. Southerly winds were all that he asked for. In northern Siberia thousands of circulars printed at the expense of the Russian Geographical Society were distributed through the Russian government. The Russian circulars were written for a people still in the first stages of development, in the outskirts of civilization, to whom modern terms and scientific language would be like Chinese to to us and who must be addressed like children. A copy of this interesting document sent out by the Russian government is annexed, and a translation given below’: “Three learned foreigners, Andree, Strindeberge and Fraenkel, Swedes, have the intention of undertaking, imperiling their own lives, an aerial voyage below the clouds, for a scientific purpose, in a basket suspended from an immense bladder, as shown in the upper sketch, which represent such a bladder, or balloon, soaring along high above the earth. “The wind may orfft ill’s balloon to Russia or Siberia, and if ihis -nould t appen the persons who are in .he baske- will let this balloon drop to the earth, as show’n in the lower sketch, which represent the descent of a balloon in the viei r;y f St. Petersburg. From the drawing can te *-een both full grown people and children, men end women, hurry forth to the falling balloon to assist the occupants of the basket in getting sateiy out of the latter. “It is quite evident from the drawing that the balloon can do no harm even to little children. Nobody need be afraid of the balloon and less still ofthe persons in the basket, but these people should be rendered all assistance possible in their descent, they should lx- kindly received as dear guests and everybody should do all in their power to make matters easy for them in the strange country and to bring them with honor to the nearest authorities, as the learned foreigners during their stay on Russia territory will be under the most gracious protection of his Majesty the Emperor. “Should the strangers in the balloon for the time being be unable to pay for the he.lp furnished them this should not restrain anyone from rendering them all the assistance they may need, since all expense thus Incurred will be refunded and the persons who have furnished the help wall be rew r arded by the King of Sweden. “Any one who may sight the balloon, with the persons in question, passing at a distance from the point of observation, should inform everybody he meets of the fact, so as to spread the news of the passage of the balloon to the authorities. “In such a ease it would be well to state the time when the baloon was observed, in which direction it flew off and the direction of the wind on the occasion. These particulars are needed in order that a successful search for the persons in the balloon may be made should no news be received of the latter for some time. Do not fear the balloon, but may everybody assist these people in their descent with the balloon from the sky to the earth, thus performing a good deed acceptable to the Lord and to the great Emperor.” NOTES FROM LONDON. A Maggy February—Reception* and Hall*—Society Bazaar. [Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.] LONDON, Feb. 11.—The bright cold snap of January has been succeeded try one of the muggiest Februaries on record, the thermometer during the past week standing at 68 degrees. Similar and unusual mildness is reported from the continent. There have been severe storms over the south and west portion of the British isles and floods in many parts. The River Thames has risen seriously, and many residents of Windsor have been removing their furniture as a result of the inundations. Influenza has resumed its sway, but it is not of a deadly type. The Duke of Devonshire’s political reception on Tuesday evening was a brilliant function. The Duchess of Marlborough was magnificently gowned, and Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain wore pale pink moire satin and w’hite lace. Mrs. Ronalds was dressed in black tulle and jet. Prominent among the guests was Mrs. Henry White, wife of the United States charge d’affaires, who is at present chaperoning Lord Rosebery’s daughters. The most gorgeous festivity of the week, however, was the ball at the Hotel Cecil in aid of the Gordon Memorial College at Khartum. There was a dazzling display of jewelry and embroidery, and the Duchess of Marlborough was again the center of attraction, in white muslin with rich pink embroideries. She wore her famous pearls, of which she had fifteen or sixteen rows around her neck, besides a necklace of diamonds and a double tiara In her hair. Lady Randolph Churchill’s pearls were almost as splendid. 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bazaar last year. Tt will be held at the Niagara Skating Rink next June. , Practically every duchess and every woman of note in London society will aid In some way or other. Mrs. John W. Maekay will take the American stall, assisted by her daughter, Princess Colonna, and Mesdamcs Clarence Maekay, Bradley-Martin and Ronald. A rich American has presented a whole American bar outfit, which will be in the hands of Mrs. Brown Potter. The latter was present at the Devonshire reception on Tuesday, and it is whispered that the invitation was sent at the instance of the Prince of Wales. Correspondence, W’hich appears periodically, criticising the manners of the present day young man, is again agitating in the columns of the Morning Post. These young men are accused of neglecting to call after accepting hospitality, in refusing to dance and in general lack of manners and breeding. One of the fruits of the Hoolev exposures is that Lords De la Marr and Albemarl announced this week their intention of returning the £25,000 which, Ilooley alleges, they received for becoming directors of the French Dunlop Pneumatic Tube Tire Company. John Watson (lan Maelaren) and Mrs. Watson are passengers on board the White Star line steamer Teutonic, which left Liverpool for New York on Wednesday. They will spend three months in the United States. NEW LEADER MAKES A HIT. Camphell-Bannerniun Acceptable to Liberal*—Lord Salisbury’* Dewire. [Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.] LONDON, Feb. 11.—The session of Parliament, which w r as heralded by one of the dullest Queen's speeches on record, promises to be mainly devoted to foreign affairs. Education and the London government bills are the only two items on the government's domestic programme which are calculated to bring out interesting debates. The Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Campbell-Banner-man, the new leader of the Liberal party, clearly indicated in his speech on the address by traversing the whole ground of Lord Salisbury’s foreign policy, that the opposition has chosen that subject as the chief weapon of attack. He made a decided hit in his debut as Liberal leader, is a very able and ambitious man, and it is admitted that during his tenure of office under Lord Rosebery he made the best w r ar minister Great Britain has had in twenty years. His getting rid of the Duke of Cambridge as commander-in-chief of the forces was a master issue of tact and diplomacy, as it was accomplished in the face of a fierce court opposition. A remark by Lord Salisbury, in replying to Lord Kimberly's criticism of the government’s reticence regarding foreign matters, to tlie effect that one advantage the United States had over Great Britain was in the possession of a foreign relations committee, has attracted considerable attention. The premier expressed envy at the position of the American secretary of state, although he added that such a system is utterly impracticable here. The papers have now taken the matter up and ask, if the system was so superior, why the American institution should not be copied. The St. James Gazette declines to believe it obvious that reform is utterly impracticable, and says: “The Washington committee works, we know, in such a way as to excite the envy of our prime minister.” Continuing, the St. James Gazette urges the establishment of such a committee, “than which we cannot conceive anything better fitted to insure the desired continuity of foreign policy.”’“This is very flattering testimony of the superiority of the American institution from a paper w’hieh seldom finds anything praiseworthy in America. The ritualistic controversy had a field day in both houses of Parliament on Thursday; but the fact that only eighty-nine members supported the motion in the House of Commons that legislative steps be taken to cope w'ith ritualism is held to show that the controversy is more noisy than serious. BLOAV TO DREYFUSITES. Adoption of tle Trial Revision Bill a Black Eye for Justice. [Copyright, 1899, by the Associated Press.] LONDON, Feb. 11.—The adoption yesterday of the trial revision bill by the French Chamber of Deputies is the greatest blow the revision of the Dreyfus trial has yet received. The revisionist organs declare it is a violation of all republican principles. The chamber, by the vote, practically consented to pack the highest court rather than have it pass an unpopular verdict. Its action attacks the very foundation of justice in France. The anti-revisionists are, naturally, jubilant. One of the most rabid mouthpieces of the anti-revisionists aetuafiy declared this week that the recent visit of Lord Rosebery and Mr. Cecil Rhodes to Paris w r as to make arrangements to defray the cost of the continuance of the Dreyfus agitation, “on which 5,000,000 francs have already been spent, three-fourths emanating from English sources with the view to provoke a revolution.” There was another Bonapartist demonstration at the Nouveau Theater on Friday. during the performance of the “Roi de Rome.” After a Napoleonic ode had been sung the Bonapartists showered bouquets of violets upon the stage, whereupon the remainder of the audience attacked them and a free fight cook place until the police restored order. POURING TROOPS INTO CHINA. Rusaia Preparing to Defend tlie LinoTuny; Peninsula. SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11.—Advices from the Orient say the Russian government is pouring troops into Port Arthur and TalienWan on the ground that the force now garrisoning those places is too small, in view of the apparent discontent of the inhabitants of the Liao-Tung peninsula, who have within the last tw'o months risen up against the Russians in thirteen towns and districts. No less than nine thousand men have landed at Port Arthur within a month, and it is intended to add 25,000 more before the end of the Chinese first moon, making a full army corps of some 36,000, in addition to the garrisons of 15,000 men for Port Arthur and 8,000 for Talien-Wan. The plague has again broken out and is causing much alarm in the districts adjacent to Canton. A fire w’hich started in the market place at Sai-Chin Jan. 7 destroyed one hundred and fifty houses. Fressinstone. foreign manager of the PaoWo mine, at Ninsi-Kon, near Ning-Po, arrived in Shanghai Jan. 14 and stated that he had been forced to flee for his life from the Chinese, w ho were enraged at the opening of the mine, which was only accomplished under the protection of a strong guard. Thievery at a Parisian Ball. LONDON, Feb. 11.—The Municipal Council of Paris has just given abaft, and the report, which has now been submitted to the Council, says that the four thousand guests cleared off with six dozen silver spoons and 688 miscellaneous articles, ranging from plates to mustard pots. In addition, some of the dancers took away bottles of champagne. The report, however, considers this very satisfactory, “the losses being less this year than upon previous occasions.” Cable Note*. Washington’s birthday will be brilliantly celebrated at the United States legation at Stockholm by a ball, which the crown prinefc has promised to attend. One of the attaches of the Chinese legation in Paris, believing that he was being persecuted by the secretary of legation, Lein Young, killed the latter by shooting him with a revolver and then committed suicide. Another cable chess match is being arranged between the American and British lower houses. Mr. Walter, manager of the London Times, promises a trophy consisting of a Persian set of chessmen in an enameled casket. Disastrous fires have occurred in the mountains northwest of Oveido, Spain. The villages of Villar, Murias, Lanaces and Casavide have been wiped out. M Jiy herds of cattle have perished and other villages ase threatened. Advices from Stockholm show that the health of King Oscar is far from satisfactory. He will go to Biarritz, if ho is able to do so, at the end of the month. Thence he will take a trip to North Africa. The Queen of Sweden and Norway is still very feeble. She will go to Honnef, Prussia, after King Oscar’s departure for Biarritz. Chicago Lake Front Case. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.-The United States Circuit Court of Appeals to-day handed down a decision on the decree of Judge Showalter in the case of the People vs. the Illinois Central Railway, involving the title to land on the lake front. The majority of the Judges favor the railroad company, but owing to a division of opinion the case will go to the Supreme Court of the United States. -■■■■■■ To Care Bllloue** la a Harry Take Haag’s Liver PlUa* .

CUBASS IN A HUFF GENERALS REFUSED TO PARTICIPATE IN GARCIA'S FUNERAL. 4~ Hail a Dlspnte with Gen. Brooke Over the UncMtion of Precedence, and AVlthdrew in Anger. • OBSEQUIES OF THE PATRIOT • ♦—• —- MADE THE OCCASION OF A GREAT DISPLAY AT HAVANA. ♦- People of the City and American Soldiers A led In Honoring the Dead Cuban Commander. HAVANA, Feb. 11.—The late Gen. Calixto Garcia w r as buried to-day without the presence of a single uniformed comrade in arms. Immense throngs of his compatriots paid honor to his memory wondering as the long procession defiled through the streets of Havana where the Cuban soldiers were. The townspeople learned after the funeral that the Cuban generals had had a dispute with Governor General Brooke’s staff over the question of precedence and had withdrawn in anger, ordering 150 other officers and 200 privates out of the lines. The members of the Cuban Assembly also withdrew and it is understood that two of the members of General Brooke’s advisory counsel, Senor Lanuza, secretary of justice and public instruction, and Senor Domingo M. Capote, secretary of government, took the view held by the Cuban generals and retired from the procession. Senor Lanuza, w r ho was to deliver the eulogy over the body of General Garcia, failed to carry out the programme. The whole city is talking of the affair. The Cuban generals and many prominent persons in Havana held a session to-night to discuss what course to pursue. It is possible that an appeal will be made to President McKinley. It is believed, however, when the Cubans understand thoroughly the point of the controversy they will modify their present extreme feeling against the Americans. When General Brooke and his mounted staff, with the escort of troops from the Seventh Cavalry, reached the palace, the governor general was informed that his carriage was to go immediately after the casket. He suggested that the chief mourners should be General Garcia’s tw r o sons. Consequently, they and two friends occupied a carriage separated from the coffin by the priests on foot. After the sons came Governor General Brooke, with Generals Chaffee and Humphrey and Colonel Richards, of the governor general’s staff, in two carriages. The governor general’s mounted staff, consisting of ten or twelve horsemen, was closing in behind General Brooke’s party when the point was raised by the Cuban generals and members of the Cuban military assembly that they ought to be next to Governor General Brooke, and that his mounted staff and escorting troops shouid come after them. General Brooke’s position was that a general and his staff could not be separated, and General Chaffee directed the mounted staff to stay with General Brooke. The Cuban generals aver that an American officer ordered them out of line. Whether they were actually ordered out of line or not they were informed that they must not march between the governor general and his staff. The Cuban commanders in carriages and on horseback then withdrew. Among them were GeneraJs Rodriguez, Julio Sanguilly, Rafael Portuendo, Mario Menocal, E. Ducasse, Freyo, Andrade, Abelino, Rosas, Armando and Rivas. The crowd near by cried “Viva Cuba libre!” “Viva Aguinaldo!” “Viva Filipinos!” and “Down with the Yanks.” The artillery caisson with the casket then started, and some Cuban officers on foot attempted to get in line between General Brooke and his staff, but were crowded out by the horsemen, who closed upon tlie carriages. Ten blocks away in Central Park a party of Cuban soldiers on foot formed on either side of the street, and when the casket reached the point at which they were standing tht?y fell in and marched on either side of the caisson. No one interfered with them, but after marching a mile they dropped out so as not to be present at the cemetery. The Cubans assert that General Brooke wished to put them in the rear of the cavalry escort, but this is not the case. As the place assigned for the Cubans was not occupied, however, the cavalry escort of the governor general closed up behind his staff. A MILITARY FUNERAL. American Soldier* Assisted in Honoring: tiro Cuban Patriot. HAVANA, Feb. 11.—The funeral of the late Gen. Calixto Garcia, whose body was brought to Havana on the United States gunboat Nashville on Thursday last, and has since lain in state in the municipal chamber of the palace, took place to-day, the entire population of the city turning out to do honor to the dead commander. Vast crowds lined the route of the funeral procession from the City Hall to the Colon Cemetery, a distance of four miles, and throngs of men, women and children preceded and followed the cortege which was the most imposing ever seen here. Everywhere flags were flying at half mast and every flag was covered with crape, while great quantities of cloth were hung over the faces of buildings and doorways were draped. The crow’d was quiet and respectful. For the first time since the American occupation of Havana armed Cuban troops were permitted to enter the city in a body. The' participation in tlie funeral of the American military and naval authorities added importance and dignity to the occasion, making a deep impression upon the populace, the better classes of which were greatly pleased. The various municipal departments were closed, as were also many stores and factories, in order that their employes might be allowed to attend. From an early hour in the morning conveyances arrived from the suburbs and at 1 o’clock, the hour set for the funeral, the streets leading to the L’ity Hall were crowded and along the entire line of march people were massed In great numbers, while house tops, balconies and windows were filled to their utmost capacity. The civil and military dignitaries assembled In the Plaza, de Armas, in the shade of the palace. The procession started at 1:30 o’clock, moving up Obispo and Reina streets, then through Carlos 111 to the cemetery. The cortege was headed by a large number of patriotic societies and clubs carrying great banners and flags, a majority of which were Cuban, though there were some American flags. A great many women and members of the clubs, a majority of them dressed in black, walked the entire distance to the cemetery. Most of the girls were bareheaded while the old women wore mantillas. A MOUNTED BAND. Following the societies was the band of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment, mounted, playing dirge*. The mounted band, which was an object of curiosity to the populace, was followed by four troops if the Seventh

Cavalry. In line of fours, ■white with dust, rugged and travel-stained. Six batteries of the Second Artillery followed. Next came five luxurious, ornate hearses, the first drawn by fourteen caparisoned horses and the others by eight or ten horses each. On an American artillery caisson, draped with black and drawn by six black horses, came the plain black casket, ornamen and with silver, containing the remains of uie dead general. Garcia’s campaign hat and machete rested on top of the casket, which was draped with a Cuban flag and decorated with a wreath. After the caisson came the priests, in gold-embroidered vestments, swinging incense burners and reciting prayers. Governor General Brooke, with Generals Chaffee, Ernst and Humphreys, of his staff, and the members of his advisory council, in carriages, came next, followed by the other members of the governor general's staff on horseback. Immediately following were Major General Ludlow, military governor of the Department of Havana, and his staff, mounted, and Major General Lee, military governor of the province of Havana, and staff, mounted. Many of the populace uncovered as General Lee passed, and, had it been a festive occasion, the general would have been loudly cheered. Then followed Commodore B. J. Cromwell, captain of the port of Havana; Captain Cook and the officers of the Brooklyn and Resolute; Mayor La Coste, Senor Federico Mora, civil governor of Havana, members of the Municipal Council, officials and secretaries, all in evening dress and with uncovered heads. Another troop of the Seventh Cavalry followed, immediately preceding six or seven companies of Havana firemen. The rear of the procession was composed of many patriotic societies and a great number of carriages some of which went to the cemetery without occupants, in order to accommodate those who walked to the place of interment; As the caisson passed the camp of the Eighth Infantry, at the corner of Central Park, that regiment formed and saluted and its band played a dirge. STREET LAMPS LIGHTED. Along the entire line of march the street lamps were lighted as a sign of mourning. The procession filed through crowded city streets, between packed houses, out on to Carlos 111 street, which leads direct to the cemetery. Here clouds of dust arose, choking the women on foot, who, nevertheless, plodded perseveringly along, their black clothing whitened and the dust lying thick on their eyelashes and hair. Numberless imitation floral wreaths lost their tinseled beauty and the natural flowers in many of funeral faded in the sun and dust. The coffin was borne into the ehapei at the cemetery at 4:20 o’clock and placed in front of the altar amid the tall candles. The crowd packed the small building to its fullest capacity. The officiating priest intoned the service and sprinkled the casket with noiy water while acolytes swung incense burners. During the services in the chapel General Brooke, General Chaffee and the other American officers stood near the altar. At the conclusion of the ceremonies in the ehapei the casket was borne by eight men to the vault in the cemetery, the American officers following. At a given signal a battery of the Second Artillery, stationed near at hand, fired a salute, concluding the ceremony, and the return journey over the dusty road began. It has been officially recommended that General Garcia's widow be given a position, in the Department of Agriculture at a salary of SI,(XX) a year. A destructive fire broke out this morning in army warehouse No. 7, known locally as “The Wooden Barracks.” The fire department was called out and aided the soldiers in fighting the lire. Some of the goods in the building were saved, but the warehouse was burned to the ground. The loss of army stores will probably be considerable. Cuba's New Postal System. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The United States postal system has been adopted in its entirety on the Island of Cuba by a decree promulgated by Director of Posts Rathbone at Havana. The action was urged by Director Rathbone and authorized by a cable message of Postmaster General Emory Smith after a full consideration by the President and Cabinet. It is a complete substitution of the Spanish postal scheme by the American system and applies to all money-order and registry business, stamps, etc. It reduces the letter postage rates to those in use in this country. A cablegram received by the postmaster general from Chief Clerk Gadsden, of the United States money bureau, now at Havana, announced he had arranged with Director Rathbone for the perfection of the International money-order system and the immediate establishment of a domestic money-order service. Immnnen to He Muateied Out. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—The secretary of war to-day gave orders for the mustering out of the Third Regiment immunes, now stationed at Santiago and vicinity. This regiment was recruited by Colonel Ray, a regular army officer. The troops will be conveyed to Macon, Ga., where they were recruited, for discharge. They are to leave Santiago by March 11. RATES REDUCED. Telejgrapli Tolls to Cuba and Porto liico Cut by W estern Union. CHICAGO, Feb. 11.—Owing to the large Increase of American business interests in Cuba and Porto Rico and the consequent increase in telegraph business, a radical reduction in tolls between the United States and the islands is to be made this month. After the loth inst. the rate from all Western Union offices in the United States east of the Mississippi river, including St. Louis and Galveston, to Havana will be 25 cents per word, instead of 40 cents, as at present. From points west of the Mississippi river the rate to Havana will be 35 cents per word, instead of 50, as at present. The rate from points east of the Mississippi river, Including St. Louis and Galveston, to Porto Rico will be 75 cents per word, instead of $1.17, and from all offices west of the Mississippi river in the United States and from British Columbia to Porto Rico will be 85 cents per word, instead of $1.27, as at present. Rates between Cuban cities will also be reduced. WILL SUE KIPLING. Beattie Boleatier, the Novelint'* Broth. er-in-UiHw, Wants $,'0,000 Damages. BRATTLEBORO, Vt„ Feb. 11.—Beattie Balestier, a brother of Mrs. Rudyard Kipling, left here for New York to-day with the avowed purpose of bringing suit against his famous brother-in-law’, claiming damages of SSOjCKX) for alleged malicious prosecution and false arrest in 1896. About two years ago Balestier and Kipling met on a highway near Erattleboro and had an altercation. Kipling caused the arrest of Balestier, and claimed under oath in court a few days later that his brother-in-law had threatened to take his life. Young Balestier was bound over to the grand jury and put under bonds to keep the peace. The ease was to have been tried at the September term of that year. Mr. Kipling, however, sailed for England in August and the case was dropped. Young Balestier claims that he has had no opportunity to teli his story, and now seeks justice in bringing s-.it. PILLORIED AND WHIPPED. Delaware Culprit* Severely Punished in Zero Temperature. WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 11.—With the thermometer standing at zero three culprits were placed in the pillory for an hour at New Castle. On account of the intense cold the men were well covered with blankets, but when released they were so benumbed they could not stand. Upon being thawed out two of the three, together with six others, were sent to the whipping post. One man, convicted of murderous assault, received forty lashes and the six others fifteen each. The back of the one who received the forty was badly cut, blood trickling from the wounds. The Turk Defeat* a Giant. DETROIT, Feb 11.—Hali Adall, the Turkish wrestler, defeated Jack Comstock, the Michigan giant, and John Leon, of Montreal, at the Auditorium to-night, throwing each three times in twenty-nine minutes and twenty-four seconds. Leon, who weighs 229 pounds, made the best showing, though he was fat and not in condition. Five of the bouts were Graeco-Roman, and one eatch-as-catch-can. To Cure the Grip In a Hurry Our best doctor* give their patient* two of H&ag’s Cold and Fever Capsules every three hours and Haag’s Liver Pills at bedtime.

DAVIS ASD ruiiAKER ♦- SPEAK AT THE OHIO nE PUBLIC AN LEAGUE B.WQIET, Both Disrns* the Expnn*lon Question and Express Confidence iu President McKinley. * . SPEECH BY WHITELAW REID ON THE WORK OF THE AMERICAN PEACE COMMISSIONERS. * Action of the Treaty Maker* In Providing for Retention of the Philippine* Defended. DAYTON, 0., Feb. 11.—Senator C. K. Davis, of Minnesota, and Senator Foraker were the most prominent guests at the State Republican League banquet, held at the Dayton Ciub to-night. Senator Hanna sent his regrets; Governor W. O. Bradley, of Kentucky, had his house burned over h;s head and acquired a sore throat, which impelled him to send a telegram, and Gen. Wilbur R. Smith, of Lexington, as his staff representative. Senator-elect Beveridge, of Indiana, was also unable to be present. Seated at the right of the toastmaster, Col. R. M. Nevin, of Dayton, was Senator Davis, and next him Governor Asa S. Bushnell, of Ohio. To the left of Colonel Nevin was Senator Foraker. When Colonel Nevin rose to introduce the toasts there was a sort of Endeavor feats for fully a minute, which was renewed when ne said nobody was nominated for Governor at the league conventions except in his own mind. An allusion to President McKinley and the administration called forth wild cheers, which were renewed w T hen Senator Foraker rose to reply to the toast, "The Republican Party.” Speaking to the question, Senator Foraker called attention to the accomplishments of the party during the past year, which has witnessed expansion. The war has brought up new issues on which the Democrats have draw r n party lines, and these issues have been settled by the Republican party in favor of wider national purposes. There will not be much said with regard to Cuba in the near future, as the promise made in regard to that will be religiously kept. As to the Philippines. Mr. Foraker contended that the war-making power has also the right as well as the power to acquire territoiy and to govern that territory so acquired. Not to govern with the sword; not despotically, but to govern in the future according to the light of the future. He had every confidence in the administration of William McKinley. When Dewey went there and the sound of his guns echoed ’round the world anew responsibility was created. If the Philippine islands were not retained, it was clear they wouid be partitioned, as China is being partitioned. i=o we determined no one e*se should have them. The President had reluctantly concluded it would be the wisest, trie most logical and the only proper thing to do to secure the cession of the is.ands to the United States. Senator Foraker’s allusion to the work of the peace commission received cordial applause, as did his remark that he had no hesitation in intrusting the administration now in power witn tne solution of our future policy in the Philippines. Mr. Foraker, turning to state politics and spe-jki. y of the governorship, said; ”1 have a candidate for the governorship of Ohio. One thing is certain, he will be a man w ho is not subject to the dictation of any man.” Every body held his breath and laughed when he added briskly, "I do not know' who that man will be, but the Republican party never makes a mistake, and whenever of the many may be named, we want to show to the administration at Washington and to William McKinley who will be our candidate next year, that the Republicans of Ohio are united.” Hon. S. W. Raymond, of Illinois, was the next speaker, responding to the toast, “The Parity of Wheat and Silver in the W est,” and was followed by Governor Bushnell, of Ohio, who addressed himself to the toast, “Ohio in Peace and War.” Governor Bushnell said: “W*e are proud of the part Ohio senators took in the ratification of the peace treaty. Our citizens differed in regard to this question, but 1 believe it was clearly the part of wisdom to accept and ratify the treaty, leaving the questions that will grow’ out of our new conditions to be settled in the future. It is now our duty as Ohioans to see that our State maintains its proud position in the sisterhood of States and our duty as Americans to aid in achieving the greater destiny which awaits us as a nation.” Senator Cushman K. Davis, of Minnesota, a member of the peace commission, spoke to the toast, “New Lands and New Responsibilities.” He drew a picture of the personality of William McKinley as a man and President, which “entitles him to a renomination and triumphant re-election,” and then turned to the war with Spain. He scored President Cleveland for “evading issues which, if he had faced them, would have kept aloof the horrors of war from’ the shoulders of his successor.” Speaking of the peace commission, he said of Judge Day: “No honor that this State can bestow upon him is too great for his deserts.” Senator Davis’s pronouncement that it was foreordained that Spain should be extirpated from both hemispheres was greeted with cheers and he added that we could not return those islands to the infernal cruelty of Spain. For the first time in the history of the country this question of foreign relationship met a perverse and a bigoted and a one-eyed opposition drawn on party lines. Speaking of the Philippines, he said: “I w r ould bring them up tenderly, but in chastisement if we must.” Senator Davis emphasized his argument on expansion by dwelling upon the eastward tendency of civilization and national advancement. “We want markets ” he said. “We desire and must have our share of the commerce of the East. For one I do not want to see the dismemberment of the Chinese empire; I prefer to see that ancient and immemorial empire preserved intact and I believe it to be within the power of the United States, Great Britain and Japan to^ accomplish that.” Senator Davis held that one move in this problem is the retention of the Philippines which command the China sea. The United States is the great and consecrated evangelist of humanity, he declared. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, of Wilberforce University, spoke to the toast: “The Party of Freedom and the Freedman.” WHITELAW REID SPEAKS. Te-lla of the Work of the Peace Treaty Maker* at Puri*. NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—In honor of Whitelaw Reid, the Lotus Club gave a dinner tonight in its house, on Fifth avenue. Mr. Reid was formerly president of the club for fourteen years, and the dinner was given in recognition of services he had performed for the Nation at large as a member of the commission which negotiated the treaty of Paris and ended the war with Spain. Members of the club attended in large numbers and prominent men were present as guests, including Warner Miller, General Swaine, ex-Mayor Strong, St. Clair McKelway and Bourke Cochran. Mr. Reid’s speech after the dinner was the chief feature of the occasion. After a few words in response to the cordial greeting Mr. Reid continued: “I shall make no apology, now that the Senate has unsealed our lips, for speaking briefly of this work Just happily completed. The only complaint one hears about it is that we did our duty too well; that, in fact, we made peace on terms too favorable to our own country. In all the pending discussion there seems to be no other complaint. On no other point i* the treaty said by any one to be seriously defective. It loyally carried out the attitude of Congress as to Cuba. In enforced the renunciation of Spanish sovereignty there, but In spite of the most earnest Spanish efforts it refused to accept American sovereignty. It loaded neither ourselves nor the Cubans with the so-called Cuban debts incurred by the Spaniards in the efforts to subdue them It involved us in no complications, either in the West Indies or in the East, as to contract* or claims or religious establishments It dealt liberally with a fallen foe. it scrupulously reserved for Congress the power of determining the political status of the inhabitants of our new possessions. It declared on behalf of the most protection-

ist country .and for the policy M tho open and the Asiatic sphere 9 its fnfluer . “With Senate and the countpS seemed ,ut the treaty refund tM return to -t. rule one foot of territor* over which i• i rule had been broker; by thfl triumphs of .ar arms. Were we#no? r<9 preached for that? Should the Senate h t 9 told us 'you overdid this business VO 9 looked after the interests of your own'eoi try too thoroughly. You ought to h.i'vfl almnffoned the great archipelago which <uM fortune of war had placed at your . ou n try’s disposal. You are not exactly faithful servants: you are too blindlv ilnfl swervlngly faithful. You have not sei an opportunity to run away from storm tant resntlts of the war Into which Concr j plunged he country before dreaming ioj far it might spread. You haven't dod for us the responsibilities we incurred ’ " ■ “That is true. When Admiral I>• w< . m-hM the Spanish fleet and General Merritt ■ Zl tured the Spanish army that alone mffnJ talned the Spanish hold in the Philipnb,. j the Spanish power there was gone; and thal civilization and the common sens* and- J Christianity of the world looked to th* s ~W J er that succeeded it to accept Us r<M*uislJ bilities. So we took the Philippines. H >vtl could man representing this country, jealouj of its honor or with an adequate' conipre-1 hension of its duties or its rights, do other-1 wise? But, someone exclaims, the Phiiip-I pines have already given us more trouble! than they are worth. It is natural to .avl so now. and it is partly true. What they! are worth and likely to be worth to thisl country' in the race for commercial suprem-1 aey in the Pacific, that is to say, for com-] merclal supremacy in the great development] of trade in the twentieth century, is a qu- s-l tion too largo to be so summarily decided] or to be entered on at the close of a dinner! and under the irritation of a Malay ha.ff-1 breed's folly. “But nobody ever doubted that they would! give us trouble. That is the price nation* 1 must pay for going to war. even in a just 1 cause. I was not one of those who wan eager to begin this war with Spain, but 13 protest against any attempt to evade ourl just responsibilities in the position in which it has left us. We shall have troubles iq the Philippines. So we shall have trouble in Cuba and in Porto Rico. If we dawdle and hesitate and lead them to think we tear trouble, our trouble will be great, if on the other hand we grasp this nettle danger, if we act promptly with lnexorabl* vigor and with justice, it may be slight.! But the graver the crisis the plainer our duty. God give us courage to purify our politics and strengthen our government to meet its new and grave duties.” Chicago Merchant*’ €'lnl. CHICAGO, Feb. U.—Hon. John C. Charlton, of the Canadian Parliament, was ilia guest of honor at the annual banquet of the Merchants’ Club of Chicago, which was held at the Grand Pacific Hotel. About sixty of the leading merchants and business men of the city were present, and Mr. Charlton a talk was greeted with much warmth. Addresses were made by James H. Eckels, excontroller of the currency, and a number of others. Senator Mason Spoke. BALTIMORE, Feb. 11.—The anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was celebrated here to-night by a banquet under the auspices of the Union League Club, the leading Republican organization of tho South, which was served in the assembly hall in the clubhouse. More than 300 members were in attendance. Senator Mason, of Illinois, responded to the toast, “The United States of America.” AN INDIAN IN WASHINGTON. Mr. Euatman, Husband of Elalno Goo dale, Will Represent Hi* Bride. Washington Special. Dr. Charles E. Eastman, a Flar.dreau Sioux Indian, graduate of Cornell University and husband of Elaine Goodale, will reside in Washington permanently hereafter as the representative of the Standing Rock (Pine Ridge) Sioux before the Interior Department. He has been looking after the Fiandreau Sioux for some time, but this occupied him only occasionally. Heretofore when the Indians wanted anything done in Washington they sent on a delegation of their own number to come here to see the Great Father or designated some representative for that occasion only. It was the habit of the Interior Department to recognize whoever the Indians selected and their agent approved. This somewhat loose system led to dissatisfaction from time to time. To put an end to this the department recently issued an order that no one wouid be recognized as the representative or agent in Washington of any particular tribe or band of Indians who was not satisfactory to it. Dr. Eastman is eminently satisfactory, and accordingly has been duly approved by th* department and can now practice before it so far as the Standing Rock Sioux are concerned. Dr. Eastman is a man of fine education and culture and of a high order of ability. He speaks all the dialects of the Sioux. H* says the Sioux have adopted Roman characters for writing and printing the Sioux language. They have thus far printed in the Sioux language with Roman characters the Bible, Bunyan’s “Pilgrim’s Progress’’ and the “King’s Highway.” besides three grammars and a number of readers. They publish three newspapers in their own language, using Roman characters. They are prepared under Catholic and Episcopal auspices. The places of publication are Devil’s and Standing Rock, N. D., and Pine Ridge, S. D. Dr. Eastman has been engaged for the Inst fifteen years in compiling the myths and legends, the traditions and history of th* Sioux. He says that in going from the East to the West as far as the Rocky mountains he finds in the northern part of the country the same legendary and traditioral lore. In the southern part he finds the northern legends either unknown or so different as barely to be recognizable. The general line <>f division is the ratural boundary of the gr it rivers, the Potomac and the Ohio. Th* Sioux tribe, the doctor says, is one of the most widely distributed tribes of North America, the Otoes, the Wlnnebagoes. the Tuscaroras, the Osages, the Sacs and Foxes being offshoots from the Sioux parent stem. Longevity In Ship*. Clark Russell, in Pall Mall Gazette. The average life of a wooden ship was said to be fifteen years. This probably was assumed as a basis for insurance purposes, yet a largo percentage of wooden ships flourished much longer than fifteen years. I could quote many instances of wooden ships which kept afloat an incredible number of years. And eighty out of every hundred were coasters. Two extraordinary instances of longevity in ship* may be worth quoting here. In February, 1827, ihe Betsy Cains, of Shields, sailed from that port with a cargo to Hamburg. She met with a heavy gale from east southeast, and bore up for Shields harbor. The sea was raging on Tynemouth bar; the ship struck, was driven upon the rocks and lost. What ship was this that was lost in the year 1827? Will it be believed that she was the yacht that in 1688 brought over to England William, Prince of Orange, and that she wa? then called the Princess Mary? This, at all events, was claimed for her. How old was she when she carried the prince? For a number of years afterward she was one of Queen Anne’s royal yachts, and was reckoned a very fast sailing vessel. The other instance is that of a vessel called the Cognac Packet, which, as she was afloat in 1886, may still be trading and in good health. I took a note of her in that year, when she sailed from Seaham harbor coal-laden for Harwich, in command of Captain Button, and she was then ninety-four years old, having been built at Burlesdon, Hants, in 1752. She used to carry brandy to France, and so they named her as above. She was almost a box in shape. ++++++++++++++++ J A Dinner Pudding + + of Grape=Nuts + : is “A DEAR” : + + + and the concentration + + of nourishment. .. • + + + AT GROCERS. +++++++++++++ +++ . USED SEVERAL WAYS The New Food Can Be Served Plain or ia Form of Desserts. It is a known fact that many people fad to properly digest the starchy parts of bread and other food. Grape-Nuts (a deligbtfu breakfast food) are made of the grape sugar which result* from preparing the starchy parts of the cereals, in the same way artificially as the body should do by natural processes. Therefore Grape-Nuts furnish food all ready for immediate assimilation into blood and tissue. They are made bv the Postum Cos., at Battle Creek, Mich., and are ready prepared, require no cooking whatever, and v til be foupd most valuable by athlete, bralAwofker or Invalid- Sold by *roc. \