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I iWiOW I“^^^w7 vyW ■"--VflWv^W’.JW WtfWWi T(i I I ■ 1► ’ skt l sA ^K"''"' ilbwrl'^m / ^^44"w | 'JTi I, ?' * CHAPTER XXIV. All ’hat day and the next I was too ill to move. The faithful Mavis attended me, and Darby, like a tender sentinel, was ever by my side. From them I learned that the party had been roughly broken up and that Sir Ralph had gone to London on “urgent business.” Mrs. Mareh had left also that same evening, and amazement was rife in the servants' hall at her sudden departure. “And Yorke?" I asked Darby, faintly. “Where is he?” “He left last night," sho said. “But he said good-by to me, and begged me to give you this letter.” I lay there weak and faint, and read that ’otter. It began without prelude or formal address. “I hear you are ill. I am not surprised, I know, too. that this illness has been hastened by what occurred yesterday on account of that letter. Sir Ralph as good as told me to leave here, and I have done so. but lam not far off. I mean to see you again before Igo back to London. I will see you. I have no intention of calling at •the Hall while your husband is away, but I shall be in the plantation by the old summer house every afternoon from -1 to (> till I see you. Joan, you must meet me, or it will bo worse for you—for us both. I ask you from no idle motive or unworthy one, but 1 think you will regret it to the last hour you live if you refuse my request. “Ever yours, YORKE.” I read the mad. impulsive words with | an ever-increasing sense of indignation. • 1 tore the letter in half, and was just i about to bid Darby throw it into the fire, i when some strange, inexplicable fancy • prompted me to preserve it. I put the 1 two halves together, and replaced the let- I ter in its envelope, then turned to the child’s wistful face. “Did Yorke say anything to you about his uncle?” I asked. “Do you think they have quarreled ?” “I don’t know.” she sa’d thoughtfully. “But Yorke seemed very, very sad. He told me he would like to shoot himself." I shivered.

‘‘Poor Nettie!” I thought. with a passionate revulsion of feeling. “She is walking along blindfold on her path; I. at least, see mine, black ami dreary as it is.” The day passed; the night came. Though wearied and worn in mind and body. I slept but little. Towards morning 1 fell into a deep sleep. When I awoke it was ten o'clock —ten o’clock, and a chill, damp, misty day. As the hours passed a strange excitement took possession of me; a feverish flush burned in my cheeks; a new and vivid strength seemed to bear up my limbs, and inaction grew more and more irksome. After lunch, Darby lay down on the couch and presently fell asleep. 1 sat by the fire, and read again and again ■that strange, wild letter; and, as I read it, stronger grew the impulse to meet ■Yorke Ferrers. “He shall not persecute me any more,'' ■I said to myself passionately. “1 will (tell him the truth without disguise to-day —tell him that I hate him; that to his selfishness I owe all my misery; that I never, never wish to see his face again!” Desperation nerved me with its reckless courage, and 1 remember I went to my ■room and dressed myself in a thick furlined cloak, whose long straight, folds fell to my feet, and fastened my hat with cold and trembling fingers, and, like a thief or culprit, crept out of the warm, bright room, past the sleeping child, and then out by the library door, on to the terrace and through the shrubberies, unseen by living soul. In a quarter of an hour I was at the plantation. Outlined against the dreariness, and the darkness, and the mist, the old summer house stood in melancholy isolation; and close beside it, leaning on his gun, and with strained and eager eyes fixed on the path I trod, stood Yorke Ferrers.

He saw me. He came straight toward me, his eyes wild, his hand outstretched. I did not take it. I kept mine folded within my cloak. I read something in his face—a sort of shock. ‘Have yon been very ill?” he asked, huskily. “Whatever I have been,” I said, lie- ! ginning to tremble with excitement, “I I ewe to you. First to last you have been the evil genius of my life. Now,” with an effort at calmness, “I have come here ■for the last time of my own free will. iWhat have you to say to me?” “Many things,” he said; “but. you put them all out of my head while you look at me like that.” “I will not look at you at all,” I said, .turning my eyes away; but I think it struck me with a strange pang of pity that the bright young face should have grown so lined and haggard. “Begin!” “It is hard to dash into a subject in cold blood like that,” he said; “but Sir Ralph has found out that I —that I love you.” “That you did love me, you moan,” 1 corrected quickly. “Do not deceive yourself,”.he said, with passion. “I have never changed to you — in heart. I tried to play at it. I would not believe in myself. I I engaged myeelf to Nettie Croft in one of these desperate moods when you had stung and tortured me with your coldness. 1 kept away from you; that was just as bad. I came, and was irritated to fresh agony. The very touch of your hand is like no other woman’s. My life and days are haunted by you. Joan, let us recapture the old joys and live for each other as—• as once we vowed to do.” I had listened, rigid, dumb, mute from sheer amazement. My eyes were on the damp leaves piled about my feet. I could not lift them or meet his yet. “What do you—wish?” I asked at last.

“Wish!” he said. “Can> you ask? I want you to live your life for me, as I will mine for you. 1 want the torture and the pain to end, and be no longer a foe to struggle with, but a friend that blesses every hour we know.” "And for this end,” I said, my voice shaken and unsteady, “1 am to leave my husband—you are to break faith with the girl who loves you? That is your program?" "You put it harshly,” he said. "1 put it,” 1 answere^, "as it is—as it will look to others—a life branded with undying dishonor.” “Words!” he said passionately. “What are words? Empty sounds —idle breath! Do you think they will quench this tire in my heart?” “I think,” I siwd icily, “that the woman who parted us did me a good service. I think that I never loved you, Yorke Ferrers. only my ideal of you—an ideal that every action of your life has falsified — that your words to-day have destroyed forever!” I raised my ey.es, then I looked him fully, fearlessly in the face. The rage and shame that shook me to the core and center of my being robbed me ot all softer feeling. 1 did not care that his face looked white as death, that an agony of appeal struggled with the disbelief in his eyes, that the words I had spoken might be like a knife thrust to his heart. In that moment 1 eared for nothing nothing save the longing to repay the insult he had cast at me and the noble heart that once had beet) so surely mine. “You don't mean it!” he said nt last, in a hoarse, stifled voice. "You -you can’t mean it, Joan! You are acting again.” "Acting!" I cried furiously, scattering prudence to the winds -resolved that he should know the truth at last, even at the cost of my own self-respect. "You mis took the part 1 played. It was not that of a wife pining for the love of another man, but a wife who saw that day by day the husband she loved was drifting from her side for the sake of that other man, who could not explain, and could not even be quite sure of the cause of this misery that had overtaken her life, and so, in desperation and in pain, set herself to hide it from all eyes most of all the eyes of the man who would have gloated over her unhappiness, and misunderstood it. Now do you seo —now do you understand, or have I not spoken plainly enough yet?” Ho drew back a step. He half raised his hand as if to ward off a blow that would strike him down down into depths 1 hail not meant to reach.

"Von have spoken too plainly," he sn d. I heard the faint wind rustling through the leaves like a spectral whisper, and afar off through the still, damp air came the sound of a clock the stable clock striking the hour. Mechanically 1 countid them. One two—three— four live! "I must go home now." I said. "This interview is useless, you see—-only pain and shame to both of us. The best thing we can do is to forget it to go back to duty, however hard it is. Perhaps." 1 added sorrowfully, "some time Sir Ralph will believe in mo again.” Shivering. 1 drew the folds of my cloak more closely round me ami hurried away in the direction of the hall. It was so dark that I could scarcely see a step before me. I groped along, feeling my way by the wet branches, till I reached the opening in the wood that led to the pathway. From there my way was easy. In fifteen minutes I knew I should be home once more. My limbs were trembling and unsteady, but the longing to be onee more safe, and in the shelter and warmth of home, gave me strength. I staggered on. I passed the shrubberies, the terrace, I gained the window by wh «ii 1 had left the house. It was closed, and. as I tried it 1 found it had been locked on the inside. I must go round to the front door and ring. I felt annoyed. The whole household would know of my absence now, and wonder, and discuss it. As 1 hesitated. I remembered that Sir Ralph's little study, where he saw his stewarj, received his accounts, and kept his guns, had a similar window opening on to the ground. It was just a chance that it might be unlocked, but I would try the chance before ringing. As I passed round the house, walking slowly and unsteadily, a sudden sharp report rang out on the still air. I started, listening to the echo dying away—slowly, strangely dying in the breathless silence of mist and darkness.

What seized my heart then in a spasm of terror? What chilled like death the pulses that had leaped and thrilled with fear? I remember that I staggered up against the wall, that with one last effort of failing strength I tried to utter the cry shat seemed stifling in my throat—that, as I uttered it. the darkness seemed to swoop down upon me like a black-winded giant, and then—then I remember nothing more. CHAPTER XXV. I remember it was dark still when I awoke. A lamp burned low, a strange, faint odor of scents ami aromatic essences filled the room. From out of the darkness shadowy forms stole and moved and passed back into obscurity. I tried to raise my head, but I could not lift it from the pillow. My hair as I touched it felt damp and moist, my hands even seemed to have grown feeble, and fell weakly back on the coverlet in defiance of my efforts. I lay quite still, trying to recall events, memories, thoughts, but I could recall nothing. Then 1 heard voices, and tried to catch the meaning of the words they uttered—the voices of Mrs. Birket and Mavis. “What has happened?” I cried. “Why am I here? Has there,” faltering, as my eyes turm d from one to another of the faces —“has there been an accident?” “Weil, yes,” said Mrs. Birket reluctantly; “there has. Mr. Yorke has hurt himself. We think his gun went off accidental like. He was found in the plantation badly wounded. Now, my lady, that’s all; and you really must think of yourself, and keep quiet, and try to sleep. Sir Ralph’s been pretty well out of his mind about you.” She laid me gently back. The effort > had been too much for me. I fainted again. Long—long hours of deep, dreamless sleep. Then I woke again, weak, but I with brain and thoughts clear once more.

I asked for Darby. She glided forward I from behind the curtains-white, snirir ual ns a ghost. ’ 1 "Darby,” I said, “tell me, “how ia Yorke? Involuntarily the slight arms quivered betraying what could not be betrayed bv the hidden face. ^1 “Oh, do not ask me, Jo!” she cried plaintively. "I dare not speak of it; ft has all been so terrible! Sir Ralph say’s I must not speak. He will tell you when you are strong.” I sighed and turned away. The great dread at my heart lay there still. When —oh, when would they tell the truth to me? Presently I spoke again. "When did Sir Ralph return?” "It was that —that evening,” she sagl, and again I felt the tremor of fear run through her slight figure. “Is that very long ago?” I asked. "Two days. Don’t you remember, Jo?” "No,” I said; "it is all dark and eqnfused. I—l went out, did 1 not?” "Yes,” she said. "I fell asleep, when I woke Sir Ralph was in the roouy' "Sir Ralph!” I gasped. “Yes,” she said faintly; “and he spite so strangely and sternly. He as*! where you were, and I said 1 did know—perhaps in your room. Th^Hf*” rose and went over to the tire, and If lowed. As he reached the cha.Tr you had been sitting, he »toope<HA ‘ picked up something. I heard a rusß® paper, then he said something—it sou^^d wicked and awful, Jo and withou^pother word, he rushed out of the roow.” “Hood heavens!" I faintly exclaimed. I remembered how I had been sitting iu that chair reading Yorke’s letter. Had I dropped it? Had my husband read it and followed me? A deadly terror seized me. I put the child's arms aside ami rose to a sitting position.

"Darby,” I whispered passionately, “yon have never told me a lie —never in your lift'. Tell me the truth now, I must know it is Yorke Ferrers dead?” She was silent. Her little face grew bloodless, her little hands went out to mine in faint appeal. / "Don't ask me. Jo you mustn't ask me; they they told me not to tell." “Yon you need not tell,” I said; “I ki.. ” I sank back on the pillow faint and spent. What tragedy of horror was this that had seized, red handed. on my life, and turned it into shame, and treachery, am! crim<‘? What evil fate had delighted in making me its v ctim ami its sport? Behind the child's simple words I read a whole history of woe. The discovery of that letter. Sir Ralph's immediate departure. the shot I had I • ard. and then — last and most terrible of all Yorke Ferrers' tragic < nd. My brain grew dixay. 1 laid my hand on the ch: <l's with n sudden nervous pressure. “Darby.” 1 whimpered. "go to S;r Ralph; ask him to come to me at once. Do you hear? At once.” (To be eon’in-.iM t Walking with Broken Lega. A new method of treating broken ' ‘gs. described by ;he \< W Yorkisull, is of a nature to be of general inOrest. 11 is called the •ambulator) • JlCpu.” its peculiarity consisting in that the patient is allowed, nMR’V. a encouraged, to walk freely wlthiaß few days, ■sometimes within twentJHvur hours, after the leg is broken. The Sun refers to the subject in eonne<'thm with a meeting of doctor* at which a man whose leg had been broken a fortnight before was introduced by one of tlie surgeons of Roosevelt Hospital, and proceeded to walkabout the room without crutches, and with only the slightest perceptible limp. T he ndw treatment, which Is said to have b> en in use In Berlin for some time, is applicable only in < uses where the limb is broken below the knee.

Doctor Fiske, the Roosevelt Hospital physician referred to, gave the results of two hundred and fifty operations in which the ambulatory splint had been successfully’ applied. Wherever the treatment had been begun promptly, the recovery l ad Iteen rapid, except hi the case of alcoholic patients, in which the danger of delirium tremens setting in after the fracture was the obstacle. In healthy persons, male or femal?, the method had secured admirable results. The method itself is described as follows: The patient is placed in a recumbent position, and the injured bones are set in place and bound securely with an ordinary muslin roller bandage. No cotton whatever is used in the binding. Outside of this roller a piaster of Varis gauze bandage is wound. This hardens, ami loaves the limb encased* in a plaster which generally extendsyrom the toe-tip to the knee-joint. It Aolds the broken parts of the limb immovable, and hardens rapidly. f The best quality of cast and IwfcJ'1s employed, and the patient act'd to walk without ernteheS-twenty-four hours. < tue is taki b of course, to avoid all possibility r ! inflammation setting in. The reast ‘ the patient can walk so soon is flu I tho weight of the body is supported mwu the upper p:u’t of the ambulatory; cast, which acts as a crutch. Jr Dr. Fiske cited a ease wherel.i patient 72 years old had been aide to walk within eight days after tie application of the ambulatory splint’ The healing of the homes goes on while the patient is walking about, just a<jf he were lying down, as the fractured limb is in no way disturbed by the exercise. In fact, the reuniting of the fractured parts is hastened, ajid the stiffness of joints resulting from the old metted of keeping a patient in bed and quiet is greatly reduced. Within six weeks, often sooner, tht bon.es will have united, and then the limb is subjected to hot and coll douche baths and to brisk massage te restore it to its normal condition! Want to Be Larger. | । ; The Japanese Government Is aaxious to increase the stature of the people, and with that object in view has sell about to encourage the use of meat as an article of diet. The singular punishment for bigamyIn Hungary’ is to compel the man to live with both wives in one house.

TREATY IS SIGNED. Hawaiian document ready FOR APPROVAL. islands to Become an Integral I’art of Territory of the United StatesPecretary Sherman Signed for Uncle Sani, Minister Hatch for Hawaii, Goes Now to Senators. In. the great aiplomatie room of the btate Department Where four years and ”‘on,hs ago, in the closing hours of tne Harrison administration, the first Hawanan annexation treaty was signed, omy T be withdrawn from the Senate -and thrown into a pigeonhole, the representatives ot the governments of the United States and Hawaii gathered Wein mu! ay morning and signed a treaty by the teruw Os which, if ratified, the little island republic will become part of the territory of Che I nited States. Os the persons who stood in the room time were present w hen the original treaty was signed, namely, Special UonmdseHoner Dirrin A. Thurs<ss6 mi l Assistant S .-ret.tries A.lee and < triiEer.

The Hawaiian representatives had brought with them a gold pen in a plain holder, and at their request this was used lor all of the signatures. Secretarv Sherman signed first the copy intended to be held here, while Minister Hatch signed first the Hawaiian copy of the treaty, his fellow commissioners coming next in ord.>r, Mr. Thurston first, followed by Mr. Kinm y. The troii Am, were sealed by Assistant Secretary Ur.ller with a private seal carried in his watch chain, the copies wen« handed to their respective custodians ami the treaty was made so far as the executive branch of the government could effect it. There was a general ex change of eongratu: itions betw^n the parties to the ceremony and after a photograph had been taken of th-* i"mmis■ionera the ceremony was emled. Provisions of ihe Treaty. The treaty iwovides that the Governmont of the Hawaiian l-iamis <ssie to the I tubs] S’ates. absolutely ami f wever. all rights of sovereignty io and over the Hnwai'an I*.amis amt thc.r dejsmdoneies. and that these islan-is shall be<-ome an integral part of the terri-ory of the Unite] States. Iho <;.>v. ri.mciit of Hawaii also cssies th,. Unit- d S-.r -a.: pub.- .amis, public buildings and p'lbiic properly of every <b - rtp’i m. t'-mgr. <s xhall emiet special laws to govern the .! q>o-j. ion of the '.an«ls in tile Hiwa an 1- । ■';». AT revenue from flu -■ laiids s’aaM be as, .] s-Cely for thebem-fi 1 of tae iniiab:taa - s of the Haw aan Islands for elm ,p. .qa. and otiwr publi - purposes The H iwa. an D md- sb.aT be n Imittrd • I 'he 1 : ■. ;■ , •. 'v ' •. of the I’:- '■ 1 S i*. v !•> al law-. : • :>«• ]'. <se-l by a o(- i' ;~e. but - : ij.-ct to the appro.al of r * I’poi.i, ; • Until Uon-gn-rt- »hali apply the aws of the United S at. -to the ...a lb e pr> -. t laws of Hawaii are :o go’P rn the .in-i-. The -' A tr»‘.r>rt and iv- _■ ■ t", iig Il twtiii’s e mmerc .1 r.l r -„s weh toreign nations all remain in force until Conshall take a Pon. Unrifier itnuiigmt .n of < h.neso I 'bon rs irt pr .hibted t> tld ag <‘..ngrc" c,< nei .n imi the entry of < 'bin. rt.i fr in rH . • I. i ■ the UnitUmt<.l Stana— .m- rt t public debt of Ila ■ • • ; -■ that this liabiiiU -.i o. \ : s ■ 'Hhi. 'Uhn ■ In . ' n. . .IP -;vo .-hail • ■ : - H No mention i- madeef .sa gramity to Liliuokolaui or Ka,a il im. Ja|um linters n I’roti -ft. Refer- the !i: I -a t.g of the treaty -. . a forma, pi"’--’ by *1 J ;pan—■ Government thb Ig'a i’s against the ■ .m: I- .n ■ gr i • h The prop ' - - ’in-i- I - —i "bo as- .l on api ‘ ■*. ‘• 1 i’;us no »v cM-tina bciwei , .1 i ■ ■- a:;i Hawaii, un-d'-r wan-h th-Japa:.-sc ■-j iy id- nntages, will be aft' -t <1 lap-.fio,:-.;. by complete aunexati .ri. ENSIGN STONE NOT GUILTY. The Naval Court of Inquiry Acquits the Young Lover. S. cr-tary D>ug Las reecivi i the report of the court of inquiry before which Swits Conde rc ush 1 1-. .- _Stot e, attached to the Unitfl States monitor Puritan, and his friend, Ensign Osborne, of the Terror. with "obtaining entrance to a homestead under false pretenses, knowingly, premi'ditatedly and with malice aforethought. then Mid there attempting to coax, cajole, entreat and by various other

'Sr'i ENSIGN GEORGE P. L. STONE. devices induce one Mario Conde, daughter of Swits Conde, to -leave her home for the purpose of becoming the wife of one George Ixtring Porter Stone.” The verdict is "not guilty.” The court of inquiry sat last week on board the Maine, in the Brooklyn navy yard. The finding is that Ensign Stone has not, in any way. behaved: himself in his lovemaking "in a manner unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.” It is a broad verdict. But. to make it stronger, Admiral Bunce sent an official telegram to Secretary Long, repeating the finding of the court and endorsing it. Sparks from the Wires. The New York Herald has started a fund for Mark Twain, opening the list with a' subscription of $ 1,000. A lamp explosion in the residence of Stephen Welch near Sharpsburg, Pa., set fire 40 the house and bad’y burned th« four occupants. The Eakin Store Company at Washington, Ark., one of the largest plantation supply firms in Arkansas, has gone/ into the hand's of a receiver on application of W. P. Eakin, president of the company.

TEXT OF THE HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION TREATY. Provisions of the Fact Between the United States and the Little Island ra-,nr rr o , as Signed and Sent to the Senate. n^de^nScn^e of V' 0 Ro P u, ’ llc of Hawaii, in view of the natural I cal pniMinßv tlu.ri.rn Islan,l s '‘Pon the United States, of their geograpbland ti tu <iti, l *,i°' ! I’ l epond erant share acquired bv the United States desire of the Governinenl of the U ?l t ^n e ’'in n 111 * 1 / i? tle ° f F?** 1 ls!an< ls. anil of the expressed porafetl Into the United States l ^ n» C la ^ those Islands should be incorty, have deterniined to nccomniui, ul J nt< ‘S ra ’ part thereof and under its sovereignpermanent welfare To this end nu mi object so important to their mutual and er and a.Uhorlty „mn th lr reX<-< m I ?" rtieS ba V° conferred full powThe I’resident of the United a PPo nted plenipotentiaries, to wit: States. e Uulted states, John Sherman, Secretary of State, the United and^VVirHaiu’’v of lla ' va b Francis March Hatch. Lorrin A. Thurston States ^AmorhVau'' B " d reserve to the United Han Islands and their de >cn ^^^ f wn ?tsoever kind in and over the Hawatainlng to the I e 1 I f ± 11?^ i ls agree ’ that aJI l he territory oT and apperunder”the name Jr the Territory of Ha™V' inCXed l ° the Luiled States of Alu "iea aoTu’te f<^ P ami C ownS ’>ereby L transfers to the United States the abedlfices, ports, harbors‘ mmuVrV eonimnmiV'™^ or crown land^ public buildings or ami description, b. longlng to Um Gm u public property, of every kind 6V The “*!. a PP u , rtena " ce thereunto appertaining. Islands, together with lands in to pnbHc lands shall not apply to such elal laws'for their nmna^S ami 1 smw i^' 5 ” 1 ""“'I States shall enact speceeds of the same, except a, rezards such nViV » ed ’ that ail reven ue from or prothe civil, military or naval purnoUs of the h r r S? f . as n,ay be us “ d b’ r occupied for use of the local govenunent shall 1 “‘ted States or may be assigned Cor the the Hawaiian islands for edueau2nal^^^^^^ ° f ’“^lUnts of and'mVltaV?s\owrrs exV-nd.^r bythe'm^^^ B ? C V N!aß,,s - a ” the clvw. Jodieial s,reaideut “ ha “ uave power to cease and dewAnYAV' V'in^^ Islands with foreign nations shall forthwith rftor fuy ,i,i i i » * * P ^'s sucli treaties as may exist or as may tic liercIp h}’ *» the I ni(ed States and such foreign nations. 'The in unicipal Lv’-ioS, । . . Hawaiian Islands, not enacted for the fulfillment of the treaties so ex.H'RH bhed. and not Inconsistent with this treaty nor contrary to the Constitution of sta ’'“*- "? r , so a “y existing treaty of the United States, shall remain in force U u I. ’ o,l *’ r, ‘ ss HjP I nited States shall otherwise determine. I ntl. legislation sh.dr be enacted extending the United States customs laws and regulations to the Hawaiian Islands, the existing customs relations of the Hawaiian Isimi<l3 with the Lulled states and other countries shall reiuaiu unchanged. ARTICLE IV. The public debt of the Republic of Hawaii, lawfully existing at the date of the exchange of the ratification ot this treaty, including the amounts due to the depositors In the Hawaiian Postal Savings Bank, is hereby assumed by the Government of the Lulled States; but the liability of the United States shall not exceed $4,000,000. So long, however, ns the existing government and'the present commercial relations of the Hawaiian Islands are continued, as hereinbefore provided, said government shall continue to pay the interest on said debt. ARTICLE V. There will bo no further Immigration of Chinese Into the Hawaiian Islands except upon such conditions as are now or may hereafter be allowed bv the laws of the United States, ami no Chinese by reason of anything herein contained' shall be allowed to enter the United States from the Hawaiian Islands. ARTICLE VI. The President shall anpolnt five conimlsssloners. at least two of whom shall bo residents of the Hawaiian Islands, who shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, recommend to Congress such legislation coucdrning the Territory of'Hawaii as they shall deem necessary ix - proper. ' ARTICLE VII. This treaty shall bo ratified by the President of the United States, by aridkwith the advice and consent of the Senate, on the one part, and by the President of the Republic of Hawaii, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in accordance with the Constitution of the said Republic, on the other; and the ratification hereof shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible. In witness whereof the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the above articles and have hereunto atllxod thoir seals. Hone in duplicate at the City of Washington this sixteenth day of June, one thousand eight, hundred and ninety-seven. JOHN SHERMAN. FRANCIS MARCH HATCH, LORRIN A. THURSTON, WILLIAM A. KINNEY.

M’KINLEY’S MESSAGE. Comntiinication Which Accompanied the Treaty to the Senate. The following is the text of the message s ■ to tiie S into by Prcsicent MeKtnley to a-• iupniiy the Hawaiian tn aly: To the Senate of the. United Suites: I transmit herewith to the Senate, in order ■ thatwafter tine consi-ieralLm the constitutional function of advice and consent may be exenlsed bj that body, a treaty for the’an-tq-xntlon iif tiie Republic of Hawaii to tile United States, signed In this capital by the plesilpotentlarie-. -f the parties on the IGth of June instant. For the better understanding of the subject l transmit. In addition, a report of the Secretary of Stale briefly r -- viewing the negotiation which has led to lids Important result. Tiie In ■ >rporafion of the Hawaiian Islands Into the :■ Iv < ■ ■ f fc- Unit, d Sfctes I. thi' n-i-e-ciry and fitting sequel to the chain of events wbo-h, from a vry early period of -nr history, has controlled the intercourse ami pre- ril ■ d the ass. iation of the I nited Stab s am! th- lliwaimif Islands. The predomi-. ••'. - Ac riean interests in that neighboring territory was first asserted in 1 s-'o by-. ndi.ng t- the-lslamis a representath ■ agent of ti. I ffite.J States. It found further y p,-c.~»:o:> by the signature of a treaty f fr -iclsaip, < nnim r - ami navigation with the King In IS2G ihe first intermcioniil com],a,-; negotiated by Hawaii., It was -•gr .lly .■innouneed in 1st:;, when the Inters ent ion of the United Slates cause 1 the British Government to disavow seizure of the Samlwich Islands by a British naval Commander ami to recognize them by treaty as an independent state, renouncing forever any purpose of annexing the Islands or exerting a protectorate over them. In KT the i e-sion of the Hawaiian Kingdom to the United States was formally offered, and, although not then accepted, this Government proclaimed Its duly to preserve alike the honor ami dignify of the United States and the safety m tiie Government of the Hawaiian Islands. From this time until the outbreak of the war in ISGI the policy of the United States toward Hawaii ami of the Hawaiian sovereignty toward the United States was exemplified by continued negotiations for annexation or for a reserved commercial unioß i'he latter alternative was at length accomplished by the reciproc•ity treaty of 1575, the provisions of which were renewed and expanded by tiie convention of ISB4, embracing the perpetual cession to the United States of tiie harbor of Pearl River in the Island of Oahu. In 188$ a proposal for the joiift guaranty of the neutrality of the Hawaiian Islands by the United States. Germany ami Great Britain was declined on the announced ground that the relation of the United States to the islands was sufficient for the end in view

In brief, from 1820 t0‘1893 the course of the United States toward the Hawaiian Islands has consistently favored their autonomous welfare, with the exclusion of all for eign influences save our own, to the extent of upholding eventual annexation as the necessary outcome of that policy. Not only is the union of the Hawaiian territory to the United States no new scheme, but it is the inevitable consequence of the i relation steadfastly maintained with that | mid-Pacific domain for three-quarters of a century. Its accomplishment, despite successive denials and postponements, has been I merely a question of time While its failure ; tn 1893 may not boa cause of cjn^-ra titla - .1 , tion, it is certainly a proof of the disinter- i J estedness of the United States, the delay of four years having abundantly sufficed to os- : tablish the right and the ability of the Re- , public of Hawaii to enter, as a sovereign contractant. upon a conventional union with the United States, thus realizing a purpose, held- by the Hawaiian people and proclaim-* ed by successive Hawaiian governments I through seventy years of their virtual inde- I

pendence upon the benevolent protection of : the United States. Under such , circum- | stances, annexation is not a change; It is a I consummation. The report of the Secretary of State exhibits the character and course of the recent negotiations and the features of the_ treaty itself. The organic and adminfstra-'” tivo details of Incorporation are necessarily left to the wisdom of,the Congress, and I cannot doubt, when the function of the constitutional treaty making power shall have ' been accomplished, the duty of the national j legislature in the ease will be performed i with the largest regard for the interest of this rich insular domain and for the welfare j of the inhabitants thereof. WILLIAM M KINLEY. I WEYLER IS A FAILURE. Disastrous Results of His Year's Command in Cuba. Under a recent date a Madrid news- : paper man, writing to a London paper, I gives a graphic account of Gen. Weylcr’s . year of command in Cuba. It has from j the beginning been marked with unexam- ’ pled severity toward all classes of Cu- : bans. One result of this has been the i disappearance of the Moderates and An- i tonomists, some of whom have been driv- | en into exile, others into the ranks of the ! Separatists? Another result has been to - desolate a large- part of the island. Gen. • Weyler has literally made a solitude and : called it peace. But it is not peace. With ! an overwhelming army he has made , : “military promenades” through the four j <

provinces of Pinar del Rio, Havana, Matanzas and Santa Ihara, burning and ravaging everywhere. The insurgents have avoided coming to a pitched battle. So he has declared,there are no rebels there and those provinces are pacified. Rut it is not so. No sooner has he turned back to Havana than the patriots are in rhe field again, masters of the whole country outside the few fortified towns, and often menacing the latter ami inflicting severe losses upon the Spanish army itself. The correspondent gives an impressive milicial summary of the losses sustained since the outbreak of the war. Down to December, ISUG, Spain put into Cuba nearly I'.iS.OMJ men, including -10 gen- ; erals and OSI field officers. Os these ihen- have been killed in battle or have ■ died from wounds’ll generals, 12 field officers. 107 subalterns and 1,707 men. Lo-<es from yellow fever and other diseases teach the appalling aggregate of 1 general, 30 tield officers, 257 subalterns and more than 20,000 men. Although, the official statistics are silent on this IHUnt. it is known that fully 20,000 men have been sent back to Spain in an invalid eonditian, most of them with shattered I r Sr C', Wv/Tg? ’ < GENERAL WEYLER.

constitutions, many of them to die. The total loss, then, to the .Spanish army aggregates more than 44,000, or more than 22 per cent of the whole. Against this the Spanish claim to have killed in battle 212 rebel officers and 13,091 men, to have wounded 41 officers and 3,522 men. to have taken prisoners 34 officers and 941 men. and to have received 22 officers and 2,594 men who have voluntarily surrendered. figures, especially those of the kiHed, must be taken with much allowance, remembering that in the Ten Years’ War the Spaniards claimed to have killed and captured more rebels than the whole population of the island. But even taking them at their face value, they show a total loss to the insurgents of only 20,457, or considerably less than half the Spanish losses. No wonder that, in view of this showing, Gen. Weyler realizes that he has failed.

News of Minor Note. It is said that the present administration of Kansas is about to made a fight to obtain possession of a half-mile sli<“ of tile most valuable property now be- ' longing to the ■ ity of Kansas City. Mo. A cyclone struck St. Vincent island, of the Windward group, seriously damaging some of ’.lie puidie buildings, injuring a numb r of persons at Georgetown, capsizing a s?iop ami drowning three of tho crew. Later details of the murder of the French Catholic priqst, Father Mazeh at Loli. in Kuangsi, show that the crime was committed by a.marauding band and that no anti-Christian sentiment animated the criminals. Siam’s army is to be reorganized by Russian army officers, over 100 officers having volunteered as instructors in answer to a circular from the war department. The King of Siam will select fifty from among them. An avalanche in Kashmir, involving the loss of life of several English officers, which has been paining many people in England, turns out to be the invention of a native servant who had run away from one of the officers.