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The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
A BOLD BOY KING.

Not Yet Seventeen He Essays to Rule
Over Servia.
A bloodless coup d'etat has been effect
ed in Servia and King Alexander I, the
youthful ruler, who has heretofore gov
erened the country through Regents, now
rules in his own name. A grand banquet
was given at the palace to celebrate King
Alexander's success in passing the ex-
animation prescribed for Servian stu
dents. NJ. Ristics and General Bell
markovic. the Regents, and all the Min
listers of State, were present, as were also
a large number of the friends and sup.
porters of the Regents.
For many months past the situation in
Servia has been critical, owing to the
abuse of their power by the Regents and
State officials. Affairs had become so
bad that the King determined to take the
reins in his own hands. In accordance
with this determination plans were
secretly laid by means Of which the
Regents and Ministry would be ousted
without opportunity for opposition.
Unsuspectingly the Regents and Minis
ters attended the banquet and while they
were enjoying themselves at the palace
detachments of soldiers and bodies of
police took possession of the Minister'S
houses and occupied the Government
buildings. After the third course at the
dinner the King rose and said to the
Regents: Gentlemen, for four years
you, in my name, have administered the
Kingly power. thank you heartily for
the trouble you have taken. Inow feel
able to administer the power myself, and
will exercise it from this moment. beg
you, therefore, Immediately to hand me
your designations.
NJ Ristics replied that he could not
and would not comply with the Kings
request, which was contrary to the
Constitution. The King thereupon left
the room and sent an aide de camp to
demand the designations of the Ministers.
As they all remained obdurate, he
ordered them to leave the old palace and
go to the new palace to pass the night.
In the morning they were conveyed to
their residence upder guard. AS a
matter of fact the King had not attained
his majority. According to the Servia
law he does not become of age until he is
1s years old, and as he was born August
IA, 1876, he will not be 18 for considerably
over year. The Servian army is loyal
to the King. Had it not been, the coup
d. etat would not have been possible.
After the issuing of the proclamation
and long before daybreak the King
proceeded to the barracks, where the
troops were under arms, and was received
with joyous accanations and many
expressions of loyalty.
The course taken by the young King
will generally bs attributed to the
influence of his father and mother, ex-
King Milan and Queen Natalie, who
have recently been reconciled, after many
years of discord. Queen Natalie has
never forgiven the Regents for her
expulsion from the country in May, 1891,
an event which was accompanied with
considerable violence, and which evoked
a chivalrous resistance on the part of heI
supporters, two of whom were killed by
the troops.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
Lynched and Cremated for murder.

A horrible murder and the lynching of
the negro criminal, who was then Gre
mated, is reported from Georgia. jeff
ID. Barnett, young white storekeeper,
was found dying in a pool of blood in his
store. A posse was organized, and after
six-mile chase, captured the negro
murderer, who confessed his crime.
giving his name as ed" The posse
tied him and shot him to death, and then
piled fence rails on the body, saturated
his clothing with oil and burned il.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
MR.. HOKE SMITH.

Mr.. Hoke Smith, of Georgia.
speaks of the colored man in the
HIGHEST terms. He believes in ap
pointing colored men to office
who are competent and worthy.
Heis a fine gentleman and is dis
posed to treat the colored man as
he should be treated.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
MEETING OF COLORED DEM
OCRATS.
THEY DISCUSS THE SITUATION.

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A meeting of colored democrats
was held Wednesday morning. The
meeting was called to order by MI
II. Clay Smith, of Alabama. The
object of the meeting was to OILS
cuss the situation Of the status OF
negro democrats under this admin
istratiOn.
Among those present were Hon
q &C Atwood, G. H. j. Taylor,
Prof. Peter CLARK, Geo. w. Stewart
District republican now passing as
a democrat. Finley, of Abbevllle,
S. c., was a contestant republican
delegate to the Minneapolis con
ventlon, James White, James A.
Ross, of Iowa, Lem @. Moore, e. A
Lemar District republican aud
about two dGzen Others.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
MuzzlinR the Clarks

Secretary Hoke Smith has given notice
to the high grade employees of the In.
terror Department that expressions of
opinion to outsiders as to the probable
solution of questions pending before the
department. will be deemed cause for
dismissal.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22
"The Great Bell of America. -

The McShane bell foundry of Balti-
more, Nd, is preparing drawings for the
largest bell on the American continent
1t will be named "The Great Bell of
America, and will weigh A. 900 pounds,
1000 for each State of the Union.
onole SAM cots an Island:
A Washington dispatch states that the
United States Government has conclu-
ded treaty with the Government of
Ecuador, by which the United States is
given the right to acquire coaling sta.
ton in the Galapagos Isles, a position
of vantage in the Pacific Ocean, and so
situated as to be of vast Importance to
naval vessels.
The Washington bee., 1893-04-22

talned out the long Winter and belated
Spring have seriously affected trade.
David Wolf Bruce, retired member of
the type foundry of George Bruce & Son,
an old man of 10, and said to be worth
$1O,O00,0 900, was arrested in New York
together with some thirteen dissolute
women, for conducting good imitation
of Turkish harem in East Twenty-third
street.
The strike is spreading rapidly in
Belgium and Socialists have addressed
the striking workmen in various meet
iDgs, melting them to deeds of violence.
Mayor Bulls, of Brussels, was badly
beaten by three men, and the police had
number of conflicts with mobs and
broke up many meetings.
Dennis Mulhearn, a blast = furnace
workman, died in the County Aims.
house at South Bethlehem, Pa, after
having gone without food for seventy
seven days. Death was caused by starva.
ton. Mulhearn's wife and family lef.
him year ago, and grief caused hin,>to
lose his mind. He refused all food and
had wasted to mere skeleton.
The rainfall during the past week has
been greater than usual in the Lake
Region, the Upper Ohio Valley and over
the greater portions of New England,
New York and Pennsylvania. The week
has been especially favorable for farm
work; corn and cotton planting is pro.
crossing, and the accompanying tele-
grams indicate that the farming season
has opened with favorable prospects.
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baukssin great waves tossing forty feet
into the air cory surf. 1t thundered
upon the cliff upon which we were stand.
ing, and tossed fine spray higher than
oul head. We could hear its dull leaden
muttering almost beneath our feet, but
could not get near enough to the edge to
look over, nor would we, perhaps, have
dared to do 20 had it been possible.
It is singular how small place fear
has in ones sensations when standing on
the brink of Halemaumau. Travellers
constantly do the most foolhardy things.
One stands on banks which have been
honeycombed by the fires, and which
may topple any moment into the abyss,
without thought of danger or fear.
The tremendous terror and sublimity of
the spectacle one is witnessing SO fill the
soul as to exclude the possibility of a
personal thought. This is the common
one may say the universal-experience
of both sexes alike, and this mood is
doubtless fortified by the fact that there
has never been an accident at the vol
cano of Kilauea, though there have been
several narrow escapes. -.
The crater of KilAuea is sacred to Pele
who is the goddess of the volcano and
one of the sublime creations of Hawaiian
mythology. In ancient days no Hawaii
an dared enter the crater without first
sacrificing to the dreaded goddess of
Malmaumau. In 1925, Kapiolani,
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A Prince Visits q WOrkhouse.

A manifestation of human sympathy
which is not without its significance and
value Just now was the visit paid the
other day by the Prince of Wales to the
Lambeth Nondon) Workhouse. 1t was
not the formal and perfunctory affair
which such visits usually are, and no
warning was given of his coming until a
few minutes before his arrival. The
master of the workhouse said to-day
about the incident: "Almost the first re.
mark he made after stepping out of his
brougham was: Mind, now, no one
knows that I am making this visit in:
timating that it was no formal visit, with
everything beforehand in apple pie or.
der. He was here over two hours, and
made complete examination of the
whole establishment. Visiting first the
dining rooms, LIE passed on to the living
rooms, sleeping rooms, children's rooms,
infrmary and so on. throughout the
building, making all the while the most
searching inquiries in reference to the
arrangements, regulations, etc. In fact,
the questions he put astonished me.
They were questions which only an ex-
pert, as a rule, would think of asking,
and certainly revealed surprising
knowledge of the details and practical
minute of the subject. He appeared
particularly interested in the food ques-
tion and spent a considerable time look
ing into our arrangements in this re-
spect. He was not quite courageous
enough to try any of the fare himself,
but he examined it carefully. On one
point he expressed an opinion rather de-
cidedly, but am not sure whether he
would wish me to make it generally
known-namely, in reference to the sup
ply Of tobacco. Ipointed out the rooms
to him where the old men had their
smoke and told him what was the cost
of the tobacco provided. Mr. Hedley
asked him whether he considered this
expenditure justitiable. I think perhaps
l had better not give you the exact words
of his reply. Nothing seemed to please
or interest him more than the sight of
the aged inmates enjoying their beer and
smoke, from which, perhaps, you can
draw your own conclusion. .'-Chicago
Herald.
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ant case and his lack of SUCCESS, he Came

ant case and his lack Of success, he Came
suddenly face to face with man.
I arrest you, Cole Winters!" cried he.
seizing the latter by the arm with one
hand, and drawing o revolver with tho
other.
1t was indeed our hero, but SO changed
that to have recognized him reflected
great credit on the officers sagacity.
His clothing was disordered and soiled,
his hair uncombed. his walk unsteady,
while curious glitterin2 look was in his
eyes.
tive, as he returned the weapon to his
pocket and produced pair Of hand
cuffs.
mo. I'm not drunk! Who are your"
An officer Of the law. you are my
prisoner!"
What have I done?"
only trife. Last night you robbed
q safe in Calumet avenue, after murder
ing its owner, Paul st. Cyr!"
"Merciful heaven!'
That's an old dodge; it never amount
ed to much, and WAS outlawed long ago..
But protest."
1T won't avail. Hold up your hand!"
Hyland released his grip on his prison.
or to adjust the circles of polished steel.
Cole Winters saw his opportunity and
took it. With bound he'left the off.
GERS side and before the latter could un.
derstand what had happened. had disap-
peared from view down a dark and narrow
alley.
Soon he heard sounds of pursuit, and
moment later a bullet whistled above his
head.
Vaulting lightly over high board
fence, he crossed a-wide lot, climbed q
brick wall, and, satisfied that he was not
observed, ran into the rear door of Q
tumbled- down three story structure.
His brain was in whirl. but he real
lied that If he escaped at all it must be
by hiding in the building, not by trying
to leave it at that time.
This decision reached, he advanced
down the deserted hall.
Soon he saw the outlines OF door,
which he opened and entered long
room, once evidently used as salesroom
of some kind, but now vacant except for
piles of rubbish. 90.
By the time the eyes Of the painting
fugitive had grown accustomed to the dim
light he was startled by the sound Of
footsteps in the hall.
Among pile of barrels stood large
box, the lid of which was partly open.
Inside this Cole quickly ensconced
himself, closing down the cover.
He was none too quick about it, for AL
most Immediately the door opened and he
heard some one entering.
The unhappy young man gave himself
up as lost, when suddenly light cleaned
through the chinks in the rude box, and
he heard some one locking the door.
Now to business!" said q voice, which
the listening prisoner thought familiar.
Peering through o crack, Cole Winters
saw three men, two of whom he recog-
nized, one as Max Morris and the other
as Almon Sears.
4Good!" said the former. I want to
know exactly how this st. Cyr matter
stands before take another step in it.
It's business that may cut off our wind.
you know"
With q wildly beating keart our hero
strained his hearing that he might not
miss one word of what promised to be
startling revelation.
ITO BE CONTINUED
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woman had broken, the power of Pele,
whose credit declined.

woman nau broken, tpe power OF fele,
whose credit declined.
Kilauea is 1000 feet above the sea on
Mauna Loa's slope. Ten thousand feet
higher is the terminal crater Of Mokau-
weoweo, which is only occasionally &C.
tive, but the great periodic eruptions
which food the central part of the island
with lava come from the summit crater.
The flow of 1856 came near Destroying
the town of Hilo. 1t pushed down to.
the belt OF woods above the village, and
began to cut its way through. The viii
layers were ina state of great trepida-
ton and confusion, ID daily anticipation
of the destruction of their homes. The
Rev. Mr.. Coan, one of the fathers of the
mission, prayed that the lava might stop,
and it stopped-greatly to the confusion
of the heather, and to the fortiication
of the faith Of all true believers. Un-
fortunately, the story has an eriloGus
which spoils it. The flow of 1881 also
ran directly for Hilo, and penetrated
through the whole belt of woods. This
time it seemed as though the village was
really doomed. The lava ran fifty miles
over woods and hills aud every obstacle,
and was now within a mile Of the vii
layers houses. There was nothing fur
ther to check its progress, and for once
the prayers of Father Coau and his
church proved inefficient. But an ancient
Hawaiian Princess of heathenish propen-
stiles and enormous proportions was
equal to the emergency. She came with
incantations and sacrifices, she threw
pigs-roast pig is as dear to the Hawaii
an as to Charles Lamb-into the molten
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A Quaint Easter Custom.

On the western slope of the Alps
curious custom prevails. On Easter Day
a hundred eggs are distributed over
level space covered with sand, and a
young man and a woman execute dance
of the country among the eggs. 1t Is the
unwrltten law of the locality that If they
succeed in completing the "branle"
without breaking single egg, they be-
come affianced, with or without the con-
sent of parents or guardians.
The royal Lady Marguerite, of Austria,
Gouvernante of Flanders, was sojourn-
ing in the charming district of Bresse,
lying among the western declivities OF
the Alps. She occupied the ancient
castle of Brou, which was now alive
with the festivities proper to the day
and the occasion, for seris and mobiles,
soldiers and priests, headed by the fair
Marguerite herself, had made themselves
ready to receive, with due pomp and
ceremony, Pbilibert, the handsome Duke
of Savoy, who was in the neighborhood
hunting chamois, and who had sent .
courier announcing his intention to visit
the castle and pay homage to the beautl'
tul Princess of Austria.
It was Easter Monday. All the old
men shot at butts with their cross.bows,
fol prizes; all the young, high and low,
danced with the village maidens on the
green. The hundred eggs were scattered,
according to custom, and several couples
had come to grief and retired from the
applause of the bystanders, to
clean the broken eggs from their shoes,
" hen bugle was heard, and Pnilioert
of. Savoy, radiant with youth and happi-
ness, appeared on the scene. Bending
his knee before the noble, chstelaine ne
besought her hospitality. ...s
As the merry-making grew more en-
he proposed to his hostess to
tread a measure with him in the
"branle," the dance of the eggs.
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plunges into dense forest, the tangled
beauty of which simply battles descrip-
tion. The forest is true jungle, which
fortunately does not shelter any ncxious
animal, everything of the sort being alb
solutely unknown on these islands. The
only danger is from the path itself, which
is a complete slough, through which
horses plunge in most discouraging
fashion. -
After the woods have been passed,
you come to an old lava flow overgrown
with a shrub called XII. Here we were
saluted by drizzliug rain, which lasted
sill the rest of the way. We were be-
lated, without guide, and dai knees fell
when we were still miles from our desti-
nation. The rain continued without ceas-
ing, it grew very cold, and never was
party of travellers more rejoiced to see
the CLEAN of the lights of the Volcano
House through the trees. In a moment
we were warming and drying ourselves
before the great fire of logs, in genuine
old.fashioned fireplace and were RECALLED
with a hot supper. Twice that night
we were summoned from our beds to see
allow, slight streak of light darting
into the night showing where the turbu.
..ent lava had burst the bounds Of its
lake, and flowed out into the bed of the
crater. There was a mystery about 1t
which subdued the spirit, but did not,
prevent US from sleeping very soundly ON
The edge of the crater. In the morning
there was thick mist, hut after break
last it rolled away, leaving the prospects
stainless and bare, and we discovered
that the Volcano House was on the very
edge of the crater-a shining black pit
thousand feet deep, and three miles in
diameter, opening, go to speak, at cne's
very feet. Under rhe opposite wall OF
the crater, three miles away, there was
an elevation in the floor of the water, and
over the top of it hung faint blush
cloud. We gazed at it with intense ex-
pectation, for that cloud was hanging
over Halemaumau, the lake of unsleep-
ing fires. The descent into the crater
began shortly after breakfast, the first
few hundred feet through stunted vege-
tation, which disappeared, however,
long before the floor of the crater was
reached.
The walk across the great folds and
coils of shining, glossy lava, all looking
as fresh as though cooled but yesterday,
is slow one, accompanied with a con.
tinual probing with sticks for cracks and
treacherous bubbles. We crossed and
climbed the hill in silence, expectancy
reaching tension which was rapidly be-
coming painful, until we stood breath
less on the top of the hill and at the
edge of the lake. At first we only felt
an intense heat, and saw nothing but q
sheet of something of dull red shading
into black, perhaps 800 feet wide and
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REc0NcILBD.
EY JANE ALDRICU,

A little Whit Of smoke, so email
1t scarcely shows againsttthe northern SKY,
1t bodies no i'll to us, Of course,
But does to some, for, oh, the grass is cry.
The rising breeze just now springs up,
And see, the smoke cloud now 7e spreadlne
fast,
Spreading Ser acres wide, where yards
Seemed covered with it but q moment past
Faster IS sweeps along and then
1t SCENE to CROSS the canyon Win oourd'
That by them in their lnaddened course are
found.
And there, but newly built. house
Stands in the track the fire 6end must pass,
FASTENED within that frame glad hopes
We're pinioned with each driven nail, alas
Oh, must the work Of years go thus,
The little saved by early toll and late,
From summers drought and cruel hail?
strong man stande and cries, -on' olto"
Fate
But look the gathering there; brave men
From oil the country round rush now to save,
And gee the glean of ploughshnre's steel
Goes tearing up the earth IL mighty wave.
These noble men are fighting flame with fame.
They're conqut ring; al ID SAFE! lnahK oou
Thank God!
For this another time. oh, Lord
Thou'st stayed the scourge OF lifted Christening
rod.
Among he men Hho worked there stood
And shook the strong mans hand and gasped.
You're all right, Bill; come overn see the
girl"
OuGH, Neb.
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feet deep. 5 Figures cannot reproduce
the impression of boundless sublimity
which the first sight of this great dark
pit produces. You could put, not indeed
the whole of London into it, but it
would contain New York or Paris.
There is not blade of grass, nor tree,
nor shrub, nor single living thing to
mitigate the horrors of its awful desola-
ton. 49,.
A number of cones varying from 300
feet to 700 feet in height, but all look
ing like toys from your station, tell the
tale of the fierce volcanic activity of
which this pit was once the centre.
Down in the southeast is the great
Kaupo gap, through which floods OF
lava once made their hurryIng exit, and
it is up through this gap that the clouds
come stealing which finally steal away
the views. At first a.mere feck, cloud
the size of mans hand, then few
scattered detachments come floating in,
and finally great dense white masses roll
through the gap like the solid columns
of on advancing army, and spread them
selves rapidly before the wind until the
whole floor of the crater is snatched
away; you look behind and you see that
the whole island-the green cane fields,
the hamlets clustering on the mountains
base, the line of flashing surf which
marks the coast and the blue stretch of
ocean--all these, too, have disappeared
as if by magic, and from horizon to
horizon stretches one vast floor of feecy
cloud, shove which you stand alone on
your pinnacle. like god.
Only in the southeast two blue and
rounded domes are softly floating above
the clouds, but look so tender and
dreamily unsubstantial that one thinks a
breath would dlssipate them. They are
the tops Of the two mountains OF the
island of Hawaii, 1000 feet high, and
are seen across forty miles of water.
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Mulberries fur Animals.

On MY farm, writes Israel w. Putnam.
of Washington County, Ohio, few
acres OF land, too much broken for cul-
tivation, has for sixty years or more been
used as permanent pasture; on this
several old mulberry trees are standing
the common black and white varieties;
have planted none of the Russian,
thinking our natives much better. The
fruit is eaten by our farm animals, pro-
ducing flesh and giving tone to their
health. have seen my horses, young
and old, eating the fruit for hours at a
time, and they become fat during its
season; they pick up the berries from the
ground with the upper lip, the ground
becoming bare of grass.
Sheep, also, are excessively fond Of
mulberries, run for them early in the
morning after their nights rest; and
the hogs take their rounds from tree to
tree. We have few trees not far from
the house; our poultry use them and
thrive well. In autumn, ut the time the
leaves are falling, the cattle will keep the
mulberry leaves eaten clean while fresh,
and I have thought that the flow of milk
is thereby increased, as the sap in the
leaf is of lnilkish color. A corner of
the farm to be kept in permanent pas
ture may we'll be planted to several trees
of the different varieties of the null
berry; care for them a few yeurs, until
out of reach of the cows horns; they are
of quick growth, an ornament to the
grounds, and the timber is as durable as
the locust for fence posts, grown in the
open ground. New York Tribune.